💖 Day 3.5 is now available! 💖
For the last couple of months, only Server Boosters had access to the 3.5 update... Buuuuut now it's available for everyone to play in the 14DWY Discord — and soon itch.io once I'm happy with the QA and state of the game — so please don't feel pressured to join unless you want to!!
The full devlog + even more screenshots are under the cut ^^
What's been added to the 3.5 version?
📺 Streamer Mode!
I've been told that it's difficult to stream and monetise age-restricted videos on YouTube and Twitch, so I added an option to remove the sexual content and strong language used in the demo.
Now y'all can invite Ren into your bed for cuddles without putting your streamer career on the line /silly /lh
This won't affect the 18+ rating or dark themes/elements of the game, however! Although Streamer Mode will prevent you from seeing any "gruesome" CGs in the future, most of the core elements of the game will still be tied to the choices and decisions you make. So you won't miss out on the overall experience by using streamer mode!!
⚙️ Custom Pronouns!
It only took me one entire year to get around to it, but you can finally choose your own preferred pronouns (or use a set of pronouns instead)... At the cost of being able to change them mid-game ^^;
Since the original pronoun screen wouldn't update until a new scene was displayed, I temporarily disabled the feature. But once I find a workaround, I'll bring it back!
💗 Choose how others perceive you!
You can now choose how the cast and narration perceive you! Originally, the narration was kept strictly gender-neutral (outside of pronouns and genitalia picked by the player), but this will soon change in future updates.
For more clarity: you don't get to choose the words specifically, but you can choose between masculine, feminine, and androgynous terms!
📋 Separate top and bottom genitalia!
You can now choose your tatas and pps separately! >:3
Alongside that, you can also choose your preferred body type!
I removed the "both" genitalia option because a few players still assumed it was an obscure version of "intersex". That wasn't my intention and I don't want to mislead anyone, so I took it out for now ^^;
I also didn't want to include a screenshot of the new genitalia choices in action (because it's NSFW), so y'all get the same character menu screen for the nth time instead lmao
📱 Relationship Screen Overhaul!
You can now change your own status for more immersion, and long-term Server Boosters will eventually be able to submit and use their own icon within the game as well!
Stalking finding your friends has now become easier by using "Buddy Maps"; a new app that allows you to see the location of all the cast members!
I want to offer players more incentive to check the relationship screen since they tend to miss the status updates, so hopefully this might help ;v;
It also says it "updates every few hours" so folks don't go overboard and check every 5 seconds to see where Ren is gdsghf (also keep in mind that he's a hacker lol)
🖤 Additional Scenes Update!
Day 2 received a brand new CG!!!!! Originally, I planned on only adding a few CGs sporadically throughout the game, but it didn't feel right to leave Day 2 so... empty... so I added a brand new CG to (hopefully) make things feel more balanced and natural!
If you decline Teo's offer on Day 3, Leon will now call and try to convince you to reconsider. However, players are still allowed to decline, and if they do, they'll reach a dead end.
After listening to feedback on itch, I changed some of the dialogue during Days 1-3 to make it seem more consistent! They're only small changes though, so it's honestly not worth looking for sdgjssga
🎶 Updated BGM and SFX!
I wanted to try out a different style of music to see if it fits the vibe of 14DWY more! The BGM features more acoustics to suit the "beachy" theme of Corland Bay, though I made a conscious effort to include piano elements as well to stay true to the original!!
I figured it'd be better to give players a live example before I make a poll (to see if they prefer the change or not) and publish it to Itch.
Some new SFX have also been added, though it's very minimal and honestly not that noticeable.
How to download and play the update?
(warning: clicking on the following links will open Discord!!)
To download the Day 3.5 update, simply join the 14DWY Discord server, verify your age, and visit the "14dwy-updates" channel!
Alternatively, you can also wait until the update is publicly released on Itch to play it as well!! (It normally gets released shortly after a round of QA testing/getting feedback from the server, though I may release it earlier if I feel like it hehe ^^)
Enjoy!!
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⠀⠀⠀₍ᐢ..ᐢ₎⠀⠀plushies : the event ♡ winners ⁺
I just want to start by saying thank you to everyone who participated. Honestly, I didn't even think that anyone would join maybe like 2-3 ppl, so i was super happy when so many people joined. The hardest part about hosting an event is picking the winners, and since everyone had such gorgeous entries it was genuinely so hard to pick the winners. ⠀
⠀ ⠀⠀ ₍ᐢ..ᐢ₎⠀⠀ ♡ winners : ⁺
🥇 : @y2qi ❀ entry - let me tell you when i saw this mb i was in love like everything about it was just so gorgeous, and i literally just love the gif so much like its not even funny 😞. i could literally go on and on about this mb cause IT'S JUST PERFECT. 1st place is deffo deserved. congrats love!
(joint) 🥈 : @koosuvi ❀ entry - this mb was just SO adorable, like the way everything matched so perfectly n the color scheme of the mb was just insane to me. the whole mb was just so nice and refreshing to look at . congrats!!
@p-oisn ❀ entry - stop cause i have so many things to say about this mb 😭😭 it's like the CUTEST thing everr the colors are just everything, and the little bear gif is SO CUTE istg, AND THE div just added to the CUTENESS of the moodboard. like i literally just wanted to gobble up the moodboard cus of how cute it was. congrats!
🥉 : @ryeins ❀ entry - just look at the mb!! it's lit so stunning, and she even made her own divider which is by the way GORGEOUS, everything about this moodboard is just so perfect, like argue with a wall or smth if you disagree, not to also mention that that's ONE of my fav chuu icons. #chuustan4life🥰 . congrats!!
♡ | runner ups :
@yrminji ✿ entry
@i08wony ✿ entry
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♡ | a special thanks to :
@f-loqweres @obrigados @eun-luv @vg-k @kisrui
@poemale @haenxn @lilaquette @lil-liaa @f-lustra
@wonjuii @jaes1lvr @aevrsie @y-unrei @b-ubbleberry
@daddldee @gyustarzzi2 @chroumie @eundior @crazyfrm
@yeossemble @poeticore @7kyujin @dllria @h-aerins
@v-ahns for taking part in the event!!
important !! : DM me to claim your prize!! last day to claim the prizes will be on the 9th of Apr !!
And please note that it will take a while for me to hand out all of the prizes (i went all out with them 😭) there's so many prizes and only one of me so please be patient with me!! <3
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Hello! I just discovered your blog and I immediately became captivated by your webcomic, but I'm unsure where to read all of it. I know it's on Webtoons, but I can see it hasn't been updated for a while, and you still post about it.
Are your physical novels just prints of the webcomic? Are they a continuation? Is the story complete? Thanks in advance!
Hi there!
Glad you found me and are enjoying my comic!
It's only on webtoons, and the story is not complete yet! We're 2/3 of the way through right now. It's currently on hiatus, and it's scheduled to come back in about 2 months!
I'll explain why it's been so long if you're curious, but also for my followers who might also be wondering about it under the cut. Sorry, it's pretty much just me complaining haha
I took a month off
I took 2 months to get the books printed
I took a month to prepare my next comic
and I took 2 months to write the rest of the series (I knew the character arcs I wanted, but not the time periods or mysteries!!!)
I've been working on actual episodes since then
I had to take some time off because of some pretty extreme burnout due to the sheer amount of work it was to draw over 800 pages and write 6 complete stories in a year and a half... I was getting sick almost weekly due to the overwork, it was really really bad honestly. I was having to work 60+ hours every week just to keep up...
The nature of the comic itself is also difficult... Each of the arcs is a complete, self contained story which can be read (ideally) without context, and my arcs need to be about 10-13 episodes each... And since I have an exact number of episodes to work with, it's even harder.
It takes a ton of planning and a ton of refinement, and working week to week with no breaks I was forced to put out second or even first drafts, so I just wasn't happy with the work I was doing... And to do that for the rest of the series? I wouldn't be proud of the work I did.
Plus... To be entirely honest, webtoon has treated me quite badly IN MY OPINION... They deprioritized me before I launched (I had to beg for more promotion, I'm not exaggerating), they outright denied me the opportunity to even ask for a raise, I don't make any money on fast pass and they pay me less than my partner makes working at trader joes. My first editor left me completely hanging, my second editor (who I loved) was fired... And they told me I wouldn't get a third season before my first season even finished. So it was just repeatedly completely demoralizing.
I'm sorry it has taken so long, it'll have been 10 months by the time I come back. But I realized... I won't get promotion either way. I won't get more episodes either way. I won't get more money either way. So to finish everything, to make it feel good, to make it something I'm proud of, I chose to take longer to make it better.
I am fully aware I will lose a significant amount of my readership for this and it might genuinely affect my career moving forward. But it's what I had to do! So I'm sticking to my guns on it, and I'm confident long term it'll be worth it. It never could have been this good if I didn't take this much time.
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You still doin' ok? It's been, er, a couple years.
I'm doing fine, I mentioned a while back that I won't be making my own posts for now, but I do still accept submissions. I've been doing full-time work and full-time school for the last couple years, and combined with dropping my Mother series hyperfixation a while back, it was difficult for me to find the time and incentive to continue working on posts.
I hope everyone knows how much I appreciate the support EBFB has gotten over the years. Don't think I haven't been watching over it this whole time, because I have. This is very belated, but thank you all so much for your support. EBFB wouldn't have come this far without all of you 🤍.
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I’m not sure if this was asked already but now that daredevil born again ties into the netflix show are we gonna see it in trt?
So my plan now that we have confirmation that Born Again ties into Netflix is:
The main TRT fic will still 'finish' at its official point set a little bit post S3 of Daredevil, mostly because by that point it's going to be an absolute behemoth of a fic and needs to end before I break AO3's wordcount tab. That'll wrap up all our major plot points with Cyrus, Project Beagle fallout, etc.
Other entries planned: a Wedding fic, and the Snap fic (although I'm now planning to make a few rewrites to the canon one since we'll likely have confirmation on who got Snapped and who didn't).
After that, I'm considering a possible route for some additional stuff with whatever they have in Born Again, yes! I don't have anything official just yet because, well, we don't really know about what's going to happen, and so I'll have no idea just how much TRT's events would influence BA's canon events until I see it (there's a VERY big domino I'm tipping that might alter the landscape quite a bit based on where the MCU seems headed that I can't really give away just yet). But I do plan at the very least some TRT one-shots or short fics, even without seeing it, because how am I not going to want to continue exploring this world when they're about to feed me so much more inspo??? There's no way. So we'll have some additional adventures! They may just be a bit smaller and more manageable than TRT's mainline. <3
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