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January 6 Update: NGM #2

I am right in the middle of a huge creative run. Hate to pull myself away from it to do other stuff, but better to keep everything moving along.

$5 patrons, you should have received a message containing the link to New Game Minus #2. Please feel free to offer any feedback you like, and if you find any typos, please report them!

Will keep this one short so I can get back to work. Ple...

2018 in Review

Hey, everybody! This is going to be a busy month, so I thought I'd kick things off early with my yearly review and look forward.

Reflections 

At the beginning of 2018 I said I was afraid TLS updates might fall behind given the other major things I would be doing. I actually only released one fewer update than a normal year, and some of those updates ...

December 30 Update

As I type this, it's dark and quiet. The final days of 2018 are winding down. This will be the first half of my year-in-review, looking back in 2018 so that my first post of 2019 can spend more time looking forward.

Today I officially concluded my involvement with Hreinn Games. This has been a major part of my development time over the past three years, finishing one game and launching an...

December 23 Update

Well, this update is late because my chosen narrator was supposed to get his 15 minute checkpoint to me yesterday and I wanted to let people listen to it. As opposed to the audition, the checkpoint is real audio in final quality, so it's a good time to check on quality issues. Here it is:
2018-12-24 04:06:49 +0000 UTC View Post

December 16 Update

Public release went out okay. I intend to spend more time making qualitative changes based on feedback (which is still welcome), which will lead to either a special 0.40.6 release, or just included in 0.41.0. Not sure.

Thanks to all who went the extra mile and listened to audiobook narrators. Counting largely positive recommendations as votes, here are the results:

Sarah Colton - 9

B...

TLS 0.40.5 Public Release

New version is up at the blog:

http://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2018/12/tls-0405-public-release.html 

Read the note there: this update could have used more time, but I felt locked into this schedule. But now that it's out, I can focus on making improveme...

Audible Narrators

(First, an unrelated note: I just uploaded version 0.40.4 in the TLS thread. If anyone hasn't gotten tired of this content yet and wants to check this one before we do the public release, feel free!)

I guess it's time to do a thread about audiobook narrators, since it wouldn't be professional to keep the narrators waiting. I got another submission this morning, so it's possible that more will co...

December 9 Update

Just uploaded 0.40.2 in the other post. It is definitely not the final balance, but if you were just waiting for a smoother experience, this one should have most of the bugs and typos ironed out.

The Council of Gawnfall updates are done and people generally liked them. This is good, because I'm likely to crash in December. Version 0.41.0 content will be scattered between many different component...

TLS 0.40.0 Release

I'm apprehensive releasing this one. I feel like to balance/test this to the level I'd like, I'd need to take a week to make and/or update a bunch of different saves, and I don't feel good about that use of time. I think crowd-sourcing balance will be faster, just be aware that some details of this might be sketchy. 

So play with caution! I really need to take a nap, but then I will be back...

December 2 Update

Consistent TLS progress, but some elements are becoming larger than expected. Bit drained. Would very much like to release Friday so the reworking is completely done before Christmas. To keep things moving, I'm going to go back to work and just post something I had pre-written.

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I say I'm grateful for all of you a lot, enough that I worry it might come off as repetitive or insincere. So I...

Potential Writing Projects

This is going to be one of those posts where I update you on my thoughts of future work, but I'm not really looking for a specific type of feedback (though I welcome it). In fact, I'm not sure what I expect people to say at all, but here goes.

It seems LitRPG authors are pretty friendly people. I've had several of them message me saying "Hey, I liked your book, do you want free promotion?" and t...

November 25 Update

Most important bit first: I've overcome all inertial issues with TLS and had a great week of work! Now that I'm past the early struggling, I have momentum and things are going well. With any luck, next week I will have a positive report about how close I am to completion.

One of the votes next update is... a lot. I knew it would be a complex one, but I decided to try to make it react more to pas...

November 18 Update

This week we have two updates in one. First stuff about the launch of the novel, then a conventional update.

New Game Minus #1: Changing Faces 

My new book is out! Since the price is $3, I've sent it via message to all $5 backers - hope you enjoy if you're into this sort of fiction. Longtime $1 patrons, you may qualify as well, so message me if interested.<...

NGM #1: Changing Faces

Hello, everybody. Unusual post for unusual circumstances. I am thinking about the release of my second novel, the one $10 patrons have already gotten a chance to read. But before I do that, I wanted to update you guys and also check in on a couple things.

First, the above is my intended cover. Someone please stop me if the text is an abomination to graphic designer eyes. The artist who did the d...

November 11 Update

I've had one of those weeks that was adequate when I had hoped for more than adequate. Made some solid improvements to the new TLS release (check out 0.39.3 on the blog, just uploaded), but wasn't able to work ahead on 0.40.0. Released the new novel to $10 patrons, but didn't get as much other writing done as I'd hoped. Took a bit of time to relax, but still kind of worn out. That's okay; solid pr...

TLS 0.39.2 Public Release

Public version is out, and it's new for you guys as well:

https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2018/11/tls-0392-public-release.html


TLS 0.39.2
 - Numerous balance changes, on average making the vote requirements easier.
 - New/improved Kerannii expres...

Novel #1

Thanks for your feedback in the last post, everyone. Though I put this off while I was fully focused on TLS 0.39.x, I'm now back to talk more about my writing side projects. Specifically, the first novel I'll be writing under my SFW pseudonym: Sarah Lin.

The probable book title is "New Faces" while the ser...

November 4 Update

TLS 0.39.1 is out and seems to be in okay shape. My first objective this month will be to finish polishing it for a public release. I hope to continue into finishing the summit with 0.40.0 with little delay, though I want to avoid burnout and there's one personal thing that could pop up and really hamper my progress.

Other things may happen this month. For example, I will bring TLS to Steam... a...

TLS 0.39.0 Released!

Well, here we go. New release, potentially not the smoothest one.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: It is likely possible to save in a completely unwinnable position in this version. Do NOT take in only a single save or you risk getting stuck. Balance/rewards are likely to change, anyway. In later versions I'll try to include more features to prevent players from screwing themselves over, but that's difficult w...

October 28 Update

First, the new Steam pages are up! Don't Save the Princess and Once Ever After are projects still in the pipeline, but my data shows that it's better to put pages up sooner rather than later. So while you'll get better information here on Patreon, please do check out the links if you want to follow the projects:

2018-10-28 21:19:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Writing and Pseudonyms

Time for another long post, both updating on something else I've been doing and asking for input, if people have opinions.

I meant to make this post a while ago, but ended up getting wrapped up in TLS work and decided to roll with that instead. Still staying mostly focused on that now, but didn't want to let this post sit unfinished for too long.

The Second Project 2018-10-24 22:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post