Hello everyone! Today I bring you the seventh build of HZE, wich contains the start of Chapter 2: part 1!

You can read this build one month earlier if you support our project on patreon!

Here’s a update of our current situation: First of all, you guys may know that I want to be as transparent as possible regarding the project. After a few months of no Home Zomewhere Else updates, here’s what we’ve been doing so far. Ever since the last build update, we were trying to find people to join the Home Zomewhere Else Team. Due to the massive work required to get a build done, it was proving quite difficult to have a monthly update. This is why we decided to shorten the size of each build to half of what they used to be, and to make the updates bi-monthly. Regarding this, you guys will be able to see that there’s a Patreon goal that will allow us to return to a monthly build schedule. In regards to our new team members, I’ll be postponing the credits scene at the end of this build until the public release. I’ve been really busy drawing new sprites, making the backgrounds, and working on the new animations, to say the least.

Here are the new team members who have joined the project!

Blue (@SpiriGladier): Editor and Co-Script Doctor

Bern (@Berngruff) and Rick (@RicktheBull2): Animating and Programing

Max(@OsoBearoso): Spanish Translation

Give them a warm welcome!

We’ve had a lot of people offering to volunteer for the writing editor position, and all we can say is thank you for your massive support and interest in our project! We have found a person to fill this position but we are, however, still looking for another volunteer to help out on our project. This new teammate will need to cover anything I won’t be able to due to my hand condition. I need someone to relieve the burden on my hands so I can focus more on drawing instead of burning myself out with the technical responsibilities.

We’re planning on making another post explaining the finer details, but if you’re already interested in helping out in the project; feel free to DM Zordy on Discord, Telegram, Twitter, and Patreon

I had to redo, reorganize, and recreate all the sprites and their respective files. This is because the sprites only had one position with clothes drawn on top. Then we decided to have arms that would move throughout the dialogue, now for chapter 2, we became a bit more ambitious and decided to give them head, ear, and tail attributes. So in the future, they’ll be different from their original sprites. This means that I had, and still have to, go through all the files and separate them into different categories. I also had to create a lot of new sprites for new characters. On the same note, in Chapter 2 there are a lot of new backgrounds that are still unfinished; and there’s more on the way.

We’ve also been working on new songs to put in the visual novel, so keep your ears open! As well as adding a new particle system to add to the ambiance.

There's a myriad of other things that have been going on here and there not listed, so it's been a very busy few months, to say the least.

All this to say thank you all for your patience and support! We’re so lucky to have such a loving and supportive community around our project! Home Zomewhere Else is a project running on the kindness and dedication of our team members, and we couldn’t do this without them.

But most of all, we couldn’t have done this without you, our wonderful readers! We hope to continue delivering an amazing and enthralling experience to each and every one of you!

Thank you!

P.s. Special thanks to Nero Valzer for his Youtube let’s plays of the VN! Support him over on his channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/NeroValzer

Also also: 

Read Heart of Amethyst <3 https://jadenblack.itch.io/heart-of-amethyst