Time for the Short Story Poll! But, before I get into our options, I'm going to touch on the fact that the list has gotten a bit...long. Frankly, a couple of the stories don't really get much in the way of votes. While none of them ever get none, stories like DoL: Origins rarely have more than one or two people vote for them. As a result, I'm removing a couple of the stories as options. Now, if you're a fan of one of those stories, Don't Freak Out. There's a good cha...
2021-11-04 11:25:27 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Poll time! Nothing complex to see here, since I'm not going to introduce any new options until one or more of these wrap-up. The options for the month are pretty straightforward as a result. Starworld and The Side Gig are the two closest to finishing, both having only a single additional entry planned. Cyberworld has two more, Stranded on Silas Station has at least 3-4 left, possibly more, given that it just started last month!
2021-11-04 11:11:27 +0000 UTC
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Honestly, this isn't as critical to do this month, as things will be more normal development-wise for November. But I am trying to be better about communicating what's going on.
First things first. I'm sure you've all realized that the second short from October wasn't released on time. Things just got too chaotic with last-minute issues regarding Left Hand Magic and it fell to the wayside. Then I had a bunch of stuff over the last couple of days, including a doctor's appo...
2021-11-03 12:22:51 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Time to show everyone the results of the first month working on Left Hand Magic. As I repeatedly warned, this first build is pretty minimal, due to the need to establish all the basic systems, as well as overcome a number of technical challenges. That said, I do think it does a pretty good job of showing the sort of quality you can expect from the game! I'm quite please by the aspect of things, even if I'm a little disappointed I didn't get farther so I could introduce all the main c...
2021-11-01 01:20:51 +0000 UTC
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With the release of Galactic Nomad: A Frustrating Relic for $3+ patrons, another previously-exclusive short enters the Old Reward Archive for all patrons! This time it was Andrea of the Silver Key: Forward Momentum that was added to the archive...along with Andrea of the Silver Key 3 (Playtime and Deals), which should have been added som...
2021-10-31 08:04:19 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Finally got this done and edited. And the intro for Left Hand Magic is basically done. Needs a few final tweaks and then I have to remember how to actually do a release for Renpy. Either way, it should be up later today. In the meantime, enjoy the latest Galactic Nomad short! As always, it's attached to this post as a pdf.
2021-10-31 07:57:35 +0000 UTC
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Okay guys, gals, and others, I need to sit down and talk about just Left Hand Magic for a bit here. To be blunt, I've run into a series of major issues when it comes to the animations. First, it was just making the animations, which took almost 5 days instead of the 2 I expected. Most of it was stupid stuff, caused by my inexperience with making animations as complex as these. Some of it was not stupid stuff, being actual software problems that I had to sort...
2021-10-27 08:10:10 +0000 UTC
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With the release of Stranded on Silas Station (Part 1) for Royalty Members, it's also time to move an older mixed media/comic story to be accessible for Upper Class patrons. This time, that story is the third chapter of The Side Gig, featuring our adorable Chastity Belt Tester. I think it might actually be the best of the Side Gig series so far, so enjoy if you haven't had the chance yet!
As usual, the ...
2021-10-26 09:06:32 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Another of the monthly rewards knocked out! Thank goodness for that, as Left Hand Magic is stressing me the fuck out at the moment. The animation is fighting me wwwwwaaaaaayyyyy more than expected. I thought I'd have been finished with it two days ago, but my inexperience is showing and I keep making minor errors that turn into big issues. Ugh. Then there was Windows being a little bitch and completely wiping out one attempt when I tried to control-z undo something....
2021-10-26 04:58:18 +0000 UTC
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Ugh, I kept putting this off because I wanted something cool to put in as an image.
*pouts in a corner*
Unfortunately, I'm having some issues with the animation for Left Hand Magic. Nothing serious, just inexperience causing issues. In example, I very stupidly didn't reset the image series file type to PNG the first time...which means I had 51 useless frames since they didn't have transparency T-T. And then there's when Daz fucked up the materials because I used the...
2021-10-24 12:22:30 +0000 UTC
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Whew, at least I can get one of the month's rewards crossed off the list. Though I will also mention that I've finished all the renders for the comic. So we should be seeing that sometime in the next 3-4 days, depending on when I can carve out the time to do the writing. The intro for the game is also done, but I'll go more into that tomorrow.
Anyway, I decided to start the series of Left Hand Magic wallpapers, with Talia Heart! Congrats! You Royalty tier folks a...
2021-10-22 07:57:39 +0000 UTC
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Sorry about this being a bit later than I'd intended. The reason for that is that, unfortunately, I suffered a mild setback. Specifically, I was pretty much out of commission on Sunday, which is normally the day I get the most done(it's the only day of the week I have otherwise completely off). I think I've mentioned before that I suffer from migraines. Normally, they are extremely well managed, to the point that serious flares tend to be months apart. Unfortunately, one of those rar...
2021-10-20 06:35:36 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Time for some more updates on how things are going. To be honest, I'm at least a little bit behind on almost everything, but nothing is critically behind, thankfully. And progress IS being made all the way around. So, in order of what I think you probably want to most hear about...
Left Hand Magic
I just finished the creation of some sprite sets a for each character (Plus the MC) a few minutes ago. Each set, with the exception of the MC, continues 13-14 s...
2021-10-17 07:44:37 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Time for another little update on progress. While it took several days longer than I'd originally hoped, I now have the six locations needed for the intro and prologue sections of the game sorted out. Each of them may receive minor tweaking during the next step of the process, but these are essentially finished. The toxic swamp is the most likely to be tweaked in a significant way, as I'm not happy with the way the chemical spill looks, but it couldn't be fixed in Daz. I'm going to s...
2021-10-15 03:30:18 +0000 UTC
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Alright! The polls have wrapped up, so I'll cover those first, before going into what I've been working on for Left Hand Magic.
Protagonist Poll
The vote was actually pretty close between The Bad Girl and The Elven Tomboy! Super Curves got no love, surprisingly. You see that over-the-top-boobs stuff so often in H-Games th...
2021-10-12 20:57:00 +0000 UTC
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First, don't forget that the monthly polls are still running! Particularly important is the poll regarding Left Hand Magic's Protagonist.
Beyond that, I promised I'd be keeping everyone more informed on progress this month. So far, most of what I've done is boring. I've been relearning Ren'py (haven't used it in a few years at this point...
2021-10-08 23:36:00 +0000 UTC
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Wohoo, we're finally settling the last major question for Left Hand Magic! Before I go any farther, I want to stop and explain something. This poll is a BIG DEAL. Aside from the poll about which game was chosen, this is actually the single most important poll for the new game. Why? Because this about more than just the character appearance. I'm giving YOU, my patrons, a BIG say in what this protagonists actually personality will be. ...
2021-10-07 03:05:24 +0000 UTC
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It's that time again...time to pick between the many possible short stories. Nothing new this time, since we just got a new story last time and I don't want to have too many active stories. Please remember that this poll is weighted, 1 vote for every $1 of your pledge. And if you vote for more than one story, you're votes will be evenly divided between the stories, even if that results in fractional votes!
The Choices for October:
Mass Effect - Fi...
2021-10-07 02:35:31 +0000 UTC
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Once again, it's time for the monthly polls! For the most part, the comic poll is pretty straightforward. But there's both a new possibility and a note about The Side Gig.
First, The Side Gig. This story is only going to have one more chapter. Meaning, the next update of it will be the last update, wrapping it up. This isn't because I'm out of ideas...so much as it is because I'm out of assets. Chastity Belts made for Daz3D are a pretty rare asset. And even though I own pretty ...
2021-10-07 02:26:38 +0000 UTC
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With the release of The Starship Promise (Part 1) for $3+ Patrons, it's time to move another short story into the Old Rewards Archive as well. In this case it was The Long Haul: Groundside Explorations.
Note that The Long Haul was once Station 11. It was renamed when I decided to make it a series! The series now contains The ...
2021-10-06 19:19:23 +0000 UTC
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First and foremost...I apologize for how late this is. Almost a full week, yikes! I can only cite the overrun of Haven's Port as the cause, as it meant that I dropped everything to keep that overrun down to the minimum. That meant in turn that I had barely started on this. Even so, I'd actually hoped to release it yesterday, but I ran out of steam and practically passed out about halfway through editing it.
That said! There's a least something special about this particular work! F...
2021-10-06 19:11:17 +0000 UTC
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Alright! I don't know if I'll keep doing these posts after October, but for this month I definitely need to outline the goals for the month. Not to mention manage some expectations, as it were. First, a bit of good news. This month will see the return of me doing two short stories, instead of one, as my time is no longer divided prepping for the game that will...you know...actually be the primary focus for the month. In fact, depending on how things go, I may try my hand at a few sho...
2021-10-05 05:50:15 +0000 UTC
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Whew! With the slightly late release of Build 11 for $5 Patrons, it's time for the previous build to go public! Since there's a super important thing I want you to read...I'll leave talking about the release to the release notes.
SUPER IMPORTNANT THING. OLD SAVE SUPPORT HAS CHANGED!
Yes, you can still use old saves. HOWEVER, it's no longer automatic. It was becoming super cumbe...
2021-10-03 18:05:55 +0000 UTC
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Update 2: Another small bug the occurs with rent being due while renting the townhouse has been fixed in the online versions. And there is a Bugfix 2 file attached for each version (Compressed and Not) that will fix both it and the issue in Update 1. I've removed the other Bugfix as it's not longer needed.
Update: Small bug fix for a problem that prevented people from triggering the Market Area Bondage Trap. Online version should be fixed, the DL versions have f...
2021-10-03 09:41:04 +0000 UTC
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Update: Walkthrough attached as a PDF! As usual, search the PDF for *New* to see only the stuff new to Build 11. The new stuff is sufficiently complex that I also encourage you to ask if anything doesn't make sense, or if I missed something! I tried to be fairly thorough, but I could easily have missed something do to the relative complexity of the new content for Build 11.
First off, as usual, the walkthrough will be lagging a day behind the game release. I'll add it t...
2021-10-03 07:08:51 +0000 UTC
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Holy mother of chocolate chip cookies, I think this Build was mildly cursed or something. I just had to spend almost 10 hours on the testing/bug squishing. That's easily a record for this game. Good news is that it's done, bad news is that I just started the uploads. Should be up in a few hoursish.
2021-10-03 03:57:30 +0000 UTC
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Alright, coding, writing and editing is all done. All that's left is testing and upload. Unfortunately, I'm barely keeping my eyes open. Going to crash soon. I expect the release to be done sometime this afternoon. But then I'll need to go through all the upload process hoops. The actual release post will like being in the early evening. All of which is barring anything major going wrong, of course.
2021-10-02 11:12:41 +0000 UTC
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Okay, yay, I just finished the programming. Mostly. Still one mildly complicated snippet that my brain is way too fried at the moment to even thing about.
Long story short though, it's taken me 2.5 days longer than expected to get the code done. No way in hell I'm going to be done by midnight tonight. Release is going to be pushed back until at least late night/early morning on the 1st/2nd. Possibly sometime later on the 2nd at worst, I think. Well, barring the usual statement ...
2021-09-30 08:45:02 +0000 UTC
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So, this is just going to be a (hopefully) quick note. I spent a good 6 hours yesterday working on Haven's Port (Plus my day job work, that adds up to a long day)...and I didn't get anywhere near as far as I'd expected. I ended up having to create 5 new renders for things I'd forgotten (exterior of the new house, sleeping in the new house, things like that) AND the fiddly bits are killing me by inches. Or, well, it seemed that way.
Essentially, I badly...
2021-09-28 17:54:30 +0000 UTC
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