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December Update and Year Retrospective
🕑 Added 2026-01-01 20:37:26 +0000 UTCYear Retrospective: Was it me, or was this year looooong? Not to get overly political, but the orange man made all the economical swings feel like tsunamis (I'm an American neighbor... so powerless to do anything, yet suffer anyway... yay).
I got laid off from my work near the middle of the year, and finding a new job has not been exactly easy... everyone is just waiting for this to die down... but at least I am earning enough through Patreon/DA that I am not in a hurry. I am going back to school (hopefully) come September, so that's another reason I am not as pressured, though I should not put all my eggs in that one basket.
This year I also got THE THING (blame my family for me being secretive). Which makes me really happy and a weight off my shoulders.
Closing up personal stuff, I am very happy in the current state that I'm in. Its not perfect, but teh pursuit of THE THING made me realize some stuff (play Merchant Mode for a more in-depth view), and being able to create games fills me with purpose, regardless of what's going on on the background.
Up to non-personal stuff.
Last year was the year of expansion (I need to do more exercise >_> ). Last year we expanded to Deviant Art were we grew enough to make comics sustainable according to certain metrics. We also expanded to DLSite... where we were not as lucky (gender bender is not as hot there). It is still enough to pay the translations... yay.
Last year we launched Bimbo Investigations, Succubus x Hero, Twicelight, and oc, several updates to the existing games. We finished Merchant Mode, and Orchard U Perfect World.
There has been some ups and downs, but overall, I feel my experiences has made me stronger and ready to continue making more games and TG content!
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Damn, that was longer than expected...
December Update: December was a bit of a slow month related to stuff... mostly due to all the family parties I needed to attend to (and medical stuff I booked after my Vacations), but we managed to pull Oathbreaker out! I started planning some games, namely Bimbo Investigation, but most of the dev time was spent in OB (and fixing bugs for BI and RM).
Games:
Oathbreaker: Out now for Patreons!
Resident Maiden: Fixed some bugs that has been there since October. Next release will be... hoppidy.
Bimbo Investigations: Fixed bugs, might do a release with the mirror feature... May have the mirror as a placeholder (using items intead of buttons)
Magisit: Kuroko is back in the mines, when allowed.
Mockingbird: Six is in the mines, when Between allows him to.
Comics:
Twicelight: Angerox's situation seem to have improved! I have received updates on Twicelight.
Succ x Hero: I have the story board almost ready (just need to translate to spanish)
BQ: Might be on hiatus due to Massmanic's commission schedule. Hopefully we'll continue when he feels ready.
Dev Mode: Finished! Will be sustituted by:
Gag Comics (name tbd): We are planning on developing small gag comics that you may have seen by now. Comics liek the Santa or Pumkin Spice one are the general idea. We will poll soon and have a more detailed anouncement.
Oh, and Happy begining of 2026!! Happy year of the Uma...Horse! Horse!! I meant horse!!
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melchi
Stoked that there was new resident maiden :P
