Chyos

Bringing the monastery to life

Good day,

I was really happy when the update was finally done Monday night.
It took of course longer than the 4 hours that I had thought it would need to get everything done... Especially the transition between Arenfield and the monastery was something I had to test multiple times until it finally worked out the way I wanted it to.

The rest of the week I've been working on the last missing maps (scriptorium, refectory, garden, sanctum). The sanctum and garden still need some w...

Release 0.5.4.5 + hotfix a

Good evening,

after another long day the update is finally done. You can consider this version as a teaser for the upcoming update, as it introduces new characters and gives you a choice about where the story will be going to.

Currently you can just return home from the monastery (since it would be a dead end). When 0.5.5.0 is done the plan is to let the MC stay at the monastery until the quest is done. After all it wouldn't make much sense to let the MC travel back home and ret...

I got close, but there is more time needed

Good morning,

It's now past midnight here and since I'm starting to feel the weight of the day it's time to give up on my hopes on finishing the update tonight and write this report instead.

This isn't the report I wanted to write... the goal was to finish the update and write the report afterwards, then falling asleep and feel good that the update is done.
I got damn close to finishing it, but the last events that were needed for this update to have at least some meaningful ...

Status of 0.5.4.5

Good afternoon,

again time for a report on the past week and my progress on the next update.

I've gotten a lot closer to 0.5.4.5 over this past week. Most of the material needed for is now completed. I worked more on the maps that I want to add (for now a total of 6 maps: entrance, courtyard, church, cloister, monks' dormitory, nuns' dormitory). Some of these will get more details with the final 0.5.5.0 update, but for now they are at an acceptable state for me. More details will...

Work around the monastery

Good afternoon,

it's again friday so time to give you a short report on my work over the past week.

This week I worked mainly on maps for the monastery. I had to think a lot about how to actually build up the location, directly followed by the question of which areas are now really needed for the upcoming update. The work on these maps isn't finished yet, I want to add in some more details to give them their final touch.

The other thing I've worked on were the character m...

Bonus Scene poll May

Pre-voting is now closed, thank you for your participation!

We had a clear winner this time, the new option that get's added this time is for Imawyn.

Imawyn: Expand the party at the camp, instead of going to bed early Imawyn will join the MC dancing and have sex in the open, might invite some Mercenaries in.

As said before, the next bonus scene I'll be adding will be for Penny & Natasha. Since the current update for Mira is a lot bigger than my usual ...

Weekly Report

Good evening,

it's gotten late today, but I wanted to get the bonus scene done before writing this report. You may have guessed it, the plan was not to finish it today, I would have liked to have it finished Wednesday night or at least yesterday.

But at least it's done now. For this scene I had to make some changes to how the joining/leaving to group works around Arenfield. This took time, but what took even more time were the dialogue adjustments I made for Katherin inside her ...

Bonusscene Katherin & Lyvia (0.5.4.1)

Good evening,

certainly a lot later than what I had planned, This scene got a bit bigger in terms of workload than what I had anticipated.

Anyway, it's finally done. You can trigger the new scene if you already had the 3some with Lyvia outside where Katherin is gathering herbs. The next step now is to have dinner with Katherin alone (send Tia to Rumah). To get to the action quickly make sure you bring wine and serve a good meal. If you do that again the scene will get a bit more...

Content Poll 0.5.6.0

As announced in my last report, here now the next content poll.
With the addition of Julia's vote option, the entire list of options from the last pre vote round is now complete.

Julia's option is not only a step to further complete the storyline in which the MC might take over as Mayor/Baron of Arenfield (depending on choices) I also want to use this update to finally add smaller task quests which can be optained from the bulletin board infront of the inn. This is something I want...

We have a visitor

Good afternoon,

It's friday again and therefore time for a report about my work in the last week.

After working through the last weekend, the 0.5.4.0 update was finally finished on Sunday evening. In terms of dialog adjustments, it hasn't gotten as far as I would have liked yet. I hope to find time in the upcoming rework update to continue working on the responsive dialogs in appropriate situations.

After the obligatory bugfixes and the update of the walkthrough I concentr...

Release 0.5.4.0b + Hotfix c

Good morning,

I stayed true to my promise and worked the whole weekend to get this update somewhat complete. While writing this the testversion is currently uploading.

Here a short changelog:

• A new quest to marry Emily (Can be started in bed when cuddling, you need to be on the loveroute with her and you must have completed the quest around her house)
• Emily can now visit the MC's house (talk to her in the evening when she is in the kitchen and follow the dia...
  2023-04-30 22:40:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly report

Good morning,

I can imagine that in the meantime one or the other wonders how I could make 5 from an estimated 2 days.
I have already given a short explanation in my comment under the last weekly report, I don't want to go into too much detail now, because there is still a lot to do and I would rather put the time into working on the game than writing a long detailed report (I might write more about it once the update is done).

A few short infos though: While writing the story...

Progress on 0.5.4.0

Good afternoon,

Friday afternoon again, so time to give you a recap of the past week.

I had talked about my goals for this week last Friday and to get to the point straight away, I'm not yet done with what I have planned for this update.

Some of you probably already expected this, but I still tried to do a small miracle and get it all done tonight. So sadly that won't be possible, I'll need ~2 days more to get it done properly.

So what have I been working on: I wor...

Preparations for Emily's wedding

Hello everyone,

alsmost weekend again, so time to give you a review of my past week.

For the most part I continued the work that I started the week before. I implemented the new animations and added a scene for Emily in the kitchen pregnant & a version of her visiting Giron while pregnant.
After that was done I started working on a small quest that will lead to the marriage.

First, the MC will think about whether he wants to marry Emily (a decision that can be le...

Happy Easter!

Good afternoon,

it's Friday again and with that. time to talk about the past week.

It took me until Tuesday to finally get the 0.5.3.5 update done.
The different dialog variations for Emily/Mira/Frisha took more time than I first thought, because I had to consider the different relationship states the MC could be in with Emily. I have already added another dialog for when the MC is married to Emily, although it is not yet activatable.

After the bugfixing was done on We...

Release 0.5.3.6

Good evening,

after a day that cost me a lot of nerves part 1 of Emily's update is finally done!

So now it is possible to impregnate Emily after having a conversation with her about it in bed. (To trigger it cum inside her). After that you can decide to either let her take care of contraception or risk knocking her up (Giron can also have a chance, but it has to be enabled seperately in the dialogue).
I've added a small quest so that you know what the next steps are after Emi...

A short update on my progress

Good day,

as the title suggests I will try to keep this one short as I'm still very busy working on 0.5.3.5.

In this past week I've made 5 new animations(+transitions) for Emily in her pregnant state. The work on that was finished on Wednesday around noon. Since then I've been working on the dialogues and implementation of Emily's pregnancy.
This means dialogues about it, interaction in her house and of course making sure all images shown are corrected to her state (updated s...

Release 0.5.3.4 Test!

As stated in my last report I'm releasing this version for test purpose.  It includes all the rework I've done on Emily's old content and of course Bianca's bonus scene + some altered dialogue for Katherin if Tia knows about her and the MC. So to list it more detailed:

• Bianca's bonus scene (563 images)
• Rework on Emily's content (some of this is untested) (651 images)
• Altered Mira's dialogue during the bath scene (was a bit too religous)
• Additional d...
  2023-03-24 13:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress on 0.5.3.5

Good morning,

I've just had to think about a decsision I have to make, which is why I'm making this post early today.

It's about Emily's story progression. The fact that the relationship with her is pretty much mandatory (be it sexual only or romantic) is what made me think about it a lot in the past days. I know that there are other characters who also don't give you that choice, but right now I'm working on Emily (and if you think about Tia at this point, I can only say: "Somed...

Bonus scene poll March

A few more hours have past with me doing renders, meanwhile I've counted out all votes and prepared this poll.

A reminder: The next bonus scene will be about Kathern & Lyvia. I will work on that as soon as 0.5.4.0 is done.

For this new bonus scene poll I've decided to skip the prevote. Instead I'll be finally adding Athia's option which has been on the pre poll for several months, often close but never winning the poll.

Athia: Expand the content aroun...

Progress on Emily's content

Good day!

Another week is coming to an end, time to give you my report on it.

Bianca's scene was completed Monday night, the fixing of bugs that came with the scene took a large portion of Tuesday, but now everything should mostly work.
There have been no reports due to the performance changes, so I assume that all the changes were successful and all events continue to work.

The other thing I did on Tuesday was to rework Mira's dialogue during the bath scene. I have to...

Bonus Scene Bianca (0.5.3.1)

And another scene done!
Took again the whole day, but I've spend the time meaningful.
Together with the new scenes and dialogue for it I have also written some alternative dialogue for Bianca's old sex scene.
And there is another small surprise you will notice (not going to spoil it)

So this update includes:

• Bianca's new scene, which will finally let you complete her quest (549 images)
• The performance change (If you run into bugs with this please let me kn...
  2023-03-13 22:39:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly report

Good afternoon,

it's Friday again, so time to give you a short review of my past week.

Let's start with the most important question which is: When is the bonus scene coming out?
Answer: Maybe tonight, if not, then on Monday.
I've been working on that the whole week, but other than planned the images weren't completed on Monday evening but Wednesday night. By now I made 540+ images and a lot of them had to be edited beacause of clipping or other problems.
The implementat...

Content Poll 0.5.5.0

Hello everyone,

it's finally time to start the next content poll to determine the content of the coming update. As already written in my last report Kirlic get's finally added as vote option.

Kirlic - A new village to which you can travel. I will add new npcs and first interaction with them. Alongside that I will add new scenes for some of the current characters and also content for one of the new characters.

Mira already got a headstart on this poll and...

A new month, new goals

Good afternoon,

I have returned from my vacation. It's time to get to work with renewed energy.

A lot to do in this coming month, yesterday I began working on new animations for Bianca's bonus scene. I continued working on them today and hopefully I can finish the work on the animations on Monday. The goal is to release the bonus scene in the coming week. I'm not sure if that will be on Friday or sooner, it depends on how much detail I put into the scene. Since I've waited a long...

A review of the past week

Good afternoon,

it was a bit late yesterday so I decided to write this review today to sum up everything that happened last week.

So first: The update is finally done! While writing this I'm currently reuploading the fixed version. I hope all crucial bugs are now dealt with, anything that you find now will have to wait until I return home from my vacation in 2 weeks. (Please report anyway, I will then look it up afterwards)

I've also just updated the walkthrough, you can f...

Release 0.5.3.0a

Good morning,

I know I've missed the report today. You can probably guess already that I wanted to be done with the update first before I write it.
As always this took longer than expected and so the report will have to wait until tomorrow after I had some sleep.

For now let's talk about this update and what's new:

• Added missing dialogue for some scenes
• Added the final event for Tia's quest (6 animations + transitions, 761 images...)
• Changed some...
  2023-02-11 00:10:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Maybe we had a little too much wine...

Good afternoon,

Friday already, time to give you a short review of the past week.

I think most of it is already summed up with the release wednesday night.
I really wanted to make that release on Tuesday, but the amount of things that were unfinished by then made it impossible for me. Even by the end of wednesday the update was untested and buggy.
At this point a big thank you to all who reported the bugs so that it was easier for me to get the version somewhat stable.
...

Release 0.5.2.9a + Hotfix

Good morning,

so much for only a bit is missing it's now almost 3am here... I already said it on discord, making this update was like fighting a hydra. When ever I thought all branches are dealt with there was still something else popping up that I had to think about...A lot you could do in different order...places you could get stuck...and so on. I just hope I have it all covered now.

So what is now in this update:

• Tia's quest can be somewhat completed (somewhat mean...
  2023-02-02 01:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress on Tia's update

Good morning,

Friday again and time to give you a review of the past week.

It started with me continuing the work on the fortress map. I did some tests and not everything worked out as I had envisioned it, because of that I wasn't able to finish that last Friday and it took a good part of Monday as well.

Tuesday I then decided to finally finish the implementation of the 4 new animations I already made. I also added some new equipment for the party members.
Balancing the ...