Hello everyone!
As most of you are no doubt aware, the public version of the demo went out on Saturday. It has a couple typo and flow fixes that the most recent Patreon demo doesn't, so for the next little while I'd recommend that version.
Of course, that doesn't really apply if you get the BIP, which will be out on Thursday, because that is going to have the first part of chapter three! I've finished the optional Demeter scene, and I'm now working on one version of the (also opti...
2024-10-28 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Early access for the demo has begun, as most of you are aware. Those who haven't gotten access yet will be getting it on Wednesday, so I hope you're looking forward to that.
I do apologise if you come across any typos; I was editing while very, very ill and suspect I may have missed one or two or ten because of this.
In better news, I managed to compensate for the editing and testing days with some pretty intense workdays the rest of the week, and I've manage...
2024-10-21 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
As promised, the early access period for the first demo (chapters one and two) begins now. Since you're Blossoms, you get a week with it before it goes out to the public, and I really hope you enjoy it.
You may have already read this in the last weekly update, but what we have here is 130,000 words, give or take, excluding the character creator and save builder at the beginning. If you've been following the BIPs, you know more or less what you're in for, here, but ho...
2024-10-19 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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I just realized I never confirmed for everyone the exact dates the tiers would be getting access to the BotL demo. You can probably infer it from the release date I gave on tumblr and the tier descriptions, but now you don't have to!
The Full Bloom tier got the demo yesterday, the 16th. This means the Blossom tier will get it Saturday the 19th, followed by Seedlings and Buds on Wednesday the 23rd. All releases will be at noon AEST, since I'm in Australia and time conversion math is pain...
2024-10-17 07:25:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
As promised, the early access period for the first demo (chapters one and two) begins now. Since you're Full Blooms, you get first crack at the whole thing, and I really hope you enjoy it.
You may have already read this in the last weekly update, but what we have here is 130,000 words, give or take, excluding the character creator and save builder at the beginning. If you've been following the BIPs, you know more or less what you're in for, here, but hopefully the l...
2024-10-16 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Good news, everyone!
Chapter Two is now fully written. I added another 9,000 words this week, rounding the chapter out at 71k. This means the total length of the first two chapters is 130,000 words, which is right around what I was hoping for, to keep me on track for a 600k word sequel. That said, the first chapters are usually the shortest, so I'm not entirely certain how that's going to go, either.
Anyway, word count is not the most important thing here. More significantly, thi...
2024-10-14 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
If you're not aware, I've been doing a bonus content series where one of the characters gives their perspective on another, usually from an existing or 'missing' game scene somewhere, and assuming that the second character is in a romance with the PC.
So, this month, Charon's POV is about Hades, just after the PC's post-trial return to the Underworld, but pre-epilogue. For these, I usually settle a few small details about the PC as I need them, so this one refers to...
2024-10-09 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Spooky season is here at last, and I'm sure for most of you that means things must be finally cooling off. They're warming up here in the southern hemisphere, but I suppose I'll just have to cope.
Anyway! I've been making good progress on BotL so far this month; chapter two is up to 62k words, meaning I've written 9,000 words since the update. I'm still in the thick of the Hades and Charon scene; for a few reasons this one has slightly more variability than the ot...
2024-10-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
The end of September is (finally) upon us, and you all know what that means—the BIP is here.
This one has everything I've written so far, amounting to just over 100k words in total, not counting the character creator or save generator. It has all of Chapter One, and almost all of Chapter Two, missing just two and a little bit scenes.
I've also added a new functionality for those of you who'd like to opt out of being asked about your touch preferences mor...
2024-09-30 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
The BIP is due in an hour, for everyone in Bud Tier or above. In the meantime, progress this week went fairly well. I added 8,000 words to Chapter Two, bringing it to a total right now of 53,000. I'm not totally done with the Hekate-route version of the Hekate and Hermes scene just yet, so I'm not as far as I was projecting, but having only a little bit to wrap up at the end for that and two more scenes in the chapter otherwise does mean that the public demo should go out...
2024-09-30 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
We're rounding the bend into the last part of September, here. I've written another 10,000 words this week, bringing the total for chapter two to 45,000. This puts me partway through the Hermes and Hekate group scene, which has been interesting for a number of reasons. Structurally, it's not so different from the Pyri and Alekto one before it until the end, when PCs who have indicated they're poly and are in a relationship with one of them will have their first opportunity...
2024-09-23 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, everyone!
I continue to be just generally blown away by the response to FoA. It seems to be doing rather well, in terms of the number of people playing it, and that's really reassuring. I sort of thought only a handful of people (perhaps this very handful here, as a matter of fact) would be interested in playing a cozy version of some very un-cozy Greek myths. But it seems the idea has a little more legs than I anticipated, and I'm really thrilled to be able to share the g...
2024-09-16 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I'm currently just starting with a bonus content series that involves taking a look at one character from the perspective of another, usually with some reference to a PC in there somewhere. Last month, we had Hades's POV on Hekate just before her version of the fruit scene. This month, we have Hekate's POV on (childhood friend) Hermes, shortly before the PC arrives in the Underworld.
I hope you enjoy it!
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“So this frie...
2024-09-11 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone, and welcome if you're new!
Last week, as everyone knows, FoA finally released to the public. I think that went mostly well, though I have no idea about numbers or anything like that. As expected, I've already done a number of bugfixes; I'm hoping there won't be legions more, but with a game this size you never know.
In other news, I've been working away on the sequel; Blood of the Living got 8,000 new words this week, up to a total of 26,000 in Chapter Two. I've n...
2024-09-09 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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When I tell you I'm having one long, slow anxiety attack...
Anyway, hey everyone! It's release week here in FoA-land, and as you might be able to imagine I am on tenterhooks about it. Hopefully I'll come up with something a little bit more reasonable than 'please buy it and maybe be gentle in reviews' for some sort of official tumblr post later in the week, but for right now, this is absolutely where my head is at.
I'm also very excited, of course, but you know. Th...
2024-09-02 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
If you're new around these parts, the BIP is my form of "monthly update," where patrons get access to what I've written over the previous month, usually in the form of a partial chapter. In this case, what we have is Blood of the Living's character creator, save generator, all of Chapter One, and the first 18,000 or so words from Chapter Two.
There's also some outline and notes beyond that, and you're welcome to peruse if curious, but by no means is that necessar...
2024-08-31 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Welcome to the last weekly update for August. This one has some important information about upcoming changes to the Patreon, so it might be a good idea to read until the end.
As far as progress this week, I managed another square 7,000, bringing Chapter Two up to 13,000 overall. I'm hoping it'll be at 18k when the BIP releases.
Anyway, I promised a rundown on the new version of Patreon this week, and here it is. Basically, my goals were to 1) make the BIP mor...
2024-08-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
As you voted, the bonus content piece this month is from Hades's POV, and it's about Hekate, who in this instance features on her route. I hope you all enjoy the read.
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He follows her through the orchard, trailing behind her like a satellite to a star.
For she is very much such a thing today, bright and radiant in her happiness, exuding a sort of warmth that invites even a mere spectator such as himself to enjoy. It heartens him to see it;...
2024-08-21 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
My birthday week went... okay? At least as far as writing goes, haha. I've managed another 8,000 words, finishing off the last of Chapter One and bringing me 6,000 of the way into Chapter Two, which was enough to finish on the introductory scene and get into the first major part of the chapter. I won't spoil it, but a potentially very important person shows up in the Underworld, and the PC has to decide what they want to do about something with very personal consequences. ...
2024-08-19 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone.
It's been sort of a mixed week here. On the one hand, I've made another 7,000 words of steady progress, putting me partway through the last Hekate scene of Chapter One. So it's not quite done, but it's on the way there, and will definitely be finished this week, at which point I'll also be able to move on to Chapter Two.
In less-good news, I've been losing a lot of subscribers over the last few months, and it might not be long at this rate before I am no longer able...
2024-08-12 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Welcome to the last installment of the storyline preview series. This one's going to be a little short, because firstly it's only about one subplot and secondly because I'm going to be keeping things vague so as to leave a few surprises, but today I'm going to talk a little bit about the planned subplot for the PC themself!
In FoA, to some extent most of the plot was about the PC. How they settled in (or didn't) to the Underworld, who they made friends with (or didn'...
2024-08-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to August. This month is a lot of things for me, but among them is FoA's birthday! It's been four years, as of the 10th, since I started working on a little cozy project to make myself feel less bleak and hopeless in a very bleak and hopeless time. I had part of Diaspora under my belt at that point, but frankly I was still extremely new to CS and to writing original work with the intent that others read it. I would still sort of consider myself 'new' to all of th...
2024-08-05 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
As promised, the July BIP adds 30,000 new words. For those of you on the Hades, Hermes, of Charon routes, you have the complete first chapter, whereas those of you on the Pyri, Alekto, or Hekate routes will have everything but the last scene with your RO/PO.
As with many Chapter Ones, it's largely setup, but there are certainly also significant events based on the happenings of the last game, so I hope you enjoy both elements.
2024-07-31 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
As is traditional, the hour before the BIP drops, I throw a poll out there. This time, we've got a new rotation of bonus contents, and per a very good suggestion I've received, this time I'm going to be doing something in the style 'Character A, from Character B's perspective.'
Now I know some of my characters are more popular than others, so while Character A is decided by where in the rotation we are (this month, it's Hekate), Character B can't be the same every...
2024-07-31 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Buckle up, everyone, there's news.
As you may or may not have heard via Tumblr already, FoA now has a tentative release date of September 2024 according to Steam, and early in that month according to HG staff. This is, of course, contingent on me getting the final version of the game back to them in a timely manner, as they've returned it to me after a solid couple months of editing.
I plan to spend the last few days this month doing that, with the ultimate goal of havin...
2024-07-29 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I can't say I have a lot of news to report this week, really. I've been making steady forward progress on the chapter, to the tune of another 7,000 words, bringing the total as of this writing up to 26,000. For some idea what that means, the chapter has a total of three scenes per playthrough, more or less. The first two have only a little bit of variation depending on choices and the like, but the third has six versions, one for each RO/PO. I am done with the first two sc...
2024-07-22 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
This month's bonus content is from the end of FoA—in this case, from the "no sequel" end of FoA, where the PC (in this case, a Persephone), elects to stay behind on Olympus full-time. What follows is Pyri's version of the conversation that follows that discussion, and the last time they ever see one another in person.
I hope you enjoy it, in the way angst can be enjoyed!
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By the time Persephone meets back up with Pyri, the ...
2024-07-17 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
More solid progress to report this week—another 7,000 words down, bringing the chapter up to 19,000 as of this writing. I'll soon be moving into the individual RO/PO scenes at the end of it, so I don't think that overall the chapter will be too monstrous in length. Maybe somewhere around 35,000? I might be finished with it, or nearly, this month, but I'm going to wait until I have at least the first few chapters before going public with the demo, so there won't be an ear...
2024-07-15 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, everyone!
The first week of this month was a productive one for me. So far, I'm in line with my goal of 30,000 words for this month; I wrote 7,000 of them this week, and I've been mostly happy with how the chapter is shaping up so far. Hopefully you all will be, too, when you read it.
That's basically the long and short of it this time. I'm just trying to get back into the swing of writing daily, while understanding that I could be interrupted any day now by getting e...
2024-07-08 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
This month, we have the last of the previews for BotL. As always, these are subject to change, and in the case of these particular subplots, they may be cut short or absent from the game entirely depending on what you choose, because they both have to do with the PC's parents!
Also as always, big spoilers to follow.
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First, let's talk about Demeter!
So obviously some PCs will have attempted to cut their mother out of their l...
2024-07-03 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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