Maids & Masters (& Redemption Harem's Release Date & An Away Post)

Work on v0.8 - this year's Haunt update - is well underway, but things might get a little weird (and not in the spooky fun way) for it. I do have most of the maps done, and the introduction to the story is about half done already, but things are going to be pretty tight on getting it out to everyone before the end of the spooky season.

 

I want to try to get the update out to my supporters early enough in the month that it'll go free to the public in time for Halloween weekend, but I'll be out of town for the next 10 days or so for family. As far as this relates to Redemption Harem's release, I've already taken steps to make sure I can get that out to everyone this Friday. Final testing is more or less complete, and I'll be able to do more testing while I'm gone. The hard part will be fixing any bugs that are found before the build goes out to everyone.

There is one thing I wasn't quite able to figure out for this demo - I meant to have curses in the game (debuffs and the majority of withcraft used by enemies) degrade your party members as an extra drawback to bringing them with you, but as it stands, I barely got injections working on someone besides the MC, and with me being gone and needing to get to work on the Halloween update, I just don't have the time. I think it's okay for the sake of the demo, though; it lets you experiment with the rest of the systems with reduced consequences.

As far as all of this relates to Maids & Masters - things will hopefully work out and I'll be able to hit my intended release date. If I don't, things will end up being pushed back a week. If you support me on Patreon or purchase the update through Itch, you'll still get it well before Halloween. 

Being gone for this long also means there won't be a blog post next week. Redemption Harem still releases on Friday, and I'll still be online in a few places, so if you support me, you shouldn't even notice I'm gone. Then I'll be back and it'll be time to dig into this next update, get that finished, and start working on my next demo project. I've got at least two more coming; potentially a third and a fourth depending on what I can get to work.