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The Grand Adventure - CYOA

So this is where all your votes have been going so far, technically this is the April version of the CYOA and will help fill in on months where I don't have a Rain and Shine update.  Still a little bare at the moment but all the foundational work is now pretty much done, so the next few polls you'll see will likely have the next steps of the journey and their consequences.  ;)

A Synthetic Solution to Loyalty - Patreon Exclusive

A criminal organization has developed an unusual way to keep people away from their business, or a part of it if they get too close.

Time to Suit Up

Sam has been given the opportunity of a lifetime, training with one of the more famous technomancers in the world.   Upon arriving however he discovers that the internship has a very interesting caveat; in order to be the technomancer's intern he has to be in one of the companies latest exosuits, not that Sam is really going to mind...

Ren'py Sprites - Korpal

It's the first of the corrupted pathline sprites!  Korpal is there to guide all those with a serpent's heart through the wild rubbery world of Kajira.

Art sprites done by Venerabela, and is one of four main rubber companions for the corrupted storyline!

A Hairy Homecoming

Elias comes back from his time at college to see that his hometown had changed little since his absence... all except for his friend Mark, who had gone from a scrawny high-schooler to a muscular hunk of a man.  It doesn't take Mark to let Elias into the secret of his success, including bringing him in on it as he transforms into a werewolf!

Flash Poll: Dragonborn Character

Much like the Tabaxi I'm only having one type of Dragonborn, which means that you will be picking the color of the character's scales which will also determine the type of elemental affinity.

This is a flash poll, so you only have a few days to vote!

Flash poll: Tabaxi character

In the efforts of simplicity I'm only making one type of Tabaxi the character could be, so the question is what type of markings should it be?

Flash poll means you only have a few days to vote!

Under New Management

An alien parasite sets its sights on taking over the world... but first it needs to start with the small town that it has found itself in.  After finding and assimilating its first host it quickly begins to spread to its neighbors in the night of the quiet town.

EDIT:  I really enjoyed this story, so I decided to offer it as a freebie to the general public since we're going be having quite a few more short stories coming down the pipeline.  ^. .^

How CYOA's will work - release schedule

So since the CYOA is going to be updated on a monthly basis and have a few modules added in at a time I decided to put it as a cascading release system so that this eventually does make it to the public since unlike Rain and Shine I don't plan on profiting from these except for the patrons that they bring in.  The release schedule is going to look essentially like this:

Initial release:  $10+ patreons

1 month: $5 patreons

3 months:  $3 patreons

5 months:...

Ren'Py Sprites, Mason

So super excited to show the first of many sprite packs that are being made by Venerabela for the Rain and Shine game!  It's great to finally have a picture besides the opening title card and soon we'll be gathering many more to integrate into the game to improve the Rain and Shine experience!

Filling His Rubber Paws

As time passes and Renzyl still hadn't returned to the realm Chrono is starting to grow tired of fielding questions of when the rubber dragon would return and unable to do anything about the problems being brought to him.  Fortunately for the silver raptor he and Renzyl had devised a plan in case something like this happened where Chrono could step into the rubber dragon's paws for a while and help sort things out.  Unfortunately for him however it appeared that one creature in the ...

Patreon Exclusive Story Poll

 You guys know what to do.  ;)  Had to repost to fix something and put a new choice in there.

End of the Month report, March 2020

Well this was certainly an interesting month to cap off the first quarter of the new year, and though I won't go into all that stuff I have to say that it certainly affected a few things.  Helping my mate and a few other things including allergies interfered with a few things but all in all it was a pretty standard month when it came to work productivity.  The list of stories to write is still shrinking and with no more commissions being taken for the rest of the year I expect it to...

Ritual of the Gods - Patreon Exclusive

When a new site is discovered in the sands of Egypt people flock to it... until they quickly find that there is nothing really there to salvage.  For one archeologist he has a gut feeling that there is more there then meets the eye, and he quickly finds out that he is right.

Hail to the King

For Ari life is pretty simple; he goes to work, comes home, and hangs out with his neighbor and friend Juan.  When his AC breaks down in the middle of a heatwave however he scrambles to find out a replacement so that he doesn't have to inconvenience his neighbor and not have his apartment be a hotbox.  Luckily a stroke of good luck finds him with a brand new unit that has a lot of features he doesn't even know about!

Quest line - Dragonborn Barbarian

So going to keep trying to push forward on this CYOA so that can get ready to do it when the time comes and so I decided to keep going to cement things down with what the first quest is going to be.  While the top one will be the first one done might hold over the others for later choices if there's a lot of votes for them.

Happy voting!

Quest line - Tabaxi (catfolk) Rogue

So going to keep trying to push forward on this CYOA so that can get ready to do it when the time comes and so I decided to keep going to cement things down with what the first quest is going to be.  While the top one will be the first one done might hold over the others for later choices if there's a lot of votes for them.

Happy voting!

A message from Smilodon Studio per current events

I just want to make sure to share that if you have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and are tight on funds, please do not think that you have to endanger your finances any further by continuing to make a patreon pledge here.  My mate is able to work at home and I will be just fine as is, but I want to make sure that you will all be fine out there and know that I definitely will be understand if you have to leave in order to keep yourselves afloat.  Know that no matte...

Green Snake Roll

Tana revisits his old haunt in japan and finds that not a lot has changed... except for his eating situation.  With the night growing long and most places closing the cobra knew that looking for food was going to be hard, at least until he found a sushi and hibachi that appeared to have just opened.  When he meets the enigmatic owner he finds that the crocodile isn't just offering food to him...

Girl's Night Out

When Newlyn orders a 'Guy's Night In' box of the internet for him and his friend Serathin to share he finds that he accidentally received the wrong one!  Of course that doesn't stop the two from rooting around and trying to see what was inside, and what they find is that sometimes your gender can switch just as easily as your plans. 

CYOA, Main Character Companion

 So the first CYOA that's going to be crafted will be a fantasy version, and the first thing that's going to be chosen is what companion the main character chooses for to play in the fantasy setting.  There are a lot of different choices on here and I will be seeing which ones are going to be the most popular and then put those on the docket first.  I will probably take the most popular four or five and then go from there. 

CYOA, Main Character Species

So the first CYOA that's going to be crafted will be a fantasy version, and the first thing that's going to be chosen is what species the main character chooses for to play in the fantasy setting.  There are a lot of different choices on here and I will be seeing which ones are going to be the most popular and then put those on the docket first.  I will probably take the most popular four or five and then go from there.

Breaking in a New Toy

A bounty hunter finally catches the prey he had been chasing for so long, an elusive rubber jackal with a secret that they're hiding.  Duncan has been tasked in extracting that secret, and fortunately for him all that chasing has given him an idea of how to do so.

Retrieving Stolen Stock

Ronuk continues to blissfully serve his Sskausa master until a deal goes South after a third party decides to intervene.  Though Erillas and Ronuk try to fight their way through the bull ends up making the sacrifice to save his master and gets captured in the process.  The Sskausa don't take kindly to their property being stolen and Erillas quickly calls on help to get what was taken from him.

Sequel to the story Demands of the Supply

CYOA theme poll

So since already had quite the responses to this idea I thought I would see what the theme would be.  The idea is that the CYOA starts with a sort of Total Recall where the player is able to interact with a full-immersion video game and thus is sort of the gateway to most future CYOA's.  Poll ends in seven days!

New offering, CYOAs (Emerald Sabrewolf+ tier)

So the idea here is because Rain and Shine and subsequent large-scale games are going to be having updates release every other month I would also make a smaller Twine games that can be updated every month.  These little mini-games would be far more simplistic then the Ren'Py games, not having any pictures to accompany them and mostly being more like a traditional choose your own adventure with little blurbs and various endings depending on what you choose.  The fun thing is much lik...

New sprite artist get!

After a few mistarts it appears we finally have a sprite artist! We will be working with Venerabela in order to get proper art into the game. ^. .^

Now more then ever patreon is going to be important in order to get stuff done, and with more coming there will be plenty to do!

Summoning Trial and Error

Shikosa the goo shark and Karksin the arcane dragon attempt to summon the nexus creature Athear in order to help with a personal problem, and though they weren't quire sure how to do so Karksin attempted it anyway.  On their first try they managed to hook one of them, but it just wasn't the one they wanted.

To the Victor

Be careful when you make bets with your roommates, even if you know what they're into you never really now until they feel the need to show you.  And if they're particularly devious you may not even realize what's happening until its too late and you're into it too.

The Warrior Within

A young man gets invited to become part of an elite pilot testing program with an institute that deals in cutting edge, state of the art mech suits.  When he finds out that he's been hired on the spot he's elated, though he probably should have asked exactly what his new job entailed.