CyberScherzo

What's in store for Destination Delirium in 2023

Hello everyone, happy March!

I’d like to start the month off by discussing future plans for Destination Delirium and laying out a rough timeline of the upcoming content.

First off, this month I’m going to be finishing up some systems level stuff including:

1. HTML5 Build/Demo
2. Room Customization System
3. Character Screen/Shapeshifting System

(more details on those later)

For the next 6 months or so our focus will be on buildin...

Destination Delirium Now in Development!

Destination Delirium is our newest project. It's a sandbox-style adult adventure game where you're given an all-access pass to an interdimensional theme park and resort in exchange for helping their R&D departme...

Updates

Well, this update is quite a bit overdue. 

Not gonna lie, been loosing track of time *hardcore* lately. 

There's a lot going on but here's a gist of what's going on with the projects on the front burner:

1. Destination Delirium:

It's actually progressing nicely, if slowly. I have a lot of really nice character designs and artwork for some finished scenes. 

Still not all the ones I wanted to have in our initial demo build but I'm cu...

New Year, New Games!

Happy New Year!

Also, for those of you that missed the Christmas Izzie: here's a belated present:

I've been pretty quiet these last 3 months so let me take the time to finally give ya'll a peek at what I've been cooking up.

I've been thinking a lot about my progress as a game developer, where I *want* to be and how to best get there. It's pretty clear I need a change in...

Open Casting Call

I am looking to cast a voice actress to voice Isabel, the geeky dragon girl from the first LBB episode, for an upcoming audio-focused side project. 

The script is not complete yet, I was originally going to wait until it was done before casting an actress, but then we decided that it might be better to cast someone and *then* finish the script with their voice in mind, and possi...

The Salted Cookies of Carthaginia v1.3b

A beta of the build that's going live on Steam at the end of the week.
Double checking it for bugs and also trying to optimize it a bit and reduce the filesize.

Let me know if you encounter any bugs or typos or anything else that should be fixed. 

September 10th Update

Just got the last batch of art for the next, and "final" (more on that in a bit) update to the Carthaginia mini-sode. 4 new full color, beautifully rendered cgs to cap off the episode with a romantic sex scene. I suppose I can go ahead and show ya'll one of them:

Currently editing and implementing the last section of the script, trying to get through it this weekend. This is the last currently ...

Sept 1st update:

-Still bad at keeping up with dev blogs edition

Okay, so the first update for the Carthaginia Mini VN has been released, straight to Steam and 2021-09-02 00:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Deciding on robot designs

Neither of these is final, but here's the two "leading" versions of the upcoming robot character, both variations on the same core concept.

We're wondering which version you prefer and why. 

The "Purple" one leans a bit more androgynous and is a bit more cute and non-threatening. 

Character Preview: Hacker Oni

This character design was actually an adoptable I picked up from SadflowerHappy a while back; and actually so was Vivi, the zombie girl from the last character preview post.

Anyway, my first inkling actually wasn't to put her straight into LBB but use her as a boss and/or playable character in an action game. She's got them boss fight vibes. Maybe something Megaman-like where her stripes ...

July 12th Upadate

Here’s what’s up:

1. The Little Black Bestiary: The Salted Cookies of Carthaginia sold about 200 copies in it’s launch week. My goal sales number to consider it “successful” is 1000 copies sold, so we’re about a fifth of the way there! I guess by some standards that’s not a great launch, but considering the low budget, scope and con...

July 5th Update

So, of course, the biggest piece of news this week was the release of Carthaginia's mini-episode.

I'm planning to do two more updates to it; for the express purpose of power-gaming Steam's visibility algorithm, but also to give everyone a bit more content to make it worth it's price tag. (Three whole dollars. Steep as hell I know, but I was just really insecure over paywalling something tha...

The Little Black Bestiary: The Salted Cookies of Carthaginia v1.0

Here's the 1.0 release of the Carthaginia mini-episode.

Compared to the 0.9 Beta, it has one additional CG, a couple more expressions and a few text/typo fixes.

Gunning for a public (Paid) release on Steam and Itch.io this weekend and/or early next week.

Let me know if you encounter any bugs or typos. Or, you know, any feedback you have on it in general. Especially if you want m...

Character Preview: Gyaru Zombie

Name: Vivi Doe

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Orientation: pretty open-minded! Mostly into boy parts

Race: zombie

Diet: carnivore

Height: 5’9”

Job: cashier

Education: high school, part-time college student

ABOUT ME:

What’s not to love?! I’m a big ol’ mishmash of pretty who’s always open to changing with my moods. I’m always looking to ...

June Update.

The Carthaginia Mini-episode is *just* about ready to play. ETA this weekend for a beta build.
Just making a few more adjustments to the script and formatting a few more CG variations.

I'm planning on two post-release content updates for it, ultimately making the mini *slightly less* mini in the end. But the whole story will still span a single day.

Here's a preview of one of he sce...

Picture Request Suggestions

I've been getting some periodic picture/sketch requests from artists featuring my characters, but I just occurred to me that it would be a good idea to have patrons make suggestions for characters and situations they'd like to see.

For instance, here's some various lewd sketches I've gotten with the LBB characters from a few different artists. More stuff along these lines.

2021-05-12 23:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Character Preview: Nerdy Goth Magpie Harpy Librarian

So here's our next new character profile! You might have already seen one of her pictures by Green Rachel floating around already. 

Username: PennyBlack

Name: Victoria

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Orientation: Bisexual

Race: Harpy

Diet: Seafood and vegan stuff

Height: 5’6”

Job: Librarian

Speaks: English, French

Education: BA, Librar...

LBB Mini: My Sweet Margarita (A NSFW digital picture book)

So, here it is. Ya'll get to try it out first and then I'm planning a public release on Newgrounds for Cinco De Mayo. This is a windows build. I can make linux or android ones if the demand is there. Mac builds never. HTML build will be the public release next week. Let me know if you catch any bugs or typos so I can fix them for the public release.

It's kind of funny how this came about; ...

April Progress Report

First off, some spring cleaning. 

I think I should double down on my stance that this Patreon is primarily a tip jar for our free releases rather than a vehicle for to actually "sell" anything, and just officially remove the tier rewards for now; at least until I get a smoother workflow established and a solid plan for actually giving tier appropriate rewards regularly. Patrons in general will still get the early access previews and demos of course. And I'll still leave the tiers l...

Character Preview: A hovering houseplant

So, Coldfusion wanted to try designing a plant girl that was more clearly a sentient plant as opposed to what he referred to as "green skinned elves with flowers in their hair" and he came up with this concept. Been sitting on the initial sketch for a while trying to figure out a workable backstory and such for her. 

In terms of physical appearance, she might not be everyone's cup of tea... Or maybe I'm just projecting. Not my type personally, but I still think she might be fun to ...

Plans for 2021

A little late, but happy new year, everyone!

2020 hasn’t exactly gone as well as I would have liked. Well, that’s the general sentiment all around, but I’m specifically referring to how things have gone with CyberScherzo Studios as a game dev group and how we’ve stalled out on releasing content. Rather than pick a scapegoat or try to find excuses, I’ll say it’s become evident that I really need to step up my game in the areas of project management and producing...

Character Preview: Ymryaad

Name: Ymryaad, or "Yumi"
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Orientation: omnisexual
Race: deep dweller
Diet: omnivorous
Height: 5’7”
Job: translator
Speaks: English, elvish, deep speak
Education: life in the depths...

Playable Protagonist Character Designs

I've brought this up before in some previous posts and polls, but we've going to try stepping away from the 'faceless hentai protagonists' we'd used in our previous releases. This post is all about the designs and concepts for some of the upcoming playable protagonist characters! I would really like to hear your opinions on them.   

1/2: Amaryllis's episode protagonists:

2020-11-20 20:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Concept Art: A City of Monsters

We've been kicking around the idea of setting the Little Black Bestiary series around a central hub location: A sprawling metropolis city akin to NYC or Tokyo which is made up of several districts that cater primarily to the needs/culture of different types of monster races.

Here's some concept sketches for different areas. The odd one out is the one that looks like ruins, which isn't part of the main city but an abandoned former human city on the island where Momo lives. There's a sh...

Finally, A progress report!

Not to give excuses, but IRL stuff has been kicking my butt pretty hard again lately. I've been stalling on giving some updates until I had some real substantial news, but basically two months slipped by me doing so. It's made me realize I need to make some *substantial* changes to the way I work and organize things.

First off It's pretty clear at this point I've bitten off more than I can chew in terms of personal workload, so the last couple months I've been in recruiting mode to ge...

Character Preview: Fit Goblin Tomboy

It's been a while since we've done one of these character profiles! This profile was part of a tryout for a new addition to the writing team. Working on getting the right people to speed up content production a bit, but more on those plans once I finish writing up the next status update. For now, hope you enjoy.


Profile: Rokhopper-J
Name: Jaxa “Jaxie” Yao
Race: goblin Age: 26
Height: 3’3”
Job: Mail Carrier
Diet: omnivorous. I needs my protein!
Orient...

August (Rather, Belated July) Progress Update: Back on the Ball!

Hello everyone!
I hope you're all staying safe and healthy throughout everything 2020 has been throwing at us so far.

Managed to pick up the pace a little more in July, and we've got some pretty cool stuff in the works. Right now I'm working on polishing up and overhauling the first section of Amaryllis' episode. Anyone who played the initial test build of it way back when might remember ...

June Progress Update

Things have been rough the last couple months but I'm still pretty hopeful about how things are looking for the future. (Goes for both game dev and well... life in general right now.)

So first off, Patreon.
As most of you have probably already heard, Patreon will soon be forced by multiple governments to start charging sales tax to many patrons it didn't previously charge. This should have little to no effect on THIS campaign, but I'm double checking my tiers to try to ensure minima...

Happy Aniversary!

Patreon sent me a reminder that today is my "Patreon Anniversary"
Well, really, they wanted me to "celebrate" by launching a limited time special offer. Bleh.
I'll do any cheesy marketing grabs on my own terms, thank you very much Patreon.

So instead, we decided to celebrate the anniversary of the release of Isabel's episode (Which is also around this time) by whipping this up. Kind of a little mini sequel caption idea.

Sorry again for being so quiet lately. The corona-...

Animation Preview (Spoiler Warning)

Spoiler:
You may have guessed it was coming but yes, you can lewd the elf.
Even though you're *supposed* to be dating her boss.
It's one of the alternate paths/endings the episode will have. 

Scapefiend wanted to try out his hand at doing an animation for the game. Little rough around the edges but if people enjoy it we might try to do more. So far this is the only scene with animation and it took a decent chunk of time to do, so it's probably not feasible to animate ...