Hi, Auden here.
First of all, thank you to everybody who's played our latest games. I appreciate all your feedback which I will take in consideration to make better games for you guys in the future.
As of today, I will be taking an indefinite hiatus to sharpen my skills, look for collaborators and also just to get my personal life in a better spot to focus on game d...
2025-04-20 18:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! Auden here.
I'm happy to announce that a moment I've been waiting for years for is finally here - Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part is now playable on Steam!
Click the image above or the text here to go to the Steam Page!
<... 2025-03-18 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there! Auden here.
I've 2 huge announcements today that I'm ecstatic to share!
Find Love or Die Trying Announcement
I'm happy to announce that the Steam page of Find Love or Die Trying - Til Death Do Us Part is now up!!
Hey there! Auden here.
We're off to a great start to the new year - I hope yours has been doing the same!
This update will be a short but exciting one.
I'm happy to say that with the last bits of CN translation and EN/CN trailer work about 98% complete, we can expect the Steam Page for Find ...
2025-01-31 22:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Holidays, Merry (Late) Christmas, and Happy (Early) New Year!
I meant to this send this a few days ago, but I've been so busy working on making games that I lost track, haha.
I hope you're having a great holiday season, and that 2025 will be a great year for you.
Thank you for being a part of making 2024 a great year for me and the team as well.
It's my pleasure to...
2024-12-31 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there! Auden here.
This month's update is a big one - I'm thrilled to announce that the Find Love or Die Trying console port is finally released!
Your support, whether through buying the game on Steam/Itch, or this Patreon, have directly made the dream I've had since starting my journey make games a reality. I can't thank you enough, thank you so much!
Now, the monthly upda...
2024-11-22 12:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, Auden here!
I hope you're doing well.
You might have noticed that the name of this account has changed from Auden Cho-Wong to Sunseeker Games.
I made a short video to explain why! You can check it out by clicking here.
I'm really excited for what this change brings, and I hope you are too! Rest assu...
2024-10-30 14:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! Auden here. I hope you're doing well!
Thank you so much again for your continued support, and for following my journey.
This month's been a hell of a ride - ups and downs, but altogether a very productive month that makes me optimistic for the future!
I'll tell you more about it in my update below!
Find Love or Die Trying - Til Death Do Us Part...
2024-10-15 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! Auden here.
It's hard to believe it's been 3 years since I released Find Love or Die Trying!
It's even harder for me to believe that it's been a whole 5 years since I first started working on it.
Thank you so much for your continued support, and for being a part of this wild, wild journey with me - and as a small thank you, I'm happy to reveal the new logo ...
2024-09-16 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! Auden here.
I have an extra special thank you today for all of you who've helped me fund my games, whether that's through buying my games or through supporting me here! Really, I can't thank you enough.
I'll start with the bad news - Re.Alice, the logo artist I'd hired to create logos for several projects including Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part&nb...
2024-08-30 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! Auden here. Thank you so much again for your continued support, and for following my journey!
I'm excited to show you what I've been working on for the past month!
Alpha Testing & Release Updates
I've been working with a small group of testers who are helping me with finding any issues with the release build of FLODT: Til Death Do Us ...
2024-07-28 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey there, it's Auden! How are you? I hope you're doing well!
Thank you again for all your support! I really appreciate it, and it's really helped make the cost of this game more manageable!
As per usual, the TLDR update is in the picture above, but I'll elaborate on all the things I did this month, as well as give you a sneak peek into what I'm thinking for the future!
Hey there! Auden here. I hope you've been well!
Thank you so much for your continued support! It might not seem like much, but when game costs go into the thousands, every bit of support really goes a long way for me. I appreciate you all, truly!
The TLDR update is in the picture above, but I'll elaborate further down below if you're interested in the details.
V...
2024-05-31 20:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there! Auden here. I hope you're doing well!
Thanks so much for keeping up with what I'm doing, And thank you especially to the backers who've helped make it easier to keep making games! I truly appreciate it.
The TLDR update is in the picture above, but I'll elaborate further down below if you're interested in the details.
Title Change
I've de...
2024-04-30 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there! Auden here.
I hope you're doing well! Thank you so much again for your continued support as my patron.
I've been working hard on the FLODT Sequel, and wanted to start giving you progress updates.
In the past month, I've mostly focused on writing, code, and creating specifications for the art the game needs, as I can do that on my own.
This month, I'll start con...
2024-04-08 15:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey, Auden here. I hope you're doing well!
I made a vlog to explain what's going on since the last update, as well as share some good news.
Thank you so much again for your support!
Let me know what you're hoping to see in the sequel here, I'd love to hear from you : ...
2024-03-25 12:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey, Auden here. I hope you're well!
I made a vlog to explain what's going on.
Things are going to be okay, but I wanted to tell you what's in store.
Whatever happens, I'm so grateful for all of your support till now.
Sincerely,
Auden
2024-02-23 13:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Auden here. I hope you've had a great first month of 2024! It's been a bustling month for me.
I've been hard at work creating art assets for Loverbend, and am super excited to share more in the next build update. As a special thank you to patrons who are supporting my career such as yourself, I'm planning on giving patrons early access to the next preview build befor...
2024-02-01 03:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for joining my Patreon! I can't wait to show you what's to come in this game.
You can download and unzip the attached .zip file to play the first public preview build.
I hope you enjoy! Let me know what you think of the intro : )
It's playable on PC, Mac, and Linux! And save files should persist between versions of the game. Let me know if you run into any issues!
Happy New Year, everybody!! I hope this brings you all the best!
It's my last day of the winter break, so I thought I'd take stock of what I managed to do!
I...
✅ ...finished coding the v1 of the daily calendar and scheduling system!
✅ ...finished coding the v1 of the cutscene system!
✅ ..finished coding the v1 of the mystery system!
✅ ..re-painted th...
2024-01-01 15:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn't satisfied with the previous "polish", so I did a little more! Environments should feel a lot less 'flat', and make it easier for me to create a sense of depth in the game.
I also did a lot of engineering work to figure out how I could streamline making cutscenes.
That said, I'm noticing there's a slight loss of quality for the "VN" style sprite on the right - is it just me,...
2023-12-27 03:10:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, my dear patron! I hope you have the happiest of holidays.
For the first time in years, I took a ton of time off this week from my day job, and instead, spent a long time on art!
I redrew the male and female forms of the protagonist, and drew the characters I've planned for in the intro chapter of the game. I even had enough time to animate the characters for what I ...
2023-12-24 22:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I created the first pass at environments I'd need for the demo, and fixed a lot of the code required to get the player character to be able to walk through and interact with their environment!
Given the lack of actual physics engine, I'm doing a lot of code tricks to make it look like the player is moving through the environment. It was pretty fun figuring out how to do it.
On the n...
2023-12-18 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, I managed to create over 15+ animations for the main character, which should be enough for the introductory chapter! I'll probably have to make more later and clean them up some later, but this is good enough for me to switch to working on environments and other characters.
How to draw environments is still an open question to me, as I've never created environments explicitly f...
2023-12-11 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOver the past couple weeks, I've been working hard on preparing a functional demo of Loverbend, as well as a lot of other miscellaneous things. I'm currently aiming to have a very, very short demo ready by January 2024, and from there, I'll keep working to expand it.
Here's what I've been working on since the last update!
You can always ask me for more details via Patreon's chat or ...
2023-12-04 00:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty happy with how my first animations turned out! There's room to clean things up, but I'll revisit that later when I'm further along in the project.
I've still got a lot of art to make and programming to do before the first playable build, but I'm enjoying the process.
Let me know what you guys think!
- Auden
2023-11-23 17:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Still pretty rough, especially for the female version of the main character. I realized the base head of the F running animation I made needs some adjustments - will work on fixing that up tonight.
Next up is coloring and cleaning up the roughs!
I've spent over 40+ hours in the past week learning how to animate - I've animated tiny things before like opening an eye, but never something as big as a character running.
I knew I had to learn how to be able to make animations to make Loverbend have an explorable overworld, which I really want, but still, it's been tough! That said, it's been really rewarding learning how to do somethi...
2023-11-21 02:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote the first 3.7K words of Loverbend! This covers most of the intro, but there's a bit more to write and code before I can switch from writing the intro to making the art for it.
As soon as the intro is playable, I'll start sharing development builds so I can start getting all of your feedback!
Looking forward to showing you more soon,
- Auden
2023-11-15 05:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi dear patrons!
I'm working hard every night to bring you all a playable development build of Loverbend.
That said, I'm debating between two approaches to do it - I'd like your thoughts on what you'd prefer!
Option 1 is that I spend a lot of time polishing the art for everything playable in the playable development build. Characters, backgrounds, items, etc.....
2023-11-14 17:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post