When I was working on the last release of Hom Factory, I found a great deal of things that were what I'd call "lingering issues". Issues I thought I'd fixed , events that weren't linked properly and so on.

It was annoying to say the least! It also took me an additional week longer than intended to sort these issues out.

Knowing that those finds were present in the game all along was a bit disheartening, although it's mostly my fault. Since I don't have any dedicated play testers, it makes it difficult to find things like that unless I spend a great deal of time playing and replaying the game myself. That, coupled with programming, scripting and rendering is a tall order.  Not to mention working on another game entirely.

Contributing to this was the fact that I built an 'actual' game of this behind the scenes, and it was sort of the perfect storm in terms of the problems I stumbled upon. To be clear by that, what I mean is that most devs focus on building simpler titles without all the bells and whistles. Something like this would actually belong on Steam (if I had dedicated artists and a few other things, maybe one day :p ).

It didn't help that I tend to push my development to the last couple of weeks within the month -- it's not surprising when I think about how those issues became present.

 In particular,  I've been trying to focus more of my time on finalizing the features of the game (pretty close now), so I had less time to  devote to play testing.

Regardless, I have found and fixed a great deal of those issues with version 1.0 which is why I'm early releasing. It's also been about 3 months since the last one so there's a large amount of changes here for you to enjoy.

In particular:

• I finally got around to adding Kink related events
• Added A Fanservice Gallery
• Added more images to the normal gallery.
• Revamped the Tower Perk Upgrades.
• Changed the Grimoire Screen (ton of work!)
• Added more events for Lyra, Pichi and Grimm
• Linked a few "missing" events for Ryoko and Fira.
• Fixed some repeating events.
• Revamped the replays for Homs
• Replaced a lot of old, grainy videos (still a few more to do, but it's a vast improvement).
•  Added a way to view key memories from the game's past

All in all, I'm much happier with the latest release and since it's been 3 months you can check it out early.

- Ren