Odds and Ends

Haven't updated in a bit, so here y'ar.

Text to speech mode now has its own unique hacking minigame -- riddles. You know, spinx-style, one or two word answers, very clever and deceptive. I've got a bank of 76 riddles to pick from so while you may occasionally get a repeat, it won't be often. (This is only for the unisighted accessibility mode. The standard mode still uses minesweeper.)

I've also been kinda blowing up on BlueSky this weekend, thanks to being included in a visual novel starter pack -- getting some nice numbers on posts about TSOC and Penny Larceny. I'm not above mercenary moves, so I'm happy to signal boost Penny to a new audience of largely left-leaning folks. I'm also no longer being coy about it being an unsubtle social satire, since I think being coy and pushing the superhero stuff turned some people off. May as well just admit it's a jester in a court of fools.

My website has finally been migrated off of WordPress. Doesn't mean much for FFG since that side of the website has been straight HTML for years now, but it'll give me more flexibility and cost less to maintain (since I had to pay for expensive anti-spam and anti-malware tools just to keep it from getting completely owned every day).

Lastly, and this one is (kinda) big... I'm working on the content warning for the game, and I've come to a realization.

The "Triggering Content Yes/No" setting isn't useful. It's only actually checked a few times, usually for casual references to madness and suicide, and honestly I can just rewrite those parts without losing any narrative impact. The rest of the game is still kinda triggering since it's all about some genuinely horrible things like transphobia and racism and human sacrifice and whatnot, so I may as well take out the toggle and just keep things consistent.

The one exception to that will be Dagon's backstory -- you can optionally skip over his tale of woe since, well, kicking the dog is a line few want to cross.

We're in the home stretch, folks. Hang in there.