One word of warning when using the debug menu: when you go into the value adjustment submenu, you can click on the number to manually change it, but if the value is a negative integer, changing it will crash the game if it gets confused between whether or not it's a string or aninteger because of the -. If the value is negative, use the + and -buttons instead. You may use the manual input feature freely if thevalue is positive.
This poll will determine the focus of content next month (August start date, September 1st release.) You may vote for more than one option.
2020-07-05 00:53:31 +0000 UTC View PostHave any questions regarding Four-Letter Word? Feel free to ask them here! Questions about future content are allowed and answers will be in a linked pastebin instead of here so no one else will get accidentally spoiled.
2020-07-05 00:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I should probably look up what the word "definitely" means in the dictionary, because I still ended up a little despite my assurances, haha. Sorry for the wait, guys, but I'm pretty happy with the content in this build, so hopefully it's all been worth the wait. Hopefully this will be the last time I'll have to delay a build. Since returning to active development, I've been having a bit of trouble figuring out how to manage my schedule, but hopefully from here on out I'll have it under contro...
2020-07-04 07:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostSorry, guys, but since there's only a few hours left until midnight, I don't think I'll be able to get the build done by tonight either, but it will for sure be ready tomorrow. I'm in the last stages of it now, mostly just fleshing out the sex scene more, getting the sound effects timing right, and working on some minor phone conversations to pepper throughout each main character's route, so I have a much more solid idea on the ETA than I did a couple of days ago. Lots of things took...
2020-07-03 03:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey, guys. I had a power outage yesterday that set me back quite a bit. I tried to get everything I want to put out for the build tonight, but as it's 4 AM and I still have a bit to go to get back to where I was, I think it's best if I call it a night for now. I'll try to have the build out by the end of the day on the 1st, but if not, it might take me until the 2nd to get the build out. Apologies for the delay, and thank you for your understanding.
2020-07-01 11:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey, guys! Carbon from Minotaur Hotel put together a survey to do some market research on our audiences. In order to get thorough results, many VN creators have agreed to distribute the survey to their own individual audiences in order to get a complete picture of the sensibilities of the VN-reading crowd at large. If you have ten minutes to spare, please take a moment to fill it out. Your input will be very valuable...
2020-06-30 02:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
One word of warning when using the debug menu: when you go into the value adjustment submenu, you can click on the number to manually change it, but if the value is a negative integer, changing it will crash the game if it gets confused between whether or not it's a string or an integer because of the -. If the value is negative, use the + and - buttons instead. You may use the manual input feature freely if the value is positive.
This poll will determine the focus of content next month (July start date, August 1st release.) You may vote for more than one option.
2020-06-04 05:28:01 +0000 UTC View PostHave any questions regarding Four-Letter Word? Feel free to ask them here! Questions about future content are allowed and answers will be in a linked pastebin instead of here so no one else will get accidentally spoiled.
2020-06-04 05:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
10pm PST still counts as Wednesday, right? I apologize for the delay, but hopefully you guys will enjoy what's there. I know I said this was supposed to a be a smaller build, but since I wasn't happy with a lot of the artwork for this update, I opted to cram all day today and yesterday to try and cram in more story content than I anticipated to make up for it. In terms of word count, this is about the same size as one of my old monthly updates from 2015/16. Lots of placeholder/missing assets,...
2020-06-04 05:22:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey, guys! So I think I mentioned earlier that I got off to a late start with May's build because I spent the first couple of weeks focusing on getting everything prepared for the itch.io launch. This build is going to be on the smaller side of things because of that, but I think I'm going to want to delay releasing it for another day or two so that it has a bit more substance to it. Since the last time I asked about this, the poll seemed pretty unanimous towards minor delays for more content...
2020-06-01 14:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
You might be wondering what this is, and for good reason! Today is the day that public builds go live. A lot has changed in the four years since I halted development on Four-Letter Word, and one of them is the proliferation of furry visual novels on itch.io. Since that's such a prominent platform these days, I've decided to host public builds both there and on my FA page. This time around, I wanted t...
2020-05-15 07:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post(Reposted because I forgot to set patron tier requirements. Oops!)
This poll will determine the focus of content next month (June start date, July 1st release.) You may vote for more than one option.
For clarification: Tom is a new character that was created under an old patron reward for build-a-character. At this time, I only have plans to implement him for Colby.
2020-05-02 21:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostHave any questions regarding Four-Letter Word? Feel free to ask them here! Questions about future content are allowed and answers will be in a linked pastebin instead of here so no one else will get accidentally spoiled.
2020-05-02 21:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post
One word of warning when using the debug menu: when you go into the value adjustment submenu, you can click on the number to manually change it, but if the value is a negative integer, changing it will crash the game if it gets confused between whether or not it's a string or an integer because of the -. If the value is negative, use the + and - buttons instead. You may use the manual input feature freely if the value is positive.
Build 0.1.1 is finally here! Man, that feels good to say.
Despite having said that updates are going to be smaller in size, this one is kind of gargantuan. To give you an idea of how much bigger this is than past build updates, in terms of lines of code, this is a 20% increase over 0.1.0. It's all Asher content and this update alone now accounts for a full third of it. You won't be able to see all of it in one go, as much of it is conditional on various triggers with some being mutually...
2020-05-02 06:06:29 +0000 UTC View PostOr whatever it happens to be in your time zone! Since this is the first of our monthly updates, I realized I'm not quite sure how I want to handle it. Currently, the May build actually has just about as much story content as any of the past builds but it's just shy of an important story beat I wanted to hit. I don't know what people's expectations are for what a May 1st release date means, so if you guys want me to just compile and upload what's there now I can do that, but if you'd rather wa...
2020-05-01 13:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey, everyone. I know I said I'd keep the polls open for another day but I've decided to end them a little early. The reason why actually has to do with the results themselves. For the content update schedule, we're pretty firmly going to be going monthly as laid out in the roadmap I posted earlier, however, as to whether or not I'm going to uprez FLW before continuing with story updates, the answer is no. If you're a little confused as to why, since the uprez option clearly won, I have somet...
2020-03-27 02:25:31 +0000 UTC View PostWith April only a week away, I wanted to give an update as to where we're at and how things are going to proceed all the way up to May 1st when the next build of Four-Letter Word will be released to patrons. First off, since Patreon does not allow you to adjust the prices of reward tiers while there are currently patrons subscribed to it, I will be deleting those tiers shortly after this post goes live and replacing them with the new reward tiers that you'll have to sign up for again. The bil...
2020-03-26 02:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostI got a lot of really helpful feedback from the Furry Visual Novels Discord about how to go about restructuring my reward tiers. Since this affects you guys directly, I thought I'd see how you guys felt about these and if you wanted to make any suggestions regarding them. Currently what I'm thinking is:
-$3: Patron-only builds that are released two weeks before public builds.
-$10: Monthly polls about which characters to focus on for the next build.
-$20: Sp...
2020-03-19 01:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Four-Letter Word was first starting out, 800x600 resolution visual novels were pretty standard. These days, most VNs are in widescreen formats at much higher resolutions. By comparison, FLW looks quite dated, and although I am alright with that, I understand that my audience may not be. Furthermore, the low resolution may be a hindrance to new player acquisition, as there may be some who don't give the VN a chance because of it.
However, uprezzing Four-Letter World would be ...
2020-03-18 22:42:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey, guys! To avoid creating a very unhealthy schedule for myself that would lead to the same disastrous outcome as before, I'd like to discuss a few options that I've been considering and see which you would like for me to adopt.
Monthly
This was the old content update schedule. If you've read my FA journal about my disappearance, you will know the problems that were caused by this. If I were to attempt this again, it would have to be with the understandi...
Hello, everyone! So after playing catch-up over the last several days on all the missed messages I had and giving it a lot of thought, I've decided I want to try to move forward with Four-Letter Word. Given that it's been 4 (weird coincidence that hadn't even occurred to me until now) years and a lot of things have changed, including my own circumstances, I still have some things I need to figure out before relaunching and I'll need your help with that. I'll be putting up a couple of polls th...
2020-03-18 21:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey, guys! So as most of you probably know by now, I resurfaced recently after vanishing for several years. I posted a journal on my FurAffinity account ( https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9434145 ) to offer an explanation for my disappearance as well as an apology. I believe I've gone through all the notes and emails I received during my absence over the past few days letting people know about it but in cas...
2020-03-17 17:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt seems I severely underestimate how much work these scenes are taking to get down to a satisfactory level. It's looking like it's going to take the rest of the month for me to get this done to an acceptable degree. On top of the much larger than normal volume of art assets that needed to be designed then created for this build, part of it is touching on a very sensitive subject that I'm trying very hard to address in the proper way. If any of you feel put out by having to wait an extra mont...
2016-03-18 03:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostSorry, guys, 1.1 is still a little ways out. This month's update has more art assets involved than normal, so I've still got a bit to slog through. No solid ETA at the moment, but I'm hoping to have it out early next week. Thanks for your patience, and apologies for the delay!
Hey, guys! Here's the update that I promised earlier. In addition to another large Hugh scene, (on par with Noah's scene in terms of lines of code) there are a few tweaks. Asher's textbox should appear darker now and whenever Asher's UI is being used, dialogue text should show up as white. Choice boxes should now also be appropriately themed according to your current main character. Some minor typographical errors have been corrected as well.
The public build will also be going live...
2016-02-11 04:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post