Hello!

I hope everyone's enjoying the warmer weather. Chapter 7 is pretty well underway; on my end, it's that awkward time of the development cycle where I'm mostly waiting for finished art. Consequently, there's been time for me to do a lot of housekeeping and little things I'd meant to get around to, so there's quite a lot to go through this time. Let's get right to it:

Starting today, we've got a merch store set up! For now, it's just canvas prints of some art you may have enjoyed in the game. Getting this done has been an interesting experience- I certainly know more about RGB vs CMYK than I used to- and for now it's probably going to stay fairly focused. That said, at a future date we'll probably add one or two minor things like mugs or mousepads that needed something a bit more custom than just using an existing game asset mostly as-is. Of course, if there's anything in particular you'd be interested in seeing, feel free to say so in the comments below.

In case you missed it, we also recently launched the UH soundtrack on bandcamp. This is, unfortunately, only the non-stock tracks due to the rights issues involved in reselling stock music. However, the page itself does have details on where you can find and download the stock tracks yourself. The album price will get you the entirety of the future soundtrack as it comes out- that price will be updated on an ongoing basis at the end of each chapter.

For disc tier patrons, both the asset preview for chapter 7- including two character designs and a new music track- and a behind the scenes article detailing the creation of the 'wreath' sequence in chapter 5 are now available. Hope you enjoy!

The in-game streamer mode option that previously just allowed for skipping adult scenes is having its functionality expanded. Starting with the next build, there will be the option of either skipping scenes or proceeding with all visuals censored (note that this option does not censor adult text).

It's happening! Kind of by coincidence, part two seems to have followed a bit of a 'smaller art update, bigger art update' repeating cadence and 7 is one of the bigger ones. At present, my best guess is late may to early July for beta. But, as always, this is a project worked on by many people with busy lives who aren't doing this full time and estimates can only ever be estimates. Still, this is a fun one, and I hope you'll enjoy it. Of course, with the new release schedule this also means that chapter 6 will be going public at the same time as the full patron build of chapter 7. For the sake of release management and not putting out more than one fire at once, I'll probably be aiming for a 'patron build Thursday, public build Friday' cadence going forward.

Anyway, that's all for now.

See you around,

Faintly