Part One: Chapter Seven [Version 0.07.0]
With the addition of Naomi to their home, Jack must now start taking more drastic measures to locate additional food. The girls, wanting to help, decide to go out and scavenge the nearby buildings, only to stumble upon unexpected danger of their ow...
2020-08-18 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Part One: Chapter Seven [Version 0.07.0]
With the addition of Naomi to their home, Jack must now start taking more drastic measures to locate additional food. The girls, wanting to help, decide to go out and scavenge the nearby buildings, only to stumble upon unexpected danger of their own.
2020-08-14 16:00:01 +0000 UTC
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By now, most of you know what "Final Update" means. It means that we're *this* close to a new release. In fact, we're a bit ahead of the game: 0.07.0 has already been tested and uploaded, ready for release. Development went surprisingly smooth, even with the fact that I re-shot two and a half sequences because I didn't like how they looked the first time.
For Chapter Seven, there's a fair amount of text that's dependent on decisions you've made up to this point in the game. To thi...
2020-08-12 22:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Whelp. Chapter Seven is trucking along pretty well. There's currently a playable build with fourteen of the planned seventeen scenes running on my computer. While some of the sequences will need some added shots or expansion of the script, the basic core of the chapter is running well.
From a writing standpoint, I have to say that I'm enjoying the natural evolution of the story that adding Naom...
2020-08-07 21:25:30 +0000 UTC View PostApparently the big NEW news from Patreon is that they're adding support for EUR € and GBP £ to payment options, with the promise of adding more currencies in the future. While I'm not an expert on exchange rates and purchases from one monetary unit from another, I assume this means that patrons from different markets will get a better--or more accurate (without and extra fees)--rate for their patronage.
Right now, this choice is opt-in for creators, but it will be site-wide by
For August, I finally got around to doing a set with Now Naomi. I've been holding off on her until the players got to formally meet her in the recently-released Chapter Six.
August 2020 #1 Hi-res version (3840x2160)&nb...
2020-08-04 01:19:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Work for Chapter Seven has formally started. In fact, the first four scenes are already in a playable format. One of them will require some serious testing because it's dependent on a flag that the player may or may not have acquired two chapters prior. It also generates two new conversation flags and has the potential to unlock an additional small sequence in a later scene (depending on how many points you have with a certain girl).
2020-08-01 21:19:47 +0000 UTC
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For the first time since Chapter Three, we have new cast members to properly introduce.
Much to Jack's surprise, he stumbles across Naomi, Carol's best friend, while scavenging out in the city. Believing her to have fled the city with her parents, he's stunned to find her being c...
2020-07-31 21:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Part One: Chapter Six [Version 0.06.0]
After deciding to explore the changed direction of their relationship, life shifts to a new normal for Jack and Carol. That is, until Jack stumbles across another survivor looking for shelter and aid.
2020-07-29 12:00:00 +0000 UTC
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EDIT with Update (August 15, 2020):
It looks like we have a clear winner, with the canon story The Help Call (which will probably be renamed). Since I've already put in work on the script, you'll be happy to know that this chapter has some minor ties into the main story that might not be obvious until later in Part Two (there is a mention of something from the scene in Chapter ...
2020-07-28 15:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanted to post this announcement about an upcoming change in billing for this page. Over the past couple months, I've been seeing an upswing of users signing up as a Patron to get early access to links or Patron-exclusive content, only to drop out the same day. I should probably take this as some kind of compliment, but, ultimately, I find it unfair to my dedicated Patrons.
I have paused the billing cycle for August 1st. On August 2nd, I will be switching the billing cycle ...
2020-07-27 19:40:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Part One: Chapter Six [Version 0.06.0]
After deciding to explore the changed direction of their relationship, life shifts to a new normal for Jack and Carol. That is, until Jack stumbles across another survivor looking for shelter and aid.
Win/Linux: 2020-07-25 11:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are. With Chapter Six in the final stretch. I currently have a test build with all the update's content for a few run-throughs on multiple platforms.
This is especially important for this build for a couple reasons: 1) Testing the change to animations to see what weird crap happens to old saves. 2) There are scenes with multiple choices that set flags crucial to the future story in later chapters. 3) There is one short scene that only appears depending on a flag triggered ...
2020-07-24 00:45:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter Six is moving along at a brisk pace, development-wise. With two (and a half) large scenes left to build (and a couple small transition scenes), I think we're relatively on target.
Not much else to say. This is another update where I'm holding back posting a lot of images from about 70% of the content already created purely because of SPOILERS. So, what I'm posting is da...
2020-07-19 15:28:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This set of wallpapers isn't so much themed as it's just something I've been sitting on for a while. In fact, I'd put this scene together probably before even Chapter One was complete. Much like the Alice wallpapers from last month, I was holding onto a specific moment in the game to be released before I published these.
There are also tamer public variants (found here).
A progress report for Chapter Si...
2020-07-18 14:38:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This set of wallpapers isn't so much themed as it's just something I've been sitting on for a while. In fact, I'd put this scene together probably before even Chapter One was complete. Much like the Alice wallpapers from last month, I was holding onto a specific moment in the game to be released before I published these.
While the public wallpapers are tame, the 2020-07-18 14:37:50 +0000 UTC View Post
After some time spent enjoying the afterglow of Chapter Five, it's time to move on.
While looking at the update at it exists on my computer, 24% is such a weird number. Like, only the first scene is entirely playable, right now. But, all the photography and animation for the second scene, which is fairly big, is done. So once the writing is complete and its all dropped into the...
2020-07-14 20:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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2020-07-10 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostToday, in Behind the Scenes, I want to talk about making characters. Specifically, the main cast of Jack and Carol. If you've used Honey Select Studio, you'll find that the character creator for females has a ton of options, allowing for a wide range of characters. In fact, if you're good, you can create a unique style that makes your girls stand out from the ocean of others. Look at the likes of 2020-07-09 22:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The theme for July is Caught Sunbathing, because it's a regular trope that girls like to sunbathe topless. Especially during the summer in their backyards. Which, of course, leads to every dude in the neighborhood trying to sneak a peek. You know this to be true.
July 2020 #1 2020-07-08 20:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Part One: Chapter Five [Version 0.05.0]
In Chapter Five, after Carol's earlier indiscretion, Jack decides to take a walk as the atmosphere inside Apartment 402 becomes tense. Leaving her to fret over the looming fallout of her choices, Jack must sort out what he feels and what his next step is.
2020-07-06 19:01:04 +0000 UTC
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And with that, Chapter Five is in the final testing stages. I should be uploading the final files before the night is over for release.
While I want to talk about all the work that went into this update, I don't want to ruin the user experience too much. Chapter Five brings to resolution the story's first big tent-pole plot point, leading to newer challenges for Jack and Carol. In fact, most of the screens released to date have been from early portions of the chapter, before the p...
2020-07-05 22:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for another update for Chapter Five. While the work for the first six or so scenes zipped by quickly, we've hit the more work-intensive portion of the chapter. Three of the story's biggest moments are in the back half of the update, and as such, need to handled with care.
The main reason that the last two scenes in particular are taking so much time is due to the sheer number of uniq...
2020-06-30 10:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Unlike previous releases, we are already fully underway in the development of Chapter Five before the first development announcement. Considering the cliffhanger nature of the last chapter, I'm sure some of you are happy to hear the aggressive timeline already employed.
I actually started pulling the script together in between releasing 0.04.0 to Tier 3 Patrons and by the time it went pub...
2020-06-26 21:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post
There's less of a theme for June's wallpapers/pin-ups this time around. Instead, since we got a saucy scene with Alice in Chapter Four, I figured it'd be nice to have a little fun with her.
If you want to see how this begins, check out the public variants.
In terms of news on the Chapter Five front, expect an update in the next day or two (work's already begun but I don't have a solid progre...
2020-06-25 18:20:29 +0000 UTC View Post
There's less of a theme for June's wallpapers/pin-ups this time around. Instead, since we got a saucy scene with Alice in Chapter Four, I figured it'd be nice to have a little fun with her.
If you want to see what else happens, check out the NSFW variants for Tier 2 and 3 patrons.
In terms of news on the Chapter Five front, expect an update in the next...
2020-06-25 18:19:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Part One: Chapter Four [Version 0.04.0]
In Chapter Four, things grow increasingly hot inside Apartment 402, in more ways than one. When they finally lose power, Jack and Carol must rush to salvage their perishable foods. Also, now without AC, the Summer heat forces them to dress down.
Part One: Chapter Four [Version 0.04.0]
In Chapter Four, things grow increasingly hot inside Apartment 402, in more ways than one. When they finally lose power, Jack and Carol must rush to salvage their perishable foods. Also, now without AC, the Summer heat forces them to dress down.
2020-06-18 18:19:08 +0000 UTC
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While I knew that the work on Chapter Four would be a little quicker this time around, I'm gonna admit at being surprised how quickly the last few scenes came together. With most of the sets and characters already built during the development of the first three chapters, most of my time was spend on custom animations of the more complex scenes.
Still, we've hit the test, read and pre-launch moment of the development cycle.
2020-06-17 17:57:09 +0000 UTC
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Right now, we're hovering at 60%. This number was actually higher before I added two additional scenes to the update plot outline. Neither sequence is planned to be particularly long, but I felt both would add to the experience, both in pacing and foreshadowing future events. So, adding a little extra work would be worth it for the final product.
In terms of GUI and non-s...
2020-06-14 01:49:04 +0000 UTC View Post