Build 15 Is Out!

Good afternoon everyone! It took a bit longer than expected, but the new build is finally here!

Build 15 doesn't include any new chapters, side-stories, or anything of the sort. Instead, it's a massive improvement to what is already there, featuring extensive rewrites and reworks to nearly every chapter in the story so far (but especially up to Chapter 6). On top of the overall quality having risen significantly, unnecessary or outdated scenes have been removed entirely, while new and more relevant ones have sprung up in their place. Nearly every chapter feels completely different now, in spite of the story overall feeling more or less the same.

On top of that, we added two new CGs to the game: one in the Prologue, and one in Chapter 1. We also added a new music track, and updated another one to the version of it that is currently on Youtube. Finally, we included a few more sound effects into the game: not many, but they should be enough to make the comic sequences, and a few other moments in the story, a little more engaging. Still experimenting with it though!

Some of you might not think this is much, compared to our regular updates, but trust me: this is our biggest, most important update yet. The writing level is finally where it should be, and we relieved the plot of all sorts of things that sounded cool two years ago, but never were going to end up anywhere. And, with some luck, we'll never have to go through something like THIS ever again. >_>

That said, I understand if the idea of re-reading what is fundamentally the same story again doesn't sound too brilliant to some of you. And you're probably right! I'm sure that, by the time the new build has come out, some masochist or another will have compiled a list of all the changes to the script and speculated on the overall significance of it all. And even if that doesn't happen, you'll be relieved to know that Chapter 11 isn't all-too far off in the distance! We should be able to release it sometime next month, with a new Halfway Build coming out on Patreon and Ko-Fi for Extraordinary Readers and above this Sunday!

Now really is the perfect time to support the project. A lot of things have happened since the start of the year: on top of our artist, Nik, still trying to survive in the midst of a war, some members of our dev team have gotten seriously injured, while others have left the project of their own volition entirely. These sudden changes, added to the usual pressure I feel IRL toward my work, is starting to make me lose hope that I can keep working on NMF full-time as I have been. More specifically, I'm losing hope in the idea I can live off of purely writing this VN. The income I'm making through Patreon and Ko-Fi currently isn't enough to sustain full-time development, and I might have to return to university come this fall (consequently slowing down progress on the novel) if I can't earn enough to justify sticking with it. If you have the money to spare, and you believe in No More Future like I do, please consider donating however much you can to the project using the links above. Your support means more to me than I can ever express.

Either way, thank you for reading this. I'll see you come the next update.