FutureFragments

May 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

WEEKEND UPDATE #6

Hey, a bit of a slow-ish week this week, mainly because we're all doing stuff that's kind of grinding away/taking a LONG time to do, etc. So, without further adooooo -------------------------- Cheshire's gotten the following done; -CHANGED TALIA'S ATTACKS: This was a really big one, as Cheshire had to completely rework something called an "entity loop" within the game, basically the long list of events that the game constantly scans for to see what state things are in (for example, it asks t...

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BTW, before anyone freaks out that I'm spending a ton of money or something by supporting a ton of artists, as you can see on the sidebar there, I'm actually doing a sort of mutual networking thing with most of them (soon to hopefully be the rest), where we pledge $1 to one another so our Patreons are featured on each other's accounts. Just letting you all know that in full disclosure, take it as sort of a "these are other cool people you should check out!" mutual promotional thing that I'm doi...

LOTS OF IMPORTANT STUFF!

Okay, finally sent out all the Patron reward tier emails; sorry for the massive delay this month! If you didn't get an email from hentaiwriterpatreonrewards@gmail.com , then email me there and let me know your email you used for Patreon and I'll get right on sending you the email! (Sometimes emails go into spam, etc.) ---------------------------------------- As far as the voting for the Mage B colors, #1 won by nearly double the votes of any of the other choices; if you want a reminder of what...

About Patron Emails

So for those of you who're new, basically after each month's funds come in I immediately email everyone by hand with what their reward tier is and how they'd like it delivered within the game or etc. This month saw a lot of changes for the game, the release of the demo just a bit ago, a lot of IRL personal stuff I had to deal with, and scrambling to get things back in order. It's the 22nd already and so I'm basically 3 weeks late, as it were, in emailing everyone, so for that I really, really ...

VOTE ON MAGE B'S HAIR/OUTFIT COLOR!

http://i.imgur.com/oG2dDxV.jpg Hey, so we got four possible colors for Mage B's outfit + hair; you can vote on them by going to the link below! http://strawpoll.me/4414035 Let us know which one you like, we'll stop the voting on Saturday, around mid-day!

Fire Boss, Game Over Animation, Phase 2 Screencap

http://i.imgur.com/SoEZRws.jpg So after the boss goes through phase 1 of its animation, where it corrupts Talia into a demon by injecting his DNA into her, the screen will fade out, and when it comes back, you'll be seeing Talia in this position, going through a "slow cycle" and then a "fast cycle" for the animation, leading up to a finish. Also got a neat announcement for you all sometime very early next week regarding the...

Patreon & PayPal stuff you all need to know

So Patreon outright blocked PayPal for NSFW Patreons now, instead of letting it just auto-decline as usual; this means if you were a Patron of mine and somehow getting it to work through PayPal (as a few people have reported), you’ll need to change your payment options to a credit card as the PayPal option isn’t even selectable. Just wanted to let all my Patrons know because I’m pretty sure you didn’t get notified about this change, etc.

Hey, I just got burnt out yesterday due to a few IRL issues plus nonstop working over the past few days, so I took a full day break from just about everything yesterday; I'll be contacting all you Patrons by tonight or tomorrow ideally, sorry!

Got a bit delayed due to a few things; those of you whose pledges came in this month, I'll be emailing you by Tuesday at midnight PST, people who got the fetish rewards from March, I'll be finalizing your stuff by then too!

Just a reminder about PayPal and NSFW Patreon pledges

Ouch, $400 total in declined pledges this month. X_X I know a lot of you got money troubles and so forth, so you can't pledge, that's perfectly fine, but definitely just as another reminder, you can't pledge to NSFW Patreon accounts with PayPal (or at least USA NSFW Patreon accounts, the EU is up in the air) because it'll auto reject it. Additionally, your bank might be preventing you from pledging because Patreon can come up as fraudulent activity etc. unfortunately, cause it tries to auto-ta...

April 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Just wanted to letcha know we're still all working away, coming up with the attacks for the Ice Level enemies (Triangulate and I) while Cheshire works on the upgraded demo (for the Fire Level) :) If any of you have any questions btw, feel free to ask em in this post!

So for everyone having trouble with the game, not only will we be reworking the maps of course (and making bottomless pits obvious by just making them lava), but we'll also be adding an "easy" mode where you respawn where you last "died", without restarting from a save point, etc.

FOR THOSE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE DIFFICULTY IN THE DEMO

To basically "level skip" if you're not wanting to repeat levels; -Make sure the game's closed -Go to your "data.sav" file -Open it up in wordpad or notepad or etc. -Find the line that says "map=" -Look up the maps in the Map directory -Change the map name in the "data.sav" file to whatever you'd like it to be -Save the file and start the game, picking to continue etc. So for example, it should look like map=5.map If you wanted to go to map five, etc. And if you want to try the hardest map in...

PUBLIC DEMO RELEASED - FIXES PATRON DEMO BUGS!

Okay, so the public demo is out; if you got the Patron demo before, you DEFINITELY should get this version of the game still, as it has numerous fixes from the early Patron version, including; -Second save pad now works properly -Controllers work properly -Links are now clickable on opening screens -Ducking scrolls the camera much farther down now -Button added to mute all audio -Readme added that covers the most common questions asked about the game You can get it by going to my Tumblr or the...

REWARD TIERS CHANGEUP

Hey, I've just taken down the reward tiers for $50, $100, and $300 (the "already pledged tiers" are still up though). Pending approval from Patreon, we'll have a new $20 tier up in a few days, and if not, we'll still have new $50, $150, and $500 tiers up sometime later this month with new rewards!

PATREON POLICIES NOTICE

Hey, so with over $200 in declined pledge in the last month (and close to that in previous months) on this Patreon, I gotta make sure everyone knows this; If you tried to pay with PayPal, it won't work as PayPal is disabled for NSFW Patreon accounts, so even if you DO try to pledge using it, come the end of the month, Patreon won't let those transactions through, and they’ll come up as declined. Additionally, if you're using a credit card and you’re still getting declined when pledging to ...

March 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

WEEKEND UPDATE #4 Getting closer to the full demo being done! ------------------------------ Triangulate has been: -Doing even yet more background tiles (we're at over 75 tiles implemented now I believe, 80 x 80 each), but he should be fully done with the foreground tiles now. -Doing some foreground props, but these will mostly be for after the demo. -Finished the save pad's new version and databank's new version -He's mostly done with his side of things, pretty much. -Still working on boss des...

CHANGE IN POLICIES

So I imagine a lot of you will be happy to hear this; We realized that it was kind of absurd for people to pledge $5 more than once and NOT get a free copy of the demo (or people pledging $1 10 times), as the people at the $10 tier get a free game. So if you pledge $5 twice (or whatever amount that equals up to $10 or more total), or already have, you'll be getting a free copy of the game at release. Patreon tracks how much money total people have pledged, so yeah :D no worries, it's all on f...

WEEKEND UPDATE #3

Alright, so weekend update #3! ----------------------------- Triangulate has been: -Working on more background tiles, this time for aesthetic stuff as well as large steel columns for mid-air platforms to jut out of -Finished off all H-animations for the first level, as well as regular enemy animations -Has begun coming up with boss designs -Various odds and ends ----------------------------- Cheshire has been: -Doing most of the bulk of the work this week, as Triangulate has like 90% of the art ...

Okay, so heads up to everyone; Due to an unexpected amount of people wanting to get stuff in the game (and wanting to maintain some creative control over what enemies are in the game, so forth), we'll be closing the $50 (fetish), $100 (animation), and $300 (full character) tiers come the end of April at the latest, and possibly as early as the end of this month (March). All prior enemy/fetish/animation requests will of course be honored, and you'd be able to get in this month for that stuff if...

Holy crap, I nearly missed the Saturday update! Sorry for the delay! Anyways, here's what we got done this week; ------------------- THE LEVEL EDITOR'S DONE! (well, 99% done; still need to add in implementation to add databanks and doors and a few other random things, but that's it!) This means that I can now build entire maps for the game that are fully functional, Talia can run around in them, attack enemies, everything works! And in fact, I've done just that, having built 10 rooms already ...

DATABANK CLARIFICATION

To clarify something by the way, as Barreytor asked me about the “Databank” text and what it means to get added to it, I wrote this out in an email to him and I figured it’d be good to post it here so you’d all be in the loop, too. As far as getting added to the databanks, basically if you’ve ever played Dark Souls or a TCG, think about the text that accompanies weapons or items, except here it would be a bit longer chunk of text and it would be in the form of computer terminals in ea...