News and Updates!

News and Updates!

December 2022

By Alanna Harpsong

Hard to believe it’s already a week into December. Yet here we are. Of course as the year comes to a close we look towards what we can do in the next year. For us, one of our hopes is to get the gears really turning again on the dating sim we’ve been at for a few years now. There have been a number of factors that have slowed that down, and halted production all together.

Our third member Kaho, if you’ve been around that long, well life exploded horribly and she had to step away to take care of herself. Then the fucking pandemic happened. To her. (She’s still kicking around, don’t worry ^_~ ) The pandemic happened  to us. There have been some difficult moments with family in the last couple of years for both Nova and I. Well that’s putting it mildly, but we’ve both come out stronger for it.

Commissions. They’ve been wonderful, and we appreciate everyone that has ever commissioned either one of us. Especially those that could and did during the pandemic when times were uncertain for us. However, there have been so many and one big one in particular, that also put a big dent in our time to work on the game.  It’s always been important to the both of us to try and get our commissioners taken care of first, so that makes some things take a back seat in favor of that. Our choice and we wouldn’t do it any other way.

However, Nova and I have both definitely gotten a degree of burnout from it. Nova more so than I. In deciding what we really want to achieve, we really want to do this game. Which means for now, commissions for the both of us are closed. It will be some time before either of us open them again. When we do, we’ll be sure to let you know. They will also be in smaller batches and limited runs so that we can keep from falling into the pit we’ve found ourselves in currently. We do enjoy doing them, but we also really love doing what we do and that’s telling our stories and creating new adventures.

Now for the fun news!

The Cat House Volume 7 RELEASES FRIDAY DECEMBER 23RD EVERYWHERE.

If you’re a Patreon, December 21st.

As usual it will be Wednesdays for our wonderful supporters, then everyone else on Friday until we run out of pages. Going to be a long one. Two new characters this volume!

Patreon $10 supporters will get a digital copy of the comic when it’s complete. Always long before we finish releasing. But it’ll also go up on our Gumroad store when it’s done too.

$1 and up of course get to vote on our pinups every month.

$5 and up get a copy of the pinup as well as getting the comic pages early.

https://www.patreon.com/studiosquidink

It’s one of many ways you can help support us and makes what we do a little easier. Like keeping our website up and running, that’s where some of your funds go. Or things needed to make our lives easier, such as better work laptops. Or well… just living some days.

Of course we have our picture packs, and comic volumes that you can buy digital copies of on Gumroad.

https://studiosquidink.gumroad.com/

Of course if you’re more the mug, t-shirt and wall art type. There’s our TeeSpring store.

https://www.squidinksundries.com/

Regardless of what you can or can’t do. We appreciate all of you that just follow us, support us and are fans of our work. Thanks for following us on our journey.

We hope the holidays aren’t too rough this year on you and that your next year is better than the last. Much love from us both.

~Alanna

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