Chrysanthemum Games

Weekly Update - 07.19.21

Hey everyone!

What a weird week it's been. The good news is the new chapter is up by 8,000 words, so I'm right on target with my goals for the month still. Also, Charina has started work on the last official portrait for the game, so that's exciting! 

Otherwise it's been kind of a 'holding pattern' sort of week where I just keep trying to do the bare minimum every day and survive. Sometimes life's like that, no? But I've been successful and things are going as well as can be ...

Q&A - Hermes II

Hey all,

Back this week with another installment of the character Q&A. We're smack in the middle of Hermes's three months, so August will be his last, and then someone else will get the same treatment. 

Cheers, and stay well!

Art Commission - Hekate

The fabulous art just keeps coming from Charina! Here's Hekate's official portrait. That's everyone but Hades, and he of course is next up. I can't wait until I have the whole set. :)

(Twitter)(Instagram)

Weekly Update - 07.12.21

Hey everybody,

This week was eventful, both for better and for worse. As you're likely all aware, chapter three went out on Friday, which was definitely my main aim for the first half of the month. Chapter four is now well underway, with about 2000 words of writing and and incomplete but getting-there outline. In all, I wrote about 8,000 words this week. 

Unfortunately, I had a rather crushing personal setback this week as well. My cat of 16 years, Socrates, passed away after...

Bonus Content - Lethe Dossier

Hey all!

This month's bonus content is a dossier for Lethe, one of the as-yet-unmet River Deities of the Underworld. Lethe in particular has a role to play in the upcoming chapter four, so I thought I'd drop a little background information on her as a teaser for what's to come!

I hope you're all having a great week. :)

Weekly Update - 07.05.21

Hey all!

Welcome to a new month, and I hope those of you who had a holiday weekend got to spend it in some nice way, whether by celebrating or relaxing or whatever you like to do! 

The chapter now stands at 71k words, and I'm just about done with the Moirae scene, moving us ever closer to the end! That's 8,000 words this week in total, and we're still looking good for a release sometime this month. I've also started on the very basic scene outline of chapter 4, so hopefully I...

BIP - June

Hello all! 

As you're doubtless aware by now, it is finally BIP day! I have written 33,000 new words this month, effectively doubling the chapter's length so far, plus another 4k in a separate scene that may pop up a few different times over the course of the game, where the player can learn a little more about Makaria from her dad. 

That 33k words covers:

• The end of the Alekto scene
• A scene where the player can see (and possibly interfere with) the ...
  2021-06-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Content Poll - June

Hey everyone! 

The BIP drops in an hour like usual. In the meantime, if you'd like to let me know what you would be interested in seeing for next month's bonus content, I'd appreciate it!

We already have seen at least a little of how Makaria interacts with her dad, but the other characters all have familial relationships with her as well! So, who would you like to see interact with her in a vignette?

Weekly Update - 06.28.21

Hey everyone!

I think it's a good streak when 7k words is a slow week, heh. The chapter's up to 63k in total, and I'm just about finished with an optional Hades scene I've been working on for most of the week. 

That means that, with the chapter as it stands, what is left is:

• The rest of the Hades scene
• The three alternative scenes, which are chances to meet some of the important non-RO characters if you haven't yet (specifically: Ascalaphus, the Moirae, a...
  2021-06-28 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

The Moirae's Mirror - June

Hello friends!

As extrapolated at the beginning of the week, the Mirror is indeed a vignette this week; a scene that I'm not sure will make it into the game but involves Demeter's continued efforts to enlist any and all help to get her child back to Olympus. Catch the plot hint at the end. :)

I hope you're having a great week!

Art Commission - Charon

Hey all!

Charina finished drawing Charon and I'm—yeah. I don't think I ever get over the feeling of seeing new art hahaha. 

(Twitter) (Instagram)

Weekly Update - 06.21.21

Whew! It has been… a week. 

The chapter is presently sitting at 56k, for those of you counting, and I'm midway through the Hades scene just after the timeskip. This does not include the 4,000 words I wrote today in a separate scene file for a conversation about Makaria that PCs will possibly be able to have at a few junctures (hence it getting separated out and written as setting-neutral). So my total progress for the week actually comes to… 10k, so almost as much as last week,...

Bonus Content - Vignette

Hello everyone!

I hope you're all having a great week. I come bearing bonus content, as you voted for. This is a brief scene between Hades and Hermes, from a time when the latter was still a very young god. 

I hope you like it!

Weekly Update - 06.14.21

Well uh...

I wrote 11,000 words this week. That means the chapter has officially hit 50k! There's still a lot of it to go, but I am currently beginning the sort of 'timeskip phase' of it, which allows the PC to set up a garden and determine how else they've spent their time over a period of a few weeks. So there will be some little stat adjustments, you can if you like start learning sign language, etc.

Then the plot moves into what I like to call 'phase two,' heh. 

I h...

Art Commission - Hades

Hey all!

If you remember the first Charon commission I posted here, then you probably remember how absolutely bananas-awesome Andrea Hernández's (link to tumblr) art is. Well, I managed to luckily snag her last comm slot for a while, and she drew Hades!

New icon? New icon.

Q&A - Hermes I

Hello again everyone, this time I'm back with another round of Proust Questionnaires—and the respondent this time is Hermes. Here is part one, and July and August will bring parts two and three. 

I hope everyone's week is off to a great start. 

Weekly Update - 06.07.21

Hello all! 

In what is technically my first update post for June, I bring more good news. I took the 31st off, but have achieved my goal of a thousand words a day every other day this week, which as of the time of this writing brings the chapter to 39k. The Alekto scene is almost done, and will be very soon. From there, I'll have the letter-writing scene as the final choice for the third morning in the Underworld, and then there's an optional scene where the player can see a judgem...

Art Poll - Results

Hey all,

Thanks to those of you who voted in the most recent art poll! The vast majority of you were okay with sharing any and all art on a time delay, but there were a couple of you who opted otherwise, so I think I'm going to mix my approach. 

I'll share the official arts (those drawn by Charina), and some of what I commission in the future, but there will also be some things that remain on a patreon-only basis. That seems like the most fair thing to me, and I hope it's acc...

Art Poll, of sorts

Hey all,

So the subject of this poll is somewhat different from 'hey, who should I have drawn next?' heh. 

The thing is, I've always figured I should share some art with general audiences, and since I'm getting Charina to draw everyone, I thought I might eventually share those works on tumblr. But of course art is one of the benefits of being a patron, so I wanted to touch base with you on what you thought was a fair system for this kind of thing! 

All the options ...

Art Commission - Pyri

Continuing with the trend of just... awesome art from Charina (and here she is on Twitter), this time we've got Pyri! Since everyone has now been drawn at least once, I think I might have her do another Charon next. 

In more good art news, Andrea, who drew Charon the first time, will also be drawing Hades! So I'll be sharing that with y...

Bonus Content - Dregs of Eden

In the far-flung future, an apocalyptic event left the human population ravaged overnight. More than half the world's population disappeared, overnight as you've heard it told, and the chaos of that moment jagged its claws through generations. 

Now a century later, the world you live in would be unrecognizable to your ancestors. Built into the shells of once-chrome cities are solar panels ...

BIP - May

Hello everyone!

As promised, here is the BIP, with 33k words in Chapter 3! That's the Charon scene, the Hermes scene, and half of the Alekto scene, for those of you who want to know what's new. I'm hoping for a chapter release at the end of June or beginning of July; we will see how overly ambitious that is based on how many more scenes I manage to get through over the next month. 

I hope you're all doing wonderfully; I will be back soon with more bonus content. :)

Weekly Update - 05.31.21

Hello everyone!

As you're all aware, it's BIP time, heh. Compared to where I was at this time last month, I have written 25k words, bringing the chapter total to 33k! This is probably the best single month of progress I've ever had. It's starting to feel like a rhythm, too, so hopefully that will become a more regular thing. 

There's still a lot of scenes to go; it may end up being that some of the chapter gets pushed to the next one just to keep the length reasonable, but th...

Bonus Content Poll - May

Hello again everyone!

As usual, the BIP post will appear in an hour. In the meantime, if you wouldn't mind letting me know what you'd like to see for next month's variable bonus content, I would appreciate it!

The poll is pretty straightforward this time. Who would you like the content to feature! One of the people involved is already Hades, so this is more or less who you want to see interacting with him. :)

Art Commission - Hekate

Hey again everyone! 

The fantastic Line (Lineartsy - and here on tumblr) drew Hekate for me! Check out the textures on her clothes...!

The Moirae's Mirror - May

Hey all,

This month, I figured I'd use the Mirror to give you something of a little walkthrough of part of a scene I'm working on. You'll see it all with the BIP this month, of course, but this is just a little bit of my thought process about it. 

So! This happens along the branch where PC has chosen to go find Hermes in the morning, rather than Charon or doing something on their own. Hermes is hanging out in the lounge, messing around with a lyre, as one does. This is techni...

Weekly Update - 05.24.21

Hey all!

Another week, another 7k words down somehow. I'm not sure where this productivity is coming from, but I'm hoping it sticks around!

As most of you can see, the Alekto art showed up this week; I asked the artist, and it seems like she's willing to draw everyone for me, so expect those to trickle in over time! There's a bonus Hekate still on the way, and Charina's working on Pyri now, so those will be next!

A few of you will be getting another Moirae's Mirror later thi...

Bonus Content - Departure

Hello everyone!

You voted for an alternate perspective on an existing scene for this one, so here we have Demeter at her goodbye with PC after the party. I had to make a couple of choices for the 'player' (in this case, her son Dionysus), but even if the details are different, this by and large covers her feelings at the time!

I hope you enjoy it. :)

Art Commission - Alekto

I liked Hermes so much I asked Charina to draw me an Alekto, too. Seriously it's so good. I kind of want to ask her to do everyone and have them be the "official" character art or something. 

Here she is in all her grumpy glory!

And Charina can be found on Instagram and Twitter 

Weekly Update - 05.17.21

Hello all!

More progress this week: the chapter is now sitting at 20k, meaning I've written another 5.5k words since the last update! I'm quite proud of this, which for me is a rather blazing pace. I think I'm going to need it, because about 19k of those words are just the first scene, and there's a lot more to go. I may end up needing to cut some things and move them to the next chapter, but even so I'm really pleased with how things are progressing. 

Art for both Hekate and...