this 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 she won’t be staying long, but she makes a mental note to pass back through on her way back east, when she isn’t chasing a deadline in need of big-city internet connections.
But...
2021-03-18 12:00:03 +0000 UTC
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hello and happy Tuesday!
this has been a very good week for writing! I'm approximately halfway through the remainder of Chapter 2! I've also made some progress on my remaining commissions and a couple extra fun things I have coming up soon 😉
all in all, I've been averaging about 1200 words a day, which is not bad at all! I'm optimistic that I'll be able to meet my goal and have the chapter finished soon!
which remains my goal for this week. I'd love to get the rough...
2021-03-16 17:42:26 +0000 UTC
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hello and happy Tuesday!
Very exciting week last week! I actually got the last bits of my itch.io page ironed out and the Twine version of Speaker went out to my patrons and betas yesterday! I've gotten some amazing feedback so far, and I'm looking forward to it going live with the completion of Chapter 2 😁 which I'm still hopeful will be this month, as I've been making good progress on it as well.
So that's the plan for this week, as it is most weeks: writing, writing, writing...
2021-03-09 18:36:40 +0000 UTC
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well, I think I've done as much testing as I can on my own, so the Twine version of Speaker is officially here!
A little information before you head over there: this is not a content update. This version ends at the same place that the current dashingdon demo does. This is just the beta version of the Twine port, to make sure it works before it goes live 😁
2021-03-08 23:47:40 +0000 UTC
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Track List:
One More Light - Linkin Park
Clarity - Zedd featuring Foxes
I Wanna Be Yours - Arctic Monkeys
Soothsayer - Of Monsters and Men
Waves - Dean Lewis
When We Were Young - Adele
Hello My Old Heart - The Oh Hellos
Power Over Me - Dermot Kennedy
It Will Come Back - Hozier
Unchained Melody - Boyce Avenue
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2021-03-04 12:21:00 +0000 UTC
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Liam/Lily Fake Date AU!
I already have a lot of fun ideas for this and I can't wait to start working on it 😁
I'm not sure when exactly I'll have this one done and ready to be read. It's going to be an interactive special, most likely in Twine, which means it's going to take a little extra work to get it ready, but it will absolutely be worth it. I'm hoping to have it done this month, time permitting, but if not it should be out in early April...
2021-03-02 19:19:13 +0000 UTC
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Hello and happy Tuesday! How is it already March again?
For those who haven't seen it, the demo was updated on Sunday! It is simultaneously a very short update from a gameplay perspective and a very long update from a wordcount update, due to all the potential variation in that scene :) I'm really proud of how it turned out and how much everyone seems to be enjoying it!
So obviously, most of last week was spent getting that ready to go. This week is going to be spent catching up o...
2021-03-02 19:06:18 +0000 UTC
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General
Patreon Q&A: How would the ROs react to a small MC who can often be found climbing furniture (sometimes rather dangerously) to reach something?? If the ROs, during the deep crushing stage, see them start to fall, (I assume they would all try to catch the Speaker but please correct me if I'm wrong) what would their reaction be to assumed close contact?? (Or, if they don't catch the Speaker, to the Speaker getting hurt, but also in a way that is v ob...
2021-02-27 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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I've been playing with color schemes for Speaker (I've finished importing the writing itself into Twine!) and I have a few favorites, but I really can't pick which one I like best. So I thought I would put the choice to all of you!
Also, a quick THANK YOU to Kayleen for your helpful suggestions! 💙
Option 1: Seer (Indigo/Gold)
Option 2: Az...
2021-02-26 05:38:12 +0000 UTC
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hello and happy Tuesday!
busy, busy week this week! I finished writing and coding the next update and it went out to patrons and betas on Sunday. then I started playing around with Twine and seeing how feasible it will be to move it over. Turns out, very much so!
so I'll be working on that (when I'm not writing) until I get caught up with where I am in the dashingdon demo, as well as getting a page set up for it on itch and all of that. I'm hoping to officially "premiere" it...
2021-02-23 19:09:50 +0000 UTC
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Liam/Lily really stole the show with over 40% of the vote!
I've been having a lot of fun figuring out some good AUs that would play well with what makes Li unique while also not being something that would require an entire novel on its own (I briefly entertained adding a "vampire au" option, for example, but I know I'd end up rewriting the entirety of Dracula that way). One of the ones I settled on I couldn't decide if I liked a modern or historical setting better, so I...
2021-02-22 19:24:03 +0000 UTC
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This was a big one, y'all! I'm actually kind of surprised I got as much done as I did, especially with the power problems last week, but I managed to get over 15,000 words of fight scenes and surprise bonding done!
My goal is to get the chapter finished for the next update! I'm hopeful that I can finish these last few scenes and get us into the plot proper.
Total word count so far: 102,949 before code
2021-02-21 06:01:46 +0000 UTC
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A love story as old as time. A girl and her twin meet a dog-shadow-thing.
Set about 15 years (give or take a year or two) before the start of Speaker, when the Speaker and the Seer are 10 years old. 2nd person, no pronouns used for the Speaker and Seer is referred to only as "your sister"
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“Are you sure this is the place?” you ask nervously.
“You know I can’t tell you that,” your sister replies, but she keeps moving forward in a way that giv...
2021-02-19 14:00:00 +0000 UTC
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We 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 #ask-the-author 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.
2021-02-18 18:45:34 +0000 UTC
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happy Tuesday!
I'm gonna have to be pretty quick this week. We're under rolling blackouts here because, essentially, it's so cold that everyone's heaters are using more electricity than the powerplants can create, so we're getting controlled power outages to prevent widespread uncontrolled power loss. It is cold on a level I previously could never have imagined.
I've been writing as much as I can. I only have one more branch left to finish in that one scene, and I've been laying o...
2021-02-16 18:16:39 +0000 UTC
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I'd had the idea, briefly, of doing some Valentine's Day specials for the ROs, but I ultimately decided not to. It's too early in the story to give quite that big of a look into what the romances might look like 😉
instead, I'm planning to make a series of interactive specials featuring each of the ROs! All of them will be AU, non-canon, and probably just a little bit silly 😁 want to meet Kana at a masquerade ball? how about a noir detective Sebastian? Li and Speaker as co...
2021-02-15 19:26:01 +0000 UTC
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Woo, it's Tuesday again already! It really snuck up on me this week.
This has been a fantastic week for writing! I've finished approximately half of the branches in the next scene! I've also skipped ahead a little and got a thousand words done on the scene that comes after, to make sure all the branches will be able to end up there organically. All in all, it adds up to about 7000 words this week!
We've also surpassed the 90k total word mark! My goals for this week are to hit the ...
2021-02-09 18:38:24 +0000 UTC
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Track List:
Until the Levee - Joy Williams
Even If It Hurts - Sam Tinnesz
Helium - Sia
Need The Sun To Break - James Bay
arms - Christina Perri
Shatter Me - Lindsey Stirling featuring Lzzy Hale
Be - Hozier
Sparks Fly - Taylor Swift
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Power Over Me - Dermot Kennedy
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In addition to the m...
2021-02-04 12:20:59 +0000 UTC
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Happy February!
I once again spent most of this week under the weather. This is the first time I've gotten sick since I went into lockdown (last March 😅) so I think my body has forgotten how to cope with being sick. It took much longer than I'd like to start feeling like a functional person again. Thank y'all for all the get well messages! They were really sweet 💙
But! I'm back now. Feeling much better, and finally writing again! I actually got a lot done yesterday, and I'm ...
2021-02-02 18:07:47 +0000 UTC
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General
Anonymous asked: Q&A Patreon: since youre a critrole fan, what would the ROs' (whichever ROs from any of the RO sets you want/would find most interesting) internal reaction to being in a yasha @caleb "Do you love her/him/them?"/"Who?"/"I don't need to tell you who" scene (and who would be their "yasha" confronting them?). who is internally screaming, who is going to act on their feelings in the morning now, who is going to avoid MC now, who is firmly in denial, etc...
2021-01-30 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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hello and happy Tuesday!
I didn't get as much done this week as I would have liked. I was a bit under the weather, so I took a break from answering asks (as I'm sure y'all noticed) and just concentrated on writing when I could.
The patreon beta updated a couple days ago, so we're on schedule for the public update early next week :D just gotta get some bugs ironed out and remove my very repetitive use of the word "town" and we're good to go!
This week my first priority is fee...
2021-01-26 18:41:16 +0000 UTC
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(this was supposed to go up tomorrow, but I accidentally updated it early and decided to go ahead and upload the whole thing 😊)
Kana's finally here! I'm so happy to get to introduce them at last. This update ends on a really unfortunate cliffhanger, but the scene right after is really involved so I didn't quite get it done yet.
Total word count so far: 87,292 before code
2021-01-24 21:20:43 +0000 UTC
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We reached my 25 patron goal, so for as long as we stay there 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 #ask-the-author 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 ...
2021-01-21 21:03:45 +0000 UTC
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hey! happy Tuesday again, my friends :)
this week has been more writing, writing, writing. we've reached some big, major scenes that involve a lot of branching and variation - 4 different branches that each have 8 variations, in fact! it's a lot more involved than I expected it to be, but it's worth it. this is a scene we've been building toward since the prologue and I want to give it the time it deserves and make sure it feels earned.
at this point, I'm pretty ...
2021-01-19 18:48:45 +0000 UTC
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I decided for my first lore post I'd give you some information about shapeshifters - information that may come in handy very soon...
The Curse
Lycanthropy - the act of changing shape between a human and animal form - was thought once to be a disease transmitted via blood or saliva, but scientific and magical studies have proven definitively that it is not a disease but ...
2021-01-18 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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hey, it's Tuesday! this week really flew by!
This has overall been a good week! It started out with a few issues (nothing serious, but things that kept me from being able to write), but the last couple days I've finally been able to double down and make some big progress! We've reached some scenes I've been really looking forward to since I first started writing (including, but not limited to, the introduction of Kana and reintroduction of Rory!) and I can't wait to share them!...
2021-01-12 18:36:18 +0000 UTC
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Track List:
Courage - P!nk
Yours If You Want It - Rascal Flatts
Patricia - Florence + The Machine
Heartbeat - SAILR
Real Life Fairytale - Plumb
Movement - Hozier
Fearless - Taylor Swift
We'll Be Okay - Kina Grannis and Imaginary Future
Someone to You - BANNERS
Me - Paula Cole
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In addition to the monthly lore p...
2021-01-07 12:20:01 +0000 UTC
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hello and happy Tuesday!
this has been a good week for writing! I've gotten to a scene that I've been looking forward to writing for literally months. It's actually one of the first scenes that popped into my head when I began this book, so it's been a long time coming. I'm excited to finally put it on paper!
the public demo update will be going live tomorrow, January 6th! probably around midnight CST. I've also got a little something special for my patrons later ...
2021-01-05 18:42:55 +0000 UTC
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First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR! We made it!
We finally get to continue the story! Sleep in a cheap motel, have some questionable dreams, and have a conversation with your newest travel companion (this scene will be different based on what path you took in chapter 1)!
Total word count so far: 79,431 before code
You can play the beta here!
All 6 thousand wor...
2021-01-01 06:12:01 +0000 UTC
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What kind of things would you be interested in learning more about in future lore posts? I plan to include some things from all these categories, but I'm curious what kinds of things folks want to see! (feel free to choose as many as you'd like)
2020-12-29 21:20:13 +0000 UTC
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