#progress update !!

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Waggery collects some interesting books..

[h3lfaerie]

Hey babies, I'm alive ❤️

Still affording as much time as I can while packing up as I am ready to move out of my current household. I have had to prioritize taking care of legalities, which is why I've genuinely struggled keeping up with the daily updates but I'm dropping in to say I have not forgotten about you and I love you all very much.

I wish I had more to say in regards to the update, but I've had to focus on packing my entire life. Yours truly will be flying out of the country, semi-permanently... Which is weirdly not the first time I've done this.

But it's still genuinely horrifying.

Even more so when I'm not even moving to a new household. I'm going traveling for a little bit, perhaps for the rest of the year. So, I haven't just been packing. I've been cleansing myself of belongings that no longer serve me, either by selling them, donating or simply giving them away.

I've decided I want to pursue making art while on the go, while somehow making it work with no money. I have no clue how that's gonna work. But I think I'm supposed to discover that. I did this once already when I came to study in the UK, and I did it all alone. So, when it comes to packing up and simply leaving, I know I'm starting from experience.

I'm Eastern European. I've been in the UK for the last 6 years and I'm simply not happy here. I started writing Path of Alfheim on a whim and it became something that helped me realize I crave so much more out of life. Because for a very long time I've felt anchored to a piece of land that no longer aligns with what I want.

And I wonder who else feels like that... I've been subconsciously pouring myself into Hiccup for the last two years without even realizing.

Wow.

It's a tale as old as time to have a portion of your soul carved into your characters, it should not have come as a surprise but it still did.

I've been wracking my brain with questions like "What am I meant to do with my life?" and "Where to now?" when in reality the answer is simple.

The happiest I've felt these past 2 years is when I've been writing, when I've had the chance to be on stage, when I've snuck away to simply make things... When I've had the freedom to explore. And I need to know what that feels like at its fullest.

I'm going on a journey that is uncertain and a little scary. But I'm taking you with me. And though I don't necessarily have an update on the fic itself today, I wanted to come in and share that one little piece of me with those of you who felt connected to the silly little world I created on a random sleepless night after I had cried my eyes out.

I struggle with deadlines.

It's ridiculously difficult for me to stick to a schedule.

I've always been an intuitive writer, intuitive in terms of art as a whole. Which means I don't force it. I simply let it flow when it comes.

I'm choosing a life where I dedicate myself to that purpose. Where I get to write Path of Alfheim whenever I want, without worrying if I'll make rent next month, where I can make art as I please and still have energy left because I'm not destroying my body at some minimum wage ungrateful job. I've had a portion of time these past few days where I haven't been able to dedicate as much time as I'd like to writing, but the fic itself is about to expand in ways even I haven't discovered.

I'm doing this because I've decided I want to dedicate myself to creativity.

It's been ages since I've had a chance to post a new chapter and I feel horrible for making you wait so long.

So, I hope that with these words of mine you can feel how devoted I am to this project. How much it's helped me find myself, and how much it ain't going anywhere anytime soon.

If you remember one thing from reading my post today, let me leave you with this... Should you not create, you will deteriorate.

You owe it to yourself to live your truth.

I'm going traveling for a while to find mine. And I know that my art, and Path of Alfheim as a whole, will reflect that truth in ways I can't wait to share with you.

I love you all. Stay safe. And I shall post again soon. ❤️

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

The Soul Stone War 3 is Complete

I am shocked. Baffled. Speechless.

Riding the high of having just finished writing The Soul Stone War 3.

The game is complete.

[sofia-d-asb]

Arcadie: Cold Lands - Progress Update - January 2025

I've spent literal days working on the mobile interface of Arcadie: Cold Lands, and I'm finally happy with the results!

It involved reworking the UI completely and re-coding all the menus, as there was no easy way of making it mobile-friendly like with Twine.

Other exciting news:

I am aiming for a Q4 2025 full release on PC/macOS. Mobile versions will come early 2026.

The public demo will be available in June 2025.

I will be launching a Patreon very shortly! If you choose to support me, you will get access to the alpha version of Arcadie: Cold Lands, playable on both PC/Mac and mobile, updated monthly as I work on the game. More info soon!

[speakergame]

Progress Report - 12/25/24

Hello and happy holidays!

It’s been a while, huh? 😅 my apologies for disappearing on you all. Long story short, I had a severe case of tendonitis in my shoulder, and have spent the last few months heavily restricted in my ability to type or do pretty much anything on the computer. And since I’m left-handed, and it was my left shoulder, writing the old fashioned way wasn’t much of an option either. It’s been absolute hell for me, to put it lightly.

I’ve finally recovered enough to be able to get back to work… slowly. More slowly than I’d like, honestly, but it is what it is. I’m trying my best not to overdo it and set my healing back. It’s easier said than done.

Besides the speed, however, work is actually going really well! Well enough that I have the next update very nearly ready to go. I have a really bad, game-breaking bug lurking somewhere in my code that I’m trying to unravel, but once I’ve found and squashed it, I’ll be able to roll the update out to patreon 😁

Beyond that, I also have a couple mini-stories planned (akin to the Spooktacular from a couple years back), the first of which is written and mostly-coded. I wanted to have it ready earlier this month, but again, work is slower than I want it to be. In addition, I want to roll out an updated version of the Idle Hands prologue/demo to my lovely and infinitely patient patrons, and I really hope to finally, finally release the first episode of Partially Stars.

Most of all, I hope to start being more active again on tumblr and to stop disappearing for months at a time. That’s my number 1 goal for 2025.

So that’s everything I’ve got for y’all for now! I’m gonna go back to fumigating my code so I can kill this bug, and with luck I’ll have something fun for you all very soon.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, happy Wednesday to those who don’t, and a Happy New Year to everyone. Enjoy the liminal week remaining until 2025, I love you all, and thank you as always for reading 💙💙💙

[moastudiess]

Daily Productivity Challenge: 4/10

04.08.2025~ Getting started on my complexity theory homework that was due yesterday :D, also working on my computer graphics GPU programming project on the side. Working towards finishing the wrapper assignment for my Bayesian Net project as well :)

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Sooooo another progress update,

This one will be extra short too, but—got ~40k words coded for the prologue. Added choices and other stuff here and there, and I'm at the spicy scene. Rn that scene alone is about ~16k words. I aim to please as many people as I can (no pun intended🤨). It's a challenge juggling all the different versions (M!El, F!El, what El wears, what MC wears, MC's sub or dom side, etc. etc.), but I'm getting there.

And that's about it.

[ri-writes-if]

Chapter 6 Release Dates

16th May, tomorrow — for the patrons on Tier 3

23rd May — for the patrons on Tier 2

26th May — for the patrons on Tier 1

30th May — for everyone

It’s happening! 🥳 I’ll make a proper update post for the chapter when I publish it for everyone. Hope you can wait a little longer! 🫶

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Public service announcement: I've started coding Chapter 3. Will take a bit. But yeah, it's coming.

[otaku553]

Progress for the next spade pirate sabo au chapter!!

Lineart: 8/23 pages

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Progress Update - Crown of Exile

So. It's been a while. I'm alive, sort of. Do I dare tempt fate by saying I'm on the last chapter of Crown of Exile and if all goes well, we'll have the first draft done later this year? Probably.

In all seriousness, I should have stuck to traditional novels. No one tells you that branching variations are crazy until you're sitting there and writing three outcomes for four variations for four different paths. It's a lot but on the plus, I'm on the battle scenes which is when everything you've been working towards suddenly gets tested.

It's been fun but I can't say I love writing variations. Eventually, when this behemoth is done, edits will begin and when that happens, I'll be looking for some detailed feedback for implementing additional choices, dialogues and of course romance option(s). For fans of Virion, let's just say, it'll happen one day 👀

For now, rest assured that while things aren't being posted every few seconds, minutes and days, I am still very active on working on the game. Hopefully, the next post like this will be announcing the completion of the first draft 🎉

I know there are some asks I haven't answered, but I will be getting back to that soon so if you have anything to ask, please send them through 💖

Thank you to everyone who has continued to support, play and gush about the game. The end is nearly in sight ✨️

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

Progress Update May 2025

Hey, everyone!

Just a small progress update to let you know what I've been doing this May!

As you probably know by now, TSSW 3 is complete 😂 Right now, I'm doing the final edits after the game was professionally copy edited.

These should be finished within the next couple of days. Thankfully, there was nothing that had to be rewritten or changed content-wise! I did good! 🤩

So yeah, gearing up for the release which will probably be sometime in July or maybe even late June. I will let everyone know when we have a solid date down!

As for BtM, the second to last big segment is officially finished! This means that BtM is one segment away from completion! 

For those of you who've played the early access, lemme just say that more things around water may or may not be happening... 👀👀👀

It's so funny to me, though, that both games will be finished so close to one another LMAO!

I hope you're in the mood for lots of intimidating puffin studios this summer 🤣

So yeah! Now that TSSW 3 is almost out, I'll be focusing on finishing BtM, and that's the plan for the next couple of months!

Hope everyone is HYPED to dive back into TSSW 3!!! I know I am! Can't WAIT to be able to discuss some of the things that are happening in the game LOL!

Cheers! ✨

[sofia-d-asb]

Arcadie: Cold Lands - Progress Update - November 2024

(I know it's almost December but better late than never right?)

Arcadie: Cold Lands is gearing up to be much more complex to write and code than Second-Born, purely by virtue of it acknowledging your past choices.

Whether a certain person lives or dies, whether you even take them along, whether you accepted a certain deal...

It's a lot of work to keep it all cohesive and not have one path seem better than another, but it's also pretty fun and rewarding.

I've also just come off playing a game that is a sequel to one of my favorite gaming franchises, and saying I was disappointed is an understatement. I really was not fond of what they did with the world, and the... dumbing-down of the writing. My fault for buying a game day one!

Anyway, that made me really want to honor your past choices, and not shy away from giving you more role-playing options. So the possibility of being a force of... chaos, is back, though only when it makes sense. I don't want to write stupid or gratuitous evil, but rather self-interested tyrant. We'll see how it goes as I write along.

Oh and I have disabled access to the demo for Arcadie: Cold Lands, as it doesn't reflect the current state of the game. I'll probably be posting an updated version next month or in January.

Cheers!

[childrenofcain-if]

apologies for the radio silence on my end, i’ve stayed offline for a few weeks so i can get most of my stuff in order. it hasn’t gone without some productivity though because i’ve done some significant editing to chapter 4 and made some progress with that.

i’m not sure if the release of the chapter will be affected by the fact that i have to borrow my friends’ laptops to write everything, but i’ll still do my best to have it out by early 2025. the current word count is 30k and it becomes so breezy to write once you get into the meat of the chapter.

idk if it’s gonna be a double chapter release like the last update but with the way it’s going, it’s highly likely it’d happen. either way, i’m just happy the laptop situation wasn’t a major setback to the development until i figure something else out.

thank you, again, everyone for the patience and support!

[moastudiess]

04.30.2025~ Daily Productivity Challenge 6/10

Probabilities and effective study rituals before my last final exam :))

I’ve fully claimed my boyfriends’ room while he went long boarding and I’m planning on compiling every possible set of notes I can get my hands on for this open note exam

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Progress update

It'll be short, but just to let y'all know, I'm still working on the rewrite. Got 27k words coded of the prologue, with added choices, small scenes, flavor texts, etc.

To give you an idea, I'm about 25% done because I'll have to completely rewrite the spicy scene—the one I wrote is... meh. I'll add stuff for the fluffy scene too. For now, I'm right before the dinner scene where MC attempts to propose but gets interrupted by the waitress.

I'll be quiet for a while here as usual to get everything done faster. Thanks btw to the people who's praised my work in my inbox, offered advice, deep observation, or just ranted and rambled—it's much appreciated. Love reading yall even if I don't reply immediately🫶