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Haven's Port - Build 23 Release!

Hooooolllllyyy mother of cupcakes, I'm wiped out. I almost had to make a liar of myself and put this off until later today. Testing was a pain, because of how complex the two new endings are at the programming level. Worse, partway through, I discovered a major flaw in the Chastity System of the game that no one has ever reported T-T. Multiple major flaws in it, actually. I got side tracked trying to fix those, since there's a new way to end up in chastity (on a timer) in on...

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Just a Tiny Update

Just wanting to keep everyone up to date. Things have gone pretty much as expected. I'm now 100% finished with the writing, though only about 33% with the editing. Current projected timeline is that Haven's Port's delayed build will release sometime in the early morning tomorrow. The only thing that could derail that (barring some sort of disaster), is if the build is particularly bug heavy. Given the sheer size, that's not impossible, but hopefully won't be the case. Even then, I wouldn't ex...

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Progress Report

Alright folks, I'm doing a fair bit better than I was the last time I posted. Not great, honestly. But better, at least. I've had time to step back, take a deep breath, and figure out what to do about at least some of the clusterfucks that have occurred. On that note, there are two things to cover in this little mini-report.

The first is the Haven's Port build. I was, unfortunately, right to expect that yesterday was essentially a complete write off. Add in the completely unexp...

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Delay Notice

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*sigh*

Sorry folks, but I've just had a fucking terrible day from hell. I got at least a decent bit done on Friday and Saturday, though not as much as I'd hoped. But Sunday was a 100% complete and utter disaster. Not only did I suffer one of the worst episodes of food poisoning (from food that should have been perfectly safe, purchase from a local Deli the same day) I've experienced in years...but I also got slammed by a major wave of frustration and d...

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Progress Report + Holiday Poll Results

Alright! Past time for a progress report, even if the game is the only thing left for the month. Besides, I just closed down the Holiday Poll since no one has added any votes in days, so I can talk about that too. 

Holiday Poll Results

All of you should be aware that, in place of a Focus Poll this month, I ran a Holiday Poll. That poll was open to the Adventurer Tier and a...

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The Virtual Trap - Part 4 (Upper Class Release)

With the release of Xanadu Emporium Part 3 to Royalty Tier members, it's also time for one of the previous Royalty exclusives to be released to the Upper Class folks! In this case, it is The Virtual Trap (Part 4) that's due for release. This one was actually quite long, with over twenty renders and nearly 6,000 words! 

In this issue, Ellie makes a deal with Vera for one orgasm ou...

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Progress Report

Alright! Way passed time for a progress report. But the upside is that the news is almost entirely good. In light of that, let's dive right in.

Haven's Port

Things have been progressing just about as well as I could have possibly hoped with the rendering for the build. As I type this, the final render of the 8th scene of the Arena Champion ending is rendering. As the Arena Champion Ending is only intended to have 9 scenes, being one of the smaller endings (whereas...

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Old Reward Archive Updated

With the release of Andrea of the Silver Key Part 6 to $3+ Patrons, it's also time to update the Old Rewards Archive with one of last month's stories! In this case, appropriately enough, it was the previous entry of Andrea of the Silver Key that was added to the Archive. Part 5 of the series is now included in the zip arc...

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October Short 2 - Andrea of the Silver Key (Part 6)

Alright! Things are going well (I'll do a progress report tomorrow)! And part of that is that I'm done with the second short story of the month. With this entry of Andrea of the Silver Key, I've gone back to single-perspective, simply because it fit what I'd been planning for it better. Come read about Samantha giving their new Augmented Reality chastity belt its first live test across the city...

As always, story is attached as a PDF. 

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Progress Report

Alright! It's been far too long since a progress report, sorry about that! I've been juggling quite a few things and sort of didn't realize how long I'd let it go since one...

Haven's Port

Good news here! This is entirely on schedule, if only just barely. I have the final two renders of the entire Brothel Manager ending to do today...and then that ending will be done. And actually a bit larger than I originally intended, without causing the timing to slip...

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October Poll Results

Okay! Poll results time...mostly! As I made clear in the poll itself, because the Haven's Port/Holiday Poll is about December's content, I will let it run through the end of the month. The Short Story and Mixed Media Short polls came to a close at midnight last night, however, so time to cover the results ...

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Old Reward Archive Updated

First, a Quick Reminder that the monthly Polls close in 22 hours! Make sure you get your votes in!

With that reminded taken care of, I just released Truth or Dare Plus (Part 2) for the Adventurer Tier and higher. As always, that means that the Old Reward Archive was also updated with one of last mo...

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October Short Story: Truth or Date Plus (Part 2)

Alright! Time for the first short story release of October. I admit I have...mixed feelings about this one? It was fairly easy to write, which was nice. On the other hand the very confused-perspective style it's written in just sort of bothers the professional writer in me. The nature of the story makes it hard to tell from any one perspective, yet there's no way to cleanly swap between them. So it just sort of flows and warps moment to moment, in a way I hope I managed to m...

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Progress Report

Don't forget the polls are ongoing! The Short Story Poll, Holiday Focus Poll, and Mixed Media Short Polls...

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October Story Poll

*EDIT* It's not my fault! I actually did choose the multiple vote option this time! I triple checked! Unfortunately, Patreon has overhauled their UI again, for the THIRD TIME THIS YEAR (ARGGGGGGG). And apparently, that's bugged. If you want to vote for more than one story, put it in a comment and I'll make sure to split your votes as you choose.

Okay! Last of the initial polls for the month! Note that I've already determined on...

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Haven's Port/Holiday Poll

TLDR VERSION: There is an option available for another Haven's Port build in December, which would fill in some more general scenes of the game. Skip down to The Options for December if you don't care about the reasoning.

No one expects the focus poll! Or, at least, I expect that some of you didn't expect one for Haven's Port this month. It is, after all, supposedly the last build of the game. Right? Well, that's mostly right! Possibly ...

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Old Reward Archive Updated

As always, with the release of Andrea of the Silver Key (Part 5), it's also time for one of the previously-exclusive stories to be added to the Old Rewards Archive. In this case it was Alyia and the Magic Shop: Don't Juggle Dangerous Artifacts, the tenth entry in that particular series! As such, the Zip ...

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Sept Short 2 - Andrea of the Silver Key (Part 5)

Alright, folks! Three days late...but it was better for this to be late, rather than the game release. Which has always been the standing order of importance. It's just been a while since one of the short stories didn't get done in time. 

Anyway! This story sees the revival of Andrea of the Silver Key after a year of no updates. That took me a bit of time to adjust for...and I also discovered I had a little bit of a problem. I have plans for what to do with the st...

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Left Hand Magic - Build 10 (Public Release)

Alright! With the release of Build 11 for $5+ patrons, it's also time for a new public release! Build 10 was a case where I was/am 100% happy with the story, but there are 3 of its animations I really want to rework at some point -_-. Two of them are the spanking animations (you'll know them when you see them). I used too few frames and it shows, badly. Unfortunately, I had a devil of a time getting...

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Left Hand Magic - Cheats/Guide

*Edit 2* I'm an idiot and didn't actually attach the PDF. I did this time. -_-. Sorry. 

*Edit* Updated guide added to post in PDF format. As always, new stuff can be found by searching *New* within the guide. Asterisks included.

Okay, the guide isn't actually ready yet (I'll add it in a few hours an edit on the post when I do) but I wanted to go ahead and do this post for the new CHEATS! Yes! Left Hand Magic has cheats now! They are a bit lim...

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Left Hand Magic - Build 11

*Edit 11:40 PM* Ha! Made it will the Android build too, technically! It's been added.

Whew! Made it...mostly. As I'm writing this, the Android version is giving me fits again. I'll update the post with it when it's ready. For now, I want to actually get the Windows/Linux/Mac release out on time. An important note first!

Week 4 saves for Revina and Trix might not work. Any save prior to Week 4 should be fine. But there were major issues with the variables f...

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Progress Report

Alright folks, one last quick progress report before the release. 

First, Andrea of the Silver Key is very unlikely to release on time. I did my best to squeak in time...and it just didn't work out. As those of you who have been around long enough should already know, this does not mean that the story won't be done. I never skip rewards unless I warned about that before the month in question. This just means that the story will be released a few days into October....

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Progress Report

Okay! It's been a bit longer than it should have been, between Progress Reports. But that was mostly because there were a couple of other bits posted between then and now. Regardless of that, let's dive in, shall we?

Left Hand Magic

Right now, I'm pretty happy with where I am with this. Renders are essentially done, though I am currently re-rending one set of Revina's animations with a minor change. Since it was a very minor change (just altering some color), it w...

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The Virtual Trap (Part 3) - Upper Class Release

With the release of A Bet Maid (Part 3) for the Royalty Tier folks, it's also time for one of the previous Royalty Exclusive Mixed Media Shorts to be released for the Upper Class Tier! In this case, the MMS in question is obviously The Virtual Trap (Part 3)...you know, given the post title ;-). 

Part 3 continues as Ellie discovers that Vera has absolutely no intention of making Ellie's life easy ...

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Old Rewards Archive Updated

With the release of Truth or Date Plus for Adventurer and above Patrons, it's also time for one of last month's shorts to end the Old Rewards Archive. In this case, it was The Ruler's Companion, with is currently a one shot, thus not part of a zip archive, just a loose PDF. It's been added as such to the archive,...

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September Short Story - Truth or Date Plus

Whew, finally got at least one of the two short stories done! This one is a part of a potential new series, though one that would only run for maybe 3-4 releases, most likely. It was almost as much a writing exercise for me as anything. Lately, I've been struggling against the feeling of needing to keep 'one upping' myself in how kinky I make each story. Which just isn't sustainable and is, in fact, a bit exhausting. Which doesn't mean I won't keep trying to come up with clever new b...

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Progress Report

Okay! Been a bit overly long since I did a progress report! Thankfully, it's mostly good news. The wallpapers, of course, were already released. But that leaves everything else to cover...

Left Hand Magic

As you can see from the attached images, I've moved on to Trix's content. In fact, I've finished with her Day 1 and Day 2 content, and I'm working on Day 3. Sort of. I actually did them out of order, so it's not quite that simply. But effectively View Post

September Wallpapers

Alright! I actually finished these up yesterday, but both PCs were rendering so I couldn't upload very easily. Regardless, here are the wallpapers for the month! I'm pretty happy with them, particularly the NSFW one, I think it came out pretty awesome. As usual, zip archives of the most common resolutions, as well as a no-text version, are attached! 

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Progress Report

Okay, time for a progress report! Before anything else, I'm going to address something I mentioned in the Poll Results. I was down for a day with a severe migraine...and most of another day with the after effects of the same. This isn't a new thing, I know what causes them and have appropriate medication to keep the neurological issue in question under control. They only flare up when I'm being stupid and wearing myself down. The medication effectively acts as a buffer. So long as I'...

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Poll Results

Alright, everyone. This should have been up yesterday. Unfortunately, I was suffering from a blinding migraine (as in, literally, my vision was all fucked up from it) all of yesterday. Not a new thing, but something that only happens when I push too hard an wear myself down badly. More on that with the next progress report. For now, let's just tackle the Poll Results.

Arianna's Future Poll

I'm going to deal with this one first, since I feel it's the most important...

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