After nearly 3 and a half months of development, Hom Factory 2.8 is officially on the way. I anticipate releasing the project on 11/13/22 (Sunday). However, rather than focus on the plethora of changes, fixes and events - today's post is focused on another feature. With this release, players can pre-order the latest, 2.8 , allowing them to play previously inaccessible content.

For context, the latest release concludes the events of the prologue in dramatic fashion. It features 80+ events, tons more ways to have fun, a few new characters and much, much more.

As chronicled in the past months, the public release of the game will feature 30% of this update's content - also known as version 2.5. The paid version will feature 70% of the latest update's content, known as version 2.8. Finally, Patrons will receive version 3.0 of the game, featuring all of the latest update in it's entirety. At first glance this may seem strange, but without this measure itch.io players would have to wait longer (possibly until next year) to get a new update.

For perspective, due to the vast # improvements / QOL updates, you can consider this as 3-4 updates rolled into one.

In order to make this work, I've also opted to allow for pre-orders. Doing so will allow you to also take advantage of a 30% pre-order discount.

This will be in effect until the game's release on 11/13/22.

For those of you who have yet to try the project (or if you just want to have a bit of fun) - download your choice of the HF 2.8 Pre-Release files (These are freely available on the project page, or here.).This is just a small project I put together and it allows new players / potential supporters an idea of what to expect from 2.8.

The download also summarizes some major changes and offers some  fun to boot. Check it out!

- Ren