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Game Dev Bonus Post for January

I will normally do only one Game Dev post per month. But to help kick things off, I wanted to offer a little preview of something you can expect to see around here: GIFs meant to showcase my animation progress for the upcoming game. They won't all be this spicy, of course. Walk cycles are the next big thing to tackle, but this felt like a good one to lead with.

On behalf of Switchverse Games I'd like to thank you for being a top supporter, and welcome all the newcomers who upped their p...

Looking Ahead in 2023

Is the end of January a bit late to do one of these yearly projection bits? Maybe, but I made it in before February, at least! 

So obviously the big thing is that, thanks to your support, the visual novel we've been working on for years is now in its final stages. All that's left to do is dive into the code and polish, polish, polish. But since I couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag, that task falls to Kaldonis. As for me, I've been working on assets and artwork to get a hea...

Old Game Link (Expired)

I didn't want to outright delete this post since there were comments here, but this post is from when the game was JUST completed and we wanted to make sure everyone who supported it got to download it before we raised the price and put it on the $10 tier. That window has long since passed and it can now currently be found pinned right at the top of the $10 feed if you are interested. 

Thank you for reporting your bugs and glitches, everyone! Ka...

A Note on Saves for the Game Build

So, I was wrong about something. I thought that since the ending was the big new thing for this build, it wouldn't matter if you loaded an old save to play it, since the only new stuff was at the very end of the game, right? How could old saves affect it? 

Well I kind of forgot that Switch's stories are vastly expanded throughout the game to set up the ending. So old saves will cause all kinds of problems. Sorry for not thinking of it sooner, my forgetfulness is a byproduc...

This Romantic World: The Game (Story-Complete Beta)

Get it on PC here, Mac here, and Linux here. 

Thank you for waiting. On behalf of myself and Kaldonis, I’m proud to present the story-complete...

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Having never engaged in voyeurism myself, I confess I'm taking a guess on the mindset of the average lurker here. I'm just going with what I think Chloe's practice would be. I figure she'd want to get the most out of a given encounter by pacing herself not to finish too fast and waste the show. Easy enough when she's solo, I imagine, but not so much when she adds a partner who has a history of getting sexually overzealous once you turn her loose.

Hope you guys are liking the scene. Got ...

Patreon Pin Up 1/23/23

With Fire Emblem: Engage being the new hotness this week, I put two Fire Emblem babes up for a vote on the Discord server, and Tharja actually lost by a substantial amount! I did not see that coming, but I'm obviously jazzed for a chance to draw Camilla, everyone's favorite thirsty sister/mother-but-not-really-don't-worry-about-it from Fire Emblem Fates.

My history with Fire Emblem as a franchise is complicated. I consider myself a fan, but I don't like mo...

Isaac's Not so Lonely Night

This commission for OffDaCheney is fully canonical and takes place shortly after the events of the visual novel. I personally love these three as a threesome combo and had a lot of fun working on this one. Hope you like how it turned out and there's a story written by Kaldonis and myself attached in the PDF below if you're interested!

Game Dev 1/21/23: The Title Card Artwork Teaser

Welcome to the first post of Game Dev! Here, every month, I'll update you on the progress of the game we're working on. I'll share how the artwork and animation are coming along, the current focus of our efforts, and how long we estimate it will be until you have something solid to play test. 

So, game dev? You need a game to be working on for that, right? And isn't the visual novel mostly complete? Naturally, Switchverse Games has a new project lined up! ...

This Romantic World: The Game (Link no longer active, use full release build link)

Get it on PC here, Mac here, and Linux here. (We currently cannot test the Linux version so apologies if it doesn't work, just giving it a shot on...

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Another page here where I think everything I want to say is right here on your screen already, and me running my big fat mouth will only ruin the chance for readers to guess how this scene is going to go from here. So I'll zip it after saying thanks for being here as always, and I hope you guys are having a good week! 

TRW Strips #090

My thanks to Indecent Twig for the conversation suggestion! If you have one of your own, let me know as always! 

This dialog is absolutely based on my own personal experience discussing this topic in reality. This isn't always the case, but I sometimes find that the bigger the anime fan someone is, the faster they are to get angry at me for preferring English voice actors in my shows. Ellie is an extreme otaku, and while no one ever blew up at me quite this bad in...

This Romantic World Page 283 (And slight ret-con on last week's page)

Poor Chloe, she was SO close to a real moment of personal growth there. XD

So what's this about a ret-con? Well, it was pointed out to me that the Elianna Shame tape was not present in previous janitor's closet scenes in the comic, implying that it had been taken down and the crawlspace into the shower room introduced in the VN had since been sealed. Which made sense to me. Even as horny as Castlewood High is, the staff wouldn't have allowed such a thing to continue, especially not onc...

Darya Corners Ashton

This commission for Call Me ET features OC's Darya and Ashton taking a little break from work! I like the look of these two, myself. If you've been around awhile you know how much I like big hair. Anyhow I had fun working on this and I hope you guys like how it turned out! 

Patreon Pin Up 1/9/23

So this is Chiho from an anime called "The Devil is a Part-Timer." (And if you're familiar with the show, let's just say this one takes place before she meets our hero.) XD

The premise of the show is basically "what if a demon lord from a fantasy world became stranded on Earth, stripped of his magic and status, and now has a life that revolves around bills, roommates, and minimum wage?" They call him "Satan" in the show but he conceptually has a lot more in common with Dracula from Cast...

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This one of those odd pages where I've really got nothing to add here. I think anything I would comment on is already obvious on the screen, myself. So I hope you guys like the page, and that I have your interest as far as where this scene is going! 

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My thanks to Dr. Thrax for the question! If you have questions of your own, ask away! 

It's touched on in the visual novel, but I don't think it's yet come up in the comic that Elianna and Jane used to be pretty close. They're still friends, but the relationship is fairly strained on a regular basis due to their drastically differing views on sexuality. Maybe they'll have a chance to patch things up in the future though?

That's all I've got for now. Hope everyone had a good N...

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Oh man, I wonder if I can hold this together. I worried about my first scene shot in the dark, and page two was already challenging just to keep the visuals reading clearly without getting too muddy. I may have to move them over right next to the window sooner than later. XD

Anyway TRW is back! Thanks for waiting, everyone. I had a great vacation. And I hope you all had a good Christmas if you were celebrating. 

Patreon Holiday 2022

For this month's Discord vote, I put up a sort of a "couples swap" theme and man, was it a close one. But Holly and Bria won out over Casey and Kristina! This works out, story-wise, as I can easily call this pic canon. I don't have a specific scenario to go along with it, but this is totally something these two would do together. 

So, 2022 is nearly in the bag. If you've been here awhile, you know the final pin up of the year is where Reinbach has a few drinks and slips into "I lov...

Reinbach is on Christmas Vacation Next Week!

Gah! Christmas is next damn week already! It's that time a year where I take a week off to recharge. I still have a commission to finish, but TRW and the Monday Pin Up are on hiatus next week. Hope you guys enjoy the holidays, I'll be back before you know it! :)

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Well, here goes. Here's where we find out if Reinbach can pull off a scene that legit takes place in the dark. I've done scenes in rooms with the lights off before, but I rarely put much of that darkness on the characters themselves, for fear that they'll blend into the background too much. Not this time. We'll see how I do, and in the meantime I hope to have your interest with what these ladies are scheming here! 

Korrasami at the Beach

This commission for Sgt Artyom features Korra and Asami getting wet together! In the early drafts I had more of a startled/borderline ahegao expression on Asami, as a concentrated splash of cold water down there would be startling, right? Even if you were expecting it? But after some consideration of what I remember of her from the show, I thought better of it. She was just too composed in general as a character. XD 

TRW Strips #088

My thanks to AfkasH for the question! If you've got a question of your own, ask away! :)

Seriously this is a real thing I never saw coming. Suikoden is owned by a publisher called Konami, probably one of the most infamous names in the industry. They routinely bastardize all your favorite childhood franchises and twist them into gambling machines. Who the hell would have predicted they would bring back a cult darling like Suikoden of all things in 2023?! I thought my esoteric reference o...

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Like many of the characters I come up with, Mary's got her issues, but I hope you guys liked this scene. I say that like we're done, though, which we are not! This scene is just getting started! Next week, It's time to see what Chloe and Millie are up to.

PS: Lately I've been experimenting with changing the color of the caption bubbles to make it clearer who's talking. Did it work here or was the color difference too subtle? I just wanted to make it clear who was saying what in that fi...

Patreon Pin Up 12/5/22

So this month's Discord poll was to decide which of my shameful old pin ups to remake, and Jessica Rabbit won the vote! That original obviously looks pretty damn rough to me now, but if I hadn't improved in seven years, what am I even doing over here lol.

Not sure what to say about Jessica here that I haven't already. She introduced a whole generation to the concept of being horny for cartoon women, which ended up being basically my whole career so yeah, she's a pretty importan...

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Looks like Chloe might have been right about having bad luck lately. Though as a peeper, I imagine she's usually inclined to take off right when the sex is over, which would indeed lower her chances of seeing any mushy stuff. 

TRW Strips #087

One more concept that would have taken me months to get to in the main comics: the girlfriend here is a bit threatened by the best friend. Am I focusing more on story stuff with the strips because I'm running low on reader questions? Kind of. Don't get me wrong, I have lots of unanswered questions to pull from. It's just that as of this writing, all the ones I have are either on hold because their answers are potentially spoilery, or on hold because of my own inability to come up with decent ...

Olivia and Patty

This commission for Karmagik features his own characters, Olivia and Patty, from his own very cool smut comic that I think you should check out. "The Book Club" is a series about hot milfs sharing smutty stories, and I feel that's a concept my audience appreciates! 

If you're interested you can check it out yourself right here.  

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Thanks for waiting, everyone! Hope you had a good Thanksgiving if you were celebrating!  

I think it's come up once or twice, but I feel like this page best showcases the idea that maybe the TRW mega-blasts wouldn't be all fun and games in a practical sense. It would sure make sneaky sex a lot harder to pull off, what with leaving a few pints of evidence behind being an inevitability. And in this case, maybe Kayden doesn't appreciate having to scrub down his walls because ...

TRW will post on Friday this week, on account of turkey.

I completely forgot what damn week it was. I'll be quite indisposed with festivities and lengthy car rides to visit relatives on Thanksgiving Day, so I'll lose precious time for working on TRW. Better to just take an extra day than try to rush it out, I feel.  Expect the new page here Friday night this week!