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May Short Story - Alyia and the Magic Shop
Alright! We've got a nice earlyish release of a short story this month! In part, it was because I had fun with this one...though admittedly having fun with random ideas is why we have such a horribly long list of short story options to vote for. So...both a good and bad thing, I guess? Anyway, I...
Progress Report/Poll Results
Alright! I had thought about doing another sitrep post for this month...but by the time I could do that we were only like a day and a half out of the polls being done. So, I decided to just roll everything into a progress report/poll result post. That being said, this needs to be said quickly for an...
Left Hand Magic (Build 2) - Public Release
Alright! With the release of Build 3 for $5+ patrons yesterday, it's time for Build 2 to go public! This build added the first weekend Events to the game, along with providing content for the two Threesome Routes. Note that this build was the February build. As in, shortest month of the year. As...
Left Hand Magic - Build 3 - Walkthrough/Guide
*Updated* Yikes! Accidentally restricted this to the wrong tier this morning. It's been corrected for access by the Upper Class Tier. Sorry folks!Mostly, content for the game is still pretty hard to miss. However, enough scenes now have either unlock conditions or, in one case, extra content wit...
Left Hand Magic - Build 3 ($5 Patron Release)
*Update - Very minor patch 3.01* There's now an attached zip file with a fix for the minor(ish) bugs Bababbak helpfully reported. Just replace the WeekTwo.rpy and WeekTwo.rpyc files in the 'game' folder with the ones in the download and it will fix the bugs.Whew. I could almost swear thi...
Quick Progress Report 2
*Update* Okay, yeah, after starting testing I discovered a bunch of issues with my Renpy installation. I've got them fixed now, but it took too much time and I've only just started testing. Thankfully, I did get everything else done. So, unless something major pops up, the release will be th...
Quick Progress Report
First, don't forget that the polls for May are already up! If you haven't yet, make sure to vote in the Short Story, Mixed Media Short, and Haven's Port Focus polls!With that reminder out of the way, I just wanted to give a quick status report on Left Hand Magic. So far, progress is goin...
May - Haven's Port Focus Poll
Alright! So, this particular poll comes with a caveat. As I've made sure to mention repeatedly, I'm going to be doing a sort of forced reset this month, to get rid of the 5-7 day delay that's been haunting us since January. In order to achieve this, I will be making the build for Haven&#...
May Short Story Poll
Alright. Even if I'm still working on the Left Hand Magic release (which is going fine, I've finished 2 of the 6 animated scenes with a 3rd in progress), there's no reason not to get May's polls up and running. Note that some of the previously absent shorts have returned, with new de...
Progress Report
Okay! Past time I let you guys know what's going on. Sorry I've been a bit more radio silent than I usually am. As I mentioned early in the month, I had some friends coming into town for a couple of days near the end of the month. Having to be awake during the day to play tour guide, essenti...
Mixed Media - Silas Station 4 ($10 Patron Release)
With the release of A Bet Maid, it's also time for an older Royalty Tier exclusive is now be made accessible to the Upper Class Tier! In this case, Stranded on Silas Station (Part 4) is the one being made available. Give it a read if you haven't had a chance yet! Part 4 was odd in that I did...
Mixed Media - A Bet Maid (Part 1)
Uggghh, this thing fought me every single step of the way. But it's finally finished. Mostly, it's even too my satisfaction. It's got a few less renders than I'd originally intended and I think the writing suffers slightly for those missing renders to work with, but it's still so...
Old Reward Archive - Updated
With the release of the first Interlude for Mass Effect: Final Error, it's also time to move another older story into the Old Rewards Archive. The short added to the archive this time was An App for That. Which features a female protagonist who finds herself in possession of an App that can alte...
Short Story - Mass Effect: Final Error - Interlude 1
Alright folks! Past time I got this posted. As I mentioned in the most recent progress report, I decided the best way to handle the gap period between Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 3 (Yes, Mass Effect 3, since many of the major plot points of Mass Effect 2 were kinda...already covered out of order) ...
Progress Report
Okay, so...news is mixed. Not horrible, but not fantastic. We'll take them one at a time though.Left Hand Magic*sigh*The good news here is that I'm actually a couple of days ahead of schedule regarding renders. I'm anticipating being done by the 26th, instead of the 28th which was my ori...
Progress Report
Time for a progress report! Shockingly, I'm a bit ahead of where I expected on Left Hand Magic. Sadly, I'm also somewhat behind on literally everything else (except the wallpapers, I guess). Still, let's take these one at a time...Left Hand MagicAs I said, I'm about a day ahead of sc...
April Wallpapers
Finally got around to doing the typesetting that I so hate -_-. As usual, there are attached zip files with common resolutions, as well as a no-text version. Somewhat interestingly, I didn't realize until I was doing to typesetting that I'd never given Revina a last name. Oops. Oh well, it g...
Progress Report
Yikes, it was longer than I thought since I last did a progress report. I thought it had only been like 3 days, apparently it's been closer to five. Oops.Anyway...Left Hand MagicBy some miracle, I've kept pace with the planned rendering so far. This is more startling than you'd think giv...
Poll Results
I probably should have waited the progress report from yesterday, huh? Oh well, this way there's not as much rambling in one post. Anyway, poll results!Short Story Poll ResultsThis one managed to really surprise me! Perhaps that was because of the temporary removal of a couple options? I suppose...
Progress Report
Alright! Since the polls aren't done yet (go vote if you haven't!), there's not a whole lot to report yet. Aside from the renders for the Wallpapers, which are done and I'm just procrastinating doing the typesetting again because I both hate it and suck at it, the work I've done ...
Sitrep for April
Alright. I said I'd do one of these of this month, so...here it goes.First, I'm going to flat out say it. The last 4 months or so have been hell. December was fucking miserable because I was trying to squeeze the first real release of Left Hand Magic into a month where I was guaranteed to lo...
April - Short Story Poll
Okay. So, just so everyone is aware, I'm only planning on doing this short this month. The secondary short of the month is basically one of the only things I can occasionally skip without feeling horrible about it. And I'm so worn down at this point that I'm trying desperately not to hav...
April Mixed Media Poll
Alright. Since basically my entire focus for the month is to NOT overreach and brutally hammer myself into burnout, I've removed the Starworld and Cyberworld comics again for now. Frankly, they are way too much work to even consider doing them during Left Hand Magic months, I think. From now on,...
Old Reward Archive Updated
With the release of A Harvest Blessing, for $3+ patrons, an older story is going into the All Patrons Old Reward Archive. In this case, suitably, it was the previous entry in what I'm tentatively referring to as Lyriel's Adventures. A Harvest Blessing is the most recent such now, with the on...
March's Rather Late Second Short - A Harvest Blessing
Alright! Nope, I'm not dead. I've been taking it slightly easy for a few days, while also wrapping up some loose ends. Like, the Short Story for last month that didn't get finished (Sorry!). That short, the sequel to Cursed Collar and The Not So Cursed Courier, is attached to this post a...
Haven's Port Build 13 - Public Release
This build was a tiny bit smaller than normal, if you only take into account the total number of new scenes, as it only had 14. But, given that there was over a week of delay in getting started on it due to an overun of Left Hand Magic, AND the average scene length is over 6 renders per scene this t...
Haven's Port - Build 14 - Walkthrough and Cheats
Okay! Sorry these are half a day after the release. I was too wiped out to get to making the walkthrough before I had some sleep. Walkthrough is attached as a PDF, as always. Note! There is a new cheat this time, which allows you to boost the Pirate Skill for easier access to the new content.-----Ha...
Haven's Port - Build 14 - $5 Patron Release
Whew! I'm completely wiped out at the moment, but as of my typing this, uploads have started for Build 14's release. I'm going to warn everyone upfront that I was sort of running on autopilot and hella hazzy for the last portion of testing, so there's a good chance I missed something...
Quick Note
*Update* Took slightly longer than expected due to some odd bugs. Everything is done now though and uploads are running. Shouldn't be more than an hour or so at this point.Almost done. Sort of. Finished all the writing and almost all the editing (I've got two passages left to check over). Bu...
Slight Delay
So, I'm afraid I have to admit that I'm not going to quite make the deadline. I tried, I promise, and it's not going to be too much of a delay. The programming is done (minus any bug fixes and such of course), and I've gotten about 50% of the writing finished. I'm fully expecting...
