Hey y'all, hope everyone's been doing fine! There's a high chance that this month's $5 patron build will be delayed — at least for several days. It's my finals period and everything's a mad rush right now 🙏
2022-10-26 09:04:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, I've changed my billing method to the new one that Patreon has released. Previously, all patrons will be charged the moment they pledge — and then again on the 1st of every month. This means that pledging on the 31st is a terrible idea because you'd just get charged again the next day.
With this new billing method, your billing date will be the same date as the one you pledged on. This is how Patreon puts it:
BILLING SCHEDULE "Patro... 2022-09-27 12:14:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Fans of Alexi rejoice! This month's update is a fat, fat chapter entirely on Alexi. I thought I got carried away with Pyrrhus's prison plotline, but this Quest takes the cake. Ah, but the adventure is too much fun to leave malnourished. Hope y'all enjoy hanging out with the big bear~
Here are the links to access the early...
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Hey all, I've been terribly busy. I hope I can finish 0.18 by the end of July, but the odds are leaning towards a day or two of delay 🙏
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Build 0.15 is up! You can explore it first before voting or just do it now. The poll options with names are things I have actual plans for, and I'll be finishing them all before wrapping up the Task. You can still vote for Coliseum and the Market Square if you want though, and I'll think of something for them if they win the poll.
2022-04-29 11:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostAs y'all might have expected, this month will have a little lesser content than usual! The past few days have been crazy just trying to squeeze an entire month's work into a week (whew), but I actually managed to get out more than I expected :o But now that my semester is over, May will be back on the regular schedule! I might even speed things up a bit now; we've been in this city for way too long now methinks (do tell me if you agree/disagree so I can get a feel for the general sentiments)....
2022-04-29 08:52:20 +0000 UTC View PostHenlo everyone,
I'm still in the thick of finishing my finals and haven't been able to divert attention towards working on OIHS. I've only managed to squeeze out a few scenes thus far, and honestly don't foresee myself getting free from school commitments any time soon. So instead of trying to split my attention and unnecessarily stressing myself out, I'm going to focus on my academic quotas and complete them before turning back to OIHS. This is the final hurdle though, so once I'm done...
2022-04-16 14:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostYet another poll! I'll add some details about each location so the options are more transparent. I'm also very tired of writing smut every time, so I might cut down on that for April and focus more on progressing the StoryTM.
Edit: I see having the Wolf under Cathedral made everyone suddenly interested in religion :smirk: And yes, just to clarify: getting him incarcerated equals smut in Prison, helping him escape gets another route via the Peasants/Cathedral/[spoiler].
2022-03-28 06:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A new commissioned character arrives! Lots more for our ram coming, but I'll be pacing his content out so that it develops naturally (as with the other commissioned characters). It was fun taking up the drawing pen again after several months of not having new sprites!
This month's a short chapter! I tried a new writing style that involves being a lot more succinct, and I was aggressively cutting out lines that I thought could stand to be removed. Do tell me if that makes the pacing too ...
2022-03-23 11:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe prison is done! I don't think we'll be visiting that area any time soon—and I'm certainly tired of writing for it. I will therefore tyrannically remove it from the poll as an option muahaha.
As mentioned in my previous post, the Coliseum won the February vote and I'll be writing it as a backlog for this chapter—in addition to what wins in this poll. Also, a new commissioned character will likely be making his appearance in the Residents' District... or Quarter or Square or whate...
2022-02-27 01:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostI am dying! Like, literally, I am about to keel over. Juggling midterms and a visual novel on the side is not for the faint of heart, it seems. Who woulda thought? Usually, by the time the progress update is out, I'd have finished the month's build and begun finalising the nitty-gritty.
...But I'm still working on the content itself. And it's still the prison stuff. Once again (hmm, I'm noticing a trend here), I managed to grossly underestimate just how long a content block is....
2022-02-22 14:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostHope you lot enjoyed the prison content! There's no real need to vote for it this time, since I intend to finish the mining event by this update anyway. But you can still do it if you want... so I guess this is a reminder that you can vote for more than one option :P
The poll will close on 1st Feb when I start writing again.
2022-01-28 07:34:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a new year! Well... it's been a new year for a while now—but still. Anyway, school term's started again and I'm now busy drowning in readings and assignments. I'm still managing to divert enough time to OIHS for now, but the prison content is waaay longer than I had anticipated (dungeon electric boogaloo?), so it's unfortunately unfinished.
I was originally planning to write a little bit for it every month until I could release the entire prison event in one go... but the patrons...
2022-01-23 11:33:35 +0000 UTC View PostAhoy! Now that the foundations for each area in Rajt have been established (only took me a while...), we can finally explore them deeper. They'll all get their time to shine, but these polls will now inform me which places to prioritise and write about first.
How it works is that I have a few areas I'm intending to expand with every update. Some are planned beforehand, some are arbitrary. Therefore, these polls will help direct where the "arbitrary" ones land on, so the readers will alw...
2021-12-28 04:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy/Merry early Christmas to y'all~ Hope everyone's ready for the holiday celebrations—or not; it's not for everyone and that's fine :-) The December update will be released soon, tentatively on the 25th.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone (it's giving thanks~)! Hope you're having a good day. The November update will be released soon (tentatively on the 28th).
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Henlo everyone! This Part II of October contains the extra surprise I had in store. I've just managed to finish this, so here we are.
This month has been super super productive for me. I've just been flooded with energy and non-stop churning out sprites and content. In the afterlight of that, I actually managed to blast past the roadmap I had charted for Build 0.08 and finished even Build 0.09...! I doubt I'd be able to keep this pace up ever again (especially when my finals are startin...
2021-10-23 18:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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- Build 0.08 (Chapter 12) will be released on itch.io soon! You can access it with this link when the time comes: https://orangelo.itch.io/oihs-patreon-version/patreon-access (it'll be announced on our Discord server!)
- Also, an upcoming surprise. I'm trying to complete it before the end of the mont...
2021-10-21 21:21:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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- Public (0.06) and Patreon (0.07) versions to be released on itch.io soon!
... "soon" as in Right Now, actually. I forgot to post this Patreon update beforehand :P
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- Added one new chapter: Dungeon Cleared! (0.07)
- New hobgoblin sprite (clothed and naked versions)
2021-09-29 07:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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- Public (0.05) and Patreon (0.06) versions to be released on itch.io soon!
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- Added one new chapter: Beasts in the Dark (0.06)
- New sprites from @earthpow
2021-08-28 14:56:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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- Public (0.04) and Patreon (0.05) versions to be released on itch.io soon!
- Working with another artist @earthpow for sprites
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- Added one new chapter: Impromptu Dungeoneering (0.05)
- New sprite for Raul
- Two new sprites (one by me, one by earthpow)
- One sprite for an upcoming character (in 0.06)
2021-07-30 17:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostReceived a warning that anything suggestive of adult nudity must not be on the public Patreon domain, so I'll have no choice but to make my Progress Update posts Patron Only.
Especially because the posts often contain images of some rather scantily clad men...
If you're at all interested in the progress posts, I copy-paste them on my Discord server, so you can find them there.
Just putting this out there! Take care.
- orange
2021-06-21 11:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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- Public (0.03) and Patreon (0.04) versions to be released on itch.io soon!
- Reworked Arwan and Makon's sprites
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- Added one new chapter: Long-Term Plans (0.04)
- Added two new sprites for Makon
- One more sprite done for Arwan — to be revealed in a later update
Tentative plan for July:
- Next chapter of content
- Many more sprites for this n...
2021-06-21 11:48:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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- Public (0.02) and Patreon (0.03) versions to be released on itch.io soon!
- Adjusted name colour fonts for some hard-to-read texts. Hopefully it's better now!
Content:
- Added one new chapter: Kidnapped! (0.03)
Tentative plan for June:
- Next chapter of content
- Reworking some sprites
- Perhaps adding nude variants of sprites?
2021-05-24 15:27:54 +0000 UTC View PostAfter many, many months — it's finally ready.
As you must've noticed by now, the game's been transferred over to Renpy, with illustrations and what-not. Still working on music and sound effects, but hey — we've got new content, new characters, and new... action!
To my current patrons, here's the link to the current 0.02 Patreon build (and future builds too): https://orangelo.itch.i...
2021-04-28 14:47:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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-Public (0.01) and Patreon (0.02) versions to be released on itch.io soon!
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- Added one new chapter: Toberran City
Sprites:
- Blacksmith sprite
- Drunkard sprite
- Sepheni sprite
- Merchant sprite
Tentative plan for May:
- Next chapter of content
- Sprites for relevant characters
- Music and sound effects
2021-04-27 18:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post