Time for this week's progress update.
I don't have much to say other than I've been keeping up with drawing and writing. We also have the fan art contest ongoing and I'm running other minor tasks in the background, mostly boring organisational stuff that I away end up putting off.
So I thought I could share with you some insights on what writing ORS is like at thi...
2022-06-03 01:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the entries for the 5th Anniversary Fan Art contest!
I'm really happy with the amount and quality of the submissions; I wasn't sure you guys would find this proposition interesting but it seems like you did! It's always amazing seeing art and renditions of characters that I have created and that mean something to you guys, and some of these entries are really mind-blowing. Lots of quality 3D renders (it's always fun to see my designs brou...
2022-05-29 15:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's this week status report:
This week I've been putting a lot of focus on the update and I finally started writing it. Feels good to be knocking lines out again, but writing the game with the level of detail it's expected of ORS is quite taxing mentally. Before I used to finish all the art before starting writing, but the sheer amount of images produced for each update now has forced me to combine writing and drawing, and I think it's the way to go. This allows me t...
2022-05-26 22:14:56 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick update:
This past week hasn't been the most productive. I took a quick trip to Paris to attend the Tool concert, which was really nice, but that kept me away from the computer. I used this time to keep elaborating on Chapter's 10 plot, mapping out in further detail some scenes and character interactions (how to structure the action and choices, and which themes should be present in dialogues and such). I want to start writing next week, and switch between that a...
2022-05-20 00:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Quick status update:
This week I mostly worked on planning the scenes and drawing. I've completed a total of 42 drawings so far, and I've also been testing some helping hands, but so far I haven't been able to find someone who can help effectively with the line-work.
I've also been working on chapter's 10 plot structure: I have all of Ian's events mapped out, but I'm still trying to figure out how to incorporate and organize Lena's part. The...
2022-05-10 23:02:21 +0000 UTC View Post
So, the remaster is finally done and work on Chapter 10 has already started.
At this stage I'm working on several tasks at the same time:
Happy 5th anniversary to everyone involved in the project! Check out the Fan Art contest and it's prizes.
You can play the final version of ORS Chapter 9 here, for PC, Mac and also Android!
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Here's the final version for the Remastered 9 chapters of ORS! <...
2022-04-24 22:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Time flies. This next 25th of April will mark the 5th anniversary of Eva Kiss, Good Girl Gone Bad and Our Red String.
On that day I launched this Patreon page and GGGB v0.1, a simple Ren'py test demo I had put together during April. As you know, I wasn't expecting things to go the way they did, but here we are, and I'd say we've come pretty far 2022-04-21 21:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A while ago someone showed me these super cool 3D renders of Lena, made by Kentyrr. I really liked them and wanted to share them with you guys!
It's always fun seeing my characters portrayed by someone else, and in a different medium. My games have 2D art, but in an alternate universe they might have 3D renders...
2022-04-21 21:32:10 +0000 UTC
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In this reworked edition of ORS I added and remade some illustrations, and enhanced others. Some old art just needed a bit of editing to make it pop much more, and bring it closer to the quality level of the latest CGs.
Patreon only allows me to share these images in private posts, so check them out here.
2022-04-15 00:44:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In this reworked edition of ORS I added and remade some illustrations, and enhanced others. Some old art just needed a bit of editing to make it pop much more, and bring it closer to the quality level of the latest CGs.
Originally I wasn't going to touch the first LenaxIan scene, but I felt it looked way too lacklustre compared to the latest Cindy one, fo...
2022-04-15 00:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the Beta for the Remastered 9 chapters of ORS! We've fixed the bugs that have been reported during these days, hopefully now everything works smoothly, but if you find any other slips please let us know down in the...
2022-04-13 23:56:59 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: I crudely patched the Will problem. It's not stable but it should award you Will points, opening up branches that were not accessible due to the bug. I will have the programmer look at it for the Be...
2022-04-08 18:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
this is just a quick post to let you know work on the Revised/Enhanced edition of ORS is almost done. If everything goes according to plan, I will release the Alpha this next Friday, 9th of April.
Going over this update and revising it is trickier than usual, since I made changes along all 9 chapters, and a lot of intricate details or technical issues have been added or changed, so some bugs or minor inconsistencies are likely...
2022-04-06 00:35:18 +0000 UTC View Post
A while ago I did a poll about who your current favourite female NPC was, but I never got around posting the results!
Unsurprisingly, Cindy is number 1 with a whooping 1030 votes, followed by Holly, with 701. Ivy is in third place, but with a noticeable gap in votes, having amassed 468, and Emma seems to be cat...
2022-03-30 23:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody,
I'm currently play-testing and reviewing chapters 8 and 9, the last bit left before tackling the final technical reworks and implementations. My goal is to be done with everything major at the end of the week, and release the Alpha as soon as we've made sure everything works as intended.
The current 9 chapters amount to 658k words written (to put into perspective, "A Storm of Swords", the longest book in G.R.R Martin's...
2022-03-28 21:20:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
First of all I want to thank you for your overwhelmingly positive feedback you gave me in my last post. As some of you said, reworks usually aren't too popular and kill momentum, and they're not especially enjoyable from a development point of view (at least in my case). ORS was well received as it was, but aside from some glaring issues that needed to be corrected, I felt like there were many things that needed to be improved upon.
I could've...
2022-03-23 11:37:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
this past week I've been laser focused on development, so much so I find it hard to take some energy and time to write an update, which means I end up postponing it.
I feel I'm definitely getting my mojo back, and though I'm finding some tasks more challenging that I anticipated, I've been taking care of them slowly but surely. Right now I'm going over each c...
2022-03-18 01:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As I said in my last post, I'm sharing some of the reworked illustrations for the upcoming revised build of ORS. When I started production, fresh off GGGB, I carried the production style and workflow from my first project, which was way more fast-paced. It was only after a few months working on the new game that I saw how experience, ambition and financial investment in my new game was pushing it's quality higher than I expected at the start.
2022-03-02 13:56:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
Last week wasn't as productive as I would've liked, but this one has been much better. I've completed the new prologue and finished rewriting Chapter 1. To be honest, I wasn't looking forward too much to this revision of the 9 current chapters, but I knew this has to be done before proceeding if I wanted ORS to become the product I'm envisioning. But going over my previous work, revising and rewriting is something I don't enjoy too much... I'm eager to k...
2022-02-27 11:57:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
here's your weekly development update. I can't report much without spoiling things, but as you know I've been going over the scripts adding and tweaking stuff. Stan's part is done, and also most of what I wanted to revamp. All the new art is almost completed too, everything has been drawn and colored and I just need to go over what's left to be finalised (lights, shadows, backgrounds and ambient light).
As you can see in the above image, the
Hello everyone,
first of all I wanted to thank you for your responses on my last post. I was surprised by the amount of good will and understanding from your part, and I deeply appreciate it. Some of you said I shouldn't suspend charges for this next month, but I really feel it's the right thing to do and I had already made the choice before writing about it. I've already activated the billing pause for this month, and this is what Patreon says about it...
2022-02-06 12:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
When it rains it pours, or so they say. Last time I told you about how I was falling behind with ORS' production due to burnout and some other issues and now I got the "unspecified virus of unknown origin", I've spent most of the week in bed feeling like shit, so production hasn't exactly ramped up.
I've been thinking about it for a while and I've decided that starting February I will put all charges on my page on hold. I feel I'm not giv...
2022-01-28 23:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
I hope you had a nice Holidays with family, friends or even by yourself. I haven't posted in a while and it was about time.
I'm still working on revamping ORS' nine chapters, adding and modifying stuff here and there, as I've been talking about in the past: redoing all Stan scenes, updating some crappy drawings and tweaking or expanding on some particular scenes. And when all that's done, I'm planning to move forward with my plans to release on St...
2022-01-16 12:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Holidays to everyone!
I just wanted to let you know I've finally finished answering all the question in the Q&A, you can read them here. There were a lot of really good questions and I wanted to delve deeper in some of my answers, but there was a lot to write. It made me rea...
Hey there!
The year is coming to and end and ORS had progressed to Chapter 9 already. Time flies...
I launched this new project at the end of March 2020, but it started to gain traction at the start of this current year, and now we're here: 9 chapters, around 130.000 lines of code, hundreds of full color illustrations and more than 648.000 words w...
2021-12-15 23:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostHello people,
work continues in reworking and enhancing the first 9 chapters of ORS. Aside from updating Stan's character and his scenes with Lena I'm also changing other things, some are details and some are complete reworks of a scene, art and writing wise. We're also working on several things simultaneously, implementing new pipeline methods and internal processes. I'll have a complete change-log of everything that was tweaked when the updated version is released. 2021-12-11 17:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been working on the "remaster" of ORS, the main focus of which is Stan's character.
As I wrote in previous posts, I wasn't happy with his character on how he fit in the overall story. When I came up with the idea of Lena having a nerdy flatmate, the main appeal to me was using a character trope I hadn't explored in GGGB, which was full of hunks and malevolent guys. I thought it would be refreshing writing scenes with a different type of chara...
2021-11-30 17:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Some time ago, we did a poll about who was your favourite female character. It's been a while and OR' story has been progressing, so I feel it's time to run this one back! I'm curious to see if the results will stay the same or we will have a surprising upset.
Vote for your favourite!
2021-11-27 17:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post