Hey everyone!
How are you all doing? It's been a while since I last posted anything on patreon! I've been 100% focused day and night on developing chapter 5, the very last chapter before The Hayseed Knight is finally complete.
The end on sight, at last, since I first started working in 2017. That's six whole years of development for the VN. I can't tell you how excited I am to finally wrap up the story!
Right now I'm in the middle of editing all the audio for chapter 5...
2023-07-23 12:52:08 +0000 UTC
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Good day, friends and enemies! Welcome to THK Thursday!
Maxi's been rather busy working on the script for chapter 4 now that they seem to have fixed all the bugs that slipped past during the testing phase for 1.6! But worry not, we still haven't finished talking about all the changes that took place, so you've got a few more THK Thursdays to go.
Before we go into that, however: The Hayseed Knight is proudly part of the curated selection of Season of...
2022-07-13 09:41:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello, good day, and welcome to a new THK Thursday!
This week, let's talk about changes that will come in the future. Particularly, changes to the story itself, as Chapter 4's development advances at a brisk pace.
The benefit of making an online-only episodic Visual Novel is that coming back to update the art, the writing or any other aspect of the work is significantly easier than in other less modular forms of media.
To Maxi, ...
2022-07-01 06:21:20 +0000 UTC
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Greetings friends, lovers of stories, and cookie aficionados, and welcome to another THK Thursday with eni, Stoker and Maxi now that v1.6 has been released at last!
This week is for all the lore divers out there — we're talking about the encyclopaedia! Holder of lore, mythology, character information, and all sorts of background information about the world that you're going to love immersing yourself in!
Also... extremely clunky, in the past. T...
2022-06-09 14:36:16 +0000 UTC
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Maxi here, to welcome all of you today, at last, to The Hayseed Knight v 1.6!
It's been a long time trying to find time to work little by little on a million different bits and pieces - all while fighting my failing health.
This update is the product of a year and a half of work, and it is a TON! I really want you to know the game has never looked or sounded as amazing as it does now.
1.6 is a huge update that brings:
2022-06-06 19:25:05 +0000 UTC
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Hi, howdy, hello, friends! Maxi, eni and Stoker here for a visual THK Thursday!
It's our goal to keep you apprised of as much of the behind the scenes work as possible, whether it be as exciting as character design updates or the nitty gritty details of design and interface updates.
As we mentioned in the previous update, The Hayseed Knight is made in a visual novel engine called Ren'Py. It comes with a number of basic functions that are common to most visual novels ...
2022-05-20 00:05:17 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone. Maxi here.
I'm afraid that due to health concerns, THK v1.6 will have to be postponed until further notice.
After feeling like I'd suddenly been shot in the back and going through insufferable pain and nausea, I spent all day in the hospital yesterday. Turns out I'm going through a renal colic (kidney stones blocking my conducts) and the next few weeks are going to be pain and more pain until I can get them out of my system.
I'm home now with a bunch of p...
2022-05-14 09:11:48 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Maxi here.
After some very intense weeks both in my day job as a freelance director and developing THK to make it in time to the deadline I set myself for the update, I'm not in a good place mentally right now. I can feel the claws of burnout creeping on my mind.
Rather than exacerbate it further and burn months of future development for days of hurry, I've decided to postpone the planned 2022-05-09 06:14:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Maxi here!
Just wanted to let you know that THK is currently 20% off on Steam for LudoNarraCon, from May 5th to May 9th!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332990/The_Hayseed_Knight/
As mentioned in the previous post (and teased by a bunch of images this past year and a half) a huge update is on the way:...
2022-05-06 07:39:40 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, friends! We're eni and Stoker (and Maxi, who is very late to posting this)
here with a DOUBLE THK Thursday for you (((because Maxi has been EXTREMELY HYPER FOCUSING ON WORKING ON THE HUGE 1.6 UPDATE THAT DROPS THIS SUNDAY AAAAA)))
Today we've got a behind the scenes for the behind the scenes!
THK is made in Ren'py, an engine designed to be used to create visual novels. The engine takes...
2022-05-06 07:30:20 +0000 UTC
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Howdy once again, friends! eni and Stoker back at it again for another THK Thursday!
Hopefully, unlike Ader and Eina, you are all here to see how THK has been progressing! This week, let's talk about the most important thing you need to connect with a wide audience: languages!
Maxi is a prodigious polyglot (try saying THAT three times fast), and thus understands the importance of having a project be available in as many tong...
2022-04-21 21:23:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello, friends! This is eni and Stoker, Maxi's new Patreon helpers, and we're here to update you about all the work that's been going on behind the scenes on THK. There are LOTS of changes that have been made since the last time you've seen the game, as well as many exciting plans for future development, and more bonus goodies besides that!
Maxi has been hard at work writing, creating new assets and f...
2022-04-14 11:05:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Just wanted to make a few announcements after such a long time of silence! (A couple of minutes, if you follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/SandraMJdev )
First of all: I'm aiming to release the Japanese translation of chapters 1 and 2, courtesy of my friend Shi-chan, on November 24th provided we find someone available to proofread in Japanese in time! If that's you: call me.
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2021-10-25 21:08:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! How have you been?
I, for one, have spent most of 2021 so far bedridden because of a lumbar hernia that I got the exact same day I released Chapter 3 (my 25th birthday present to myself, apparently!)
It took three months to heal on its own (but not completely, wheeee) so working on anything has been challenging to say the least.
I have been chipping away at chapter 4 every so often, all the same! It's still very early, so I can'...
2021-04-29 14:38:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! It's been a while!
I'm here with two major announcements today: first off, THE HUGE FRIGGIN UPDATE THAT INCLUDES LOTS OF NEW SCENES, A NEW INTRO, NEW ART AND CHAPTER 3 WHICH IS TWICE AS LONG AS CHAPTERS 1+2 WILL BE OUT FOR MY BIRTHDAY, ON DECEMBER 8TH! I'll be 25 years old and very tired by then.
But, and here comes the butt. As much as I've tried to keep the game free during these three years by relying only...
2020-11-24 23:18:02 +0000 UTC
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As the title suggests, due to the restless times we're going through, I have decided to postpone Chapter 3 indefinitely once more.
Other than the fantasy racism tropes I've been working to condemn for months in the next version of the script, The Hayseed Knight relies a lot on humor based around making fun of a life resigned under the boot of the oppressors, and chapter 3 especially has a lot of comedy related to death, mobs and executions due to the way c...
2020-06-16 06:46:55 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, it's been a while! 6 months of continuous work ahahaha...sob.
It's been a really long journey but, at last, I'm preemptively announcing the date for chapter 3 and steam's release on the 26th of June 2020!
I have no idea how to enable donations in-app on steam, and I hear a fan donation DLC would be another 100$ to the 100 I already paid. I'm still reworking a lot of audio stuff and there's tons of art to finish, but we'll get t...
2020-05-22 08:17:45 +0000 UTC
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Thank you all so much for your support! This build contains the first half of Chapter 3, exclusive for +5$ patrons! This teaser is only about 1/5th shorter than chapter 1, so it's going to be a HUGE chapter.
An itch.io account is required to download it.
Please, do not stream nor share this version. It's an alpha and it's taken me years of my life, tears and blood.
Hope you enjoy it, let me hear your thoughts when you ...
2019-11-15 02:05:45 +0000 UTC
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I'm aiming to release an alpha version of Chapter 3's first half for $5+ patrons in the upcoming week! Stay tuned!
2019-11-05 20:55:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I've been working on updating the GUI as I prepare chapter 3! It'll have bigger text, easier to navigate menus, and more juice in general! Look at that cute choice screen with the emoticons <3
I've also been updating a few sprites! Like Ader's, who had a brief rework to make him closer to how I usually draw him: LONGNECK, SHOVELHANDS
2019-08-29 12:01:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey there! Long time no see!
I'm working hard on Chapter 3 as usual, and I'm glad to announce that I've very nearly finished editing all the audio! And boy it was A BUNCH. I've spent nearly 200 hours editing circa 1500 lines all on my own.
Next thing I have to get ready for: Art!
And since I was at it, I decided to take a shot at updating the Patreon page! You'll see that there's new cute icons all over the place and that rewards now include Discord ro...
2019-08-15 18:41:12 +0000 UTC
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The script has been finished, and recording has already started for Chapter 3! AND HOO BOY, WHAT A CHAPTER! It's as long as chapters 1+2 and twice as exciting, I promise! I'm hoping to release it next month, but that may be entirely too optimistic, haha!
Sadly, it won't branch out the way I originally intended for it due to a vast lack of funds—I'm the sole dev, working on everything from art to writing, coding and voice direction... but the voic...
2019-05-27 10:10:33 +0000 UTC
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I'm currently cleaning up the UI in several places in preparation for chapter 3, as it could use a loooot more life all over and Good Design/Bad Design vids have shamed me into updating it ;w;
The code, too, sucked, as I wrote most of it in early 2017 when I knew nothing at all about Ren'Py and only got it working out of headbutting it into existence.
Regardless, yay! Cool menus! If I manage to keep up with my schedule, Chapter 3's script should be finished in the next couple of d...
2019-04-19 11:38:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey! How have you all been? Right now, I'm updating a few art things to sort of calm my mind as the end of chapter 3 draws nearer. It always feels like no matter how much I write, the ending never arrives, and that always ends up freezing me up and making me unable to write. There is so, so little left to finish, though! Maybe I'll make a 10 minute demo of chapter 3 early on for patreons only to play.
Regardless, here's an update on the old cover of THK I drew six months ...
2019-04-05 11:06:13 +0000 UTC
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Here's the recorded process for my latest painting of Sep! (Sped up quite a bunch, as the raw footage was nearly 6 hours)
You get to see me fumble for hours, now minutes, improve some things, make some things worse, and over all do what I can to improve at painting! If I can help anyone learn anything, then that's ten times better :,>
(Oh and here's the picture in high res for all of you, of course!)
2019-02-17 09:43:24 +0000 UTC
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This image has been pretty popular in my social media accounts, so I figured I'd upload it here too!
Do you remember the base picture for this? It was some promo art for Jasif as someone scary. I tried to recreate it, but the expression wasn't coming out right, so I decided to just have her yell some good old fashioned "BAAAAAKA!" instead :>
2019-02-13 21:13:10 +0000 UTC
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Just dropping by to leave this image I drew yesterday and keep you all updated on the progress of Chapter 3!
The amount of text I have for it equals that of chapter 2— however, I'm not even remotely done with it. Worse yet, I'm having some serious headaches dealing with the event progression and different routes. After all, I'd like to have different endings to reward the player, but also there's another game I want to make and that'd be made a thousand times easier if there was a sin...
2019-02-12 06:44:29 +0000 UTC
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I just... really wanted to keep practising that sort-of-traditional look I pulled in the last wallpaper. So, here. For you :,>
2018-12-17 23:44:15 +0000 UTC
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I made you all a free wallpaper if you want it! I really like how it turned out :>
2018-12-16 17:54:25 +0000 UTC
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NEW STUFF:
-Completely new sprites and CGs. ALL OF IT. THERE GO 5 MONTHS OF MY LIFE.
-Completely revamped Ader's dialogue and voice acting!
-New and updated encyclopaedia, 3000% more functional! (With a worse UI, BUT I'LL GET TO THAT)
-Access the encyclopaedia directly by clicking a word on the textbox
-New CG gallery! Kind of! It'll be better later I swear!
-I probably fixed some typoes here and there I don't know guys it's been the bette...
2018-12-02 02:13:06 +0000 UTC
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