Time for the Short Story Poll! But, before I get into our options, I'm going to touch on the fact that the list has gotten a bit...long. Frankly, a couple of the stories don't really get much in the way of votes. While none of them ever get none, stories like DoL: Origins rarely have more than one or two people vote for them. As a result, I'm removing a couple of the stories as options...
2021-11-04 11:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! Poll time! Nothing complex to see here, since I'm not going to introduce any new options until one or more of these wrap-up. The options for the month are pretty straightforward as a result. Starworld and The Side Gig are the two closest to finishing, both having only a single additional entry planned. Cyberworld has two more, Stranded on Silas Station has at least 3-4 left, possibly m...
2021-11-04 11:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostHonestly, this isn't as critical to do this month, as things will be more normal development-wise for November. But I am trying to be better about communicating what's going on.
First things first. I'm sure you've all realized that the second short from October wasn't released on time. Things just got too chaotic with last-minute issues regarding Left Hand Magic and it fell...
2021-11-03 12:22:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! Time to show everyone the results of the first month working on Left Hand Magic. As I repeatedly warned, this first build is pretty minimal, due to the need to establish all the basic systems, as well as overcome a number of technical challenges. That said, I do think it does a pretty good job of showing the sort of quality you can expect from the game! I'm quite please by the aspect o...
2021-11-01 01:20:51 +0000 UTC View PostWith the release of Galactic Nomad: A Frustrating Relic for $3+ patrons, another previously-exclusive short enters the Old Reward Archive for all patrons! This time it was Andrea of the Silver Key: Forward Momentum that was added to the ar...
2021-10-31 08:04:19 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! Finally got this done and edited. And the intro for Left Hand Magic is basically done. Needs a few final tweaks and then I have to remember how to actually do a release for Renpy. Either way, it should be up later today. In the meantime, enjoy the latest Galactic Nomad short! As always, it's attached to this post as a pdf.
2021-10-31 07:57:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay guys, gals, and others, I need to sit down and talk about just Left Hand Magic for a bit here. To be blunt, I've run into a series of major issues when it comes to the animations. First, it was just making the animations, which took almost 5 days instead of the 2 I expected. Most of it was stupid stuff, caused by my inexperience with making animations as complex as these....
2021-10-27 08:10:10 +0000 UTC View Post
With the release of Stranded on Silas Station (Part 1) for Royalty Members, it's also time to move an older mixed media/comic story to be accessible for Upper Class patrons. This time, that story is the third chapter of The Side Gig, featuring our adorable Chastity Belt Tester. I think it might actually be the best o...
2021-10-26 09:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! Another of the monthly rewards knocked out! Thank goodness for that, as Left Hand Magic is stressing me the fuck out at the moment. The animation is fighting me wwwwwaaaaaayyyyy more than expected. I thought I'd have been finished with it two days ago, but my inexperience is showing and I keep making minor errors that turn into big issues. Ugh. Then there was Windows being a l...
2021-10-26 04:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostUgh, I kept putting this off because I wanted something cool to put in as an image.
*pouts in a corner*
Unfortunately, I'm having some issues with the animation for Left Hand Magic. Nothing serious, just inexperience causing issues. In example, I very stupidly didn't reset the image series file type to PNG the first time...which means I had 51 useless frames since the...
2021-10-24 12:22:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew, at least I can get one of the month's rewards crossed off the list. Though I will also mention that I've finished all the renders for the comic. So we should be seeing that sometime in the next 3-4 days, depending on when I can carve out the time to do the writing. The intro for the game is also done, but I'll go more into that tomorrow.
Anyway, I decided to start the...
2021-10-22 07:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry about this being a bit later than I'd intended. The reason for that is that, unfortunately, I suffered a mild setback. Specifically, I was pretty much out of commission on Sunday, which is normally the day I get the most done(it's the only day of the week I have otherwise completely off). I think I've mentioned before that I suffer from migraines. Normally, they are extremely wel...
2021-10-20 06:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! Time for some more updates on how things are going. To be honest, I'm at least a little bit behind on almost everything, but nothing is critically behind, thankfully. And progress IS being made all the way around. So, in order of what I think you probably want to most hear about...
Left Hand Magic
I just finished the creation of some sprite sets a for each ...
2021-10-17 07:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! Time for another little update on progress. While it took several days longer than I'd originally hoped, I now have the six locations needed for the intro and prologue sections of the game sorted out. Each of them may receive minor tweaking during the next step of the process, but these are essentially finished. The toxic swamp is the most likely to be tweaked in a significant way, as ...
2021-10-15 03:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright! The polls have wrapped up, so I'll cover those first, before going into what I've been working on for Left Hand Magic.
Protagonist Poll
The vote was actually pretty close between The Bad Girl and The Elven Tomboy! ...
2021-10-12 20:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post
First off, don't forget that there is only a day left in these ongoing polls: Left Hand Magic Protagonist, October Short Story and 2021-10-10 23:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
First, don't forget that the monthly polls are still running! Particularly important is the poll regarding Left Hand Magic's Protagonist.
Beyond that, I promised I'd be keeping everyone more informed on progress this month. So far, most of...
2021-10-08 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wohoo, we're finally settling the last major question for Left Hand Magic! Before I go any farther, I want to stop and explain something. This poll is a BIG DEAL. Aside from the poll about which game was chosen, this is actually the single most important poll for the new game. Why? Because this about more than just the character appearance. I'm giving ...
2021-10-07 03:05:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again...time to pick between the many possible short stories. Nothing new this time, since we just got a new story last time and I don't want to have too many active stories. Please remember that this poll is weighted, 1 vote for every $1 of your pledge. And if you vote for more than one story, you're votes will be evenly divided between the stories, even if that results...
2021-10-07 02:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, it's time for the monthly polls! For the most part, the comic poll is pretty straightforward. But there's both a new possibility and a note about The Side Gig.
First, The Side Gig. This story is only going to have one more chapter. Meaning, the next update of it will be the last update, wrapping it up. This isn't because I'm out of ideas...so much as it is because I'm out of <...
2021-10-07 02:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostWith the release of The Starship Promise (Part 1) for $3+ Patrons, it's time to move another short story into the Old Rewards Archive as well. In this case it was The Long Haul: Groundside Explorations.
Note that The Long Haul ...
2021-10-06 19:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post
First and foremost...I apologize for how late this is. Almost a full week, yikes! I can only cite the overrun of Haven's Port as the cause, as it meant that I dropped everything to keep that overrun down to the minimum. That meant in turn that I had barely started on this. Even so, I'd actually hoped to release it yesterday, but I ran out of steam and practically passed out about halfway throug...
2021-10-06 19:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlright! I don't know if I'll keep doing these posts after October, but for this month I definitely need to outline the goals for the month. Not to mention manage some expectations, as it were. First, a bit of good news. This month will see the return of me doing two short stories, instead of one, as my time is no longer divided prepping for the game that will...you know...actually be the p...
2021-10-05 05:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! With the slightly late release of Build 11 for $5 Patrons, it's time for the previous build to go public! Since there's a super important thing I want you to read...I'll leave talking about the release to the release notes.
SUPER IMPORTNANT THING. OLD SAVE SUPPORT HAS CHANGED! 2021-10-03 18:05:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Update 2: Another small bug the occurs with rent being due while renting the townhouse has been fixed in the online versions. And there is a Bugfix 2 file attached for each version (Compressed and Not) that will fix both it and the issue in Update 1. I've removed the other Bugfix as it's not longer needed.
Update: Small bug fix for a problem that prevented people ...
2021-10-03 09:41:04 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Walkthrough attached as a PDF! As usual, search the PDF for *New* to see only the stuff new to Build 11. The new stuff is sufficiently complex that I also encourage you to ask if anything doesn't make sense, or if I missed something! I tried to be fairly thorough, but I could easily have missed something do to the relative complexity of the new content for Build 11.
... 2021-10-03 07:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostHoly mother of chocolate chip cookies, I think this Build was mildly cursed or something. I just had to spend almost 10 hours on the testing/bug squishing. That's easily a record for this game. Good news is that it's done, bad news is that I just started the uploads. Should be up in a few hoursish.
2021-10-03 03:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, coding, writing and editing is all done. All that's left is testing and upload. Unfortunately, I'm barely keeping my eyes open. Going to crash soon. I expect the release to be done sometime this afternoon. But then I'll need to go through all the upload process hoops. The actual release post will like being in the early evening. All of which is barring anything major going wrong,...
2021-10-02 11:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, yay, I just finished the programming. Mostly. Still one mildly complicated snippet that my brain is way too fried at the moment to even thing about.
Long story short though, it's taken me 2.5 days longer than expected to get the code done. No way in hell I'm going to be done by midnight tonight. Release is going to be pushed back until at least late night/early morning on t...
2021-09-30 08:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo, this is just going to be a (hopefully) quick note. I spent a good 6 hours yesterday working on Haven's Port (Plus my day job work, that adds up to a long day)...and I didn't get anywhere near as far as I'd expected. I ended up having to create 5 new renders for things I'd forgotten (exterior of the new house, sleeping in the new house, things like that) AND the fiddly bits are killing me by...
2021-09-28 17:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post