Hi all, it's been about a week and a half since the last update, and well it's time for another progress report.

This one is a bit of a long one, so bear with me here.

Let me start off by saying that this update is coming a lot sooner than what I was expecting and well, let's just say there's been some changes that have required a bit a shuffling of my original plan.

I'll get the good news out of the way, build 2 is scheduled to release very soon! My current deadline is sometime next week. This is almost a month sooner than my what was going to be my original plan.

The bad news, is that It'll only contain the first half of chapter 2 for Chase and Raphael, (though, it'll still be a big build at roughly 20k+ words.) The reason for this is that there has been significant changes to Stephen's route that has required new art and a lot of it to be rewritten. With 'Vincent's' route also being delayed as to allow for the earlier build 2 to happen.

The main thing that is changing is that the 'Hetero' route I mentioned prior will be axed in favour for another mlm one, this was primarily done as I didn't feel a het route fit with the game well at all, and I didn't end up liking what I had so far. The character in question hasn't been scrapped yet, she will probably show up at a later date, still.

Anyways, this change also allows me to push out all of the art updates and ch1 changes I've been working on much sooner - which I consider a win in my book. My main hope is that the game will play significantly better after the update!

Art wise: Well I have a lot to show:

Firstly, I've attached preview artwork for new sprite set for Raphael and the yet to be formally introduced Tiger's artwork -  and some updates to Chase and Eric's artwork.

Hopefully people like the new art! I think Raphael's new outfit looks really good.

The main thing, though - is that I've also attached a WIP file for the new character in question, I probably won't do this very often, but I would like thoughts on their design. (They'll be a Panda.) Note that his design is still very WIP, so it is lacking a lot of extra details for now.

Beyond that, more good news, is that outside of the brand new replacement character for Stephen's route, most of the artwork is already done for b3, including all the art needed for 'Vincent's' ch2 part 1. 

In addition, the writing for ch2 p1 'Vincent' has already had a good amount progress made to it - so hopefully b3 won't take too long to release after b2.

Anyways, that is all. See you guys in one week! (hopefully.)