For realsies. I had hoped to get it out tonight but it doesn't look like the renders are going to finish in time. A partial change log from 1.9̅ to 2.0:
Big new stuff
Not as big new stuff/changes 2018-01-25 22:49:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm currently uploading the first "official" alpha and will be posting it here shortly. For those who weren't here for previous alphas, I'll say again: don't pledge for an alpha because you want to play the game early. It will be unfinished and broken.
Right now most of the major bugs seem to be fixed but there is still work to be done and many renders (including the two major animations) have yet to be added.
So, for those alpha-level pledges who have yet to...
2018-01-06 05:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostJust made the fifth (yeah, I know) pre-alpha build available to testers. I expect to have the proper alpha up on Patreon tomorrow. Public release shouldn't be too far away.
Once this release is public I'll get things back to normal as far as Patreon posting goes but for the past month or more I've been putting all of my time into writing and coding, refactoring most of the shitty foundational code that has been in place since I started TP having never used Ren'Py or even Python. 2018-01-05 04:14:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon was down for maintenance last night when I went I went to post an update so I posted it on my personal website. Here is that message:
I’ll be uploading a pre-alpha release here sometime tonight. I’m not going to release as alpha yet for several reasons.
The big one being that an enormous amount of stuff has changed since the last release and no one has seen it other than me. That includes not only the new stuff, but changes to existing c... 2018-01-01 22:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
... it is 7:58 AM, Dec. 31 on Baker Island.
2017-12-31 18:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
There hasn't been enough Meg around here lately. Here's some Meg.
Two days left in December: will he make it? (...yes?) Will he release an unplayably broken build just to meet the (self-imposed) deadline? (no.) Will he stop referring to himself in the third person? (he might!)
Stay tuned.
2017-12-29 05:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I guess you can't please everyone.
2017-12-25 05:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostI said I'd have a release out by the end of the month and I stand by that.
So how many days are there is December? 31? Whew, that's a load off. So, yeah, expect some version of a release in the next 7 days.
Though the Patreon feed may not show it, I've been working as much as I possibly can for weeks now. There was simply an enormous amount to write—end points I wanted to reach that ended up taking more steps than I had anticipated. That means much more writing, rendering ...
2017-12-24 05:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I lovingly handcraft the in-game animations. Last time I worked on one it took me 8-10 hours (not counting rendering time) to produce a five second loop. You may say that's because I suck at it and you may be right.
Regardless, I did not lovingly handcraft this animation I bought it for 12 dollars to tide you guys over until a release is ready. Could I have fixed the clipping? Maybe, but ain't nobody got time for that.
Also, in order not to have my page load a terabyte of GIFs all ...
2017-12-14 17:25:32 +0000 UTC View PostYou can test a game that is missing renders but you can't very well test a game that is missing scenes or important code. So I'm feeling a marathon writing/coding session today. Feel free to stop by Discord to hand off water.
I'll post a progress update later tonight.
2017-12-10 13:55:15 +0000 UTC View PostIf you only follow my Patreon updates you'd be forgiven in thinking that I died in a terrible accident involving PBR and/or black tar heroin. That is not the case.
If you follow me elsewhere a lot of this will sound familiar as I've stated it elsewhere. People have asked if the next version is coming out this month: the next version is absolutely coming out this month. Not only that, here's an exclusive: instead of 1.7 I'm going to call it 2.0. Just so you know it's at least at least 17%...
2017-12-02 03:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I know what you're thinking: did he just take an old render and superimpose a turkey into it?
Yes, yes I did. Nevertheless, happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating and a happy random Thursday to everyone else.
2017-11-23 23:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostFor good? Also, an exclusive preview of a new feature coming in 1.7. Check it out.
2017-11-20 00:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostOn Nov. 12th my home network was hacked. In a matter of minutes the scripts had spread throughout my entire home, bricking several devices and infecting the rest with viruses that proved to be very difficult to remove given that all of my systems were infected.
For three-four days any attempt I made to connect to the internet, even tethering by phone onto a freshly installed system, was met with a barrage of scripts to immediately sabotage any kind of system recovery.
As of today I...
2017-11-17 09:07:53 +0000 UTC View PostThese days it seems like half of my posts are ranting. I'd love to go back to the days of half of my posts being renders of hot, 18+ teens getting boned. That day is still ahead of us.
If you've been following the page, you know that I set up a website, basically just to crosspost with this one and provide some additional marketing. It was hacked after a day or less. I took it down, and in the mean time I've been partially spending my time trying to get the page up and running.
But every...
2017-11-09 05:07:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt took all of a day for someone to hack into it—I suspended web hosting as soon as I realized what was going on. And people think I wouldn't get reported if I tried to skirt any community guidelines.
I'm waiting to hear back from the provider, but I should have it back up either today or tomorrow with added security. Even in the worst case scenario I still have the only really important asset on my PC. Rebuilding the rest of the site now that I've figured out how to get the Patreon API how ...
2017-11-05 19:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, it's crazy that you can get a plain English word on a premium top-level domain name for $8. I figured someone had a bot scanning the dictionary just buying them all up, but, apparently not.
What's in it for you? Well first of all you'll be greeted by a pleasant surprise. Other than that, I'm basically going to post my new stuff there (as well as cross post her those who w...
2017-11-04 15:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs some of you may know, when I was reinstated after a week long process in which communication was scarce at best, the reinstatement email included the following paragraphs:
To reiterate a line from my initial message: "You cannot fund or link to any site that includes explicit depictions (spoken, visual or written) of this type of content." This includes direct messages to your patrons.
Since incest and the sexualized depiction of minors ar... 2017-11-04 01:56:49 +0000 UTC View Post
So last Wednesday (not yesterday, obviously, the Wednesday before) I was out with some buddies playing pub trivia, as I usually am on Wednesdays. I start hearing rumblings on my phone about how Patreon is starting to more strictly enforce their content guidelines, that MrDots had been suspended, how devs should start scrubbing their pages of any objectionable content.
I do what I can from my phone, which is basically delete any mention of "the i word" and a few other things. When I get home I ...
2017-10-27 02:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
