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Side-Write: Interview with Justice

We're nearing the end of this series, and things are getting a bit intense. I expected this one to be pretty tough, but at some point getting ready things just clicked and this mostly came together on its own. It might help that this is a subject that is, in a way, closer to my heart than some of the others we've explored. Just one more to go after this!

As always, this is not meant to be a canonical scene so much as an exploration of what may be in the world behind Project Wild One. I...

Side-Write: Interview with Life

We're done playing around with the minor gods. This month we meet the first of the elder, greater gods, and... it's kinda cozy? Except when it's not. The series continues, interviewing each of the gods in the world of Project Wild One!

As always, this isn't strictly canon so much as an exploration of what may be going on behind the scenes in these worlds. I hope you enjoy!

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Q: Well, first of all, thank you for having me here.

A: Thank you for coming! I see so fe...

Dev Journal: Fat Lotta Good

It wasn't my intention for these journals to turn into the “things were hard, but they're finally looking better” markers in what is apparently a certain type of cycle for me, but right now that's what they're turning into.

The short version is, I got sick again, I got caught up in trying to do things the right way and finally pushed all that off to a “maybe someday” to just focus on getting basic features implemented. I'm feeling pretty good about the next update righ...

Side-Write: Interview with Wonder

I hope you've had a lovely holiday and will enjoy the coming of the new year! Today I'm continuing this series of interviews, as it's proven to be a fairly fun exercise in perspective. With this we're halfway through, though I imagine the later ones may be more intense. We'll have to see how that goes! I hope you enjoy!

As always, these writings aren't considered strictly canon so much as an exploration of what may be. I hope it gives you a better understanding of the world building up...

Side-Write: Interview with Freedom

It's proven an interesting exercise for exploring some of the pillars of the lore, so to speak, for Project Wild One, so I'm continuing with the idea of interviewing some of the gods from the world. This one was honestly a real challenge just because I tend to be pretty diametrically opposed to a lot of the ideas this character fundamentally embodies, and it took me a while to really orient my thoughts to sympathize with and explore them as a person, and to portray them in a reasonable way th...

Project Wild One v0.04 Basic Cheats!

Update: Now available to Followers!

As always, go to the Options menu to enter these cheats! You should see a small summary of each cheat in a window close by when it's active.

This code allows you unlimited upgrades so you can jump straight to being an overpowered late-game monster if you so choose, though building up your Satisfaction first will at least let you pick and choose your upgrades with more freedom. I hope you enjoy!

Basic Cheats - Unlimited ...

Side-Write: Night Patrol

Well, I don't consider Project Wild One a scary game really, but it's true there's plenty about the setting and atmosphere of the game's design so far that lends itself to having spooky bits. I'd been debating writing more interviews with the other gods or the like, but I feel like if I'm writing this on Halloween, I might as well make it a spooky story. So here's a little peek into an aspect of the world I've been meaning to get to sometime anyway, turned into something appropriate for the h...

PWO v0.04 Super Cheats!

Here's the new set of cheat codes for the new version! Hope you enjoy!

As always, go to the Options menu to enter these cheats! You should see a small summary of each cheat in a window close by when it's active.

Basic Cheats - Unlimited Essence
BIGSHEEP

Super Cheats - Encounter Control
CREEPYHAIR

Project Wild One v0.04!

Update: Now available for two-week early access! Also, patched so Relax allows consensual vore to completion!
Update: Now available to the public!

You can finally see everyone's turns coming, and knots are now in the game! Get all the details in my big announcement on the blog! Thank you for supporting my work, and I hope you enjoy!

Mega Mirrors: 2022-10-28 23:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Side-Write: Interview with Death

In thinking about how this world comes together, I do feel like the gods will inevitably be big players, whose influence will be felt in a lot of different situations, in a lot of different ways. The more I thought about these beings, how they'd fit into the world, and how the world would be shaped around them, the more this idea came together in my mind as something that could be fun to explore. The dynamic between gods and mortals is always a strange one, and these ones in particular push t...

Vote Now! What's squeezing into v0.04?

Things are finally shaping up with the big overhaul to Project Wild One's backend to the GUI and the snazzy new bit, but I need something to add a little pizzazz to this update. It's time to add a player request, something I think the players would get excited about! And I need you to help me choose what to work on!

Below are six options for what I can do for a little extra on the end of working on this update. If the simpler stuff is top of the vote I might be able to...

Side-Write: A Different Wonderland

I tried to drum up a good short story for this one, but I felt like a lot of the ideas that came to mind were kinda repetitive of things I'd explored before. I decided I needed to work more on expanding the world and giving it personality beyond the bare basics I've laid out so far, so this became more of a walk-through on trying to work that out and make sure I'm working in the right direction.

I hope you find it an interesting read!

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I still worry, when I think about...

Dev Journal: Right in the Face

Far too often, I let these journals get delayed too long because I'm not happy with where I am right now. I want to have good news for you guys, and even if today was rough, maybe I'll finally crack it tomorrow. That pushed this out a lot this time around, but at this point, I could probably just use the catharsis of talking it out. And who knows, maybe it will help me get a little perspective.

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Side-Write: Wild Mythos

I'm getting more comfortable with what I want this game's world to involve, and after last time's exploration of how I want the game to feel, I'm feeling ready to start taking stabs at building out what's actually happening here. I'm blending a lot of different goals and desires here to try and find a sweet spot that works for everything I'd like to do.

As always, this is very much a rough draft of what may be. I might make changes to all this, and I might even scrap it all if it comes...

Side-Write: Bringing Happiness

This one feels just a little embarrassing to publish, because it might sound like I'm exploring some stuff that sounds pretty basic and obvious. I've been frustrated with this aspect of my writing and how my work has turned out for some time, so I decided that an important step in figuring out what I want the story and world of Project Wild One to be was to stop and really re-evaluate some of the basics and force myself to question my own assumptions and habits.

So this is another one ...

Project Wild One v0.03 Basic Cheats!

Update: Now available to Followers!

As always, go to the Options menu to enter these cheats! You should see a small summary of each cheat in a window close by when it's active.

This code allows you unlimited upgrades so you can jump straight to being an overpowered late-game monster if you so choose, though building up your Satisfaction first will at least let you pick and choose your upgrades with more freedom. I hope you enjoy!

Basic Cheats - Unlimited ...

Project Wild One v0.03 Super Cheats!

New version, new cheat codes! I bet you can see lots more of the new description variants much faster using these. I hope you enjoy!

As always, go to the Options menu to enter these cheats! You should see a small summary of each cheat in a window close by when it's active.

Basic Cheats - Unlimited Essence
ELFSTORM

Super Cheats - Encounter Control
CEMENTFREE

Project Wild One v0.03!

Update: Now in Two-Week Early Access! Plus a few small fixes.
Update: Now available to the public!

So many changes! You'll have to check out the blog post to see it all, but the biggest parts are probably that the text output is much more lively now, and you have a bunch of new options for how to get intimate! Please enjoy, and thank you for supporting my w...

Side-Write: Night Confession

I've been thinking more about what the story of Project Wild One needs to be, to support its strengths and its goals. I'm still learning about what's possible in this game and where the final version will actually go, but things are starting to fall into place a little at a time, and at this point, I feel like one big thing is kinda missing from the "world" building up around PWO.

It feels very wild and hedonistic, but that's never really suited my writing style or interests very well,...

Home Stretch!

I'm happy to say that Project Wild One v0.03 is finally nearing completion! I just sent out the test copies to my proofers to try and shake out as many bugs as we can before I'm putting it in you guys' hands! Usually we budget about a week for that, but this has been a crazy complicated one so I'm not putting a hard date on it. But I am now confident that the new version will be dropping in early June!

So this is fair warning, if you're in a reward tier that offers custom content (or a...

Dev Journal: Complete Flexibility

When I go back and check the last Dev Journal I posted, I find myself a little frustrated. Part of that is because the recent work has been a slog that I wish I could have gotten done and past faster, and part is because I seemed to estimate there was so little left to do between where I was then and where I am now. To some extent I suppose I was trying to be optimistic, but building a new ...

Side-Write: Lucky Dragon

I'm finally getting to the point I actually have writing to do again! But so far it's pretty basic stuff with a lot of focus on being just the right amount of vague, and I've found myself yearning just a little for a good narrative again.

So I thought some about what kind of story I could tell in the world we're developing for Project Wild One, and settled on finding a way to explore just a little of a slightly more "normal" life. Lots of people in this world lead lives that are pretty...

Side-Write: Interactive Flexibility

We've been speculating a lot about the world for PWO, so I feel like it's a decent time to take a break from building up background lore and try something a little different. This month I'm exploring a basic design challenge to try and find a solid solution I can use going forward. Hopefully in exploring it I can both gain a little perspective and maybe shake some new thoughts loose, and give you some interesting perspective on why certain things are surprisingly challenging!

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2022-03-31 22:21:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Journal: Thought, Memory, and Text

As much as I may seem inclined to rambling, I have to admit, writing dev journals has always been hard for me. But the worst thing about it has to be that whenever I'm having a hard time with the rest of my work, it gets that much harder to face the prospect of writing a new journal. I hate to disappoint myself, and I hate to disappoint others, and when I keep hitting slowdowns and setbacks, it hurts, but it doesn't hurt as much as having to come here and talk about it.

But these journ...

Side-Write: A World of Sex

After several side-writes exploring subjects that I found interesting but that many might have found... creepy, it's finally time to explore something a little lighter in the developing world and story of Project Wild One. There's still loads we don't know, and I'm not even sure how story-heavy this game will be in the end, but the characters need a world to live in, and that world needs to support the kind of game this is turning into. I hope you enjoy following my creative process!

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Side-Write: Food and Prosperity

I'm still working steadily on Project Wild One, and that means this month's side-write will continue our exploration of what's necessary to make this project's world "work!" Unlike my previous projects, PWO is being designed mechanics first and the story will grow around that, so this takes a pretty different approach to figuring out what this world "needs to be." The ideas below build on the side-writes from the last two months, so you might be a little lost diving into this one blind!
2022-02-01 06:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Project Wild One v0.02 Basic Cheats!

Edit: Now available to Followers!

As always, go to the Options menu to enter these cheats! You should see a small summary of each cheat in a window close by when it's active.

This code allows you unlimited upgrades so you can jump straight to being an overpowered late-game monster if you so choose, though building up your Satisfaction first will at least let you pick and choose your upgrades with more freedom. I hope you enjoy!

Basic Cheats - Unlimited Es...

Project Wild One v0.02 Super Cheats!

I was pretty happy with how it worked out last time, so I think I'll keep putting both the basic and super cheats in this post to simplify the release schedule.

That said, with this update, PWO's super cheats got a little boost! You can now either click one button to start a new encounter altogether or press another to force a new guy to be added to the current one. This should give you plenty of control to create the kind of situation you want... just be careful not to overwhelm your ...

Project Wild One v0.02c!

Edit: Now available to the public!
Edit 2: Updated to v0.02b! More info here!
Edit 3: Updated to v0.02c! More info here!

Excited to finally be working on this project again! To get all the info on this update, check out the big announceme...

Side-Write: Better Ways to Die

Glancing over the last Side-Write I realized there was still a lot to explore here with the questions of how the world of Project Wild One should be built. As I've mentioned, the story is still very much up in the air, and I intend to let the demands of the gameplay shape a lot of it-- in other words, the world will be shaped by what the game needs in order to be fun to play, and the story will grow naturally out of that world as I better come to understand it.

It's still really early ...