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209 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! I didn’t jinx nothing! Cold is here. Can’t you see Banshee?! Can’t believe she has the nerve to complain about heat when we’re having perfectly cool 28ºC weather now. Is Banshee even Brazilian? I’m disappointed.

Banshee's wrist injury turned out to be a bit more serious and annoying than she initially anticipated. At first she tried to ignore it, but at some point her whole forearm was burning so she thought a little break was necessary. She took a couple of days off to let it rest and heal a bit before continuing her work on the new scenes, and while she's not fully recovered yet, she is doing her best to push through because SHE JUST WANTS TO RELEASE THIS BUILD, DAMN IT.

It's been going at a snail's pace, and new tasks seem to be popping out of nowhere at every turn, but she's getting there!

Vane was mostly on standby as he was not sure how long Banshee would take to finish the art, and didn’t feel like it would be very useful to outpace the art with his writing as he would just have to stop again and wait in the future. So he used this week to make fixes and improvements to the code. Standouts of things he fixed are: 

• The diary screen has been properly treated to not show spoilers and all characters have been updated to boot! 

• The stats screen has had half a dozen new characters introduced, is not showing spoilers anymore, and now Victor and Jean properly transform into their second form when you reach the proper story part. 

• Vane also investigated an annoying bug where default outfits were not being properly maintained when loading a save, he believes he has fixed the issue but he needs to do a bit more testing before he is 100% sure.

• He has also begun working on an issue with temporary hairs disappearing when you load a save or use the history system. It’s not fully fixed yet, as there are a few quirks that still need to be ironed out, but it should work in 99% of situations.

Finally, we'd like to thank you all for your incredible support (and patience), as well as the feedback we've been getting from our wonderful community. This project wouldn't be possible without you all, and we are very grateful to be able to work on the things we love (even though it hurts us a bit sometimes when we are not careful)!

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you very soon for another release! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

A special thanks to Vorcha Boy!

This week's chibi is to celebrate our dear Vorcha Boy! Thank you so very much for your support, and we hope you like the cutest little kobold to ever exist!

Coming Next: Art!

Amelie Sprite Update

Hey again! Since we'll be doing a new Amelie scene soon, I thought I'd do some touch-ups to her sprite since it was, in my opinion, one of the most dated-looking ones we had! Now, I didn't have a whole lot of time to work on it, but I think you can definitely see an improvement, especially in volume and in how her wrists don't look weird and broken anymore!

I especially like her skirt and hair more now, I think they look nicer and more flowy~. I'll probably be doing this to more sprites and CGs before we release Rise to deliver the best-looking VN possible!

208 - Dev Blog

Hey hey! Well, it seems Vane has jinxed it, as the warm summer days seem to be back and I can feel the ac bills rising again. Hopefully not for long though!

Banshee did a big goof. In her rush to finish everything for the new build, she neglected her sleep and on top of that ended up hurting her wrist, so instead of being super productive as she envisioned, she's injured and late.

But rest assured she's doing her best to finish everything as soon as she can, albeit at a slower pace so she doesn't hurt herself further. She's also very sorry for the delay her irresponsibility caused!

Vane colabed with Corintio from the Kalyskah team to make Kalyskah's scenes extra nice! He hopes you'll enjoy the extra love that was put in the scenes. He also worked on bugfixes, quality of life improvements, and on the still to come slave route!

A special thanks to CAsh!

Another week, another chibi. Thank you so much for the support CAsh! Kyo sent you a kiss!

Coming Next: Vorcha Boy

Victor Sprite Evolution

Hey hey! We thought it would be cool to share the progression we made with certain characters over time, and the one who changed the most was definitely Victor! POOR BOY, WHAT HAVE WE DONE WITH HIM!! He was so pure and full of life! Now he's just full of ...sexy.

Looking at those is pretty satisfying, getting to see how clearly my style has evolved over the years. And while it can be difficult to let go of certain designs you've created, I'm most certainly pleased with his overall development! I've always liked Victor's character, but I might be a bit more biased now since his current design ticks most of my "bad boy fictional character" boxes.

Anyway, I always love to hear anything you have to say about my designs, so feel free to share your thoughts! <3

207 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! We did it! Autumn is here! I know it sounds alien to all your northerners, but down on this side of the earth, we celebrate surviving another summer like you used to celebrate surviving another winter. And we did it! 

Banshee is continuing to slowly improve some of the older scenes for the new slave route, as well as making new ones! Kalyskah's scene will be accompanied by not one, but two CGs. How fancy!

Vane has added a blowjob scene to Kalyskah’s route, which will be accompanied by a full CG! 2024 Banshee is the best version of Banshee. He also continued working on the slave route, planning the changes he would have to make to the previous story and figuring out what could be reused from cut content to springboard the route. Alas, he might have also bought a C++ book and neglected some of his work because he was getting into it a little too much.

Finally, we'd like to thank you all once again for continuing to support us and our humble work. None of this would be possible without you, and we are incredibly grateful to know you have our backs! <3

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you this weekend for another release! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

A special thanks to Stressful Courtier!

Now it's time for the meme lord and long time member of our court, Stressful Courtier! Thank you so much for all your support! We love you!

Coming next: CAsh!

Owner poll results

After applying the strenghts of all the votes, turns out that Antoinette snatched victory away from Kyo with a late rally! Well, to the winner goes the spoils, Catherine in this case.

So, how will this route work? Well, if you don't want any spoilers, get away from here now! You have been warned. Basically, Antoinette offers Catherine a few methods to pay her debt. Some of them are quite mundane and will hardly affect the story, even if you wander into the slave route. One of them, however, will send Catherine into a spiral of debauchery at the hands of some of the Empire's scummiest individuals. As a brothel madam, Antoinette has contacts all over the capital, and she knows exactly who is willing to pay a premium to get their grubby hands on the most promising mage to come out of the Traxiaria in decades. Of course, she'll also get a lick in, as she's not above lusting after our intrepid protagonist.

I also want to rework how you start the slave route. Rather than sleeping for an esoteric amount of time and then randomly getting enslaved when a date comes up, Catherine now makes more than enough money to pay her debt. What you will get in the first few chapters is a few options for Catherine to irresponsibly spend her money. Do that one too many times, and when the collectors come knocking, she will not have enough money and will default on her debt. This puts the power of entering the route into the player's hands and ties it better with the story.

Adding the reworked slave route will take quite some time, more than adding any other route, as I’ll have to make space for it in the early parts of the game. So, for now, I’ll leave getting into the slave route as it used to be. I will be starting a full comb of the game soon, as before we can release the game, I’ll have to spend a month or two going back and editing everything. I want to bring the early parts of the game in line with my development as a writer so the whole experience is smoother. Plus, the early game can really drag at times, and I need to fix that. For that purpose, I want to divide my time slightly and start working on it now, but I’ll talk about this more in a future post.

206 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! Yesterday I learned that climate change can wipe out great tits! In unrelated news, I’m now radicalized.

Banshee worked primarily on smaller tasks this week, like fixing up missing assets like Victor's hair and a few outfit assets, glowing up some older-looking characters, as well as doing some work on the "new" patron chibis! She also started working on a new character sprite, but that's still in its early stages.

Vane spent a lot of time handling the marketing, the polls, and sketching out the new slave route in the face of Patreon ToS changes. The last build also proved to be full of bugs despite Vane taking an extra week to iron it out, so he had to spend a lot of time ironing those out last week. He is mostly done with the Kalyskah scene, but he’s still spicing the start-up a bit more, and he still has to add a variant dialogue involving Victor for those in his romance route.

Now we said we were going to release the next build this Friday, unfortunately it seems that we had the terrible habit of underestimating how long things will take to get done. To be honest, that was always an ambitious schedule, it assumed that nothing would go wrong and there would be no delays. Well, things went wrong and we’ve had delays. Still, the build is well on its way to being ready! While we won’t be able to release it this Friday, we’ll release it on the next one without fail!

Finally, we'd like to once again thank our lovely supporters for continuing to stick with us on this journey! You're the best! <3 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you next Monday for another Dev Blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

A special thanks to Tara Mede!

What's this? Well, I'm glad you asked! We started working on a little project to thank all our most generous patrons, starting with the myth, the legend, Tara Made! Thank you for supporting us all this time! You're the best!

We'll be doing one of these every week from now on. For now, we're only doing our top patrons. Check your DMs to see if you already made it into our list! These will also be in the game under the Credits button on the main menu. It is our little way of honoring and immortalizing the folks who have been instrumental in allowing us to get Rise of the White Flower this far!

Coming next: Stressful Courtier!

Catherine's owner poll

Well, now we're locked in on Catherine's slave route. But before we can start planning it, we'll need to decide who is going to hold the leash. Banshee and I were between Jean and Antoinette, but we heard your voice and there were a lot of you asking for Kyo on that route. I was a little hesitant to put Kyo on that route, but I've since softened my stance on it. There's certainly a lot that could be done with her.  

Also, many of you have said that Jean is not worthy of owning Cath and that another male character should do it. Well! We're adding an option to the poll for creating a whole new male character with the sole purpose of being Catherine's owner.

You can select multiple characters on this poll, so vote for all the ones you like!

Slave route poll results!

Well damn, that's a pretty overwhelming victory for the slave route. Guess we have no choice but to bow down to the will of the people! Poll to decide who Catherine's owner is going to be will be coming up tomorrow!

205 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! Shit, Toriyama died… Honestly, I’m pretty bummed out about that. I grew up reading and watching Dragon Ball and even though Super was kinda meh, I was still watching every episode like a kid on Christmas. So RIP legend, you’ll be missed.

Now, this last release was the longest we ever spent working on a build, except for the first one of course. Honestly, I don’t even know why it was so hard. Sure, it had a lot of moving parts on the scenes, which took a while to write, implement, and test (and even though I extensively tested, there were bugs that I still haven’t finished fixing!), but just… The more I worked on it, the more things there were left to do. It was utter insanity.

But anyway, it’s done now, and I can finally move on with my life! Hm? We have another deadline coming up? We’re going to do the next release in two weeks rather than three to make up for the delay? Even though all the last builds were taking four weeks rather than three?

…I see

Jokes aside we think we can do the next build in two weeks since we left a bunch of unfinished content out of this one, so finishing that and adding a bit more should see us with a full build earlier. And what do we have planned for it? I’m glad you asked! First of all, we have this scene with Kalyskah coming up, we couldn’t add it in the last build, but the art is almost done, and the text is getting there. After that, an inexcusable Vane brain fart needs to be set right! We completely forgot Amelie’s romance route. We know she’s not the most popular character out there, but she needs some love too goddamn it! Another weird thing Vane noticed while testing the last build is that Seralli actually does not have a casual route, which might have been a product of the time that scene was written in, but now the casual routes are our new standard. Vane will eventually visit all the earlier routes of the game to bring them up to our new standard, and make more sex scenes available to you all. However, that might not make it into this next release since there’s already a lot for a two-week build.

We’re also pretty happy with how the last non-porn CGs came out. Since it took Banshee about a day to do each, you can expect us to do more of those in the future!

Finally, we'd like to thank all of our lovely patrons and friends for continuing to support us in this journey! None of this would be possible without you all, so thank you very much! <3  

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you next Monday for another Dev Blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

Early Access Build v0.12.0

EDIT: This version is now available for everyone! <3

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EDIT - updated to v.0.12.0.d

Bugfixes:

- Prompt of the Yda's romance hotfix not closing after clicking the buttons.

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updated to v.0.12.0.c

Bugfixes:

- Fixed Yda Romance flag not being saved properly.

- Fixed game getting stuck on "not entirely a lie.".

- Fixed Briwala popping up in Amelie's scene.

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updated to v.0.12.0.b 

Bugfixes:

- Fixed Victor's Romance flag not being properly set.

- Fixed a loop on Jeanne's night scene after Catherine's coronation.

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Download Links Here!

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Content added:

3 New Scenes

10k words added

New Scenes

- Post-crowning scene with 11 variants, based on routes chosen

- The Ruined City

- The Dragon Arrives

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Why, hello there! No, your eyes and ears do not deceive you, our latest build is finally here! We sadly couldn't include any smut in this one but we did include post-crowning scenes for all of the romance routes. Yes, ALL of them! The plot also moves forward with Catherine's journey to Valante, and the arrival of Jataal. We don't have smut, but we did include CGs, so we hope you guys enjoy this build even with the lack of tiddies. <3 

As always, we hope you all like this new build, and please let us know what you think about it! 

New Slave Route

Hello you beautiful people! How are you all doing today? We're hard at work finishing the delayed release, but I thought I'd come here to ask something that has been on our mind lately.

We've had many requests for submissive routes, and we delivered! With Evelyn, Yda, and Victor all being fully submissive or having a submissive option. However, we understand that all of those routes come very late in the game, plus they're hidden, freak in the sheets so to speak. We've been studying the idea of fixing something that has bothered me for a long time, and that is how Catherine's debt is basically irrelevant and gets written off the story pretty quick. Well, I mean, it's not irrelevant, it is the call to action that gets Catherine started on her journey, but you get what I mean.

To combat that, we've been considering the possibility of, rather than having just a bad end when you fail to pay, having Catherine fall onto a slave route until the time when she defeats the Daemons and gets into the good graces of the Emperor during the Battle of Batria. At that point, she would be freed from her bond, just like when the Emperor forgave her debt. Of course, nothing prevents her from continuing her arrangement in an informal way after that, maybe she fell in love with her previous owner?

So, anyway. Let us know what you think of that idea, should we put some effort into realizing it or should we just focus on the romance routes?

204 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! Here's your friendly neighborhood ghost Banshee with yet another sPOoOoKy dev blog! Ah yes, Vane always starts these with random stuff, so let's see... Mr. Banshee made me download this new Ragnarok game and it feels like 2008 all over again. Does anyone need a priest in their party? I'm very proficient at spamming Sanctuary!

First things first, let's address the undead elephant in the room. The obvious lack of a release! Let me start by sincerely apologizing for this delay. We absolutely dread the thought of letting any of you down, but even with our best efforts, we failed to meet our deadline last week. We hope you understand, and we will continue to work hard in the future to avoid these situations.

Now, onto the reasons for this delay! We continued to have some back and forth about the collab scene with Kalyskah (with both parties wanting to deliver the best scene possible), leading us to consider cutting it from the build initially, due to how close the release date was. However, this left a noticeable gap in the content. Despite Vane's efforts to salvage the situation with half-written scenes, many required further refinement and some were not up to standard. Unfortunately, his progress was hindered by a nasty flu (that he still hasn't recovered from because he still insists on working his butt off GODDAMN IT VANE!!).

The current build, though small at 4k words, primarily consists of bugfixes, code improvement, and romance scenes after Catherine's crowning, offering a limited variety of content. So, many of you would only see around 500 words of new stuff, and that just wouldn't do!

Acknowledging these challenges, Vane and I have decided to postpone the release by a week (until this weekend, that is!). This extra time will allow for a more polished and content-heavy update. The plan is to, of course, include the scene with Kalyskah, but there's a small chance we'll include a slightly different scene instead! We appreciate your understanding and patience, and once again we're very sorry for this delay. 

Finally, we'd like to once again thank you all for continuing to support us and our work. Your generosity, support, and feedback keep inspiring us every single day! <3 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all this weekend (now for real!) for the next release of Chapter 12! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

203 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! Running the risk of jinxing it by saying it, the hot season seems to finally be at an end. The days are still hot, but for hardy, born and raised Brazilians, it’s nothing we can’t handle. Still, Autumn is fast approaching, and I for one am looking forward to the cold season.

Banshee has continued to work on the scene with Kalyskah! This one is taking a bit longer than usual since there is a bit of back and forth to ensure both parties are happy with the scene (rather than the usual "Banshee pretty much does whatever she feels is right" hehe)! Plus, the scene will have two pretty different variants, so that always adds to the work that has to be done.

Vane had some creativity issues with Kalyskah’s scene, he was having a hard time visualizing it, coupled with the fact that one of the characters is not his own so he had to take some extra care to make it extra nice and faithful to the character. It all boiled down to him getting the mother of all writer's block. That seems to be happening a lot lately, huh? I guess Rise has gone on for way too long, it exhausted his creative juices! Still, not one to let a full week go to waste, Vane worked on battle scenes for the future climatic battle that is going to mark the beginning of the end of the story!

Finally, we'd like to thank each and every one of you for continuing to support us and our work! You're all wonderful and we couldn't be more grateful to you all!

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all this weekend for the next release of Chapter 12! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

202 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! This past week was blissfully more chill than the past ones, and I might be jinxing it, but I feel like the worst is past us. We never knew rainy 22°C weather could be so absurdly pleasant! In other news, since Vane asked me to expand this section a bit more, Banshee learned how to unclog a sink all by herself today and she's feeling very proud about it.

Banshee worked on the new scene with one of our favorite vampire gals, Kalyskah! Took a while for the puzzle pieces to fit together on this one, but her work is finally flowing again. She also worked on a couple of sexy outfits for this new event, because all powerful vampire ladies deserve fancy nightgowns! 

Vane worked on the build, chasing a couple of bugs that were preventing some players from progressing and fixing them. He also started working on the sex scene with Kalyskah and Victor, and before you ask, yes one of them is very much optional! 

Finally, we'd like to once again thank all of you wonderful, beautiful people for continuing to support us and our work! We hope your weather stays pleasant and your sinks remain unclogged (and if they don't, you can call Banshee, hehe)!

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all next Monday for another dev blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

201 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! After the blessed rains that gave us a bit of respite, and almost destroyed my house, we’re on the second week of being beat down by the sun. With temperatures up to 45°C, not even my AC is able to cope with it, so it’s been slow going. Maybe that’s why cold countries are more developed than tropical ones…

Vane had to take a few days to rest last week. He was very irresponsible and was trading sleep for more time to do stuff, which unsurprisingly resulted in him being dead tired after a month of doing that. After taking some time off, he began working on a series of personal scenes for all the romance routes, which will happen after the coronation scene.

Banshee has no AC, and so has melted into a puddle of ectoplasm. A moment of silence for her ghostly form! But, before melting she worked on finalizing Catherine's battle suits, and has started on a new scene with Kalyskah and Victor! She struggled a little bit to make things work, given that Victor will be optional in the scene, and making the composition work was a bit difficult for her, but after messing a bit with 3D models she thinks she has it figured out now! 

Finally, we'd like to thank all of our wonderful friends and supporters from the bottom of our melting hearts. May the weather be nice and pleasant wherever you are! <3 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all next Monday for another dev blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

200 - Dev Blog

Hello hello! Wow, 200 dev blogs! That is a pretty mind-boggling number if you ask me, especially considering some people have been here with us since the beginning! I'd like to start this one a bit differently, by thanking each and every person who has supported us on this long journey so far, be it by becoming a patron, helping us with typos and bugs, making scene suggestions, or simply throwing kind and encouraging words our way. It's thanks to you that we're here today, working on this project that we love. From the bottom of our hearts, thank YOU! 

Last Friday we released the very first build of 2024! Who would have known that the route Banshee was the most hesitant to do turned out to be one of our most popular? She doesn't even mind drawing the breast milk stuff anymore, so it's a win-win situation for everyone, really. We have also added new routes for many of the battles from the past updates, for those who have acquired the symbiote from Yda. Finally, a chance to beat your enemies to a pulp with your bear hands (with the help of your magical, shape-shifting battle suit, of course)! 

Now, for the next update, we will focus on working on our collab with Kalyskah, so if you like both our projects you're in for a treat! If you're into hot goth vampires and threesomes, I'm assuming you're also going to have a good time. In addition to that, the plot thickens as Catherine finally reaches Valante. Vane says there's going to be a big siege while the White Flower's forces work on breaching the barrier enveloping the city, so that leaves plenty of time for fucking around, if you catch my drift! 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all next Monday for another dev blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

Early Access Build v0.11.5

Download Links Here! 

Edit: This version is now available for everyone! <3

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Content added:

3 New Scenes

1 New Sex Scenes

15k words added

New Sex Scenes:

- Catherine and Yda (FF, Milking, Loss of Control, Tentacles, Mind Control)

New Scenes

- The three major battle scenes have been expanded with an additional variant.

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Hello, hello! Welcome one and all to the first release of 2024! We decided to start the year right with a new addition to Yda's route, where Cath goes full cow mode with a cute little outfit to boot. On top of that, for those who acquired the symbiote from our lovely eldritch gal, we have also added several new routes for the latest battle scenes! Who needs fancy magical powers or cursed swords when you can rip your foes apart with your bare hands in your snazzy, shape-shifting battle suit?

As always, we hope you all enjoy this new build we prepared for you all, and please let us know what you think about it! <3 

199 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! Holy smokes! Sunday there was a flash flood where I live. I live at the foot of a mountain and one of the sources of the river that snakes its way through my city has a source in that mountain. Somehow, someway, it overflowed badly and released a flash flood, we’re still not sure the reason, I’ve seen it rain a lot more before and this has never happened. We got lucky so damage on my street has been minimal, the only annoying thing is that all the mud that was brought by the river dried and now the whole neighborhood is surrounded by a haze of dust whenever a car passes by, feels just like when I was a kid and all the roads nearby were dirt roads.

So! As you’ve probably noticed by now, there was no release on Friday… WE APOLOGIZE!

The art was a bit behind because Banshee was sick all week and we both suffered with the thunderstorms that hit our region knocking out the powers multiple times over the last development cycle. Since the art was a bit behind, we decided that the best thing to do was to delay the release rather than have Banshee work 28 hours in a day to rush the work that was behind. We’ll be working on finishing the release and then some, so the release will be bigger and juicier for the delay! Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Banshee worked mostly on the variants for the scene with Yda and tried to get everything else ready for the new scene, such as Catherine's lovely (and very small) cow outfit.  She also started working on some new battle gear for Cath, that will be needed for a new battle variant! 

Vane finished his work on preparing everything for the release and then began working on fixing a few bugs. He spent time investigating one bug in particular that has so far eluded him, which caused some save files to become corrupted and have events out of order. He finally figured out what was causing the issue and fixed it! He’s really happy about that as that was the worst bug in Rise so far and he finally managed to get rid of it!

Finally, we'd like to thank all our wonderful friends and supporters for sticking with us through the development of this project. We are incredibly grateful to every one of you, whether you've joined last week or been here since day one. You're the best!

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all this Friday for the first Rise of the White Flower release of 2024 (for real this time)! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

198 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! I’ve been having trouble with sleep lately, not because of anything in particular, just my stubborn ass wanting to pack as much shit as I can in a day and going to bed obscenely late as a consequence. And do I just get to bed and sleep? Of course not! Bed is reading/documentary time! So I find myself waking up tired, working at half-energy, which makes everything just take longer to get done, and then going to bed late again and repeating the cycle. It’s annoying, they should just make an implant for the brain, you just program a time and your body just shuts down when you get to it, no excuses! Would honestly change my life, until someone hacks it and messes with my shit ofc.

Banshee was very sick (or perhaps cursed, as she believes) this past week, so her work schedule was all over the place. Still, she managed to get some stuff done and she's basically finished with Yda's scene! Hope you all like tentacles, cause there's A LOT of them in this one. 

Vane wrote a part of a future battle, more specifically a duel between Eleanor and one of the lieutenants… Slaves? One of her high ranking slaves. While this scene is not going to make it to the next release, Vane felt that it was a good idea to get it out of the way as he had the entire scene done in his head and it was taking brain space away from other ideas he still needed to have. He keeps repeating and refining ideas in his brain up to the point where he pours it all out on the paper, then it’s out of his system and he can focus on other things. A bit inefficient since inspiration can hit him out of order, but that’s just like the man is wired, so give him a break.

Other than that, Vane decided to not complicate himself for the next release. His usual style of writing as much as possible and then figuring out how the hell he was going to edit and implement all those scenes in the last two days before the release caused him to accumulate a lot of stress which burned him out long before the year was over, so he’s keen to not repeat the mistake this year! So he took time last week to edit and implement everything he wrote in the first week, now he can write more knowing that he will not have as many things to implement just before the release!

You might also be saying to yourself — “Well, Vane’s just dumb! He should just edit and implement the scenes right after he finishes writing them! That way he would never run into trouble.” — And you’re right, ofc. However, Vane is a silly old man, he likes to wait for about five days at a minimum after he writes something before going for a second draft. That way he can mostly forget what he wrote and disassociate from the fact that it’s his work. That allows him to approach the text as if he was a reader which improves the quality of the second draft, or so he claims. Does that make a difference? Idk! But Vane certainly seems to think it does.

Finally, we'd like to thank you all for continuing to support us and our work! Sometimes it's quite wild to think that so many amazing people have our backs like this, and we are incredibly grateful to you! <3 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all this Friday for the first Rise of the White Flower release of 2024! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

197 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! The summer rain season has arrived bringing with it all the usual destruction and annoyance. We both lost power multiple times this past week, once for a whole fucking day as two energy posts were knocked down by a landslide. Would that it brought relief from the 40C summer days we’ve been getting, but nooo! Ever seen it rain for like four hours and the sun continues to shine through unbothered? Yeah, kinda sucks when the thunder forces you to unplug everything.

Banshee continued to work on Yda's new scene, as well as Catherine's new cute cow outfit! 

Vane continued working on adding Catherine’s new weapon route. He wrote all three battle scenes with it and began working on the extra bits where people react to Catherine’s choice of weapon. He then took a little break from working on that to continue the plot, not sure if that’s making it in the next release, but in that scene, Catherine and company finally reach Valante and settle in for a long siege.

Finally, we'd like to once again thank you all for continuing to support us and our work! Knowing that you have our backs certainly makes going through this seemingly endless heatwave less painful. 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all next Monday for another dev blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

196 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! Back by unpopular demand: us!

First things first, we hope you all had a fantastic end of the year! We both ended up staying at home, mostly playing video games, sleeping, and eating junk food, and it was quite enjoyable, despite the searing heat! Also, here’s hoping that 2024 will treat us better than 2023 did. We really can’t keep having these toxic relationships with our calendar years.

Now! Onto our plans. We’ve made it our New Year’s resolution that we’re going to finish Rise of the White Flower this year. I know, I know, we said that last year as well, but now we’re actually close to the end of the story, so we’re confident we can deliver. After the game is finished we’ll still work on it a while longer: we want to improve the beginning of the game, cut some storylines that got abandoned to streamline the game a little bit, and just add all-around improvements.

We’ll also add a final, special scene with each romanceable character after the game is done and shipped, to be the final chapter of their stories and go a bit more in-depth on each epilogue.

One more thing. Concerning the next update, we’re working on a new scene with Yda, which will involve some dynamic... milking. In the spirit of our favorite eldritch gal, we’re also working on adding a new weapon for Catherine, the symbiote she can get from Yda. For those that have accepted that gift, or are on Yda’s route, you’ll be able to use the symbiote in battle! To support this new development, Vane is going back to the old battle scene, starting with the fight with Alandar, and adding the option of using the symbiote there!

Finally, we'd like to start our year by thanking you all so very much for continuing to support us and our project! We've been dedicated to working on Rise for a few years now, and we will work hard in 2024 to finally deliver something that hopefully, you'll find truly special. To all who have supported us through any means, be it on Patreon or by throwing some kind words our way, thank you so very much! You're the best!

P.S.: Sorry for the super delay!! Our region had some bad thunderstorms and blackouts yesterday, so neither of us could post the Dev Blog in time. Sorry about that!

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all on Monday for another dev blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!

Early Access Build v0.11.4!

Edit: This version is now available for everyone! <3

Download links here!

1 New Scene

1 New Sex Scene

13k words added.

New Sex Scenes

- Catherine and Victor (Vanilla, Hand-holding, MF) or (Sub/Dom, MF)

New Scenes

- An Unexpected Ally - Catherine's journey once again proves that her quest will have monumentous consequences to the rest of the world. For reasons not yet known, the veil between worlds has weakned, allowing a certain vampire to make the trip to Valarien!

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Why, hello there! Are you ready for 2023's last build? Woo!

The latest build of Chapter 12 adds quite a few goodies, such as Victor's romance routes, and the beginning of our very exciting collab with Kalyskah! There is no sex scene yet, but rest assured we'll get there pretty soon.

But that's about it for today! We once again hope you enjoy this new build, and please let us know what you think about it! <3

195 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! The Emperor protects, brothers! After waiting many long years, we finally have a good CRPG set in the 40k universe. I’ve been having a blast with the new Rogue Trader game, too much of a blast perhaps… My weekend was fleeting. As if sucked by the warp itself, the hours flew by with unbelievable alacrity! That time flies by so fast when you’re having fun is truly the most cruel trick of the Chaos Gods. May the Emperor’s Light shine over us all in the dark times ahead.

Banshee is almost done with the CG! She has also been working on several assets for Victor and Kalyskah that were also needed for the new scenes, such as naked bodies and new expressions!

Vane worked on editing all the recent scenes he wrote and got them ready for release. He has also been doing some tweaking in the game, fixing a few things, correcting some typos, and hiding a few spoiler-y information that shows up in the interface of the relationship tab.

Now about our end-of-year plans. We’ve been wanting to get some time off to recharge our batteries for a while now, so after the next release, on Friday, we’ll be taking two weeks off to celebrate the holidays with our friends and family and to rest up! We’ll return on the second of January and 2024 will be the year we finally finish Rise of the White Flower!

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all this Friday for the release of the latest build! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

194 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! I’ve been going through a weird period lately. A few weeks back I was completely tapped out on creativity, now I have so much of it that it’s hard to channel it in a single direction and I am constantly fighting the urge to start new projects.

Banshee continued to work on the new scene with Victor! Work was a bit slow since the most recent heatwave turned her apartment into a 40°C oven, but now temperatures are pleasant and she's picking up the pace! She should probably invest in an AC soon though...

Vane worked on Victor’s romance scene and a cross-over scene. He’s also using his juiced-up brain to outline the end of the story. It was already generally done in his head, but now he’s filing in a lot of the final details. Let’s all hope it doesn’t involve more time travel.

Finally, we'd like to thank you all once again for continuing to support us and our work! And we sincerely hope the weather is nice and pleasant wherever you are! 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all next Monday, if we don’t forget again, for another dev blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!

193 - Dev Blog

Hello, hello! Adopting a street dog was not the best decision I ever made, surely. I am embroiled in a struggle to recover his health that is eating way too much of my time.

Banshee started working on a new scene with another one of our favorite edgy boys, Victor! After a lot of debate on whether this would be yet another dom/sub dynamic, we actually received some interesting suggestions and decided to go with one of them. The first scene will include only Catherine and Victor, but future scenes might add more characters to the fun! 

Vane alright, so doggo first. So we found out that he has problems in his eyes. One produces no tears (was infected when we found him, and even when we were treating it continued to cause issues), and the other can only produce half the usual amount of tears. So the second vet, we had to change vets because the first one was an idiot, and told us that the dog could go blind if we did not do something about it. So we are in a crazy schedule of putting drops into his eyes, mostly the shittier one, every two hours from 6 AM to midnight. And, of course, the dog hates having to do it, so every time is a struggle. This marathon has really been draining me. Two more weeks of this to go, then he goes back to the vet, and we pray we can stop, though it's likely that he'll need drops for his shitty eye for the rest of his life. But as long as it's not a million times a day, I'm game.

Anyway, back to work! Vane worked on making a few changes to the code, updating a few functions, and fixing a few minor bugs. Then he started working on a new scene, which I’ll not talk too much about it here because of spoilers (if you want all the spoilers, you can join our discord server, I talk about everything there), but we’re going to be doing a cross over soon and we have a guest character joining the cast temporarily!

Finally, we'd like to thank you all so so very much for your continued support! The world of indie development is always full of uncertainties, but it's definitely comforting to know that our wonderful community has our backs. Please know that we really appreciate you all! 

And that about wraps it up for today. We hope you all have a fantastic week, and we’ll see you all next Monday, for another dev blog! Until then,

Big love, the Necro Bunny team!!!