'Lo all!
As previously mentioned, this month is one of four (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) in which I wanted to try cracking out a short game in between bouts of more focused Thrallworks and regular content in the other months. I'd say I'm going to end up overshooting the window by about a week and a half/two weeks for an early March release, which isn't too bad, but still something to be avoided where ...
2024-02-28 23:29:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Woo, hello all! First coding update and it comes in right on the first of Feb!
This is the first time I've gone back into the project since my computer reset so I'm a little fraught about it, but I think everything should be functioning to the same level as before.
So in this version, we have:
Diamante Plaza is largely frequented by Labourers, Maids and Secretaries, who perform various tasks for the residents, but Pleasure Thralls are also rather prevalent, called on various apartment visits. Rarely, a luxury model is spotted, normally a Pony, but occassionally a Dancer can be spotted moving through toward some kind of collaboration. And as ever, there are a couple of Praetorians on guard, though they tend to keep their presence concealed to keep the resident's minds...
2024-01-27 16:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Well hello there!
Today we take a peek inside of Ghost's Garden; a small area of Diamante Plaza that functions as a kind of exhibition-space, where people come to admire sculptures (some of which move) and whatever performance pieces are around. This is the domain of 'Ghost', the Plaza's resident Dancer-- so-called for she's never actually seen- rather, it's other thralls and sometimes even residents who are pulled in to performances in this space...
The second image is an ins...
2024-01-23 10:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Making your way to your new quarters in Diamante Plaza, a clumy author bumps into you. You can berate her, or you can help her pick her stuff up, or both!
I also used this opportunity to make the BG art for the outside of the Plaza area, just in front of Ghost's Garden- a small walkabout area under the care and control of the Plaza's resident Dancer thrall, 'Ghost'. As per my schedule, all you $10 patties can go ...
2024-01-14 19:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome friendos, to the second time I've done this!
The deal is this: The above is a background CG to be used in the Thrallworks Game. The ghostly person-blobs are placeholders for people who will be in the scene. I might even make it so that not all of them appear at once, or maybe it's an entirely different set depending on the time of day.
Last time I just picked out the ones I thought fitted best in the situation, this time it'll be slightly less curated; where I give y'all a...
2024-01-14 19:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
'Lo all, long time no see!
The end of last month was...a long time away from the comp. And when I came back, I had computer issues, with slowness so bad it made doing art impossible. To be honest the computer issues are still very present, but I can at least wrestle with it now and, so long as the computer hasn't been on for too long and I don't have too many programs open.
That was enough time though to finish the first Special Orders collection! Originally this was for Hypnovemb...
2024-01-08 10:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I figured some of you folks would like to get a peek under the hood of what it all took, so, I figured I’d do a write-up!
In the beginning, there was Hypnovember.
I thought about starting doing an image a day as is traditional, and even crept up on the idea with a ‘Thrallworks special order’ image (see below), but it was already a few days in, and in the run up, though I asked in advance for a list of prompts for the month, I can’t say I was enamoured...
2023-12-11 18:31:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, happy Hypnovember! :D/
...WHADDYA MEAN IT'S THE 9TH OF DECEMBER ALREADY?! GEEZ!!
Well, whaddya gonna do. Anyway, for this year I thought what might be fun would be to try and make a smol interactive game from scratch for the month, so, I did!
It turned into a bit of an obsession and got away from me a bit, hence why I've kept quiet around here- I figured you'd more appreciate the finished (beyond a few fixer-uppers) article rather than a bunch of 'it's com...
2023-12-09 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hellooooo Patrons!
I thought for this update it would be prudent to have a look at where we are and what I'll be doing to fill out the rest of the year; after all we've only got, what, 4 updates left in the year and I'd like to get a few things down and done by then.
First though, what I've been working on for the last 2 weeks!
Basically, as the images indicate, I've been putting Onna's character model into the game and writing various br...
2023-11-04 02:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the gags available to vote on! Surprisingly, not too many entries for this one.
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2023-10-31 19:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
'Lo all, happy Halloween!
As I'm sure you'll have seen sprinkled throughout the last few years, I've done some Penlight fanart here and there. Penlight's a Hypnosis-themed VN set in japanese high school (18+, naturally, as the last year of Jap highschool is), erotic but not with sex scenes or the like, and with a lot of story paths and CG's. Check out the creator's DA 2023-10-28 16:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post
'Lo all, hope the week's been good!
Been progressing on save states, but it's one thing to make the save-states work while the game is running, and another to make it work when you switch it on and off; it seems we're back on the more technical work now, so I think we're going back onto fortnightly updates now to round out the rest of this design work and get the vertical slice of Onna out. - so the next of these updates'll be...I think I might try for Thursday the 2nd ...
2023-10-21 03:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Yo yo yo, gotta write this quick because I'm away this morn!
Managed to get the Cosmetics in as an update afore then though by some miracle - there's a bug in the left-hand 'hood' canvas where it displays a body, but it doesn't get in the way of pressing the buttons and if you click on a different hood-type it solves itself. I think.
Beyond that I've fixed some issues with getting locked out of the design sub-menu and improved the speed of a few transitions.
Sometime over th...
2023-10-14 08:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week, another bit of the menu done!
This time, collars! Not too many choices for these, as unlike other parts of the thrallsuit, the collars will need to be redrawn for various CG's, and it's wise to cut down on that as much as possible. Still, having choices is good! And affects dialogue in the future, as you'd expect.
This one was quite simple to do, which let me fix a couple of other things in the menu (such as the reported error with not being able to select menu items...
2023-10-06 23:27:25 +0000 UTC View Post
'Lo all!
Apologies for the delay, it would've been out a day or two sooner, but there was a literal bombscare in my local area! Fun times. Also, I was trying to get a fanproject finished, hence the week's delays. I managed to get 90% of the way there, but there's still one area that requires maybe 2/3 days more work to complete, then I'll be able to post it up here and give it as a whole over to the author of the original work for them to post up publicly as they like.
Also, right...
2023-10-01 18:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Evenin' all!
We move onto the lower rung of the design areas, and first up are Hoods! Who asked for these? No-one! But it seemed like something that there would be some niche appreciation for, and who am I to deny The People? Besides, it's not like there aren't Correction states...
Unsurprisingly, L-D19 is not the biggest fan of these...however, depending on your approach with them and how you want things to go with her, she might be able to be brought around...
I've also ma...
2023-09-15 20:29:42 +0000 UTC View Post
And here are the 3 Entries that were delivered unto me! Less than I thought I'd get, but very manageable so I don't hate it.
I did dark/light, light/dark and dark/nude variants just to give you an idea of h...
2023-09-13 22:23:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week, another update!
Slightly delayed from bug-hunting; I cleared up a couple things that caused the game to crash, but for all I know that put a couple new bugs in.
The Eyes proved complicated as I thought, so currently the only functioning menus for them are to change the colour of the 'default' eyes and indicate whether you want glazed or default as your base for your thrall, with the intent to add in content for the Indicator States and Glazing later.
Probably g...
2023-09-09 10:25:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy all!
Exactly as it says on the tin! I'm planning on having aroundabout 20ish different designs of thrallsuit for L-D19 in the game, and thought it would be nice for you all to get involved and have the chance to insert your own designs into the game!
So here's how this is going to work-
Above I've included a template of L-D19's basic body shape. To enter this contest, you first have to save/take this image, then go into any art...
2023-09-06 18:37:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey ho all! Blimey, it's an update! And an update it indeed is!
I really ground it out this week, and thanks to that we've caught up to where we *should* have been without that week-2 tragedy! So now we have 2 things; the designation pacer to go forehead or collar, and a choice of PCU designs, and colouring it, the medical impant, and the top knot (if present)
And also! Changes to modify L-D's thrallflesh in 2 ways, 1 to make da booba smoova, and another to decomplicate the footwe...
2023-09-01 19:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hooray, fixed the UI issues! And we now have Mac and Linux versions! I sure hope they work! :D
It's a bit delayed, but I've now added a few hair-change options and the ability to change its colour too. Both will affect her opinions depending on what's selected. I think I'll be able to add a couple more options for it too come the next update, along with...I think perhaps changing the colour of the metals.
I've also been looking over and outlining the script for the scene and sketc...
2023-08-26 22:16:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Yaaaay you're friends! :D
And we've reached a good point to 'checkpoint' this story for now too; pausing it while I focus on continuing/finishing other projects and review the best way to continue this one.
It's a little sooner than I thought it would be, but I'd only planned on doing this for the month, and the progress on this has been such that there's plenty to consider on how to proceed and refine the game/text/art balance of things.
I've a few ideas on what those avenu...
2023-08-23 11:22:20 +0000 UTC View Post
So I booted up the project to work on several days ago and out of nowhere all the Y-Axis positions on the UI objects had lost their data, so basically wrecked the design from top to bottom, and I've spent the week trying to repair that.
So that wasn't great. What's more concerning is that aside from knowing it was an error caused by some scrollbar nonsense, there didn't seem to be any other cause for it to happen, so I'm worried it might happen again even after I fix it.
At any ra...
2023-08-19 00:35:39 +0000 UTC View Post
By the time I started thinking again, I was already back inside my ship, trying to find something more appropriate to wear than a few wraps of silk.
Ideas pulsed in the back of my brain, guiding my hands through what few choices I had available. Casual. Relaxed. Serious. Seduct...
2023-08-17 18:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew! Well, I've finally got something presentable!
Added to the Windows version (Mac and Linux I'm hoping to get done over the next couple of days, there's some issues with the build support) is now a 'Thrall Designer' on the title screen, where you can design L-D19's thrallsuit!
Right now it's just the thrallsuit and the skintones, but even so I believe you'll find adequate customizeability. In addition, we'll be stepping up the updates from fortnightly to
I’ve been triggered, and am reporting as my training dictates. Reason: Tribe Encounter.
Forgive the scrawl as I gather myself– this is the first time I’ve been snapped awake outside of my normal rhythm– but even so, I would not have expected the first encounter with another Tribe to begin while I was mid…’experimentation’.
It appears to be a ...
2023-08-10 19:25:17 +0000 UTC View Post
For reasons unknown to herself, Liaison takes out some of her trading silks for a little play, wondering why it makes her heart pound so hard, and just how much tighter she could make the bindings bite...
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At some point we'll have to do an interior layout of the ship, but for now it's just important to know there's a cosy-comfy section for Liaison to relax in...and to invite others into...
2023-08-07 17:26:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The first choice made for her, she heads out, finding travel more peculiar than before, thanks to her new Keeper's attentions...
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Welcome individual insanities, to a new kind of CYOA I'll be running over the coming month!
You are collectively played as a person known as 'The Keeper', who has been given an island to look after by the Ki'An compound; a group of cultists who worship the entity known as 'The Goddess Yi Lin'.
A lovely isle, as you can see.
Your relationship with Yi Lin though, unlike many of those ...
2023-08-01 01:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post