Happy Halloween everyone! I've got a longer update for everyone - please see below. :) The most important thing: Chapter 25, which will be the end of the main plot, will be out before Thanksgiving. I'm aiming for the weekend of November 23rd, but as we get closer, I'll update everyone as usual. :) What happens after that? Great question! Once Chapter 25 is done, I'll be working on reviewing the entire game and polishing anything that needs polishing (renders, writing, animations - whatever needs to be fixed). I'll be taking a hefty vacation around the holiday season from mid-December until early January, so I think the final polish should be done some time in February of 2025. Once that final polish is applied, the game will leave Early Access on Steam and get a price increase to $19.99 on Steam/Itch. After that, I'll begin working on the five epilogue chapters. To that end, I'll be posting polls and requesting ideas for scenes/scenarios that would be fun for the characters. I have a general idea of what I want the epilogue to be, but I definitely want to include some supporter requests and do a bit of fan service. If you already have ideas, feel free to post them as comments below! No guarantees on every suggestion making it in, but if it's a particularly good idea that works with the overall vision, then I'll happily include it. Concurrently to the epilogue chapters being created, I'll begin learning Blender and starting to design the next game. Don't expect to hear many solid details on that for a while, though, since I still have a fair bit of PoP to get through first. :) Lastly - GO DODGERS! tldr: late November Chapter 25 release, then polish work afterwards

The fix should be fixed now, sorry about everything. :/ If the fix doesn't automatically download, please try verifying your game files.

Just a minor fix to make achievements work again - no new content, no effect on saves, etc. :)

Happy Sunday everyone! It's time for Chapter 24 of PoP! We'll be joining the group as they come home from the heist and deal with the aftermath of their actions. I hope you'll enjoy this latest chapter! Changelog:

• Major plot developments
• Major romance plot choices and development (start of harem path)
• Three lewd scenes (one per path)
• Grammar/spelling fixes
• Two Steam achievements

Happy Wednesday everyone - I'll keep this short because I'm still finishing up the animations. Chapter 24 will be released this coming Sunday (Sept 29)! You can expect action, drama, and (as always) lots of handholding!

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you're all doing well. :) This'll be a short update - development on Chapter 24 is proceeding as planned. Scene 2/6 just went into alpha testing, so that's right on track. There will be more sex scenes than usual this time (three different animations that I can fight with Daz about, yayyyy), so even though I'm hoping for a mid-September release, I think it'll probably be late September before the new chapter is out. Don't worry, I'll keep everyone posted as release time gets closer! Special renders will be out some time next week, since I'll be going out of town this upcoming weekend for my birthday. As always, I post daily updates on my Discord, so feel free to join and chat with me!

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope you're ready to join the group on a heist as they try to uncover long-lost truths about the island and their civilization. Will they succeed? And if they do, what will they discover? Play and find out! Changelog:

• Major plot and lore developments
• Romance plot development
• A slideshow
• Grammar/spelling fixes
• Two Steam achievements
• Really, there's a lot of lore and plot stuff going on, I can't say it enough. :P

Happy Saturday everyone! Hope you all are doing well. :) This will be a longer dev update than usual, so you are warned in advance! I'll start with the most important thing: Chapter 23 is on track for release on July 31st. I'm just past halfway done with rendering scene 5 of 6, so everything is going as expected. :) I've been having more problems with Daz than usual, which have eaten up lots of time (like having to fully uninstall/reinstall, or having to run 60 renders one at a time by hand), but I've managed to get through it all relatively unscathed. If you're ever wondering whether or not you should use Daz for a long-term video game project, the answer is almost assuredly no. On a personal/professional note - I'm leaving my IRL job at the end of this upcoming week. Since I started work on Price of Power, I've been working a full-time job + game dev on nights and weekends. It's been quite exhausting, especially at the position I've been at for the last ~two years. Two hours of commuting per day, eight hours of work, then squeezing in game development work once home has not been the easiest. 60-70 hour weeks have been the norm for the last three years, and burnout has definitely started to set in over the last few months. So, to fix that, I'm leaving that IRL job... To do game development full-time! Thanks to your support, I've been able to save up a decent bit of money - enough to let me take a stab at being a full-time game developer (for the near/medium-term). I've got about 24 months to make this all work, so I'm hopeful that you'll all be able and willing to keep supporting me as I try to make this into my one and only job! I know I regularly thank you all for your support already, but I really do appreciate it; without everyone who supports this game, I couldn't even take this chance. So, thank you for enabling this, and I promise to do my best with this opportunity. :) Once I've taken some time to recover from constant 60-70 hour weeks and waking up at 5 in the damn morning, I'll be working on PoP full-time until I've gotten all 30 chapters done. :) The current development roadmap is still what I'm working towards, but as I get into the groove of working on PoP when I'm not exhausted/sleep-deprived, I may tweak and accelerate it. At the current pace/plan, Chapter 30 should be done in around a year, hopefully less once I get into the hang of things. I don't want to go too aggressive on timelines right now and end up putting out a rushed finale rightafter I say that I'm focusing on game development. So, no changes to the dev roadmap until I can properly recover, reassess everything, and finish this game off in the way it deserves. :) I'm sure some of you are wondering what happens after PoP, if I'm doing this full time and only have a year or so left. I don't want to give too much away, but I can confidently say that I've got a game 2 in mind that I'm already deep in the ideation stage of creating. It'll still be 10-12 months until PoP is finished and I can focus on game 2, but I've already got a pretty clear vision of what that'll look like. Let's just say that if you like wholesome fantasy romances (and if you're here, I assume you do), you'll probably like this game. :) I won't be straying from my roots, but I want to do everything I did in PoP better. More player agency, more gameplay mechanics, better renders (hopefully using a better tool than Daz), etc. - it's all on the table and I'll be working towards that as I close PoP out and prepare for the future. Thanks for reading, and thank you again for making this all possible!

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you all are doing well and staying cool this summer. I have not been, since my damn office keeps heating up to 85+ degrees F when I'm running renders. :P Besides the issue of slowly broiling myself alive, development is going fairly well on Chapter 23. If you couldn't tell from Chapter 22 or from the name - this is a big, important update. I'm not even done with the second scene (out of six) yet and I have almost half a normal update's worth of renders. This second scene will answer the lingering questions/concerns I know many of you have about a certain scene in Chapter 22 (IYKYK), so it's very important to me that I do it right. So far, I think it's come out quite well, so it's just a matter of continuing to grind out the renders. In terms of release ETA, I'm hopeful/optimistic about end of July, but given how big and important this update is, that could very easily slip into early August (per the roadmap). I'll keep you all posted either way. :) Special renders should be out next weekend, and they'll be very thematic for the hot week(s) most of the US has been experiencing recently! Until then, you can always catch me on the Discord if you have questions. :)

Happy Friday! I hope you're all ready to enjoy the latest chapter of Price of Power this weekend! This chapter properly kicks off the final plot arc of the story andhas plenty of wholesome romance, regardless of which romance path you're on. Maria lovers will gets lots of wholesome romantic content with her and Emilia lovers will get a long-awaited scene with her. :) Enjoy! Changelog:

• One Maria-only path lewd scene
• One throuple/harem path lewd scene
• Important plot progression
• Very important romance plot progression and choice
• Two Steam achievements

Happy Monday everyone! This will be short and sweet - Chapter 22 will be out on Friday. :) This chapter sets up the final climax (hahaha) of the game and it has long awaited content with our favorite redhead for those on her path. You can also expect the special renders to be out on Thursday, so look forward to a content-filled week!

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope yall are doing well. :) Development on Chapter 22 is going well - I'm passing the halfway point already. I'm on track for a game release in late May as promised. As I start getting towards the end of the main plot, I find myself going back through all the stuff I've written to make sure I close out all the various plot threads that need to be closed. Naturally, that means I go through some of the renders, too, and I'm pleasantly surprised at the progression I've made since Chapter 1. There's only 7.5 chapters left to do, but hopefully I can keep improving over that shorter timeframe. :) I'm still considering doing a passthrough of the older chapters and redoing some of those older renders that I knowI could do better now - any thoughts on that? Let me know!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Sorry for the radio silence, life has been a little crazy, but more on that in a later dev update. Fortunately, despite my failure to post dev updates, I have been working on the game! Please enjoy Chapter 21, Fun and Games! Changelog:

• Various spelling/grammar fixes
• One Maria-only path lewd scene
• One throuple/harem path lewd scene
• Very important romance plot progression and choice
• Very, very important main plot progression
• Two Steam achievements
• Slideshow

Happy January everyone! I hope you've enjoyed Chapter 20 and the end of Act IV. :) I've finished outlining everything in Act V (Chapters 21-25), which will be the final main story act in the game. As I'm sure you can imagine, there'll be a lot of action, drama, and handholding in these last five chapters. :)
Once the main story is done, Price of Power will be out of Early Access on Steam and be fully released! That won't change anything for anyone who already owns the game or supports on Patreon, but it will mean that (hopefully) more people will check out the game now that it's pretty much done. Coming out Early Access also means that the price of the game on Steam and Itch will rise from $15 to $20, to account for just how much content and playtime there is. As I said, if you already own the game on those platforms, there's no changes for you and you won't have to pay anything more to keep playing PoP and getting updates. Lastly, for the entire rest of the year (and especially after Chapter 25 is done), I'll be taking suggestions for content for the epilogue chapters (26-30). I have a general idea of where I want to go with those chapters, but these epilogues are designed to be fan service, so... Tell me what you want to see! Stuff that doesn't make sense in the game obviously won't be included, but if you have a great scene idea or some sort of mini story arc I can work in, I'd love to hear it. :)

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you're ready to kick off 2024 with a bang and a new chapter of Price of Power! As always, there's a romance plot progression, lots of Emilia time, an important plot decision, and a lot of important plot progression. Thank you very much for supporting and playing and I hope you all enjoy Chapter 20: The Test Subject! Changelog:

• Various spelling/grammar fixes
• One Maria-only path lewd scene
• One throuple/harem path lewd scene
• Important plot progression and choice
• Two Steam achievements

Happy Halloween everyone! As promised, it's time for a treat - a new chapter of Price of Power! You can expect a lot of plot progression (as usual), an important romance path choice, and a lewd scene with Maria. This chapter also serves as a run-up for the finale of Act 4, so you can expect that more questions are raised than answered this time. As always, thank you very much for supporting and playing and I hope you all enjoy Chapter 19: Promises Kept! Changelog:

• Various spelling/grammar fixes
• Romance plot choice
• One Maria lewd scene
• Important plot progression
• One Steam achievement
• Mandatory handholding

Happy Thursday everyone! I'm sure you're all wondering when the game will be released, so I'll get right to the point. Chapter 19 will be released on Tuesday, October 31st. :) I hope you're all ready and excited to jump back into PoP and enjoy the new chapter, "Promises Kept". The chapter has a good bit of plot development, important romance and plot choices, and it serves as a setup for the very important Chapter 20: "The Test Subject". I'm sure you can imagine what that entails...But no spoilers for now!

Hi everyone! Development is progressing as expected on Chapter 19. :) It should be out in late October, no exact date yet. Writing all the characters interacting with one another is always fun since they have such different personalities. Every scene is an opportunity to flesh them out a bit further and to have them play off one another. That sometimes leads them to slightly derail the story, but that's the fun of writing! Rendering them in a heavy forest like the Southlands, though.... That is a real pain with Daz. It takes literally 4-5 minutes just to preview a small lighting tweak, which is nothing short of aggravating. It's definitely something for me to keep figuring out and improving, because posing renders is probably 75%+ of the time I spend on game dev. Maybe I should do stick figures in a white void for the next game... TBD. :P

Hello everyone, happy Sunday! It's time for a new chapter of Price of Power! As I've shared before, this is a very romance plot-focused chapter. There is one lewd scene everyone gets, then one lewd just for Maria path and one just for throuple/harem path players. You can imagine what that means. :) I'm really happy with how the paths are shaping up and I think you all will be, too! This chapter is one of the longest I've ever made, but a lot of content is split between the two paths, so I suggest playing both paths to see all the content. As always, thank you very much for supporting and playing! Changelog:

• Various spelling/grammar fixes
• Big romance plot progression
• One shared lewd scene
• One Maria-path lewd scene, one throuple/harem path lewd scene
• Important character developments
• Two Steam achievements

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Chapter 18 will be out on Sunday. :) All the lewd animations are done and rendered, it's just the final renders for the last scene outstanding. I think this chapter is shaping up to be really interesting and fun, especially for the throuple (and harem) route fans! Hope you're looking forward to it as much as I am. :)

Hi everyone! Figured it's well past time I give an update regarding PoP development. :) Well, I do those frequently on the Discord (join!), but not as often on Patreon or Steam, since I figured the people who want lots of progress updates would join the Discord and get pretty much daily updates. Should I do more frequent formal dev updates, though? Let me know in the comments! Anyways, game progress is going exactly as expected. I'm still working through scene 3, but scenes 3 and 4 are the biggest chunks of content in the update, so that's expected. As you can probably tell from the title of the chapter (Maid of Honor), there's a lot of romance plot content and progression. I've already completed the lewd scene and animations that both paths will get (moved from the prior chapter), and I'm pretty happy with how my animation skills have been improving over time. I'm not a master yet, but I definitely think I'm getting better. However, pure romance content is my favorite content to write, since Maria, Emilia, and the MC all play off another really nicely in that regard. When Lune and Zaya come into the mix (depending on your path, obviously), they'll provide another really fun and interesting dynamic. This update is really focused on those three, though Lune and Zaya will take an increasingly large role in the following chapters. If you're on the throuple path, this chapter is where the romance path will really kick off. The romance situation is a major focal point (if not the main focus point) of this chapter, so you can expect a ton of content regarding how that's coming about. There will also be a throuple path lewd scene that is unavailable for solo path; people who want harem path eventually are on the throuple path for now. It's not going to be a full-on threesome - that would be too fast for a slow-burn game - but it will definitely not be a two-player game, if you know what I mean. If you're on the Maria-only path, this chapter deals more with everyone's places in the group, dealing with lingering tension between Maria and Emilia (since Emilia is not a "threat" in the solo path), and that sort of thing. This chapter will have slightly less content if you're on the Maria-only path, just because there's obviously a lot of narrative/romance work that has to go into setting up the other path. There is a Maria-only path lewd scene that throuple path players will not get, so that's something, but you can expect something like 80-90% of the content that throuple path players will get in this chapter. Other chapters will make up the difference in content so that, by the end, all the routes have pretty equal time compared to one another. :) I just want to make sure that everyone's clear from the outset that all paths get their time in the sun by the end of the game, but this chapter is definitely heavier on the throuple path than the solo route. This has turned into a much, much longer dev update than I expected, so I'll just close with the expected release timeline. In short, August 25th is my goal, but it could slide to August 27th. My birthday is right before the release date as is a big and important work project deadline, so while I'm aiming to get everything out by August 25th, the final polishes could take until the 26th or 27th. As usual, once we get closer to the release date, I'll be able to finalize it. :) TLDR: Throuple path has a bit more content than Maria path in this chapter. Each path has a unique lewd scene, plus a lewd scene that everyone gets. Aiming for August 25th-27th release window.

Hello everyone, happy Thursday! As promised yesterday... It's time for a new chapter of Price of Power! This is a very plot-focused chapter with a lot of action, as I'm sure you can tell from the title. I've moved the lewd scene and romance content from this chapter to the next one, because it'll just work so much better in its own chapter. The content isn't cancelled by any means, it's just going to come in the next chapter. :) As always, thank you very much for supporting and playing! Changelog:

• Major, major plot progression
• Important plot choice
• Important character developments
• Two Steam achievements

IDK what else to say - it'll be out tomorrow evening. :)

Happy June everyone! I'll keep this update short and sweet. I'm nearly done with scene 4 of 6 for Chapter 17, so I'm right on schedule for the release. :) This chapter has a lot of action (as you can imagine from the title), so the renders take a bit longer. Posing a scene with a dozen different characters is extremely annoying in Daz - the software slows down to less than 1 FPS, so making tweaks becomes an exercise in misery. I've planned this all in, though, so the release timeline is still late June, maybe the 28th or 29th? I'll give a firm date as I get closer to completion, and I give lots of updates in my Discord. Well, that's all I have, so back to the render mines I go! Have a great week!

Hello everyone! Hope you've had a great April and are ready for some more Price of Power! You can expect a lot of content with your favorite redhead, major romance path development, and (most importantly ofc) a slideshow. Thank you for supporting and playing! Changelog:

• Major romance path choice
• Important plot choices
• Two Steam achievements
• Plot and romance choices
• Major romance path progression
• Very important plot and character progression
• Slideshow

Happy Monday everyone! This is a slightly longer update than usual, but don't worry, I won't drone on too much. Except for this intro, I guess. :P Anyways, as you can tell from the post, I've completed the Act IV roadmap! See below for details.
Chapter 16 will be out on April 21st and will include another slideshow (yay!) as well as some major interactions/decisions as relates to the romance plot. I won't say too much more about the roadmap since I don't want to give everything away, but the titles do have relevant meaning to the plot, so you can figure where we're going from here. As a reminder, the game is planned for 30 chapters (six acts total, five chapters per act). The main plot will finish at Chapter 25 and Chapters 26-30 will be epilogue content. As I've said before, I don't like it when stories end once everyone is finally happy, so I'm making sure that we all get plenty of wholesome content once everything is done. :) That's all for this dev update - thank you as always for all your support!

Hello everyone - happy Saturday! Chapter 15, the final chapter of Act 3, is now out! You can expect a lewd scene with Maria (I think it might be the best animations I've made yet!), three achievements, a ton of lore/world building, and big plot developments. Thank you for supporting and playing!

Changelog:

• One lewd scene
• Three new Steam achievements
• A ton of plot development and world building
• Various grammar and spelling fixes

This update will be short and sweet. Chapter 15: Revelations will be out on Sunday, February 26th! It's gonna be a banger, can't wait to have you all play. :)

Hello everyone! I hope you all have had a good January. :) Progress on Chapter 15 has been fairly good considering all the packing and other stuff that's come up this month. Scene 3/5 is already written and roughly halfway rendered, so I'm just past halfway done with the chapter. Have no fear, I'm still on track for a late February release! This is a short update since I need to start draining and cleaning my PC (and doing all the other packing I've put off). Fingers crossed, I'll be back up and running with game development by Tuesday. Have a great weekend!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and had a great holiday. :) I'm back to work on PoP, as you can tell, and I've already made pretty good progress so far. Chapter 15 (Revelations) is fully outlined, I've written the first scene, and I've already started the renders for that scene. Not bad at all! I've also figured out when the chapter will be released. I was originally planning for mid-February (in my head), but it turns out that the wife and I are moving at the end of the month. It should be a good move for us, so I'm excited, but there's obviously a fair bit of work involved in moving, especially with a gigantic, water-cooled rendering machine like mine. Because of that, I'm aiming for Chapter 15 to be released by the end of February. I may be able to finish it sooner, but it's hard to predict exactly what the release date will be at this time. I'd love for it to be out by Valentine's Day, but that's an ambitious goal even if I wasn't moving... We'll see, though. :) As always, thank you for your support! I post status updates in my Discord pretty much daily, so feel free to join and come hang out. Have a great evening, everyone!

Hello everyone! I've done a lot more testing and the achievement bug that shipped with Chapter 14 should now be fixed. There's a fairly small patch (7-8MB) that should make everything work again. Once the patch is installed, you'll just need to load your most recent autosave and the achievements should be granted. You won't need to replay any portion of the game, just load the autosave and get those achievements! If this bugfix doesn't work for you, please let me know in the comments, but it's worked for everyone who's tested it so far. Thank you for your patience and have a great New Year!

Hello everyone! As a holiday gift to everyone, I'm releasing Chapter 14 early! Enjoy and have a great holiday season! Changelog:

• Two new romanceable characters!
• One lewd scene
• Two Steam achievements
• Plot and romance choices
• Very important plot, character, and lore progressions
• Handholding

Hi all, just a quick update today while I wait for this scene to render. I'm nearly done with the update - all the scenes are written, renders are done, and it's just animations left. Alpha testing will begin today, beta testing will start by Tuesday, and the full Chapter 14 release will definitely be on December 24th. I'm really excited to release this update and introduce the last two main members of our cast to everyone! Have a great weekend. :)

Hello everyone! I just wanted to drop a quick sneak peak of the two new romanceable women coming to Price of Power with Chapter 14, which will be releasing on December 24th. I hope you like Lune and Zaya! Lune:
Zaya:
The images are in 4K and you can feel free to download them if you'd like. :) I like to make 4K renders of the characters based on various fan-selected themes every month, so I may drop some more here on Steam in the future. For now though, I hope you enjoy and have a great weekend!

Hello everyone! Hope you're having a good week. Progress on Chapter 14 is going pretty well and I have a release date ready. :) Chapter 14 (All's Quiet) will be released on the night of Christmas Eve (December 24th) as a Christmas gift to everyone! I'll give a sneak peek of the two new girls that will be introduced either late this week or the beginning of next week, so look out for that soon! As always, thank you for supporting and, to the people who celebrate it, happy Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone! As promised, Chapter 13: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air has been released! You can expect a lewd scene with Maria, two achievements, important plot developments, and a very important choice for the romance plot (and the main plot). Changelog:

• One lewd scene
• Two Steam achievements
• Very important romance plot choice
• Important plot, character, and lore progressions
• Handholding

Hello everyone! Chapter 13: Water, Earth, Fire, Air will be released on October 28th! You can expect plenty more wholesome content, highly educational content (you'll see what I mean), and a very important romance plot decision. Oh, and a lewd scene with everyone's favorite childhood friend, of course! As always, come hang out on the Discord if you want to chat or just want more frequent updates on development progress. Alright, back to work - have a great night/next ten days, everyone! :)

Hello everyone! Happy October! I'll be releasing the first three scenes of Chapter 13 for beta testers shortly, so we're a bit past halfway done with the next release. I'm on track for releasing Chapter 13 in late October, so just hang on a few more weeks. :) There's a good amount of lore and romance plot progression that I'm working on, including the first major romance plot choice! I'm excited to get the new chapter out and I think yall will enjoy it a lot. As always, come hang out in the Discord if you want to get regular progress updates or just chat. :)

Hello everyone! Chapter 12 is now out! You can expect two lewd scenes with Maria (depending on what romance plot choice you pick), a new achievement, and lots of plot/character development with Emilia and the AIs! I hope you all enjoy it!

Changelog:

• Two lewd scenes
• One Steam achievement
• Romance plot choice
• Important plot and character development
• Wholesome friendship content

Hey all! I realize it's been too long since I posted a dev update, my apologies. Fortunately, I have good news about the game release! I'm aiming to release Chapter 12 (The Second Second Expedition) by August 31st! If Daz plays nice and I can get the animations done early, then I may be able to release on the 30th, but I can guarantee a release on the 31st if nothing else. Can't wait to get the new chapter out and let you all have it! TL;DR - Game will release by August 31st. :)

Hey all! My vacation was nice and I've been getting back into the hang of things. Unfortunately, I've just tested positive for COVID and my head is a fuzzy mess. :/ I built in a bit of wiggle room for the release date for Chapter 12, but we'll see how long it takes for me to recover. Before I caught COVID, I was just about 1/3 done with Chapter 12 (wrapping up scene 2/6), so progress has been good to date. I'll try to get some work done, but I'd rather release a few days later with good quality content than make sick-brain art with D-tier lighting. Besides the brain fog, my symptoms are pretty mild, so I'm hopeful that I'll make a full recovery soon.

Hello everyone - happy Thursday! Chapter 11 is now out! You can expect a new lewd scene with Maria, an important romance plot choice, two new achievements, and, most importantly, meeting Legacy's counterpart - Eve! Enjoy!

Changelog:

• New character - Eve!
• One lewd scene
• Two new Steam achievements
• Important romance plot choice
• Major main plot and romance progression
• Various grammar and spelling fixes

Chapter 11: Adam and Eve releases tomorrow morning and kicks off Act 3 of 6 of Price of Power! Here's a short trailer to whet your appetite and give you a few hints for what's coming in the next few chapters. :) [previewyoutube=TLNno2xnKg4;full][/previewyoutube]

Hi all! Just a quick dev update for everyone. Development is going as planned on Chapter 11 and we're on track for a release on June 23rd. I'm currently working on scene 4/5 of Chapter 11 and aiming to get that out to alpha testers some time this weekend. After that, it'll just be scene 5 left to complete, then final testing before release! I'm also working on creating a new trailer for Act 3 as well as improving my marketing/storefront materials in time for this release. There's lots to do, but I should be able to get everything done at this rate. :)

This is just a quick bugfix to fix an issue with an animation in Chapter 7, correct some spelling issues, and add chapter breaks.

Happy May everyone! Now that Act II is complete, it's time to turn our attention to Act II. I spent the last week working on fleshing out all of Act III (Chapters 11-15). As I've said before, I already have a general idea of all the plot points I want to hit throughout the entire story and their approximate pacing, but now I've really fleshed everything out. Because everything is already plotted out and more or less set in stone, I've been able to create a roadmap for the entirety of Act III.
As you can see above, Chapter 11 will be released June 23, 2022 and will formally introduce a character we've gotten a bit of a sneak peek of in Chapter 10 (if you played, you'll know who/what I'm talking about). I've set that release date so far in advance because I'll be going on vacation for two weeks starting on the 24th, so I already know when the game has to be out. After Chapter 11, the release dates get a bit fuzzier, since development can sometimes take more (or less) time than expected. Anyways, I hope this roadmap is helpful and gives everyone some insight on what's coming up for the next 6-8 months! I'll be finishing up my backend work today, then I'll be back to work writing scene 1 of Chapter 11 on Monday.

Hello everyone - happy Saturday! Chapter 10, the final chapter of Act 2, is now out! As promised, there is a single (but quite long) lewd scene with Maria, the first romance path choice, and two new achievements. This is the longest chapter I've ever made, both in terms of writing (over 17k words) and renders (almost 400, not including animation frames). You can expect an extremely satisfying end to this Act, but you'll have to play to see what I mean!

Changelog:

• One lewd scene
• Two new Steam achievements
• Major romance path choice
• Lots of main plot and romance progression
• Various grammar and spelling fixes

Hello everyone! Just a quick update with an official release date: Chapter 10 will be released on Saturday, April 23rd at noon PST. This is one of the longest chapters I've ever written, so be prepared for lots of content! Chapter 10 also marks the end of Act II, so with the completion of this chapter, we'll officially be 1/3rd of the way through the story! Once Chapter 10 is out, I'll be taking a short break (just a week, don't worry) from actively developing the game to work on fully fleshing out Act 3 and recharge my brain batteries a little bit. But for now... It's back to work on animations!

Hello everyone! March has flown by, but worry not, development has been continuing as planned. Scene 5 recently went out for alpha testing and the final scene of the chapter is being written now. I'm taking my time on this scene since it's a very important scene with everyone's favorite childhood friend, but I think it could be done as early as mid-April if everything goes as planned. I'm still targeting late April officially, since animations can very easily cause delays if stuff doesn't work out as planned, but...Fingers crossed it all works out and I can get Chapter 10 out early! :) As always, thank you for support, and if you want more frequent updates or to chat with me/the community, you can join my Discord here! tldr: If the animation gods are kind, mid-April release. Otherwise, late April release. :)

Hello everyone! Just a quick development update to let you all know how progress on Chapter 10 is going. I've just completed scene 2 of 6 for this update and put out the alpha for my alpha testers, so I'm well on track for the current release estimate of late April 2022. I've actually baked some extra time into my release date, since I want to go all out on the animations for the end of this chapter. No spoilers for what's happening, but I'm sure everyone will enjoy what's coming. :) As always, I keep everyone posted in Discord with daily updates, so if you ever have questions, feel free to ask me there! Have a great day!

Fixed the music error - sorry about that! I'll make sure I triple-check everything next time. I'm not sure how that error slipped through, but I'll do my best to make sure it never happens again. :)

Hello everyone - happy Valentine's Day! Chapter 9 is now out! As promised, there will be two lewd scenes with Maria, important plot choices, and two new achievements, on top of the usual plot and romance progressions. I hope you all enjoy it - you're in for a ride!

Changelog:

• Two lewd scenes
• Two new Steam achievements
• Major plot choices
• Lots of main plot and romance progressions
• Various grammar and spelling fixes
• Minor graphical updates to some past animations

Hello everyone! First off, I just want to thank everyone who's purchased the game in this first week. Your support means the world to me, and it gives me even more motivation to keep working hard and putting out content for all of you. You can find my Act 2 roadmap (which covers the upcoming Chapters 9 and 10) below:
As you can see, I'm targeting a mid-February release of Chapter 9, followed by a late April release of Chapter 10. I've included the chapter titles just to give you a little teaser of what's to come, but trust me... It's going to be a wild ride! Some upcoming content I want to highlight is:

• Two lewd Maria scenes in Chapter 9, and another one in Chapter 10. That's right, lots of lewd stuff is coming up!
• Major plot decisions in Chapter 9 and the beginning of the romance paths in Chapter 10. Price of Power is quite linear for most of the first two Acts, but as we get to Chapters 9 and 10, you're going to be making several big decisions that will have impacts throughout the rest of the game. Look out for those those key moments and choose wisely!

Hello everyone! Price of Power is now released for purchase! I'm releasing on Early Access because the game is still in progress, but there's still plenty of content. Chapters 1-8 are available now and Chapter 9 is already well under way. If you purchase now, you can save 15% off the price of the game. As a reminder, you will only need to purchase the game once in order to get all thirty chapters - there will be no microtransactions and no seasons or other content division. Just pay once and enjoy! Once you've purchased and played, please leave a review on Steam! Your reviews and feedback are extremely helpful for me, both in terms of spreading the word about the game and in helping me develop the best game possible. Have a great weekend!

Hello everyone - happy New Year's! Just a quick update that the game will be released on January 21st as previously announced! I've finished work on the content that will be released (Chapters 1-8), so all that's left is to polish it up nicely and implement Steam achievement support. I really want to make sure that the Steam achievements are there from day 1, so that's one of my big goals between now and then. I can't wait for you all to play and enjoy the game - we're almost there! Have a great New Year!

Price of Power will be releasing on Steam on November 19th at 12AM PST FOR $14.99 USD.