August 2024: monthly review

I know August isn’t over yet, but I wanted to close this month early and start a new cycle. Also, there are some important changes to Patreon billing – please read carefully.

General changes

1. Stories are on indefinite hold. These days I mostly write for fun in the Wildwood Discord server. Monthly updates will focus on the games I’m working on.

2. Billing is paused for September 1st, and will resume in October.

3. Patreon is mandating its creators to switch to subscription billing (instead of first-day-of-month or per-creation billing) to comply with demands from Apple, to do with Patreon being allowed in the App Store. You can read more about this change in Patreon’s news post here.

  • From November 2024, I’ll allow my Patreon page to switch over to subscription billing along with most other creators.
  • This will mean that new patrons will be charged when they join and then every month on the same date in the month that they first joined. You can read more about how this works here.
  • Existing members will continue to be billed on the 1st of each month.

Last month (August 2024)

The Zhonghua ZeroDay has been updated to version 1.7.1. You can play it at Itch.io here: https://varlance.itch.io/the-zhonghua-zeroday. It now has new cover art by Alexxxx000 of Reform School fame! I consider this the final version of the game.

Next month (September 2024)

Working on Surrendrremake.

As usual, I’m around on the Homotextual Gaming Guild Discord server, where you can message me, discuss my creative projects, and grab dev builds of my current games. If you’re a fan of gay-focused interactive fiction, come and say hello!

As always, many thanks to all my patrons for your support!