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Covid, Arousal Progress, Art Updates

That was definitely not the flu. It was so much worse, to the point where I would feel like passing out after a minute in the shower. Luckily, it wasn't quite severe enough to require hospitalization. It took a while to get over, but I'm officially feeling over 90% back to normal now and have been back at it this week!

I've just finished tweaking arousal across the whole game. That was quite the task, but luckily it did not take nearly as long as I fe...

Flu

Posting this from my bed. Sorry about the lack of updates recently. I've officially been sick for a whole week today, and still waiting for it to end. I think it's the flu, but it could be Covid, not too sure. Other family members from Christmas have tested positive for one or the other. All I know is I've never been this sick before and have no idea how long this is supposed to last.

Every time I think I'll be better by the morning, my body humbles me quick. I'm so fed up with this an...

Artifact – 0.79.26 Release and Changelog

*Hotfix for bug that caused some of the medium-girth dick sizes for players and husks to disappear

*Fixed potential bug regarding the display of units of measurement

*Updated Patron credits

Big Artifact News, Art Peek

One last art peek before Christmas!

There are some big changes heading to Artifact. I've been getting some smaller fixes out of the way recently-- today I plan to upload another. Then begins the major tasks at hand.

Firstly, Arousal. Arousal being capped to 10 worked a lot better in the beginning, but now with the plethora of perks, upgrades, and various conditions that can affect Arousal, 10 is just not cutting it. I have been reworking the entire system on paper...

New Artifact Character Art Poll

Dr. Fairfax is almost finished, and work on the business professor Dr. Jackson is about to begin. Who would you like to see next? Poll ends January 12.

Artifact – 0.79.24 Release and Changelog

*Female players will now need to keep their 'libido' above 0, instead of 'penis size'. Libido will translate back and forth to dick size when changing genders

*Refined some game over text

*Standardized a few outlier changes

*Applied a fix for bug that could cause Maya to lose Broodmother interactiveness

*Performance improvements

-Removed “spectral penises” and all references to them

Mid-December Art Update 2

Some animated previews for you! The symbiote suits (open face) and bulge sizes.

Mid-December Art Update

Ella is almost finished!

For SotS, we are still trying to get the symbiote look just right, but a lot of the non-symbiote variations are done and on the way. The horns, claws, and tails seen hereare among the results of succubization or incubization powers.

Artifact – 0.79.23 Release and Changelog

Download:

Existing Patrons: Your link is in the welcome message on Patreon & in the appropriate tier channel on Discord.

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Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082270/Artifact/

+Added half of of Dr. Ella Fairfax's...

Swarm of the Symbiotes Art Revamp

2nd post in one day! I'm making this art update public to give every Patron (past, present, or future) a taste of how the new Swarm of the Symbiotes art will be improving on the old.

We've put a lot more thought into it this time and completely overhauled the style. I think the artist has done an outstanding job with these and look forward to the rest. It's a whole world of difference and I'm electrified for more to come!

Artifact – 0.79.22 Release and Changelog

Hello again everyone! It took some time but I believe I've finally managed to figure out what was causing the save issues. This is where my focus has been tied up, so this particular update is mainly just that hotfix and some other small fixes. Broodmother formatting is still in progress.

*Saves are now limited to 5 manual slots, 1 quicksave slot. This should fix the issue that some users reported where saves suddenly stop working (due to the number of saves exceeding the maximum stora...

Art Update

Just recovered from a sickness over the weekend. Here's some more art for Artifact!

Artifact – 0.79.21 Release and Changelog

Happy Thanksgiving for all who celebrate!

​Download:
Patrons: Your link will be in the welcome message on Patreon, and in the #artifact-dl-link channel in Discord.
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Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082270/Artifact/

+Added D...

Art Update

Here we have Dr. Ella Fairfax, the math professor.

The remaining F/F scenes will be coming in over the next few weeks with M/M to follow soon after, and I will also be adding / revamping more story once again.

As for Swarm, the next art update probably won't be for about another week or so. Even with multiple setbacks, the art has been coming along so much slower than I would like, and there was still no end for the first character in sight.  So, I have decided to switch the ...

Artifact – 0.79.20 Release and Changelog

+Added new option to the Preferences menu: Quicksave Behavior

• Unlimited – A new slot will be created for every quicksave.
• Restricted – Quicksaves will only create new slots after each manual save.
• Single – Quicksaves will only save to one slot.

*Applied a fix that caused multiple manual saves to improperly function

*Broodmothers are no longer capable of frenzying, or of...

Artifact – 0.79.19 Release and Changelog

+Added Priya artwork:

• Paperdoll
• Frenzy
• 6 Sex scenes

+Expanded the Bidding mechanic:

• When commanding an NPC to do your bidding, you can now choose to have them help with suspicion reduction, retrieving an item, or making cash. Further explanations below.
• Suspicion reduction: Gives you a chance to recover various amounts of suspicion. Most of this time thi...
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New Engines, New Update Incoming

This is the rare text post because I've wanted to post this update for a few days now but have had no new pictures to share. 

I'm close to settling new engines for my two other games on the horizon, since I'm no longer making both in Unity. With SotS I'm leaning toward Ren'Py, because so far it seems to be perfectly primed to easily convey the look and feel that I have in mind, despite my aversion to it in the past. With the other untitled game, I'm leaning toward Unreal Engine 5.&...

Artifact Character Artwork Poll

Priya is almost finished, and  work on the math professor Dr. Fairfax is about to begin. Who would you like to see next? Poll ends when November ends.

Artifact Art Update

Priya drive art updated!

Checking In

Tomorrow I will be posting another Artifact art update, and later this week (or possibly next) hope to release either another small update or hopefully a big update with Priya.

This has been an insane month. My phone broke which, while just an annoying problem in and of itself, could not have happened at a worse time and has both caused and exacerbated a multitude of issues. 

For example, I wasn't able to take as many pictures of my beloved dog as I would have liked before he...

Rainbow Bridge

What I hope to be the final sad Sammy post. 

It's within our sights. I can't decide if we're a bit late, or a bit early, but too soon he will cross where I cannot follow. It's almost 24 hours away now and I'm a wreck. I'm trying my best to give him his best final moments, but no matter what it never feels like enough. Every moment spent away from him feels like a moment wasted.

But he's always been a very unique dog. I got him with my ex, about 12 years ago. Probably...

Artifact – 0.79.18 Release and Changelog

+Added dynamic ambience to campus buildings, and even more to the general campus

+Added some sound effects to the boiler room

*Clicking “Resume” after entering the Menu before loading/creating a game will now take you back to the title screen

*Fixed issue where some new sounds would not respond to sound controls

*Updated Patron credits

Thank you, everyone

It feels like talking about Sammy makes him feel more... I don't know, present? I've been able to keep him going but it's about time to make some hard decisions. He's doing great today, but he's been given a ticking clock of two weeks. To boot, who knows how much of that two weeks may be too low quality of life for him. This coming week, I will be making arrangements to have him... even just typing the words is too much right now, but you get my meaning. My eyes are rarely dry these days.

Art Previews

Previews for Priya's sex scenes, and breast sizes for SotS

Priya Uploaded to Drive

Priya's doll images are on the drive! 

I'm also working on further improving the support in Artifact for lower resolutions. I also think I may have finally found a new writer to help out. The little they've written so far (the latest sex scene additions) is pretty outstanding, so I'm excited to see how they do with more meaty material!

I think I may have finally settled on a new game engine for Swarm since Unity's major fuckup, and hope to begin work on environment art soon.<...

Artifact – 0.79.15 Release & Changelog

*Elements in the sidebar should no longer overlap other sidebar text at alternate resolutions

*Icons in the sidebar will now display tooltips with more information on what they are

*The map in the sidebar is now clickable, and has replaced the “Expand Map” link

*Other various sidebar formatting improvements/fixes

Artifact v0.79.14 Release & Changelog, Sammy Update

+Added Priya's bust artwork

*Vagina sex scenes are now available as options to futa players

*Made backgrounds transparent for all characters' bust images

*The use of quicksave now creates saves labeled as such

*Performance improvements

A quick addendum on my dog, Sammy. We got back from the vet today, and despite his general demeanor improving over the past couple of days, his blood work shows that he is still getting worse. We're changing up his treatment, but i...

Art Update

Here are previews for Priya's bust and paperdoll!

I've also updated the galleries on the website with some new images. Alongside Crimson, I've been working on some hypno LoRAs as well and some of those fruits can be seen here. They're turning out pretty decent so I'm trying to improve them to hopefully have some more Stable Diffusion files to share with you guys.

My dog is doing a little better. It's been an emotional roller coaster. A couple days he's better, a couple days he's w...

Artifact – 0.79.13 Release and Changelog

+Added female-pov sex scenes for the Vaginal option on all* NPCs (Melissa & Ying have a placeholder scene)

+Added female-pov sex scenes for the “Get Fucked” option for Mikah, Tom, Dr. Howard, Maya, and Dr. Jackson

+Added a quicksave option

+Added Aroused expression for Dr. Howard

*SHiMMER will now automatically suggest nearby NPCs as friends

*Improved formatting on title screen, preference menu, app screen, SHiMMER, and map screens

*Fixed some issue...

Artifact v0.79.11 - Changelog

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+Added all of Detective Lawson's remaining sex scene images and frenzy i...