First, congratulations, and thank you so much for releasing the DLC. I love Speakeasy so much. But I'm going to be blunt: compared to the main game, it's a bit of a letdown. There's no customization option for the MC, and no MC sprite character design at all; there's no spicy CG, only nude love interests, so the spicy scene feels not interactive like in the main game. And sadly if we don't use the default name (Cora), there's a bug; some of our love interests call our MC by her default name, not the custom name I gave her. If I offend you with my words, sorry, that's not my intention; I only express my experience playing this DLC.
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Open Late Games was extremely fortunate to have a successful Kickstarter that was able to fund the original Speakeasy game, which allowed us to offer features like CGs and some MC customization. With that funding, we were also able to release the game to players at a much lower price than would have been possible otherwise. Indies have a pretty special relationship with the players because often the more support that's received while crowdfunding, the more we can offer in turn.
Open Late Games hires artists and programmers who are not part of the studio. To provide fair wages for their work, it takes a lot of balancing to stay in budget and make sure the game can still be offered at a reasonable price to players. Speakeasy: Last Call was developed without any additional crowdfunding, only relying on the awesome support of Patreon members to help finance the creation of new sprite artwork and hiring skilled programmers. I'm proud of what we were able to accomplish and it was a fun journey writing the final stories for Silas, Will, Dahlia, Milo, Maxim, Nika, Vincent, and little Momo.
And thanks for the bug report! I'll look into it for the upcoming patch for any bugs that are found.