I'm afraid I've failed you; a release date in the first week of October is a no go. 😔 But hey, three days later isn't that bad. Part one of Episode 2 - Enmity will launch on October 12th for Matriarch tier users and higher, which means Oct. 19th for Lady tier, and the 26th for Serf tier/general release. Speaking of general release, here's hoping I'll have some way of charging for the game on itch by then... 😬
It doesn't feel like it to me, but by the time part one releases, it'll have been almost 5 months since Ep.1 first dropped. I don't much like that; the whole point of splitting episodes up was to get content out faster. To rectify this, I'll have to write at a faster pace. There were two scenes this go around that had a million different variations, many of which a lot of people will never read, and it was just a total slog to get through them. I'll have to give myself a minimum amount spent writing every day or something to make such scenes more tolerable.
That being said, even if I had finished writing quicker, it's possible (probable, even) that budgetary stuff would still mean that the release would be the same. As always the best way for releases to take less time is for the game to scale up in terms of how much revenue it's generating. That's the dream, anyway! I hope to have more updates for you about the Steam release soon, as well.
That's it for this week! Thanks for your support!