Hey guys & girls!

First of all, a big thank you to everyone for their patience and for overall a positive response toward the new update. I hope everyone liked it and is excited for what's to come!

I wanted to make a post to address a few things, and I'll write it in paragraphs for everyone who wants to jump a specific part.

What is next?

The next release is Episode 4. As many might know, I still plan to make the reworked images for Episode 2 content to match both the quality and character designs in ep1/ep3, but I also don't want to do that just yet. Depending on the circumstances written more in depth in the next point, I might do Episode 4.5 next (both ep4+ep2 remade images), but that's quite a lot to take in, and will heavily depend on my free time. So yeah, whatever the decision is, next update will definitely feature continuation of the story.

Update when / Irl circumstances

This is probably the most important point of this wall of text. While many have been here for quite a few months, a big amount just joined to follow this project (hi new ppl!) so many might not be aware of some circumstances. First of all, I am a student that is still attending University, and starting in 2 weeks, it's my last year (fingers crossed) before I graduate and get my Master's degree. Unfortunately, I don't live in the city the Uni is located, nor do I own a car or have enough money to move into that city. So as those following for longer time know, that means that each day (besides weekend) I not only attend the classes, but also need to spend 3-4 hours daily in transit.
Main point is, it's gonna be quite messy very soon, and I by no means can promise fast updates like some devs due to my circumstances. I just have to push through both, with main focus on education. To anyone wondering, the one good side to this is that it's relatively "short". It's insanely packed with classes, but if I finish all from first attempt (just like I did in my last year, pushing Uni first and Fates 2nd), I'll be done with everything around May. Meaning, if all goes right, I am absolutely a free man in 6 months.
There are some other point of it, such as the first half seemingly harder than the second one (it might get easier starting February), or if I decide to take the more risky approach and not attend classes, but have exams later and with much less chances for retries. That and more I'll know in roughly <a month when they tell us all the relevant information. Considering how important it is, I'll make another post at that time as I'll know much more than I do now.

Progress reports

As some might have seen, before Episode 3 I increased the pace of progress reports as I was doing much faster work after uni/recovering from Covid. I'll change it now back to bi-weekly. Considering it was very confusing to "delay" progress reports by a week for public compared to Patreon, as some didn't even know which one was which at some point, I'll make a small change there. Patreons will have them bi-weekly (so twice a month for now while I am busy) and Public (which means Itch.io too) will have the 2nd one publicly available (so you get monthly report). Naturally there will be some posts regarding WIP and Sneak peeks as usual for certain Patreon tiers, so stay tuned for those.

Work on Episode 4?

Just started! Although I am still cleaning and making backups on my PC, I already found some useful maps to use, and to Beer Pong and upper tiers, they already saw something changed/made for Ep4.

And last, but not least, if you have any errors or issues with Episode 3, please don't hesitate to report it. If you started a new game as told and downloaded the Public version, no bugs should be remaining, so if you encounter any, report please!

Anyway, that's all for now! If you read everything, phew, good job! If not, still thank you for checking this post.

Stay safe!
Kat <3

Tldr: university will again make things go slower, progress reports bi-weekly, work on ep4 begun