Release poll! (important) (ep 2 & 3) (Patreon)

Edit: Thanks to Invocation for the suggestion. We could do two releases for update 0.17 (episode 3), one on Dec 8th (no cg scenes included) and then again on Dec 28th (with the cg scenes included). [This feels like it could be the best of both worlds, those who wish to play right away can do so with the missing art. But those who choose to wait about 2 weeks will experience the episode with the art.]

So things have been a bit unfortunate in timing, between Thanksgiving last month and our cg artist coming down with something earlier last week.

We already did a poll to ask everyone if we should lightly delay the release of update 0.17 (episode 3) if it meant having at least one of the three expected cg scenes ready for it.

Which thankfully everyone seemed very understanding about us delaying things until Dec 8th. But now I've been updated here tonight that our cg artist won't be able to continue working on the half finished scene for episode 3 until Dec 11th, which means at least a couple days after that even just before we'd have the finished scene ready.

So it's been a crazy way to end this year as we prepare to head into 2021 with a solid release plan for each month to ensure the game updates are at their best, offering everything upon release.

With this stuff in mind, we face two options that I see that we could do that feels fair for everyone.

(1) - We can release everything on Dec 8th as we planned, but episode 3 wouldn't have any new cg scenes in it and said scenes wouldn't be in there until our next following update in Feb.

(2) - We can hold off and instead, release everything at the end of this month. (Dec 28th-29th) with the three cg scenes planned to be seen in episode 3.

Either option that feels best for everyone, it'll still mean that the next following game release updates wouldn't be until Feb 3rd, regardless of which plan above we go with.

We're extremely sorry about how crazy things have been, it's a busy time of the year even with covid involved and sadly it's normally around the time when people get sick with the flu. >.< So please, please let us know what feels like the best course of action