Perfect Home [v.1.13]: Patreon Edition

Meowdy folks! Thank you so much, once again, for your patience with me-- there were a lot of Overall Weird Circumstances that slowed me down for the past few weeks. As I stated in the discord, there was a huge storm that hit Pittsburgh early this month. It took the power out and set back my progress dramatically, especially because, while I was working on Perfect Home, I was also focusing on a personal project of significant importance to me at the time, preparing a horror game so that I could apply for a job at a professional game studio. April was also a month where I was still in the process of getting moved into my new apartment-- so, yeah. Busy cat!

Once again, I wanted to add more with this update but simply could not due to having so much on my plate. I have a bad habit of piling more on than I should-- I'm really passionate about chewing through my various projects, but I think my eyes were bigger than my stomach, and being more or less a solo developer that releases monthly updates has made keeping up a little stressful! It didn't help that this update's content required a lot of variations on scenes, since the character it focuses on, Rieki, are altered depending on whether you've chosen to conquer or befriend the kitsune during Kano's content, which effectively doubled my work for them...

Fortunately, I've finally taken some important steps towards solidifying more of a project team for Perfect Home, and with much of the content for the next update already being pre-written, I'm confident I'll be able to get everything sorted out by the time I release the next update. Considering I had to release this one almost three weeks into May, I've determined I'll release the next one on June 7th, and the update after that on the first day of July, so that we're back on track with the release schedule I planned previously.

I'm going to quickly go over some of my immediate project plans in a second here, but first, let me talk about what I did for THIS month!

For this update, I took some time to prioritize and flesh out one character in particular in preparation for an overhaul of the kitsune manor: Kano's little shopkeeper fox, Rieki! I introduced them a couple years ago right when I first moved to PA, but like much of the content I released at the time, I wasn't able to throw my full weight behind everything I added due to life circumstances being in flux at the time.

After carrying out three of Rieki's requests, the next time you visit them, they'll invite you to join them for their chores...

... which will result in revealing ANOTHER set of services they have for sale.

This introduces three scenes. Two with only minor variations in how they play out depending on your dynamic with the manor, and one with major differences! If you indulge too frequently in their services without paying-- be it by getting carried away while sleeping with them, or simply accepting their services without enough gold-- you will gradually accumulate debt... and when you next approach them, after debt has risen to a notably high point (175 gold), you'll either pay it off then and there--

-- or they'll accept their dues by an alternate form of payment: taking your thoughts, until all you remember is them.

I want to expand on everything I released in this update as soon as possible! There's an alternate route I want you to be able to pursue within this new bad-end that I didn't get to finish writing, as well as a mechanic for getting Rieki addicted to you, new end-of-day scenes where Rieki keeps your manor fed while you're sinking deeper into debt, and a way to make Kano's hunt MUCH easier depending on how well you've gotten to know their art-dealing right hand...

I would have preferred to wait until all of these features were finished before releasing this update, but I did not want to make folks wait for another few weeks while I polished everything out. I hope to make some progress on these things, in addition to other promises I made-- new scenes with Coco, and of course, Julian's dating arc-- but in the mean time, I hope you're able to enjoy what I've finished for this smug, entrepreneurial little fox as-is!

Again, I apologize for the relative quiet and delays of these previous few months. The good news is that I think I can use the time I have now to springboard into a number of REALLY exciting works. Some I've mentioned previously, but one in particular will be new!

Perfect Home v.1.14

As I've hinted at for a couple months now, the next update will be introducing a romance route with Julian! You'll be able to access it the same way that you can start Felicity's (which will be the subject for a future update before long), by using a bottle of wine and selecting Julian for a date! All of their scenes are already written, and on each of them, you'll progress a sort of quest line in which you help him host "one last grand show" at the circus, just so he can say he achieved all he could before fully accepting his new fate. He's prideful like that. This is planned to alter Julian's End of Day content and give him new scenes, but I'm also currently mulling over the idea of making it improve their stat benefits...

Perfect Home: Mace

After speaking with some writers (who I'll announce/talk about a little more once we begin), I feel confident that I'll be able to release Mace before the end of the year-- much of the work will be delegated to another few excellent creators in this particular niche kink community, whom I look to for inspiration and am excited to work alongside for a project! He's a character I've been excited to see developed and added to your roster of servants for a very long time... plus, since I won't be pouring as much energy/time directly into the process, it'll give me a couple months in which I can polish bugs and get my ducks back in a row! I don't have an estimate on when he'll be released, but he's an active priority!

Perfect Girlfriend

Perfect Girlfriend is still something I'm very excited to develop, but less of one than other batches of content right now. I am delegating much of the work here as well, and much of it will particularly focus on your ability to "date" your fellow servants, but for now we're putting a pin in this until further notice rather than treating it as an active priority!

The Cat You'll Never Forget

Our submission for the 2025 Strawberry Game Jam was so well-received that we want to start focusing on it as soon as we can! Kint, Dozzy and I have been talking a little about it here and there, and have played with the idea of expanding it into a much more full story over the course of the Summer or so-- preferably after Anthrocon, so that I'm not too overworked during a period that is meant to be my vacation!

Catboy In The Dungeon

I keep saying that it's pretty much completely done-- and it is-- but honestly, the visual novel I spoke about previously feels a little lackluster compared to the work I poured into TCYNF. I've wanted to revise it and expand it further, but because I've been so preoccupied with all of these other things, I simply have not had the spoons. This too has a pin in it until further notice, but I want to release it during the Fall at the latest!

A New Hypno-Rhythm Game!

Lastly... something new! I'm a little embarrassed to humor the idea of picking up another fun idea when I already have so many to play with, but my involvement should be much more relaxed than the others. I'm treating it as a sort of game jam of its own! My good friend OutletDraws and I have been discussing the idea of a short, simple rhythm game, in which you play as a smug little snake that hypnotizes cute girls in the woods! I've always REALLY wanted to learn a programming engine that doesn't involve block coding, so I'm hoping to use the opportunity of making this in order to get a feel for Godot... which essentially means that future projects wouldn't be withheld to the strict limitations of RPG Maker, and let me get a LOT more creative with everything as a result. Plus! Look at this stupid lil' guy! Tell me he wouldn't be worth it!

That's about it for now. I didn't realize I had so much to write and update folks with! Admittedly, looking at everything I had to say now, it's becoming a lot more clear than ever that I need to get things organized, but now that I have a group of folks I feel confident about working with, it's definitely feeling much more manageable, especially now that things have begun to slow down a little on my own end.

I'm looking forward to presenting a much more expansive update in a few weeks! Until then, as always, thank you so much for the support, feedback, and understanding-- hearing from y'all in the discord and seeing how much interest everyone has taken in my work always really makes my day and keeps me scampering forward. 🧡

PATCH NOTES:

• The shopkeeper fox in the kitsune manor will now invite you along to work with them after performing enough of their requests.
• Three new scenes have been added, which after the above scene can be accessed via Rieki's "chat" options. These scenes differ slightly depending on factors like the state of the fox manor and your own submissiveness.
• A new bad end can be reached after falling into sufficient debt with Rieki and being unable (or unwilling) to pay!