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The Velan Reach demo - development update 2

As of now, the people that signed up to test the demo for The Velan Reach have access to the download links through Discord, and I'm really curious and anxious to hear what they have to say about it, and if there will be many back-to-the-drawing-board moments (there's bound to be some).

In the mean time, if you're curious to know what the next step is for The Velan Reach, make sure to read this...

The Velan Reach demo - development update

All of a sudden, I discover I'm closer to wrapping up the demo build than I though I'd would be today, and I should start to organize something of a release. So here's goes:

Oh, and sorry about another wall of text.

Update part one: what's in the demo, what's the plan?

What's in the demo?

The demo contains the better part of the first chapter of The Vel...

An update on development and other stuff

It's been a bit since I last wrote an update, and perhaps left it at a bit of a cliffhanger so to speak, so it's about time we remedy that.

I'll start out with development first, and I'll briefly touch on the personal stuff after that.

How is development going?

Looking at the infographic (from last Wednesday), the demo for The Velan Reach (which is basically just a good part of chapter 1) is coming together nicely.

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A super weird place

I thought long and hard about sharing this piece. None of you signed up for personal drama, but since there is some overlap with the development of the game, and you can't completely separate the creator from the creation, I decided to go ahead. Feel very much free to skip this if you don't need to hear this kind of personal stuff.

I'm in a super weird place right now. The last couple of weeks have been kind of nerve racking, as the woman who graced me with the gift of her love...

Walkthrough options

Oh, walkthrough mods. Don't mention the W word around Naughty, or he'll start frothing at the mouth. Even now, I'm fighting the urge to go off at walkthrough mods with every fiber of my being, even if I fully understand the reasons why people feel a need to use them.

So, quick history lesson: apart from steering players through arguably the blandest possible path through Light of my Life and providing them with a terrible story experience - while flashing some donation links ...

Chapter 9 out, what's next?

With the release of chapter 9 now squared away, it's time to quickly glance back, and then look forward.

Looking back.

Overall people seem quite happy with this shorter format and tighter focus, and that's good, because I'm quite happy with it too. It is a lot less hassle to create, because there fewer moving parts involved, both story wise and coding. The release itself went surprisingly smooth too, so much so that it left me with time to spare to do a wallpaper, which would b...

Minor bug fix - 0.9.1

Fixes an issue with the second music channel using the SFX mixer by mistake, causing a significant jump in volume for some users when it is used. Sorry for any busted eardrums. :D

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• Mac: 2025-05-22 18:32:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 9 released

Join Macy and Denise for chapter 9 of Light of my Life, which is a shorter than usual chapter focusing on one promise the game made earlier. It's a very different format than the previous chapters and although I'm still finding my way around, I had a really good time making it, and I hope you'll have too when playing it.

Download links:

• PC/Linux: 2025-05-21 10:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 9 - running blog of release tasks

As with the last chapter, I'll keep a running blog of the tasks needed to complete chapter 9. Since this chapter is a lot shorter, these tasks should take a significantly less time than with a big chapter.

It'll be spoiler free, as is, and not an invite for discussion. It may be missing items, and items may appear on or disappear from it on a whim. It will be updated whenever I remember about it. It is not a countdown checklist.

Since we have a beta test that needs to be released ...

A short development update on a short chapter.

As you can tell from the progress infographic on the pinned post (and added here), chapter 9 is rapidly closing in on completion. Usually, around this time, I'd pull up the number of images created for this chapter, compare that to the number of images in the previous chapter, and do the same for hours spent on the previous and current chapters, and muse a bit about what that means for the size and the amount of content it adds.

But in this case, since the next chapter is such a departu...

Behind the scenes - I'm bad at illustrations

Time for a short behind the scenes again. This time, let's not talk about something I've figured out how to do. And one of the many things that fits that description is illustrations. Why talk about something I'm not actually good at? Well, I guess it's to say it's okay if you pick your battles when it comes to developing skills, stuff can still come out alright? Or maybe, just for the hell of it, because I still had fun making them.

Usually I'd talk a bit about what techn...

Light of my Life chapters 1-8 - minor bugfixes

This release contains a few small bugfixes.

Chapter 1-7, v1.0.2

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• Mac: MEGA / 2025-01-19 16:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 9 production underway

Today a new progress infographic went up on the pinned post for chapter 9, meaning that I've now started production on that chapter.

If you've seen the infographics for the previous chapters, you'll notice is a lot smaller. And that's because chapter 9 is going to be a little bit different from the other chapters.

It's the first of number of smaller updates, that each fulfill one of the p...

Happy New Year, and looking ahead.

So, 2025 is here. Surely, it can't be any worse than the last few years, can it? Or did I just jinx it?

Anyway, I hope this'll be a great year for all of you, and with the release of Season 2 a.k.a. Chapter 8 out of the way, I wanted to have talk a little about what's in store for this year.

So, first of all...

Chapter 8, and how this is supposed to be winding down.

Well, it Light of my Life still is winding down. With most of the dramatic developments now out of t...

Light of my Life S2 - Chapter 8 released!

Join Macy and Denise as you begin a new chapter in your lives following the events of season 1. Meet some familiar characters and some new ones, enjoy the rewards of the love you found, and face new challenges in the first installment of the final season of Light of my Life.

I had a lot of fun making this game, and I hope you'll have just as much fun playing it.

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Chapter 8 beta is available now.

For those that signed up, the beta for chapter 8 is available now.

The beta will run for about a week or so, and when it's done, chapter 8 will be released for everyone.

If you signed up for the beta, and you set up a link between your account and Discord, you should now be able to see some new channels there with links and instructions.
If you haven't set up a link, you should have received a direct message from me.
If you signed up for the beta, but have neither, please r...

Chapter 1-7 Service release

I've just released a service release for Chapters 1-7 that does not contain any new content. Chapter 8 is coming soon(tm), and this is not it.

Download links:

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Stuff that needs doing for Chapter 8 - a running blogpost.

Update 1, 2024-12-20.

Last time round, I shared a list of items I need to wrap up before release. That worked out alright, so I'm going to do so again, hopefully keeping the interested ones among you informed and assured that progress is being made (or when it isn't).

It'll be spoiler free, as is, and not an invite for discussion. It may be missing items, and items may appear on or disappear from it on a whim. It will be updated whenever I remember about it. It is not a countdown ...

Chapter 8 - development status update

If you've seen the most recent development update infographics, it's pretty clear that chapter 8 of Light of my Life is almost content complete. Almost all the content (dialogs, images, audio, etc.) is in there, and it won't be long until it's ready to be released.

In this post, I wanted to talk about what that means, and what still needs to happen before it releases.

So, if the last face in the infographic is filled, you release it, right?

Not quite. After it's content co...

Chapter 8: jumping to conclusions using iffy numbers

Alright, in keeping with tradition (https://www.patreon.com/posts/83493034), lets jump to conclusions about chapter 8 using iffy numbers.

It's always exciting to do these ones, as I'm never quite sure how the numbers will line up compared to the last time around, and if they're better, the same, or worse.

Let's start out with the last progress infographic.

2024-09-22 16:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon and iOS in-app purchases.

You may or may not have heard about Patreon making a few big changes after being told by Apple they had to conform or risk having their iOS app removed. A lot of people are unhappy about it. Here's a short post about that which will hopefully help put some questions you may have to rest.

If you're not using Patreon's iOS app, you can stop reading now, nothing changes for you as a Light of my Life subscriber. Or continue on so you can gloat at ...

Chapter 8 and after, what's the plan here?

A good while back I promised to inform you about on what's going to happen with Light of my Life, and how the final stages of the story are going to come out.

Here's that write up. It's a bunch of text and it's a bit of a dry read, I'm sorry about that. There's a few moving parts, including some bits up in the air, and I'll try to tackle them one at a time.

Screw moving parts, Naughty: When chapter 8?

Look at the progress infographic on the pinned post. It updates weekly.<...

Ren'Py: The little engine that could

It's been a while (as usual) since I posted something, so today I figured I'd talk a bit about a little program that makes the majority of the indie VNs like Light of my Life possible. I'm talking about the engine, of course, which in this case is called Ren'Py.

It apparently takes it name from the Japanese ren'ai (恋愛), which, if the wiki page is to be believed, stands for romantic love. Changing 'ai' to 'py' is a reference to the programming language Python, which it is based on, a...

Short update on new hardware; TLDR it's great.

If you're on discord, you might have picked up that I upgraded some hardware the other day. Since I know a few of you dabble with Daz3d and the like, so I figured I'd share my experiences.

Nothing earth shattering, and very little great insights, so if you're not really interested in hardware feel free to skip this.

Starting point

With any pc build optimized for Daz3d, the first thing to look at should the video card, and it does narrow things down considerably. For one, o...

New wallpaper: The Photoshoot

Alternative title: "Are you just going to take pictures of my butt all afternoon?"

Fulfilling an possibility teased in chapter 7, today's wallpaper features Macy & Denise dabbling in the art of photography. As wallpapers go, this one came together rather easily, even if the process was more about leaving out than putting in.

For instance, there was this kick-ass studded leather jacket I couldn't get to work properly with the pose, and that didn't take to Dforce well.<...

The weirdest flex, or in bits or not in bits.

The other day, I ventured out into the wilds beyond my own discord server for a bit (not something I usually do), and I fell into the weirdest conversation on some channel where AVN developers could hang out and chat. The gist of it was was that according to some developers, there's apparently this rule that sprites are lazy, and full-scene renders are hard core.

Just to clarify some terminology, sprites in this case means an image with some transparency to it that is projec...

Upcoming wallpaper poll

One of these days, I plan to do new backer wallpaper, and currently, I have two ideas for that.

One is a glamor shoot featuring Macy and Denise, with possible bit parts for the MC and one of the side girls.

The second is some fantasy themed cover art for the fictional Caves&Monsters tabletop RPG (or should I rebrand to Caves&Creatures instead, so it alliterates too?) that you might remember from that blogpost about that mug, but featuring entirely new characters, and t...

A technical blog...

I've been hard at work the past few weeks to set up a bunch of new environments for chapter 8, as well as creating some new characters, and dusting off some old ones.

When working on sets, outfits, and situations, I always try to pay a lot of attention to personalizing it to the characters it is for. Whether it's a bedroom, kitchen, or an office, people leave their marks on the spaces they inhabit, and in fleshing out those spaces , I get to learn a little bit more about the character a...

...and a little sneak peak.

As promised, the sneak peek for that mug in the post above.