Thank you. We planned to release new episode this month, but then everything went dark. There’s a lot of planned though, we already have content in active development for episodes 10 and 11.
I hope one day the world will be fully free of tyrants and wars they bring. What is happening in Ukraine, in Iran, in Gaza, in Minneapolis—this is just wrong.
The boy I sat next to in elementary school is dead now. You don't have to remind me of the price.
I'd rather ask to remember those who built multi-level interchanges in Kyiv for billions, while the soldiers had to ask for penny donations. If the "ukrainian-speaking russians" get away with this, all the sacrifices will have been in vain.
Thank you. Only deranged and hideous people can support the horrible war like this. The death count is past 500.000, but the moscow fuhrer is smiling talking of it. He’s fucking sick, as well as anyone who doesn’t condemn the invasion in Ukraine.
We’ve teased on Discord for the Board channel a new bonus episode idea about John teaching human studies the six village girls in a class, kinda university style, and each of them is having her own things and funny dialogues. But it’s in distant plans, so we don’t rush with it. There’re three bonus episodes planned so far, each one rather special.
The only good thing about blackout is it helps to distract from an internet shitshow and focus, so I’ve drafted many future quests and other plans for the game.
Thank you. We have only one lead artist. His situation is worse than mine (at least it's not freezing cold for me), but we both try what we can. The house next to his was hit during this terror campaign, he's alright but the situation is bad. We will keep going no matter how hard they try to kill us.
After trump cut any weapons aid to Ukraine last year, our air defenses are totally out of ammo, and so the situation in Kyiv is completely screwed. russian terrorists destroyed all electric infrastructure last month with hundreds of missiles, and it’s -15 Celsius (5 Fahrenheit) now.
I have electricity for like three hours a day, which is only enough to charge my phone. Heating is gone in half the city, public transport mostly stopped working, diesel generators struggle to keep working at this temperature—even the hospitals are out, several people on artificial ventilation have died...
Ironically, cellular internet is the only thing that keeps working.
We were going to post the episode this month, but I literally can’t even turn my computer on. Let’s hope this hell will be over with warmth, and we’ll be able to work normally in March. We’ve started a new animation for the Governor this week, but couldn’t do much like this.
These were planned as teleports to new locations in the early version of the game. Eventually we decided there's no need to make these locations freely available as they're scenario-tied. We'll remove these in the next release to avoid confusion. The only working teleport is to Naira (maybe we should teleport the player straight to the cellar so they shouldn't walk across the jungle each time).
The way they tolerate russian propagandists and war supporters on their platform is utterly disgusting. What's more, Patreon treats their NSFW creators way harsher than pro-putin war crime justifiers. They've seriously threatened to take down our page because of one public post with a drawn bare nipple. It turns out we can't share any signs of nudity on a 18+ adult game page hidden behind a disclaimer. So yeah, saying that I'm unsatisfied with them would be a big understatement.
Also, I donated all my savings when the war started and the big part of it went to Back and Alive—so the fact that Patreon casually blocked their assets, knowing how critical the situation was in the first days, is simply vile and didn't face enough backlash among the western audience. Because of this action, some people didn't get the needed help when there was no time to lose. Some people have died because of it. This blood is on their hands.
The issue for us is there aren't many platforms that tolerate NSFW content. Even itch has delisted adult games. Aside from Patreon and Subscribestar I don't see alternatives. We should be happy that at least these two exist, considering how much hatred and pressure adult art community has faced recently for absolutely no reason.
Just the same as Ukrainians have to listen to Europe, which paid to russian budget more money than provided aid to Ukraine. The same as Americans who promised to protect us in the exchange of our nukes, but instead American president shakes bloody hands of russian hitler on American soil. Because we could stick them all the middle finger, but how long we'd last without western help? Right now we have to survive. Then, we should never forget who acted like a worthy man, and who didn't.
Technically it is a special episode, we just put it in the main game to avoid creating a dozen files. In the future we'll gather all bonus episodes as a separate game, minimum five are planned.
