Hallooo! Time for this week's update. It was a pretty good week. Nicky returned from being overseas for two weeks so that's been a bit of a distraction for the last couple of days.
But it was only for a week and now he's travelling again. It was nice to have him back, even if he was loud.
Onto game updates.
Hi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A.
Just like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.
As before, you can send questions about:
For any of my games and characters. I will collect them and then post a Q&A style post w...
2024-03-01 00:26:28 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
Here are the Gilded Shadows Lore book and Art book for our "black tea" Patrons! You can download them at the links below.
Neither of these projects is publicly available for purchase yet. As always these are for Patrons of certain tiers and KS only so please do not redistribute this content without express consent.
These will be available for public purchase soon.
Hallooo! Time for this week's update. It was a pretty good week. Nicky returned from being overseas for two weeks so that's been a bit of a distraction for the last couple of days.
Sadly it's only for just over a week and then he leaves again. *cries*
It's nice to have him back. Even if he's already being loud. 🤣🤣
Hi everyone! I just wanted to share a few clips of me doing a "David Run" for Yren's route.
The purpose of the David run is to catch typos and continuity errors. Right now, sprite expressions aren't coded in so it's mostly just listening to David read the script.
(Just note - the gifs are not clickable. Use the link below the gif)
One of the funny things about using Loom is that the titles and summaries are auto-generated based on what is being said in the video. They'...
2024-02-21 04:55:19 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Esh here.
I wanted to announce, first of all, that I'll be moving my weekly update from Saturday to Sunday (Australia time).
I'm finding that my Saturdays are generally just too busy for me to really be able to focus on compiling the update. Sunday/Monday is kind of my "weekend" (assuming I get one) so it makes more sense for me to shift my updates to that time frame so they aren't consistently late.
So yeah, devlogs will now be appearing around t...
2024-02-18 03:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Well...at some point it was supposed to be a flirty image but then it just turned into Kav's butt and torso.
I have two more images in WIP form but I don't know when (if) I'll get around to finishing them! In the meant time. Have some Kav booty.
(Full sized image below)
2024-02-15 01:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! This is just a quick check-in. Last week was an absolute chaos tornado and this week is starting out the same way.
I'll do a proper post on Friday.
Just wanted to check in and say game dev continues on. Life is just being a little crazy.
On a positive note, the Leaky Roof Saga appears to have come to an abrupt and happy ending. Someone is working on repairing the last of the internal damage as we speak. =O
Anyway, I'll see you this weekend for ...
2024-02-13 21:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the answers to this month's Q&A!
It's a lot better. The should pain, when it flares up, tends to just take time to get better. The hands tend to be more driven by weather so the pain is a bit up and down. Doing a lot better these days though my right hand has decided to be all swollen for fun. Ha ha.
Yren's character interview where he's thoughtful and sweet and answers everything with complete honesty (and that isn't sarcasm this time). 🤣
2024-02-06 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! It was kind of a crazy week but the pain is getting a little better, so yay!
And yes, Kae's eyes vanish in the clip. I went through it THREE TIMES before recording and missed that it happened. Ffs.
(It's fixed now)
Hi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A.
Just like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.
As before, you can send questions about:
For any of my games and characters. I will collect them and then post a Q&A style post w...
2024-02-01 00:42:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is Raif's character interview. Raif isn't grumpy at all (except when he is.) But he does have some good answers sometimes.
2024-01-30 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I wanted to do a short survey regarding game glossaries. Patreon doesn't really let you ask multiple poll questions in a single post so we are doing a google form. This one is really short and simple as I'm not seeking any in depth advice - just trying to get a general sense for how people interact with in-game glossaries.
For those also on Discord, you probably have seen me discussing and somewhat explaining my thought process here.
As always, I kind of have an...
2024-01-28 05:07:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Here is this weeks dev log!
It was another really hard week for me over here.
I was thinking earlier this week about how when you're really used to a baseline of chronic pain and your day-to-day usually involves coping with it and pushing through it to get things done, sometimes you don't really how much you are doing that until the pain hits a flare up and you're in the middle of it being frustrated that you're not more productive.
Only to rea...
2024-01-27 07:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
And here is Noel's character interview where he doesn't dodge uncomfortable questions and is a total open book.
2024-01-23 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
And finally, in the wallpapers - we have Yren. (Thanks to everyone patiently waiting for the guy with the Y name to get released.)
I wasn't sure at first what I was going to do for Yren's wallpaper. I always like putting him in natural environments. And here we are.
Morning stretchies on a beach apparently.
Enjoy
Hi everyone! Just popping in for a quick update. Sorry I missed this weekend. I wasn't feeling great and it was honestly a hard week in general so I didn't make as much progress on anything as I wanted to make. ;o;
Summary
And here we have a Noel wallpaper which is partially following the trend of characters outside their element and partially an in-joke from Discord where there was a discussion of Noel wearing flannel.
I had to literally write myself a HUGE note as a reminder to add his tattoo before uploading.
So I can tell that's going to be fun for CGs. We'll see how many times I forget or nearly forget it going forward.
2024-01-17 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
And here is Kav's character interview where he answers everything in a completely honest and genuine way and does not troll at all.
You can learn True Facts ® about him here.
2024-01-16 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post14/01/2024
Hello everyone. Let's jump into this weeks's update.
Summary
I finished revising Asher's route. The final word count was 76,000 words. So...yeah. That turned out pretty much as expected.
What I wa...
2024-01-14 06:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostSo I thought I'd show a few sneak peeks of the fancy guide I've been setting up. Bear in mind this is essentially like a mock up and not all the stuff you see here is what the final guide will say.
There will be a public guide available, of course, but the patreon version will just have more information and be formatted to look prettier, basically.
Always, with the premium guides, I try to think about what information the player will find useful or interesting. I can ad...
2024-01-10 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is Daaz's character interview where we dig a little deeper and find out his views on love at first sight, happy endings, and maybe some of his bad habits.
2024-01-09 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a wallpaper/artwork of Kav'isari. A lot of the others are the characters being slightly out of their normal element. But somehow Kav is just being himself.
Side note: Kav's hair always annoys me because...why do I always think asymmetrical hairstyles are a good idea? I always regret it. But here we are. Again.
2024-01-08 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHalloooo~oooo everyone! Time for this week's update. (Sorry for just now posting. I wrote this then forgot to post it. 🤣🤣
Summary
I finished revising Chapter 9 (Asher's path). This means that "common" route has been fully edited. All common scenes have had...
2024-01-07 05:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick little character interview with our resident flirt and ship's pilot.
Has he ever been in love? Does he believe in happy endings? What are his greatest fears?
Now you too can find out. Sort of. LoL
2024-01-02 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So at some point when I started doing these character arts I realised that they were presenting the characters kind of opposite to how they come across in the story. Asher looks thoughtful and serene, Raif looks friendly and sweet...so wholesome Daaz ended up a little spicy...slightly.
I also just wanted to do a shirtless Daaz to show his markings down his back/side, which I'd never drawn even for myself.
So we ended up here.
2024-01-02 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A.
Just like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.
As before, you can send questions about:
For any of my games and characters. I will collect them and then post a Q&A style post w...
2023-12-31 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHalloooo~oooo everyone! Time for this week's update. I feel like I somehow got a lot done. 👀
Leaky Roof Saga:
It's been raining a lot. LoL
So you can imagine how that's going.
(No updates on repairs. I think they're hoping the roof fairies will fix it for us.)
So here we are. Another year nearly finished.
It's hard to believe 2024 is looming at the doorway.
I was reflecting on how I started Changeling at the tail-end of 2015. 2016 was when I really started running with that project but 2015 was the beginning of the work.
This year I will have been doing game dev for 8 years. It's mind boggling that it's been that long.
Working on game #3 with a host of other projects squirreled away and waiting to be dragged into the light w...
2023-12-26 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post