I am trying something new here, allowing itch.io to also get the patreon updates early. On the Patreon the updates are 10$ to get them a month early, 5$ to get them 2 weeks early. I will be adjusting the prices on itch so that it matches the Patreon release prices. 
Why am I doing this? Well there are people who would not mind helping with the game, but they simply do not like the Patreon platform. While I am waiting for my SubscribeStar stuff to get approved I figured this could be a good idea too.

This update is HUGE in terms of the direction the story goes in, and simply the amount of animations and renders. Absolutely insane. This was the update that broke me and made me take so much time off. Also the reason I decided to start going with smaller updates.  627 Renders for just the second half of chapter 8. 1238 total Renders for chapter 8. 530 new animations for the second half of chapter 8. With a total of 630 combining both halves of chapter 8. Not to mention the 10k+ lines of code just from the second half of chapter 8, that I wrote all of in just the last few days.
To put that in a running total of Renders and Animations for the entire game so far: 1353 animations, 3027 Renders.

So it's getting to be a pretty big game. I still have 2 chapters to go with this game before I run out of content for the original idea I had to add 5 more chapters. If the story continues past chapter 10 is really all up to you guys. 
Let's be real I will be working on this game for over a year total by the time the game is done. If it still is making me no money then I just can't keep working on it. I am currently only making 4$ a month on the game. But a promise is a promise and I promised 10 chapters so I will deliver on that no matter what. The only thing that is up in the air is what comes after those 10 chapters are done.