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Saturday Update!

Hi everyone! This will be the last 'official Saturday update' for a little while since I'll be taking December off. I'm going to try and get some more work done anyway, but I won't be home enough to declare it a 'Hunt Month'.

[ So don't forget to remove your pledges if you want! ]

Over the last week I've been chewing away at the editing for Derek's path. I am becoming acutely aware that I may have 'overdone it' for Derek's path in general as I'm going over the content again X'D 2019-11-30 18:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Thursday Update! Saturday is on vacation

Hi everyone!

I'm updating on Thursday this week because I'm leaving town to go to the mountains for a beer festival this weekend, and I'm leaving on Friday morning- cutting my work week short.

I'm rather disappointed to report that this has been a less than productive week- even taking in to account that I've only had 4 days. A few things piled up, but mostly I would point the finger of blame at an anxiety attack that's been ramping up for me over the last 3 days. It's made it inc...

Saturday Update!

Hi again everyone! I uploaded a video because I wanted to show off a new effect and talk to you guys ^o^

Here's a quick TLDR version for anyone who doesn't have 10 mins to listen to me ramble in video form:

- I am now finished editing Celia's path!!! Yay!!!

- I've decided on another reward for players collecting endings- the 'character bios' page! It's not programmed yet, but it will be first thing player can earn and shows little bios for all the characters [ with a pic, na...

Credits List - Hunt Month 7

Hello friends! It's finally time for me to post the credits list! I'm sorry it's a bit late this month- I've been so busy and I always feel like I'm scrambling to catch up XD

Without further ado, the list! [ names in RED are unconfirmed, let me know if you'd like your credits name changed! names in BLUE are new patrons who should have received a message asking what they'd like their name to appear as in the credits ]

2019-11-12 20:41:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Saturday Update!

Hello everyone! It's been another busy week and I'm happy to report that I've made more positive changes to Celia's route, and it's finally shaping into something I can be proud of.

Last week I mentioned that I wanted to add two new endings- those endings are now added and have placeholder art! I also edited and added placeholder art to several other endings.

Here's what the ending list looks like now [ lit up endings are ones that I've finished editing/adding placeholders to ] 2019-11-09 20:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Saturday Update! Hunt Month 8!

[ I'm sorry, it's been a crazy busy week and I didn't make a fancy HUNT MONTH 8 image ]

HUNT MONTH 8

Nothing much to say here other than I'm still working on the game for November! 

SATURDAY UPDATE

I do have a lot to say here! I've been pulling a little overtime to try and get Celia's path more edited.  The thing with Celia's path is that the rough version of it really fell flat of my expectations. I felt like I just couldn't get the writing right and the...

Saturday Update!

CELIA'S PATH IN A NIGHTMARE!!!

Ahem, welcome to another Saturday update! This past week I've been working on editing Celia's path.... and it has been a challenge.

Not only is her path just disgustingly complicated with programming, but I feel like my existing writing is especially lackluster. I got overwhelmed when I was first creating Celia's path and it shows...

I don't have much progress if we're going by endings covered- but I swear I made progress. Celia's path just hap...

Saturday Update!

It has been a sickly, yet somehow still productive week!

I started the week off with a pinched nerve in my back that healed pretty quick. Now I appear to be some kind of ill due to a flu shot I got a couple days ago, which is weird but I think it shouldn't last long or be too harsh since it's not the real flu.

But more importantly! It hasn't gotten in the way of my work XD

I managed to complete the editing for Mason's path! -kazoo noise- His path is now 100% ready for tester...

Saturday Update!

Hi again friends! It's time for my Saturday check in to let you know what I've been up to for the past week!

... And I'm disappointed to report that I didn't get as much done as I hoped to. 

I'm afraid last week turned out to be a really hard week filled with anxiety instead of productivity. I won't sugar-coat it, I probably got about half as much done as I actually wanted to.

In better news, I am feeling better and I was quite productive on Friday, so I think I'm over ...

Hunt Month 6 Credits List

Hi Everyone! Let's keep it short and sweet- here's the credits list from September!

If your name should be here but it isn't- please message me! If your name is in RED then I've messaged you to ask what name you'd like to be credited with :D

Thank you so much to all you guys!!!

Saturday Update!

Hello friends! It's update time!

It's been a fairly hectic week [ the transition between months is always really busy for me with financial crap and stuff :/ ] But I did manage to get some stuff done.

I've written up and designed a Help page that explains the general idea behind the game as well as the game mechanics [ Map, Inventory, Actions, and an in depth explanation of the Status screen with what all statuses mean and how they can affect your character ]

2019-10-05 17:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post

The Hunt Emblem

Today I took a few hours to draw up an emblem to use in the background of the menu UI of the game! I might be using it in other places as well. Possibly even T-shirts when the game is out!

I'm quite happy with how it came out! ^o^

Hunt Month 7 Has Begun!

Hi Everyone!

Thank you so much for your support! It's time to start a new month of development!

Last month I completed the writing and programming of the script... and now it's time to figure out what art I want to go with the story and where to put it. I'd really like to have the menu screens AND the stand-in art completed by the end of this month so that we can jump into the first round...

Saturday Update - Video - Menu UI

Hi everyone!!! I'm excited to show you what I worked on last week so I made another video! The theme of last week is UI updates! ^o^

Saturday Update!

Good news everyone!

I HAVE COMPLETED THE WRITING AND PROGRAMMING! 

Well, the first pass, which is admittedly somewhat barebones and bland, but YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE! And once we get to testing, I'm hoping some feedback can help me edit it and get it real nice and polished <3

Last night was a long slog of work- the 'main ending' branch of Derek's path turned out to have 5 goddamn different endings [ and that's after I smashed them down as much as possible ]. If ...

The Empty Map

A quick show of the action transformation language animation for the map once the player has run out of sanity in the desert! [ No sound ]

I know it's not an update day but this came out nice and I wanted to show it X'D

Animation in Renpy is pretty annoying, but worth it when you want some special effects. You basically have to write out the code for every little image switch or movement. 

Still, quite rewarding to look at once it's done!

Saturday Video Update!

Hi guys! This Saturday I decided on making a video update to jazz things up! If you can't listen to audio, you can go to the video and view the description to see a text version of what I say! <3

Thank you so much everyone!

Hunt Month 5 Credits List

Hi everyone! Here's the credits list for Hunt Month 5! Everyone who pledged $20+ during August should appear on this list!

If you think there's an error, please contact me! Also, anyone whose name is in RED is someone who hasn't got back to me about if they want their patreon username or another name to actually appear in the credits.

Here's the list!

Thank you guys SO much for your...

Hunt Month 6!

Hello friends! It's finally fall and we're starting a new Hunt Month!

My last couple posts have recapped things pretty succinctly so I'll just state my intentions and keep it short and sweet!

This month I plan to:

• Finish the writing/programming for Derek's path. This will mark the completion of all of the writing and programming in the game [ the first pass anyway, hopefully I get lots of feedback during the alpha testing phase and I'm able to improve things ]

•&...

Hunt Month 5 Recap

Hi everyone!

We're nearing the end of another production month, and I have to say that I'm very pleased with the result! I got a lot done this month in terms of programming and took a huge chunk out of the desert path- just as planned.

The desert path's programming is quite dense and complicated, which is why I left it for last. Keeping track of 9 characters who may or may not die during the story gets pretty tangled.

For now, I've got pretty much all of Derek's interactions...

Character Placeholder Sketches

These are the sketches that will be going into the game as placeholders for actual sprites! The first round of alpha testers will be seeing these when characters talk in the game :D

Unless I've forgotten someone, I think this is a complete list of characters!

You've seen most of these characters already but I think I'll leave a bit of mystery~ I won't be naming anyone here.

Saturday Update!

Hello everyone!! I'm kinda strapped for time today so this update might be kind of poorly constructed, my apologies!

But let's get right into it! In terms of writing/programming, I got another chunk done, mostly consisting of interactions involving Jaqueline and Jack! There's an important event you can catch which will result in either Jaq or you dying- unless you can do a complicated task beforehand that will allow both you and Jaqueline to go free. 

It's now possible in the...

Plans for the end of Phase 1

Hello everyone! I wanted to make a special update to outline my plans to finish up with Phase 1, so we can enter into Phase 2 and be more productive.

I've been thinking about what I want the first Alpha test copy of the game to include, and besides the rest of the writing/programming, there's a few other things for me to tackle.

THINGS TO FINISH TO COMPLETE PHASE 1

• The writing/programming of course

• An ending collection screen [ not started, I want to make som...

Saturday Update!

Hello again folks! It's time for another update!

I gotta apologize first off because this week wasn't as productive as last week ._. I had a Bad Day™ on Wednesday and then was completely away from home for all of Friday. I think I might try and squeeze in a bit of work tomorrow to make up for it.

I did get some important stuff written though! I mostly continued where I left off and got the rest of the content for Komodo and Dragon done- which means it's now possible to meet Tom!...

Sacrificial Knife

I wanted to upload a full resolution picture of the Sacfrifical Knife that's going into the desert path because I think it came out really good! I'm proud of the design because I don't often do things like this XD

Once in game, it'll only be 100px by 100px, so a lot of the details will be lost [ c'est la vie ] but here you guys can see it in full glory!

You can get this knife from Komodo and Dragon, but it won't be easy!

Saturday Update!

Hi everyone! It's time for another update ^o^

This last week has been VERY productive! I feel like I kept a really nice pace going and got a lot of details hammered out.

Since I'm still in the early phases of programming the desert path, I've also been updating my overall planning document a lot. It's getting to be less of a vague plan, and looking a lot more like a very specific bullet list of tasks to complete. This really helps me with future production and keeping everything m...

Saturday Update!

Hello friends! This update is gonna be sparse because I've only been at it for a couple days, but I figured there's still a couple niblets I could show you so why not make a post anyway?

During the last couple days I've completed two general tasks: I wrote the -somewhat long and graphic- intro for the desert path which already includes a possible death + sexual content aaaand I also programmed in the heat system! 

The heat system is more complicated than the cold system of Ma...

Hunt Month 5 is Here!

Hello friends! The wait is over and I am back on my bullshit!

I had a very relaxing and restorative month off, and now it's time to get back to work!

My goals for Hunt Month 5 are to get as far as I can in programming Derek's path. I've gotten a great head start today- I just programmed the rather intense introduction to his path. Unlike the other two paths, there's no gentle start and ra...

Hunt Month 4 Credits

Hi everyone! 

Boy I am really enjoying my month off x'D I feel like I'm really recharging. I can tell my brain is getting its juices back because I've been getting ideas for The Hunt at night- I had to put a notebook by my bed so I wouldn't do that thing where you come up with something in bed thinking 'you'll totally remember it in the morning'.

Anyhow! Without further ado, here's the credits list for Hunt Month 4! [ June ]

If you contributed $20 or more in June and do...

Saturday Update! The Break!

Hello friends!

Over the past week I have seen some improvements, with a few dips back down- but I think the most important thing to report is that I may have figured out the source of my mental health problem.

Instead of analyzing what was causing it, I thought long and hard about my previous bouts ( some as long as a couple months ) and what changed when I managed to get out of them.

The answer varied[vacations, a giant breakdown, rehab], but always tied back to one thing- ...