Nodevember Status Post!

November! Status! Post!

1. First of all, 0.58.5 "Chapter 8" Edition is out!

LINK: Goblin Layer 0.58.5
As the name implies, with this new update, Chapter 8 has officially started!

Meaning the its the first part of the next part of the Main Plot!
-> Hubtown comes under attack by goblins and there's an epic(?) showdown at the Farm
-> Mission Madame (the Guild Woman) adds a couple of pages to the Geneva Convention.
-> The townswomen hold an emergency meeting after witnessing something...
-> Sets up a psuedo-psychophysicological exploration of the Protagonist's inner workings in the a future update.

Also, after Chapter 8 is done, the "Human Relations" story arc will begin. If you are a Patreon, please head on over to this --> Poll <--, where we can vote on which Human should have their Relation Arc-ed first.

Secondly (2).
Off-screen the Farm Girl, Blondie and Sorceress got some upgrades to their 3d models, includes hair, outfits, shaders and so on! They were needed for some renders in Chapter 8, so I felt this was a good time to touch them up a bit.

I'll probably to the same to Barrel in preparation for Chapter 8 - Part 2.

I've gotten a bit more confident in my 3D-abilities, so I'm planning to try something more complicated for those upcoming scene :-).

Additionally, I've attempted another engine upgrade. I uploaded an optional experimental version for the previous Patreon version, with mostly positive results.

RpgmakerMV (the game engine) is powered by something called NW.js. By default, it's got an ancient 0.29. version, and it's basically not been updated since the Heian Era. Goblin Layer has been running on 0.48-something though. For the new update I have upgraded NW.js to 0.105(!)

In theory there should be a performance boost and potentially compatibility improvements. In practice... well you know. Won't know until it's been tested. It works on my machine (tm).
If there are any issues, I will can just go back to version 0.48. But let's try 105 first. In the meanwhile, I'll do a quick bughunting playthrough.

Thirdly (3)!
There's a big bundle on Itch, which is aimed at a certain adult audience: https://itch.io/b/3312/keep-nsfw-alive-. I'm in there as well, though is the free version, so its mainly to help boost visibility and such. But there are paid games included as well, so check it out!

Additionally, It's collected 8,976.01 ameribucks at the moment of writing this! Which means there's some bonus renders linked on the Bundle page. I've contributed some as well.

That's all for today, and as always thank you for all your support which helps the development to keep going!

PS. Some of the bundle-devs are gonna run a 20% Patreon/Steam discount if it hits 10K. Perhaps I should as well?