Well, I just finished finals a week and half? ago - and wrongly assumed I'd have plenty of time to work on Grizzly Tech's Chapter 9 update. The floor in my mobile home (it was made in 1970s), is growing weaker, so construction had to be done on it, by adding another layer of plywood on top of it, since what's below is basically pressboard (ugh). Then some laminate tile over it. It should look awesome when done. Anyway, that is a ton of work, and on top of that, I had to go to work at...
2021-04-01 04:37:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey, I have been debating whether to open my Discord server or not - but I decided today, that I'd open it to the public.
If you wish to join, please feel free to come!
https://discord.gg/R7QY5AhXBx - it's called Griffonheart's Den!
-GH
2021-03-03 04:20:01 +0000 UTC
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Since I tried to post so last minute, and failed, the mod of the Jam decided to allow my entry as a late submission. Yay!! So I did make it. But he informed me that I should have uploaded the game page (at the very least) to the Bara Jam entries then uploaded the game later - although he did mean "upload the game as soon as possible for it to count as an entry."
So. The game is uploaded to Itch. It probably has a bug or two due to not being able to finish a cutscene toward the end...
2020-12-02 17:12:22 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately - I wasn't able to figure out how to refund you from an external source. BUT I did suspend December's billing cycle so you will still technically get your two months of paused billing like I promised two months ago.
I apologize for the screw-up.
And as for Bara Jam - I was juggling school, and work, and trying to get this game done - and I frankly suck at doing too many things, heheh. I did get enough of a demo - without any combat through RPGMaker MZ tog...
2020-12-01 07:54:53 +0000 UTC
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Damn it. I forgot to pause billing for November. If any of your pledges get processed, I will refund them for this month. I apologize. If it's not too late, cancel your pledge at least temporarily, otherwise, I will refund it.
On other news, still swamped with work, and school, and some of my Bara Jam game. Not much progress has been made on it - but I did work on a custom tileset I'm using for the interiors - it's a bit from being done, but...
2020-11-01 07:57:12 +0000 UTC
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Hello! I figured I'd let everyone know that I'm gonna be joining the Barajam on itch.io. This jam is a game jam from Oct 1st to Nov 30th, centering around the Bara Genre which is defined on the Barajam page: https://itch.io/jam/barajam-2020 as shown below.
So what is Bara ? Here are the most informative snippets as taken from Wikipedia:
"Bara" is a Japanese tech...
2020-10-01 06:17:51 +0000 UTC
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I will be wrapping it up (getting it ready to release for Early Access Patrons tomorrow sometime (The 2nd)) but chapter 8 is finally done. Woohoo!
I'm so happy about this.
Hold on, and wait for a week - for those who haven't pledged the Early Access tier - then it should be released on itch.io (roughly the 9th-10th) for everyone to play.
Thank you so much for your patience.
-GH
(12:30am. Time to sleep, then work on getting it released...
2020-09-02 07:23:35 +0000 UTC
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Well, at long f'ng last. LOL. It's taken me way too long to write most of this chapter for Grizzly Tech, but I'm working on the last route - and roughly 1/2-3/4's done with it. I am aiming to try to complete it tomorrow at the latest. Thank you for being so patient with me.
Then patrons will be able to play it early for a week, and then I'll release it on itch.io.
Expect a release tomorrow at the latest.
-GH
2020-09-01 06:21:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello - my 3D dev friend @IncubusAcademy (Or Deevilj) had a problem with his computer resulting it crashing - and he lost some models. He was able to save *most* of the models and decided he wanted to recreate them just in case - and I've wanted to fix the odd head-pose that he'd originally made - because you do not talk to another character on screen, and always 'face' the player of the VN. It was a minor issue for me at the time (could live with it), but I did want to fix it eventually. Tur...
2020-05-31 22:27:35 +0000 UTC
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Well, I managed to release a minor update for the Time Interloper game and this time, I'm letting everyone access it immediately - because I didn't realize that its progress was enough to warrant a new update. I didn't feel it was fair to limit it to the $3 tier at the moment. When I have a much bigger update, I probably will.
Mainly there's a two new sprites added, I adjusted the font to resemble more of an computer font, and added a textbox. I also updated the BG to have a bi...
2020-04-06 00:34:24 +0000 UTC
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I've decided to suspend billing again. With so many people being forced to stay home, or not being able to work, and only applying for Unemployment (or receiving benefits from their workplace for a short period of time), I am also experiencing a bit of a flux in my routine in the last few weeks. My workplace cut my hours for the last two weeks, I still have some sick leave and personal hours to use up and I am hoping to go back to work again soon.
School's also been thrown out of whack ...
2020-04-01 06:07:58 +0000 UTC
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Alright. I have had a busy month - and essentially have been remiss in being able to work on both of my projects and updates.
Let's break it down:
Grizzly Tech Updates:
I barely managed to write 30 lines of code for dialogue which makes me annoyed because you guys deserve a chapter update. I thought a month would be more than enough time to get it done. I also have the game script set up so I can't just finish a partial route and leave the others for later, to re...
2020-03-01 06:03:41 +0000 UTC
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I'm so happy I managed to finish Chapter 7! And I did a quick run-through of the route variations with Chris' route, and I think I've squashed most of the bugs/tense errors. If there are any problems, send me a screenshot of the error or typo, etc etc.
Added:
Two BGs - storefronts/buildings (Grayscale, linework) (Early on in the game)
One Grizz's Bar Interior (Gray...
2020-01-25 23:40:59 +0000 UTC
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.... At least for December. I feel like it's the right thing to do for now - since I'm having issues getting my updates out, and I just recently finished Bara Jam 2019 with my new game *Time Interloper* It's in a very rough beta with mostly story up to a certain point, and a couple sprites/BG.
I feel like it would be best to resume once I'm confident that I can actually roll out an update then. I didn't see a way to selectively pick a tier though, so unfortunately all of them are ...
2019-12-01 06:07:45 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to thank all the patrons who've followed me and even some of you who've actually made a pledge when you didn't have to do so. I really do appreciate it, even if I'm on the quiet side.
I may be terrible at updates, but I am grateful for your faith in me being able to deliver.
May Bragi grant us the eloquence of wit and inspiration.
Until next time,
GH.
2019-11-20 06:18:17 +0000 UTC
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First of all I apologize for not updating in a while - life keeps me really busy, and well, I haven't been entirely inactive. I've been working on a BG for Grizzly Tech and some script. This bg has taken me forever to do - because I have to fix a lot of errors with it. I hope people like it - and it should be included in the next update.
And as for the script, I'm working on two ways to h...
2019-11-10 22:17:48 +0000 UTC
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Well, I finally did it - I managed to crack the murky depths of Android Building and built the demo into an android package. It's available at http://gryphbear.itch.io/grizzly-tech :)
I wanted to try to get to a broader audience, particularly those who prefer mobile builds.
Enjoy!
2019-09-02 21:09:40 +0000 UTC
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Okay. You may be wondering why I've decided to change the title of the game. Well, simply put.... As it stands, my title shares its name with a science website for middle-school grade children. I'm nervous enough for parents to google the name of my game, and get MY game instead of middle-grade students, or even worse, a middle-grade school student googling MY game, hoping to get the science website. In addition, my VN *will* have, and already has *some* Mature content, so...
2019-08-12 23:51:32 +0000 UTC
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Well. Still hard at work trying to encode side images and work on the latest Chapter. I have finally figured out how to use Ren'py's LayeredImage function to layer different outfits over a base side sprite. Thanks so much to Deevil and Bob Conway Games, and Rob Colton...
2019-06-30 19:00:40 +0000 UTC
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First. Welcome to my Patreon page! This is going to be a recap of my last devlog on itch.io, to get things rolling.
So.
If you visited the link to my game, the date on the last update shows that it's been a while. I promise that I'm not dead, despite there not being updates in a few months. I am hoping everyone is enjoying my story so far. I do have a few bits of news to share with all of you. The biggest reason I haven't been releasing an update as quickly as...
2019-05-02 22:26:15 +0000 UTC
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