Hello, friends! It's absolutely crazy how time flies lately, isn't it? But another month has gone by, and so, we bring you our development update for September!

Things are starting to look good, but there's still quite a bit of work left to do. Which brings us to a couple of things we'd like to address.

Retail price change

We've decided to raise the price of the game from 9.99 USD to 14.99 USD for its release. Not primarily because of the amount of script in the game, but because of the amount of 3D modeling and assets we ended up creating for this project. EGC ended up having a lot of unique locations and backgrounds (easily into the hundreds). It's become a lot more ambitious than Blankspace in this regard, and with additional voice acting on top, we think the price change should be justified.

Release delayed to Q4 2022

However, and it's with a heavy heart that we have to admit this: We're not going to make it for a Q3 release. Progress has been slower than we wanted, and (as mentioned above) a lot more has gone into the game than we initially planned for. (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ) We're sorry that it's come to this, and thank you for your patience and continued support.

We'll be doing everything in our power to release EGC before the end of this year (and hopefully before Christmas)!

Which also leads us to...

Self-imposed crunch time - go!

Development hell is not a fun place for any project to be stuck in, and we're kind of starting to feel that's where our catgirls have been sneaking off to play... To try and remedy this, we'll be indulging in an self-imposed crunch for the next two weeks, hoping we can push things a bit closer to the finish line.

Beta-testing next month?

If things go well, we'd like to start sending out beta builds for our beta-testers sometime next month. EGC isn't a simple visual novel, so it's going to need extensive testing with a lot of nooks and crannies in the code. And while you guys beta-test the raw build, we'll be doing the auditioning for voice actors and preparing a new trailer.

Let's see where this upcoming month takes us. We'll keep in touch!

- Nayru, KleeBentz, and Xolf