#Developer Update

[flightrising]

Today's Developer Update reviews our most recent batch of accessibility changes, quality of life updates, and previews some upcoming features (not yet released!) to pinglists.

[thesoulforgeorder]

Hey all! I started the week by not only nailing down the start of Nico's section but also completing Mina's art.

With only Nico's section left for Part One, I'm starting to focus on the final character artwork for the cast as well.

Only Ara is left, and hopefully, she will soon join everyone else later this week.

Thank you for your patience, and know that each day is bringing us closer to a release date for chapter two, part one!

[collegetennisoriginstory]

Dev update for CT:OS and Merry Crisis

Hi guys! Sorry it's been a while!

Life update

I've been so busy at work that I've barely had time to rest and hang with friends and family, let alone write as much as I need. I've still been spending some of my weekends writing, but rapidly discovering how little I can get done with just 5 or 6 hours of writing per week. (Crazy how much time IF-writing takes haha)

It's just peak busy period for my job right now before holiday season and things will calm down in December.

CT:OS

As y'all may know, I had been hoping to release the update in early Nov for early release folks and mid Nov for public folk.

I am still aiming to squeeze out the CT:OS update by end of Nov or early Dec and I wanted to let you all know where I'm at!

The scenes are about 95% written (all the way up to the end of the matches currently, I'm just finishing up the win/lose reactions and editing)!!

As of right now, the new update stands at a mammoth 90k+ words with code, but I think something like 35-40k in a playthrough, and there are new RO kisses for all ROs :)

The good news despite these delays is that this update (far from being a short pt. 2), is actually meaty enough to really stand as its own update.

Merry Crisis

I'll update again when I have a bit of a sense when CT:OS is done and how busy my December looks.

Ko-fi

Finally, because I don't want ko-fi folk to be paying out of pocket for this month as its taking a bit longer than expected, I will be refunding ko-fi monthly payments from beginning of Nov until the next update, which I hope will be before Dec.

Once again thanks everyone for continuing to read/play the IFs, supporting me, and sending me love/messages :)

❤️ hope to have some great update news for you guys soon!

[tblrthreadtracker]

RPThreadTracker currently down due to infrastructure issues

Hello, all! Super sorry for the inconvenience; I've been looking into the errors currently manifesting in RPThreadTracker and it seems to be some sort of issue with the hosting provider. I've reached out to their support and hope to have an answer and resolution soon, but for now, I appreciate your patience during the downtime.

Thanks to everyone who reached out to me to let me know about the issue! I appreciate you. :)

Sorry again for any inconvenience this causes.

ETA: It is currently a holiday in the US, and I unfortunately cannot afford corporate-level 24x7 tech support, so it's possible I won't get in contact with anyone until tomorrow and it may take some time on back-and-forth. I ask for your continued patience while I get this sorted out. <3

Thanks,

Trackermun

[datethatsnake]

datingdee -> datethatsnake

I didn't have that many ideas for a new url, and after rereading I think this fits the vibe

also updated all the posts and tags to be Janus instead of Deceit!

will update the icon and blog theme at some point in the near future

[raspberrykraken]

I have decided to start over game development and designing again.

My main game engine will be Unreal.

My prototyping engine will be Ultimate Doom Builder.

Therefore if it’s not working in Ultimate Doom Builder then it won’t work in Unreal for the final pieces.

I have been sketching on my ipad and sketching ideas. I have procreate but also using apples Freeform to white board it out.

I am cautiously optimistic this year is the year to do things, especially after what happened last year.

I am finally ready to not only be unhinged but also put no limits on my creativity.

Happy 2024.

[literaryvein-references]

When your Character...

Gets into: A Fight ⚜ ...Another Fight ⚜ ...Yet Another Fight

Hates Someone ⚜ Kisses Someone ⚜ Falls in Love

Calls Someone they Love ⚜ Dies / Cheats Death ⚜ Drowns

is...

A Ballerina ⚜ A Child ⚜ Interacting with a Child ⚜ A Cheerleader

A Cowboy ⚜ A Genius ⚜ A Lawyer ⚜ A Pirate ⚜ A Spy

A Wheelchair User ⚜ A Zombie ⚜ Beautiful ⚜ Dangerous ⚜ Drunk

Funny ⚜ In a Coma ⚜ In a Secret Society ⚜ Injured ⚜ Shy

needs...

A Magical Item ⚜ An Aphrodisiac ⚜ A Fictional Poison

A Coping Strategy ⚜ A Drink ⚜ A Medicinal Herb ⚜ A Mentor

Money ⚜ A Persuasion Tactic ⚜ A Quirk ⚜ To be Killed Off

To Become Likable ⚜ To Clean a Wound ⚜ To Self-Reflect

To Find the Right Word, but Can't ⚜ To Say No ⚜ To Swear

loves...

Astronomy ⚜ Baking ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Food ⚜ Oils

Dancing ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gems ⚜ Herbal Remedies ⚜ Honey

Mushrooms ⚜ Mythology ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Perfumes

Roses ⚜ Sweets ⚜ To Argue ⚜ To Insult ⚜ To Kiss

To Make False Claims ⚜ Wine ⚜ Wine-Tasting �� Yoga

has/experiences...

Allergies ⚜ Amnesia ⚜ Bereavement ⚜ Bites & Stings

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ CO Poisoning ⚜ Color Blindness

Facial Hair ⚜ Fainting ⚜ Fevers ⚜ Food Allergies

Food Poisoning ⚜ Fractures ⚜ Frostbite ⚜ Hypothermia

Injuries ⚜ Jet Lag ⚜ Kidnapping ⚜ Manipulation ⚜ Mutism

Pain ⚜ Paranoia ⚜ Poisoning ⚜ More Pain & Violence

Scars ⚜ Trauma ⚜ Viruses ⚜ Wounds

[these are just quick references. more research may be needed to write your story...]

Writing Resources PDFs

[pigeonphd]

btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again

[itseghost]

the rude blacksmith has enchanted me. also feeling so normal about this game that i did pixel art for the first time ever to try and draw my farmer in the game style

[dualityvn]

New main menu screen!

[nerolikestowander]

Ughhhh this has so many flaws but here you go! This song ruined my life 😀

And here are the still versions :(((

[flightrising]

It's time for a Developer Update! In today's post, we'll give you all the details for our new Pinglists feature, give you a glimpse of a major rehaul to our Custom Skins submission system, and catch you up with where we're at with Coliseum PVP.

[thesoulforgeorder]

Writing Update

Hello everyone... I know that I have disappeared for two weeks but I promise that I return with good news! I was working a lot of overtime and I had no time to do any writing but this week I managed to finally get some writing done.

Not only did I manage to get a good chunk of writing done but I also finally finished the wastelander background today! The entire wastelander background came up to 18,6k words which is quite a substantial part of chapter one.

I hope to match or at least get close to that word for the other two backgrounds. I am busy redoing the military background now and then I can do the other sections.

Word Count: 41640 (+5035)

The word count may seem a bit off but that is because I did a bit of revision so the word count has fluctuated but I still managed to break 40k! I am quite proud and hopefully I will have more to tell you soon.

Stay safe and stay healthy.

[leoneliterary]

3/21/2025 Public Update

The demo for Honor Amongst Thieves has been updated! Play it HERE!

Late but here!

It's finally time to leave the hunting grounds. Surely nothing else can go wrong during the last stretch of this trip!

Also, I'm not sure if the saves held up, but I recommend going back anyway for a special surprise when you receive your horse.

[tblrthreadtracker]

A quick status update:

Still not entirely sure what's going on with the tracker outage but I'm in touch with tech support at my hosting provider. My working theory is that the codebase is now old enough that they basically just stopped supporting its framework without, like, giving any sort of notification, which is a bit annoying and is necessitating me doing a bunch of code updates to get everything back up to speed. Once I've done that, I'll be able to determine whether that fixed the problem or something else is going on.

Further updates will follow here. I appreciate everyone's patience!

Trackermun