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Delay Notice

Okay, so...I messed up a bit. I allotted the 'normal' amount of days for coding/writing this month as I have been for the last year or so. That proved to be a fairly large error, as the coding took an extra day to due to the complexity of getting the New Game+ cheat to work so that you lot don't have to play through all four primary routes just to unlock it (given you've likely played them all already!).

Worse, I badly underestimated how much extra writing time I was going to ...

The Virtual Trap - Part 11 (Upper Class Release)

With the release of The Virtual Trap - Part 12 for the Royalty Tier folks, it's time for another previous Royalty-Exclusive to go out to the Upper Class followers! In this case, in a nice bit of symmetry, it's the previous issue of The Virtual Trap that's moving out of exclusive!

This one was a 19 render and 4,500+ words long release. So a nicely sized addition to the series! One in which El...

Progress Report

Whew. Sorry about taking longer than usual to make a progress report folks. I lost considerably more time to Easer Weekend than I'd expected to. And, just for good measure, allergy season has finally hit me like a brick to the face and I've been trying to cope with taking all the allergy meds and still not feeling great. Anyway, news is...kinda rough, but not horrible? Let's take a look.

Left Hand Magic

So, I shifted gears a little bit away from my origin...

Progress Report

Alright! Progress Report time!

Left Hand Magic

This is going more or less well? I think? Still feeling my way through it, but I'm mostly done with Week 1 of the Harem Route. I'm going to need to backtrack and make one or two extra renders so that the New Game+ doesn't have the exact same prologue content. But the week 1 content past the prologue and through the weekend of Week 1 is essentially done. Roughly ten scenes, two with animations. I'll be doing another sc...

April Poll Results!

Alright, I'd intended to have this up yesterday, but life events got in the way of my doing the vote weighing for the Short Story Poll. I just finished with that, so...poll results time!

Left Hand Magic Focus Poll

I honestly didn't know what to expect with this choice, since I've never been quite sure how important animations were to people. I was pretty interested to see that, while opinions were certainly split, a significant majority came down on the side of 'm...

Progress Report

Alright! Just stopping in for a quick Progress Report, folks. Obviously, since none of the three polls are done yet (they finish tomorrow at midnight, make sure to vote if you haven't yet!), the only thing to talk about is Left Hand Magic.

I started the month by working through another three replacements for old-and-low-quality-or-error-heavy animations. After that, though, I got a start on the Harem Route content. So far, I've work through two scenes intended for Week 1, one with just...

April Focus Poll - Let's Talk Harem Route!

Alright everyone, time for the last big push! Now that the six main routes of the game are down, I'm going to be putting together the New Game+ Harem Route I've promised from the start! Activating this route will require you to finish the four solo-girl routes (or input the cheat that I'm going to make sure is in place!) to get a chance at playing!

The Harem Route will play a bit more kinetically, going through all six weeks in a way that will see you interacting with and developing a ...

April Short Story Poll

Alright! Story poll time. Given that Dungeon Town: Armor Shop placed second last month, despite it being a Part 3, I decided to let it have one more pass before shifting it's description. You lot apparently really like that little sub-series, so I feel it's only fair to give it a parting chance. Also, note that in place of the normal Theme option, is an option to continue The Deck of Many Lewd Things from last month. Frankly, I think that story would do w...

Left Hand Magic - Build 26 (Public Release)

Alright! With Build 27 out for $5+ Patrons, it's time for Build 26 to go public! Notably, this is one of the last public releases of the game. The game isn't quite done yet, but the New Game+ Harem Route is something I've always intended to be exclusively for Patrons and the Steam Release. After all, why should someone bother buying a Steam release of the game if there's a 100% complete an...

Android Version

Just a quick note that the Android version of Build 27 is now up in the release post. I didn't truly fix the problem, so much as found a few places I could shrink files sizes enough to squeeze the size barely under 2gb. Hopefully it works (haven't actually tested it yet on any of my devices, it's downloading onto my phone atm to make sure it works). It's not a long-...

Left Hand Magic - Build 27 Guide

Alright! Still working on a solution for the Android build, but I wanted to get this out quickly, given that the Extra scenes actually do have unlock conditions that might be hard to figure out. Meaning the updates for the Guide are actually useful this time! Hurray!

As always, seek out the new content by searching *New (complete with asterisk) in the attached PDF! Or just look at the end of Week 3's content for each route to find the Extra scenes, which are really the ones you might n...

Left Hand Magic - Build 27 Release!

Alright! The Build is here! A few quick notes first:

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1) Remember the amount of new content in this build is a bit smaller than normal, as I replaced eleven old animations with fixed/improved versions.

2) (No Longer Valid - Was regarding the Android Delay) The Android version is up now, but may be a bit borderline...

3) The Gallery is lacking a way to repeat the new Extra Scenes currently. Mos...

An Unexpected Poll!

Note: There is a TLDR version of this if you don't care for the wall-of-text explanation. Just skip down to the -----TLDR Version------ line far below and read from there!

Sorry this isn't the release post, folks! Don't worry that it isn't. Everything is pretty much on track for an on time release late tonight. Unless something goes badly sideways, the new build should be out either this evening or, at a worst extreme, early in the AM on the 1st.

However!...

Old Rewards Archive Updated

With the release of The Deck of Many Lewd Things, a previous $3 patron exclusive has entered into the Old Rewards Archive for All Patrons! In this particular case, it was Dungeon Town: The Armor Shop (Part 1) that was added tot he Old Rewards Archive. It can be found in the Dungeon Town zip archive! If you haven't had a ch...

Short Story - The Deck of Many Lewd Things

Alright! Managed to squeeze in the rest of the writing/editing for this in the last couple of days!

As for the result...it was an interesting experiment? In all honestly, I'm not unhappy with it, so much as making it truly random resulted in less spectacular effects than expected. The group of adventurers managed, somehow, to pull several fairly tame card combinations. For that reason I left the story open for another 'round' so to speak, if people are interested in seeing that...

Cara Loft - Part 7 - Upper Class Release

Oops! Meant to release this shortly after the Part 8 Release for the Royalty Tier, but I got distracted! Sorry! Anyway, this is the latest MMS to come off Royalty Exclusive. Conveniently timed, by happenstance, to match up with the most recent Royalty Release of the latest Cara Loft addition!

Part 7 came out pretty good, I think, despite my struggling with the renders a bit the month it was ...

Progress Report

Ummm...darn it. I was doing so good about on time progress reports, the completely let this one slip for a fully week. I'm sorry T-T...

Left Hand Magic

Good and bad here. I'm done with the four 'extras' and decided to tackle the alternate Drone Scene from Arianna's Route first. Unfortunately, that's where the bad comes in as it's been fighting me. I can't get the render times down to something reasonable, and I'm still not sure why. At this point I'm 100% sure I'm...

Progress Report

Alright! Getting a progress report out on the proper schedule for once! Let's dive right in, shall we?

Left Hand Magic

Progress has been fairly decent here. Not spectacular, but decent. I've got two of the extra scenes completely rendered. Just one animation and a handful of stills for each, as these aren't super complex scenes. You can get the gist of them from the images, even if not the specifics ;-). I'll hopefully be starting on the next one tonight, as well....

March Poll Results

Alright everyone, polls are closed and results are all tabulated! Let's dive right into them.

Left Hand Magic - Focus Poll

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Add the extra scenes for some variety! - 50%

Get Started On the Harem Route this month! -27%

I don't care, do what you want! - 23%

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The results here were pretty clear! A solid half of everyone wanted the extra scenes, so that's what I'm going with. I'm hoping to get...

Quick Progress Report

Well, the polls will all close within 24 hours, but I figured I'd at least drop a simple report on how the various re-renders of animations are going. I've managed to redo 8 animations, with another one ongoing as I type this. There's one more that I mostly fixed, but it needs some small additional tweaks and the render time is too long, so it's been set aside to run later in the month once I'm done with the new content renders. There's usually a few days where renders aren't ongoing...

Focus Poll - March

Okay everyone! I mentioned in my Sitrep for March post that there was a poll to be had about some extra possible content for the main routes. Essentially, what it boils down to is the fact that the routes are...pretty linear as they currently exist. There are a bare handful of discoverable extra scenes/encounters here and there. Mostly things that require you to walk the hard-to-manage Switch...

Short Story Poll - March

Alright! Story poll time. Some changes to pay attention to in the descriptions! An App for That has been languishing for a while, as no one seemed interested in where it was going. As such, a time skip has been employed and the description changed to reflect that. In particular, pay attention to the Theme Update.

Given it's popularity, I put up a third possible entry for Dungeon Town: Armor Shop. Likely the last one for a while, even if it wins, as the Dungeon Town slot i...

Sitrep for March

Alright, it's been a while since I felt the need to do one of these, but March is going to be a little different from usual. As such, I figured I'd better put out a note on the subject before the polls (which will likely be up within a day, but still).

First, you all should be aware, since I've mentioned it frequently and often, that the last major thing I'm doing with Left Hand Magic is a New Game+ Route. Said route will unlock after completing the four solo routes (threesome...

Left Hand Magic -Build 26 Guide

Alright! I wasn't too swift about getting on top of this, since frankly it really just added descriptions of the new stuff for completeness sake. It's literally impossible to reach the new content without already being locked into a route, so it's hardly a case of needing new instruction :-p. Still, the Guide has now been updated for the same of completeness.

I'm hoping in March to update the cheats, which have needed an overhaul for quite a while. But February was already super tight, ...

Left Hand Magic - Build 25 (Public Release)

Alright! With the release of Build 26 for Patrons super early this morning, it's also time for Build 25 to go public!

Excitingly, this particular build has the first three Epilogues/Endings for the game. Specifically, it contains the final action bits, sex scenes, and epilogues for the Arianna, Trix, and Revina/Trix threesome routes. It also has the first small wave of animation replace...

Left Hand Magic - Build 26 Release

So...I...uh...made a partial liar out of myself? Much to my legitimate surprise, the fact I only got like 4.5 hours of sleep resulted in at least the PC/Linux/Mac versions being ready before midnight. Going to need to spend an hour or two on the android port, so right now it's in (Pending) status. But since the PC/Linux/Mac versions are done, I figured I might as well upload them and put them out on time!

A bit about the actual release first. The main feature of Build 26 is, of course, ...

Short Delay Notice

Alright, I warned everyone repeatedly this month that this was a possibility. I seriously doubt I'm going to pull off a release by midnight tonight. Though I think it will be a remarkably close thing. Close enough that I'm legitimately expecting to be able to do the release earlyish in the AM on the 1st. With probably less then 8 hours of delay in total. Unless something goes really wrong, I doubt the delay will be longer than sometime on the 2nd at absolute worst.

Cara Loft 6 - Upper Class Release

With the release of The Virtual Trap (Part 11) for Royalty Tier folks, it's also time for a previous Royalty-Exclusive chapters of Cara Loft - Seal of Kukaco to release to the Upper Class Tier! Strap in for a new (relatively) adventure of Cara Loft and her best friend Sam, as they try to find a solution for Sam's little chastity-belt predicament! Twenty-one new renders, and rough...

Old Rewards Archive - Updated

As always, with the release of the latest Short Story (Dungeon Town: Armor Shop (Part 2)), it's also time to update the Old Rewards Archive with one of the previously-exclusive stories. In this case, it was Dungeon Town: Winter Festival that was due to be added to the All-Patrons archive. It is now available in ...

Dungeon Town: Armor Shop (Part 2)

Whew! Got the short story edited, finally. I'll be spending the rest of the night doing a bit of programming for Left Hand Magic and most of the writing for The Virtual Trap (Part 11). For now, enjoy Robin dealing with another customer for her Armor Shop, this one a veteran and regular client who's there for a much more high-level armor..

As always, the story is attached as a PDF.