[Move The Chains] | S01E03 | Play Sheet #11 (+ iOS Billing & Steam)

All right. It's been a minute. Crazy few months, and thankfully all is well. Starting with the good news, renders are all but done. Of the 40 scenes in this update, 38 are fully rendered. The remain number of renders being within two digits. Bring it to a total of roughly 2,165 renders when all is done.

-- As mentioned above, renders are basically fully done.

-- Less so for the writing. I'm going as fast as I can, but a full-time job during election season (in my field) can get kind of chaotic. I love chaos, but it's not easy on the schedule. That's for sure. Of those 40 scenes, 13 are still unwritten. Some are fairly short, it's the longer (100+ renders scenes) that are killing me.

-- Character Menu will be delayed a bit in favor of an update. It will be featured in an Episode 3.5 that'll come at some point midway through the update cycle. Which will hopefully be joined by a fixed Auto-Forward Time (sorry forgetting that some people actually used that) and other nagging issues.

 -- Postwork, which should be no more than a couple days, if not less.

-- Music (will likely be using a few paid sites this time around, along with some mixed ones.

-- Achievements + Walkthrough stuff (for Steam version and potentially Patreon on the latter.) should only take a day or so, along with any loose graphical/visual cues I may need to add.

-- As soon as the writing is done, I'll like to send the rpy files to anyone who's down to proofread.

Re: iOS billing

Starting with the iOS billing. As I'm sure you've read from other devs, we don't have much choice is iOS/Apple forcing Patreon to charge more. If you're on iOS and support (android is better, though), please a take moment to do it through your browser/safari/etc. There's zero need for you guys to pay extra. But if you insist on using the app despite the extra costs, I ain't going to stop you either.

Re: Steam Release + Update timeframe

If it's not obvious, I won't be updating on the 15th alongside the update for Steam. However, I've decided to release the game to keep my word. That being said, Episode 3 will be out before the of November. This also applies to the highest tiers of Patreon.

As soon as the update goes live on Steam, it'll be on Patreon as well. However, going forward on Steam, the updates will be released alongside the Benchwarmer tier.

For Patreons who've paid the equal amount (or more) to the Steam version, I'll be offering Steam keys to. But this will come in another post on/around release day. If you'd like, or haven't already, a wishlist would really...move the chains? :P

I know it's been a little while, and I really appreciate the patience. But we're about there.