It feels like June went by in a blink, but it's that time again! :D
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2021-06-25 17:36:48 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy summer!
This week has been all about coding! I'm about 3/4 of the way done with the layout updates, and once I'm finished with them I'll get the actual story content coded and ready to go too! I've decided to stop right before 2 Character 2 Customization because, while I have it written, I can already tell it's going to be a pain in the ass to code and I know there's no way I'll be able to have it done this week in order to get the update out to my betas.
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2021-06-22 18:00:31 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
This has been a very busy week! I've gotten a fair amount of writing done, both on Speaker and Partially Stars. I've also started a layout update for Speaker! Using a beautiful template made by nyehilism combined with things I've learned over the last few months using Twine, I'm going to be making some updates to the way Speaker looks and I am seriously pleased with the difference.<...
2021-06-15 18:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostHello and happy Tuesday!
This was a great week for writing! The weather here seems to have figured out how to be not-raining for a little while, and while it's now ridiculously hot, it's at least steadily so. Which means my head is clear and the words are flying!
I also started a new project, of sorts. As some of you know, I always like to have a secondary project to work on as a way to prevent burnout and fight writer's block, and for a while that project had been Idle Hands<...
2021-06-08 18:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post
And now we have the first playlist in the second series! 💙 This one is for Idle Hands, and songs that make me think of The Witness and the story in general. It's also (like the official Speaker playlist) the only one that doesn't have a cover image 😅
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Track List:
Fallen - Sarah McLachlan
Haunted - Poe
Alone Together - Fall Out Boy
Again - Flyleaf
Control - Halsey
Flight - Lifehouse
Here's to Us -...
2021-06-03 17:54:23 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy June!
happy Wednesday? Sorry about the delay, between the game update and Memorial Day, I lost track of time and kind of forgot that yesterday was Tuesday 😅
Thank you all for the kind messages about the update! I'm glad everyone's enjoying it! I look forward to sharing with you what comes next, which I've been hard at work on. There's one scene in particular (the next RO scene) that I really want to get to this month and I'm going to try my damndest to do so. 2021-06-02 18:32:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Anonymous asked: For the patreon q&a, I was wondering if you could give us one fluffy and one spicy fact about the idle hands ros?
(I’ll put the fluffy ones here and the spicy ones in NSFW)
Mal: Can and will recite poetry to you at every available chance they get. Sometimes just a line, sometimes a whole poem. They are especially fond of Pablo Neruda, and their favorite is Sonnet XVII.
hello and happy Tuesday!
This week, I finished edits and coding and got the next update out to my patrons and betas! I struggled to find a good place to stop, and ended up going back to an earlier part as a cut-off instead, which means a shorter update but a less abrupt one. And everything else I've written will just end up in next month's update instead 😉
So my plan for next week is to apply any edits and bug fixes needed to get the update ready for public release! The release...
2021-05-25 18:13:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe next part of Chapter 3 is here!
Busy, busy, busy month, but I'm happy I managed to eke out some time to write! We finally get to meet some characters I know a lot of people have been looking forward to (and reintroduce some others 😉)
Total word count so far: 135,092 before code
Next month I...
2021-05-24 21:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again! :D
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All kinds of questions are welcome, including NSFW and Spoilers! I wi...
2021-05-22 19:49:29 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
I've had such a busy week I almost forgot today was Tuesday 😅 mostly good-busy, though some stressful-busy, and thankfully a lot writing-busy! Seems like I haven't stopped moving in days except to sleep, there's always something that needs doing.
My goal for this week is to write until I find a good stopping point for this month's update, and then start coding so I can get it out to my patrons and betas as soon as possible! I'm hoping to get it done no ...
2021-05-18 18:14:42 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
I had my second covid vaccine last week and it hit me much harder than the first one did, but thankfully for a much shorter amount of time, so I still managed to get some writing done! We've finally made it back to Nivio and the introduction/reintroduction of the Cowles family, which I've been very excited about. It's a nice bit of levity after all the stress of the first part of the chapter.
The plan for next week is to keep writing! I'm glad tha...
2021-05-11 18:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Track List:
Demons - Icon For Hire
Dark Angel - Essence
When The Darkness Comes - Colbie Caillat
Wild Roses - Of Monsters and Men
Adore You - Harry Styles
The Last Of The Real Ones - Fall Out Boy
Somebody To You - The Vamps
Sunlight - Hozier
Everything Has Changed - Taylor Swift featuring Ed Sheeran
Can't Fight The Moonlight...
2021-05-06 11:21:59 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
Not much to report this week, I'm afraid. A persistent migraine has made it difficult to get much writing done, so I've mostly been doing code/bug fixing and outlining when I feel well enough to. The good news is, it's really helped me figure out how the next few scenes go, so I'm good and ready to go once my head clears!
And that's the plan for this week. There's a break in the weather coming up and hopefully with it, a break in this headache. I'm going t...
2021-05-04 17:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostAnonymous asked: For the patreon q&a, how would li respond if speaker visited them after the serial killer case, obviously distraught?
Understandingly. They wouldn’t hesitate to let Speaker in and listen and comfort them. They might be a little surprised to see them so suddenly, but they’d be happy about it! And they’d hope it was a sign of things to come, that Speaker would be part of their life again.
hello and happy Tuesday!
last week was a great week! I got the next update out to my betas and patrons on Friday, and the reception's been really good! I've also managed to get a bit of writing done on the scenes that come after, and they have ended up going in a direction I didn't expect them to. But in a good way, I hope! Some of my favorite parts when I'm writing are the ones where I don't see it coming.
I also want to thank everyone for all the wonderful birthday messages yest...
2021-04-27 18:18:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again! :D
You can leave a question in the comments below, send an ask on the speakergame tumblr, or leave a question in the #patreon channel on discord! If you send a question on tumblr or discord, please tag it q&a so I know it's for this! otherwise I'll assume it's just a regular ask.
All kinds of questions are welcome, including NSFW and Spoilers! I wi...
2021-04-24 18:43:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe first part of Chapter 3 is here!
This was a really hectic month for me, and I didn't get as much done as I wanted to, but the beginning of this chapter really starts to set the stage for everything to come so I wanted to make sure I got it right. Sometimes quality is more important than quantity 😁
Total word count so far: 130,163 before code
hello and happy Tuesday!
this was a good week! I managed to get past a road block I was struggling with and move past it, which is always exciting for me 😁 right now, I'm working on getting to a place that feels like an organic stopping point for the update. I hate leaving off in the middle of a scene, so finding a place to pause that doesn't feel jarring is always preferred.
Once I find that, the plan for this week is edits and coding and getting the beta update out! I'm hopin...
2021-04-20 18:04:06 +0000 UTC View Postso I thought I would do something a little different for this month's lore post. since I spent most of last week unable to write due to a serious case of vaccine arm (and unfortunately in my dominant arm, so I couldn't even write the traditional way), I spent most of the week coding instead.
and I came to the realization that I had fully coded the Idle Hands prologue.
so! I made some assets and some color schemes and I decided I would give y'all a little sneak peek at it....
2021-04-16 17:29:45 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
As I mentioned last week, I got my first covid vaccine on Wednesday, and while I didn't have any major side effects, I did have enough soreness in my arm to render it basically useless for a few days. So I only got to write for about half the week, and even then it went slower than I would have preferred (though I still did get some writing done).
I spent my time instead working on coding and other assets! I've coded what I've written so far of ch...
2021-04-13 17:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostThis is not a content update this time around, but I've got the beta page set up on itch.io and ready to go!
It should be identical to the current live version at this time, but for those of you who want to have a save set up and ready to go for the next update later this month, I wanted to go ahead and share it! (You might also be able to import a save from the live version into the beta version, though I haven't tested that yet)
hello and happy Tuesday!
I've had a great week! Most of the work I've done has been on other, Speaker-related projects instead of on Speaker itself, but I've still managed to get some writing done on chapter 3 as well! Unsurprising, I'm sure, but the beginning of chapter 3 is very dramatic, and I'm enjoying getting to stretch my angst wings :3
I've also been completely blown away by the reception that Speaker has gotten on itch.io! I've gotten so many wo...
2021-04-06 18:36:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Track List:
Turn the Page - Metallica
Dressed in Black - Sia
Nobody - Hozier
Hurricane - Fleurie
Begin Again - Taylor Swift
Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding
Old Wounds - PVRIS
Lost Without You - Beverley Craven
Name - The Goo Goo Dolls
Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine
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In addition to the monthly ...
2021-04-01 11:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostAnonymous asked: For the patreon q&a: how would the story unfold romance wise if our mc was already dating the ros? Like Li and Speaker reconnected or they met Kana in passing one day and slowly broke down their barriers? How would the events so far unfold differently?
For most of them, I think it would have only changed minor things. If you were already dating Sebastian, for example, he’d have been there when Seer had the vision a...
2021-03-31 13:01:05 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
I don't have much to report this week. I outlined chapter 3 and worked some on my commissions and upcoming fun stuff, but it was a bad headache week so I didn't get as much writing done as I would have preferred 😞 I'm hoping that'll clear up soon so I can get back to work, but I'm not going to overextend myself either
I did get the last part of chapter 2 finished and out to my betas last week, though, so that (and the official Twine release) wi...
2021-03-30 18:15:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe stayed at my 25 patron goal, so for as long as we do I'll be doing a Q&A at the end of every month :)
You can leave a question in the comments below, send an ask on the speakergame tumblr, or leave a question in the #patreon channel on discord! If you send a question on tumblr or discord, please tag it q&a so I know it's for this! otherwise I'll assume it's just a regular ask.
Al...
2021-03-25 22:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2 is finally finished!
The last part of this chapter is a real doozy. Some fun character interactions, the option (finally!) to flirt again, and the triumphant and thrilling arrival of the story's plot. All in all, it's 20k words of some of my favorite things I've ever written.
Total word count so far: 125,728 before code
pass...
2021-03-24 05:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello and happy spring! 🌸
Big news: I finished Chapter 2 in the early hours last night!
I still need to edit it and get it coded, but I'm hoping to get it out to my betas and patrons tomorrow or Thursday. I would love to have the public release date be April 1st (it's my wedding anniversary 🥰) but we'll see how that works out.
There are some scenes here at the end of the chapter that I'm really looking forward to sharing! I have completely fallen in lo...
2021-03-23 17:11:49 +0000 UTC View Postthis month's lore post is a glimpse at Rory's POV leading up to a certain recent scene in Chapter 2! warning for blood and violence (approximately the same amount as in the book)
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Cammore, Arizona is a quaint little town. Rory might even call it charming. It’s really too bad he won’t be staying long, but he makes a mental note to pass back through on his way back east, when he isn’t chasing a deadline in need of big-city internet connections.
But th...
2021-03-18 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post