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Weekly update!

Hey all, I just got back(?) from talking with some of the artist and animators. Basically adjusting details and resources based off your feedback so far. Also getting an outside coder to tweak the code for the card game as I deal with the other equally time consuming stuff. Yeah haha, Monday's always seem more packed for some reason haha.

Anyway, as I've mentioned, we'll be focusing on the stuff y'all want for now as I put the other stuff in the back burner and let it simmer. They'll al...

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Jikage Rising Arc 3, what do you want to see?

Hey all, so we have a lot of things going on for Jikage Rising Arc 3, and this is mostly a poll for me to know what y'all are most interested in, we have quite a bit of things to do, that includes but is not limited to:

-Porting over and updating old scenes

-Adding in new character

-New cards for the card game

-"Romance" scenes that eventually ends with a wedding, cause a lot of you are asking for it

-Story progression / more on the story

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Animated scenes for side girls

Hey all, had a couple of Patron expressed interest in this, so I thought the best solution would be to have it out in a poll, cause well, I think it's only fair all of you get to decide what we do with our resources.

Basically, for Arc 3, would y'all prefer:

Option 1: Animated scenes for girls, including side girls like Ayame, Anko, Kurenai, etc, but at the cost of less scenes for main girls.

Option 2: Continue as we are now, i.e. main girls have animated scenes while side g...

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Jikage Rising Arc 3 v2.03b Public Release!

Hey all, the public release of Jikage Rising v.2.03 is out! So we had a bunch of stuff edited and updated, most prominently Shizune's sprite. We also have Sakura added to the village as well as her old scenes added! We have quite a bit of stuff that needs to be added, so it really boils down to the question of "What do y'all wanna see first?" I'll be making a poll on that to see what everyone wants!

Anyway here's the tl/dr update:

Changelog v2.03:
-Hospital bui...

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Weekly Update!

Mondays am I right? Hahaha, thank you, I'll be here all week.

Anyway, back to the main topic, this week I'll be focusing exclusively on Dungeons and Tavern! Mostly been talking and discussing files with the artist and animator today, lots to do, kinda hate it, but that's how things are. 

Anyway, for Jikage Rising, as y'all have probably seen, some of the characters have sprite updates, we will be seeing them soon, so do look forward to that! I have also the expressions update...

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More sneak peeks!

Hey all, just another quick peek! With this, all the old sprites have been updated! Don't say Doggo doesn't listen to the players. ( ͡º ꒳ ͡º)

Anyway, some poses were updated to something that either showcases more of their bodies or suit their personality more. Ayame isn't quite done yet, so yeap yeap. 

Let me know what do y'all think yeah!

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Sneak Peek for Shizune's new sprite!

She looks strangely erotic without her undies...

Anyway, let me know what y'all think yeah!

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Weekly Update!

Hey all, I'm feeling significantly better, the guy that invented antibiotics is truly a gentleman and a scholar, which he/she probably is. Who invented it anyway?

Well, a quick google search says it's Alexander Fleming, so yeap, Doggo is grateful. Anyway, on to the bread and butter(?)/ meat and gravy(?) of the post! I'll have been working on and off on the patch for the past week, which upon further inspection, has a lot of nonsense in it lol. I'll get it all updated and have the game u...

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Weekly Update!

Hey all, so I probably need to take it relatively easy this week. Apparently I have a bacterial infection, not fun, not fun at all. I'll still be working on the games, but for this week I'll probably have less progress. A bunch of bugs were reported for Jikage Rising so I'll get fixing those.

Not a super long weekly update, with all the things I'm on I'll would probably be writing a bunch of nonsense. So uh, yeap yeap! Do let me know if y'all have any specific questions and I'll get the...

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Jikage Rising Arc 3 v2.03b Patron Release!

UPDATE: Heya all, I updated the sprite for Shizune in this as well as the card sprite for her. Also fixed some of the issues that y'all have been facing for the card game and Sakura's scenes!


Hey all! Sorry for the wait, but it's here. I'll make this relatively short cause I've been having some pains all over my body, including places where I probably shouldn't mention here lol. Anyway, the patrol has been included, the drops have been included, the card gallery which we will add mo...

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Weekly Update!

Hey all, apologies for the late update! Was a tad too focused on doing a bunch of the designs. I'm still a but stuck in deciding the rarity, but I guess I'll slowly improve it as I get feedback from y'all. I'm also focusing on trying to get some of the quests for Kushina ready, which will hopefully give everyone a bit of an idea of how progress will go! 

The sprites for Anko, Ayame, Shizune and Kurenai are still being worked on, my estimate is that we won't get to see them this upd...

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Weekly update!

Okie dokie, so I'll be getting back into Jikage Rising this week. The grind never stops hahaha. So yeap yeap, we have a couple of stuff coming for JR, and also I realised that I forgot to actually put the block for the patrol thing + card drop thing in. I do apologise for that, that is all on me for being a dumbass. I'll add it in the next update since that makes more sense instead of rolling back the stuff that I've already done for the new update. 

Other than that, not much to sa...

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Jikage Rising v2.02b (Arc3) Public Release!

Hey all, so just a quick heads up cause most people stop reading after the first sentence.

If you encounter a crash during the card game, try these two things:

OPTION 1:

-Update your graphics driver

OPTION 2 (Thanks Kurrency B!):

-Hold down Shift while starting Ren'Py, or press Shift+G once Ren'Py has started.  

-From the "Graphics Acceleration" menu that appears, choose the renderer to use.  

-Choose "Quit", then rest...

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Weekly Update!

Whew, slightly less hectic this week. I even managed to get in some time for Baldur's Gate 3, I have my barbarian carrying 2 bodies in case I need some heavy projectiles to throw, I love throwing so much, it's like dealing damage to 2 NPCs with 1 action, love it. My main is pretty weird tho, rogue + warlock, I'm mostly using equipment and drugs to get my other stats up, there's like a club that gives me 19 str just for holding it off hand so I can yeet enemies to my barbarian lol. I'm conside...

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Weekly Update!

Hey all, gonna make this a quick one cause I wanna figure out what's causing a handful of players to crash to screen during the card selection screen of Jikage Rising. And the number seems to be getting larger. Which is kinda an issue considering I have to deal with Dungeons and Tavern as well lol. Worst case scenario I'll have to bring in an outsider again to deal with it, but hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Things are a bit hectic, but I'll deal with it, no worries haha. Currently ...

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Jikage Rising v2.02 crash to desktop issue

Hey all, I've got a couple of people that had an issue with the game closing without warning during the card selection screen. 

Just wanted to check if there are any other players that encountered the same issue so I can isolate the cause of the crash and try to fix it. I hadn't been able to replicate the crash on my end.


If you have encountered the issue (not the error when entering the lab, a fix will be up in a couple, sorry for the delay), coul...

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Jikage Rising v2.02b Patron Release!

UPDATE: Updated to v2.02b! Fixed the issue with the lab and changing what they call you! Also added in Mabui's completed art for the morning after scene!

Hey all, sorry for the late upload, been working on it non-stop. We have quite a bit of things added and updated so I'll go into it. The town has been implemented, in the sense where all of the art is in. Basically we will be able to just built and it'll appear in the future, no need to do this for every update, but this is backend stu...

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Sneak Peek!

Just a quick sneak peek, which I'm thinking it'll reveal a bunch of things at once from just looking at it lol.

I'm thinking of using this for Karin's card art, the "daily life" series with what you saw with Tsunade and the rest of the gang. Maybe for a scene as well? We'll see I suppose.


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Weekly Update

Hey all, just finished eating and thought I should get some work done while I'm letting the food sit for a bit haha. Hope y'all had a good weekend, I pretty much spent it playing Baldur's Gate 3, stole from from a merchant, ate some hair from an old lady, and pet a dog, but the game was fun too. 

Anyway haha, I'm putting the town together to make sure the layers don't interfere with each other, the artist that did this one was more uh, let's just say liberal, in how his organised h...

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Sneak Peek!

Hey all, just a quick sneak peek on some of the cards for the next update! One of these cards will have a rare lewd variant that you can find. The last card is mostly a "dud" card, the kind where you use until you find something better. We're slowly getting there haha.


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Weekly Update!

Hey all, it's time for your weekly dose of updates! Just a heads up, I've updated the final release of Arc 2 cause there were some variable related errors. It should all be fixed now! Speaking of which, the weirdest thing happened while I was fixing the code. I swear it's like sometimes someone reverts my code back to the old files and I have no idea why or how it happened, I'm guessing it's a google drive "latest version" mismatch issue, but who knows. 

Anyway, for this week I'm m...

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Dungeons and Tavern update

Hey all, sorry bout this, we have a bit of a technical difficulty once more. I'm mostly working on trying to get some of the plugins to work at the moment, but it has hit a bit of a slag. Think it would be better to push it back a bit more. 

It's not all doom and gloom though, we have still been making progress in the art and animation department, the animator had a bit of a level up, we can't really post videos here without needing to jump through hoops like a circus lion, but you...

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Jikage Rising Arc 3 v2.01 Public Release

Hey all, v2.01 is now out for the public. This is mostly just a quick intro, but more importantly, it's to showcase the new battle system. 

So a quick overview of the battle system we have, it's mostly just triple triad, since everything is already set up and I'll just need to put in the numbers and things will work nicely. We will have more units that are present in the game, and also "variants" of the cards that you'll get. Like Swimsuit Mabui and stuff like that. I'll also be ad...

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Weekly Update

Hey all, I have like about 80 pics and variants that I need to resize and re-adjust cause of reasons so I'll keep it relatively brief haha. This week I'll mostly be focusing on Dungeons and Tavern, cause the release date is pretty close, so it only makes sense to do so. 

I'm probably not touching Jikage Rising for this week, cause it's pretty quiet so far. So yeap yeap. I will be fixing stuff if things go wrong tho. There's art getting prepped so there's that. 

And yeah,...

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Weekly Update!

Hey all, busy busy as always, I've been wanting to jump back into Conan Exiles for a while now but I can't seem to find the time. Been talking to some artist and folks about some art stuff that we have, and working on DnT(?)/D&T as well. I'm currently working on D&T, mostly map stuff at the moment. I was play testing and realised some of the map felt off so I had to do some self editing, not super fun, but eh.

Then there's Jikage Rising and the card alts, can't get super a lot o...

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Explanation of game and sample sketch of variants

Hey all, just thought I would drop an explanation of the new battle system and an example of what I meant by variants. 

So to begin off, the "cards" you get will essentially be determined by who's in your village, so for example, if Hinata isn't in your village, you won't have her card unlocked nor will you be able to obtain variants of her cards. Also I know that she was present in the demo but that was mostly just for example sake. 

So anyway, in a way, the "deck" is l...

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Weekly update!

Holy crap I'm tired lol. Anyway, let's just jump right into it! So I'm gonna be back at it with Dungeons and Tavern, I'm just gonna stick with this name, considering the other names are super catchy, some were pretty close to other already existing games though. 

As for Jikage Rising, there was a bit of an issue with the apk release, I've uploaded a version that be independent from arc 2, bit of an oversight on my end, sorry about that. Raiha is also doing some "proof of concept" t...

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Jikage Rising v2.01 Patron Release

Or do y'all prefer if I call it "Jikage Rising Arc 3 v0.01"? That's a bit of a mouthful though. Anyway, here's the first release, it's mostly an intro and a look at how the battle system will work! No lewds this time though.

So the main thing is what do y'all think of me using this new battle system (that took waaaaaay too long to put in properly), I was going for a drag and drop thing, but it was more complicated than I thought, hopefully I'll be able to throw some time into it to get ...

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