Now & Then Chapter 25 Update #3 and release schedule

And here we are, ready for Chapter 25 to be released. Frankly, I'm surprised I managed to get it together by now. I guess having most of the script and code ready helps, though I do wish I'd had a little more time to tweak some stuff. 

Let me tell you that I never want to have to do something like this ever again: salvaging an entire build that was a day or two from testing. Since Thursday, I had to pull together the code and screenshots from backups. I also had to recreate all 50 of the animations and about 200 of the renders, including most of two scenes that had to be redone due to lost assets. On top of this was that the recent Ren'py development kits weren't recently backed up, so I had to re-download those and try to get the settings tweaked back to how I like them.

With this said, there may some minor issues with the PC and Android builds. Both are playable from a clean install. My issue on the PC side was that losing the SDK in the data loss wiped out a lot of my compatible saves, so testing was a bit of a mess for me. I'm hoping that this doesn't impact everyone else, but if so, I plan to add a download of saves at the end of Chapter 24 for players to use if need be. 

The android version? It wouldn't let me install it for testing on my old tablet without deleting the already-installed 0.24.0. Doing so did let me install it and play. I was even able to back-load a copy of saves I had that worked fine. So, you may need to copy your saves, uninstall any older versions, install 0.25.0 and then manually load your saves back in the right folder. I'll provide more detail on this in a text file provided with the saves. 

I hate that this happened, but considering the state of my files less than a week ago, I'm just happy to have anything playable ready to go.

Here's the release schedule for 0.25.0 (all scheduled for 11:59 am EDT release):

Tier 3 - February 24, 2022
Tier 2 - February 26, 2022
Tier 1 - February 28, 2022
Public - February 29 (aka March 1), 2022

Change Log 0.25.0

• Added Chapter 25
• Fixed minor typos
• Fixed misspelling of Sydney's name in a few places

Thanks for your patronage and hope you enjoy,

- Kinderfeld