Hello dear patrons, MANITU here! How are you?! How is Christmas preparation going?So, many of you have heard, and I previously shared our intention to release new chapter of Driven Affairs before NYE, but it seems like we're not managing to do that on time. A lot of aspects of the game that are not being added with regular Chapter updates in the works right now and it takes a lot of time which is usually being spent on regular updates: things like UI, soundtrack, SFX and a ton of other things game development requires. I hired UI designer twice and both times they disappeared, so I gave up and trying to make it myself now, at least to some degree until new, reliable one would be found. Script is also been taking a lot of my time in a past few months, as we're on a right path to complete it with Usonius, our writer, next year. For example, story of Kessie's and Anna's is around 80% completed at this point.New girl you see above is Melanie, she's side episodic character that will appear in Chapter 10.With the next Chapter, I'm hoping to add updated UI, at least partially, and hopefully some amount of soundtrack, among the usual story updates. I hope to have it out by the end of January/beginning of February.Chapter 9 will be dedicated too... guess who?! Does it even matter? All of our characters are hot, aren't they?! But okay, since we're postponing release, and it's Christmas, I'll let you know in comments. 😉I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays our dear friends, thanks to you we're able to develop this amazing visual novel, I believe that once we complete development, it will be one of the best western VN's on the market. You are helping us to make it happen, remember that. Merry Christmas!