First, I'm sorry this is a few days late. In this case, it was less because I forgot (which has happened before) and more because there were so many other important notes and releases around the end/start of the month. I was trying not to bury the Chastity Quest release in particular, since I wanted as much feedback there as I could get :-). On that note, I updated the Chastity Quest release again ye...
2020-02-04 21:08:35 +0000 UTC
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$5+ Folks, you have your own post with Mass Effect: The Final Error (Part 2)
And EVERYONE has a post with the Chastity Quest Release, so don't forget that either ;-).
Aside from those reminders, you...
2020-02-02 08:11:45 +0000 UTC
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Okay! Sorry again that this is late, folks. It took me a couple hours longer than I wanted, even today, since I had to stop and fix a major bug with the Chastity Quest Release that I put out yesterday. At 6,400 words it's actually a touch shorter than I'd hoped as well. Though, surprisingly, that has nothing to do with the delay. Rather than that, it was actually a case of needing to pause and sort out a few future...
2020-02-02 08:02:47 +0000 UTC
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*Edit 3* Thanks to Troqu, a bug that I hope was causing most/all of the remaining blank/black screen issues has been found and fixed. There's a patch link that will take you from the Performace Fix version to the new Bugfix 3 Version, so you don't have to redownload the whole thing. Though the links will also soon be replaced with the Bugfix 3 version.
*Edit 2* New versions that will hopefully farther help the performance issues. Aslo managed to reduce the...
2020-02-01 06:15:09 +0000 UTC
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Okay, I'm somewhat calmer than I was yesterday. Just as stressed out, I'm afraid, but at least calmer. Sorry again for the profanity-laced ranting -_-. Not my normal thing, but I REALLY needed to bleed off some rage at the universe.
Anyway, the good news, such as it is, is that I did in fact figure out what the bug was. Unfortunately, the bad news is that I did, in fact, also have to spend nearly six hours last night/this morning repairing the damage. Which effective...
2020-01-30 12:06:36 +0000 UTC
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No, seriously. Please excuse the following profanity. Most of you probably long since realized that, despite being an adult game maker, I'm actually a rather polite fellow and don't curse much. Heck, I don't even write much crude/obscene language into my games, save for where it REALLY fits. However, if I do not get the following rant out somewhere, I am going to explode and likely murder someone. My apologies, if you skip the bit separated out by -----, you'll skip the worst of it.<...
2020-01-29 11:26:33 +0000 UTC
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Oh...shit. So, uh, I've kinda been so involved with cramming as much work on Chastity Quest in as I could, that I kinda forgot to put this up when I should have? Opps? Sorry! Thankfully, it shouldn't matter too much, since I'm putting at least two rooms (the next Asari room and the last 'other/gender' transform room) into the next build regardless of anything else. As such, I will focus on those first once the build starts and let the poll run for its usual full week.
Anyway,...
2020-01-28 04:19:47 +0000 UTC
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Ugh. Not quite so good a report as the last two, I'm afraid. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I lost a half day today (well, technicality yesterday now). Combined with work on this last 'large' section fighting me more than the last couple of sections have, plus me throwing in something different for a couple of scenes for some variety, and I'm about a day in total behind where I'd hoped to be. Not the end of the world, of course.
I'm a little bit afraid I may lose another ...
2020-01-26 08:58:15 +0000 UTC
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More good news, so far :-). I managed to wrap up the section section, the Inn, in just two days. That was about what I was hoping for, as it's a smaller section that the Blacksmith Shop. It essentially consists of one of the area's jobs, in this case the ability to practice the world's oldest profession. That job has six scenes, plus there's some minor interaction with the innkeeper (a place for a few hints inside the game, an idle chat with the owner, and a placeholder that will eventually b...
2020-01-23 23:07:24 +0000 UTC
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Alright, good news everyone! For once, my time estimate was right on target. I finished all of the Blacksmith areas content last night, after roughly three days of work. And did that despite a couple of sidetracks where I added a bit of extra content that wasn't originally planned, or had to stop and work in systems that hadn't been implemented yet. Better yet, the Blacksmith was one of the 3 largest chunks, with the Magic Shop having been one of the others. That leaves 1 more 'large' chunk a...
2020-01-22 01:02:45 +0000 UTC
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Alright! As soon as I finished up DoL for the month, I dove straight into hammering out Chastity Quest. I've already promised that I will be releasing a build for it this month and I'm determined to try my very best to make that the first build I originally intended. So far, that's going to plan. I managed to get the second Job of the game hammered out in two days. Admittedly, it's FAR smaller in scope than the first one was, but that's still good progress. I learned...
2020-01-18 10:35:39 +0000 UTC
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$3+ Patrons, you have your own post, with the release of Build 11!
For everyone else, this is the Public Release post for Build 10 :-). Build 10 was/is among the largest releases ever, for DoL. Honestly, I kinda bit off more than I could chew with it...but got it done somehow, last month. It contains new rooms, new True Endings, and new Safeword Ex...
2020-01-16 03:49:46 +0000 UTC
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Alright! This update is a little smaller than I'd originally hoped for. As any of you who have been following along with my progress reports should know, I was sick for over two weeks. First with the Flu, then with a nasty upper-respiratory infection I caught while my immune system was weakened from said Flu -_-. Bleck. In point of fact, I'm still not back fully to 100%. I am, thankfully, mostly better though.
As a result, this update, made while I was low on energy and drugged up to ...
2020-01-16 03:44:44 +0000 UTC
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Alright, so the poll for this month's story finished with a pretty clear winner. Apparently, people liked the Mass Effect: The Final Error piece :-p! The $5+ patrons voted for it by a significant majority!
Now, unlike last month, this time it's going to go into the normal update pattern. That meaning that the next chapter will release for $5+ folks later this month...but it'll be an exclusive for them for a couple of months. Despite that, I'm going to open this follow-up poll to A...
2020-01-13 21:34:34 +0000 UTC
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Alright, I'm going to keep the progress report bit short. Despite the fact that I'm still not back to 100% (lingering cough and energy levels are only, like, 70%), I managed to finish the Default True Ending for the Mental - Sub path in the typical 3 days. I'll be starting on the Lewdity version of the Mental- Sub path tonight. Unfortunately, with the three days that will take, plus the time needed for testing and editing, those thre...
2020-01-10 21:39:05 +0000 UTC
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Alright, so despite the fact that I'm still sick (fuck!), I've managed to finish the Lewdity ending for the Mental(dominant) path. Total image count being 79 new images!
It took about a day and a half longer than usual, because my energy levels suck, though thankfully I am slowly recovering. According to the docs (that finally had to be consulted, somewhat less than directly), I started out with the Flu (despite having anteed up for a flu shot out-of-pocket -_-), then...
2020-01-08 01:00:25 +0000 UTC
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Alright, I'm still sick, but I'm beginning to see some improvement, mostly just brain fog and a nasty cough left -_-. Anyway, with that being the case, I've gathered enough energy to put up the poll for the story reward. Then another nap. That sounds nice...
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Story Options for January:
Fanfiction: Mass Effect: The Final
2020-01-06 00:32:07 +0000 UTC
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Build 10 has been release for All Patrons. My apologies for doing that a few days late.
Alright, sorry for being silent, folks. The simple truth is that my last post turned out to be the best day of whatever I caught. I've been so sick that I was forced to actually take time off my Day Job stuff for the first time in...4 or 5 years, probably? Today...
2020-01-03 20:41:33 +0000 UTC
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I AM SO SORRY THAT THIS IS LATE. The reason it is...well, I'm going to make another post in a few minutes that has the explanation for that. Essentially, I've been extremely sick, and several things have simply not gotten done as a result. My apologies again :-(.
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2020-01-03 20:29:26 +0000 UTC
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Bleck, woke up with 102.2 fever and trying not to vomit today. I'm super glad that I got the story releases out already, since I have a feeling I'm going to be mostly useless for a few days. Which means I'm probably not going to get much farther on Chastity Quest. Jillian is 100% done and I was planning to tackle the Blacksmith character next, hopefully finishing him and one of the minor characters before the end-of-month. Now...ugh. Maybe I can still get the minor character done, at least, d...
2019-12-29 23:57:07 +0000 UTC
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$5+ Patrons, you have your own post, with Part 7 of The Dungeon of Lewdity: Origins of a Merchant Princess.
Which, of course, means that it's also time to move an older reward into The Old Rewards Archive...
2019-12-29 01:04:18 +0000 UTC
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Reminder! Don't forget to vote in January's DoL Focus Poll, if you haven't already. It's currently tied, so every vote matters ;-).
Alright, folks! As promised, I worked on another story to use as the $5+ exclusive, since I decided to release the Mass Effect fanfic first part as a Christmas Day extra. After skimming over where I was wit...
2019-12-29 00:51:13 +0000 UTC
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Merry Christmas! Happy Mid-Hanukkah! Cheerful Kawansa Eve! Other Appropriate Greetings!
Having gotten the obligatory holiday greetings done, I come baring the gift of words, despite not being a fancy Asari prostitute! As promised, I'm releasing the first part of Mass Effect: The Final Error, to All Patrons...and since it's effectively an extra this month, I figured Christmas Day was the best time to do so :-). The PDF is attached, as usual. So if you don't want to read the rest of...
2019-12-25 21:39:00 +0000 UTC
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Okay...normally I only let this run for a week. However, given that said week includes both Christmas and New Years, I'm going to set it to run through 11:59 pm on the 2nd of January.
Having said that, each of the remaining polls for DoL is likely to be a bit custom, in order to allow me to balance the remaining load. I discovered this month that I absolutely-positively-can't try to squeeze too many True Endings into a given month. Currently, there are 11 remaining True End...
2019-12-24 22:21:32 +0000 UTC
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Okay! So, a couple of things to get out of the way, touching on Chastity Quest and Story Rewards (yes, plural) for the month.
Chastity Quest
I was coming along fairly well with it yesterday...until the software I'm using crashed and destroyed upwards of 3 hours worth of work. At that point, after I finished several minutes worth of cursing, I took a deep breath and thought things through. To be blunt, the game is taking longer than I had hoped in the fi...
2019-12-21 08:57:52 +0000 UTC
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Alright, first poll got a decent number of votes, with people preferring I use a cannon character for the story. Just for reference, here's the story description again:
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Fanfiction: Mass Effect: The Final Error
Liara T'soni did not believe in taking chances. After all that had happened, what she believed in was redundancy. With the Reapers on the way, she didn't put all her hope in her ...
2019-12-18 10:16:52 +0000 UTC
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$3+ patrons, you've got your own post with the Build 10 release.
Which, of course, means that it's also time to release the public build! This build added...well, you can see that in the release notes, so there really isn't much to say here this time! Have fun!
Without farther ado:
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2019-12-16 07:55:34 +0000 UTC
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Well, I sort of made it on the 15th. The build is ready and currently uploading....but I know it's going to take longer than the next 15 minutes to finish. So, technically it'll be past midnight -_-. Eh, close enough. I did learn something valuable this time around, though. I've now done enough True Endings that I can say, explicitly, that they aren't the same effort as a 'room.' Rather, they are roughly 1.5 times as time-consuming as doing a dungeon room. That's not a big deal when ...
2019-12-16 07:49:12 +0000 UTC
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Huh. The Mass Effect Fanfiction won the December Story Poll! I'm not sure if I'm surprised or not? Either way, this one needs a follow-up poll before I really dive into it. Actually, it probably needs TWO follow up polls, so I'm going to get these polls super short duration (3 days only). Because of that, I'm also opening the poll to All Patrons so I can get a lot of feedback quickly. On that note, here's the basic outline of the story that was voted for:
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2019-12-15 12:15:17 +0000 UTC
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$5+ folks, there are still a couple of days to vote for the December Story Reward. It's currently tied between a new story and The Elven Maid, so your vote most certainly matters! Drop by and vote if you haven't yet!
Okaayyy, sorry I've been a bit silent. I've been trying frantically to keep up...and kinda losing ground. Thankfully, I had t...
2019-12-13 12:06:11 +0000 UTC
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