Fortnightly Progress - 30th July

Sorry about going radio silent there. Combo of a surprisingly stressy time away from home, discovering after getting back my mum needed to go in for major surgery (she's on the road to recovery now thankfully), and a certain amount of just general brain frazzle to do with this being the last ever RAGS thing I'm hopefully ever going to do after being tied down to it for such a long time.

But now I'm free.

Free from the slowness, free from the even more extreme glacier like slowness of putting menus together, free from the clunkiness, free from the SQL, free from all the other compatibility issues, free from the random crashes it just did every so often just for the lols, free from crashes that would sometimes destroy half the game entirely making that saved version a write off, free from keeping an insane number of backups and different versions to save as much work from those game eating crashes, free from from complex condition chains that would just delete for no reason with no reason that I'd sometimes only catch in testing that would have to be entirely redone, free from so many other frustrations with the designer that you would not believe, free from the lurking ever present terror that if I had lost my desktop pc for any reason it was made genuinely impossible to install RAGS designer on a new machine due to no longer being able to authenticate the key since a couple years back, free...

So that's all bloody lovely to put it lightly.

One of the other reasons it took longer than expected was wanting to send it off in the best possible state by trying to really improve the dilemmas by adding the new blue ones, and making sure I had them working to the best of my abilities. See the twitter or bluesky for the full patch notesif you would like to see the full details of what I did with those.

Current thinking is that this will be out for everyone by this time next week. Only had one minor report so far so here's hoping.

Due to the reffered to kerfuffle Twine update will not be out by tomorrow. Going to aim for end of August, and hey if I am going to a two month release format, which I really want to do, then might as well do it on the even months.

• Commissions

March - Master and Cum-Catcher : This is had some delays and is maybe starting mid August.

Mar + Apr - Basic Sissification Training : Starli knocked it out of the park as per usual.

Mar + Apr - Green Daze : Also came out and was great. Even more so as I got to let the artist take a lot more free reign than usual.

May - Completing the Collection : Need to arrange this one.

As for the May + June one this is genuinely the first time I've looked at it since I posted it.

Well that's an unusually colourful set of results given the joint second and third places! So that's a win for the greenskins of Callous Doctrine and Iron-Clad Maidens.

The June commission poll will be up tomorrow. Then I'll do the June + July one starting on the 14th I think to give time for voting in the delayed one.

Thanks so much for getting to here, for sticking around, and your support!