Hello everyone, first of all and as always, I want to thank you all so much for your support, it's been a rhough year but we've made it!

it's been now more than six months since we published this project, and honestly it has been a wild and painful ride...

As many of you might know, My dream has been maintaining myself from my art and my drawings, but since I have tendonitis It got difficult to work on said goal. Once commissions were too much to handle, I opted for some healthier and faster way to be "an adult" and decided to study once more, I opted for a Programmer's career, I did a 5 months course in 2020 , graduated with almost a perfect score and continued to study to get better chances at finding a job. After many interviews and stuff, I wasn't getting very goods results but it didn't discouraged me, I kept studying, kept wanting to be better for months, until I was so stressed that I couldn't sleep for paying attention to my email 24/7 that i had to take a little break in around january- february of 2021. Then for a variety of reasons, my tendonitis got even worse, it developed to a synovitis in the thumb and the index (spreading to the rest of the hand) in both hands, wich denies me from playing videogames, using a keyboard , or somethings drawing completely , I can't type more than a few sentences on the keyboard until my hands start hurting a lot. So after months of study and getting prepared to get jobs, having interviews and almost getting a well paid job, all went to trash because I can't use my hands at all... Funny how life is that, exactly after I developed the synuvitis, people whom I've sent my resume and places where I've previously applied for jobs, everyone started calling me, telling me that they had the perfect job, no experience needed, really well paid and even from home. I've been getting these mails until today and its been really reaaaally sad, something that you worked on for a long time, wanting to be better, and sudenddly even if you'd like to, you can't do it anymore...

BUT, somehow, because of the kind of person I am, I didn't get discouraged, or stayed with my arms crossed doing nothing while I watched all this fall apart in front of me, the only way I could move forward, it was if I did something, It's meaningless to cry for what has been already lost, I HAD to move forward, thus the idea to make a visual novel came.

Since I couldn't work in what I studied and focused my life for months, and me having this condition was the main reason why I changed Home Zomewhere Else from being a comic, into a visual novel, because I thought that "It would be easier and lighter for my hands" But oh boi I was wrong. Having tendonitis and synovitis has been proving most difficult to work on this project as much as i'd like to, were it for me, I would be working on this project 24/7 all day long if I could.

That being said , so far, this project has been purely funded on my friends good will, to help me out in my hour of need, with a few tips that I can gather from here on patreon, to be able to pay them anyway I can. All these past months, even since all the team has their own lives, they've managed to help me out to work on my project, from programming, drawing, and even typing in the keyboard for me (regarding the writing of the script) while I do what I can with my hands, drawing the sprites, some backgrounds, animating the whole vn, putting the music, reviewing the music, also helping with the programming.

With all this, we've managed to give you guys a monthly update of HZE of rhoughly 1hr-1:30 hr of reading everytime, but everymonth we do this, we burnout ourselves, work until the very last day of the settled day of the update, and destroy my hands and damage, take almost all the free time of Garro the main programmer in the process.

So, because of this a few things will change:

• First of all i'd like to settle from now, that I will definitely see this project through the end, no matter how and under any circunstances, I will finish this project and that's not going to change.
• Second ,there won't be any updates for these two months to come, we seriously need to rest our hands, I got to absolutely destroy my hands while doing the last part of chapter one, wich is obviously not the idea.
• Third, I thought about the posibilites and the circunstances/state of my hands and after thinking a lot, there will still be monthly updates, but the content's from it will be shortened to a half, we will continue to post in parts, but we'll post them and cut them half way through so if the normal was 1 hour-ish, it will be around 30 minutes worth of reading... I was thinking like, "part 1 first half" or something like that, I still have to think things through aaa But this way, I won't destroy my hands or burnout ourselves to make a update each month. (I was thinking also in the posibility of getting volunteers to help us work in Home Zomewhere else too.)
• Fourth, Even though we wont be posting updates neither on public or on patreon (except for january's public post of chapter 1 part 5) We still have some surprises stored for you, so I encourage you to stick around and find out! I will keep everyone up to date with patreon posts, devlogs on itch io, twitter, and discord!

I want to make things clear here, I'm not telling you all this to be pity, or to get attention or anything of the sort, I just thought that it was fair that you guys knew about the state of my body, and the limits that I have to make for myself not to hurt me even further until it gets worse (wich has been, exactly why I need these changes) . Now you understand the conditions in wich i work, and why I have to do something about it. And hopefully, These changes will help us not take any buildless months in the future!

Your help has been proving most helpful, and I cannot thank you all enough about it, Just you reading what we put so much effort in making makes my heart be fulfilled with pried and joy, and acomplishment on what we make, I just want to tell a story for people to enjoy, nothing more, nothing less. so thank you, Thank you so much for this awesome year, thank you all so much for reading our Visual novel, and thank you so much for your support. Thank you for absolutely everything! <3

But anyways, thank you so much for sticking with us, I want to wish you a absolutely amazing happy new year, my best wishes for you all, be good and stay safe!!

xoxo, hugs and kisses - Zordy from the HZEteam