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Affection Values

So something I've been toying around with for a little bit is player feedback for when make choices that increase or decrease affection with characters. On one hand, I feel that if you know how impactful your choice is or if you choose wrong then going back and choosing a different option becomes more of a priority and pulls you out of the story. But at the same time, knowing what selections are actually doing things (because not all of them do stuff) might help?

I dunno, there's an in...

NEW BUILD! a0.08

What's in this update?

- Day 6 (Tyson, Roswell)
- Day 7(Partial) (Tyson)

As per the results of the poll held, Tyson won the first updated route. As such, he's got a password scenario to play through. Also, because everyone else had a flashback/origin story of sorts, Roswell gets his to keep things fair. For everyone else, their routes end at lunch time.

- Minor spelling correction

This is likely going to be an ongoing thing as I keep using natively occurring UK ...

Launch Schedule (May)

Given when everyone else is launching their content, mid-month seems to be a solid time to launch new builds. That said, this will come down to Patron-Preference.

So, working to May15th being the next update, we have minimum one new CG that will need to be done depending on route, more than likely two. Additionally, I wanna go back and redo Roswell's original one to be in colour, as well as the one with Tyson in the car so everything is moving away from the black and white. Additionally...

v0.09 Character Routes

You know the drill! Who's next? If in the event I get a good run at it with assets and such, I'll pick the two highest to do instead of just one, but assume whoever has the highest will be who's in the next update. You have a week from now before I pick the winner from the poll.

April's Release Date

Now that April Fool's Day should be well out of the way, let's talk the next release. 

We have two options here. Those that participated in the voting know, or at least have a fairly good idea as to what's coming. So with that in mind, would you rather a release say mid-month for the two route updates that were decided upon, or something later in the month to coincide with a certain date with the goal of using the extra time to slam out more art? As it stands, we're on track to hav...

Launch Schedule (April)

First thing to note, is the 27th of April being Hyena Day. Given the results of the poll for the MC's species, I feel it's pretty much certain that we've got a canon species to work from.  As far as unveiling, I feel like the 27th is going to be a good target to aim for; ideally as a new title screen at minimum, but I'd be pushing for some sort of character interaction CG to put into the game as it currently stands or in the next update. 

Speaking of, I'm hoping to have the ne...

v0.08 Character Routes

As per the notes in the launch post, who's going to be the next victim?

A few things to keep in mind though. I've written the outlines of each, and I can confirm that almost all of them at the moment involve death in one form or another. So either vote for the character you want to save from their fate, or throw another character under the bus! I'll give it say, a week before working on any one route to give people a chance to play the latest update.

Also, Roswell is de...

NEW BUILD! a0.07

Huzzah! And here we are: Version a0.07!
What's in this update?

- Day 5 Hoss, Sal, Orlando, Dean, Tyson

Building on what was available in the public demo, these guys get some scenarios that build on who they are, or at least were when the MC first met them! They are however locked to their routes, so if you want to see them all, I recommend creating a save before the partner selection as a hub to create multiple saves from. Choices will matter as far as getting you affection poi...

Build this Week!

At this stage I'm planning on having the next build out by Friday. This should have everyone up to the start of day 6 at the least. There are some assets that, at the moment I'm struggling to put together but it'll be playable. 

For those in Silver Tier and above, I'll open up voting of which route you want done first so you have a couple days from now to think about it. 

As for the results of the poll, it's looking like our main character is going to be a hyena, so afte...

MC Species

I don't know why this had suddenly become a thing over the past 24 hours, but a few people have been pointing out the lack of noted, or otherwise mentioned species for the main character.

For clarification and a bit of transparency as to what's behind the curtain, the choice of making this information vague and non-solid was to hopefully allow players to self-insert their own characters in. Thought being that if you projected onto the Main Character in some significant way, the investm...

Project Relaunch

G'day, friends!

After basically rebuilding the game from the ground up, I'm pleased to announce that we're back in business with a much needed fresh coat of paint! Download links can be found on the front page, as I'm still determined to have it be the equivalent of a public demo until we get a bit more in there to warrant charging for content.

With that said, it's likely that the next paid update will be occurring within the new year unless some serious headway is ...

April/May Release Schedule

Here's where we're sitting for the next few stages:

April: Despite being a couple days left, we have one last build coming up to round off the month. This will have up to Day 4, through to the start of Day 5. There's a few typos here and there, but there'll be a Google Doc created soon to keep tabs of any that crop up in any future builds. This will be a living document. Once this build goes live, shy of any cosmetic changes, this will be the last build available to the public for free and any...

New Build Incoming!

Next public build will be up tomorrow. Only a short one but it'll at least give a second option for day three. New art assets are what I've been working on instead, so hopefully they'll get in soon, if only as sketches; perhaps not in the next build but the one after?

Public Demo a0.02

There we go! An update!

Day 3 is playable, although you're locked into only one character route for it for now. The others will be easier to get in there now that the framework is done. 

Decided to try something with text colouring that I remembered from the old N64 days so we'll see how that goes. I'm thinking of having text colour be different for narration versus internal thought versus speech but that's purely cosmetic and thus not a priority.

Next update should be when ei...

March Update Schedule

Now that we're in March, it's time to see where we're looking as far as builds go!

The current build is likely to be the most "generic" route until the end of the month given how big Day 3 is shaping up to be, but we'll be hopefully getting two routes officially started by the end of the month. 

So far, we're locked into Tyson's route being one of the first to be worked on, and unless there's a solid push for another it'll probably fall to Dean to take the other slot. Then we'll ass...

Character Preview - Tyson

To round out the cast we have Tyson.

He's the obligatory "I'm mean because reasons" character. Put simply, Tyson used to be the school bully, and one of the common threads connecting all the characters together. Having been bigger than most of the others for most of school, he's relied mostly on his brawn and created very much a "my way or the highway" attitude towards things.

As far as the route goes, he's very much one to asset that he's the alpha wolf, and will not hesitate to both ta...

Character Preview - Sal

Sal's a crocodile of few words, coming across as a strange combination of blunt and angry. 

He means well, just preferring to act as opposed to talk. That isn't to say he doesn't understand what polite conversation is, he just doesn't care for it. Being a fan of being more on the physical side of things, his favourite hobby and sport of choice is wrestling, to the point of having ridden that as his scholarship through school. Sal's long term plans though are to head into massage and physi...

Demo and Delays

Apparently I broke Ren'py when I was making the demo build. So... It'll be up soon! I just have to go figure out what I did and fix it up. As far as demos go, it'll be free to everyone as the first public demo. It's only two days as I'm still fleshing out the third and fourth days. 

Once Day 4 is up and running, I'll put a build up for public access and then any additional updates from then on will be Patron-Only as they'll be the more specific character routes.

Shouldn't be too lon...

Character Preview - Roswell

Here we have Roswell.

There seems to be this trope I've found in visual novels where there's always one character that fulfills the role of having known the main character ever since childhood. Roswell takes this role, being the spacey yet fun-loving best friend. 

He used to love street magic and illusions, although has lately taken an interest in the occult, ranging from ghosts to demons. Not that he'd call himself an expert with how much he's read, he does have confidence that he'...

Character Preview - Hoss

Here we have Hoss.

Time for a story! There was a visual novel that I backed for a while on Patreon named Clearwater Mansion. Sadly, it no longer exists because it couldn't get enough backers to get the project off the ground. It sucked, because the art looked neat, but from what was shown to its patrons it didn't seem there was much there. Real life comes first after all. All their assets went public domain and I figured I'd hold onto them until I could figure out what to do with them potentia...

Character Preview - Orlando

Next up on our previews is Orlando!

Easily excitable and kind-hearted, he loves to bake and otherwise make food. After all, wouldn't you if you could functionally roast things with your own breath? Still, he'd much rather a decent oven over anything else. If he had a greatest failing, it'd be that he just can't get pastry right which bothers him greatly. 

Shy of that, he likes his games, but much rather likes collecting things. True to his draconic nature, he hoards like no one's bu...

Achievements/Trophies?

I'm torn on this. I'm personally a fan when I'm playing much bigger games, but part of them almost feels off in the visual novels I've played. My thoughts were keeping tabs of what endings you've seen and then maybe use them as triggers to check for alternate endings or something?

I plan on having the art available eventually, in-game in a gallery but if I'm adding menu features I figured it'd be worthy to maybe consider this too?

What do you guys think? Do we want achievements?

Passwords

So the namesake of the game is going to take you to a room known as The Vault. Large in part this is going to be a way for you guys to contribute ideas for alternate scenarios, means to get sneak peeks into the other parts of the character's lives, and maybe tweak the details or unlock endings as needed. 

If you've played visual novels like Zero Escape, or even Stein's Gate, it's best to think of anything coming out of it as an alternate timeline. So where needed, it's canon, when it's no...

Character Preview - Dean

Let's kick off the previews of the cast with our bear, shall we?

This is Dean, self proclaimed Casanova with a very bad streak of luck when it comes to actually woo-ing the ones he likes. He comes on strong, and will more often than not try and make anything into an innuendo if given enough setup. While he talks a big game, his standards are pretty particular, quickly backing down from any potential "quick fling" in favor of something more meaningful.

Seemingly to go in hand with his fon...

It's Aliiiiiiiiive!

G'day! Shy of just having hit the launch button and realising I've had nowhere near enough coffee to shake off the jitters of doing so, we're all good! 

This is the part where I happily announce that I have a demo ready to go for public access but... I kinda broke it? Don't worry though! It should be up in some form within the next 24 hours of this post. I'll fix it, sort out the file upload thing and we should be in business.

For the near future though, the launch schedule for upda...

Just setting up!

Hey there! If anyone is seeing this, then uh... Well, it means I've made this live and we should be underway. Maybe. I'm still sorting out the visual aspects of the game to actually have something to show, but we're almost there.

Almost.

For now, have some sketch art!

I'll have more detailed character stuff up eventually, it's mostly ready to go up now, but only as sketches like...