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November Short Story Poll

Time for the Short Story Poll! But, before I get into our options, I'm going to touch on the fact that the list has gotten a bit...long. Frankly, a couple of the stories don't really get much in th...

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November - Comic Poll

Alright! Poll time! Nothing complex to see here, since I'm not going to introduce any new options until one or more of these wrap-up. The options for the month are pretty straightforward as a resul...

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Sitrep for November

Honestly, this isn't as critical to do this month, as things will be more normal development-wise for November. But I am trying to be better about communicating what's going on. 

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Left Hand Magic - Demo/Intro

Alright! Time to show everyone the results of the first month working on Left Hand Magic. As I repeatedly warned, this first build is pretty minimal, due to the need to establish all the basic syst...

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Old Rewards Archive - Updated

With the release of Galactic Nomad: A Frustrating Relic for $3+ patrons, another previously-exclusive short enters the...

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Short: Galactic Nomad - A Frustrating Relic

Alright! Finally got this done and edited. And the intro for Left Hand Magic is basically done. Needs a few final tweaks and then I have to remember how to actually do a release for Renpy. Either w...

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Left Hand Magic - Update

Okay guys, gals, and others, I need to sit down and talk about just Left Hand Magic for a bit here. To be blunt, I've run into a series of major issues when it comes to the animations. Fir...

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The Side Gig: The Third Belt (Upper Class Release)

With the release of Stranded on Silas Station (Part 1) for Royalty Members, it's also time to move an older mixed medi...

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October Comic - Stranded on Silas Station (Part 1)

Alright! Another of the monthly rewards knocked out! Thank goodness for that, as Left Hand Magic is stressing me the fuck out at the moment. The animation is fighting me wwwwwaaaaaayyyyy m...

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Progress Report

Ugh, I kept putting this off because I wanted something cool to put in as an image. 

*pouts in a corner*

Unfortunately, I'm having some issues with the animation for Left Hand ...

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October Wallpapers

Whew, at least I can get one of the month's rewards crossed off the list. Though I will also mention that I've finished all the renders for the comic. So we should be seeing that sometime ...

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Progress Report

Sorry about this being a bit later than I'd intended. The reason for that is that, unfortunately, I suffered a mild setback. Specifically, I was pretty much out of commission on Sunday, which is no...

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Progress Report

Alright! Time for some more updates on how things are going. To be honest, I'm at least a little bit behind on almost everything, but nothing is critically behind, thankfully. And progress IS being...

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Left Hand Magic - Locations

Alright! Time for another little update on progress. While it took several days longer than I'd originally hoped, I now have the six locations needed for the intro and prologue sections of the game...

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Progress Report + Poll Results

Alright! The polls have wrapped up, so I'll cover those first, before going into what I've been working on for Left Hand Magic.

Protagonist Poll

The vote was a...

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Left Hand Magic - Menu

First off, don't forget that there is only a day left in these ongoing polls: Lef...

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Left Hand Magic - Magitech

First, don't forget that the monthly polls are still running! Particularly important is the poll regarding 2021-10-08 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Left Hand Magic - Protagonist Poll!

Wohoo, we're finally settling the last major question for Left Hand Magic! Before I go any farther, I want to stop and explain something. This poll is a BIG DEAL View Post

October Short Story Poll

It's that time again...time to pick between the many possible short stories. Nothing new this time, since we just got a new story last time and I don't want to have too many active stories...

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October Comic Poll

Once again, it's time for the monthly polls! For the most part, the comic poll is pretty straightforward. But there's both a new possibility and a note about The Side Gig.

First, The Side Gig...

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Old Reward Archive Updated

With the release of The Starship Promise (Part 1) for $3+ Patrons, it's time to move another short story into the View Post

The Starship Promise (Part 1)

First and foremost...I apologize for how late this is. Almost a full week, yikes! I can only cite the overrun of Haven's Port as the cause, as it meant that I dropped everything to keep that overru...

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Sitrep for October

Alright! I don't know if I'll keep doing these posts after October, but for this month I definitely need to outline the goals for the month. Not to mention manage some expectations, as it were. Fir...

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Haven's Port - Build 10 (Public)

Whew! With the slightly late release of Build 11 for $5 Patrons, it's time for the previous build to go public! Since ...

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Haven's Port - Build 11 ($5 Patron Release)

Update 2: Another small bug the occurs with rent being due while renting the townhouse has been fixed in the online versions. And there is a Bugfix 2 file attached for each version (Compres...

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Haven's Port Build 11 - Walkthrough & Cheats

Update: Walkthrough attached as a PDF! As usual, search the PDF for *New* to see only the stuff new to Build 11. The new stuff is sufficiently complex that I also encourage you to ask if an...

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Quick Note the Fourth

Holy mother of chocolate chip cookies, I think this Build was mildly cursed or something. I just had to spend almost 10 hours on the testing/bug squishing. That's easily a record for this ...

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Quick Note the Third

Alright, coding, writing and editing is all done. All that's left is testing and upload. Unfortunately, I'm barely keeping my eyes open. Going to crash soon. I expect the release to be done sometim...

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Quick note the second

Okay, yay, I just finished the programming. Mostly. Still one mildly complicated snippet that my brain is way too fried at the moment to even thing about.

Long story short though, it...

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Oh fiddlesticks, heaven save me from the fiddly bits.

So, this is just going to be a (hopefully) quick note. I spent a good 6 hours yesterday working on Haven's Port (Plus my day job work, that adds up to a long day)...and I didn't get anywhere near a...

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