Hello everyone!

It’s been a while since last update, I hope this one was worth the wait!

This time, we have managed to port over the entire Revisited route for Tatsuki! Of course, with a few modifications here and there to accommodate the change in tone seen in the rest of the Homecoming project, but as of Build 10 Homecoming now finally has its first official route end! For all you Tatsuki fans, give it a try and tell us what you think! For others who are on the fence about the character, I still encourage you to give it a try. Our big green lug might actually surprise you, hehe…

I know last update I said we would be focusing on coding in Kounosuke’s route, and that has seen a few extra days of progress as well. It was pointed out to me by my team, however, that it makes no sense to sit on the Revisited routes for so long when all they’re really needing is to be ported over to the Homecoming project. After thinking about it, I agreed with them. For the next update, I am hoping to have both Juuichi and Shin’s routes fully ported over along with a few more days into Kounosuke’s brand new Homecoming route that we’ve written from scratch.

Besides the writing, we’ve also got a new revamped sprite set for everyone’s favorite bear, Juuichi! We’re particularly proud of how this one came out, as we feel it does a lot of justice to the original sprite while still allowing elements of Dev’s personal style to shine through.

As with all the rest of the revamped sprites, please note that these are just the base poses so far. The other poses and expressions are a long term work in progress, as each individual pose is essentially a new sprite. These do take a lot of time, so thank you for being patient with us!

Finally, I took the opportunity to finally implement some long...err, requested features! I know there’s a large swath of the Morenatsu fanbase that has found it difficult to get into Homecoming without the ability to play as a human Hiroyuki. Well, over the past few months I set out to see if it would be possible for me to alter the writing so that it can allow the player to have their preference of either Snow Fox or Human species for the protagonist. As of Build 10, I have succeeded in this endeavor, and now you can change your preferred species in the Preferences menu. (This was a big undertaking, hehe! Don’t say I never gave you anything uwu’ )

I also went in and added the same option to select between the “painted” and “blurred” styles for the backgrounds that we have in our other project, Santa Lucia. Some players have noted that the painted style sometimes gives them motion sickness, so hopefully this option can help alleviate those issues!

The last thing I want to say in regards to these switches is that they’re more than likely the last additions we’ll be making to the Preferences menu. Now, since I know these are going to pop up, especially since we’ve had a contingent of players hounding us about them from all the way back in 2018, I’m going to set the record straight on the following topics:

+ Do not ask us for a toggle to switch off sprites for female characters. This will never happen. End of discussion.

+ Do not ask us for a toggle to switch in the original game’s sprites, Cgs, or music. This will never happen. End of discussion.

I know most of you aren’t going to have a problem with these, but I can’t stress enough how annoying it has been to deal with these kinds of demands over the years.

Homecoming is a fan project, we are not the original team. Anyone who is trying to treat us as a surrogate for them is barking up the wrong tree. The original game is still available to be experienced in all its glory, we aren’t taking anything away from that. Your memories are still exactly what they are, and if for whatever reason you believe we have tarnished them, then I’m sorry but you have much bigger problems to deal with in your life than what some group of nobodies are doing with their free time.

Phew, it’s nice to finally get that off my chest! Hope that wasn’t too off-putting to the rest of you guys!

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Thank you all for playing Homecoming! I hope you enjoy what we have in store for you this build!

Cheers!

~Dzahn

Build 10 Notes:

+ Tatsuki route expanded!

+ August 16th - August 31st

+ That's right, the full route is added! There are two endings! Have fun!

+ Kounosuke route expanded!

+ August 18th

+ August 19th

+ New sprite for Juuichi!

+ The timed prompt to enter the Juuichi Firefly event is now more forgiving.

+ Character associated text colors have returned! Now when a main character speaks, the text will be a light shade of their motif color.

+ New Preference Options!

+ BGs can now be in either "Painted" or "Blurred" styles.

+ By popular ~~request~~ demand! Hiroyuki's species can be toggled between "Snow Fox" and "Human".
(Note this only changes Hiroyuki and his family. All other characters will remain anthro even if they were humans in the original game.)
(Also note, the story might not work as well with Hiro as a human. Homecoming was written assuming the character is an anthro, so certain scenes might not read as intended.)