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Old Rewards Archive - Updated

With the release of The Drunken Purchase, another exclusive short story has moved to the Old Rewards Archive. In this case, it was Aylia and the Magic Shop - Key Making, which can now be found in the Aylia's Magic Shop archive.

Short Story - The Drunken Promise

Alright! Got the short story done pretty early this month, compared to the usual at least. Had a bit more trouble writing it than expected, given it wasn't a terribly complex concept. But I think the end result turned out fairly decent. I thus present to you, packaged in the attached PDF, The Drunken Promise...

Progress Report

Alright, folks. First, sorry for the silence. I seem to be moderately cursed as, a couple of days after my last post, I ordered out in an attempt to take it easy for a day...and promptly got food poisoning that had me completely miserable for around three days (still honestly not 100% on day 5 -_-). I'm fairly certain my past life (if such a thing exists), was a serial puppy murderer or something -_-.

ANYWAY. Polls closed almost a week ago, and I've actually just about finished...

Sitrep for July

Alright, folks, this is more of a situation report than a progress report for a couple of reasons. First, of course, is that the polls are still ongoing. Second, however is because of the reason things were delayed at the end of the last build.

Bluntly put, I crashed hard after 6+ months of pushing myself beyond sane working limits trying to get Left Hand Magic done on my original self-imposed deadline. Which, much to my frustration, would have been the game being totally done new conte...

Future Games - Feedback Poll - Part 3!

Alright, folks! As has been the case for the last couple of months, the Focus Poll is currently a Feedback Poll. Since the Harem Route is a straight shot, there isn't anything to ask about regarding it, so I'm trying to get a better idea what you all want to see in any new games I make! So far, last month's poll about Dom/Sub roles for chastity content, and 2025-07-06 03:07:09 +0000 UTC View Post

July Short Story Poll

Alright, folks. More than half of all voters last month said they actually do read the Short Stories. Which means I feel like I ought to keep making them. That said, something needs to change to help me with trying to manage the burnout from doing to many projects at once. As such, I'm overhauling this poll a bit. Specifically, I'm going to be narrowing the options somewhat, while rotating them more frequently.

Essentially, I'm going to pick out 4-5 story concept, be those new...

Left Hand Magic - Build 30

Whew! Sorry again about the delay folks. Life thoroughly kicked my ass last month. Honestly, it's been doing that for a few months, which only made it worse when I finally crashed hard for a few days. Still, I managed to keep the delay from getting too bad, keeping it down to just three days. Though I will warn you that I cut one minor corner to make the delay as small as possible. Namely, I didn't update the Gallery this time, since that would have pushed the update back an...

Delay Notification

So, I already said this in the Short Story release. However, despite the majority of people claiming they read those, I have my doubts, so I'm making a separate post that I'm more sure people will actually read this. Bluntly put, I got utterly and completely overwhelmed, to the point of non-functional burnout for a few days. This caused work on Left Hand Magic to slow to a crawl, and even now I'm not exactly better, I'm just forcing the issue in order to get it done. It doesn't help ...

Old Reward Archive Updated

Ugh, should have put this out last night, but got distracted trying to hammer at the programming for Left Hand Magic. Anyway, as always when there is a new short story release, a previous exclusive goes into the Old Rewards Archive for All Patrons. In this case, it was Aylia's and the Magic Shop: Survival Mode, that wa...

June Short Story

Alright! So, bit of an explanation first. I prioritized this for the last two days because I'm about 97% sure that Left Hand Magic is going to suffer a couple of days of delay. I figured, if that was going to be the case, I could at least get the short story reward out so that Left Hand Magic is the only thing delayed. As for the why of that delay. Frankly, I hit a burnout point that was bad enough I had to stop working on much of anything for a day or two. It was a long time buildin...

The Virtual Trap (Part 12) - Upper Class Release

Alright! With the release of Cara Loft - Part 9 for the Royalty Tier folks, it's also time for a previously Royalty Exclusive to be released for the Upper Class tier patrons! In this particular case, the latest Virtual Trap entry is the previous exclusive in question!

In this entry, Ellie's adventure continues, finally getting some genuine freedom, at least in the digital world! Yet, she st...

Progress Report

Novus Thought Process: "Oh, hey, it's been a few days, I should make a progress report!"

Opens Patreon

Spits out energy drink

"Wait! How had it been six days! Crap, crap, crap! Do a progress report!"

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So...yep. That was about what happened :-p. I seriously didn't realize it had been that long! I thought I was maybe, like, a day late on doing one again at most. Sorry!

Left Hand Magic

Renders are done...

Progress Report

Reminder: If you haven't yet voted in the Poll About Short Story Rewards, please do. If you don't read them, you are literally the most important people to that poll, so please don't skip it.

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Ugh, I was going to do this like 6 hours ago, but then I ended up spending almost four of those hours trying to figure out how to giv...

Progress Report + Poll Result

Right! So, two of the three polls this month were open ended and are still running. The Poll About the Short Story Rewards and the Data Collection for Future Games Poll. If you haven't checked those two out, please do so, as both of them are things I want as much feedback as possible on before I close them...

Future Games - Data Collection Poll!

Much like last month, there isn't actually anything left to ask about Left Hand Magic. However, that poll has proven useful. I now have a much better idea what you, my current Patrons, are most into kink wise. In fact, the spread of results actually helped somewhat to explain the falloff between last year and this year.

Left Hand Magic does have chastity content and pet play (technic...

Short Story Reward Survival Poll

Alright, folks. This isn't the normal short story poll. For this month alone, I'm going to simply pick a story off the list that I'm most feeling like updating. Right at the moment, it's most likely to be Alyia and the Magic Shop or a Dungeon Town story. Those are both usually popular, so I won't feel to bad about picking them, and it will let me pick something easy to write for this month.

What this poll actually is about, is to find out if this reward is even worth me continu...

Old Rewards Archive - Updated

With the slightly late release of May's short story, Alyia and the Magic Shop - Key Making, it's also time to update the Old Rewards Archive, of course! In this particular case, the addition was The Deck of Many Lewd Things, which I added as it's own PDF to the archive.

Honestly, I need to reorganize the ...

May Short Story - Alyia and the Magic Shop

Whew! Alright, since this went over the deadline, I put pretty much all my focus for the last two days on getting it done. It's also the last reward for May since, after opening it and changing the version number of the Guide, I realized that was literally all there was to change T-T. When I update the cheats, I'll need to update the Guide again, but until then it's basically in final form already, since the Harem Route is linear.

Anyway, Alyia and the Magic Shop won again, so ...

Left Hand Magic - Build 29

Whew! Made it! At least for the game release. Though, as I mentioned would probably be the case in the last Progress Report, I didn't manage to squeeze the gallery content in. I also didn't include one of the four animation redos I managed, as I realized I kinda hated it. The original animation has a major glitch, but the redo is actually...not as good looking because I simplified it. I'll tweak it and try again.

Anyway, despite the serious overrun from last month causing a later start ...

Progress Report

Alright. So, this will be the last progress report before the new build release. Hopefully, there won't be a delay notice, either. Though I will say upfront that the Short Story will not be out on time. I, to be completely honest here, haven't even looked at it. I've been too busy juggling other things. The late start in the month didn't help at all, of course, and I again underestimated the amount of time and effort it is taking to do the writing. This larger number of non-...

Progress Report

Alright! I held off on this until today, since the latest Mixed Media Releases were ready yesterday. I've also not had time to mess with the Short Story, so this is going to be regarding just Left Hand Magic.

As I mentioned in the last progress report, my firm desire to not have a repeat of last month's delay, means that I closed down rendering early. I managed all of Week 2, plus the first two days of Week 3. I'd honestly hoped to make it 3 days into week 3, b...

Cara Loft - Part 8 (Upper Class Release)

Alright! With the release of the first every entry in the new Mixed Media Short - Cyber Dreams Part 1, for the Royalty Tier folks...it's also time to move one of the previously Royalty Tier exclusives into the domain of the Upper Class folks.

In this case, it's the latest entry of the Cara Loft series, in which Cara and Sam try out a new form of tantric energy harvesting, seeking to gather th...

Progress Report

Alright, bit later than intended on another progress report, but not by much. Had a few technical difficulties that had me scrambling a bit today, which was part of the reason. Anyway...diving right in:

Left Hand Magic

Progress here has been solid. Good, even, if I'm being honest. I'm just about completely done with Week 2, and I think I'll get 2-3 days into Week 3, which is about what I'd hoped for, honestly. I've settled on a pattern of two events per day, six d...

Poll Results/Progress Report

First, sorry for the short radio silence. Had some minor (hopefully) medical stuff pop-up and take up time unexpectedly. I've managed to mostly keep on track for the various actual projects, but haven't had a lot of time free to make posts and such. That said, let's get the poll results out of the way first! Note that the Feedback Poll is not included, as it hasn't ended. Feel free to go vote there ...

May - Feedback Poll - Attempt 2

Original Poll was closed due to me screwing up and not allowing multiple votes -_-. Sorry, everyone. I left it up to retain any commentary on it. I really want people to be able to select multiples in this case, so please forgive me and vote again?
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Okay, so...uh...there isn't really any point in running a focus poll? We're so close to the end of Left Hand Magic that I literally can't think of anything else to ask you guys, gals, and others to weigh in ...

May Short Story Poll

Alright! Story poll time. Dungeon Town had finally shifted it's description again, as the Armor Shop had it's fair chance. Alyia and the Magic Shop has a follow up for last month's story as well, and the Surprise Me! option is back with a new theme! Starship Promise is gone temporarily, as it really hasn't had a lot of support. It'll get another shot sooner or later. In it's place is one more chance for The Deck of Many Lewd Things. Make sure to read the descriptions, since so many o...

Old Rewards Archive - Updated

As always, in with the new and in with the old too! With the release of Alyia and the Magic Shop - Survival Mode for $3+ members, The Old Rewards Archive has also gained a new entry!

Specifically, in this case, Dungeon Town - Armor Shop (Part 2) has been added to the Dungeon Town zip archive in the Old Reward Archi...

April's Delayed Short Story!

Whew! As promised, I never outright discard rewards, even if they get delayed! This is the last delayed reward from April, the short story that got sidelined as I realized how much I needed to focus every spare minute on Left Hand Magic!

This return to Alyia and her aunt's magic shop was fun, I think. It's honestly a little less smutty than usual? I think? That wasn't really intentional, but I had fun creating the magic system that's described within the story, so that took more focus ...

Left Hand Magic - Guide Update

Honestly, this particular guide update isn't all that important, it just adds a brief summary for the New Game+ route, including normal means-of-access. (Though I technically haven't tested to even see if it can be opened the 'right' way, didn't have time with the delayed release, and wasn't important to check with the main menu cheat active). Anyway, important or not, updated it is!

Left Hand Magic - Build 28

*Note* Eight hours of attempting to shrink the Android version to within the 2gb limit and I've had enough. The Android version can go fuck itself with a cactus then get lit on fire.

Ugh. This was a slog. I feel like I've been beaten in the face repeatedly by a brick or something. But, it's done! Late, but done...mostly. As of first posting I haven't tried to make the android version yet. We'll see if I can crunch the size enough to make it wo...