Three months ago I made a promise, as the writer and creator of Minotaur Hotel, that no amount of difficulties would stop us from reaching the game's uncompromising conclusion. The road ahead will be long, but today I'm making good on the first step — and, as my people say, a promise made is a promise kept.

Today we're publishing the first part of Chapter 20. It will be split into 5 monthly updates, each one bigger than the last, so be aware that this is only the beginning. We have truly great things in store.

It would be obvious and trite to thank you for your support, so please allow me to take a step forward and show my gratitude for your faith. For your belief in us as developers, in our capacity to deliver, and in the story we are telling. Thank you for staying with us, and thank you for all the wonderful emotions you feel towards our story.

Chapter 20 was written with unwavering love and dedication. This is for you.

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Now, as much as I want to end the DevLog there, I have to cover a few pragmatic points.

First of all, the bad news: due to technical issues we cannot solve, save files from previous Android builds will not be compatible with this version. We plan on developing a chapter select feature to facilitate things for players, but sadly this will take some time and we do not have a release estimate for it yet. Right now, if you want to reach Chapter 20 ASAP make sure go to the Settings and select  the "Skip unseen text" option. Then you should be able to skip through the game in 15 minutes or so.

Second, I want to take this opportunity to remind you that we now have a Patreon, which is financing our on-going expenses with developing new content and conducting the Visual Update. We'll be publishing Chapter 20 across 5 monthly builds to our patrons, with a public release on Itch coming up sometime later. Build 0.9 will come out around October 16th-19th. We're offering other benefits too, like unpublished prototypes, short stories, access to our Discord server and special events! Please consider becoming a patron, as that really will help with the game's development.

Third, the version we're publishing today is actually Build 0.8.1. It contains some bug fixes we put into the game between the patron release and today, as well as the first of three ambiance tracks we plan on using during Chapter 20.

Fourth! The image we're posting today? It's one of the 14 CGs Alpha0 did for us. It's showing up on the last update of Chapter 20!

And fifth! I've been editing a game called Dead Ringer! It's coming out on October 1st. I'll post more about it when it's out.

That's it for today! Have fun!