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Luxrior V0.0.12 Public Release

It's the best time of the month! The time when I release the monthly update, and with it, make the last one go public! That said, this one's also a little bit sad, because it's the last one that'll be happening for at least two months. That's because this month's update has some parts that are on par with the initial tech demo-y release I made to just my Discord, and as such isn't really fit for public viewing. Once it's a bit more polished, which it should be next month, I'll resume the publ...

Luxrior V0.0.07 Public Release

It's been two months now, but it's finally time for the public update! I'll be honest, I've done so much since this update came out that I don't actually remember what it plays like, so I'm going to have trust past me as to what went into it. So here's the rundown from the Patron post:

- Clothing Mechanics! When they break you take will damage, and then there's a small will damage bleed effect for each turn that you're exposed. You can also spend magic to repair your clothe...

Luxrior V0.0.01b

EDIT: I promise this is the last time I'm releasing this version but a last minute "fix" I did last night broke escaping from grapples entirely and it NEEDED to be fixed.

I suspect this will become a bit of a habit. The first release had some bugs due to testing oversight. So I took a day to sort them out, and now here we are with the bug fix release that should make things a bit more stable.

Install link:  2020-04-22 07:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Luxrior V0.0.01 Release

It's been a while since I posted an update saying there'd be a delay, and I apologize for the radio silence on that front. There was a cascade of problems, with my wife getting sick after my dog, and a small bottleneck in the code developing because I needed her to tweak the interface elements a bit before I could resume work. But she's all better now, the interface got improved and then many other things needed tweaking to get us ready to release.

But here it is, a much better demo of ...

Small delay

As the title suggests there's a small delay on the release of the update. It's close to done, and everything was coming together on schedule for the 21st. Then my dog got sick. She's been taken to the vet and we have a plan to hopefully treat what's wrong, but there's a chance it's way more serious than we can afford to treat. So the next few days are going to be spent looking after her and making sure she's happy in case we do need to put her down, as well as taking care of ourselves. I'm no...

A slight change of plans

Just a quick post to update people about what's going on regarding the Patreon. I swapped over to monthly billing about a week ago in preparation for the next update which WAS aiming for the 14th but has since been re-adjusted to aim for the 21st. Then the Coronavirus situation got a lot worse. Since it's unlikely that any promotion done during such a stressful time will yield much as people are, very reasonably, not going to spend money on porn games right now, I've un-done that billing upda...

An Update

I posted a note about this on ye olde blog, but I just wanted to post here to make sure everyone knows. I'm making a new game! It's approaching the point of having an 0.1 demo release, so starting next month I will be reverting back to billing monthly.

If you don't want to be billed for next month, cancel your patron thingo now. Just giving you a few days of warning before I suddenly do the thing. I'll post again in the next week or two with details of what the new patron tiers will loo...

Big Important News Post

"Hey Pudding Earl, where's that next update?" I hear you all probably asking. WELL.

I'm still working on it slowly but surely. Haven't been particularly motivated, so it's dragging, but it'll get done when it's done. The motivation comes in stops and starts and right now it's a stop but I know myself well enough to know the moment I try and look at doing something else there'll be a big surge of motivation to write some more.

But that's not the news. No, the news is I've decided to delet...

Shield High 0.69 Release

At least, hopefully it is. It's been a while since I've done this so there's a possibility I've done something wrong. If it doesn't work please let me know and I'll do my best to fix it.

But anyway! What's in the patch?

First of all, probably some stuff I've forgotten about. I was chipping away at this months ago before putting it aside, so there's bound to be some stuff I just assume was in last patch that isn't. But here's what I do remember:

-A new system for characters! You can...

Shield High 0.69 coming soon!

Alright! Here's the deal! I finished writing the newest story, so I'm going to go ahead and push out an update. I posted about it on the blog, and I'm a lazy bastard, so if you want all the info on what's going into it, go look there. Hell, I'll even throw you the link.

http://puddinggames.blogspot.com/2018/09/shield-high-069-coming-in-next-week.html

Anyway, as it say...

A Discord of sorts

So, as I'm picking up steam on working on Shield High again, I figured I'd put together a discord to let people come and hang out, get live updates on how the work is going and listen to me moan about how whatever new feature I decided was easy was actually a massive mistake.

There's special ranks for Patrons, with the early access crowd getting a channel to chat about the newest update before it goes live, and all of my Voters getting their own channel to get more of my attention if they want...

More testing!

Just want to run another test. This one is for difficulty, as it were. Specifically, I want to see if with the AI changes the fights are too difficult by the base difficulty now. So, feedback on that would be appreciated.

Also be aware, scenes are currently broken, as characters are being transferred to a new format and that transfer is presently incomplete. You can at least fight Sasha once and Karen twice, but after that, I'm not sure what's working and what's not. Expect crashes if you cont...

An AI Update

Not a huge ton to say right now, but I just thought I'd keep you all posted on what's going on. The combat balance changes have created some...interesting problems within the AI. It fights like a total moron right now. I'm trying to tweak it so that it can actually make some smarter decisions, but it's a slow process. The core problem is that it's designed to optimize for successful attacks. This means that Rest is now the most successful attack, so when it doesn't know what else to do, it Rests...

I need a little testing feedback

Alright so real quick gonna get this out the way, you aren't being charged for this or anything. I'm posting it here and not on the blog since it's mostly for those of you still giving money, who I assume care enough to give an opinion. Keeping it public though in case someone stumbles upon it anyway.

Second point, not sure if this is indicative of me being back, but I can now legally charge a Patreon again, and so with some encouragement from my wife, I'm trying to get back into the groove of...

An Unfortunate Situation

Okay, so. I hate doing this but...I'm gonna have to stop working on Shield High. It's always put a bit of stress on my relationship, but the past few days it's really come to a head, and it seems my options are stop working or don't get married. And as much as I do enjoy this project, getting married is a bit more important to me.

As such, I'll be charging one last month, since I made release this month, and then I'll be switching the Patreon to charge per update. There probably won't be any u...

Just some news

So! Last night, my fiance got the letter about my immigration saying our petition has been accepted. Which means the ball is now rolling for my moving to America. Which puts a rough ETA of about 9 weeks in place. Three weeks for everything to get to the embassy, a month at the embassy, and then the two or so weeks between being told I can move and actually moving. This means there's about 3 more updates that I'm not happy with to come, before I will be settled in better accommodations and able t...

Update on the game

Just making a quick post to let everyone know that the current post of the update has been updated again, this time with an actually functional version. I tested almost a whole week before giving up. So yeah, should work.

A rare problem

This is a rather short post, but I was amused when I stumbled upon this, but I don't want to bump my musing off the front page of my blog, so I'll just drop it here.

I wrote all the Stacy stuff without any actual testing before it was done. I was pretty sure the story was a bit too short. I was very, very wrong. As it turns out literally every post runs long. Some run so long they should be two whole posts. So the post-fight fucking might actually be some of the longest stuff I've ever done. I...

Shield High's longevity

Alright, so. Historically I don't have the best track record of sticking with things. Shield High is one of my more successful attempts at sticking with things and you all know how well that went. Not very, is the answer, in case there was any doubt. And so, while I'm still fairly eager and confident in my ability to work on Shield High for a while to come, I wanted to talk to you, my patrons, about the longevity of Shield High, and what, if anything, would be an acceptable measure for me to tak...

The demo

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jbzxzld8jgj9xfa/Shield+High+JS+0.68.7z

While there's not a lot of content here, this is the first release for the new engine that I've prepared for my revitalization of Shield High. Obviously there will be more content coming in the following update next month.