Bound By Night
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Build 0.13: Now Public!
🕑 Added 2023-08-04 21:00:04 +0000 UTC
Updated Aug. 17, 2023: Links are to an updated version that (a) has improved images during a dream sequence (less pixelation in the shadows); (b) fixes a transition from the cabin to Mayhew's tower that was being skipped, resulting in some players finding themselves suddenly in a parking garage without any warning; and (c) corrects some typos in various chapters.
Well, it has been a minute, hasn't it? But the wait is over and the next update and conclusion to Chapter 14 is now available.
Chapter 14 is the start of Act 2 and the previous two updates took us through a Connor romance path and a Nick romance path. This update takes you along a path where you are not pursuing a romance with either Connor or Nick, or, perhaps, made certain choices to alienate one or both of them. Even if you are pursuing one of those paths in your main playthrough, if you're a fan of explicit shifted content, you will probably want to check out this path. (Trigger Warning: The explicit scene at the beginning of that path includes shifted content as well as blood and some BDSM elements.)
Regardless of the romance path you're taking, this update continues the story for all paths, bringing Alex back to Mayhew's tower as he begins his research into the origin of the plague creatures and how to address the problem.
As you all know, putting this build together has taken some time. More time than usual. Along the way, I encountered hardware problems leaving me without a graphics card for almost a month (which I need to create the images), more demands on my time due to a new job, and even some burn out. Adding insult to injury, to resolve the hardware issues, I also considered whether it might be something with the operating system and did a fresh install of windows and a new harddrive... which wound up deleting a lot of settings I use for post-work in Photoshop, creating the Android builds, re-downloading hundreds of 3d assets and other challenges I've tried to forget. It was just a giant mess all around.
So, I can't tell you all how much I appreciate your support and patience. It means the world to me. When I started BBN, I didn't think anyone was going to care for this silly little fantasy project of mine. The first build was almost more of a "Can I Do This?"-experiment than anything else. Now... here we are.
The next update will continue Alex's journey, reintroduce him to Riley and (I hope) Santino, and set the stage for some world travels. Future updates should not take this long, and (for good or ill) I'm going to avoid more of these branching paths for romances as I think it artificially created a bit of a storytelling hurdle for me to get past. Lessons learned.
I think that's enough for now. Thank you again, and enjoy.
Comments
Barbara Smell
My heart fluttered when I saw Ronan again after all this time, even if it was for just a brief moment.
William b
Loved the new chapter!
Sam008
Thank you so much for another amazing chapter of your story. Started playing it and could not stopp until I once again reached the end of it. Could have played it more and more but have to wait for the next chapters. Cant wait to download it whenever that will be. Thanks so much for all your hard work. Best VN
Bound By Night
It is the complete game but your saves shouod be stored in a seperate folder. Renpy doesn't do patches in incremental builds very well, particularly with how I have the files structured. If you are on Android, thougg, I would not delete the old installation. The new version will install on top of it.
C.K.
With Renpy and Unity games you pretty much always download the entire game again since it is compiled. HTML games might work like that since you download image packs separately so some devs simply give you the html file and the new images as a separate "patch" download
Toni K
❤️❤️❤️
Tom Swift Sr.
Just to double-check since different game makers here do things differently, is this download the complete game -- or do I need to install it into the previous build. Thanks! And again... Wo0t!!!
Tom Swift Sr.
********** W00T! **********
Pilgrim
Thank you!!! I was excited from the very first CG of BBN and I am happy to witness this development!
