An Apology And An Update On Things

Azul Project Leader here! It's a long one...

To the Early Viewers. I am sorry. This is not how I wanted things to go. 

As I'm pretty sure you guys are aware, the art has constantly been delivered the start or end of the month and nothing in between. Unfortunate, there is nothing much I can do about this. I am paying the artist a chunky amount most would love to get, as I want all that delicious art as well. I am giving the artist plenty of heads up. Giving a month + more in advance to know what to draw and giving them freedom to draw anything they'd like and I'll just put it in the story somewhere and change a few things so it can go that way. 

But still, I'm not even getting sketches anyone, and I know a number of you have noticed this a well. For this, I am sorry and have been talking about this. It's been changed time to time, but keeps going back to this last minute thing. I am not happy with this, and if it does not change, things will change in the patreon. Which will be cheaper prices to things all the results that come of that. Those were made with the fact in mind that it was going to be art in between waiting for game updates.

Also, a number of people are unhappy about the rate content is being added because of the engine change. I said it once, and I will say it again. Please leave and come back once all things are done. I do not want you guys thinking you are wasting money because things are not coming out as fast as it used to be or as you want it. Yes the engine change and the updates we're still making on it is hindering the content update. As you all saw, the release was buggy AF and old things that were in the game before were impossible to see. We're still fixing bugs, but since most are handled, we'll be adding more in frequently.

The planned update schedule was found out and shared by people. It was changed this from what was planned because of the bugs that had to be fixed. There's no point in adding in new content when it will be impossible to see it anyway. And while it sucks, we cannot commit all of our time on this as if it was our main job. This just does not make enough money at the moment. Maybe it will some day, but right now, it just does not. We all have jobs to do and real life to take care of, so we cannot do this everyday of the week. Things come up and we have to take care of that before this. Not saying we don't put time into this, I hope all the work and effort shows, but we can only do what we can.

Saying that doesn't mean things are going slower. Actually, things should be getting faster... Eventually~ Hopefully starting up in a few days.  There is a ton waiting to be added, and we got the whole exploration things rework coming up. We're going to tackle it area by area. Have events come up during certain times of the day, so you know what you want items, you look during x times. When you want story, during certain times of the day. When you want to talk to your husbando of the moment, you know where they're going to be and can just talk to them instead of rnging it.

It's just... Not fun doing all that minor work that has to be done. Worst that it takes so long to do so. Making me wish I could just redo all the planning I had instead. Though next month, I'm getting to it starting on the neighborhood. You all should start seeing the works of it starting next month or March. But before that, some more changes including the last 3 jurbs.

Once again, sorry it's taking so long. I know when I was the coder scribbling down whatever it was coming out with so much, and things have changed with the engine changing, but it was needed. Eventually, something was going to have to be done because what I was using was never meant for such large projects. Just like we're going to have to find some way to change what we have into an app so it can be downloadable again. It's just too chunky. There's a limitation on how large htmls can be you know to a number of places. The 4k resolution pictures don't help. Even lowering them down a bit, still going to run into that limit.

We're looking for something else before itch tells us. No more. It's too fat. Change to some sort of application. And we will... Just gotta look for something to help with that.

TLDR
Pictues + more updates to Early Viewing coming or cheaper prices. Making game with not making enough money for full work pay isn't enough so we have rl jobs and stuff. Bigger updates on the way since most bugs have been fixes coming up. Need to turn the html into an app of some sort as it gets bigger or else!!!