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Hey, if you're saving on the To Be Continued, it's likely why this crash is happening. That screen is removed when the updates release. As long as your saves have been from the new version (starting with 1.9.1) all along they should still work, just save on a text box or two before the TBC. Meanwhile, you can also try the chapter select and see if it lets you select the current day, and skip (should skip read text) til end of day!

It's Day 4. There is only one route, you just choose who to spend time with sometimes. Each wolfboi is getting a hangout with Fynn before the first choice. You'll just get different perspectives from each boi when those options come up, and Fynn will learn mildly different things about the world of Jotunheim/teach each wolfboi different things about Midgard, then it goes back to the single story route.

You could spend the whole game choosing a single wolfboi if that makes it easier for you, or choose a different one each time a point arrives where a choice is made. In either event, the story will still return to the single narrative route it turned away from. But this being Day 4, it's before all of that.
Hope that helps!

Hello!

Yes, as soon as the next CG is finished and I get time to add it in :3
I will be out of the state for next week so it will come (hopefully) just after that!

Hey!

Thanks for the praise! I'm happy so many people are taking to the new stuff really well. I hate that I couldn't just flip out the whole rework all at once cause of time constraints so seeing people are enjoying what's been added is really motivating ^///^

Be safe~

Lavan

Hey! Thanks for the feedback and praise ^///^
Fortunately, Wayfinder  is not like the other girls, you're never locked in to a choice for your wolfboi!
You'll get a day (or two in some cases) after making a choice, the story paths will diverge to the different scenes, and then converge to the main story path again until the next choice.

Choosing Arkyn won't lock you in to his story content permanently for the playthrough, or you could choose him every time he's available! Entirely up to you!

Bjame is not Fynn's love interest, but that might not stop Bjame from at least trying ^\\\^

Hello! 

It has been the plan since Tehngo onboarded to incorporate my rewrites with his sprites, yes. This has the first three days with new scenes in the main story and two bonus scenes in a side story, all with the new sprites. 

The next update in a week for Patrons and about 2 weeks and a half for the public will have Day 4, then roughly a three week to a month wait for Day 5, at which point I'll be able to  do Day 6 (the day the reader chooses their first wolfboi adventure partner) and add on all of Act 2 and the new chapter all at once.

In other words, a few more updates til the continuation, but I heavily suggest reading through this as there is still a lot of new content.

Be safe~

Lavan

You haven't seen the last of the old sprites! I have something fun planned for them :3

I do have a CG planned for the end of Act 2 with a good number of them in it, so we'll see :3

Be safe~

Lavan

Yup!
Unfortunately because of scale the screen can't always show their full sizes...
!!!But!!!!
Here they all are! Keep in mind Bjame is standing with his legs apart and not his full height! (If I make him higher in game he'd clip out the screen)

Be safe~

Lavan

Hello!

Arkyn is six-foot-five, and Biorn is seven feet, four inches!

If you look at the post "A Year of Wayfinder!", there are some other bits of info I sgared about the wolfbois ^///^

Be safe~

Lavan

Hey, I posted about 1.9.2 being on Patreon, I was going to release 1.9.1 publicly but because the next version is coming sooner than a month, I'm putting out 1.9.2 publicly at that time instead.

I guess I made that a post and not a devlog so Itch.io isn't really showing it off to people? Not sure.

https://itch.io/blog/661965/wayfinder-192-up-on-patreon

Anyone who donated since last version should have gotten the uodate in their DMs on Patreon, and the last week of this month it will go Public.

Hello!

Thanks for the feedback!

Sorry about the lack of communication, I've been working on a devlog to post but I guess I'll reply to this with what I was going to write there, and make a separate post later (work day >///<)

Rest assured this project isn't abandoned, the Patreon update is coming soon and (as posted in the Discord before) anyone who has donated since before the rewrites has been promised (and will receive) the update in their Patreon DMs!
I had meant to make a dedicated post on Patreon to reflect this, but I actually just plum forgot to, which is my bad! I'm sorry for that!
I will absolutely make it a priority to try to keep people updated on these things.

That said, the new Patron update has a new main theme song (composed by Camazule for Wayfinder, with potentially another song coming in the public update), a new CG with 20 variants of lighting and pose (and Tehngo is going to be working on another, 3-image CG for this same day), a bonus scene and the entirety of the next in-game day featuring the first hangout with Arkyn!

All told, after a few weeks for Patrons, the update that goes public is going to be the first three in-game days with the rewrites, two bonus scenes, all new sprites for the characters, and any CGs and new songs we're able to finish. I plan on releasing the next Patron update within a few weeks of this upcoming one, as that's entirely written and I just need to (struggle to) code it (and hopefully get the CGs for that day in as well)!

Thank you for your patience, apologies again for the lack of communication!

I hope you continue to enjoy Wayfinder!

Be safe~

Lavan

-_o

There's currently no actual NSFW in game, when there is I will be making a separate version!

Hello!

I wanted the characters to look less painted and more cartoon/stylized. It's just easier on the eyes for a lot of people as the old sprites gave a lot of people an uncanny feeling.

As for the route thing, I'm not sure how else to explain it. This isn't adding more work to creating Wayfinder, it was always going to have this content and the story is naturally going to take the reader through the same path regardless.

If anything I made the story more streamlined by pulling the early options and making it one straightforward path until after the memorial scene, and the new love interest (not really new, just not revealed til now) pops up during the story in scenes that were already being made. Even the couple of times where the reader splits off with him were already planned as part of the story as a whole, you can't opt out of them as they are integral to the plot.

The only real way to summarize is just wait and see, it might make more sense after 2.0 releases later this month/early october.

Be safe~

Lavan

Hello! I appreciate the concern~

Before the sprite reworks that Tehngo did and the opening rework (which I'm working on now), updates were roughly every 2.5 months and included content for all split paths each time which, all told, each amounted to almost twice the total story content of my biggest chapter (which was a converged chapter before any split paths). That's only a little slower than updating monthly.

As for the concern of adding a route, Wayfinder doesn't have 'routes' in the traditional sense. The story is going to diverge and converge multiple times, and the reader isn't locked in to being with one character just because they went with that character first. Next time the story diverges into paths, the reader can choose a different wolfboi if they want. The story is still progressing the same regardless, and this new love interest has actually been planned from the beginning!

This love interest is going to be available in addition to, and not instead of, the other characters Fynn can choose to be with as is the case for all of the wolfbois. Though he won't have his own personal adventure with Fynn for quite some time, he'll still be available throughout the story all the same!

I hope you continue to enjoy Wayfinder!

Be safe~

Lavan

All the men, none of the compromise!!!!

Yesss

I've been so excited to add him!

His arrival is going to shake things up quite a bit, so I hope you look forward to that!

He's a love interest for a different character ^///^

That character will also be a playable lead so I hope you look forward to it!

Thanks for the feedback :3

Yeah, I rushed through it to be sure in regards to Zephyr. Definitely something I'm gonna adjust after the jam!

I laughed audibly at the 'Spanish soap opera' comparison though cause it's so true, and now I'm imagining Nate as the (gasps in Spanish) meme.

Yesssssss!
This is something I love so much, I wish more characters like this existed <3
Now I have to bump Violet Memoir up on my to-read list ^///^

Thanks for the in-depth feedback, Unagi <3

Word vomit incoming!!

I'm hoping that, after the VN jam when we are able to update After Passion, I can make the story more well-rounded! I've gotten feedback on the 'past' aspect of the story to both ends (some people want it fleshed out, some want it to be more subdued).

Instead of making the details of the story that happened before this epilogue more vague, I'm going to make them more relevant by adding extra scenes, making better use of the history of the characters and adding another character who has only shown up in name so far!

I want to touch up the cold open with the isekai'd human as well, because I feel like I should have listened to Akiba when he suggested drawing it out more, and there's a bit of confusion caused by the perspective swap. It also sort of sets a precedent for the whole VN to be voiced as well so we'll probably have to adjust that.

Aside from the cold open and adjusting a couple of the current scenes, I have about three new scenes planned! These will hopefully help balance the story more toward meaningful scenes with a few moments of levity and references (as opposed to the confusing tonal jumble of what-is-this-supposed-to-be that I hastily and desperately threw together lmao).

The current final scene sort of leaves people who were wondering about the past events hanging, and my original planned ending definitely would have fit better. So, after the update, expect things to connect a bit more fluidly and, hopefully, a better story overall!

Well, yeah. He was always supposed to be the more feminine of the three. He's a prince, so he's pretty prim and proper even with the club outfit lmao

I loosely based all three of the wolfbois off of IRL actors/singers, and Geirolf's based off the singer Yohio.

Hopefully that explains it a bit~

As a side note, love the Kuja profile pic, he's another feminine man I love a lot ^///^

Geirolf is my favorite of the three, but I had Tehngo make him to my tastes so I'm not surprised if he falls a bit in popularity ^///^ 

To my knowledge, his design is something that doesn't really come up in the same genre of VN: a masculine character with a not-very-masculine design (as far as societal norms go).

There are, obviously, likely to be examples of this that I haven't seen but I wanted to express his softer qualities and still have him be able to be the snarky smol of the three, so I'm loving his design for that! 

Yeah, it's a double-edged sword cause I know some people will definitely dislike the new sprites over the former ones. Unfortunately I am unable to keep working with Alv (original artist) and so I needed to swap artists, and the sprites clash artstyles u_u

So hopefully people will adjust!

I will say I can do a lot more with these layered sprites though. After I get used to using them I'm excited to see what I can pull off~

And soon, a fourth...

It's fine not to like them :3

At a certain point I got so many comments about the original sprites looking too uncanny and clashing with the new style that I pretty much had to go for the redesign.

I will still be using the old sprites for something fun though, so this isn't the last you'll see of them ^///^

I tried to schedule this reply to send in 72 hours but itch.io won't let me so pretend I sent this in 72 hours.
I'M ALIVE!

Thanks for checking it out! It was intense getting it done in a month , but we did it!

It's for both the reworked sprites AND the new love interest!

Bjame is a love interest for another character ^///^ I did reveal who it is on one of ThetaDog's streams!

This is a masterpiece, seriously! I'm dead XD

He'll be revealed in time ^///^ He's secret for now

Thanks for the feedback!

I will admit I originally intended more for the story (was aiming for like 12-13k words), but I apparently picked the worst month to try to write a short story from scratch between a move and full time hours changing, so I had to cut back and essentially make this an epilogue to an adventure that hasn't been written >///<

It's been a fun experience overall though :3 If Akiba and the crew are up for it I'd definitely love to bump out more for this~

Not Bjame, no ^///^

Thanks ^///^ Tehngo worked so hard on him!

^///^ thanks for reading!

Thank you for reading it <3

Draxxe XD