Here is a little snippet from the upcoming update. This takes place shortly after leaving Abydos behind, once your MC meets the last members of the group that haven't been introduced yet 👀 This one is from the veteran captain's POV but there will be different variations for every MC origin.
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Kajet pushes himself up and stands in front of you. "You used to be the Captain, aye? From the Guard."
'Used to be.' Yes, you used to be. Not that you overly lik...
2025-01-15 23:31:13 +0000 UTC
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I would like to get some ideas from you about which POV scenes you'd like to see here in the future 😃 (these scenes are only available from Tier 2, but I will also make events like during Christmas where I make them available to the public for a short amount of time)
For this week Sunday, I was thinking to write Qenna's point of view from that talk they had with Petmes in private after the meeting with the others (after the Narmer argument). It's probably going to be a very fine bala...
2025-01-14 19:38:14 +0000 UTC
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I changed my mind about how this will work because I realized it would be much more effective to have this thread open for the whole month (or what's left of it). So this thread will be open until the 31st of January, which is a Friday update day, so I will post the answers the next day or the day after. In the schedule, that weekend was going to be a lore post weekend, so instead I'll make the lore post a week before.
So, here it is again! If you have any questions addressed to me or ...
2025-01-13 12:26:25 +0000 UTC
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Long post incoming. I wanted to write this down also for myself as a future reference. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them below, and I will answer them in the next Q&A post ^^
The next lore post is going to be about spirits, so I didn't write much about them in this one. You can still ask questions about them now, and I will write down the answers in the spirit lore post next time 👀
How does magic work?
Magic in this world works like an amplifier ...
2025-01-12 11:00:13 +0000 UTC
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I uploaded the first scene to Chapter 4 that I think very well illustrates the general mood of the characters for the upcoming chapter 😅 It's not long, only a bit more than a 1000 words, but since it's still update day today, I wanted to share it 🙂↕️
There is no password now because the scene is short. There will be more coming next week ❤️
2025-01-10 22:23:11 +0000 UTC
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I added the new Chapter 3 achievements to the list.
2025-01-10 14:55:42 +0000 UTC
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I updated both demos today, the public demo with Chapter 3 that you have seen already in the patreon demo, but I fixed many grammar mistakes (I also found more pronoun code errors, those pesky things...), some awkward sentences, and fixed paragraphs too, so I updated the patreon demo with the same things as well.
Additionally, I added a 'skip to Chapter 4' option to the quick character creation menu. The Chapter 4 file is already present there, but there is nothing in it yet besides th...
2025-01-10 13:44:57 +0000 UTC
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Just wanted to let you know what's going on with the game this week. I'm currently editing. It takes a long time and for some reason, it always makes me sleepy 😂 Not because I'm bored of my own writing or anything, I guess it's just not as exciting as writing new content.
Anyway, I'm going to put some Achievements in ch3 and clean up the code, so this week's update will destroy existing saves (sorry for that). The good news however is that I figured out how to write in a way so that...
2025-01-08 20:14:29 +0000 UTC
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What inspired you to do a game based on Egypt?
I was always interested in history ever since I was a child. Mostly about ancient history, but I can get invested in new subjects rather quickly. Ancient Egypt has been a favorite subject of mine and this actually isn't my first time writing about this era. I have two paper books already, a third one half-finished, that take place in Ancient Egypt. They are a lot more historically correct with actual historical figures for characters, and t...
2025-01-05 12:04:03 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the slight delay, I got a bit overwhelmed with some of the choices around the end, so I stayed up until 7 in the morning to finish this BUT! Amazing news!
CHAPTER 3 IS FINISHED! (on this first draft)
The next chapter is looking out to be much longer, and also much more complicated in terms of coding, so I will spend the next week trying to wrangle my plans for it into something that I can actually use later. I'll tell you more about that next week, but for now, enjoy th...
2025-01-04 06:10:20 +0000 UTC
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I'm so sorry, I meant to post this on Wednesday but I completely forgot 😭 So here it is now, a snippet from the scene with Zaia from the upcoming Friday (tonight) update:
"Do you… like sitting in the sun then?" you ask rather awkwardly to move on from the subject.
"Sometimes," Zaia shrugs. "It's energy. It fills me up a bit. Not as much as a good thunderstorm, but those aren't very common here."
"Are they more common in your...
2025-01-03 12:35:53 +0000 UTC
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I put together a schedule that I think might work for me, although some of these dates are up to change.
03. 01. - Game update (it's possible that I will finish Chapter 3 here)
04. 01. - Q&A question period ends
05. 01. - Post the answer to Q&A
10. 01. - Game update (if I finish Chapter 3 on the 3rd of January, then I will spend this week with planning out Chapter 4 so it's possible that there will be no update to the game on...
2025-01-02 11:51:10 +0000 UTC
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I wish you all a much better 2025 than it was last year, and an even better one if 2024 was everything you ever wanted ❤️ I hope the holidays went well if you celebrated, and if not, I hope it will go well later this year when you do! Thanks for everyone who wished me well too 🥰
Last year was quite challenging for me. I had to move between apartments a few times. Three times total, and I'm still not in a place that I ...
2025-01-01 12:50:43 +0000 UTC
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If you are interested, now here is an opportunity to ask about things you are curious or want to know more about. So, if any of you have any questions addressed to me, the lore, my sources, the game itself, or if you want to ask questions addressed to the characters, now is the time! Leave a comment below ⬇️
There are no limits per account, so ask as much as you want. (within a reasonable amount of course, I probably won't answer 100 questions per person). If the answer is too spoil...
2024-12-28 14:51:59 +0000 UTC
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As usual, I underestimated some of the work in these scenes. Story of my life. I got a bit carried away with some of the RO scenes too, but it's all in good fun 👀 I really like what came out of it, but it means I couldn't finish all of them, so for now, only Qenna's and Tabiry's extra scenes are playable.
What's new:
Like I said some days ago, in this update, I will add more scenes to the time period where Petmes goes into his trance, so immediately before the showdown with Narmer. I'm still working on those scenes, but I am also adding a few more scenes after the argument, to show you the reactions.
Here is a sneak peek from that part, from one of the choices you can pick as your MC's reaction (if you choose to stay quiet):
The silence stretches on. You don't break it. No o...
2024-12-26 15:23:28 +0000 UTC
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Here are the full scale, original landscape versions of the character art for the game. Merry Christmas for everyone ❤️
2024-12-24 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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As a Christmas gift (and also because I wanted to) I finished some of the RO POV scenes! As a gift for everyone, I am making a public version of these. This version will be available until New Years, starting from now.
The password is: christmas
Be careful, the password is case sensitive so write it exactly like I did.
The scenes are:
As a Christmas gift (and also because I wanted to) I finished some of the RO POV scenes! As a gift for everyone, I will also make a public version of these that don't include chapter 3 spoilers. The public version will be available until New Years, starting from now. The patreon version will stay up indefinitely.
Patrons will get a different password that lets you guys see Ahmose's scene and the uncensored version. The password is: BIGchristmas
Be careful, the password is case sen...
2024-12-24 00:37:24 +0000 UTC
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I made a map of Thebes some time ago, but it was missing some labels. Now I put them all up, so you can see where each MC lives and their companions 👀 The picture is quite big, so you'll have to zoom in to see the text.
The map is not historically accurate but it's as accurate as I could make it. For example, the Luxor Temple Complex wasn't as big at the time. The ruins we can see now were built later, and the procession road too, but I thought, there is no proof that there wasn...
2024-12-21 19:15:52 +0000 UTC
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I feel like I managed the impossible. I didn't only rewrite those lost 5k words, but I reached 17k words with this update! How cool is that??? *patting my own shoulder with pride*
In this update, you can continue the story where you left off. (saves made at the indicated point before CH3 should work. I think.)
There are scenes with the companion that came with your mc, you can decide how you feel about leaving home, you will get a break-in in your room, and you will also ...
2024-12-20 23:40:38 +0000 UTC
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I managed to write back that big chunk of text that was lost. It took me most of yesterday, but at least it went faster than the first time because I already sort-of knew what I wrote back then. So, the update is still coming later today (probably late night European time). I don't know how much more I can add to it, but currently it stands at around 8k words.
I didn't want to make a sneak peek post until a certain scene, which I only started writing now. So now here it is, the prelude...
2024-12-20 09:17:38 +0000 UTC
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I don't know how it happened but somehow the entire chapter 3 file got deleted and overwritten/autosaved by CSIDE just now. Which means all of the progress I made on the file since Monday got deleted too. Fortunately, I can recover the previous update files from the cogdemos website but the new progress is completely lost and I tried everything. It's gone. All 5000 words.
So I have to write the whole thing all over again. (the new content anyway, I still have the text from the Monday u...
2024-12-19 12:01:14 +0000 UTC
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The new update to the patreon demo is here with 19k extra words :D
I'm super proud of myself for managing to whip this up while I was also sick, and flying, and everything else going on.
This update contains some... surprises. Some good. Some not so much.
What's new:
I'm feeling much better now, and I made some good progress yesterday and today. So I think I'll be able to finish up the scenes I wanted tonight. Then tomorrow I'll add the rest of the choices (those that I randomly skipped in the writing process), and I think I'll be able to update the game tomorrow evening (European time). Then again, I always think that, and then it always turns out that the leftover work is actually A LOT bigger than I thought haha. So we'll see. But the update is definit...
2024-12-15 20:37:28 +0000 UTC
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So I started writing again today from bed, and good news for Ahmose-romancers, because I'm preparing the first flirt options with them 😘 Here is a snippet from the shy option, which will be included in the next update:
Oh, gods… Why are you like this? Seriously. This is the bloody princess/prince. She/He probably uses puppy-dog eyes on everyone. There is nothing special about you. There is nothing special about her/him looking at you like this. She/He does it to every...
2024-12-13 18:07:18 +0000 UTC
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Good news, the sickness is slowly passing ^^ I only have a small fever now and I can already eat small amounts of solids, so I'm hoping that I can recover by the end of the weekend. Plus I'm getting super bored in bed so I'm going to start writing a bit today 👀 Today's update probably won't happen, but I was thinking to post the game update at the end of the weekend, or early next week. Then it will be again next week Friday or so.
Thanks for everyone who wished me well! 🥰
2024-12-13 11:40:20 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the sudden silence, I was flying yesterday across the continent to visit the family for Christmas, and it turns out I either got food poisoning or some stomach infection that's been going around the country lately. I figured that out pretty much the moment the plane took off. I was horribly sick during the entire, very full flight, and luckily the flight attendants were super nice and helpful, and they even switched my seat to be able to stay close to the bathroom, but...
2024-12-11 16:00:44 +0000 UTC
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I finally found a nice template for the character sheets, so I made these today! :D I blurred out the spoilers, but be aware that even the fact that something is blurred out can be SPOILERY. I will remove the blur gradually as more things are discovered about them in the game.
I just noticed that the only character without any blurs is Tabiry. She is so nice and uncomplicated compared to the others lol
2024-12-09 21:38:56 +0000 UTC
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I opened up the chat here just now for members of both Tiers. You can always leave a comment under posts, but if you want to discuss something more in-depth, the chat is open! I'll always read the messages there and answer whenever I have time. Spoilers are also welcome, so those who can't read the weekly updates regularly should be careful.
So, if you want to discuss anything that isn't yet made public, or just the game in general, OR!! If you have ideas about what you'd like to see h...
2024-12-09 11:24:55 +0000 UTC
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