Future changes + a clarification

Hi everybody.

It's the end of the month, and some of you will be considering renewing your subscriptions, and others may be weighing the option of becoming a patron. Whichever is your case, we're going to be making a few changes for 0.4 onward, and since these changes will take effect from the middle of the month, we thought it's only fair that you know what you'll support before you pledge.

The changes are as follows:

Breaks:

We've worked on WaL full-time (10h+ a day) since May, and we've had almost zero weekends or days off (except a two-day break after the release of 0.2). We like working on the game, and this extensive stretch of work was not planned. However, overworking is not healthy, and we want to make the right decisions for our long-term health, and the health of this project. 

Therefore, starting from 0.4, we will take one day a week off, to go for a walk, play somebody else's game, or just do nothing!

Release dates:

Up to now, we've publicly announced our internal deadline estimates. Those dates have been merely estimates, however, it's hard to stop people perceiving them to be set release dates. This has the potential to  create an unpleasant dilemma: 

• either we'll have to push the date (the case with 0.3)
• or we'll have to cut out content that we think would improve the game but that we won't have enough time for

Therefore, we're going to refrain from giving any release dates whatsoever. 

We'll continue to work as we've been doing so far. We'll also update the progress-tracker daily as that is a good and accurate indicator of whether the next release is around the corner. 

Caveat:

These changes are not set in stone. We're learning things as we go along,  and if we end up seeing that we should change our approach, we have no problem doing so, always communicating it clearly with our patrons and community.

A clarification about 0.3 (possible SPOILER):

In the last weekly report, I mentioned that there's an extra vaginal sex. Many have taken that statement to mean that the scene in question is with Holly. I should've been more clear, perhaps, since I don't want you to come with the wrong expectations. I want to clarify that the sex in question will happen in Holly's story, but not necessarily with Holly. 

Cheers