One Hand Clapping Consortium

Happy New Years

No big, long posts. This is just us folk at One Hand Clapping wishing all of you a safe and happy New Years' Eve. Talk to you all soon.

And a bit of an atypical image because, as SteveArt put it,

"God damn it man, she's just a merchant, not a fighter."

...and I suspect I have just set off all of the conspiracy theorists...

2025.12.25 - Good Tidings to All

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." – Brad Paisley

So, I wanted to begin by noting that the game’s first update grows close to completion. Only a few scripts remain at this writing, which the artists take care of as soon as I pass them on for rendering. 

Usually, the end of the year is meant for reflection; we haven’t really nee...

2025.11.26 - Update

Hey everyone,

First of all, I wanted to wish everyone a nice kick-off to the holiday season. This time is always hectic with travel, family and, of course, bills. 

I wanted to offer an update on the state of the game as 2025 draws to a close. We have been inundated with questions asking when the game will be released. 

The best answer is both complicated and simple. The simple answer is that we probably won’t release it until after the New Year. The long answer i...

Princess on the Run background - The Murmur

“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”  ~ Albert Camus, The Plague

The Murmur is a disease that has periodically ravaged the continent for more than a century. While often claiming the elderly, it has been known to claim humans of all ages.

The source of the illness is unknown, which has given rise to wild speculation as to the nature or why it afflicts those it does. Some claim ...

2025.10.22 - Once Upon a Time…

As the game moves closer to its first release, I thought it was time to tell you a little bit about the story setting.

Let me tell you more of the world of Aerth.

Our story opens in the village of Willowdale, which is a tiny village within the Barony of Ironwood. Ironwood is part of the Empire of Blue, itself located within the continent of Chevania.

The whole of Chevania used to be ruled by the Elves, who withdrew from the waves of humans who sought new land and opportuniti...

2025.10.13 - Step by Step

Hi, everyone. It’s been a bit of a slog this week. Each one of us had rather serious Real Life stuff going on, and it kinda slowed down our workflow and thus our output. A bit of a positive note, both Steve and I had birthdays over the past two weeks, so feel free to send us gifts of cash. I am saving up for a laptop that lets me use the SHIFT key. Steve hoards his money and uses it for dark and mysterious purposes. It’s his way. He is the Night.I am something more on the order of a hazy ...

...And a Sixpence in Her Shoe - 2025.09.19

We have decided to break Willowdale into three separate updates, concluding with the departure from Willowdale. This is due to the sheer size of the game we have been working on. This will shorten the time between assembly and release. I am not prepared to give a date for release just yet(I don’t want to jinx it), but should be able to offer more concrete information within a couple of future supporter posts. 

Every scene from the former game has been expanded on and additional, ...

2025.09.12 - Something Blue

"There is a place you can touch a woman 

that will drive her crazy… her heart"  ~ John Mattson, Milk Money (1994)

So, to begin with, thanks for waiting so long. We’ve been pretty hard at work, getting the first update ready for the playtesters and, afterwards, our supporters, and then everyone else.

While making the game, you might have noticed that none of the Supporter Images have shown the characters gettin’ nekkid. There is a ...

New Post Coming..

It's been a busier than usual few weeks at One Hand Clapping, and the sorta-semi-weekly post had fallen by the wayside. My apologies.

There will be a new post in a few days, outlining where we're at.

Extra credit to those who can figure out what the name of the next post will be...

-Jack

2025.08.07 - Something Borrowed

Politics doesn’t really belong in games, in my opinion. While I realize that parts of who I am are always going to end up in my writing, political writing is as its essence persuasive writing. When you write to convince, you aren’t writing to entertain.

I am simply going to point out that, objectively, there will always be people who don’t like something, and want to remove it, despite what others want.Not because it’s breaking the law, but because they don’t...

Something New..

Sorry for the late post; it’s been a pretty long few weeks, dealing with some annoying Real World stuff in addition to the day job and trying to find more than 20 minutes a day to work on scripting.

But enough of that. Everyone here is going through their stuff too, so I won’t really talk about any RL hiccups that occur on our end, except to note that they occurred.

Rendering and scripting are moving along a lot faster than before. We decided to organize things a little bett...

Something Old

One of the best parts of reImagining this game is recreating the assets. As most of you who have been with us since the beginning, the original character assets (except for Aelrue, which was Astrid-g3) were unavailable to us. There were other problems as well. The code was kind of a hot mess, cobbled together from at least two different sources; I was terribly surprised that the game didn’t crash more than it did. Apart from the main theme, the sfx and music was more than a little cringey.<...

2025.06.19 - Milestones and the Unusual Methods

This last week, we passed a bit of a milestone. There was a particularly difficult animation that we have been trying to get to look a certain way, and we kept hitting the wall in finding an adequate solution. After trying out a number of different solutions, we ended up settling on one that was, in the final analysis, the better way to go. I would like to say that we had simply crossed the streams, reversed the polarity, and re-reticulated all of the splines to get the job done, but in the e...

Updating..2025.06.01

Hello, everybody. We just finished the development meeting, and even with Life being the messy intruder that it is, we are ever closer to an initial update release. I wish I could give you a date, but I think that would be premature.

We have over a thousand renders and five animations completed, and about that many more to go (as noted in previous posts, it’s a pretty big - even for sandbox style) game. Special attention is made to properly introducing the characters without overdoing...

2025.05.18: Gang Aft A-gley 

“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse, 1785

Hey, everyone. I apologize for a bit of a late post this time. As always, progress on the game is ongoing, though not without a couple of wrinkles along the way. Mistakes happen. Life intrudes. Computer rigs decide to throw tantrums. The wife steps on broken glass and has to have slivers surgically removed. So, everyone’s been a wee bit busy.

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May the Fourth Be With You

One of our artists took a short break from their render schedule to create this render for the Star Wars’ unofficial holiday, ‘May the Fourth Be With You.’ It features one of those characters that you love to hate, Randy.

I could go into the whole background of that holiday, and how it should probably never get confused with the Chinese historical event, the May Fourth Movement, or when it was first used (in a UK political ad).

But that’s only interesting ...

A Fine Mess - 2025.04.29

"Life is not meant to be perfect; it's meant to be messy, beautiful, and unpredictable." 

- Denise Grover Swank

Hello everyone. I just wanted to bring folks up to speed on the progress of the game.

I recently learned that Runaway Princess' Willowdale parts constituted about 750 renders in total, and about 3500-4000 renders for the entire game (the difference between the two is if you count animation sequences as a single render or not - I do count them...

Happy Easter - 2025.04.20

"The deep roots never doubt spring will come" ~ Marty Rubin

I wanted to make a quick little post today to wish everyone a nice holiday. While this particular holiday is the Christian Easter, you don’t have to be Christian (or even religious) to appreciate the symbolic idea of renewal; it's pretty ingrained into the human experience. The idea that, no matter how bad stuff is right now...

How to Eat an Elephant - 2025.04.07

The finish line inches closer, faithful followers. We are finishing the renders and scripts for scenes left and right.

We passed the 900 render mark yesterday. Now, in the grand scheme of things, that may not seem like a lot of renders for a new game. However, if you factor in that this is only part one of a game that will likely have about nine or ten expansion updates to cover all of the older content before we expand into new territory.

My last post asked you - the faithful - w...

So Here We Are - 2025.04.02

As the development phase of the game is winding down, and the game gets assembled for the playtesters to stress-test the first update, I wanted to get some input from you, our loyal supporters.

What were the features of the previous game that you really liked or disliked?

Did you have a favorite character? A least favorite character? Why?

Since I have pointed out on prior occasions that this iteration/reImagining of the game has some key differences, what sorts of difference...

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day - 2025.03.17

As a bonus ‘thank you’ for all of your patience while we sort the game out and get it ready for the playtesters, we’d like to share this additional supporter-only St. Patrick’s Day image of Kelly, sitting in a pot of gold. That’s one rainbow that a lot of us would race to find her before anyone else. 

Thanks for keeping the faith.

~ Jack Oh

The Whole Pi - 2025.03.14

I wanted to give everyone an update on where we are at in terms of game assembly. While there are still a few frustrating bits of the dialog still to be written, coding is all but complete - the mechanical base of the game (the parts of the code that keep the game from collapsing under all of the awesome-ness) is hovering at approximately 90%.Likewise, the UI (User Interface) stands at 80%. 

Likewise, the music is practically finished - sfx and music is pretty much in place, apart ...

2025.03.05 - Welcome to the "Best Kept Secret on the Internet"

So, I recently received a message from one of our supporters that, while they were happy to support our efforts to publish Princess on the Run to the world, it had been a pretty arduous task to even find us in Patreon [and I am supposing SubStar as well].  The supporter had even quipped that the difficulty in doing so effectively made us ‘’the best kept secret on the internet’’.

I guess I am to blame for all of that. When I set up both payment platforms, I did...

2025.02.26 - Update

I just wanted to let everyone know that the process of finalizing the game content is ongoing. I’m still working on and proofreading some scripts that cover the remaining content for the first update, Willowdale, Part 1 (of 2). Then the characters leave Willowdale for the Great Wide Open and Dewberry.

It’s a bit of a slow process. All of the big parts of the update are done, and in the process of being rendered by the Artists and given sound by our Music Developer. It’s the remain...

2025.02.14 - Updating…Updating…

Hello everybody, and Happy Valentine’s Day to those of you with plans for romance or just a wee bit of the slap and tickle. For the rest of us, it’s just another day where some of us wait for the wave of commercialism to pass and clean up on boxes of choco that didn’t get sold to people . Turns out that while chocolate does release chemicals like endorphins and serotonin (which trick your brain into happiness), it doesn’t actually simulate the feeling of being in love. 

Use...

Update on the Update - 2025.02.06

I wanted to let folks know that we are getting ever closer to the finish line, with around 148,000 words having been written and over 600 renders having been created for just the first update.

Now begins the process of assembling all of the different parts and getting it into the hands of the playtesters, which will take a bit of time. I’ll be posting more to keep everyone updated as we get closer and closer to release.

Here are some images from the upcoming game release:

Update - 2024.01.25

So, I was supposed to post yesterday, but I had wanted to get a real handle on how close we were to the Update’s release.

The good news is that we aren’t as far behind as I had previously thought. I am putting the finishing touches on scripts to make them easier for each other dev to add their magic to. So, to be clear, the slow-down was all my fault. Always blame the writer, especially when it is their fault.

The even better news is that once complete,...

Update

Hello All, Sorry for the well-overdue post. It’s pretty cold in the midwest USA and apparently, that also means that when the internet in the neighborhood flakes out, so do the internet service repairmen. After almost a week without home internet, I’ve been popping in and out of Starbuck cafes that play the music so loud that I flashback to a few raves from the early Aughties..

So, that’...

This Will Be Our Year

"…took a long time to come." ~ The Zombies (1968)

Happy New Year to all our incredibly patient and supportive fans!

As 2024 winds down, I am sitting around, listening to the few LPs that didn’t get torched in the fire, and can't help but feel a whirlwind of emotions. I am wondering if everyone else feels a bit retrospective at the end of the year. Maybe it’s just me. 

The 18 months we have had this ReImagined game in development have been filled w...

2024.12.06 - Most of the Women of Willowdale...