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Hiatus Announcement

Hi, Auden here.

First of all, thank you to everybody who's played our latest games. I appreciate all your feedback which I will take in consideration to make better games for you guys in the future.

As of today, I will be taking an indefinite hiatus to sharpen my skills, look for collaborators and also just to get my personal life in a better spot to focus on game development. 

I'm tremendously grateful for all you fans who've loved and supported the FL...

Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part is now playable on Steam!

Hey there! Auden here.

I'm happy to announce that a moment I've been waiting for years for is finally here - Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part is now playable on Steam!

Click the image above or the text here to go to the Steam Page! 

I can't wait to show you the next chapter in Find Love or Die Trying, and for you to see all the c...

Find Love or Die Trying - Til Death Do Us Part Steam Page is now up! + Familegion Release Announcement!

Hi there! Auden here.

I've 2 huge announcements today that I'm ecstatic to share!

Find Love or Die Trying Announcement

I'm happy to announce that the Steam page of Find Love or Die Trying - Til Death Do Us Part is now up!!

You can wishlist the game and see the preview trailer here!

Wishlisting the game wil...

Sunseeker Games Update - 1/25

Hey there! Auden here.

We're off to a great start to the new year - I hope yours has been doing the same!

This update will be a short but exciting one.

Find Love or Die Trying - Til Death Do Us Part

I'm happy to say that with the last bits of CN translation and EN/CN trailer work about 98% complete, we can expect the Steam Page for Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part to go live in February. I'll announce that w...

Find Love or Die Trying Sequel - Last '24 Update!

Happy Holidays, Merry (Late) Christmas, and Happy (Early) New Year!

I meant to this send this a few days ago, but I've been so busy working on making games that I lost track, haha.

I hope you're having a great holiday season, and that 2025 will be a great year for you.

Thank you for being a part of making 2024 a great year for me and the team as well.

It's my pleasure to wrap up the year with the last update for the year!

-Auden from Sunseeker Games

Find Love or Die Trying is now on Consoles!! + Nov 2024 Update

Hi there! Auden here.

This month's update is a big one - I'm thrilled to announce that the Find Love or Die Trying console port is finally released!

Your support, whether through buying the game on Steam/Itch, or this Patreon, have directly made the dream I've had since starting my journey make games a reality. I can't thank you enough, thank you so much!

Now, the monthly update!

Find Love or Die Trying Console Release - cont.

Find Love or...

Name Change & Studio Update! (Auden Cho-Wong -> Sunseeker Games)

Hi, Auden here!

I hope you're doing well.

You might have noticed that the name of this account has changed from Auden Cho-Wong to Sunseeker Games.

I made a short video to explain why! You can check it out by clicking here.

I'm really excited for what this change brings, and I hope you are too! Rest assured, it's still me making the games, and I'm still working on the Find Love or Die Trying sequel! 2024-10-30 14:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Find Love or Die Trying Sequel - October '24 Update!

Hey there! Auden here. I hope you're doing well!

Thank you so much again for your continued support, and for following my journey.

This month's been a hell of a ride - ups and downs, but altogether a very productive month that makes me optimistic for the future!

I'll tell you more about it in my update below!

Find Love or Die Trying - Til Death Do Us Part

• Art for the Find Love or Die Trying sequel is progressing well, at about 75%...

  2024-10-15 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy 3rd Birthday to Find Love or Die Trying! & Mid-Month Update

Hey there! Auden here.

It's hard to believe it's been 3 years since I released Find Love or Die Trying!

It's even harder for me to believe that it's been a whole 5 years since I first started working on it.

Thank you so much for your continued support, and for being a part of this wild, wild journey with me - and as a small thank you, I'm happy to reveal the new logo for the Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part DLC! I hope you like it as much ...

Find Love or Die Trying Sequel - August '24 Update!

Hey there! Auden here.

I have an extra special thank you today for all of you who've helped me fund my games, whether that's through buying my games or through supporting me here! Really, I can't thank you enough.

I'll start with the bad news - Re.Alice, the logo artist I'd hired to create logos for several projects including Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part and Familegion, has ghosted me entirely after taking their fee. While this is upsetting ...

Find Love or Die Trying Sequel - July 2024 Update

Hey there! Auden here. Thank you so much again for your continued support, and for following my journey!

I'm excited to show you what I've been working on for the past month!

Alpha Testing & Release Updates

I've been working with a small group of testers who are helping me with finding any issues with the release build of FLODT: Til Death Do Us Part and the game Lascal and I made together. Familegion.

We'd aimed to fin...

Find Love or Die Trying Sequel - June 2024 Update

Hey there, it's Auden! How are you? I hope you're doing well!

Thank you again for all your support! I really appreciate it, and it's really helped make the cost of this game more manageable!

As per usual, the TLDR update is in the picture above, but I'll elaborate on all the things I did this month, as well as give you a sneak peek into what I'm thinking for the future!

Pre-Art Playtesting of FLODT Sequel Complete

In my previous update, I mentio...

FLODT Sequel Update - May 31 2024

Hey there! Auden here. I hope you've been well!

Thank you so much for your continued support! It might not seem like much, but when game costs go into the thousands, every bit of support really goes a long way for me. I appreciate you all, truly!

The TLDR update is in the picture above, but I'll elaborate further down below if you're interested in the details.

V1 of Script & Scenes Complete

I'm not sure how I did it, but I managed to write, ...

Auden's Update - Apr 30 2024

Hi there! Auden here. I hope you're doing well!

Thanks so much for keeping up with what I'm doing, And thank you especially to the backers who've helped make it easier to keep making games! I truly appreciate it.

The TLDR update is in the picture above, but I'll elaborate further down below if you're interested in the details.

Title Change

I've decided to call the working title of the game I'm working on Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us ...

FLODT Sequel Progress Update - Apr 8 2024

Hi there! Auden here.

I hope you're doing well! Thank you so much again for your continued support as my patron.

I've been working hard on the FLODT Sequel, and wanted to start giving you progress updates.

In the past month, I've mostly focused on writing, code, and creating specifications for the art the game needs, as I can do that on my own.

This month, I'll start contracting out art and continuing on the writing.

I'm expecting the art and writing pipeline to ...

the future of me making games is slightly less uncertain

Hey, Auden here. I hope you're doing well!

I made a vlog to explain what's going on since the last update, as well as share some good news.

Thank you so much again for your support!

https://youtu.be/PPpI-L7oh3Y

Let me know what you're hoping to see in the sequel here, I'd love to hear from you : )

I'll start sharing more updates on it soon!

Sincerely,

Auden

the future of me making games is uncertain

Hey, Auden here. I hope you're well!

I made a vlog to explain what's going on.

https://youtu.be/bU4vMzsnjXs

Things are going to be okay, but I wanted to tell you what's in store.

Whatever happens, I'm so grateful for all of your support till now.

Sincerely,

Auden

Loverbend Progress Update - Jan 31 '24

Hey folks! Auden here. I hope you've had a great first month of 2024! It's been a bustling month for me.

I've been hard at work creating art assets for Loverbend, and am super excited to share more in the next build update. As a special thank you to patrons who are supporting my career such as yourself, I'm planning on giving patrons early access to the next preview build before its revealed to the public.

Let me know what you think of that perk, I'd apprecia...

Loverbend Public Preview Build #1: Download Here!

Thanks for joining my Patreon! I can't wait to show you what's to come in this game.

You can download and unzip the attached .zip file to play the first public preview build.

I hope you enjoy! Let me know what you think of the intro : )

It's playable on PC, Mac, and Linux! And save files should persist between versions of the game. Let me know if you run into any issues!

That said, the Mac build is unnotarized, so if you're a Mac user, you'll need a way to run unnotari...

Loverbend Winter Break '24 Update!

Happy New Year, everybody!! I hope this brings you all the best!

It's my last day of the winter break, so I thought I'd take stock of what I managed to do!

I...

✅ ...finished coding the v1 of the daily calendar and scheduling system!

✅ ...finished coding the v1 of the cutscene system!

✅ ..finished coding the v1 of the mystery system!

✅ ..re-painted the sprites!

✅ ..re-made the backgrounds with 3D techniques!

✅ ..implemented the 'skel...

Loverbend Update - Visual Polish (Once more, with feeling!)

I wasn't satisfied with the previous "polish", so I did a little more! Environments should feel a lot less 'flat', and make it easier for me to create a sense of depth in the game.

I also did a lot of engineering work to figure out how I could streamline making cutscenes.

That said, I'm noticing there's a slight loss of quality for the "VN" style sprite on the right - is it just me, or do you all notice as well?

Let me know in the comments! Would greatly appreciate your inpu...

Loverbend - Character Preview + Art Polish!

Merry Christmas, my dear patron! I hope you have the happiest of holidays.

For the first time in years, I took a ton of time off this week from my day job, and instead, spent a long time on art!

I redrew the male and female forms of the protagonist, and drew the characters I've planned for in the intro chapter of the game. I even had enough time to animate the characters for what I expect I'll need for the intro as well! I had a blast. I'd show them all here, but I think it'd be c...

Dec 18 '23 Update: Intro Environments are implemented in-game!

I created the first pass at environments I'd need for the demo, and fixed a lot of the code required to get the player character to be able to walk through and interact with their environment!

Given the lack of actual physics engine, I'm doing a lot of code tricks to make it look like the player is moving through the environment. It was pretty fun figuring out how to do it.

On the not so fun side - though I figured out a lot of new techniques for making the environments, I had to ...

Dec 11 '23 Update: Completed MC Animations for the Intro!

This week, I managed to create over 15+ animations for the main character, which should be enough for the introductory chapter! I'll probably have to make more later and clean them up some later, but this is good enough for me to switch to working on environments and other characters.

How to draw environments is still an open question to me, as I've never created environments explicitly for players to explore, but I'm sure I can figure out.

Can't wait to show you more! : )

T...

Dec 3 '23 Loverbend Update

Over the past couple weeks, I've been working hard on preparing a functional demo of Loverbend, as well as a lot of other miscellaneous things. I'm currently aiming to have a very, very short demo ready by January 2024, and from there, I'll keep working to expand it.

Here's what I've been working on since the last update!

You can always ask me for more details via Patreon's chat or on discord as well.

Custom Traversal Code in a Physics-less Engine

Ren'...

Animation Update 3: Color!

Pretty happy with how my first animations turned out! There's room to clean things up, but I'll revisit that later when I'm further along in the project.

I've still got a lot of art to make and programming to do before the first playable build, but I'm enjoying the process.

Let me know what you guys think!

- Auden

Animation Update #2! Roughs for the M/F forms of the protagonist

Still pretty rough, especially for the female version of the main character. I realized the base head of the F running animation I made needs some adjustments - will work on fixing that up tonight.

Next up is coloring and cleaning up the roughs!

First Animation Update: Run Cycle Bases!

I've spent over 40+ hours in the past week learning how to animate - I've animated tiny things before like opening an eye, but never something as big as a character running.

I knew I had to learn how to be able to make animations to make Loverbend have an explorable overworld, which I really want, but still, it's been tough! That said, it's been really rewarding learning how to do something new.

Let me know what you think!

Next update I'll show you what it looks like with so...

Nov 12th-14th Update

I wrote the first 3.7K words of Loverbend! This covers most of the intro, but there's a bit more to write and code before I can switch from writing the intro to making the art for it.

As soon as the intro is playable, I'll start sharing development builds so I can start getting all of your feedback!

Looking forward to showing you more soon,

- Auden

Your Thoughts on Approach to the Playable Build

Hi dear patrons!

I'm working hard every night to bring you all a playable development build of Loverbend.

That said, I'm debating between two approaches to do it - I'd like your thoughts on what you'd prefer!

Option 1 is that I spend a lot of time polishing the art for everything playable in the playable development build. Characters, backgrounds, items, etc.. Things will look more polished, but updates will be slower and smaller. I'm a faster writer and pro...