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Dev Journal: Two's Company

Bit of an interesting mixture of news for this one. In my last dev journal, I mentioned I was working on tooltips, and those have come together well at this point I think. I'm hoping they'll serve as solid continuous educational tools for players, and still blend into the background when they're not needed ...

Side-Write: Pointless Violence

A lot of the story behind Project Wild One is still up in the air-- the focus is largely on the system and the gameplay itself at this stage, and the necessities of what I'm designing here will guide a lot of what the game turns into as a story down the road. That does present some very interesting challenges, thou...

Project Voice v0.01 Basic Cheats!

Edit: Public game launch! Cheats now available to all supporters!As always, you can enter this code in the options menu to activate the cheats. Once you do, they should stay active even if you close and open the game again! This adds special buttons that let you manipulate the main gameplay stats so you can get to what...

Vote Now! MVOL needs ART!

I keep telling myself I need to get more art going again, as hard and stressful as that part of the whole process can be. This early in development, there's not a lot of art I can commission for my newer prototypes that I can be sure I'll actually use in the long run, but My Very Own Lith clearly still has a lo...

Side-Write: Destruction by Choice

If we're being honest, part of why I decided I needed to get Project Voice shipped out before the end of the month was because I realized I had already done far too many side-writes about it by this point. Still, usually I'd do the side-write "about what I've been working on," but I don't have a...

Project Voice v0.01 Super Cheats!

Trying something different this time and putting both cheat codes in the one post for you guys!As always, you can enter these codes in the options menu to activate the cheats. Once you do, they should stay active even if you close and open the game again! They both add special buttons that let you navigate the game mor...

Project Voice v0.01!

Update: Now available to the public! Enjoy!It's finally here! The first iteration on my big experiment with voice acting is ready to go! You can get all the info about what's going on with this version of the game over here on my big announcement post. One important note is that the voice lines will stop coming...

Dev Journal: Turning Point

Hmmm. I should have written this up a week ago. Not just because I've let more time elapse between these journals than the goals I set myself, but because about a week ago, I reached a turning point. As I've described, editing all this audio has been an endless, frustrating task, and while I picked up a few tri...

Side-Write: Perfect Problem

One more time, I had to ask myself what to do for this side-write given Project Voice isn't super heavy on the lore compared to a lot of my work. The setting is basically "somewhere around 2005 but furries." Last time I explored the design questions behind why I designed the player character the way I did, ...

Dev Journal: Hot and Bothered

I was shocked when I checked and found that it's been a month since my last dev journal, so I'd like to apologize for that! The work has been simultaneously so absorbing and so frustrating that it's messed with my sense of time to some extent, I think. I honestly didn't expect this project to challenge ...

Warmth in Darkness

Things have slowed down some recently on the art side of things, it's been a while since we had a fresh preview! Project Voice is going to have a very minimalistic aesthetic, but I knew I'd need one solid centerpiece to tie everything together, and after a lot of fiddling with it with Leslongxia, I'm pretty...

Side-Write: Player and Character

Project Voice doesn't have a lot of deep lore behind it to delve into for these pieces, so this leaves me with space for getting a little more open-ended with these side-writes. I was thinking about topics related to the story and realized that I'm trying some new stuff with the player character in Project Voic...

Side-Write: A Magical Childhood

I usually try to offer some insight into the background and lore for the game I'm working on at the moment for these side-writes, even if it's mostly speculative or spitballing, and in this case I think it's pretty clear what that should be.The player character in Project Voice is never officially given a n...

Dev Journal: Sound Mind

I have to say, out of the projects I've started, Project Voice has certainly been the strangest. And while Project Wild One was an immensely challenging experience to get going and I learned a great deal from it, PV (hm, that sounds odd) has challenged me in much more unusual ways.Last month, a bit part of it was a...

Vote on Species and Nicknames!

Things are finally getting going with Project Voice, and my plans are solid enough at this point that I'd like to get some input from you guys on how to arrange some of the details. I explain more in the form itself.VOTE HERE!I put the options for nicknames together with some help from supporters on the Sounding Bo...

New Survey!

In case you missed it everywhere else, along with the public release of Project Matchmaker v0.02 I'm putting out a new survey asking for everyone's opinions on the two new projects so far! If you've already played the new update and PWO, please share your thoughts!Take the survey here!I also have a more in-...

Side-Write: Design Choices

Well, we're doing something pretty different for this one. Usually I try to focus on the story side of things and give some extra insight into what's going on with the game I'm currently working on on that side, but maybe moreso than any other game I've worked on, Project Voice doesn't have a notabl...

Project Matchmaker v0.02, Two-Week Advance!

This update finally offers a full and proper "first look" at what this Project is meant to be. You can get more info on that and on everything that's going on in my big blog post over here for this update!If you run into any problems making the game work, I keep the most up to date list of known issues and ...

Project Matchmaker v0.02 Basic Cheats!

Edit: Updated for public release!The new build is out and this time there's finally enough content that I think a few lil cheats will actually be worthwhile! With the Basic Cheats you start the game with the "bonus content" you'd be able to get at the very end of this update already unlocked. Usually yo...

Project Matchmaker v0.02 Super Cheats!

The new build is out and this time there's finally enough content that I think a few lil cheats will actually be worthwhile! With the Super Cheats you basically get a new dialogue option early in the timeline that lets you skip from "just finished customizing characters" to "the action is getting hot an...

Project Matchmaker v0.02!

Side-Write: The Burden of Divinity

Well, it looks like this will be the last side-write themed for Project Matchmaker for a while at least, so I tried to figure out what would be a fitting thing to explore to round things out so far. And I realized that after last month's exploration of Saphron's people, something similar for Mala's people c...

Dev Journal: Speak Up!

Well, I wanted to post a reminder and realized it was just about time for another dev journal anyway! So, first thing:Project Matchmaker v0.02 is going out to my proofers today to check over while I finish putting the final bits in there. That means we're about a week out from the first release to supporters, and t...

Project Voice - Outline

Project Basics: Read HereIntended Gameplay: Similar to a choose your own adventure book, basically. Start from the initial situation, make choices to go down a few different paths interacting with the other character, usually leading to intimacy down the road. Choices influence what kind of relationship will develop an...

Project Voice - Basics

Current State: Side Project; Prototype AvailableLatest Build: v0.01Project Voice is a simplistic, branching narrative game focused on exploring the use of audio erotic content. I will be using this experiment to explore my own capabilities as a voice actor and the audio mechanics in Unity, as well as how voice content ...

Side-Write: Retrospective

So I've been focusing a lot on the emotional conflicts involved and the more intimate details between Saphron and Mala, but I've been deliberately avoiding getting into the details of the greater context around them. Partly because I hate naming things. But it's getting to a point where I probably shouldn&#...

Dev Journal: Alternative Possibilities

I really need to find a better way to work these into my routine. When I'm having a hard time pushing past a challenge I let myself push off doing a dev journal, partly since I feel like publicly admitting "this is hard D:" would be a hit to my personal motivation. And then when I'm past the challenge a...

My Very Own Lith v1.01!

This is a smaller update, fixing up some bugs, adding art and a few side scenes. You can find out more about this update over here!How to PlayGo HERE and download "Flash Player Projector" for your operating system, it should run any swf file. You can drag the swf file right onto the projector to open it if you ...

My Very Own Lith v1.01, Cheat Version!

(Many supporters got access to this post two weeks early, now it's been updated to be available to all supporters on the public release date!)This version of the game gives you access to the Magic Glove in your items menu. Make sure to check the main menu when you open the game for some more info on that!How to Pla...

Side-Write: Imperial Directive

Fresh off struggling with MVOL, I've been taking care of some side stuff, but my next goal is to start working on the next version of Matchmaker, so I've taken this month's Side-Write as a chance to refresh myself a little on that story and world, and reflect on the stories and implications that surround th...