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MB Saucy Side: One Night Stand (Ambrose Version)
Seoul isn’t a city.At least, it’s not a city in the way that Chicago is a city. Seoul stands with New York and London and Tokyo, a sprawling labyrinth of tiered levels, neon skyscrapers looming over tangled roads that arch over and dip under each other in a stream of ever-moving headlights. On y...
Writer's Blog: Push the Button for a Character Arc
I’m currently finishing up March’s Saucy Side and UCRT fairy tale, having given up on perfecting Chapter Five this morning. Despite being less active online this month, March has actually been one of my most productive months yet in regards to wordcount (since March 1st, I’ve added around 80,0...
The Great Rewritening Feedback Request: Chapters 6 & 7
I've been struggling with rewriting the intro of Chapter 5, but on the flip side that means I've procrastinated by instead finishing another of Mind Blind's endings! Still can't be played since the entire middle of the game needs to be recoded, but hey it's written. Turns out bei...
Ending #3 is DONE
I had a burst of inspiration and pulled an all nighter to finish (only 5 more ends to go!). It is 5:30am and I'm only now heading to bed, but I have ZERO REGRETS.It's so good, y'all. Also, Shard is a slippery jerkface who deserves their own reality TV show. Because damn.. . . That's ...
MB Short Story: Cumulative Commentary
Title:Cumulative CommentaryorThe Historic Tale of Four Innocuous Comments That Made One Comment Matter More Than It Should And Inevitably Lead To Disaster (And A Pun)“For your suit, I say we go sleek. The last Justice looked like an overequipped tortoise. R&D recently developed new ballistics plat...
Delivery Teaser: Open Gate
Referring to Open Gate as a mere ‘pub’ would be akin to calling the Hope Diamond a ‘shiny bauble’. The statement is technically true, but it’s also so much more.Open Gate is one of the world’s few Neutrality Zones open to all species and human variants. Members of warring Fae factions si...
The Great Rewritening: Chapter 4 Update
Currently writing the family reunion for Chapter 5, but here's Chapter 4's update to play with! (Although 90% of Chapter 4's changes are behind the scenes, so you may want until Chapter 5 to replay.)Originally, I'd expanded upon John's conversation with Button, but came to the co...
Writer's Blog: Weaker in Context
Let’s start off with the good news: another one of Mind Blind’s endings has been fully written! My wordcount currently tops 670,000 words in my private build, and this only includes parts that are coded! My feelings of accomplishment are so profound and excitable as to require exclamation points...
Writer's Blog: (Re)Writing is Hard.
Editing an IF is one of the most difficult things that I've ever done in my entire existence, and I say this as someone who used to wrangle small children for a living. It's extremely disorienting to rewrite things when the scenes don't flow. I feel like a blindfolded toddler holding an ...
Finished writing an ending! All the way! No missing scenes, just missing numbers.
The first route in Mind Blind is written! All the way, to the end, for a total of nineteen chapters. (I might make Chapter 20 an epilogue but we'll see.)This route (which happens should Button accept Shard’s offer of help) isn’t yet fully coded, as I don’t yet know what thresholds will be ...
Mind Blind March Interview: The Trashy Reunion Special
Ah, reality show reunion episodes. Is there anything better than when celebrities in the death throws of their contracts drop their filters and bring in the megaphones to taunt and provoke each other?. . . Ok, I admit, I've never seen a reality show reunion except for maybe three minutes when ch...
Writer's Blog: Hope and the Lack Thereof
I fell asleep at my desk last night before posting Friday’s update. Weirdly, my back feels great? There might be benefits to sleeping upright instead of half-falling off the bed in starfish position like I usually do. Regardless, as of this morning I’m finished with Chapter 4 and currently editi...
The Great Rewritening Feedback Request: Chapters 4 AND 5
Chapter 3’s rewrite is complete, and John’s relationship variable count is now up to ten! Unlike the other eight variables that I listed in my last blogpost, these two new variables track John’s feelings based on your dialogue choices (determining how comfortable/cautious/apologetic he behaves...
February Interview
Next month will be an interview as usual where you guys ask questions, but I thought I'd mix it up a little for February.Enjoy!"Interview" Link: https://uquiz.com/iz4puP
MB Short Story: Being Normal
Note: This story was originally a flashback in Mind Blind! Arden could be chosen as either a past fling or a friend, so I've tried to leave it vague for the purposes of this piece.The original intent of the scene was to show that Button had choices other than staying in Chicago while also emphas...
Writer's Blog: John, Still A Himbo But Now Complex
Chapter 3 will be out this weekend! Overhauling John’s relationship means simultaneously recoding his scenes in Chapters 4 and 5, in order to make sure that the relationship variables I’m tracking work throughout all of John’s main conversations. And I must say, I’m really pleased by how it...
The Great Rewritening: Chapter 3 Feedback Request
It's time for Chapter 3, which means it's time to focus on John and Hope!Let me tell you, their new relationship tracking a doozy. A doozy that I'm extremely excited to implement, but still a doozy.If you have suggestions about Chapter 3 (especially when it comes to how you'd like Bu...
Writer's Blog: Chapter 2 2.0 Is UP!
Link: https://dashingdon.com/play/wildelight/mind-blind-20/mygame/Fun fact: Chapters 1 and 2 consist of a combined 82,000 words, which is around a sixth of Mind Blind's total content! (This is mostly the fault of Chapter 2, which clocks in at 50,000 words. Hopefully, future chapters will be quic...
Aeon Student Guide: The Korean Reunification
I ended up having to divide Unity's Founding and The Korean Reunification into two separate entries, with the Korean Reunification in particular ending up a lot longer than I anticipated. I'm posting the first part up (on the Reunification) in it's entirety before the rewrite in order to...
The Korean Reunification
Finishing up the final entry to the Aeon Student Guide (which will be included in the stat screen next update). The above photo is an extremely rough draft, but overall the Student Guide is almost 4,000 words of pure lore dumping.Completely optional lore dumping, mind you!There's some reactivity...
MB Saucy Side: Reason for Divine Intervention (Kenna Version)
The assignment is simple: find target, shoot arrow, profit.Having just gained your wings as a fledgling Cupid, you aren’t about to mess up your first solo mission. It’s imperative that you be at the top of your game; your new supervisor has been looking for an excuse to kick you off the Infatuat...
MB Saucy Side: Reason for Divine Intervention (Kent Version)
The assignment is simple: find target, shoot arrow, profit.Having just gained your wings as a fledgling Cupid, you aren’t about to mess up your first solo mission. It’s imperative that you be at the top of your game; your new supervisor has been looking for an excuse to kick you off the Infatuat...
Delivery Sneak Peak: Quali-tea Paranoia
For paws and fangs that you can’t see,Put your trust in a cuppa tea.-Advertisement for Mama Marygold’s Certified Anti-Shifter DropletsWhen vampires and weres were revealed to exist, panic set in as to how ordinary humans could identify these outsiders given their exterior similarities to mortals...
Writer's Blog: Chapter 2 and The Case of Unbrushed Coding
I’m currently working on integrating the new scene within all of Chapter 2 and have almost reached the conclusion that my first instinct may have been correct and that the chapter may now need to be split in two. I’m reluctant to do this however, as having the explosion at the end of Chapter 3 j...
The Great Rewritening: Chapter 2 Feedback Request
Chapter 2 is going to have a lot more story changes in it than Chapter 1, as I've written a new yet crucial scene that foreshadows a lot of what's to come and delves into the motivations of certain characters (while also providing a lore drop about Unity's founding). This new scene is on...
The Great Rewritening: Chapter 1 . . . 2.0
Thank you everyone so much for your feedback! It was clear that a lot of you put a lot of thought into your comments, and I appreciate it so much.Mind Blind 2.0: https://dashingdon.com/play/wildelight/mind-blind-20/mygame/There were a lot of great suggestions, and I'm only sorry that I wasn'...
Mind Blind 2.0: Romance Systems
Just wanted to give everyone a behind-the-scenes glance of how the new romance and relationship system works! In addition to the "attraction" and "crush" stages, all ROs also have a "feelings" and "romance" stage, with romance requiring a positive relationship to prog...
Writer's Blog: One Chapter (Almost) Down
Tentatively, I think I’ll be able to release the rewritten Chapter 1 on Sunday depending on how much more feedback comes in. Thank you so much for those who have provided insight! I don’t want to speak definitively about what’s been changed just yet (in case it changes further), but I’ve inc...
The Great Rewritening: Chapter One Feedback
Happy February, everyone! I spent all of today writing down every single new variable that will be integrated into Mind Blind 2.0, most significantly charting the relationship system overall. I'm pleased (and somewhat intimidated) to announce that this currently amounts to 72 variables that will...
MB Interview: Clarence Garfield
On stage, Nicholas Wiseman sits across from Clarence Garfield. Their sense of styles could not be more different: Nick wears an emerald green dinner jacket that tiptoes the line between “classy” and “host club,” while Clarence wears a dark grey business suit with overlong sleeves, of a style...
