It's been a long time coming, but Gael is finally complete! If all goes well, he will be one of three portraits to be posted this month, courtesy of the artist's recovery. Ralos and Altea will follow after him. February will open with Sevine, to be followed by a poll that will include the likes of Ante (can't believe I've forgotten about her!), Augur, Ghisan, and the Huan of Kyuhan City (aka Yu's aun...
2022-01-12 05:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! As promised, the monthly features for December!
First up, Arcadia squad in a zombie apocalypse AU:
Hi everyone! Happy update day, and happy new year! Here's to a great 2022 for all of us. :D
A couple of important things to announce before we get to the big fish:
1. Patreon billing for the month of January has been suspended, as referred to in the most recent devlog. Throughout the month, my priority for AMR will be bug-busting and grammar corrections, such that we can start February with a clean slate (and wait for the next round of bugs to inevitably roll in ;; )
2. Most...
2022-01-01 02:31:23 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone! As promised, the sneak peeks for this week! A little bit of extra on the Saine scene, plus a tiny glimpse of the Yu-F polyamory route's start!
And the polyamory fork!
2021-12-26 13:02:06 +0000 UTC
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...except it's the Sunday, post-Christmas edition! Hope you've all had a lovely December 25th, and here's to a better 2022 for us all. :)
So, updates on the game! Writing is going smoothly thus far; I'm at 20k words at the time of this post, and I'm in-gear enough right now to reasonably believe I can exceed the 25k goal come update day. Further, I've also figured out a structure for the next update that I'm 100% happy with! Scenes will be separated into two 'stages', with the first sta...
2021-12-26 12:57:57 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone! As promised, a double feature for this week's sneak peek.
Please be advised that the second sneak peek shows a pretty big spoiler for the next update--so if you wish to be surprised come the end of this month, I would heavily recommend skipping it!
First sneak peek:
2021-12-19 01:03:23 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! Happy Saturday, and an early merry christmas for those celebrating. :)
Good news and bad news with the update so far. I'm at 15k words as of right now, of the intended 25k, which means I'm considerably ahead of schedule as far as wordcount goes.
The flip side to that, however, is that I've been writing through a block this past week (the last update, it appears, has left me more burnt out than I had expected). While in many instances in the past simply brute-forcing m...
2021-12-19 00:51:21 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! For the next round of portraits, we'll be taking a look at the most recent additions to the cast. Please feel free to select as many (or as few) as you like--the results will determine the order, but everyone will get their portrait before the next poll is up.
If there are anyone else you'd like to be added to the list, feel free to list them in the comments!
2021-12-13 01:57:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Hope you're staying safe and having a great weekend!
Happy to report that it's been a productive first third of the month. The Archangel route is finally complete, and has now been appended to the Patreon demo. It ended up being an additional 7500 words overall, meaning that all together we're up 37.5k words from October's update. That's by far the largest update to the game, with the exception of 2.0! I'm quite happy with how it all turned out, as well--and I hope you are ...
2021-12-12 00:38:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Thank you for your patience with this update. :)
This month's update comes out to 30k new words of content (for a total of 260k words overall), all of them taking place after the funeral scene where the last update ended. It is concerned mostly with exploring the Arcadian branches, as shown in the sneak peek, with the latter half of the update laying the groundwork for the next big conflict. Yu is the star of the show this update (as you may have expected, as we now take ou...
2021-11-30 22:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the Sneak Peek for this week! Featuring Catarina, Arcadia's resident inventor, and the only arcanist wholly uninvolved in Nightsaber's operations.
2021-11-28 04:31:12 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! Hope you're staying healthy and safe. :)
A bit of bad news this week, unfortunately, as I've hit a massive writer's block just as I'm starting to round out the next update. The biggest culprit is the Charisma / Archangel path of the next arc's opening scene, which I've written and re-written perhaps four times over the past week. Without fail, the scene always comes out stilted and awkward, and I've had to scrap it and start again from scratch.
For the sake of sanity ...
2021-11-28 03:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the sneak peeks for this week! First up, the Nightsaber path of Chapter 9's opening scene:
2021-11-21 02:05:11 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! Happy Saturday, and hope you're all doing well. :)
Not a lot of things to say this week, other than that writing has been going reasonably well. I'm up another 8k words compared to last week, bringing the current update wordcount to 24k words all together. I'm a bit behind the intended target ( the variant-heavy opening scene of the next chapter is taking me forever and a half to revise and finalize :'( ), but I'm hoping for one last burst of wordcount next week so we can h...
2021-11-21 01:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone! As promised, the childhood-oriented side story (featuring Sister and Eli) has finally been completed! After several last-minute additions, the side story now stands at 6.5k words, which is the longest wordcount of any side story thus far. I'm quite happy with how it turned out, and I hope that you will be, too. :)
And as alw...
2021-11-14 02:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone! Hope you're staying safe and healthy today. :)
It's been another productive week so far, with an additional 8k words clocked into the next update, bringing our temporary total up to 15k words! In addition, I also added a couple of additional scenes to the childhood-focused side story, which I think has done wonders for its overall flow. Now standing at 6.5k words, it is by far the longest side story I've ever done for AMR, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out! I'll...
2021-11-14 02:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the Sneak Peek for this week! Featuring the opening scene of the next arc, which will present non-Arcadian-aligned mages the option to stage an attempted escape.
2021-11-06 20:18:58 +0000 UTC
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Hi, everyone! Hope you're staying safe and healthy. :)
Happy to report that it's been a productive week for writing this week! I've managed to storyboard almost the entirety of the next update, and write another 7000 words on top of that. Things look very much on track to an update at least 35k words in length, though I do hope to go beyond that should the stars align. Fingers crossed!
A big reason behind the next update's huge wordcount is due to the lateral variation in the star...
2021-11-06 20:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here he is, in the flesh!
Unlike his brothers, King Julius had never been particularly talented in martial arts and combat, and instead took to academics and diplomacy like a duck to water. He also has a persistent tendency to work himself to the bone--much to the dismay of Leon and Saine--and that tends to show rather prominently on his face.
I'll be putting up a poll soon to determine w...
2021-11-01 00:55:32 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the Monthly Features for the month of October!
First, Arcadia squad in a superhero AU (though they still very much get to keep their magical vibes - think more Scarlet Witch / Wiccan than Superman x)
2021-11-01 00:51:27 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! Thank you once again for your patience with this update.
Demo ver 6.5 wound up having 14.5k words of new content to its name, split roughly equally between the resolution of Chapter 8 (aka the Aulain arc), and the new Tahlia day-off scene. The latter can be really long or really short depending on which path you take, but it is definitely beefier than the other day-off scenes in the game in terms of lateral variety.
As we head into NaNoWriMo, I've presently stri...
2021-11-01 00:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, a sneak peek of the next update! I feel like I've written so much action over the past couple of months--very much ready to transition into a quieter setting next update. x)
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2021-10-31 03:41:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The woman herself, dressed in the same sort of saintess garbs that Ilya has in her artwork. Personally, I think this portrait might be my favorite out of the whole bunch--Khutilust really did a tremendous job in capturing the martyric vibe, I think. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
2021-10-31 03:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Hope you're all staying safe and healthy. :)
Happy to report that rewrites for the bonus update has been coming along smoothly, and I should be able to publish the update in time before we hit November proper. All together, I find it a definite improvement over what I originally had, and though the pain of sacking 8000 words still linger like a scar in my soul, we make what sacrifices we must for the art.
Monthly features will follow shortly after the demo update, inc...
2021-10-31 03:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostPlease pick the prompt that interests you most! The option with the most votes will become the basis of October's side story.
2021-10-24 00:36:46 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the sneak peek for this week! This scene features the funeral of Father Gerian, whose death at the hands of the twins was shown at the beginning of the chapter. This sneak peek is the tail end of said scene, which in turn will mark the end of Chapter 8 (aka the Aulain arc).
2021-10-24 00:21:50 +0000 UTC
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Hi, everyone! Happy Saturday, hope you're all staying safe and healthy. :)
It's been a strange time for writing this week, as I got to write one of my favorite scenes of the second book thus far, completely off-the-cuff. I'm not sure what triggered the burst of inspiration, as so far I've done nothing but follow my storyboards to the letter. But when looking at the end product, I feel too proud of it to leave it on the cutting room floor.
The problem is this: the scene in question...
2021-10-24 00:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, this week's sneak peek! Featuring F's serpent front and center, whose name is finally revealed. :)
Hi, everyone! Happy Saturday once more, hope you're all staying safe and healthy. :)
Apologies for the long period of silence--between a massive writer's block going into October and unusually huge piles of coursework recently, it had been really difficult to make progress on AMR at the start of the month. However, things have definitely kicked back into gear this past week, with 10k written in just over five days and no signs of potential roadblocks thus far. As things stand, I'm confi...
2021-10-16 22:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Thanks for your patience with this update. :)
At 26k+ new words of content (and 216k words overall), Demo ver 6.0 features the biggest update to the game since version 2.0. It features some pretty exciting plot devices (if I do say so myself), and I'm generally happy with how it came out. I hope you will be, as well!
Aside from the new story content, there are also a couple of additions to the pre-resurrection arc: the new section with Saine (talked about in the last ...
2021-10-01 02:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post