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Upcoming Release

Hi all,

Apologies if you were surprised by being charged this month, this was a mistake—I intended to wait another month to begin charging again.

The good news is that is because I intend to release again this month and start putting out content regularly again.

If you were surprised, please let me know, I am happy to refund anyone for the month as I didn't want to start charging without letting people know up front and see the release, so I completely understand if you wo...

An Update (No Release)

Hello all,

Apologies this isn't a release, as I'm sure most are hoping for. Hopefully I can at least give a little more information to everyone and at least say that a release is on its way.

As per the last post on Patreon, you probably know that I was ill with COVID. As some may know from Discord, both of my parents passed away. Dealing with that has taken a toll on me in a number of ways, while I was still recovering, and is the reason I have not been communicating. I do apologi...

Recovery

I'll get to the point: I have just been released from Hospital after having COVID-19. I am home, but for now I simply don't know how the recovery is going to go. 

I am pausing this Patreon for now, and I won't take any more money until I am back to a regular release schedule with a couple of releases under my belt. I am staggered that people have continued to fund during the silence, and touched people held faith, but I can't in good conscience take money while not being able to wo...

Update: I'm fine and back.

Hello all,

I can only apologise for the silence from me for the past few weeks, and the fact this isn't 0.14 dropping. Despite best-laid plans, obviously I ended up being much more overwhelmed than I thought.

The good news is, things have finally let up (and my family and I are fine, thankfully) and I'm finally back to something approaching normal. I won't make any grand plans right now beyond just getting 0.14 out of the door, and once that is done I'll post again and give some m...

0.14.0 Delay

tl;dr: The 0.14.0 release is delayed until the 6th of April for Patrons and then 10th for the public.

I wanted to make a post to let you all know what is going on with 0.14.0. Unfortunately I've had some issues come up and although the release is almost ready, I couldn't get it finished yesterday, and today I haven't been able to get the work in to finish it.

As I'm sure people are aware, there is a lot going on right now, and with colleagues off sick, my day job has required me t...

Development Plans & Background Art Preview

I said in the 0.13.0 release post that I'd be giving more detail on development plans, so this post is me attempting to give you all an idea of where I am and what I'm focusing on.

As always, please do contact me (message here, discord, email) if you want to ask questions about things like this in-between these kinds of posts. My aim is to proactively keep you all updated, but obviously I don't want to drain away development time to spam you all with stuff that doesn't matter too much. ...

Sculptor 0.13.0 Release

Sorry for the slow release and smaller release this time. I was ill over the weekend  (fortunately not COVID-19) which stopped me getting as much done as I wanted as quickly as I wanted. Fortunately I'd switched around my work times as previously I imagine I'd realistically have to had push the release back a week if I hadn't.

The new scene artwork is super close, and my plan is to release a minor version with that in as soon as the artist is done. I'm really excited to see it all ...

Sculptor 0.12.1 Release

This is the first public 0.12 release, for Patrons this contains no new content since 0.12.0, just bug fixes.

This release does not contain the new scene art, unfortunately, but it is on its way, and barring any unforeseen circumstances should be in the next release (which will be in two weeks as normal, on the 16th for Patrons/20th publicly).

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Sculptor 0.12.0 Release

Thanks for bearing with the three-week wait on this one, but it really has made the release process a lot easier! The plan is to release earlier in the day in the future too, but getting it out on the planned day without me being up half the night is a good start!

This release does not contain the new scene art, unfortunately, but it is on its way, and barring any unforeseen circumstances should b...

Sculptor 0.11.1 Release

This is the first public 0.11 release.

This release involves some route specific content for each route, alongside some general content. It also includes a ton of fixes for small, persistent bugs.

The android build is still very experimental, and I suspect may be entirely broken on some devices. I'm looking into that, but anyone willing to test it would really be helping if you report any bugs (or if it works!).

For Patrons, this is just a minor update to fix the 2018-...

Coming Soon: Custom scene artwork.

I'm excited to finally show you all some of our first custom scene artwork from the first core scene in the game.

Firstly, to temper expectations: I can't guarantee that this will drop in 0.12. It is possible, but the work isn't done and as it is the first scene it is hard to say how long it will take exactly. With that said, it is on its way, as you get to see.

Thank you for backing the game—without Patrons this artwork literally wouldn't exist!

(Obviously there will be v...

Sculptor 0.11.0 Release

Hot off the presses, here is 0.11.0—apologies for the delay on this one. As mentioned elsewhere, I have some plans to shift around my day job work hours to try and avoid having the release date right after my best period for working on it, hopefully avoiding delays.

To make that work, the next release will be a three-week window (as I'll "loose" some time as I reorganise, so two weeks would be pushing it), but hopefully worth it to avoid future delays. That puts the next major release...

Sculptor 0.10.1 Release

This is the first public 0.10 release (and the first public release of the new antagonist artwork!).

As always, feedback is welcome! In particular, interested to know what people think of the artwork. In particular, following up on some Discord feedback: for those who play with a male-bodied antagonist, would you like to have a more masculine variant?

For Patrons, this is just a minor update to fix some bugs, no new content since 0.10.0.

Changelog:

• Fixes:
  ...
  2020-02-01 01:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Milestones and Plans

We hit the $250 a month milestone, and also 100 Patrons. While I try to avoid spamming the Patreon page with too many non-release posts, I really felt a need to say how incredible it is that so many people are supporting Sculptor. Truly, thank you all.

What this means going forward is I'll be able to free up a little more time for Sculptor by reducing my day job workload a little. The next goal is to get another artist on-board to speed up the rate at which art can be added. I never exp...

Sculptor 0.10.0 Release

Thank you for your patience! This has been a heavily delayed release, but fortunately for very good reason: it is finally the first release with custom artwork, with the antagonist sprites coming in.

Patrons can reuse the 0.9.x patch for the toolbox for this release.

As always, feedback is welcome! In particular, interested to know what people think of the artwork. In particular, followin...

Coming Soon: Custom sprites in 0.10.0

After far too long, I'm happy to announce the stuff with our new artist worked out and I have just been delivered the new antagonist sprites, a few variations of which can be found above.

This is just the start, of course. There will be more sprites added over time and more variations, and—of course—complete custom scenes which I'm sure everyone is looking forward to.

0.10.0 is still targeted for release for Patrons tomorrow (27th), but the artwork is going in at the last minu...

Sculptor 0.9.1 Release

A minor release for Patrons, and the first public 0.9 release.

Changelog:

• Fixes:
  • Spelling/grammar fixes.
  • Fix bugs related to presentation changes not showing correctly.
  • Fix bug where the player could end up deleting the video twice.
• Updates:
  • Tweaked the rebalance to make it a little less harsh in the beginning. Please do leave feedback on how it feels.
  • Added new Patrons into credits.
2020-01-18 01:38:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Development Focus

With a lot of the fundamentals of the game done, I would like to give you more opportunity to direct the development focus for the game.

This poll is a simple approval one, so vote for anything you would like to see worked on next (you can vote for multiple things). Of course the poll is just the basic set of core ideas, if you would like to leave more detailed feedback or ideas, or options not in the poll, please do comment, message or email.

Thanks for being a stakeholder, it re...

Patron Toolbox (Patch)

Here is the newest version of the Patron patch, giving you access to the Patron Toolbox.

To enable, extract this patch into the build you downloaded (make sure you make the directories match), and then go into settings, where there should now be an option.

Sculptor 0.9.0 Release

It has been a busy couple of weeks! While it's still not quite at the point I want to commit to a release date (that won't happen till I have the finished work in my hand), artwork is well on its way. I'll hopefully be posting some teasers soon, although people can find some things already in the discord. There is a lot of work in the back-end of this release to prepare for real artwork in the game.

I do apologise for the day late release—I really am trying to stop that being a habit....

Sculptor 0.8.1 Release

Just a minor release with a fix for a bug that could lock off some of the new content. No new content from 0.8.0.

Changelog:

• Fixes:
  • Fix progress soft-lock where the event “Holding your cards close to your chest” could be unable to fire.

Sculptor 0.8.0 Release

Happy new year! Just getting this in under the wire for 2019, and my new year's resolution will be to stop putting releases out at the last minute!

Small update as this was over Christmas, but hopefully a fun one. 0.9.0 is planned to drop on the 13th of Janurary—a normal two week window.

Changelog:

• New Content:
  • Added a new plot thread “A Weak Point”:
    • Added a new scene “Finding it”.
    • Added a new scene “Exploiting it”. 2019-12-31 23:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Sculptor Set-up Options Poll

Merry Christmas!

I'm afraid this isn't the release early (still on track 30th for Patrons, as per the roadmap), but I thought I'd put out a poll to see what set-ups players are using for the game.

This isn't a case of “I’ll drop development of little-used configurations”, but more to get a feel of what people are choosing to play or would like.

Please select any options you play with (or are ...

Sculptor 0.7.0 Release

Sorry for the day late Patron release, it has been a busy period, and this is a big update. It also contains some content themed for the season.

As usual, the old Patreon patch should still work, and please leave any feedback!

The next release will be a three-week one to give me some time for Christmas. I hope you all have a very Merry one!

Changelog:

• New Content: 2019-12-11 03:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Art Issues

I am sorry to make this post, but unfortunately am forced to: we are going to have to find a new artist, as it has become clear our old one was not going to complete the work.

As you will know, artwork was meant to drop in 0.4.0, at the end of October. Our artist couldn't complete the work by then, despite thinking they could. This happens and we aimed for the next release.

Since then, it has been the same story repeated: no work produced, and no communication except when asked. T...

Sculptor 0.6.1 Release

Our sixth major release is out! As before, you can reuse the old patron patch, and as always, please let us know about bugs/mistakes and give us any feedback you have.

Edit: Bumped to 0.6.1 to fix a progression bug that was stopping the new content from being accessible. Apologies for the broken build.

Changelog:

• New Content:
  • Added a new scene “Regret”.
  • Added a new scene “Hanging/checking out”.
  • Added a new plot thread “Self Pleas...
    2019-11-26 03:33:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Sculptor 0.5.0 Release

Version 0.5.0 is here!

The patron patch has not changed again, so please reuse the 0.3.0 one. 

Saves from 0.4 should work, please let me know if there are issues.

As always, please let us know about bugs, issues, suggestions—feedback of any kind, and thank you for supporting Sculptor.

Changelog:

• New Content:
  • Added a new plot thread "Uniform"
    • Added a new scene "Soup of the day."
    • Added a new scene "A suggestion." 2019-11-12 06:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Sculptor 0.4.0

This is our fourth release of Sculptor, and with it the evening system that is intended to underpin the more flexible routes now we are out of the introduction. Please note this system is rough for now, and has a lot of bare events. Feedback on how people would like the system to work (primarily the balance between representing passing time/the world well, and not getting too bogged down in fluff) would be very welcome—as always, that extends to any other feedback as well.

This update...

Sculptor Release Schedule

Hey all, I just wanted to make a post to give everyone an idea of our intent for the release schedule for Sculptor. If you are in the Discord, you probably know most of this, but I wanted to make sure all Patrons know what is going on.

My general intent is to release a version every fortnight, which would have involved 0.4 getting released on Monday the 21st. Unfortunately, I have been ill and that just meant I couldn't get enough done to put out a reasonable release then. Th...

Sculptor 0.3.1

First of all, an apology: the plan was to have the custom artwork in this release of the game, but unfortunately our artist's day job called them in over the weekend and they simply couldn't complete the art in time for this release. We will be launching another minor release before 0.4 with the artwork added in as soon as it is ready. I'm sorry for over-promising on that front.

With that said, 0.3.1 is here!

If you are a patron, this release is largely the same as 0.3.0. As s...