Steamberry Studio

1/04 Patreon Devlog

01/04/2023

Hello! Time for the devlog!

This Week's Summary:

• Finished Ch 5 of Yuu's route
• Made corrections and some last minute fixes to Reuben's route
• Worked on finishing a WIP sprite from Yuu's route

The Ramble:

Hey everyone - short update this week!

I finished up Yuu ch 5 and his route is around 40% complete at this point.

I also made the second and, probably final, round of corrections...

26/03/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hello! Time for the devlog!

This Week's Summary:

• Finished Ch 4 of Yuu's route
• Worked on editing Lore book stuff
• Worked on the art book a little more

The Ramble:

Hellooo!

So jumping right in this week...

I am letting beta testers continue to work their way through all of Reuben's testing and haven't checked back yet for further corrections.

I have worked on Yuu's route, finally finishing C...

18/03/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hello! Time for the devlog!

Sorry for posting a little bit late this week - I wrote up the update last night so my brain was convinced I'd already done it. Which isn't technically wrong. But not really correct either.

First this week I want to note a big milestone that happened this week! Gilded Shadows has officially been out for one year! I was really hoping to be done with the additional routes by this point but it's not like I'm making progress so I'm content with how things a...

11/03/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hello! Time for the devlog. >=3

This Week's Summary:

• Minor corrections in common route, etc (based on LP)
• Yuu writing (up to Ch 4)

The Ramble:

Sorry everyone but the update will be short again this week.

Reuben's route is being tested and I haven't looked at it at all, wanting to give testers a chance to go through the route at their leisure.

In the meantime I've been working on writing Yuu's route.<...

Behind the Scenes (Organisation/Planning)

Hi everyone! This isn't really an update or anything. Just sort of a random behind-the-scenes talking about planning and organising projects.

I'll be honest with you all. Despite that I sometimes hear from people that they respect how organised I am...

I'm not a naturally organised person. 😱😱

Like...at all.

One reason I'm more organised now is because I needed to be. 

Writing in a chaotic way was not working for me. I know a lot of writers who claim th...

06/03/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hello! Time for the devlog. >=3

This Week's Summary:

• Finished all CGs for Reuben
• Released Reuben to beta testers

The Ramble:

Hi everyone!

Let us jump in.

So I finished all the CGs for Reuben's route and released the route to beta testers. That is the big news for this week.

I didn't do much writing in Yuu after because my body decided to forget how to sleep for more than 5 hours at a time and I...

25/02/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hello everyone! Time for this week's devlog. (/≧▽≦)/

This Week's Summary:

• Completed Yuu's Scene-by-Scene synopsis
• Edited Yuu Chapter 1
• Wrote about half of Yuu Chapter 2
• Completed 3 additional CGs (1 left)
• (And coded/tested them)

The Ramble:

Hi everyone!

Let us jump in.

Most of this week was spent working on CGs. I did end up taking a day off from them, though, as my hand...

18/02/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hellooooooo! Time for the devlog. ╰(*°▽°*)╯

This Week's Summary:

• Coded all the remaining sprite expressions for side characters 💪
• Worked on Reuben's walkthrough
• Worked on Reuben's content guide
• Completed two CGs
• Completed Yuu's chapter-by-chapter synopsis

The Ramble:

Hi everyone!

Let us jump in.

So the first thing I did this week was get all the remaining...

11/02/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hallo! Time for this weeks' patreon devlog! ╰(*°▽°*)╯

This Week's Summary:

• Finished Phil's Sprite
• Finished Leon's Sprite
• Finished Riley's Sprite
• Finished Elisha's Sprite
• More Yuu story planning

The Ramble:

There isn't too much to report this week either although I did complete an important chunk of work, I only really worked on one thing. Well, two things technically.

I fini...

When Stars Collide - Unofficial Ramble (again!)

Just posting another unofficial ramble about WSC, my side project. Because the side project is still there and I'm still tinkering with it in my free time!

Since my last update I have:

1. Obtained all the BGs (for now - there are always stragglers that I realise I need later.)
2. I have made some adjustments to the sprites since my last post. I drew alternate outfits for many of the sprites, made some detail adjustments (such as giving Noel a tattoo and enhancing Daaz's b...
   2023-02-10 05:53:46 +0000 UTC View Post

03/02/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hello! Time for the devlog. >=3

This Week's Summary:

• Finished sprite expressions.
• Brainstormed Yuu's plot

The Ramble:

There isn't too much to report this week actually. I coded expressions...all week. 😩

And it was super tiring but I got entirely finished (well, there are a few short scenes left because I don't have those sprites done. But it's finished for all intents and purposes.

I don't know wh...

Magnus doodle

A semi-quick doodle of Magnus sitting in a chair being all glowy. LoL 

28/01/2023 Patreon Devlog

Helllooo~ooo! Time for this week's devlog! It might be a little short this week. LoL!

This Week's Summary:

• Nearly halfway done with sprite expressions

The Ramble:

That's it. That's the ramble. LoL

I coded sprite expressions all week - and I'm close to halfway through the route at this point.

I am also doing some editing as I go. I always do. Expressions require me to go through the script line by line so I inevi...

21/01/2023 Patreon Devlog

Helllo! Time for this week's devlog!

This Week's Summary:

• Flowchart images finished and put into the game
• Flowcharts fully coded
• Flowchart preliminary testing done
• Music fully coded
• SFX fully coded
• Reuben sprite variations created and coded
• Morgan new outfit created
• Sprite expressions started

The Ramble:

Okay this week I started working on ticking the billion th...

14/01/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hallo! Time for this week's devlog! So let us jump in!

This Week's Summary:

• Fully scripted
• Flowchart mock-ups made
• Flowchart images started (¾ of the way finished)
• Preliminary scoring set up
• Preliminary BGs coded in
• Reuben-specific BGs are formatted and coded in

The Ramble:

Okay so this week I got Reuben's route fully scripted into Ren'py. His final word count is just over 109,0...

07/01/2023 Patreon Devlog

Hellloooo! Time for this week's devlog!

This Week's Summary:

• Second revision of Reuben's route is complete!
• Proofread up to Chapter 7
• Scripted up to Chapter 7

💪

The Ramble:

So!

This week I finished with the second round of revisions. I am done revising this route. (I say that with some level of understanding that I'll probably do more edits when it's coded because I always do. But...

2022 Re-Cap

This year was a rough year. 

I can't help but wonder at what point do we get to stop saying that. At what point will years be normal again? Even good again?

This was such a difficult year for me personally with so much stress and loss and frustrating experiences. And I really want to look forward to a happier year next year.

But of course, even this year wasn't all bad. Several exciting personal things happened. And I achieved some pretty cool things!

2023-01-01 01:47:18 +0000 UTC View Post

01/01/2023 Patreon Devlog

Happy New Year!

🥳🥳

I was meant to post this yesterday but decided to just wait and break in the new year with an update.

This Week's Summary:

• Second revision up to Chapter 9
• Small revisions to Reuben's sprite

The Ramble:

So a quick ramble here - I have started my second revision of Reuben's route and am up to Chapter 9. Now, technically I have gone through Ch 9 once, but this was a chapter that wa...

24/12/2022 Patreon devlog

Hi everyone! Time for the penultimate update for this year!

This Week's Summary:

• Finished revising Ch 13 and 14
• Started second revision (up to Ch 3)
• Reorganised my stock library...IN PREPARATION
• Sprite sketch

The Ramble:

So I finished the first revision of Reuben's route including re-writing chapter 13.

Even though I had to re-do Ch 13 due to having removed and earlier plot element without r...

17/12/2022 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update!

This Week's Summary:

• Uggggggghhhhhhhhh 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

The Ramble:

Remember when I confidently said I would finish editing ch 13 and 14 this week?

Well the universe decided to throw the most *annoying* week at me in retaliation for that confidence. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were chaotic and annoying and I barely got any sleep.

I got very little editing ...

10/12/2022 Patreon Devlog

Hallooo! Time for this week's update!

This Week's Summary:

• Finished revising Ch 10
• Finished revising Ch 11
• Finished revising Ch 12

The Ramble:

Finished 2.5 chapters this week. 😤😤

I only have two chapters left and, really, it's more like 1.5 because Chapter 14 isn't really a full chapter.

But remember that I will be starting a second round of revisions after this. I do expect to blow throu...

When Stars Collide - Side Project Rambles

Helloooo everyone!

Just thought I'd take a little time to ramble about WSC, the main side project. I have been trying really hard to not spend too much time working, even on side projects. 

I've been doing a lot of reading of other things (re-read Howl's Moving Castle recently - I love that book!) and trying to relax. Thinking of looking into replacing my watercolours and starting to paint again too. It's been a long time and I miss it.

But, of course, I'm still working...

04/12/2022 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update!

This Week's Summary:

• Revisions. Rewriting.

The Ramble:

Revisions are going well but starting in about chapter 8 I would say that I have shifted to re-writing verses revising

For me, revising is about making small (sometimes a lot of small) and incremental changes to a draft to improve it. But at some point, you are making so many changes that you've essentially re-c...

29/11/2022 Check in

Hey everyone! I realised that I forgot my devlog for Patreon this week. 😱😱

This happens sometimes on weeks when I also update Kickstarter because my brain just ticks the "post update" box and forgets I have to do two updates on those weeks. Sorry about that.

Anyway, I wanted to post a quick little check in for everyone.

Obviously still revising Reuben's route. 

I edited chapter 7, chapter 8, and started on chapter 9….

Then went back to re-revise part...

19/11/2022 Patreon Devlog (and snippets!)

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update!

This Week's Summary:

• Revised Ch 4, Ch 5, Ch 6
• Revamped plot a bit

The Ramble:

This week started with continuing my revisions and getting through chapters 4 and 5. These went by pretty fast. Especially chapter 4 and especially considering I rewrote most of it.

Then I got started on chapter 6.

Every time I go into revisions I have a list of things I want to accomp...

12/11/2022 Patreon Devlog

Hellloooo! How are we almost mid-November already? Where did this year go? Why don't I remember any of it? 

Watching time tick by with these weekly updates is giving me an existential crisis. 😱😱

This Week's Summary:

• Completed Ch 14 of Reuben
• Started Revising Reuben (up to Ch 3)

The Ramble:

Another relatively short update this week since I'm still writing (just editing now) and that means there's no...

New Community Server

Hey everyone! This is just to let you know that I created a new community server and migrated Patreon access to it. 

So if you notice you are in a new server, that's why.

(Because apparently Patreon adds people automatically?) 😱😱

*Screaming*

The old server is still intact; however, for various reasons I wanted to close it off to new members and start a new one that is less of a "developer" server and more "community" - The old server is kind of my private sp...

05/11/2022 Patreon Devlog

Hellooooo everyone! Time for this week's update! OwO

This Week's Summary:

• Completed Ch 12 and 13 of Reuben's route! 

The Ramble:

Hey everyone!

Very quick update this week! I completed the rest of Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 this week! Ch 13 was a tough one (as the climax chapter always is) and I'm definitely feeling the beginnings of burn out on this project.

But I managed to get 13 drafted and now I only hav...

29/10/2022 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update.

This Week's Summary:

• Worked on Reuben's draft (up to ch 12)

The Ramble:

The only thing I did this week was WRITE...(again).

Reuben's route is currently over 95,000 words and is around 85% drafted. And I'm about midway through Chapter 12.

Chapter 11 was a tough chapter because there's a bit of complex branching through one section and it took a couple of days to get throu...

When Stars Collide - Unofficial Ramble

So I have been working really hard to make sure that I'm not spending every waking moment on Gilded Shadows. In the past (even when I was working on Changeling)...

I literally spent every day working on my official projects for at least a couple of hours. I am trying to not do that as much any more.

I am spending more time reading (most recent books are Star Daughter and Iron Widow - but I started The Dream Runners recently too). I've been following a fe...