Hi,

This update contains a new prologue, and Chapter 4 for Mike. John's & Charles' routes are not updated.

Normally, I'd love to have a long devlog with my feelings, things that have gone good or bad etc in an update.
This time however, the current censorship wave hitting my games has hit me harder than ever.

Distant Travels isn't vile or questionable, there is no rape or incest going on, there's nothing close to abuse.
Instead, it's a way for me to write about life and difficult topics that I have dealt with - depression, impostor syndrome and the like. All wrapped in a nice little dating sim package with a dash of sci-fi and some great art.

The main bright news I want to share is that I'm now working closer with a new sprite artist (tehngo!) as well as a new programmer who can assist me in some of the more advance features I like to add in (JamieDerg) as well as more art from Ven (Bweno / VenCefi). 
These lovely people, amongst others (Lamb, Jake etc) who have encouraged me to keep my passion in the project are what has revived the project passion for me. I went from writing barely 20-30 words per day, to thousands per week with their motivation and help.
Truly, thank you all.

As for actual additions etc this time I'll keep it short, as I just don't have it in me to summon more passion that what is already in the build. No dev-log guides about shaders or the like.
In short:
- 67k new words (100k -> 167k)
- 15 or so new CGs
- A few new characters with full art.
- A bajillion fixes to highgfx/low gfx mode. Less flashing lights.
- A ton of graphical improvements with the introductions of GLSL shaders.
- A new prologue.
- A glossary function.
- New main menu.
- Fixes to the sprite gallery.
- A complete code rehaul (yup)
- A million other fixes and additions.

Just play it, it's quite great. Oh, and remember to speak out against censorship and stand for what you believe in.

On a side note for all the translators that have reached out in recent times who I have asked to wait - this is a good time to go about it. I won't be overhauling any older chapters in any significant ways from here on out.
As for translations themselves conditions are:
1) You must inform me of it's existence.
2) You cannot paywall it for longer than 1 week (7 days) after initial release. After that it must be made available for free.
3) You may not upload any copies of DT to itch.