#update progress

[taintedsoul-if]

I won’t lie — I’m good at building a world from scratch, but when it comes to physical details like what a character wears or how their hair is styled, that’s not my strongest suit. So, I took some inspiration from this world we live in. A reader recently requested Rapunzel-length hair, so I added an ankle-length hair option. Readers can now also choose their preferred hair color.

Since hair color holds a lot of meaning in Vathilia, I wanted to avoid having anyone else with the same one — like no white hair like Cadmus, for example. (Screenshots are below.)

Also — I’ve finally finished the entirety of Chapter Two. I'll be going through the rest of Chapter One again before starting the full editing process for Chapter Two. I really want this update to make sense and not like I just wrote whatever off the bat.

Some might call it a short read, but this update is bordering between 50k–60k words.

As you all know, after editing, we’ll move on to test runs to make sure everything is perfect. I won’t give a definite release date just yet — I’m still battling with some inner demons who visited me last week 🤧. (But hey, we’re used to them around here, right? Lol.)

Once the edits for Chapter 1 and 2 are finished, I’ll try to release the drabble for T to you all as well. I never thought I’d be able to push out 100k words — honestly, it’s a little frightening.

Anyway, I’ll be lurking once again. Please enjoy your week — you deserve it. 🫶

[ordinorultor-if]

One Year of the Ordinor Ultor blog...

One year ago today I made this blog and some of my first posts. The idea for OU had already been around for a little bit, percolating in my mind and a few discord channels since June of '23. But on March 12, 2024, I revealed this project to people who I didn't personally know.

And I couldn't be happier that you all enjoy it.

I'm bad at keeping a schedule and deadlines, and my coding sucks, but you guys have stuck with me through all that. You guys have sent me asks and praises and bug reports and it fills my heart with joy to know that I have readers who enjoy my work enough to ask about its background and tell me what I've done wrong. Because I'm going to be honest, I'm making this game for you guys as much as I am for myself.

The past year has been rough for me personally, but this project is still a source of joy and pride. I suck at keeping a schedule and achieving milestones, but that makes it all sweeter when I do. Every time I learn how another macro works, or figure out functions, or whatever, I am giddy.

Despite that I still fucking hate if...else statements.

Anyways, enough, navel gazing, to the point of this: thank you all so much for reading my work for this past year. Thank you to the Discord friends who I shared the original ideas with. Thank you to my bestie who interviewed me. Thank you to the people regularly sending in asks, and even any asks at all. Thank you to all my followers. Thank you to just my readers in general.

Thank you, everyone.

Also...

(yes I know 'capital ship' and 'frigate' weren't in use in the Middle Ages and that Dux Akize's army would be massive IRL but these are the numbers I felt like going with for now)

If I pull my head out of my ass I might actually able to release 0.2 before Lent is over.

[defensivelee]

why does every queer turn into a redpilled anti-woke far-right comedian fan the moment you tell them they're intersexist like 'stop inventing new terms 🤡🤡 why is everything a slur now 🤡🤡🤡 that one friend that's too woke 🤡🤡' like it's actually surreal how often it happens. i desperately want to know what makes them think that shits okay.

[rudrakitty]

Sneak peak at my sketchbook page, still gotta finish the other side :3

I ended up cutting out and pasting my clay tiger drawing in here and decided to make a Tiger themed page! The drawings at the bottom were made with Conté à Paris pencils. But anyway, yeah just a lil sneak peak I’ll update to my sketchbook tab on my site when I finish!

[skellyjingles]

this animatic was hell to make but at least it's done. love me some forced proximity.

also on youtube

[you-were-meteowrong]

reblog for bigger sample size

[oooocleo]

more bugfae character design! these characters were created together w @forever-halone !

patreon

[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.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

Screenplays (so far):

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Shaft (1971)

Blacula (1972)

Cooley High (1975)

Car Wash (1976)

The Color Purple (1985)

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Disorderlies (1987)

Coming to America (1988)

School Daze (1988)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Harlem Nights (1989)

House Party (1990)

Mo' Better Blues (1990)

To Sleep With Anger (1990)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

The Five Heartbeats (1991)

House Party II (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)

New Jack City (1991)

Boomerang (1992)

Candyman (1992)

Malcolm X (1992)

Sister Act (1992)

Menace II Society (1993)

Poetic Justice (1993)

What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)

Blankman (1994)

CB4 (1994)

Crooklyn (1994)

Jason's Lyric (1994)

Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)

Bad Boys (1995)

Clockers (1995)

Dead Presidents (1995)

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Friday (1995)

Higher Learning (1995)

Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Get on the Bus (1996)

Girl 6 (1996)

Set It Off (1996)

The Nutty Professor (1996)

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996)

The Preacher's Wife (1996)

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

B.A.P.S. (1997)

Booty Call (1997)

Eve's Bayou (1997)

Love Jones (1997)

Miss Evers' Boys (1997) *new*

Soul Food (1997)

Belly (1998)

Beloved (1998)

He Got Game (1998)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

Players' Club (1998)

Slam (1998)

The Best Man (1999)

Life (1999)

Love & Basketball (2000)

Baby Boy (2001)

Training Day (2001)

25th Hour (2002)

Barbershop (2002)

Brother to Brother (2004)

D.E.B.S. (2004)

Beauty Shop (2005)

Inside Man (2006)

I Think I Love My Wife (2007)

Notorious (2009)

Precious (2009)

The Book of Eli (2010)

For Colored Girls (2010)

Pariah (2011)

Middle of Nowhere (2012)

Sparkle (2012)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Belle (2013)

Dear White People (2014)

Fruitvale Station (2014)

Selma (2014)

Bessie (2015)

Creed (2015)

Dope (2015)

Miles Ahead (2015)

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

Birth of a Nation (2016) *new*

Fences (2016)

Hidden Figures (2016)

Moonlight (2016)

Detroit (2017)

Get Out (2017)

Girls Trip (2017)

Mudbound (2017)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Black Panther (2018)

Creed II (2018)

The First Purge (2018)

The Hate U Give (2018)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Widows (2018)

Harriet (2019)

Queen & Slim (2019)

Us (2019)

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

His House (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

One Night In Miami (2020)

Small Axe: Mangrove (2020)

Sylvie's Love (2020)

Candyman (2021)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

The Harder They Fall (2021)

King Richard (2021)

Passing (2021)

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Zola (2021)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Master (2022)

Nanny (2022)

Nope (2022)

Till (2022)

The Woman King (2022)

American Fiction (2023)

The Color Purple (2023)

Creed III (2023)

Origin (2023)

Rustin (2023)

Rye Lane (2023)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

Nickel Boys (2024)

The Piano Lesson (2024)

[ordinorultor-if]

Progress Update 2/3/25

Pain. Ouch. Owie.

Not much progress today, because my dog bit me right on the back of my dominant hand. Not a serious injury, but it hurts like a motherfucker... especially while typing.

I did three small snippets which are kinda shit and I mostly just did to be able to tell both myself and you guys all that I did something. But something is better than nothing, and I'm finally finished with one scene that'd been there for a while (script wise, code wise is something else).

Anyways, I'm probably gonna... wash my wound one more time before heading to bed.

[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!

[leapdayowo]

Season 9 Docm77 (+world eater!)

Doc just peacefully tending to his tomatoes while mass destruction happens in the background (this idea has been sitting on my to do list probably for a year, but it’s finally here!)

Also these are on the same page :3

[venusaur-propaganda]

Drawing Venusaur with every Pokemon pt. Slither Wing

[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 💙💙💙

[merrycrisis-if]

Merry Crisis everyone!

Thank you for being an absolutely wonderful, lovely community. I'm so grateful to everyone who has played/read the IF, left a comment or message, given me super detailed, amazing beta-testing feedback or all the other ways you've supported the IF.

Happy holidays! <3

Amazing festive graphics specially created for Merry Crisis and the holiday season by @crxwes. (Thank you again, you are the best!! <3)

Wanted to share some progress on the text-based IF and the visual novel assets!

Text-based IF:

Writing of the new chapter (where Nat arrives in Singapore and when one has a final date with Shay/Qiu before needing to commit in the following chapter) is complete, and has been sent off to beta-testers!

Release dates:

Ko-fi supporters, non-beta-tested version - 28 Dec Ko-fi supporters, beta-tested version - 1 Jan Public release - 7 Jan

Visual novel:

Progress for writing and art has been steady! I have a team of super amazing, talented artists (@crxwes, @gncrezan, Silvia and Fie). Some amazing characters and backgrounds have been created so far! Here's a sneak preview :)

Shout-out also to @dumplingcatho (for the wonderful character portraits), and @snowthornes (for helping with the coding). Y'all are awesome.

[syonesims]

90s Save File - Oasis Springs Lore/Households

Oasis Springs is a small, sun-drenched town. The scorching heat of the day forces residents to hide in the roadside bars or hang by the pools, sipping cold drinks and spending time with friends. However, when the sun sets, things take on a darker tone. The streets fill with personalities you'd rather keep your distance from. Same places now buzz with tension as those with dark pasts and uncertain futures cross paths with those who prey on desperation. Life here is raw and real: social inequality, organized crime and corruption among the elites are issues this place has struggled with for years. Think twice before it's secrets consume you as well.

As promised - big update!! I think it's time to finally show some households (and post more frequent updates 🥲). Willow Creek was supposed to be first, but I want to add more families before I share them, so here we go lol. This is the overall lore for this world - there's so much more to that, but details will be revealed in family bios and then each sim's backstory. I tried to put households that have the most connections on the same page, but they are all connected to each other in some way (and to sims from different worlds). I will use this post as navigation and add links when I put them together, so you can check out and download those households more easily.

Download families and see their bios:

▸ ALL ▸ Garcia ▸ Morrison-Sawyer ▸ Reed ▸ Agosti ▸ Bhatt ▸ Abramowicz ▸ Foster ▸ Silent Syndicate ▸ Baek ▸ Craig ▸ Bandmates ▸ Mitchell

If you want to know more about the save, check my post here. If you want to download these sims individually, check here.