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I LIVE!!!

After over two years of creative block and burnout, I'm finally back to working on my games in earnest. (If this is exciting news to you, thank my boyfriend, who has really been pushing me to get back to it.)

My agenda for the next year: 1. Polish up AFP and Steventon Street, and submit them for approval on Steam. AFP just needs a few bug fixes, but Steventon Street might get a complete art overhaul. 2. Run a Kickstarter to finish P&P. There are still tons of backgrounds that need to be drawn by hand, and I don't know that I'm up to the task. (If you guys can think of any good pledge rewards, I'm open to suggestions!) 3. Put the finishing touches on Stormrider (if you don't know what that is, it was a Patreon exclusive demo that I put out years ago). This game has been nearly finished for over a year! 4. Learn to code in Unity so I can make more intricate games in the future!

After all of this, we'll revisit my list of works-in-progress, and I'll let you guys vote on what I work on next.

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Expect the AFP remaster to be uploaded to itch.io on Sunday!

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Getting Close...

Coding and animation are officially done for AFP remastered. I want to do a little more playtesting to ensure that it's ready for public release, but we're definitely getting there!

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Demo 2 of Promise & Prophecy is now live on itch!

Demo 2 takes the word count from 15,000 to 40,000 and introduces the third love interest, Gereon. Be careful with your choices, the Princess can die in this chapter!

On patreon, Demo 3 just got a minor update as well - mostly adjustments to backgrounds and fixes to the codex. A full post about the changes and a few other things will go up on patreon on Monday.

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The princes’ remastered sprites are completely finished now, including all of their outfits! I only have one CG left to redraw, and a little bit of writing and coding to do, and then a demo of the Aurore: Five Princes remaster will be ready to go up on my patreon!

Of course, my patrons already know all this, and have already seen previews of the new CGs.

I’m still on the fence whether the demo for the remaster will go up on itch, or if I’ll wait until it’s completely finished. I guess that’s a problem for Future Me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Promise & Prophecy Demo 3 is now available on my Patreon.

It’s 66,800 words in total, and introduces love interests Livia and Safir!

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Promise & Prophecy is a fantasy otome about a princess who must travel to a foreign country and navigate an unfamiliar political structure to save her kingdom from invaders. There are five potential love interests (four male, one female), and many choices that can impact the direction of the story. Demo 1 can be downloaded here for free.

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If you’re making a visual novel, do yourself a favor and make an expression chart. I didn’t do it for my first two games, and that was a huge mistake. Having a chart to reference makes coding in the expression changes so much faster.

This has been a PSA from an idiot who doesn’t want you to make the same mistakes that she did.

(Character is Alfons from Promise & Prophecy)

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And thus, a tradition of mercilessly dunking on August’s complete inability to dress himself was born.

For the next two weeks, you can get Steventon Street’s DLC for only $4.90 USD!