Hey, folks! Hope your week's off to a great start! Let's get into it!

Over the past few days I managed to cross two things off my to-do list. The first is that I finished the renders I needed for the end of Season 1, where each love interest gets a small number of renders, which show where they're at, based on the choices you've made. Nothing crazy, it just gives everyone a little visual recap.

The other thing I managed to get done, was the system to migrate saved variables from S1 to S2. Basically, once you complete the last chapter of S1, you'll be asked if you'd like to save your data to a slot. When you open S2, it'll detect the presence of this saved data, and you can choose to load it or to begin a new game, using a set of generic, default values. You can override the slots as many times as you need, to then load your new game in Season 2. I made two little game files to test it, and had my Discord community check it out. So far, it seems to be working well. If you'd like to try it, you can download the files here.

Test The Beginning: PC ||| MAC

Test The Continuation: PC ||| MAC

On the subject of weird little mini-games, I unlocked The Inheritance for all tiers. I don't want to spoil too much, but I built this to play around with stuff like persistent variables, tray icons, etc. which will hopefully benefit Friends in Need. But, it's also a bit of an experiment for me, doing something tonally outside my wheelhouse. Opinions were pretty split on it, but maybe give it a look and see what you think. Next week I may repost a whole big spiel that I posted for the $5 tier, explaining my motivations behind writing and rendering it, some months ago.

With the variable migration from Season 1 to Season 2 figured out, I'll be looking to put out the complete and reconstituted Season 1 as soon as possible. Once that's done, my focus will swing back to getting a new demo for the next chapter available for my high-tier supporters, so they can actually test migrating their saves.

My plan, such as it is, is to have Season 1 released by month's end, alongside the demo for the new chapter, containing Gabby's love path and all the other alternate endings. Gabby's alternate routes will follow shortly thereafter. That
feels pretty achievable at the moment.

Until next time: take care of yourselves, and thank you for your support!