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November Newsflash #2
Happy Friday to you! If you are someone who does Thanksgiving, I hope it went well for you. I've been a bit ill this week, but I am really pleased with the progress on Honor Bound (plus a few Royal Affairs epilogue edits).Here is one of my Honor Bound songs to listen to!I finished drafting Chapt...
November Side Story: Fiore Roldan, 1752
In this bonus short story, Fiore and Jaime enjoy a well-earned vacation.The sun and the long, luxurious lunch have made them both sleepy. Birds sing in the little courtyard below, and the clip-clop of horses are somewhere nearby, but Fiore and Jaime's balcony is large enough for them both to lie...
November Newsflash #1
Hello and happy Friday! I've been mostly writing Honor Bound this fortnight, with a few Royal Affairs expanded epilogue edits.Here is a nice instrumental song from my Honor Bound playlist!I'm very pleased to have put Honor Bound Chapter 3 out in the world - it was a little scary, but the fee...
Honor Bound Chapter 4: alpha preview
Here's the readable Chapter 4 preview! It represents less than half of what there is to play through in this section of the chapter. I hope you enjoy this tidbit in advance of December's full playable Patreon update!
Upcoming plans: November
Good afternoon, all! First, if you're looking for more games to play, I made a digest of all the ChoiceScript updates and releases from October that I could find. Check it out!Now for what's happening in November...November 1st: Poll is live to vote on the bonus story for the month (£11+)No...
November Q&A Post
Hello everyone!This went great last month so I'm going to do it again in the same way. Here's the link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form. Ask as many questions as you like, in the comments here or on the form, and I'll post the answers here. I look forward to hearing from you!What is t...
November Bonus Supplement Vote
Hello, Bonus Supplement folks!Here is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story from the perspective of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on the 15th!
October 2023 Newsflash #2
Good afternoon, everyone! I've mostly been doing the Royal Affairs expanded epilogue this fortnight, with a little smidgeon of Honor Bound.Here's what I have been listening to on a loop while making this epilogue. When I'm towards the end of a project, I tend to find an album and listen ...
October Side Story: Matia Frasada, 1748
In this bonus short story, a mountain survey has gone dangerously wrong.Content notes: mild sexual references, mild subconscious dysphoria. In this story, Matia uses an outdated name and pronouns, as it's set before they transitioned.Password: amatothecatBonus Supplement Master Post with the res...
Early access alpha writing - thoughts?
Hello all and good afternoon for Sunday! I've been thinking about how I'm structuring what I share on here.Putting up a full playable chapter every other month is a good rhythm for my writing speed and I want to keep doing it as I continue making Honor Bound, but I was wondering if you'd...
October 2023 Newsflash #1
I've been working on the Royal Affairs expanded epilogue this fortnight! Here's a track from my Royal Affairs playlist - I've been listening to the playlist constantly to get back in the Royal Affairs zone.A quick note that for Sneak Preview subscribers the October Q&A post is up and ope...
Honor Bound Early Access: Chapter 3
Dear subscribers, I'm so pleased to share Chapter 3 today - play it here!I'd love to hear what you think if you have a minute - I'm always interested to hear how you're feeling about the characters and your PC, whether you're feeling like you're having an effect on things, an...
Upcoming plans: October
Good afternoon, all! First, if you're looking for more games to play, I made a digest of all the ChoiceScript updates and releases from September that I could find. Check it out!Now for what's happening in October...October 1st: Poll is live to vote on the bonus story for the month (£11+)Oc...
October Q&A Post
Good morning all!Here's your link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form! I will answer about spoilers, NSFW stuff if it's not super graphic, lore, character stuff, and mostly anything you want to know.I'll answer comments too, and will answer questions asked through the form in this post s...
October Bonus Supplement Vote
Good morning, Bonus Supplement folks!Here is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story taken from the past of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on the 18th!
September Newsflash #3
Well, I have had some stumbling blocks this fortnight, mostly in the shape of my child getting sick, then me getting sick - I had an ear infection which laid me out up for a week. But I'm feeling better now, and am back in the zone.Here is a song from my Honor Bound playlist and one from my Roya...
September Side Story: Varenn Korzha, 1754
In this bonus short story, Lieutenant Korzha receives an unwanted letter.Content notes: references to death and to abusive families (non-graphic)Password: amatothecatBonus Supplement Master Post with the rest of the bonus stories is here.
Bonus Supplement Tier is Back!
We are back with a (gentle, polite) vengeance!After a lot of soul-searching and making sure I have enough time and energy to do it, I'm restarting bonus stories on here. At £11+ you can gain access to the archive of four interactive stories about Asher, Javi, Hartmann, and Auguste, and to a new...
September Newsflash #2
I've had a much bigger proportion of my time spent on writing this fortnight, and I'm honestly loving getting back into things! I don't expect to write as much as this every fortnight, but it has been really wonderful to take a good run at it.Here is a song from my Honor Bound playlist t...
September Newsflash #1
This should be the last of the "I have been very busy with family things and have not been working much" newsflashes for a while. Although being on holiday was truly lovely, all-day childcare for six weeks is a lot and I'm eager to get back to full-time writing.Here is a song from the Ho...
August Newsflash #2
As you'll see from the numbers on this one, I haven't been doing much new writing, or much work at all, as I've been on holiday!What I've done on the game itself is do an update including a few fixes/tweaks/clarifications as well as reframing the asexuality choices in Chapter 2. What...
Honor Bound Chapter 2 Anonymous Feedback Survey
By popular demand, (and also my own demand, haha) I've made a fresh survey for Chapter 2! It has some new questions to fit the new chapter - if you have a moment and have thoughts to share, I'd love to hear them. Hope you have been enjoying the new chapter!I had a couple of comments about th...
Small Chapter 1-2 update
I've made a small update - mostly typos, but also a couple of tweaks. You can now have had a negative relationship with the foster family in the orphan background, and I've reworked how asexuality is set. Previously I was intending to set grey ace or demisexuality later on via later conversa...
August Newsflash #1 and Special Announcement
I've been doing lots of bits and pieces this fortnight. Chapter 5 is outlined and I've been doing work on coding it, I wrote a little character study for one of the Honor Bound characters, and I did some quick fixes on Elite Status: Platinum Concierge which came out last week. (Elite Status:...
Honor Bound Early Access Update: Chapter 2
Dear subscribers, thank you so much for your support!Here is the next Honor Bound update: play Chapter 2 now!This new demo is around 90,000 words in total. I hope you enjoy!As ever I'd love to hear what you think. I'm holding off on making another feedback questionnaire until I've put up...
July Newsflash #2
Lots of Chapter 4 writing this fortnight, and today I finished the first draft of it. Hooray!This was the most challenging chapter I've done so far in Honor Bound because there are some big differences in tone and environment, and there was a lot of concepts to introduce in a short space of time...
Q&A Question Post - July
Hello and welcome to the July question post! If you have a question that you'd like answered please do! You can post in the comments here, or on this anonymous form.A couple of housekeeping notes:I will be on the fence about answering questions about: moderate sexual content (I probably won'...
Honor Bound Newsflash: July #1
I'm excited about Honor Bound Chapter 1 being out in the wild! I so appreciate the comments on it during June - it really helped me refine it before other people got their eyes on it - and I'm really looking forward to sharing Chapter 2 in August for Sneak Preview subscribers and above. If y...
Small Chapter 1 update
I've pushed another update for the early access demo which adds and changes a few variables. It's mostly things which will become relevant later, some of which are more plot-relevant and others are things like setting an initial hairstyle which can then be changed and for the change to be re...
June Q&A Answer Post
Welcome to June's Q&A post! Enjoy!I was just wondering if you were going to write any future works highlighting Genneser. I was just rereading "noblesse ablige" and it came across as if Genesser university was the ideal place to go to in the... continent? Creme de la creme world... I'...
