It's the "Would you like to play a game?" update...

It is with great pleasure that I humbly present Chapter Four of Heavy Five for your enjoyment. 

The new update contains over 3,000 images, 233 animations (exceeding 30,000 frames), north of 70,000 words, strip pool, dress up games, combat, monsters, mysteries, hidden objects, bad jokes, good jokes, a massive CoC...and a whole host of other content. 

Play time will vary hugely of course between those who only desire certain paths and combinations and those who wish to see everything and so it's hard to put a time around how long it will take you to play. But regardless of how you play H5 I've done my best to ensure you will be entertained.

Links below.

Chapter Four $15 Tier 

Chapter Four $5 Tier 

A couple of things to note.

The file size is large despite my best attempts at compression. A smaller file size is possible but I've found making it smaller severely impacts upon the image and/or animation quality. However, we can't keep having the file size expand at this rate with full downloads all the time. I've looked into individual chapter downloads but that requires a lot of work from the end user perspective and, to be honest, it seems almost quicker to download a larger file. It's certainly easier. After some thought my actual solution to this is to split the game into two parts. We have our first actual game endings at Chapter Six and it's there that the "first" game will actually stop. It is possible via Renpy to carry over saves into different games, and this is the method that I will use to then continue your saves into the second game. Think in a way how something like Mass Effect carried your saves over from ME2 to ME3 etc. This will work in a similar way.

Secondly, the $15 version currently excludes the new bonus game (but does include Bored Pilot and the previous one of course). Becca's combat game isn't as fun or smexy as it should be. I'm not sure why that is but I'm going to work on it a bit more over the next few days and then release it as a standalone update so you don't have to download the whole thing again. I will of course update the $15 version of the game on here at the same time. I don't want to sit on the chapter any longer than I have to - I trust you'll understand.

Finally, thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the chapter and we can discuss issues such as the time spent on animations etc in a week or so.

I will start attending to my outstanding correspondence and commissions from tomorrow. My apologies for the delay.

Notty