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TLS 0.28.0 Release

Time for TLS 0.28.1, everybody.

Download:
https://mega.nz/#!b4EBhQaY!be607Og8MeXxOHteg3lcPFn4B0GUyRHA4l_mnYD2nOg  

RTP Version:
https://mega.nz/#!Okt3TaqQ!5dI5_nWveF7ZeE0fvrHtXrWXTl98RBIUnRElKD9TMYU  

TLS 0.28.0

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July 2 Update

So, if you're wondering how Crimson Gray has done... me too. Nutaku's site is having issues and they are not returning my emails due to AnimeExpo. -_- But enough about that, Crimson Gray discussion can go in the previous post. Also check out this user post for a full spoilers discussion.

So, about the next TLS update... I can say with som...

Crimson Gray Released!

It's finally out! Some of you have already heard about this, if not helped beta test it, but for some of you this will be the first time. So, let me formally introduce Crimson Gray!

A synopsis some of you have read is below, but none of you have seen the trailer, so feel free to take a look!

https://youtu.be/FGnOLbI2et8 

Synopsis

John is a young man suffering fro...

June 25 Update

So, as some of you have noticed, the update wasn't out in the average amount of time. One thing that I want to make clear for people who are new here: I will almost always talk about how an update is incoming before it arrives, so that is the surest way to set expectations. Having said that, let me explain why this release cycle will be longer than usual.

Right now I'm nearly certain the war will be spread over two updates. The first one will be larger than a normal update, covering the majori...

June 18 Update

Productive week. The war will definitely start with a larger then average update. I was going to type up a thing about the structure of the war event and how update length interacts with my workflow in general, but I'm kind of tired and I think my energy is better spent on creative work. (Apologies if you're awaiting a reply from me somewhere. I will be busy this evening, but after that you can expect replies.)

However, one of you guys requested fanart of Robin from 2017-06-18 22:12:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Crimson Gray Beta v2

Sorry this update is late in coming, I have been spending creative energy on other things. I have made sure to try to get other things in motion, though - for example, the next time you see the game, it will hopefully have a custom GUI.

This update is mostly polishing, so only play if you're interested in that. But I do have a question for anyone who played the previous version: did you make use of the q.save, q.load, and f.skip options? I'm looking to cut less useful functions fr...

June 11 Update

Spent all week doing solid creative work! To keep this from being a tiny update, I'll go into a little more detail on one aspect.

This section is going to have quite a few maps: familiar locations, new locations, and scene maps. Since this is a continent-spanning war, it needs to have a sense of scope. Part of the benefit of a long game is being able to return to places you remember from previous sections, but I think it's also important to see some brand new places for the sake of verisimilit...

June 4 Update

This has been a busy week and TLS progress has been slow. One thing I want to note is that the causation doesn't flow that way. I scheduled more busyness for this week because I knew TLS progress would be slow.

Planning is a tricky exercise, because you get diminishing returns on quality the more time you put into it, but sometimes you really want those small returns. Right now I'm setting up the entire structure of the war, two or three updates worth of content. It involves so much o...

Crimson Gray Preview

EDIT: Links have been sent out! If your card had an issue at the time and you haven't received it, just message me. Meanwhile, check the bottom of this post for new questions after you've played.

Time for another project preview! This one is actually mostly done and you guys will get a chance to play it before too long. More about that and possible future routes for this game at the end. For now, here's my begrudging effort at promotional text:

Preview 

Crimso...

May 28 Update

Hey, everyone. The TLS release is public, KoD is launched with great success, these are good things. I am kind of tired for a number of reasons, but I'm not going to let up now. Onward to the next updates of both games!

Meanwhile, though, I wanted to get everyone's opinions on another matter. As I've mentioned, I have a number of side projects in the works. One of these is essentially done - I could release it now, I'm just not sure if it could use more polish or if now is a good time. I will ...

TLS 0.27.1 Public Release + KoD Release

Public release, everyone. Links at the blog as usual:

https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2017/05/tls-version-0271-public-release.html 

Version 0.27.1
 - Made a major change to the magical shop in the Rose District. If you fulfill the requirements, you'll now have a chance to buy Orgasmic Empire tier equipment here before the war! This one i...

Version 0.27.0 Release

Alright, new release:

Link: https://mega.nz/#!Dw0W0DCY!5PsAfhtQ54RIzvLSCiSvytg-o4RM1lrstji_GI13KIY

RTP: https://mega.nz/#!rxUwnYQK!zAoZvLO8AkgnntJJeSXQN9e_IFVorthuPrZuqxx6ZCc

0.27.0
 - Final iteration of Yhilin before the war.
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May 14 Update

Hey, everyone! This week's update could be the opposite of last week's: I did a huge amount of work on TLS, but don't have a lot to say. I'm confident the next version will be ready by May 19 even if this week presents a lot of unexpected obstacles. There's a small chance it might be ready but I won't be able to release it then due to other things, but I hope not.

Now, you're probably wondering about the lovely picture of Qum up there. ^-^ It was drawn by an artist called 2017-05-14 18:30:09 +0000 UTC View Post

May 7 Update

With Patreon accounts there is a tendency to constantly stress the amount of work that goes into our games. Some of this is gratitude for everyone who supports us, but I worry that at times it's a cynical PR gambit: "WE ARE WORKING 20 HOURS PER DAY UNTIL OUR FINGERS BLEED I HAVE NOT EATEN IN DAYS" and so on.

I've always tried to be more direct here, and I'm honestly not sure to what degree that's wise. Patrons do often approve of my openness, but I also get negative reactions outside Patreon e...

April 30 Update

April has been an unusually busy month in terms of Patreon updates, hasn't it? I'll cover some miscellaneous business, then talk about TLS 0.27.0.

Thanks again to everyone who helped out by reviewing Ouroboros in Newgrounds. I wasn't sure if it would be well-received, but it has a rating approaching 4/5 and it got three awards: Frontpaged, Daily Second, and Review Crew Pick. With over 25k views so far, that's a lot of new eyes on my work. It didn't lead to all that many sales or new patrons (t...

TLS 0.26.2 Public Release

New public version! Just more polishing, but you can find it here if you like:

https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2017/04/tls-version-0262-public-release.html

Patrons, this isn't your weekly update. I'll be back on Sunday with some more information on how the next updates will look.

April 23 Update + Newgrounds

First up, I just put the old version of Ouroboros up on Newgrounds:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/692386 

(Thanks to those who responded to my call for testing!)

If you have an account and a few minutes, would you be so kind as to give me an upvote? If I don't get a good enough rating, it gets deleted. D= But no worries, this is just to get a little more exposure for my work in general...

TLS 0.26.0 Release

Okay, here it is:

UPDATE: 0.26.1

 Download:  https://mega.nz/#!HoNiUTqb!XoQpoqsmYV10G4eWN7OEIFTRzxE-sn4C0iDO1m4IW-Y  

RTP:  https://mega.nz/#!H5tAiQQA!N5GCHg1HssLm0CWq7t12ReCekIcJPO1xt07tZMpRuD8  

TLS 0.26.0

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Demographics!

Alright, everybody, it's time to talk data. Brief TLS update first: progress has been very good, I'm hopeful I'll be able to release version 0.26.0 on Friday (cross your fingers). Now, to the surveys.

We got a total of 1256 responses! 285 patrons, which is about a 35% response rate - that's pretty good. The rest of the surveys were from 971 fans. I'm going to lay out the data in order, in most cases looking at patrons, fans, then the combination of both. Huge thanks to everyone who filled out ...

Desecration of Wings Preview

This post is both an early preview of a game that will be coming out eventually and a bit of insight into my creative process.  What is the game actually about? Here's my first attempt at an official blurb: 

Game Intro

The Endless Court is eternal, ruled by Immortals who have guided the four races of the world since the dawn of time. But they seem very concerned that no one spends too much time studying the broken ruins that litter the world, and peace is more ...

April 8 Update

The survey has received over 1000 responses! Those are the kind of numbers you see in some pretty big surveys, so it's impressive that we got so many. I'm quite pleased by this, and we should get some very interesting data. 

However, I'm not going to be making my big post about the results this week. The survey has been great - fun numbers, plus many people have written thoughtful or heartfelt comments - but it has sucked up a fair amount of my time. And though many secondary tasks are ne...

March 31 Update

Hello, everybody! It's time to make public the survey we talked about last week! Feel free to fill it out here if you want:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RAQepPkJv9hRt08jtqObPgeDRAI2qMwN7Qfqz1idTHU/edit#response=ACYDBNgNon_blETlufCm7X0LUz87Qaaam0gpjiURPVnpQ2_XsDhMJ6jmUozc

DISCLAIMER: All info...

Patron Survey Preview

Here is the survey that I'm planning to send: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf63yFVahKwDtfrmzwPNnvB_vqf6suoWmNR-h6Ix62eoBuisA/viewform?usp=sf_link 

DISCLAIMER: All information is anonymous and ALL QUESTIONS ARE OPTIONAL. The survey is not intended to be invasive and none of the data can be used in an exploitative way. This is in...

March 25 Update + Country Demographics

Early update to maximize schedule productivity!

I've made some good progress on 0.26.0. My notes came together well and I actually got a decent number of maps made - that's more than I would normally have done a week after the public release. Just because I was inspired, though, I'm also going to take some time for fun things, starting now:

It's time to talk about the demographics survey I mentioned last week. I wanted to get people's thoughts here. Is anybody opposed to the idea of a su...

March 19 Update

Hey, everybody! This update is going to be a miniature state of the union. Uh, state of the Patreon. In brief, though, I will likely take a bit of extra time on the upcoming release.

In the last half of 2016, my creativity went in every direction due to personal issues. To keep myself productive, I started a bunch of side projects. Too many side projects. I hope not to waste the work I did on those, but many had to be shelved for the near future. More on these later.

For 2017, I wanted t...

TLS 0.25.2 Public Release

This is another polishing update, so not a lot new for patrons. See blog for links:

https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2017/03/tls-0252-public-release.html

I'll be back on Sunday with a general update on the state of the project and some other stuff. Hope to do a random fun little thing I've been meaning to do for a while. ^-^

March 11 Update

Finished uploading 0.25.1:

Link: https://mega.nz/#!3s8Q0QyY!1YNewqTHfqxmU2-8_-6ZJBGG_0jFoRxaqXdpoN38R_o

RTP: https://mega.nz/#!SwUTyCzY!Ri_UBpI4Mw84FovKov-yEIb8pTTzIy6DCkF9EHMu6Lg 

This is the second patron-only release, intr...

Brainstorming: New Techniques

Hey everyone, it's time to talk dual techs. These are something I considered early in development but didn't think was possible, so I didn't really plan for them. Now that they're possible (thanks to Decanter), I want to include them, but since I haven't planned them into my game balance stuff, I thought it'd be best to crowdsource the subject. You guys collectively have a ton of experience with TLS combat, after all.

First, the basic details of these skills' functioning. These skills will use...

TLS 0.25.0 Release

Alright, everybody, new version:

Link: https://mega.nz/#!rx83ERzR!ODCLHDKV8ZGRuCn2lWy9AXVfmeNw4Ui-tH0j_PFC16k

RTP: https://mega.nz/#!bg0V2YaK!IUJVQMguliNe1mroEqfDsCTAuVxyAMhB52fS29lwUMo

Version 0.25.0

 - New iteration of Yhilin.

February 26 Update

I'm not sure whether or not the next update will be released on March 3rd. I hope that it will, I'm just not in a position to commit to that date. I am ahead of schedule, but I anticipate the coming week will be busier than usual.

This update will cover a longer period of time spent in Yhilin, though my intent is that it won't take much longer to play. The party can't be doing exciting stuff all the time, after all, so I like writing periods where they get a chance to catch their breath and do...