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Saturday Devlog (January 7)

Hi everyone, hope you're staying safe and healthy!

Thanks for bearing with me thus far; I'm pleased to say that the first week of January has been relatively productive, all things considered. Progress on the next update is hovering around the 18k-word mark at the moment, though there's still a significant amount of editing left to do on the currently-written sections. The COVID-associated brain fog has made refining nearly impossible to get right, so I've just been focused on brute-for...

Holiday Devlog (December 29)

2022-12-30 00:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post

[AMoG] Portrait Poll Winner #1: Satria Prasidya

Hi, everyone! Patrons at the Arcanist level and above voted for the most-anticipated ROs, and the results at the time of this post is as follows:

As such, Satria Prasidya will be the character first commissioned for AMoG!

That being said, I do think there is merit in allowing for a balanced gender representation moving forward, given how male-heavy the top-voted options are. That is, give...

Poll: Arcanist Art Rewards

Hi everyone! As previously mentioned, the next set of Arcanist art rewards I'll be commissioning for AMR will be determined by the results of this poll.

Please note that the results of this poll will as likely as not start taking place in January. In the event that the chosen art form cannot be posted in December, I will be posting full-body artworks of Isha and one or two members of our cast of new villains instead.

Please feel free to choose as many options as you'd like!

[AMoG] Poll: Romance Options Artwork Order

[IMPORTANT: THE PREVIOUS POLL DID NOT ALLOW FOR MULTIPLE OPTIONS. IF YOU HAVE CAST YOUR VOTE THERE, PLEASE DO SO HERE AS WELL! APOLOGIES FOR THE TROUBLE.]

Hi, everyone! As mentioned in a prior post, the order of artwork being commissioned for A Murder of Gods characters will hinge upon the results of this poll. Please feel free to select as many options as you wish!

For more information on each of the characters, you can refer to 2022-12-15 21:00:43 +0000 UTC View Post

[AMoG] Poll: Romance Options Artwork Order

[IMPORTANT: This poll is faulty and has been prematurely closed as a result. Please vote on this poll instead. This post will be kept up for a while to make it clear that there has been two polls and that votes will need to be recast. Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience!]

[AMoG] Sneak Peek - A Murder of Gods Romance Options

Hi, everyone! This comes later than expected (my apologies for that!), but I'll be putting up a number of polls and features prior to the weekly devlog this Saturday. The first item on the list is a character blurb for A Murder of God's romance options, which you'll find below. Following this will be an Arcanist+ poll to determine the order of portraits commissioned for these characters, which will be shown off in a sneak peek for Retainer+, and as a full artwork for Arcanist+. Lastly, I will...

Sneak Peek (December 10)

Hi, everyone! As promised, the sneak peek for this week:

Fun stuff.

That about wraps it up for this week's sneak peek - I hope you enjoyed it, and thank you as always for supporting the development of 2022-12-11 02:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Saturday Devlog (December 10)

Hi, everyone! I hope you're staying safe and healthy!

It's been a fairly productive first week for AMR's development, with the update storyboard being completed + 7000 words knocked out all together. Current areas of focus include Ilya's letter scene - which is finally coming together in a way I'm happy with - Falco/Flyss's day-off scene, and expansions to possible choices in the current update. Later in the month, we should finally be getting to the start of the action, which is always...

Art: Oiral, the Visionary

And here we have the full artwork for Oiral, the phantasma responsible for basically the whole of the Jiasei arc!

After having run the design gamut with all of our earlier phantasma, I asked Khutilust to go for a mostly human-like design this time around, and yet one that incorporated both divine and demonic elements. Personally, I'm happy with how she came out, and I hope you are as well!

Monthly Features (October/November)

Hi everyone! As promised, the monthly features that were supposed to go up at the end of October. My apologies once again for the tardiness TT

This monthly feature employs a 'class swap' concept, in which the White Fangs try out each other's classes! Pictured below are Leon as a theurge, Saine as a warrior, and Ilya as a rogue:

2022-12-01 04:47:19 +0000 UTC View Post

[UPDATE] AMR Book 2, Demo ver 2.6 is live!

Hello everyone, I hope you're staying safe and healthy!

The demo update for November has now gone live on dashingdon! The update wound up being roughly 17k words in length, with content focused on four major sections:

1. The denouement of F's episode from last update, which includes a romantic scene with them,

2. Eli's day-off scene, including the start of Eli's romance,

3. Yu's day-off scene, including the start of Yu's romance,

4. The friendship fork of Leon's ...

November update soon!

Hi, everyone! I hope you're staying safe and healthy.

November was considerably more hectic than I had thought it would be, owing chiefly to a sudden shortening of the academic calendar that made all my finals land in November instead of being split equally between November and December. Luckily, I did manage to pull together a reasonable update with the spare content from the October update. It should number somewhere north of 15k words when it hits dashingdon sometime tomorrow - how <...

[UPDATE] AMR Book 2, Demo ver 2.5 is live!

Hi everyone! Happy to announce that the latest demo update has been uploaded and is ready to be played!

Content in this demo picks up where we left off in the Kantena arc, and functions mostly as a setup for the exciting things to come. That being said, I tried to keep the momentum quite high throughout many parts of the update. This includes the extensive introduction of several new villains, as well as that combat scene I talked about a couple of updates back! Super super glad I manag...

[AMoG] Art: Erathel, Arbiter of Souls

And here we have the full artwork for Erathel, the Arbiter of Souls!

Once second only to Vasaria in standing among the Circle of Scions, Erathel has since become imprisoned in the Fallen North for their rebellion against Vasaria and the Circle of Scions. More bits of lore about them can be found in the sneak peek posted just before this one!

I have asked Fulminaire to also provide commentaries on his character designs, revolving around inspirations and characteristics he wishes th...

[AMoG] Preview II: Frostbound

In the deepest reaches of the Fallen North, the dark god stirs and watches like a coiled viper, beholding the land their ghastly powers had ravaged. Though they remain shackled to the ruins of their rimebound prison, shadows of their influence slither past the derelict soil, eager to find purchase once more in the paradise beyond.

Perched upon the walls are their most stalwart vassals, envoys through which the god's triumph is to be realized. They have laid in wait since time immemorial...

Saturday Devlog (October 29)

Hi everyone, I hope you're staying safe and healthy!

So - I've got both good and bad news for this week's update. The good news is that I managed to reach the 25k-word threshold originally envisioned for October's update. The bad news is that I wrote both ends of the update (the very beginning & the very end), and left the bridge between them for last; a big mistake, since the 25k-word storyboard now looks instead to be closer to 40k words! This leaves me with two distinct ...

Sneak Peek (October 22)

Hi everyone! As promised, the sneak peek for this week, featuring the introduction of a central character in the Kantena arc--the Duke of Kantena himself!

2022-10-23 01:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Saturday Devlog (October 22)

Hi everyone, I hope you're staying safe and healthy!

Midterms are always a hectic time, but I'm happy to report that it's now a thing of the past, and I'm free to devote most of the rest of October into AMR! There hasn't been a lot of progress on the wordcount front, but I did a couple of editing passes through the ~20k words I already have for the update, and it's looking much more presentable now, which I'm quite happy about!

The next update will focus quite heavily on setting e...

Sneak Peek (October 15)

Hi everyone! As promised, the sneak peek for this week:

2022-10-15 20:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Saturday Devlog (October 15)

Hi everyone! Hope you're all staying safe and healthy. :)

Midterms have begun in earnest this week, but amid the hustle and bustle I've managed to sneak in an additional 5k words into the update (currently sitting at 20k words total). It is regrettably entirely unedited at this point in time, and I'm sure it'll need quite a bit of TLC before it's ready for release; but this is the fastest I've gotten to 20k words since starting AMR, and I'm pretty psyched about that!

Much like how...

Sneak Peek (October 8)

Hi everyone, as promised, the sneak peek for this week!

This sneak peek contains the opening scene for the next update (or potentially the scene after the opening - I'm still experimenting with the chapter structure atm). This update will take the mage back to a place deeply familiar to them (though not to us), the significance of which is stressed from the first few paragraphs of the update!

2022-10-09 04:47:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Saturday Devlog (October 8)

Hi everyone! Hope you're all staying safe and healthy, and apologies that this is a bit late as I've just come out of a 5-hour blackout T_T (It's got to be Saturday somewhere, right?)

Happy to report that the first quarter of October's been going uncommonly well in terms of progress. Despite being written without a storyboard or really any concrete plan in mind, the 'headstart' I wrote in September ended up being mostly usable, though it required a healthy dose of cuts edits here and th...

[AMoG] Art: Vasaria, the Everbright

As promised, the full artwork for Vasaria, the Everbright!

Vasaria is the foremost of the Circle of Scions, the ten-but-formerly-eleven-member pantheon that presides over the AMoG world of Asphodel. More bits of lore about him can be found in the sneak peek posted just before this one!

I have asked Fulminaire to also provide commentaries on his character designs, revolving around inspirations and characteristics he wishes the art to portray. Here is what he's had to say regarding ...

[AMoG] Preview I: A Murder of Gods

The First of Scions has perished upon his throne.

The exalted assembly openly weep as they watch Vasaria lose the last of his luster, acolytes and saints alike groveling for mercy from the husk he has left behind. The all-engulfing fire swallows the  whole of Vasaria's remains, mutating godly skin to cinders, tongues of flame licking at the temple's high ceiling.

A bell is sounded at the far end of the sanctum, its cry high and baleful as it echoes through the cavernous halls...

September Devlog + Map of Arvanand!

Hi everyone, I hope you've been doing well!

I hate to admit it, but September has not been a kind month for AMR, on account of an unexpectedly intense coursework schedule and multiple, significant bouts of writer's block throughout the duration of the month. Most of my effort went towards writing the overdue August short story, Drift, which had to be rewritten some four or five times over the course of September. I also spent a large amount of time doing revisions and bug hunts...

Side Story: Drift

Hi, everyone! It's taken much, much more time and effort to get this story to a presentable state, but Drift is finally done! It's a story that follows Eli in those years between their resurrection and reunion with the mage. The story opens with a somewhat suggestive scene (though I'd say it's a far cry from being explicit)--regardless, viewer discretion is advised!

At 4800 words, Drift is one of the longer side stories to have made it to the AMR catalog. It's largely ...

Monthly Features (August)

Hi, everyone--as promised, the monthly features for August! As previously stated, I've commissioned chibis of the whole cast from long-time AMR collaborator, and I'm ecstatic with how they turned out!

2022-08-31 23:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Art: Airas, the Beckoning Hand

Everyone's favorite murderous jester has finally made their appearance!

I am certain that I massively annoyed Khutilust over the course of Airas's creation, because there is a lot of wildly conflicting design elements in the brief that I outlined. From the hectic color combination to conflicting patterns to my request for an 'overall androgynous feel', he certainly had his work cut out for him. Still, I daresay he knocked the brief out of the park!

[UPDATE] AMR Book 2, Demo ver 2.0 is live!

Hi everyone! Happy to announce that the latest demo update has been uploaded and is ready to be played!

Content in this demo is split into two large chunks: Ilya's interlude scene, as well as the introductory scenes for Chapter 10. Both of these add up to a total of 24k words!

This update includes a couple of really significant reveals that will allude to future plot points, including the introduction of the final major cast member (surprise!), who will play a particularly central...