I think I might actually hate myself for choosing this point of view. Seriously, I redrew that nose several dozen times before I got something even remotely usable (and that despite having a pretty good reference for it), and I had almost as much trouble with her hair. Of course, right now the nose still looks fairly 'off' but that's mostly because several of the lines in it currently are just markets for shading purposes. Lines like the one where her nose meets her face will be replaced by blen...
2018-10-13 09:21:49 +0000 UTC
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Whew. Were finally back to some Cosplay Cafe art! I've actually spent about five days on this piece. Which is, of course, not normal. One full day was actually me trying to duplicate the line settings I used on all the other art. In the end, that failed. The results of me still being an amateur were that I didn't think to save or record the tablet or software settings before I wiped my OS and started over...and I also never had enough understanding of those settings to begin with to duplicate th...
2018-10-11 05:43:02 +0000 UTC
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...Soo...uh...I actually wrote this last night, then apparently forgot to actually post it. Oops? Poll will run until the 14th!
Which Reward do you want for October?
Eros Academy(Short Story) - Tali continues to work with Amber, building up credit for a custom scenario with her girlfriend. This time, she will be helping as a demo for a BDSM safety class.
The Transformation
2018-10-04 21:35:46 +0000 UTC
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Blast...almost made when I said I'd upload it. Day job work ran a little over. Between that and the extra length of this part (Part 4 is nearly 7500 words), I only just managed to finish the editing pass a few minutes ago. Anyway! A couple of quick notes about this one.
1) I'm only about 95% happy with this, I think. The reason for that is I'm not sure how well I did with describing the dance Elora does at once point. Feedback would be even more appreciated than usual :-).
2018-10-03 05:22:33 +0000 UTC
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For Everyone:
It looks like Patreon may have had some weirdness with Adult Content creators payments again this month, though they haven't sent a notice yet. Make sure you check your payments to make sure you supported who you wanted to! Be it me or someone else :-).
For $5+ Patrons:
The writing for the slightly delayed The Elven Maid(Part 4) $5+ reward is done! It came out to over 7k words too, significantly longer than usual,...
2018-10-02 10:29:45 +0000 UTC
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So...I have bad news, neutral news, and good news. I'll tackle them in that order.
The bad news..I was wrong about not actually being sick -_-. Apparently, I never actually got over that sinus infection I had earlier in the month (probably because I stupidly went traveling while suffering through it). So when the last of the antibiotics left my system, I got sick again. Or, at least, that's the theory. Which is seriously frustrating, as I don't actually get sick that often and usually kick min...
2018-09-30 11:53:05 +0000 UTC
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As promised, early in the A.M. on Wednesday! I actually finished around 2am, but walked away to try not-dying for awhile while it uploaded. On that note, before I drop the links and release notes, I'm just gonna mention something quick....
My next priority is obviously the The Elven Maid reward for the $5+ people (and for the $1 people to, since I'm pretty sure the next part of that is what will be bumped down into the archive). Normally, the 5 remaining days in this month would be mo...
2018-09-26 10:46:35 +0000 UTC
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I finished the renders (6 of them) for the additional Eros Academy scene over the weekend. I'll start the coding tonight. It's nothing complicated...but I also need to restore the project files for Eros to working order after the O.S. wipe I recently did. That shouldn't be hard (I already did so with The Sexy Cosplay Cafe project files) but it means a little extra time. Overall, unless I hit unexpected delays, expect the Eros release for the month either tomorrow (Tuesday) night or in the early ...
2018-09-24 21:54:10 +0000 UTC
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Alright! I'd actually intended to post this yesterday...but I was uncertain what to do with the fact that The Elven Maid poll came out as a tie. On that note:
The Elven Maid - Normally, I just go with my personal preference when ties occur...except I don't actually have a personal preference in this case. The two options that tied were my two preferred options. I think I've settled on the 'strike a balance' option, since it's the most directly relevant to the tone of ...
2018-09-22 11:59:26 +0000 UTC
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Huh, this is the first time there's been an overwhelming victory for a reward :-). That it's for the next chapter of The Elven Maid is a pleasant surprise. Doubly so since I have a small amount already written for it (though obviously not much, since this poll hasn't happened yet and thus I couldn't know which branching option to write). As such, it's time for the usual follow up poll to let you $5+ patrons choose what direction the story takes! It's been a while, so I'll try to create ...
2018-09-17 10:44:17 +0000 UTC
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Alright. Ended up stupidly having to do the uploads twice, since I forgot to delete the persistent data from my new rounds of tests, but all the main-page links for The Sexy Cosplay Cafe should be updated with a V0.11 bugfix copy of the original release. To be honest, there were only 3 bugs reported, none of them really horrible (the worst was one of Mira's at-work chats breaking) which is why I held off uploading the fixes, to see if more bug reports came in.
You can download t...
2018-09-15 23:33:26 +0000 UTC
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Alright. I took a few days off after I released the first build of the Sexy Cosplay Cafe. I really really needed a couple of days to decompress. Not, sadly, that said decompressing worked. One of the reasons for that failure to work is that I was/am keeping an eye on the f95zone thread that is (so far) the only place (other than here) that I've shared the game. Pretty much the entire response to it so far as amounted to 'the art sucks, go die in a fire.'
That's depressi...
2018-09-15 00:35:22 +0000 UTC
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Wooohoooo. Three weeks after it was supposed to be done, the first build of The Sexy Cosplay Café is finally here! As I've said from the beginning, this first build of this new game is going to be public right from the start. Future updates will trickle down through the patron tiers, but in order to generate interest...well you get the idea.
I'm going to wait a couple of days before I post it much around the various forms and such (with the exception of F95Zone, since ...
2018-09-10 04:27:37 +0000 UTC
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All the things from the previous lists are done. Except the testing. I've just spent the last 6-7 hours straight playtesting and debugging and I'm maybe 70-80% done. If I was well, I'd probably just push through since I don't work later today. But, I'm still under-the-weather and I hit a point where attempting anything more right now would likely cause more harm than good. So, sadly, it'll probably be this evening when the release comes out. I hate that this keeps dragging on forever, but there'...
2018-09-09 10:55:40 +0000 UTC
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Still sick...but medicated enough that I feel at least a bit better. I've also chewed through the rest of the chats and all three of the dates, as well as knocking out all but one of the 'Minor UI' things that needed done. The remaining things to do are:
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Tutorial - Not really hard, it just had to wait until everything was in the game. Going to take an hour or three though.
Basic BG Music - I've got a couple free pieces to use already, but I n...
2018-09-08 08:55:15 +0000 UTC
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So, definitely sick. Specifically, I apparently have a sinus infection. Which is making it feel like someone shoved an angry elephant inside my face and it's trying to stomp it's way out. Thankfully, I was able to get some meds, so hopefully it won't last too long.
For the progress report...thankfully I wasn't fibbing when I said I can write even when feeling like crap. Not very quickly, but I can. I managed to knock out 15 of the remaining 21 chats despite everything. Not as much as I had hop...
2018-09-06 11:39:06 +0000 UTC
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Okay. Bad news first. Apparently I came down with something while traveling over the weekend (I was in a nursing care facility visiting my remaining grandparents...so it's not exactly a shock I was exposed to something). Or possibly before, since I was honestly feeling under-the-weather before I left. I figured it was just changing around to a day-schedule from my usual night-owlness but... Anyway, I kinda feel like crap and it's slowing the remaining bits of work on the new game down.
T...
2018-09-05 10:16:01 +0000 UTC
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Sorry this wasn't up on the first! I've only just returned home from my trip and I was having trouble with Patreon over the weekend -_-. Since it's not going up until nearly the 4th, it will run through the 15th. With a 5-day follow up poll if The Elven Maid is chosen.
One quick update before the poll...I'm once again grinding away at the code and writing for the new game. I should be able to give a solid ETA by sometime tomorrow. I'm close enough to finished that I fully expect...
2018-09-04 02:21:42 +0000 UTC
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@(#-&(-#. I've been trying to make this post for the last two days, but Patreon refuses to play nice with any of my mobile devices. All of the adult patreon creators got a notice a few days ago about potential payment issues agian this month. I've included a copy of the email they sent us, but please double check that you're payment to any adult creators (like me) have gone through properly :-).
------Patreon Team Email-------
You may be aware that last mo...
2018-09-02 02:58:42 +0000 UTC
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Alright! This was actually done something like 3-4 hours ago... Unfortunately, it took that long to upload them. I never really realized that my usual habit of uploading in the early A.M. probably got me better upload bandwidth -_-. Though, on that note, I TRIED to switch everything over to JPG...but something with a few of the skins doesn't play nice and the results looked terrible to me. Thus, this update is still PNG for everything, though I may try a few more formats in the future due to the...
2018-08-31 03:25:00 +0000 UTC
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So, technically, the code for the month's Eros update is done. But I didn't have the time and energy left to test it. Plus, I want to squeeze in a quick couple of changes someone over at F95zone mentioned (nothing big, just the option to lose tennis and volleyball matches on purpose, since it's all but impossible to lose past a certain point). As such, expect the update to come out later today. Probably sometime in the late afternoon or early evening.
On another note, I shall present to you th...
2018-08-30 11:04:13 +0000 UTC
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I've finished up the renders for this month's Eros Academy Update. As often happens with me, it got a tiny bit out of hand and ended up with 27 renders instead of 20. Though, part of the reason for that this time was that I was using a fair number of premade poses, which makes things easier on me.
Anyway, as you can see from the image attached, this month is adding a Massage option to the game. Not only will Faith be able to get a massage, but she'll be able to learn to...
2018-08-29 22:00:19 +0000 UTC
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*sigh* I had a nice long explanatory post written early in the A.M. this morning, only for it to be wiped out by a power outage as I was editing it. As such, I'm going to make a long story shorter.
I horribly, horribly, horribly underestimated the amount of code I would need for the first build of The Sexy Cosplay Cafe. I've already written the equivalent of about half the total code for Eros Academy, a game that's been in development for ov...
2018-08-24 21:47:50 +0000 UTC
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So...I can already tell I won't be releasing Sexy Cosplay Cafe today. I just didn't get enough done over the weekend. Which isn't to say I didn't get quite a lot done. I spent something like 10-12 hours working on it and added quite a bit in.
The peeping scenes are functional, including one that is a critical element to Mira's story (meaning that I actually had to put that part of the story in). Likewise, I added in a bunch of things that are minor NOW, but needed to be there fo...
2018-08-20 12:12:55 +0000 UTC
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*bangs head on keyboard*
*throws keyboard out window*
*panics and runs out to get keyboard*
*bangs head on keyboard*
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Yeah, that's what my week working on the new game has felt like. On the plus side, I HAVE made significant progress. As seen in the image attached, the game is now fully populated by the girls, at the times and places they are supposed to be found at. Likewise, the UI is theoretically finished.
2018-08-19 02:31:20 +0000 UTC
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So, before I report on the new game, the reward poll for the month has ended. The extra scene for Eros Academy won outright this time and thus will be this month's reward. I'm slightly disappointed by that, given that I have some of the next Elven Maid written already, but it's not a huge shock. They've regularly been tying, after all, so even a single person either not voting, voting differently, or voting for the first time can change things :-). I will reiterate real quick that you shouldn't ...
2018-08-12 06:52:19 +0000 UTC
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So, I did get the inventory sorted out. I ended up making my own from scratch since the various versions of Renpy inventories around the net were quickly deemed by me to be hilariously over complicated for a simple VN. Technically, what I made is slightly on the crude side, but only slightly. It is more than adequate for the limited amount I'm intending to use it, at any rate. It's mostly only there to hold gift items for the girls in a way that lets you easily keep track of them. Though in the ...
2018-08-08 08:50:43 +0000 UTC
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So, it might not look like much, but the above image actually represents a fairly major technical step taken care of for the new game. One of several, as a matter of fact. After my grumbling, bitching and moaning a few days ago, about how I was going to have to use Renpy again, I put my nose to the grindstone with said engine and started grinding away at the UI elements that the game is going to need.
Unlike Eros Academy, where virtually everything from navigation to character interaction is h...
2018-08-06 08:21:36 +0000 UTC
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*sigh* *bitch* *moan* *grumble* *bang head on keyboard*
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Yeah, that about says it all. After two and a half days messing with TyranoBuilder, I've basically determined that it's a code-illiterate, GUI driven, and striped down version of Ren'py. For making, say, a kinetic novel or a super-simple VN with nothing but a few branch points, it's probably pretty near ideal. Unsurprisingly (for those with any idea how relatively complex Eros Academy is compared to simple, l...
2018-08-03 23:17:39 +0000 UTC
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As promised, a sneak peek from the upcoming game! Featuring the main character peeping on one of the workers (Serena) as she changes in the cafe's dressing room post-shift....
Normally, I provide these to Patrons first, but I promised a sneak peak...and this one is conveniently not pornographic enough to violate Patreon's public post rules ^_^.
As it happens, this is the final image needed to move on to the actual game building stage for The Sexy Cosplay Cafe. As patrons already kn...
2018-08-03 02:57:09 +0000 UTC
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