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Happy Pride Month from Master Suite. Do anything you want.

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Kill Tally is now available on itch.io at https://master-suite.itch.io/kill-tally. She's waiting.

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Something's coming. Something new. Something all too familiar. Hold your breath.

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Happy Mother's Day from Master Suite.

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Master Suite is now on Bluesky, with the same posts as you get here.

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Pardon my lateness, but the Steam Spring Sale is currently ongoing through March 20th. Get Sydney and the Cicadas in "Immanentize" and The Life and Times of Daniel Vastberaden for $1.99 each.

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Master Suite is now on Steam!

Master Suite's two major releases, The Life and Times of Daniel Vastberaden and Sydney and the Cicadas in "Immanentize" are now available on Steam. Catch the Steam-exclusive release sale for 25% off this week only.

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Second Anniversary Retrospective / Foresight

It is cliche to say, but it continues to surprise me I have been making games for two years already. Even if it wears on me at times, I continue to have passion for making these games.

This year has been hard in my personal life, so work has come slower. Shed Skin had month-long hiatuses in the middle of its development and many shifting ideas, to the point where I still find myself upset when looking at the game, but I do still respect it for the work I have done. The time span and the struggle had me experiment more than I expected to, mostly with how I presented the narrative.

I have been wanting to launch on Steam since Master Suite began, and while the store page process was smoother than I expected, I went the extra mile creating new trailers and upgrading large parts of both major titles. I am happy with what I have done, and so far, I am excited at how Steam is receiving it; in the first few days, I have gotten about half the views on Immanentize as it has gotten on itch.io over more than a year. It will be no miraculous success, but it is still fantastic to reach a broader audience and refine my appearance. I do plan on keeping the Novellas as web-only...unless that miracle happens and I have the money to spare, I suppose.

The third major title is in puzzle design at the moment, and with how my life stands currently, I expect to start art & programming around the New Year. Ambitiously, I hope to have something to show you around the start of April. More realistically, around July. I do have other plans for April, but given it would be the first project I work on with a larger group of people (I anticipate over a dozen), I will not say much here in case things fall through.

I do think I have improved at the aspects of game development I was weakest in—much of the work in the "Great Summer Renovation" was remaking music—yet there is always more to be done.

For those reading, I have prototyped a website to act as a hub for my works and a contact for the press (and the curious). I aim to keep it simplistic, but I do not know if I am settled on this yet. See it here: mastersuitegames.neocities.org

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It's Master Suite's second anniversary! If you can't wait until their Steam launch, both major titles are available for free today only. Look out for the retrospective/foresight post later today.

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Master Suite is coming to Steam!

Master Suite's two major releases, The Life and Times of Daniel Vastberaden and Sydney and the Cicadas in "Immanentize" are available on Steam January 2nd. Add them to your wishlist to be notified when they release (and for bumping them up in the algorithm, mind).

Meanwhile, the Winter Sale on Itch.io's starts when this post goes up. If you cannot wait for January, you can snag a copy for 50% off for the next two weeks. Watch for Master Suite's two-year anniversary this Sunday, as well.

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Current State of the GSR

While I will not go into detail, I have had various circumstances in my life that have restricted my ability or willingness to work on the Great Summer Renovation. I still aim for a Steam release by the end of the year, and am now aiming to have an updated version of both major titles by the itch.io Halloween Sale this Thursday. I have not completed everything I would have liked to, but have still fixed many errors, updated graphics, and reworked music entirely, and I would like to get those updates out soon.

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The Great Summer Renovation seems to be running into the autumn, but I'll give a proper update soon enough. For now, a fit of inspiration has resulted in a new hypercomic. Read Words After Last at https://master-suite.itch.io/words-after-last

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Master Suite's Great Summer Renovation

As I have grown and gained experience as a video game developer, there have been certain facets of the major titles that I have been wishing to improve upon. With the third major title still mostly in theory, and with a hopeful Steam release of the two existing ones by the end of the summer, I will be spending the next few months revisiting and reworking The Life and Times of Daniel Vastberaden and Sydney and the Cicadas in "Immanentize". I will get done as much as I can before my personal deadline, but some of my goals:

Rewrite code for Life and Times from the ground up, streamlining it and simplifying the debugging process

Fix some animations in Life and Times, and bring the rest up to the current style (e.g. with blur frames)

Redraw sprites and generally improve visuals in Immanentize

Expand and rewrite music tracks for both titles

General debugging

Minor quality of life features (e.g. separate mute button for music, clearer menu design)

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A year after Sydney's escape in Sydney and the Cicadas in "Immanentize", Ruby and Tally have one final meeting at the top of the citadel's tower. Shed Skin is out today, and is available free in browser on itch.io. Link in bio.

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MIRRORS in MASTER SUITE GAMES

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DANIEL VASTBERADEN (2022) SYDNEY AND THE CICADAS IN: IMMANENTIZE (2023) HIDDEN HEIRLOOM (2023) SHED SKIN (2024)

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Happy Pride Month from Master Suite. Normally I would have some graphic prepared, but my devices have been on the fritz the past week or so. Life gets in the way sometimes. I am still working what I can on the next title.