What's New:
1) The beginning of the new process where Button has to identify Nick if cooperating with Noh. It's very much a work-in-progress that my brain is still untangling the logistics of (psychic science is hard, guys!), but I'll be trying to finish it tonight and updating the link every thousand words or so (every few hours).
2) Scenes with Sally should Button refuse Noh's offer, both romance and friendship ve...
2021-10-29 00:44:23 +0000 UTC View PostI'm doing my best to get the update posted tonight, but I had one of my famous (infamous?) last minute epiphanies. So it'll probably be up at midnight at the earliest š
(I swear that I'm doing my best to keep deadlines, but pre-update adrenaline nerves often leads to last-minute creative bursts. Insert cliched phrase about being "merciless in the face of my muse blahblahblah" here.)
WARNING: MEGA SPOILERY BITS
Originally in this chapter, Noh simp...
2021-10-28 01:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostWordcount: 462k
Next Update: October 27
Warning: Spoilers!
Another blogpost, which means another entry in the āthings I plan to change during Mind Blindās rewrite.ā Not to be repetitive, but itās where my head is at right now. My list of future fixes is sixty-eight bullets point long as of the writing of this post, and I fully anticipate it surpassing one-hundred by the end of the month.
Today Iām going to t...
2021-10-23 20:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostInspired By: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/press-release/ because science is sexy
AU where Button is a college student and Rosy is their tutor.
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When Ambrosia volunteered to help you study for your biology final, you hadnāt anticipated that her unorthodox tutoring methods.
Your lashes brush against the soft silk of Ambrosiaās dress sash currently tied securely ar...
2021-10-22 05:59:36 +0000 UTC View PostInspired By: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/press-release/ because science is sexy
AU where Button is a college student and Rosy is their tutor.
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When Ambrose volunteered to help you study for your biology final, you hadnāt anticipated that his unorthodox tutoring methods.
Your lashes brush against the soft silk of Ambroseās tie, currently tied securely around you...
2021-10-22 05:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostāYou found this in the library?ā Delphineās voice was skeptical. She set down the grimoire on her desk, using one hand to keep it open while the other motioned me to pull my chair closer.
I nodded. Delphine likely wouldnāt turn Colm in for holding onto an illegal text, but it wasnāt my secret to tell. āThe bindingās age piqued my curiosity. The spell looks as if it might be useful.ā Since the quickening spell was similar to the slowing charm, except in reverse, I hoped t...
2021-10-20 22:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostSome mortals who pass on with unfinished business enter into the intangible phase of existenceāthat is, they become ghosts.
Despite shedding the physical limitations of their human body, ghosts become immobile, tethered to the location at which they died or a place which had significance to them back when they were still a Flesher (in Delivery, referring to ghosts as ādeadā and humans as āaliveā is the height of rudeness). Ghosts end up trapped in their prior re...
2021-10-20 05:06:59 +0000 UTC View PostWord Count: 421,000
Average Playthrough: 98k
Notes (with spoilers): The scenes where Button dismisses Noh early on aren't fully implemented yet, but you can still play through Noh's conversation up to the final choice (dun-dun-duuuuunnnn).
Nover!Button scenes are also in for Chapter 13, although pointing the gun at Kenzie will lead to a (figurative!) dead end since I'm currently contemplate whether or not I sh...
2021-10-18 18:35:57 +0000 UTC View PostFirst delay was my fault. This second delay, I'm blaming on the universe.
Dashingdon is currently down (I've been trying to access it for a while with no luck, and no one on the Sanctum seems able to access the site either). That being said, I did promise an update today.
Attached to this post is the coded file for the first part of Chapter 14. There's still some dead ends (it only includes the conversation with Noh part, and I took off the ending with the final decision ...
2021-10-18 00:26:19 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still fixing code, so the demo update won't be out until tomorrow. I'm so sorry, everyone! I truly thought that I could get it out by tonight, but I likely have at least two more hours of bug quashing ahead of me.
Problem in a little more depth: I had both dialogues with Noh (at the safehouse and at Nick's house) using the same scene, with the differences written within using *if variables. This lead to an issue that I'm can't for the life of me figure out why ...
2021-10-17 04:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostWord Count: 426k
Next Update: October 16 (aka tomorrow evening)
In addition to the romance reworkings that I mentioned in my last blog post, Iāll also be doing major overhauls of how stats present in the menu screen.
In the second draft (which will be done after I get this alpha out), many relationship stats will not longer show. Nick and the main ROs will remain (complete with Nickās possible 200%), but Button's relationship with their ...
2021-10-16 00:53:56 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the Personal Correspondence of Lady Vitrula Rhys
Dear Tru,
Apologies for the delay between this letter and my last. Work has kept me busy of lateāI could regale you with my adventures in paperwork but I expect youād find the details as tedious as I do. Instead, Iāve decided to share another of Anterdonās fables since you enjoyed the last one so much. Theo finds my hobby of collecting such stories to be childish (a judgement he feels it ne...
2021-10-13 20:23:02 +0000 UTC View PostI've been pretty much offline these past couple days due to computer problems and also due to being completely absorbed with this newest chapter (BECAUSE NOH). Anyhow, as apology for my silence, here's a teaser for the next update on October 16.
I mentioned in a recent post that Button can walk away from Noh and thus never learn their identity. Obviously, this part is still a WIP (as is the whole game), but I wanted to share a little about how the scene plays out. 2021-10-13 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
First off: thanks to my neighbor for letting me use her computer! Now onto āFridayāsā blog post.
Ahem.
The list of things which I intend to polish during Mind Blindās second draft is too lengthy to include in a single post, but today Iām going to talk about one of the most important aspects which I intend to rework: Romance.
When I first started writing and coding Mind Blind, I didnāt know what I was doing. To some extent, I still donā...
2021-10-09 22:27:22 +0000 UTC View PostNote: I'm currently having computer issues and stuck using my phone, so am announcing this month's interview subject a day early in lieu of tonight's blog post (which will be released tomorrow afternoon after I get my laptop fixed).
The interviewee is Reese, and I could not be more thrilled for the chance to heckle them. Ask your questions via this post or the interview channel on the Sanctum of Spoilers . . . And don't pull your punches. Reese deserves to get a little...
I stiffened. My studies with Delphine werenāt a secretāit had taken a year into my residency at Bellcrest for other courtiers to cease ogling me as if horns had sprouted from my temples. As my behavior otherwise had given no sign of mental degradation, most eventually accepted my apprenticeship as an unfortunate character quirk that they deigned to overlook in light of my impeccable manners. Even Kotheās citizens had begrudgingly reaccepted me, since their knowledge of my actions as Duk...
2021-10-06 20:45:28 +0000 UTC View PostA Sequel To: www.patreon.com/posts/mb-short-story-56788958
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Glitch morosely trailed his fingertips along the price plaques that lined the storeās small aisleāJet Puffed, Campfire, a no-name brand with plain black print that the sweltering heat had caused to bleed through the plastic and stain the marshmallows within a dingy grey. There was another bag, a brand he didnāt recognize, with a googly-eyed mascot that looked like the illicit lovechild of the...
2021-10-05 05:37:49 +0000 UTC View PostVote for the next Mind Blind interviewee!
I decided to save any follow-up interviews of the ROs until after the first draft of the game is done--that way, you'll be able to ask them questions about major, but as of yet unrevealed, plot points.
That being said, there's still four people to choose from (five, if you count Clarence as human).
2021-10-03 03:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostI finally figured out how to quash the loops that were happening in Chapter 13! The fix involved a lot of word bloat, which I usually try to avoid, but now things will be better remembered like whether or not Kenzie is holding AL, and you won't get trapped in the Matrix. (That being said, Chapter 13 is now 15,000 words longer.)
There were too many variables to code for each path, so dialogue options previously looped back to paths you hadnāt seen. Now, these options redirect to simila...
2021-10-02 03:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostWarning: Contains Light Spoilers for Future Chapters in Mind Blind
Button is referred to as "Ellery." Usually I can get around using a first name in these interviews, but Caleb's overentitled sense of closeness required a proper first name in order to portray.
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A spotlight shines on Nicholas Wiseman, his black attire more suitable for a funeral than the host of a talk show. For the first time si...
2021-09-30 23:26:53 +0000 UTC View PostWarning: Contains Light Spoilers for Future Chapters in Mind Blind
Button is referred to as "Ellery." Usually I can get around using a first name in these interviews, but Caleb's overentitled sense of closeness required a proper first name in order to portray.
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A spotlight shines on Nicholas Wiseman, his black attire more suitable for a funeral than the host of a talk show. For the first time si...
2021-09-30 23:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostFeaturing: Grayson and Kent, with appearances by Nick and Ferro
Inspired By: This weekend's most live recent Q&A, where the subject of unlikely pairs going camping got brought up
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If asked, Grayson wouldāve been hard-pressed to explain the elaborate series of events which had led to him driving an RV. Although, to clarify, the RV wasnāt the mystifying partāthe camper had been rented two months in advan...
2021-09-30 05:48:33 +0000 UTC View PostāIs everything okay?ā
Kenna doesnāt respond to your question as the front door slams behind her. Instead, she kneels down to scratch behind Antigoneās ear.
You suppress a sigh. After a year of cohabitating, you should be used to being ignored in favor of the shih tzus. Usually, you donāt begrudge Annie and Cass their ownerās affection, but when your fiancĆ©e returns from work two hours early and with a figurative thundercloud looming above her head . . . well, sometime...
2021-09-29 01:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostāIs everything okay?ā
Kent doesnāt respond to your question as the front door slams behind him. He kneels down to scratch behind Antigoneās ear.
You suppress a sigh. After a year of cohabitating, you should be used to being ignored in favor of the shih tzus. Usually, you donāt begrudge Annie and Cass their ownerās affection, but when your fiancĆ© returns from work two hours early and with a figurative thundercloud looming above his head . . . well, sometimes you wish t...
2021-09-29 01:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostThere werenāt all that many funny bloopers this time, but I did let Button go a wee bit feral in this latest Chapter and had to reign them back (Mind Blind is PG-13, after all). Here are the options that didnāt make the cut due to being overly violent.
So, uh, read at your own discretion.
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You wait until Andy touches the dial before dropping the EMP device into the air vent. Immediately, thereās a blue flash, followed by a sizzle and Andyās shrill...
2021-09-27 02:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostI was having some serious issues with looping scenes earlier that took me a few hours to fix, but I believe they're all sorted. Basically, Kenzie kept taking the Pollard Test multiple times. Maybe they enjoyed AL's tender administrations?
Missing stuff: Nover!Buttons are still missing half the scene in Chapter 13 due to a separate looping issue that I'm currently working on solving. For Chapter 14, the scene only plays under certain circumstances (I've yet to finish the...
2021-09-26 02:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn college, I took a screenwriting class where we had to write a short script in groups of four. Although it soon became obvious that I was incapable of constructing a short plot able to be played out in fifteen minutes, and that I became bored and distracted when asked to write the scenery and stage direction. What I was good at was editing dialogue so that each character sounded distinct, and it quickly became my role in the group. The other three would write the first draft, and then I wou...
2021-09-25 03:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostMy breaths rasped in and out. Inhaling was hard, exhaling harder. Acid from my stomach burned my throat as I fended off a wave of nausea. My feet were rooted to the floor: I couldnāt sit down, couldnāt move. I could only stare at the message before me.
Iāll win.
Rereading those last two words managed to shake me out of my trance. I forced my leaden feet to walk towards my bookcase, where I retrieved my copy of Yainharrow. I turned the first page, where Xander had wr...
2021-09-22 03:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostOut of all known types of mental agility, telekinesis is the rarest and least understood. Although most people believe that telekinesis is the ability to move matter, the actual science of telekinesis is not so simpleānor fully comprehended, due to the extreme rarity of its occurrence.
Initially, telekinesis was thought to be a byproduct of electromagnetic fields generated by a Telekineticās unique brand of Z-waves, which travel a shorter distance (resulting in limited brainrange), ...
2021-09-21 01:40:27 +0000 UTC View PostTotal Wordcount: 392k (not including Chapter 14 material)
Next Update: September 25 ā this will include the final part of Chapter 13, and hopefully the first part of Chapter 14
Todayās blog falls on a Saturday, as my mother flew in last night and we were up watching Florence Foster Jenkins. As my mom reads these posts, Iāll simply say that itās been, uh, delightful to have her here in Chicago. Simply delightful.
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2021-09-18 17:17:00 +0000 UTC View Post