News on 0.60

Hi everybody,

in good tradition, let's first welcome our newest members to the club! Thank you for supporting Summer's silly, cute and kinky adventures. It genuinely means a lot. I also would like to invite you to join our little Discord community, where you can share your thoughts or just have some fun conversations, only if you're interested of course. In case you don't want your username to appear in the credits, please feel free to send me a DM anytime. Thanks again, happy to have you!

This is going to be a slightly longer news segment than usual. I have quite a few things to share today, so please bear with me. Let me begin with getting one of my least favorite aspects off my back. The business side of things.

I have established two new tiers, "Shitballs" for $25 and "Shitballs Deluxe" for $50. I can't really offer anything super exclusive and cool right now, due to a lack of time and manpower, but I'm sure I will be able to come up with something nice in the future, that would make it worth it to subscribe to the new tiers, but they mainly exist to simply support the development for now. I'm also open for suggestions regarding exclusive content. The only exclusive thing I'm offering on these new tiers for now is a hi-res digital calendar for 2025 with 13 exclusive and unique renders of Summer and the bunch to print out for yourself, which will be released around Christmas time. Yeah, not exactly a super groundbreaking idea or anything, but it's just the beginning. You will only have to subscribe for one month on either the 25$ or 50$ tier in order to grab the benefit. No need to maintain it until Christmas. Should someone end their subscription before the calendar is available, they will still receive it via DM as soon as it's released. I will also add discounts to all tiers as soon as the new update 0.60 is about to be released, so might be a good idea to wait before subscribing to a new tier, should you consider it.

I have also finally unlocked the possibility to offer annual billing with a 15% discount on Patreon. That's a Patreon exclusive for now. Not sure if SubscribeStar is working on something similar, but I will let you know as soon as I have some news on that front. Some of you have already subscribed via annual billing and I'm extremely grateful for that. Brings me quite a step closer to finally upgrade my rig in order to improve SitC's quality as well as making the development more convenient and much faster. I definitely want to step up my game on season two.

Gosh, it's really not my cup of tea to sound like a greasy salesman and I apologize if stuff like that bothers you. We're in the same boat here. But yeah, bills have to be paid and energy prices are skyrocketing too lately.

Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about the development for a moment. I have come up with a plan to avoid another fiasco like the one with the 0.50 release, where I had to skip the early access as well as releasing the public version a day late. From now on I will share more detailed numbers on the progress I'm making, how much still needs to be done and what is already finished. That should give you an idea about what and when to expect things. I will also be more careful with sharing a final release date.

Despite the rocky release, 0.50 has been quite successful on all platforms when it comes to raw numbers. It's such an exciting journey alongside all of you, seeing SitC becoming rather successful within its small niche genre, especially considering that it started off as a tiny pet project at first, that was never meant to be released. Glad I reconsidered. One of the best decisions of my life, frankly.

I am currently uploading a patched version 0.51. It's main purpose is to get rid of the need for the hotfix, fixed spelling, fixed transitions and a few other very minor things. Thanks again to all of you who reported bugs/spelling errors. Should you be happy with your current version of the game, I don't think there's a need to download and install the patched 0.51 version. It's totally up to you though of course. I will post the patch later today and also include some infos and details on the 0.60 progress.

Sorry for the wall of text this time around. I'll make sure to keep it shorter next time as well as sharing some new juicy previews. Thank you everybody for your support. Much love!

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