Re-Maid Beta Update (Patreon)

So we've hinted previously at a beta release of Re-Maid in early October - we hope to have it out by next Tuesday (10/13), accessible to all $5+ pledgers (whose payments have been properly processed!). 

Taxcup ended up adding a lot more to the script than intended - it's ballooned from the original 30 pages to 70, and he still hasn't even gotten around to the last day (when the protagonist goes hiking with Erika and/or Hana), nor the actual endings. So, the beta will not feature the complete script, but the idea is to give Taxcup time over the weekend (yes, I'm a horrible boss) to at least complete a rough draft, showing how he wants the story to end. Seems we're looking at 7 different endings, btw. One of them is a very meta "joke ending" which will only be reachable if you play with the commentary on (which will be unlocked when you've reached a number of the other endings, or available immediately if you're a $10 plus-er). 

In another development... Ben, our resident perv, wanted to add a "father/daughter" cheat to Re-Maid as well as "brother/sister" but realized it couldn't possibly be fitted into the story/setting as-is. So what he did was, he started making a small separate bonus story, with the same graphics, meaning for it to be included in the same release, accessible by cheat only. There's a couple of problems with this approach as you can imagine, but they're all neatly solved by Taxcup's suggestion that we could take this rather short bonus chapter and make it a separate release. We'd probably make it so the default is that Erika and Hana are your stepsisters, with brother/sisters, dad/daughters, dad/stepdaughters variations as cheats. We'd basically re-use most of the graphics from Re-Maid (both sprites and CG's) but make some changes like giving them new clothes and hairstyles, and maybe ask Lasterk to make one brand spanking new CG's as well. The game would be rather short, not have that much of a story, and basically only take place indoors, over the course of a day or two. We could probably have it out a week or two after the main release (though don't take that as a promise). What do you guys make of this idea? Would it better to concentrate on entirely new stuff, or does this seem like a good little bonus?

A quick and ugly hack and not at all representative of what the final product would look like, but a simple demonstration of just how different the re-skinned Erika could look in the bonus chapter.

What else... oh yes, Lasterk has agreed to make the art for Bron's Quest, the silly fantasy romp, also penned by Taxcup. This script is very nearly finished, though it's on hold until Taxcup's finished with Re-Maid, obviously. If everybody can keep to the schedule, we should look forward to a release in November/December (the sooner the better, of course).