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Progress Report

Okay! Past time I let you guys know what's going on. Sorry I've been a bit more radio silent than I usually am. As I mentioned early in the month, I had some friends coming into town for a couple of days near the end of the month. Having to be awake during the day to play tour guide, essentially completely opposite my normal schedule, took a lot more out of me than I honestly expected. Guess I'm not as young as I used to be, or some other such saying.

So. About the progress. Ev...

Mixed Media - Silas Station 4 ($10 Patron Release)

With the release of A Bet Maid, it's also time for an older Royalty Tier exclusive is now be made accessible to the Upper Class Tier! In this case, Stranded on Silas Station (Part 4) is the one being made available. Give it a read if you haven't had a chance yet! Part 4 was odd in that I did something a bit extra, so please read the following bit from the original post first!

------From Origin...

Mixed Media - A Bet Maid (Part 1)

Uggghh, this thing fought me every single step of the way. But it's finally finished. Mostly, it's even too my satisfaction. It's got a few less renders than I'd originally intended and I think the writing suffers slightly for those missing renders to work with, but it's still solid. At least, I think so. And I'm typically one of my own worst critics, so hopefully that means it's okay.

Anyway, enjoy the first entry in A Bet Maid!

Old Reward Archive - Updated

With the release of the first Interlude for Mass Effect: Final Error, it's also time to move another older story into the Old Rewards Archive. The short added to the archive this time was An App for That. Which features a female protagonist who finds herself in possession of an App that can alter herself and the people a...

Short Story - Mass Effect: Final Error - Interlude 1

Alright folks! Past time I got this posted. As I mentioned in the most recent progress report, I decided the best way to handle the gap period between Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 3 (Yes, Mass Effect 3, since many of the major plot points of Mass Effect 2 were kinda...already covered out of order) was to do a pair of Interludes.

This is the first of those, covering three events from the first year or so after the defeat of Nazara at the Citadel. The next time ...

Progress Report

Okay, so...news is mixed. Not horrible, but not fantastic. We'll take them one at a time though.

Left Hand Magic

*sigh*

The good news here is that I'm actually a couple of days ahead of schedule regarding renders. I'm anticipating being done by the 26th, instead of the 28th which was my original estimate. The bad news, unfortunately, is that delays with the other rewards have kept me from getting any of the writing and pro...

Progress Report

Time for a progress report! Shockingly, I'm a bit ahead of where I expected on Left Hand Magic. Sadly, I'm also somewhat behind on literally everything else (except the wallpapers, I guess). Still, let's take these one at a time...

Left Hand Magic

As I said, I'm about a day ahead of schedule right now with animations. This has nothing to do with not having any screw ups, as I've had two major ones. Rather, it's the new hardware that I purchased in late Fe...

April Wallpapers

Finally got around to doing the typesetting that I so hate -_-. As usual, there are attached zip files with common resolutions, as well as a no-text version. Somewhat interestingly, I didn't realize until I was doing to typesetting that I'd never given Revina a last name. Oops. Oh well, it gave me a chance to come up with a tiny bit of lore for her that might pop up somewhere in game. 

Progress Report

Yikes, it was longer than I thought since I last did a progress report. I thought it had only been like 3 days, apparently it's been closer to five. Oops. 

Anyway...

Left Hand Magic

By some miracle, I've kept pace with the planned rendering so far. This is more startling than you'd think given that I said 'planned'...because I once again couldn't help myself and got a little over-ambitious, beyond what was actually planned. I might have a probl...

Poll Results

I probably should have waited the progress report from yesterday, huh? Oh well, this way there's not as much rambling in one post. Anyway, poll results!

Short Story Poll Results

This one managed to really surprise me! Perhaps that was because of the temporary removal of a couple options? I suppose that probably shifted some votes that normally go to them. Even odder was the bottom three all taking exactly the same number of votes! Regardless, here's the point spread.

Progress Report

Alright! Since the polls aren't done yet (go vote if you haven't!), there's not a whole lot to report yet. Aside from the renders for the Wallpapers, which are done and I'm just procrastinating doing the typesetting again because I both hate it and suck at it, the work I've done so far is all for Left Hand Magic.

Thankfully, so far that work is 100% on schedule. Slightly ahead even. Though I don't expect that to last. I knocked out the first 4 scenes, the mostly-non-sexual scen...

Sitrep for April

Alright. I said I'd do one of these of this month, so...here it goes. 

First, I'm going to flat out say it. The last 4 months or so have been hell. December was fucking miserable because I was trying to squeeze the first real release of Left Hand Magic into a month where I was guaranteed to lose the better part of a week to the holidays. This, in turn, resulted in the first MAJOR overrun of a game release I've had in years. Between the initial delays, then piling getting s...

April - Short Story Poll

Okay. So, just so everyone is aware, I'm only planning on doing this short this month. The secondary short of the month is basically one of the only things I can occasionally skip without feeling horrible about it. And I'm so worn down at this point that I'm trying desperately not to have this month go sideways and stressful on me. I'll cover more about that in my Sitrep post in a day or two. For now, just know that the winner of this poll will be the ONLY short for this month, rathe...

April Mixed Media Poll

Alright. Since basically my entire focus for the month is to NOT overreach and brutally hammer myself into burnout, I've removed the Starworld and Cyberworld comics again for now. Frankly, they are way too much work to even consider doing them during Left Hand Magic months, I think. From now on, they are likely to only appear in Haven's Port months. 

Thats said, I made a dumbass mistake last month and didn't actually make a voting option for the new story option I...

Old Reward Archive Updated

With the release of A Harvest Blessing, for $3+ patrons, an older story is going into the All Patrons Old Reward Archive. In this case, suitably, it was the previous entry in what I'm tentatively referring to as Lyriel's Adventures. A Harvest Blessing is the most recent such now, with the one moving into the archive bei...

March's Rather Late Second Short - A Harvest Blessing

Alright! Nope, I'm not dead. I've been taking it slightly easy for a few days, while also wrapping up some loose ends. Like, the Short Story for last month that didn't get finished (Sorry!). That short, the sequel to Cursed Collar and The Not So Cursed Courier, is attached to this post as a PDF, as usual. 

As for other stuff, I have gotten a few bits and pieces done. Such as doing the renders for April's Wallpapers, and mapping out what I need to do for Left Hand Magic thi...

Haven's Port Build 13 - Public Release

This build was a tiny bit smaller than normal, if you only take into account the total number of new scenes, as it only had 14. But, given that there was over a week of delay in getting started on it due to an overun of Left Hand Magic, AND the average scene length is over 6 renders per scene this time (usually it's around 4 renders a scene, average), I honestly feel pretty good about it. 

Now, normally, I don't give much in the way of hints outside the guide. However, thi...

Haven's Port - Build 14 - Walkthrough and Cheats

Okay! Sorry these are half a day after the release. I was too wiped out to get to making the walkthrough before I had some sleep. Walkthrough is attached as a PDF, as always. Note! There is a new cheat this time, which allows you to boost the Pirate Skill for easier access to the new content. 

-----Haven's Port Build 14 Cheats-----

NiceThings = +2000 Gold 

GoldenGirl = + 10 Fame 

WhoNeedsPanties = + 10 Nymph Points

LacyLife = + 10 Sedutres...

Haven's Port - Build 14 - $5 Patron Release

Whew! I'm completely wiped out at the moment, but as of my typing this, uploads have started for Build 14's release. I'm going to warn everyone upfront that I was sort of running on autopilot and hella hazzy for the last portion of testing, so there's a good chance I missed something, somewhere. Please report any bugs you run into. There were a few more core programming changes than usual this time, so the bugs could be a bigger deal if I missed them as well.

That said,...

Quick Note

*Update* Took slightly longer than expected due to some odd bugs. Everything is done now though and uploads are running. Shouldn't be more than an hour or so at this point. 

Almost done. Sort of. Finished all the writing and almost all the editing (I've got two passages left to check over). But, unfortunately, I need to stop to get some of my contract work for the day done. I'll finish up with the testing after that's taken care of. I'm expecting an early AM (proba...

Slight Delay

So, I'm afraid I have to admit that I'm not going to quite make the deadline. I tried, I promise, and it's not going to be too much of a delay. The programming is done (minus any bug fixes and such of course), and I've gotten about 50% of the writing finished. I'm fully expecting to finish the other 50% of the writing today/tonight. But that will still leave the editing pass and testing. Essentially, I need one more day. As such, I fully expect to release sometime tomorrow (...