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Script Snippet: [Emberfate] Nathan

Hey everyone!

To wrap up the month of July, we have our last July reward post — a tiny sneak peek of a scene in Nathan's route from Emberfate! 

As always, thank you so much for the support, and I hope I'll see you all next month for more future rewards and cool content!

(Warning: Spoilers and also not final version of the conversation which may or may not make it into the final script)

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Nathan: You know... you really shouldn't be this ni...

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Beta Build: [Emberfate] Day 4

Hey everyone!

Sorry this came a few days later than I planned, but the v0.3 build of Emberfate containing Days 1 to 4 of content is finally ready! 

If you are a patron of $15 / $30 tier in July 2022, you should receive a private message from me soon with a link to the files for download. 

Patrons who have made or raised their pledge to $15 / $30 ...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: [Emberfate] "In-Game" Sprites?

Hey everyone! 

For this month's sneak peek, I have something cool to show you guys~ You read the title right — did you know that the three love interests will have sprites for their in-game characters? And by that, yes, I mean their "Emberfate MMO" game characters! (What is this game-ception? I'm confusing myself now LOL)

I'm hoping to be able to add them in game either for this month's Day 4 beta build, or next month's. For now, have some previews of the sprites' lineart v...

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Short Story: [Emberfate] Making a Difference

Hello! 

First off, welcome to new patrons! Thank you so much for supporting the Patreon! :) 

Now onto the main stuff. This month, we have another short story for Emberfate, Khanyisa's installment in the "had a bad day" prompt series.  As usual, it's written by Nic W and edited by me. 

If you have any ideas or prompts you'd like to see for the future short stories series, feel free to suggest by commenting below! 

I hope you all enjoy this story...

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Poll: [Emberfate] Chris Recast

Hello! 

As you may know by now, due to various reasons, Chris' role has been recast. I opened auditions for their character a couple weeks ago, and it just closed today. I'm excited to say we got almost 50 auditions for the role! 

Here are three that made it to my shortlist, and I'd honestly be happy with whoever among this batch ends up being cast, so I'm going to let you guys have a say in who you think would be a better new voice for Chris!

Due to time limitatio...

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Script Snippet: [Emberfate] Khanyisa

I can't believe I almost forgot to post this for this month. For this month's script snippet, have a short excerpt from a chat with Khanyisa that you'll have in a later episode! 

(Warning: Spoilers and also not final version of the conversation which may or may not make it into the final script~)

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Khanyisa: I'm... really glad we met and have been getting closer. 

Khanyisa: I will be the first to admit that I may not be at m...

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Beta Build: [Emberfate] Day 3

Hey everyone! 

After a lot of tears and persistent bugs, I've finally gotten v0.2 build of Emberfate (Days 1-3 content) ready for you all! 

If you are a patron of $15 / $30 tier in June 2022, you should receive a private message from me soon with a link to the files for download. Patrons who have made or raised their pledge to $15 / $30 tier on or after July 1, 2022 will receive the Day 1-4 build as the July reward in the third week of July....

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Short Story: [RS] Meeting Parents [Aldrias]

Hi everyone! 

First of all, welcome again to all the new patrons!! Thank you so much for your generous support! 

So this is the short story post that should have been up for October 2021. We are um slowly catching up on the owed short stories (Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar ones remain), and I'm hopeful that I'll be able to finish making up for all of these by next month! 

Anyway, this short story will be of Reanimation Scheme, another installment of the Meeting Pare...

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Short Story: [Emberfate] Radio Silence

Hey! 

I'm back with another short story for Emberfate, this time of Chris! This will be the monthly reward for this month (June), though there should be more short stories coming soon to make up for previous months that have been missed.

As usual, it's written by Nic Wooden and edited by me. I hope you all like this!

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The soft afternoon sunlight streams in through the window beside your desk, its golden glow spilling past a stack of papers you had shoved aside a...

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Poll: [Emberfate] Additional Writing Content

Hey y'all! 

So last poll, I asked you guys to vote what additional content you wanted to see, which were mainly art or voice acting stuff that I'd have to spend money commissioning. The winning vote was a second set of CGs (selfie CGs), which is currently being worked on by the artist! 

I've been working on the script and I keep thinking of additional (flavor) writing content to add that'd either just be cool or add to the immersiveness a bit, buuuut I can't let myself d...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: [Emberfate] Nathan's CG Variation

Hello! First, a quick thank you to all the new Patrons for supporting my work. It really means a lot to me, and I'm excited to keep bringing you guys game content to enjoy! 

Now onto the good stuff. 👀We are starting off this month with a preview of the CG variations for Nathan's video call CG. Drumrolls please.

Does that mean you'll hear him serenade you? Yes.

That'...

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Short Story: [Emberfate] Long Distance

Hey everyone! 

I know I still have quite a few short stories of RS that I need to make up for (Oct - Mar), but I wanted to jump ahead to post the April's short story for Emberfate first, since well, that's new and shiny and exciting for now LOL 

So here's a short story for MC x Nathan, set after the game endings where a romantic relationship has been established! This is written by Nic Wooden and edited by me. I hope you all enjoy this!

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You're fast asle...

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Short Story: [RS] Meeting Parents [Lyrissa]

At long last, the very belated short story that should have been up in September. It's written by Nic Wooden and edited by me. Again, I'm so sorry for the delay for this reward and I'll do my best to catch up to speed with it by next month!

This short story is another installment in the "Meeting Parents" series — a flash forward to after the endings of the game where the couple meets either Raenelle or the LI's parents formally as their partner for the first time. 

I hope y...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: [Emberfate] Chris' Alt Outfit

Well, the artist worked their magic and finished Chris' second outfit much faster than I expected, so I'm back again! As promised, this is a preview of an alt variation for Chris' video call CG, featuring them in a new outfit — and showing off part of a tattoo?

Let me know what you think! As always, thank you so much for the generous support!

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: [Emberfate] More Outfits?!

We're almost caught up on this sneak peek reward! This post is supposed to make up for April's lack of one~ Since we've had quite a few preview for Reanimation Scheme already, let's mix it up and have a couple for Emberfate! 

Both Chris and Khanyisa get a second outfit in their video call CG, while Nathan gets something... a little different. Only Khanyisa's is done so far, so here's a preview for you impatient folks! 👀

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: [RS] Item Art - Beverages Edition

Hey! Before I forget, I wanted to finish making up for the late reward posts for sneak peeks, so a couple are coming up all in one go today! 

First off, this one for March is a preview of some cute item art for Reanimation Scheme, beverages edition! 

Raenelle's best friend — the magical version of coffee LOL

2022-05-25 08:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Script Snippet: [Emberfate] Chris

Hey! Time for a little change of pace ;D Here's a script snippet from Emberfate, a conversation with Chris! 

The original plan is for this to be a voice or video call conversation, but uhhhh I have to speak to the VA to see if it's doable -- otherwise I'll have to amend it slightly and make it a text conversation instead :( You'll see why! 

Also note that this is only an early draft so nowhere near final yet! It's uh a little difficult to portray the branching responses ...

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Script Snippet: [RS] Aldy's Route

If you recall, a while back, I made a post / poll stating that I have to change the monthly comic reward for the $10 tier to a monthly script snippet preview as the artist is no longer available for the work. So this is the very belated reward post for December to show off a tiny bit of the script! 

Since Aldy's route beta is coming out for the Kickstarter backers of the relevant tier, let's start off with a snippet from Aldy's route~ 

Of course, you can expect a bit of ...

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Poll: [Emberfate] Additional Content for Full Game

Hey lovely patrons! 

Since I think some of you are here thanks to Emberfate, I'll jump ahead slightly in terms of reward posts and quickly throw up this poll -- also because I'm starting to commission the rest of the assets, so I gotta decide now and work out the budget LOL. 

So for the full game of Emberfate, I'm thinking of adding a bit more assets / content to add more polish. Yes, I am a perfectionist damn it. Here are some options I'm toying with -- I won't be able ...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: [RS] Unused Pose

Hey! This is another post to make up for the sneak peek post that should have gone up in February. 

So I guess this isn't exactly a sneak peek but half behind-the-scenes content, because this post shows a piece of art that I don't plan on using after all in game. 

Yep, this is Sebastien in all his butt glory, lmao. So what happened was that I told the character artist I wanted o...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: Secret Side Character

Hey everyone! 

Sorry for the long silence and delay in delivering the monthly rewards. I kind of got overwhelmed by development work on Reanimation Scheme and Emberfate, but thankfully, things are a little more back on track now, and I will prioritize Patreon rewards more. I apologize for the long wait, and thank you so much for continuing to support the Patreon all this time! 

I'm going to make up for the last 4 months of reward posts I missed. First up is this exclusiv...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: Lorebook

Hey guys~ 

Happy New Year! I wish you all another year of happiness, good health and fortune! 

To start off the new year, I'm here with a sneak peek preview for the month of December. (I'm super sorry about being a day late with this post.) I'm seriously running out of content to show as sneak peeks without spoiling way too much about the game... So I thought I'd try something different and do a preview of the lorebook! 

I've been sort of working on this on an...

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Mini-Comic: Creative Insults

Hey guys!

Sorry for the long delay. Rito has been really busy with personal life matters, so she just finished the mini-comic that was intended as the October reward. 

The idea behind this comic was inspired by a conversation with some friends while I was writing the script, struggling to come up with words to replace "jerk" that isn't too vulgar or too modern. I personally think this turned out pretty funny of a comic, and I hope you guys like it too!

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: Aldrias' Credits Sequence

Hey guys! :D 

I think I've mentioned (more like whined about) how much I suffered coding in the credits sequences for the game, as well as how I upgraded it with a ripple transition commissioned from another programmer. With Aldrias' beta right around the corner, I think it's probably time to show you guys a quick preview of the final form of the credits sequence for Aldrias' route! 

To be honest, I'm unsure how many players will even sit through the ending credits even ...

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Poll: Patreon Reward to Replace Mini-Comics

Hey lovely patrons! 

As you may have seen from my message in the Discord server, the artist for the monthly mini-comics reward (rito) has been much busier lately and is likely unable to continue doing the monthly mini-comics for the Patreon. I've been trying but failed to find an artist to cover this work at a rate that I can afford :/ So unfortunately, I think I have to replace this reward with something else starting December. I'm super sorry about this change! 

So yea...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: Background Art

Hey lovely patrons! 

Here's the exclusive sneak peek for this month~ Admittedly, I feel like I'm running out of things to show as previews, lol. Everything seems to be spoilers at this point... 

This preview of the following two pieces of background art is probably a HUGE spoiler, so proceed with caution! I'm not going to tell you what these background are supposed to be of so you're going to have to find out yourself by playing the game yourself ;) Do you have any guess...

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Short Story: Meeting Parents [Sebastien]

This is the short story that should have been up in August. It's written by Nic Wooden and edited by me. Sorry for the delay so far :( I'll definitely catch up on the short stories by the end of next month! 

This short story is a flash forward to after the endings of the game in Sebastien's route. No real spoilers for the story plot; it's just a sneak peek at how Sebastien's first meeting with Raenelle's father as her boyfriend would go in the future! The next few stories should be...

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: Item Art

Hey guys!

So I just realized I forgot to post the sneak peek post for last month... So here it is, albeit super late. Apologies for the delay! 

I'm not really sure what I can show as a sneak peek preview tbh, but uhhhh well, maybe you guys would like to see some of the newly completed item art? 

Feel free to try and guess what the unlabeled item is (?!) and who the items b...

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Mini-Comic: Purrs Don't Lie

Hey guys! 

So the comic for this month was actually done by rito a while ago, but I forgot to post it until now. I know I still owe you guys the short story from last month and this month, and I promise I will get them up as soon as possible! I've just been dying over the project itself, but I'll get the short story rewards to you guys asap! Really sorry for the delay, but for now, I hope you guys enjoy this comic!

2021-09-30 13:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Mini-Comic: Gift That Keeps On Giving

Hey guys!

Sorry for being a day late with this comic. This is the mini-comic reward for the month of August~ I hope you guys enjoy it!

2021-09-01 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post