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Is this your first time playing through the Hinterlands on this machine? Does it previous save files where you played through it before?

These events you mentioned are all part of the expanded hinterlands content, which is unlocked by...

First of all, three out of five locations will only become available after you have unlocked the two achievements called "The Tale of Argos and Io" AND "Shedding a Light". To do so you must complete Hinterlands 5and visit "The Shed" in at least one of your playthroughs.

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Itadakimasu!

(Translator's note: It means "let's eat!")

Very good point.

You can just download it fromItch/Patreon/SubscribeStar and, as long as it's in the same machine, the game should pick up your previous save files.

Nice catch! Just had it fixed, thank you.

That's the intention. We want to maintain this level of quality all the way through, and things are looking hopeful that we will succeed!

Hey, thanks! We have a Patreon and a SubscribeStar to help finance the development expenses.

You can get two staff members if you picked the Arts background at the start of the game.

Every dollar helps, and it's all immensely appreciated. Thank you for your support.

If you just want the most recent builds of the game, you can just pick the lowest tier (3USD). The higher tiers give you more goodies like streams about the game's development (5USD), unpublished prototypes, short stories (10USD), and access to play test builds (15USD). These are just some of the most noteworthy benefits, you can find more on our Patreon page.

Tem um canal em português no Discord oficial, amigo.

Go to Settings and disable SFW Mode.

Yes. Some stuff in there is no longer accurate as we have changed how some systems work. We will get to it later down the road when things are more consolidated.

Build 9 (and 10) are out for patrons. We'll release Build 9 on Itch when the Chapter Select feature is presentable -- which has been going forward at a great pace ever since Creeples joined the team to help us with that. No release date yet, but it's going as fast as we can manage.

There are no plans to give the MC a sprite.

I'm going to do some minor tweaks in the writing as we implement the new sprites, but I don't plan anything major. Mind you, the Leader background will have a big benefit going for it somewhat soon.

We're going to have a "portrait" in the player character's text box to help differentiate his lines from the narrator's. Though his "portrait" won't be showing his face or anything like that, it'll be a symbol representative of him.

Alright, fixed.

The issue is that Khenbish does not have a "proud" emote. I switched it to a valid emotion. This bug fix will go out on the next builds.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Thank you for bringing it up. I'll give it a look and include the fix on the next public version.

For anyone encountering this bug, if possible click "Ignore"

All tiers give you access to the current build (as of this moment, Build 0.9) but the Good Master tier also gives you access to the playtesting version of the next build (0.10) before it becomes available for all patrons.

The story's going up to Chapter 30 or so.

There is no canon or optimization. Do what feels right to you.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We followed your suggestion.

Yes.

Check again. It's the same file as Linux's, which I've just renamed to "Windows & Linux"

Our Patreon is not yet eligible for annual subscriptions. One of the requirements is for it to be older than 3 months, which we are yet to meet.

That said we've already preemptively registered for it — I'd really like to have it as an option.

This is certainly a chapter that due to its size could have been split into two, maybe even three, but during production we framed it as just one chapter with a few internal subdivisions (that's why I mentioned that we're publishing the first "act" of Chapter 20).

These builds will not cut cut off during the actual scenes. Perhaps a more accurate way of describing it is that I envisioned Chapter 20 being played more or less without long interruptions, and I would consider that the best, 100% way of enjoying it. Right now, in this new format, I'd say that for the readers there's a trade-off. The transitioning between scenes will be, let's say, at 80% quality instead of the the 100% I envisioned, but I do think there'll be a new kind of fun to taking it one update at a time and being able to discuss with others. I think some people will like that, but I can also look back and see my original vision and how it was supposed to play, see the pros and cons.

My suggestion to you: when Build 0.8 comes out to the general public, check out the first scene. See how you feel about it. If you'd rather wait for the entirety of Chapter 20 to come out, that's fine and I'm sure you'll have a great time!

For backgrounds, Humanities helps you with the puzzles at the start of the game, while Arts lets you recruit an extra staff member. If you pick Arts I recommend you recruit the cook, Khenbish, because his route is already implemented.

As for "route", just treat Asterion kindly and you'll be fine.

It's for Patreon supporters.

Minotaur Hotel will continue as usual. In our most recent DevLog I said that not even civilization collapse could stop me, and it sure as hell isn't going to be platform shenanigans that's going to do it. Regardless, I've been following the situation closely and I'm hopeful that this situation will be reversed... Soon, I hope.

Besides, the SFW Mode has not been affected. Even if things remain like this, with adult content essentially shadowbanned, we have that as a way to bring in people.

That said, we'll probably look for backup plans soon and it's pretty much certain that we'll try to publish on Steam ASAP.

Everything will be alright. Asterion's story will be told to its magnificent completion and it will be beautiful.

Please don't bother coming up with some rigid business plan before setting up your patreon/subscribestar

That would be reasonable. I don't do reasonable.

Jokes aside, thank you. I hope to have news about the Patreon soon.

Ah, é uma pena que você não poderá participar! Tenho boas expectativas para Furtal.

E, sim, a espera pelo Capítulo 20 valerá a pena. Muito obrigado pelo seu comentário, fico feliz de ver uma mensagem de um conterrâneo nordestino aqui.

As my people say: promessa feita é missão cumprida.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Minotaur Hotel will not die. The current situation is difficult but, to bring a personal thing to the mix, during the pandemic I worked with COVID healthcare. I've pushed through the direst situations imaginable. We all survived that.

So, everything will be alright. We will find a way.

The main obstacle, if I can call it that, is that I'm trying to setup a company first so that all the accounting is done competently and so that the money goes into the game at the most advantageous tax rate.

I've been informed that Patreon will soon be raising their share of creators' earnings, so I want to get it out before that happens so we can secure a more advantageous split. 

That said, before I go and do that I'm working on setting up a competent business structure to support the game's development both financially and legally. Patreon or not, I expect the costs to finish the game to be significant and that means dealing with taxes, deductibles, finding the best way to categorize Patreon/Subscribestar earnings, etc.

As a little piece of levity in these times, yesterday I had to talk with my accountant, a nice Brazilian woman in her 50s, to explain to her the exact nature of this work and our situation. She was much more enthusiastic than I could have anticipated and I'm still processing that.

There's a lot of art left to be done to finish the game. We're in the process of figuring it out.

Cute!

I am, indeed, from Brazil! And the game has not been forgotten, we're hard at work to release the next chapter. I think people will like what we have in store!