Weekly update

Kind of a big one, please excuse the length of this post.

Really pleased with the progress I've made on Chapter 4 of Best Friends, the render above is from an early scene. The plan is to release this chapter to you lovely Patreons in 2 halves. I am targeting part 1 to be ready in a couple of weeks from now, maybe earlier. With Part 2 targeted for the following month.

I've completed all the scripting for C4-Part 1 at this point. I'm at about 80% - 90% through all the rendering too. So I think about a week to finish that up. After that it's testing and adding audio before it's good to release. I will really be looking for your feedback if you have time, it would be much appreciated.

Other things:

Once C4 part 1 is out. I will pivot back to Great Hire and complete the next 30 or so slides for that, I could probably create more but I don't want to take too much time away for BF dev. So expect that one to be a slower release timeframe, I do however want to synch in a future tie into the story arch of BF.

I've also completed a compressed image quality version of chapter 3 which I am going to put up for sale on Itch.io. My commitment first and foremost is to you Patreon supporters. So as a Patreon, you will always get the best quality renders in the version I release to you and of course you will always get the latest version on the game before anyone else. I am still mulling over a pricing structure for that release and whether it will ever go beyond chapter 3 over there. I could use your input too on that so in a few days I'll put out a poll that goes through the various options.

Lastly, I am contemplating adding a couple of extra tiers to Patreon support. Currently there is just one tier and that is the $10 one of supporter. I do not plan to make any alterations to that, that will always be the tier that will give you latest version of BF and access to all my other content as it becomes available. However to make it easier and more palatable for some folks to offer their support I may add a couple of lower tiers that will give limited and/or slightly delayed access at a reduced cost. I've not fully thought out how to implement that one yet but once I do expect an announcement after chapter 4 part 1 has been released.

OK back to rendering, thanks as always for your continued support, I can not express my gratitude and appreciation for that enough.