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Feb Short Story - The Ruler's Companion

Alright! Sorry I forgot to post this a few days ago when it was actually done...but it's here now. Last month, I updated The Ruler's Companion, but admitted that it had run away on me a bit. I was forced to split what I actually wanted to write into two, and released only Part 1 in January. Thus, this month the first story release is Part 2 of The Ruler’s Companion: Lingerie Shop. It absolutely will not make sense if you don't read Part 1 of the same story...

February Poll Results

Alright! Poll results were in as of midnight last night, and I just applied the vote-weighing to the Short Story Poll, so time to get on with announcing the results!

Focus Poll

-_- Really guys? You lot decided to stick me with a 50/50 poll again. Well, since that sticks me with needing to cast the final vote, and I feel like Revina doesn't get enough love...Revina it is! Don't be too down if you wanted the Arianna/Talia route. It's probable I'll get at least a cou...

Progress Report

Alright! First, a reminder that the Polls are still ongoing! This month's Focus Poll in particular is currently tied. So make sure you get your votes in if you haven't already!

With that reminder out of the way, as those polls are still ongoing, I obviously can't speak to the MMS or Poll Story. Other t...

Feburary Short Story Poll

*Edit* No, you aren't crazy if you saw this pop up once already. Or if you followed a dead link to another version from an email alert. I forgot to enable multiple votes, and no one had actually voted yet, so I deleted that one and remade the poll. Sorry for the confusion!

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Alright! Time for the Story Poll of the month! A quick reminder, The Ruler's Companion is not in the poll this month as it is getting an update as the non-poll-chosen story ...

Feburary Focus Poll

Whew! Last of the polls for the month! This one is straightforward(ish), thankfully! I still have one day worth of Talia's Week 5 to take care of, and I'm also planning to go back and add a chastity-enabled masturbation option to a previous week that needs one still. With those two scenes being the first things I'm going to tackle (plus the wallpapers and similar early-month stuff), I have enough to keep me busy while this poll runs.

Which is good! Since it means I can put the question ...

Left Hand Magic - Build 12 (Public Release)

Alright! With the release of Build 13 for $5+ Patrons, it's also time for the previous Build of Left Hand Magic to get it's public release! Build 12 was a decently sized build, introducing a total of 7 new scenes for Week 5. Two for Trix and five for Revina/Trix/MC threesome route. In total, that added up to 12 new animations. A few of those are variants, but they are major variant...

Left Hand Magic - Build 13 Route Guide/Cheats

Sweet! I got everything out before the end of the month! Even the guide/cheats post! 

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Anyway! There isn't much to say about the Route Guide. It's useful if you get stuck, but by Week 5 you're pretty much locked into a single Route, so it's more a good way to peek and see what sort of new content there is, I guess? That said, this build saw the Cheat system get an upgrade. No more having to download and copy paste extra files! How it works is a...

Left Hand Magic (Build 13) - $5 Patron Release

MAHWHAHAHA! Two months in a row I've been able to release on the morning of the 31st! That feels amazing, honestly. Heck, I should even be able to release the cheats/guide before midnight to have a truly 100% on time delivery. Bonus points that it's a nicely sized build, too, even if my OCD is a tiny bit annoyed I couldn't get Talia's last Weekday scene for Week 5 in -_-. 

I did get all five days of Arianna's Week 5 Route in, four days of Talia's, and some tweak...

Progress Report

Alright! This should be the last progress report before release, unless something goes pretty badly wrong somewhere. As of right now, things are looking solid for a release on the 31st! I've got all the major programming (everything bar the gallery updates, essentially) done. As of writing this 7/9 scenes have their writing done as well, and I'm intending to finish the writing for the last two before I crash for the day. Editing & Testing will be for tonight (29th) and tomorrow morning, t...

The Virtual Trap (Part 5) - Upper Class Release

With the release of Cara Loft: The Seal of Kukaco for the Royalty tier it is, as always, also time to move one of the previously Royalty-Exclusive Mixed Media Shorts to the Upper Class Tier. In this case, it was the latest addition to The Virtual Trap that was due to move, so here it is! 

In Part 5 Ellie gets some help learning the combat ropes in Arcadia City from Ryla...

Progress Report

Alright! Only two things left to report on, so I'll start with the easy one. The Mixed Media Short is done save for an editing pass. It should be out either later today or sometime tomorrow and I think it came out pretty good! I haven't quite decided yet if I'm going to title it Cara Loft: The Seal of Kukaco, or Cara Loft: Kukaco's Relic. But whatever I decide on, I think people will like it. Dunno if they'll like it enough for it to win future polls. But we'll see!

As for Left Hand Mag...

Old Reward Archive Updated!

With the release of The App for that Part 4, it's also time for one of the previous exclusives to go into the Old Rewards Archive for All Patrons to access. In this case, it was Snowed in Together, which was the Winter Themed piece I did in December. In what seems to be some sort of conspiracy for the month, it was a hyp...

An App for That (Part 4)

Behold! Tis the second short story of the month! This one took a fair bit of doing since I had to reread all three of the previous entries, it had been so long ;-). Still, I think what I came up with is pretty solid! It's also pretty obvious where it's leading this time, which might or might not give it a better chance of winning the next poll!

Anyway, see what Gwen and Sandra get up to at the Au Naturale resort! Or at least the start of their adventures there ;-). As always, s...

Progress Report!

Whew! Past time I did one of these. Sorry about that. I've been frantically trying to juggle all-the-things and only mostly succeeding. Anyway, let's dive right in, shall we?

Left Hand Magic

The main topic, of course! I'm...honestly about 2-3 days behind where I wanted to be with this. That day and a half I was sick for was made worse by some particularly slow renders (20 hours or so each) of two of the animations. That said, I'm done with Arianna's rendering for ...

Old Rewards Archive Updated

As always, with the release of a new Short Story (The Ruler's Companion: The Lingerie Shop (Part 1)), it's also time to update the All Patrons Old Rewards Archive with a previously higher-tier exclusive story. In this particular case it was Part 3 (the final part!) of the Truth or Dare Plus short series! If you haven't give...

January Short Story - The Ruler’s Companion

Alright, folks! This is a bit later than I'd hope for a couple of reasons. The first was that day lost to food poisoning. The second, however, was that...I badly underestimated the length of what I wanted to write. Even now, despite this short being well over 7,000 words instead of the usual 5,000ish, I ended up splitting this particular story. This is Part 1 and I'll do Part 2 as the non-poll story next month.

Despite that, I don't regret choosing it. I think this particular s...

Poll Results

Alright! Poll results time! Honestly, this would have been up sooner but I was basically completely out of commission yesterday do to a serious case of food poisoning -_-.  Ugh. Still feeling kinda awful even a day and a half later, but I'm at least mostly functional. Enough that I've resumed all the bits and pieces I was working on (Left Hand Magic and the short story bot got setback by a day, hence why the short story isn't out yet).

Anyway, enough about that, let's get ...

Progress Report

Alright! Bit passed time for the first progress report of the month. Before anything else, do remember that the Short Story, Focus, and Mixed Media Polls are all still ongoing! There are currently fewer votes compare...

Left Hand Magic - January Focus Poll

Now for the Focus Poll! Since Haven's Port is now finished, I'll be doubling down on Left Hand Magic, with the goal of finishing it up sometime this fall at the latest. I'm hoping that, without having to swap between projects (engines, coding languages, entire mindsets really since Haven's Port and Left Hand Magic are entirely different types of games), releases will come more smoothly (and possibly larger). Though we're unlikely to see the possible effects of that until at least next month, ...

January Short Story Poll

It's poll time again! All three polls are going up today (the Mixed Media Poll is already up for Royalty Tier folks). Nothing particularly new to report on this one, aside from the Theme of the Dungeon Town option changing. The previous possible theme was specific to the holidays. Now it's been shifted to something more general, so make sure you give that one a glance if you liked the idea of the D...

Haven's Port - Build 23 - Public Release!

Alright! With the release of Haven's Port's Final Build for Patrons, it's also time for the previous Build to go Public! Build 23 was massive, adding not only two additional endings to the game, but also a new date for Lexie and some new Menu Plus scenes at the Jolly Rodger. I also did the first of two major sweeps of the early game renders, running them through some additional post-processing ...

Haven's Port - Final Build Walkthrough/Cheats

Okay! First thing first...cheats are now actually in the Walkthrough itself, rather than being posted here. Previously, I'd posted them here because people kept leaking them and I'd change some or all of them when someone did. Now that the game is done, though, I'm not going to be changing them. As such, I simply made a section for them in the Guide itself. Second thing second...I did a little reorganizing. Honestly, I should probably do a complete overhaul of the guide, but that would take m...

Haven's Port - Final Build

Woohoo, I made it! Honestly, I wasn't sure I was going to pull off getting this out on time, but I did! Mind you, I will warn all of you right now that there are likely to be some bugs. Particularly regarding the new ability to buy a Chastity Belt (at the Pet Shop) and voluntarily equip it. That necessitated an entire extra copy of the Haven's Port Chastity Locations to make it work, and I just didn't have time to exhaustively test them all. I ran through quite a few of them...