Here's the readable Chapter 6 excerpt!
A few notes about what the randomiser chose for this excerpt:
The starred options are the choices that the randomiser "chose" for this playthrough. I hope you enjoy having a sneak peek at what will be happening in April's playable update!
2024-03-05 17:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone and I hope March is treating you well so far! Here's what I've got planned for March:
March 1st: Newsflash #1 - detailed progress update with a little excerpt of what I've been doing (all paid subscribers)
March 1st: March Q&A post (£6+)
March 1...
2024-03-01 19:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe first week of this fortnight, I didn't write much at all: it was a school holiday, and me and the rest of my household were sick (not anything serious, but it knocked us out). But this week I returned to writing afresh to write Honor Bound Chapter 9 and have ended up writing more in one week than I often would in two - or even in a month!
Right now I'm listening to There For...
2024-03-01 18:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostHere is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story from the perspective of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on March 20th!
A little about the stories:
Fabien/President Faraci: some hot and heavy rivalry - I wouldn't say "rivals to lovers" because there isn't really a "to lovers" part - in which Fabien's irritated about being in Teran when he misses home, and especially irritated by the President...
2024-03-01 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form. Ask as many questions as you like, in the comments here or on the form, and I'll add the answers on this post. I look forward to hearing from you!
2024-03-01 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Gallatin teachers meet up in the summer holidays after a tumultuous year.
Raphael smiles properly now, his lovely eyes crinkling and making butterflies flutter in her stomach. Alvir’s blessing, she thinks, you’re so beautiful, and she could absolutely lean down to pet his curly hair, and she thinks about how it felt running her fingers through it that one time; she... 2024-02-21 17:22:24 +0000 UTC View Post
In the wake of the Royal Affairs epilogue coming out I did a few bits and bobs of bugfixing, but overall it's been very smooth sailing!
Honor Bound has its lovely Steam page and beautiful cover art by Adrien Valdes which I frankly cannot and will not stop talking about.
I'm listening to 2024-02-16 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a bug report where a couple of choices produced the message "5-return line 732: It is illegal to fall out of a *choice statement; you must *goto or *finish before the end of the indented block" and I haven't managed to reproduce it yet.
If others have played Chapter 5, it's when Raffi asks about going on the trip to Cattlehead, and the player tried to choose "We can cancel the trip. I need to help Captain Korzha anyway." or "I'm relieved. "We can cancel the trip. I need to...
2024-02-12 21:24:04 +0000 UTC View PostHonor Bound now has a Steam page - please wishlist if you have a moment as it really helps! It's all feeling a bit more real now as I get into the last third of writing the draft...
And of course, please feast your eyes on the beautiful full cover art by Adrien Valdes:
I'm so pleased to share Honor Bound Chapter 5 today - you can play it here! As before, you can skip to the start of Chapter 5 if you'd like.
If you have the time and energy, I always love to 2024-02-06 18:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The biggest thing this fortnight has been that the Royal Affairs epilogue coming out! I'm so thrilled that people have been enjoying it. It was a lot of fun returning to the characters and figuring out how they might have changed a bit in the year between the previous ending and the epilogue, and I'm just pleased to bits.
I've been...
2024-02-02 18:29:43 +0000 UTC View PostI'm so pleased that the Royal Affairs expansion is out in the world! Do have a look if you haven't yet and would like to return to your royal's life again!
This is what's lined up for February here:
February 1st: poll to vo...
2024-02-01 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHere is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story from the perspective of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on February 21st!
2024-02-01 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Here's the link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form. Ask as many questions as you like, in the comments here or on the form, and I'll add the answers on this post. I look forward to hearing from you!
2024-02-01 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis fortnight's been a big one, full of a variety of real-life dramas (leaking pipes! rats! curtain rails falling down! ...among other things) but I'm pleased to have been able to make progress despite the disruptions.
I've been working on Chapter 8 of Honor Bound this fortnight, and in the last newsflash I'd just started coding; I'm now about 40% through writing it, and it's going well.
In this bonus short story, Savarel Lopes is having a hard time enjoying leave.
The most ridiculous part is that the nightmares should be about drowning. A line drawn from one experience to the mind, or the gods sifting through your life and bringing something to the surface. That would make sense.
Password: amatothecat
Less of a fortnightly update and more of an update from the last two days, one of which was spent working on Honor Bound and the other was spent working on a mystery thing that I can't talk about at this point, so there's not a tremendous amount to say about what I've been writing. But! I hope you're having a good first week of January.
I forgot my traditional song link last time, so here's one for 2024-01-05 18:22:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the readable Chapter 5 excerpt! It's a little less than half of what you can play through. The starred options are the choices that the randomiser "chose" for this playthrough. I hope you enjoy having a sneak peek at what will be happening in February's playable update!
2024-01-02 19:14:19 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to 2024! I hope the new year treats you well. My goals for this year include releasing Honor Bound and the Royal Affairs update, starting a new project (or maybe two), donating blood, and getting outside as much as I can.
For January, this is what I've got planned for Patreon...
January 1st: Poll to vote on the bonus story for the month (Raffi, Savarel, Fabien/Faraci,...
2024-01-01 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Here's the link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form. Ask as many questions as you like, in the comments here or on the form, and I'll add the answers on this post. I look forward to hearing from you!
2024-01-01 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHere is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story from the perspective of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on January 16th!
2024-01-01 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for all your support this year. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it and how much it literally supports me to enable me to carry on working full-time on making the games I love.
This year was my first year of mostly working with Choice of Games. There was some other contract work, but CoG was the main thing going on. I was nervous going in, and it's been more successful than I could have possibly hoped even in an awful year for the field of games at large. And I've writte...
2023-12-31 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This fortnight I've been working on Honor Bound Chapter 7, and have finished off the Royal Affairs expanded epilogue! The epilogue is going off to the copyeditor as we speak. I expect it to be released early next year so keep your eyes out for it - I'm really looking forward to people getting to revisit the world and characters of Royal Affairs once again.
I finished the draft of Chapter 7 and did some retroactive tweaks to earlier chapters once I'd done that. I posted about this elsewh...
2023-12-22 13:52:17 +0000 UTC View PostIn this bonus short story, Tomi Danelak encounters Pascha for the first time.
Aristocrats are bad news.
Password: amatothecat
The Bonus Supplement master post with the rest of the bonus stories is here.
2023-12-20 12:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostHope you're having a good day, everyone! Right now I would love to be in the southern hemisphere because the UK is dreadfully cold and grey.
It's been a bit of a hard one this fortnight thanks to getting sick and a number of other tricky things, but I've been mostly working on Honor Bound Chapter 7 and made great progress yesterday in particular. As well as working on Chapter 7, I did some polish and updates for earlier chapters, of which the biggest one was 2023-12-08 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
A slightly glib title, but that's pretty much what it is.
There was some feedback on earlier chapters, and then some for Chapter 4 too yesterday, which asked for the chance to show more ways in which a PC has been psychologically impacted by what happened to them before the start of the game. It's something I've wanted to lean further into in a simil...
2023-12-06 19:03:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm delighted to share Chapter 4 today - play it here!
Once you've played, I would hugely appreciate hearing what you think if you'd like to shar...
2023-12-05 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGood afternoon, all! First, if you're looking for more games to play, I made a digest of all the ChoiceScript updates and releases from November that I could find. Check it out! (edit: uh, updated the link to November rather than October, sorry!)
Now, for what's happening in December...
December 1st: 2023-12-01 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Here's the link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form. Ask as many questions as you like, in the comments here or on the form, and I'll add the answers on this post. I look forward to hearing from you!
2023-12-01 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Bonus Supplement folks!
Here is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story from the perspective of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on December 20th!
(I hope to add another one for you to choose from for January, but November has been a bit of a tough one for fitting in writing that isn't Honor Bound or the Royal Affairs epilogue. Thank you for your patience!)
2023-12-01 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post