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Woooooow House of Asterion mentioned!!!! 

The main character tops, Asterion bottoms.

You can be a service top if you want.

Thank you, leafo. This is excellent work and I can see myself using it very soon on my own projects.

Now, if I understand this correctly, these new tools give patrons access to projects on Itch for as long as they remain supporters in the appropriate tiers. If I wanted to grant my patrons permanent and irrevokable access to a project, what would be the most appropriate way of doing it with the currently available tools?

There'll be more recruitable characters starting on Chapter 21! Or there will be once we write them...

Muito obrigado, meu irmão. Foi muito esforço, mas não existe esforço mais feliz do que o do trabalho amado. Espero que as brincadeiras gostosas que estou criando te agradem.

All the best for my dear readers

I suppose I agree that the FVN scene didn't change 'that much', in the sense that many of the trends we observed and were able to pin down back then have remained present. Though a few games were able to reach their conclusion successfully, the reality is that "FVNs" are an accessible game development niche where almost anyone can release a first build promising incredible things, but extraordinarily few can develop into a long project and write it to its conclusion.

But things, in many regards, did change, and I've been meaning to do another survey sometime this year to assess it.

For starters, I think the many game jams over the years have caused a substantive shift in the scene by enabling and normalizing shorter projects, and with that came a greater experimentalism. The FVN scene that I observe today is less stilted, less restrained by rigid expectations and suppositions of what makes a good FVN.

If I had to summarise what was the reality of the scene back in 2020, it was that almost everyone to a greater or lesser extent had to grapple with the expectations set by Morenatsu and amplified by the first wave of FVNs in the 2010s. Developers had to at confront the notion of multiple routes and what their cast of dateable characters should look like.

Since then, however, the FVN scene has simultaneously settled on new landmark projects that influenced others (Adastra and its linear structure and focused narrative are the big one, no doubt) while also growing comfortable with taking influences from works well outside the niche. The FVN scene, also, both became obsessive with and eventually let go of its apparent "big bad wolf", the notion of "my wolf" (mind you, I mean this in regards to how developers, for a while, latched onto the idea that adding wolves to everything was the only way to financial feasibility and a lack of wolves spelled some degree or another of doom).

Other things changed, as well. This is merely guesswork but I think that, while the game jams enriched the community and made readers more receptive to experimental projects, they also did make discoverability into a bigger problem because now Itch's Gay/Furry/Visual Novel tags are more crowded. I also think the matter of representation has evolved significantly too, because nowadays we have more developers who are not gay cis men, and more readers who are not gay cis men. I know for a fact that the Minotaur Hotel readership is much more diverse than what I originally imagined when we started things back in 2019!

I could keep going, but I only have so much time tonight. Suffice it to say, some things just keep changing, and some just stay the same. Such is life.

Yes, the daily management sessions will return in Chapter 21, and they'll have some fun new additions too!

(cackling witchfully)

Não.

I really, viscerally understand wanting more Themba, but sadly if I wrote ways to date the other characters the game would never get done.

I'm very confident the next releases, particularly Themba's route (his hangouts, I mean), will please people. There'll be some NSFW segments there involving him, too, just without the player character.

Today's new update has the Hide UI button!

I got tired of my computer sucking ass from Windows bloatware.

It should be solved (and improved) now! Please tell me if any other issues come up.

Fixed! I went ahead and upgraded one of them by removing the censorship. Thank you for bringing up the issue!

Yes. It's a reward for our Patreon supporters of any tier.

Eventually, maybe.

We'll look into it, thank you.

Your previous saves should carry over automatically. Just download the new file and extract it (for Mac, Windows and Linux) or install it via the APK (for Android).

Note taken! Thank you.

We are going to add it.

I think that missing the old designs is quite understandable, and having a strong attachment to them is both natural and to be expected. I hope that with time you (and others in a similar position) will get used to the new art, but for now I appreciate that you're giving it a chance and that you took the time to voice your experience.

Yep! There was a link on the game (both public and Patreon). I'm reposting it here to make sure we cover the broadest number of people possible.

A Hide button is going to be implemented on Android. On desktop you can press H and it should do it.

El M3allem livestreamed Mino Hotel a few days ago -- with the new art!

Thank you. We'll look into it.

Just download the new version, it's on the store page right here. Are you trying to install it on Android?

Press H.

We removed the Hide button because it's not necessary if you have a keyboard. We kept it on Android, naturally.

More from Willted Petals!

Deleting individual save files does not affect your skipping, you should be good. That said, do keep in mind the game has a lot of room for save files, there are way more than just the 9 pages that show up on the bottom. Just keep clicking the arrows on the side and you'll keep getting more pages.

There's no "new" nor "old" game. It's the same game and save files from previous versions should, for the most part, work fine.

Na realidade temos um canal em português no nosso servidor de Discord, que é exclusivo para nossos patrons. Mas existe também um servidor em português para visual novels furry, arranjei um convite para você.

https://discord.gg/mVTbZwuky

New videos!

From Chapomon:

Pretty sure you can get that achievement, yes, unless something glitched and we've been unaware of it. How many tablets have you found so far?

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.

New video by Blaidd Llwyd

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.