tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84104107227822524272024-03-13T20:18:04.591-06:00Cypress Zeta Games DevelopmentThe best place for updates about adult games made by Cypress Zeta!Cypress_zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10165309094303831508noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-63429211518713636512016-10-25T10:02:00.000-06:002016-10-25T10:04:08.898-06:00On Despair Stories<br />
Stories have shapes. This should be a surprise to no one in the literary field. Typically they look like wave patterns; rise, then fall, rise then fall, etc. building up to the glorious climax. The truth is that this pattern doesn't just apply to typical stories you could read in a bookstore, but porn as well if it has anything more than a token plot.<br />
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Of particular interest to me is something I call a "despair" story. The point of those stories is that the bad guy wins and everything ends up terrible. These are different from tragedies in that the victim(s) often are not at fault at all. None of my games are really despair stories, but they're essential to a lot of adult content out there. It's important to know why we enjoy them.<br />
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An AI recently gave a basic overview of these patterns in an article. For the sake of convenience I'll post it here.<br />
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/the-six-main-arcs-in-storytelling-identified-by-a-computer/490733/<br />
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These are the story types:<br />
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1. Rags to Riches (rise)<br />
2. Riches to Rags (fall)<br />
3. Man in a Hole (fall then rise)<br />
4. Icarus (rise then fall)<br />
5. Cinderella (rise then fall then rise)<br />
6. Oedipus (fall then rise then fall)<br />
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The ones of particular interest to despair stories are 2, 4, and 6. These are stories that end on a down note. They also end on a kind of twisted up note. Whatever perverse plans the villain has have succeeded. Be that mind break, brainwashing or what have you.<br />
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Let's break these down a little bit more. We'll start with the Riches to Rags story. This is the quintessential "invaded kingdom" story. The story goes like this: There's a kingdom with attractive lady knights and/or princesses and it's invaded. The invaders win and the story starts. These stories are always ramps simultaneously both upwards and downwards. The female characters are slowly degraded and lowered in status over the course of the story. That progression effectively IS the story. It only ends when the heroine has hit rock bottom. It's also going upwards in terms of sexual content. While they typically start with sex or rape of the main character they then move onto public humiliation, violating the character's friends and often monster sex. They generally end with some sort of public gangbang.<br />
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That's not the only story that uses it. In the Erotic Mind Control writing community there's a pretty typical story. There's a girl that's unpleasant to be around, she's brainwashed and the sex is steadily ramped up along with the mind control until she's essentially a meat puppet.<br />
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The common theme here is the humiliation and despair in defeat. Someone is flawed or fails in some way and is punished for it. Perhaps the person is blameless, in which case the focus is on evil simply having its way with the innocent. The joy here has several layers, not all of which everyone will experience. First is sympathy with the character; like we watch horror films to feel fake horror as we self insert into the roles of the protagonist, many watch despair flicks to feel this fake despair. Second people can sympathize with the villain; for them this is a rags to riches story. The lower the princess goes the higher the villain is buoyed up. This split-narrative is really important to despair stories. Unpleasant joy mixed with despair create a unique sensation in the viewer some will like. The point of a genuine evil villain winning is to tinge any sympathetic joy with disgust or horror. It makes the sympathetic sensation of "victory" bittersweet.<br />
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The second type of story is Icarus. Generally speaking the theme of these stories is hubris and punishment. This is the Taiminin Asagi type of story. You've got very powerful heroines. Maybe they're sentai or magical girls or ninjas, but they start off the story from a strong position wiping out weaker foes. They embrace their power and confront the villain. The turning point is generally hubris. The heroines underestimate the villain or the villain has an unforeseen trick the heroines might have avoided if they were less contemptuous of their opponent.<br />
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For instance in Kangoku Senkan the characters Lieri and Naomi are stuck on a ship with a crew actively trying to turn them into sex slaves. They successfully fight off the entire ship and the villain, but the villain turns out to have been hiding knockout gas canisters beneath his shirt. From there it's like story one; a long slow ramp of humiliation and escalating sex scenes while at the same time the villain's status keeps going up. For them the story is usually the Man in a Hole story. Commander Bowgun, for instance, the villain-protagonist of Kangoku Senkan starts out having just gotten out of the prison Naomi and Lieri put him in. They have weapons and authority on their side; for him it's an uphill battle against powerful opponents.<br />
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Again we see how the story is split. Another layer of all this is Schadenfreude; these stories often go out of their way to ensure than the female victims are rather unpleasant people to start with. All the more reason to see them punished. Not only for the hubris but also for their character flaws. While this should bring the reader closer to the villain the villain is often despicable enough that they're not even slightly sympathetic even when they should be in the narrative. The joy of seeing those who have done wrong punished is tainted by the villains perversion and nature. Yet a common theme here is also that the victims flaws are not worth even the slightest fraction of the punishment they receive. The punishment is always, by nature, unfair and disproportionate.<br />
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The final story is Oedipus. We all know Oedipus, of course, but it's a tragedy. A despair story isn't usually a tragedy because the events that happen are usually outside the victim's control. Tragedies are, at their core, watching someone fall due to their own flaws. The Oedipus despair story is different. In them characters fall because outside forces (the villain) make them happen. They need not be passive victims but it is futile. They are doomed from the start.<br />
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Perhaps the best example of this I can recall is a mind control story called Radio Flyer. Now while the story is much too lighthearted to be thought of as a despair story it would take almost no effort to tweak it into a story that would be.<br />
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In it, the main character develops a mind control device and brainwashes various girls. A councillor discovers this and helps the girls resist and break free temporarily. The villain is almost defeated. Then he overcomes their resistance and gradually breaks the councillor's mind using the same method she protected the girls with. The girls in the story follow the pattern. Low as they're enslaved, high as they're freed, and then low again as they're re-enslaved, more tightly than ever. And again it's the opposite arc for the villain protagonist. Low before the device, then high after he gets his harem. Low again as it goes free and he's on the run, but it once he defeats his nemesis he's back on top again with everything he could ever want.<br />
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Understanding the patterns of stories is essential to writing them and I'm particularly fond of the despair genre myself. They have a pleasing duality to them that's both a greasy kind of wonderful and terrible. They're unusual stories in that the villain and the heroine often get equal screentime. They're erotic but also tickle the part of us that feels the drop starting when a rollercoaster tips over the hill. We want the dread and misery. We want the joy of evil triumphing over good.<br />
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Why? Because we've all suffered unfairly at the hands of forces outside our control. Be that slow lines at the DMV or the victim of a hurricane many of us know the feeling of unfair pain that we did nothing to cause. We've also seen villains win before. Real life doesn't mandate good always wins like a Saturday Morning Cartoon series. Moreover sometimes all of us are a little evil and we like it. Essentially this is just a way of freeing the id and doing whatever you please without regard for the consequences, something every single human being has dreamed about at various points. So you combine them. The joy of evil's triumph and the despair of the innocent violated. The point isn't to cause you to feel real pain but sympathetic pain and joy. Nor is it something so crude as to "show dem wimmenz what fer" or anything like that. Though misogyny is a big part of this genre it's a part of it because degradation is part of the downward spiral. And indeed, nothing keeps this story from having a female villain and male victim, or a villain and victim of the same gender.<br />
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Things like this are a part of how the human mind works. To learn how to deal with fear we set up fake fear simulators and call them "horror stories". To learn how to deal with despair and our own dark impulses we seek out stories like these. Some love them because they imagine themselves the villain; others love them because they imagine themselves the victim. There's nothing wrong with either side for so long as it remains fantasy no one is harmed. Indeed, those who go in and read these stories may emerge refreshed and better able to deal with life's unfairness and cruelty. We're not evil creatures but we're not wholly good, either. From time to time even the best of us loves to see a little evil.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-88230845120625622062016-06-28T15:48:00.000-06:002016-06-28T16:01:43.278-06:00Japanese cross-promotion!It should be no secret that I've admired the eroge developers of Japan for a long time. The industry that has been built there is pretty amazing and the envy of every western eroge developer. Much of what I do is in imitation of the Japanese industry, and in the end I would like to build something like that industry here in the western world.<br />
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I am doing something new. I am now doing cross promotions with Japanese developers so that we can share our fans. I'm really thrilled about it because it feels like Senpai has noticed me, haha. I know there is a large community of people out there that like to play untranslated Japanese games; we have many translation programs for it. I happen to be one of those people. Let me share the great work of two developers with you.<br />
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<b>Yomitim:</b><br />
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Yomitim makes a game that translates to: Paradise Majo Ripuaria. In Japanese: 楽園魔城リピュアリア<br />
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The game that he makes is a sex platformer with some amazing artwork. The sprites are stellar and sexy and sprites work people that use any language. It appears to have some gender change and transformation themes, things which are absent in my work but loved by many. This may be a game for you if those themes intrigue you.<br />
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This is a preview of the sort of sprites that are in the game:<br />
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You can see a lot more at the blog link below as well as the DLsite page.<br />
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http://repureria.blog.fc2.com/<br />
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http://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ102967.html<br />
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<b>Unko Morimori Maru:</b><br />
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Before I speak about the game I will say that I have spoken with this developer through a paid translator and it is a shame we do not share a language. I feel this is someone I could easily be friends with. He is clearly a person of great passion for adult games.<br />
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Unko makes a game called "Timer Miko". In Japanese, 退魔巫女遊戯<br />
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He makes an adult RPG with a lot of custom work. As someone who has made an RPG myself I cannot understate how much work a highly customized RPG is to put together. It is an incredible accomplishment for anyone. It's an adult RPG focusing on schoolgirls and tentacles - two themes I know are VERY popular in the western world.<br />
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As an RPG it will require a text hooker and translation program to play properly, but there are plenty of resources for those. If you speak Japanese of course both of these games are available for you to play without anything like that.<br />
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Below is a preview of the really, really cute artwork in the game:<br />
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I love the aesthetics this guy's work has. You can see a lot more at the blog link below as well as the DLsite page.<br />
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http://b.dlsite.net/RG25921/archives/1058736675.html<br />
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http://www.dlsite.com/maniax/announce/=/product_id/RJ176344.html<br />
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I know many of you keep track of Japanese games. If you decide to play one please give these a look.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-43813432350241517522016-05-22T08:32:00.000-06:002016-05-22T08:32:24.296-06:00Cross Promotion!Hey all, you may not be familiar with one of the most fun parts of being a game maker: talking to other devs and doing cross promotion.<br />
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I talk about other games on here from time to time but not as much as I'd like.<br />
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http://pervyfantasyproductions.blogspot.com/<br />
https://www.patreon.com/Pervyfantasyproductions?ty=h<br />
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Pervy makes RPG's like The Last Demonhunter and The Order of Light and a few others. They're VERY different games from mine and might not meet your sensibilities. However if you're looking for something a bit different from my rather vanilla sex focused maledom style you should take a look at their stuff.<br />
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I also wanna give a shout out to HentaiWriter, the maker of Future Fragments. HentaiWriter has been an absolute awesome dude since the first time we met. He makes some awesome stuff. He also hired Drew, who did some work in Overwhored to work on Magic Matchup's art. I think you'll find a lot in common between our content.<br />
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http://hentaiwriter.tumblr.com/<br />
https://www.patreon.com/FutureFragments?ty=c<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-80185428445491029572016-05-14T16:31:00.002-06:002016-05-14T20:39:01.196-06:00Home Invasion Color StreamHi everyone! If you're lucky enough to read this it means that you're in time to watch a stream! Brellom is one of the awesome artists on the project and she's streaming some color work for the first sex scene in the game.<br />
I'll delete this post once the stream is done, so come and watch while you can!<br />
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https://picarto.tv/brellom<br />
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Right, the game portion of the stream is over. Brell's gonna do other stuff now. For those that stopped by and watched I hope you enjoyed it!</blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-1606648076867967902016-03-27T17:12:00.002-06:002016-03-27T17:12:27.012-06:00Exercising your right to vote means paying a priceSo I'm American and I voted in a primary recently. I won't say which one or where; it isn't much of a mystery though. Long story short some woman with the plague was stuck next to me and I got REALLY sick there and I'm pretty much stuck in bed. I will be taking a day or two off. I'd been working while sick, but my fever has gotten to the point where it's not smart to ignore it anymore.<br />
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See you in a day or two!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-44498004545860943222016-03-08T14:38:00.002-07:002016-03-08T14:38:44.651-07:00Home InvasionHey all! I'm going to work on another game after Overwhored. It isn't far enough along for its own thread yet, but I want to link you all to a post on my Patreon that goes into it in detail and shows a bunch of picture previews.<br />
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/4793439<br />
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Please let me know what you think!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-25138681320702366362016-03-04T09:57:00.000-07:002016-03-04T09:57:19.279-07:00Overwhored Version 1.1Hello again all! There were some bugs that slipped through the beta tests, I've played through myself and fixed up just about all of them. There will still be a few typos in the items but otherwise this should be good to go. Version 1.1 has nothing new, just bugfixes. If you completed version 1.0 without issue then you won't need this. If you hit a game-stopping bug this should help!<br />
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It has been a wild ride, everyone. Five years and tons of support have produced a spectacular game. When I started there was one adult RPG in english (Legend of Queen Opala), now there's several. I wanted to give my own spin on things and create a game where you played the bad guy and ended up basing it on a parody of Overlord and a Theology Essay that I wrote.<br />
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Now it is done. Enjoy, everyone.<br />
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(NoMoshing will no longer be hosting other people's games on BadKittyGames, so here is a Mega link for now. I'll add more options including a torrent option in the near future.)<br />
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And in case you've been linked here and have no idea what Overwhored is:<br />
Overwhored is a fun RPG that puts you in the role of the Overmind, an immortal man that seeks to brainwash and bang all the women of the world. Three years ago you were slain by a group of mighty heroines, but now you have been revived by your loyal servants to fight them again!<br />
The game has commissioned art from spectacular artists like Sleepymaid, PChronos, Hombre Blanco, and Mindwipe, as well as many other skilled artists!<br />
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Here are some previews of what you'll find in the game:<br />
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The Overwhored Trailer:<br />
https://youtu.be/3rnYoIUXyfc<br />
This is not the end of the journey - I will make more games in the future. So long as you support I will create.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-66216652005377636442016-02-19T13:08:00.002-07:002016-02-19T19:49:34.946-07:00Final Beta TonightHi all! I just wanted to let you know that I've been crunching down on the game over the past few days. All that remains is nametagging, and the blunt truth is that I'm going completely insane from doing nothing but this repetitive stuff. I can do it just as well while you're beta testing and if/when you find bugs it'll give me something else to do. There's no sense in putting things off any longer - I'm sorry it took so long to get here, I just want to get this done so I don't have to come back to it again. Every major bug fixed, every major issue solved.<br />
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I'm going to do a bit more polish, fill out one sex scene I put off to the end and then upload this to Patreon tonight.<br />
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EDIT: It is now up on Patreon. The post with a link to the beta is visible to $1+ donors. If you don't want to donate remember, the public release will be out next week!<br />
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https://www.patreon.com/cypressz?ty=h</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-40813076685207475452016-02-02T09:21:00.000-07:002016-02-02T09:21:16.548-07:00Upcoming plans and a release date Right now I'm looking at next Monday as a release date for the beta. I really want Overwhored done, and I want it done right. I don't want to revisit this a bunch of times. I've been working on this for five years. I think it's fair to say I'm deeply satisfied to see it come to a close but also utterly sick of it. When I'm done with it I intend to stay done with it. I don't intend to delay it any further than that, but if I'm not satisfied with it at that point I will. I want this beta to be the very last beta.<br />
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I went and did my taxes, and doing them like this for the first time was an enlightening experience. The taxes weren't as much as I expected, but having the taxes done cost as much as the taxes themselves. That is a first, and was quite startling. I'll have to make alternate arrangements next year. The main reason they were so low was because I didn't keep any of the money for myself, I used it all to pay for artists! There's an upside to it after all.<br />
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Some people have had issues accessing donor content with the current system. I'm going to make new posts to get that stuff as well as message current donors with that. You can still access it, you just have to scroll through ALL my posts to see the old ones that have it. Obviously that's unacceptable, so a repost will come in short order. I hope Patreon fixes this soon.<br />
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I also have a few announcements to make. I'm bringing on a new artist to the team who goes by Tsudanym, or Short Blue Imp. Imp did a bonus sketch I'll send to donors this month (bonus sketches are a bit lean this month as taxes and pre-production for Home Invasion are ramping up). Right now I'm considering him for the underlying sketch-work for the Home Invasion sex scenes. I'm also having some color tests done on this sketch to see how it'll look colored by various artists who might end up doing color work for the project.<br />
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http://short-blue-imp.tumblr.com/<br />
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Another thing to announce is that one of the artists working on the project, F-ing, has put out a new issue of Dimension H. This is their comic, and it sort of reminds me of the old days of Heavy Metal magazine in some respects. Give it a look over!<br />
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http://f-ingart.tumblr.com/<br />
http://www.e-junkie.com/297027<br />
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Also, Shameful Display has also posted a select few bonus images done for the patreon on his tumblr. As with Mindwipe, I approved this. I won't lie, I hope that having a taste of the bonus art encourages a few more people to donate at the $10 level.<br />
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http://shameful-display.tumblr.com/<br />
http://planetofjunk2.tumblr.com/<br />
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Finally, a bit more long term prospect material. I'm not sure how long Home Invasion will take to produce. There will be about 15-20 full pictures, voice actresses to find and pay, editors and a number of other things to deal with. I'll probably have to slow down the progress more than I'd like to get it done without breaking the bank. I basically didn't take any of the money from the Patreon last year for myself; I'd like to make a LITTLE bit of money from it this year. I intend to move off the farm and go to Washington no matter what. If Patreon doesn't provide living wages on top of funding the games (and it won't because I'm not the Breeding Season team) I'll have to get a full time job there, which puts us in the same production situation as we have now. Home Invasion won't have monthly updates - visual novels are a different beast and it won't be so regular. On the other hand, the releases will be more substantial when they are done. There are five days, I'll probably make a release every time a day is complete. Writing doesn't take long, but art does. That's part of why I'm going through a slightly more expensive but faster process of having one person sketch, one person do ink, and one person do color.<br />
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I'm going to work on a demo, first. It won't have voice work and will have some placeholder assets. The pic with this post is one of them. While I'm working on that I'll also work on a game guide for Overwhored.<br />
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I hope this helps keep you well informed. Thanks a bunch for your time and support!<br />
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This adds a LOT of stuff, but most importantly you can finish the game!<br />
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I will note that this is NOT the final version of the game. There are two flashback sequences that need added in and some features (such as the orb of dominion) are functional system wise but need content added on. The combat in this chapter is also very basic right now but will be filled in with the 1.0 release at the end of this month/start of February. Still, if you want to see the ending this is where you do it!<br />
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A quick note: Some weather effects were causing a ton of problems in the beta, so I've disabled them for now. They still render old saves non-functional, however. I'm working on a fix that should be in during the 1.0 release. In case I missed something I put my avatar in the game next to the bridge leading up to the Tower of Heaven.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com80tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-56819833685625211982015-12-29T19:56:00.002-07:002015-12-29T19:56:36.201-07:00Overwhored Ver 0.9.5 Beta is up on Patreon!So, let's get this started. The final story beta is HERE.<br />
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It's up on Patreon now, but it has been a struggle. The week prior to the release date I wanted (the 21st) power and internet connections kept going out, something that continued into the Christmas week. That's a sufficient excuse for some but not all of the delay. Sadly I just have to take personal responsibility for the rest of it. I wanted to include some short cutscene flashbacks to the heroines to show their backstories. I figured, hey, I'm a writer, I've crunched down on so much else so fast, that should take an evening, right? HA! The fastest one was Branda, who already had a detailed background written out but she still took most of a day. It's like writing a short story, then compressing the short story into a minute or two of content, then programming in the cutscenes, something I'm not particularly good at. Basically I really underestimated how long it would take to do that. I got almost all of them done. Only Ilmatar and Audr remain. At the rate I was going it would be another two or three days before I could release the game, and I REALLY want this beta out before this month is over. Besides, I sat there writing that content and I knew damn well that as a porn game many players were just gonna skip through the story content anyway. Even with that I have some pride as a writer to retain - rushing stories like this results in bad stories, so I'm gonna take a bit more time on those. Otherwise things are pretty solid.<br />
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So here's some of the features of this chapter compared to the previous chapter:<br />
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1: The game's story is basically finished here. This includes the final boss and an entire complete chapter.<br />
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2: The final chapter doesn't have one dungeon. It has FOUR. Yeah, four separate dungeons! Each is pretty different from the last and has some wildly different mechanics as well as a unique boss.<br />
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3: The Tower Mistress gets a full sex scene in this chapter.<br />
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4: So does Rubati.<br />
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5: Promised features are now in the game! Those repeatable sex scenes you've been asking for? Go to the crown in your private quarters and you can relive them all! The teleport system is also done! Not fully fleshed out but in "functional framework" mode are taxes/orgasmic energy collection at the end of each chapter, The Orb of Dominion's upgrade system, and the Arena where you can battle for items! They'll be fully fleshed out and tested next month but for now they ARE at least functional.<br />
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6: Tons of new battle images for monsters. Almost all the monsters in the game and characters have unique art now!<br />
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7: Heroine backstories! As mentioned above, there are some (brief) flashbacks to what actually made them heroes in the first place.<br />
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8: Innumerable small changes! New sex scenes implemented!<br />
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Trust me folks, you're gonna have a blast with this one. This is the final story release, after this it's just gonna be refinement. Overwhored is damn near done, and the beta is here. Look it up on Patreon. The public release will be in just a few days! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-44866516823776060752015-11-05T14:07:00.004-07:002015-11-05T14:07:57.721-07:00Paypal donation button removedHey all, just a quick notice here. The paypal donation button was recently removed because paypal suspended my account. The requirement for reinstatement was removal of the button. I have complied with this in full. I have contacted their customer service department and e-mailed their review department; hopefully the account should be un-frozen soon.<br />
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I left it in place because fans wanted it as an option for donation to me, rather than the game. The game is non-commercial and no product is being sold. But just being on this blog was considered a violation of their terms of service. I apologize to the fans that cannot use Patreon, but Paypal has tied my hands here.<br />
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Fortunately I have other methods to get money and send money, so I am not crippled by this if they do not decide to unfreeze my account. I'm also glad this happened BEFORE I got my monthly check rather than after. I'll be out the small amount left in there but I'm smart enough not to leave a large amount of money in paypal.<br />
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None of this would have been an issue if they had simply asked me to remove the button before suspending the account, but alas - paypal doesn't operate that way. The best resolution if you believe issues like this are a problem is to write your congressman (if you are an American) and request that Paypal be regulated as a bank, which it currently is not.<br />
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I don't expect anyone to take up arms because of my small issue and do not ask you to do so. It should be resolved shortly. You do deserve an explanation of why the paypal button was removed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-80411524418480845052015-10-27T14:01:00.001-06:002015-10-27T14:01:33.225-06:00An Important Article!Hey all, if you're curious at all about my next game, look no further than this article! I was interviewed by a reporter from LewdGamer about it and gave some details you'll want to see!<br />
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https://www.lewdgamer.com/2015/10/26/home-invasion-mindbreak-household/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-27341991674206188492015-10-25T13:55:00.002-06:002015-10-25T13:55:25.854-06:00Overwhored Is Now On KimochiFor those of you unaware, Kimochi is an online service that aims to be something like the Steam of adult games. It was originally named Steamy, in fact. The rest of you know because apparently you've been badgering those poor folks to add Overwhored to their service for some time, haha.<br />
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I've known about it since the launch of the system when it was named Steamy, but held off because Overwhored was so incomplete then. Since the game will be getting finished pretty darn soon I no longer feel that way about putting a game up there. There are a lot of other games there as well, feel free to check them out!<br />
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Also I'm consolidating some development plans. My mappers have informed me that the next set of maps won't be done until the middle of next month, so rather than try to squeeze an update in during the last week of November I'm going to work on a release that focuses on getting as many promised features implemented as possible. That means the Orb of Dominion, the Orgasmic Energy system, fixing all the bugs, making it possible to get better equipment, etc.<br />
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I WILL have Overwhored's main story done before this year is over. Nothing else is acceptable.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-52402422807326458742015-10-20T16:09:00.000-06:002015-10-20T16:09:05.768-06:00Ver 0.6 Public Release is Ready!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Excellent news everyone! The beta test went smoothly. Since it started I've added some stuff such as a new sex scene for Bilbine and the sex scene with the Ice Queen's daughter.<br />
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This chapter features the Ice Queen herself, Ilmatar, ruler of Lapland, the Finland inspired region of the world.<br />
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http://www.badkittygames.net/games/ow/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-33859141185668575772015-10-11T10:24:00.002-06:002015-10-11T10:24:18.402-06:00Beta 0.6 is out!Hey all, a new version is in beta! It's up on Patreon for $1 users and above!<br />
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It'll be up for the public as soon as I'm satisfied there are no bugs, probably a week or so. It does NOT include the full Bilbine rewrites, but I'm working on that and they'll be ready before it hits the public.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-12508324763672297182015-10-01T02:50:00.000-06:002015-10-01T02:53:18.142-06:00A Question AnweredI got a message from a fan recently asking me a question. It was a good one and I thought you all should hear it so I could answer it publicly. There are some good reasons for wanting to answer this in public.<br />
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"I was wondering though if you could tell me as a content creator and one whose work I respect and am a fan of, do you think you could tell me how you would describe the appeal of incest in a fantasy, novel, or game?"<br />
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Before I get started on answering that, I want to bring up something. Namely a TED talk that discusses why IQ's have been rising over time. This may seem odd to you, but bear with me for a second.<br />
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For those of you who don't want to watch the whole thing, the long story short of it is that we aren't getting massively better at math or writing and things like that. Rather, we're getting much better at a very specific form of thought - abstract thought.<br />
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People today grew up in an environment with movies, books, video games, and various hypothetical scenarios. We are used to thinking about a world where reality is different than it actually is. We can accept a world where something obviously fake is true for the sake of a story. Go ask your great-grandfather about some Science Fiction story and most will reject it out of hand. They see imagination as "kids stuff". This isn't universally true, of course - but it is a trend that increases as you go back in time. The source of those cool old people is also clear. They're the ones that got to read Weird Tales as a kid or watch sci-fi movies during their formative years or see or do something that got them to see different possibilities during their formative years. Something almost inescapable now, and something I believe contributes to the rise of "nerd culture". Something that's so ubiquitous now that it's almost a meaningless phrase.<br />
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I'm 30, and I'll be 31 next month. I grew up in a rare and unique era in a rural slum and became a nerd in an era where nerds most definitely were NOT cool. I never got to touch a computer until I was in High School. I never got to own a lot of the game systems most people did. What I did have was distantly secondhand.<br />
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And so, growing up in a rural backwater with little money I got to see a pre-electronics society in a lot of ways. Few TV's, music played on record players, small towns dominated by blue-collar cowboys and football players. There I became a bookworm. This is not some joking tale about how I was so unpopular in High School. Because of racism, poor family reputation and being a nerd I was almost beaten to death by a mob when I was in middle school. Those were the people that reacted violently to things they couldn't understand. They had, in other words, low abstract intelligence. They saw their world the way it "should" be and reacted violently to any alternate possibility. This also made me obsessed with understanding abstracts and how people process them.<br />
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Of course change comes even to rural backwaters given enough time. The place is a lot less racist, a lot less violent, and a lot less primitive now. I latched onto the most advanced technology I could with an undeniable fervor.<br />
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So what does any of this have to do with a silly sexual fetish?<br />
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First and foremost the incest fantasy is a <i>fantasy. </i>I and a lot of other people who make stuff with some content like that have -ZERO- interest in the real deal. To me the thought of doing anything with my actual family is disgusting. This brings me to a very important point.<br />
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The incest fetish isn't about wanting to have sex with your own family, but imagining fake sexy people having sex with THEIR family.<br />
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If you have a sister or brother and imagine yourself making out with them your response is probably going to be, "Eew." Possibly followed by "eeeeeeeewwwww". On the other hand a common fantasy of a lot of guys is to have sex with twins or sisters.<br />
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Imagine two hot girls making out with one another. (Or if you're into guys, two hot brothers.) Here, have a visual aid with Melita and Kael.<br />
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These two are unrelated. Many of you, I imagine, will go, "that's pretty hot!". Now imagine the same image with Tasa and Melita - sisters. A lot of you will still think it's hot, even though you find the idea of real incest repulsive. Why? Because they're people you find sexually attractive doing something that is sexual with each other. Some of you will find the idea even hotter than the non-incestuous pairing though. Why? Because it's wrong and taboo.<br />
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But here's the key difference: It isn't <i>real</i>. It's a fake wrong and a fake taboo. It's a good reason for people not to want to do something but do it anyway. It's the same as any bad-boy centric romance novel a lot of women and housewives go gaga for. It's wrong but it's also hot because the people are hot and doing something they aren't supposed to.<br />
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Some of you can't see it even then. You may still find it repulsive. No worries - you haven't made it past that bit of abstract thought required to see it. This isn't a personal failing. Despite a lot of my friends liking it I've never been able to feel anything but repulsed by futa, for instance. There's still some element in there that trips you up but works for others.<br />
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For me? I feel like it's an excellent enhancer to mind control stories. Why? Because it's a good reason for sexy people to not have sex even if they want to. It's a taboo, forbidden element that allows someone to take control and overcome justified resistance to lead to a satisfying and sexy conclusion.<br />
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So for instance, let's continue with the lesbian theme above (or whatever variant floats your boat).<br />
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Two sisters are super sexy and attracted to each other, but both know it's wrong and fight their feelings. As you probably know trying to repress sexual desires really tends to just make them stronger. Now some evil mind controller comes in and makes them make out with each other. The sisters themselves are now blameless - the sexy action that ensues, in spite of it's taboo and wrong nature, is not their fault. The responsibility is out of their hands, so they have no need to feel guilt, nor do the readers. After all, it's the bad, bad mind controller that made them give into those forbidden desires. Their repressed lusts makes it super satisfying and sexy for them.<br />
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The same logic and reason applies to any stormy romance. A good Christian girl is sitting at home reading her bible <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/looking-to-quell-sexual-urges-consider-the-graham-cracker/282769/">eating Graham Crackers to repress her sexual desires </a> when some sexy, sexy man comes by and like an evil fiend sweeps her off her feet. She knows it's wrong to give into his lusts but, damn, his pecs are like fucking iron. Even though she says no a lot he takes her anyway and she cannot resist. A stormy, doomed, "forbidden" romance ensues.<br />
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The same appeal often rests with stories about steamy affairs. Being married is a good reason not to have sex with anyone else, but it's a popular genre of forbidden love.<br />
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Stories are driven by conflict. "Two people wanted to have sex and then did, the end," is a boring story. "Two people wanted to have sex but couldn't and so had to fight their desires only to give in and have sex later" is a Harlequin romance novel. It also makes things hotter. Tension needs to build in order for the payoff when they do have sex to be as big as possible.<br />
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All of these are abstracts. Hypotheticals. Not-real scenarios. That's what makes most fantasy fetishes work. Some concepts are repulsive in real life but hot <i>in a fictional story</i>.<br />
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For my part I'm fine with incest because in a fictional world all the real world negatives associated with it don't have to exist. It's just a good reason for sexy people to resist having sex with each other.<br />
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On the other hand my mind does NOT see past the abstract leap to let me enjoy stories about affairs. I see real life adulterers as horrible people and some part of me will not let me forgive a fictional example. This has to do with my own life. I've never been married but almost was once. While I was in Iraq my fiance got pregnant and married to someone else, breaking up with me on the phone right before I came home. Obviously that has a big part in why I'm not able to accept that abstract.<br />
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For the same reason real victims of incest probably won't see the abstract in that scenario. Actual good Christian women sexually assaulted by a handsome sociopath probably wont like that fantasy. Sometimes the opposite is true, of course - some victims of sexual assault enjoy rape fantasies <i>because</i> it's so unlike the reality of what they experienced.<br />
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And there you have the basics of what makes it work. It isn't real and almost all sexual fantasies rely on some degree of abstract reason, even if you never realized what made things work for you. It's my job to understand why things work, and that's what makes it all so interesting.<br />
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Home Invasion is my next game and it's focused on mind control and incest. It's entirely fake and nobody is based on a real person. I actually had some characters redesigned at points because they vaguely reminded me of real people. That game is being made for people who want more in-depth mind control and liked the Tasa/Melita stuff in Overwhored. I'm going to make it silly, and humorous, and totally not serious and unlike the real world in the ways that matter. And when it's done I'll go right back to making other stuff.<br />
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In real life I'm super vanilla. I legitimately like hypnoplay, I like anal sex with hot girls (though the real thing is highly overrated and takes a lot of prep) and... well, that's about it. If I were in a relationship with neither of those things (and I have been in the past) then it'd be perfectly fine.<br />
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More important than my real life is the fact that I'm a writer. And in fictionland abstract ideas and conflict rules supreme. Fiction is more interesting than real life because we design it to be. So long as we understand what drives people we can create stuff that fascinates them even if they don't understand why.<br />
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For those of you who haven't heard much about it Home Invasion is going to be a more mind control and incest heavy visual novel. What's coming out in October is -JUST- proof of concept. It covers the first day of gameplay. There are plenty of assets but they're all sketch level. I'm using Tyranobuilder for the demo so it will also work on Macs. </div>
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This is a good time for me to announce that I'm working with another writer for this project. I've enjoyed his work for a while now and once I brought up the idea for the story to him he leaped on board the project. This author is called Pan and he specializes in... well, mind control and incest. He is an expert at what he does. Most of the concept demo was written by him based on an outline we brainstormed. I've done some little stylistic tweaks but he should get the credit for a lot of the opening here. I'm trying to make sure Overwhored gets finished and be a full time farmer so his assistance here is a big deal. There would -be- no proof of concept without him as I wouldn't have had the time to write everything that's in it. If you're interested in seeing what his work is about you can see his Patreon here.</div>
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The next beta release of Overwhored for patrons should be on the 7th of October. I wanted to make it the 1st but just got the Ice Queen chapter's maps from my mappers in today. I've done a lot of the background work already but as you can imagine I can't assemble everything and have it bug-free in a day. </div>
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Don't worry though. Completion of Overwhored is still on-schedule. After the Ice Queen there's one chapter left, then there'll be a month of tweaks and fixes. That's it! I know, I know - the current version is 5.5, and we're jumping straight to 1.0? Well, there's a little secret to that. There's 7 heroines, and seven chapters. Version 7.77 is actually version 1.0. You're fighting good guys and the last heroine is a holy one - you should expect a holy number for her chapter. The expansion will work towards the 1.0 tally. Since the expansion is about invading heaven, 7.77 is a good place to start, no? </div>
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Once Overwhored is done I'll get people working on Home Invasion and I'll start work on the expansion for Overwhored. Don't worry, I'm not abandoning my RPG roots to just make visual novels! </div>
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Oh, if you're lucky enough to be reading this in time Zyii and Sleepymaid are multistreaming. Either link below will take you to the multistream.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-43579784750079190452015-09-22T13:19:00.001-06:002015-09-22T13:21:19.292-06:00 New Art Team Member: Zyii!I'm pleased to announce that a friend of mine, Zyii, has joined the art team! I'm not sure how much she'll do in the long run. For now she's done a new monster to replace the tentacle monsters that came with the system. It's always good to have custom art rather than premade assets.<br />
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She's also active in the mind control community and often streams stuff with other artists; she's practically a living hub of art activity. The Ice Princess will be using her name as a cameo.<br />
<a href="http://lewd.zyii.moe/">Zyii's work can be found here.</a><br />
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While I'm discussing art allow me to show you a few other recent battle pics. These were a collaboration between Sleepymaid (color) and Mindwipe (Lineart). These will replace the Slime Angel and Slime Angel Queen, respectively.<br />
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This new Tasa battle sprite was done entirely by Mindwipe:<br />
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Also this month's bonus pics are going to be done by both Mindwipe and Drew. I've given a preview of Drew's work, this will be a preview of Mindwipe's work.<br />
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The new maps are still getting worked on. If this means the next beta doesn't come out on the 1st I'll still put it up ASAP once I have them in and can get everything running smoothly. I will show you a preview of the Ice Palace. The professional team of mappers I'm using are called <a href="http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/35146-black-coffee-maps-re-opened">Black Coffee Maps.</a> Thanks to your donations I can now afford to pay people who have real skill in this.<br />
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Finally I am prepared to put out a proof-of-concept game strictly for $20 tier donors. This is a preview of Home Invasion (working title) the visual novel I'm going to make next. I'm also having some work done to preview some scenes from that game on the sketch level. This'll also be the $20 tier. Below is a preview of what it'll look like. Keep in mind that this is simply assembling some sketch level assets and some first draft scripts. This will NOT reflect the quality level of the end-product, I simply want people to know what I'll be doing next. Once the assets are on a higher level I'll release it to the $1 tier, though that may be a few months away.<br />
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Thanks again for all the support you all have shown! Without you I wouldn't be able to do a tenth of what I'm doing!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-84522085430798243932015-09-17T15:44:00.000-06:002015-09-17T15:44:28.290-06:00On the Next UpdateHey all, been super duper sick the past few days, so I'll keep this short.<br />
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1: When is the next update?<br />
Answer: The 1st of October<br />
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2: Why isn't it this month?<br />
Answer: I had unavoidable business that kept me from getting the last release out on time. However it did allow me to do something awesome - hiring a team of very skilled map designers who can make better stuff than I ever could. Rather than rushing out crappy maps myself for a 14th of September release date and then having them remake it they're making the expert maps from scratch.<br />
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3: What else are you doing, you slacking slacker who slacks?<br />
Answer: Working on the visual novel that'll be coming up once Overwhored is finished. I have a working mockup of part of the intro done. I'm hoping that Overwhored will have the main story finished by November 1st and the final polished release (all major bugfixes and features finished) December 1st. Small bugfix releases should follow but that'll be it for the game. I have also been harvesting watermelon and various other crops. Mmm. Watermelon.<br />
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I also tried to reinstall and play Skyrim to relax right before I got sick but realized that the game wouldn't work with over 400 mods and so gave up. (It turns out the limit is 255) There's no point in playing without ten different mods for torches. I mean come on. You need your modded torch for proper realistic lighting, your torch mod for realistic smoke, your torch mod for the character holding the torch higher, the mod for extending light projection, the torch mod for changing textures to make everything look cooler... Did I mention I don't even use torches in that game? This consumed an evening before I realized I had my fun in picking out mods - the game was unnecessary.<br />
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The last thing I've been working on is making sure new bonus sketches go out this month. I've tried new artists for the past few months and they just can't get shit in within a month's period (or any period), so I went back to my reliable artists instead of having them design stuff for the next game. I'm gonna make a bunch. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/cleaning-house-3299215">See this post about why Patreon donors will get a message after their donations have been processed rather than just having it put up as a public gallery this month.</a><br />
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Not all the sketches are done yet. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-sketch-3325331">If you want to tell me what characters you wanna see in the bonus sketches let me know here.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.hentai-foundry.com/user/Drew/profile">Drew is now doing sketches for the bonus gallery.</a> Here's a preview of what he's adding! This month I'll have some sketches from Mindwipe and Drew, possibly others!<br />
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4: What were you sick with?<br />
Answer: Who knows, doesn't matter. Had several days of worse body aches than I've ever had from any flu or other illness. No other symptoms. Then I went to soak in a local hot spring and upon returning slept for a solid 24 hours. I woke up today and I feel more or less fine, I'm largely over it. Hot springs and sleep are both awesome, as is the immune system. Pretty sure time and the immune system fixed it but the sleep and hot springs sure felt good. Seemed to work out.<br />
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5: Which Skyrim Waifu Best Waifu?<br />
Lydia. That Daria-tier unenthusiastic dialogue is super hot. There are plenty of other great characters but she's still my favorite. Who hears her speak and DOESN'T immediately imagine her carrying some of your lewd "burdens"? Old game but fun memories. Fallout 4 is gonna be a blast.<br />
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Well, that's all for now!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-56524017946497181532015-09-01T06:25:00.001-06:002015-09-01T06:25:41.502-06:00ReturnedI've returned home after helping to the extent that I could. I want to offer a sincere thanks to those of you who kicked in a little bit after my last post. You ensured I could hire a high quality psychologist for my sister. I believe that has made an enormous difference.<br />
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I'm going to resume work now. I've hired some mappers who will be joining the team and making the game a lot more fun to play.<br />
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I also wanted to share this artwork that replaces the stock battle image for the Purified Pixies in the chapel done by Mindwipe. Clever people might think this resembles a certain old ero-manga series. This was intentional.<br />
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Also Ilmatar now has an intro scene. Mindwipe laid out the initial setup and then Sleepymaid used that to draw a wholly original picture, as seen below. I expect it to be on a Finnish Metal album cover sometime.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-23021100593928936062015-08-20T06:04:00.000-06:002015-08-20T06:04:10.226-06:00TragedyRecently something very awful happened in my family. I don't normally speak about personal issues here but this will impact my work. On Sunday my brother-in-law hung himself. He's in a coma and brain dead; by the time you read this they're likely to have pulled the plug.<br />
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I was not close with him but I am close with my sister and nephews. He was on the phone with my sister when he killed himself and she is currently an emotional wreck. My mother is not in much of a better state as she had just arrived for a visit with me and now blames herself for not being there. As a result I will be travelling to visit that part of my family and seeing what I can do to help and bring what comfort I can. Work on my game will NOT stop but I sincerely doubt I'll be making the deadline if I need to help her family for a week or two. I apologize and hope for your understanding.<br />
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I don't really use much of the Patreon funds for myself, preferring to put them all into my games. I will be using a small portion of it to help hire a psychologist for my sister, however. Suicide is like a plague; at the worst it spreads to others and at best it does extraordinary emotional damage. Time will only tell how my nephews deal with this; they're very young. Proper care after events like these is extraordinarily important, and I will not allow things to go poorly if I can help it.<br />
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I will not ask for contributions but should you wish to do so I would appreciate it; it'll help cover costs for the trip and psychologist. You can use the paypal button for a one-time donation. I can manage as things are and still finish the game in a timely manner without anything extra; it'll just make things easier.<br />
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I apologize for being a downer and presenting my personal problems to all of you, as well as for the delay. I will continue to work on a computer I bring with me as I'm with my family. If nothing else it is good to have something to occupy the mind. Work is the way I prefer to deal with things.<br />
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On some more lighthearted notes I do have some good things to report. First, that Sleepymaid has completed some monster art for the game which can be seen on my Patreon (for free) here:<br />
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Second NoMoshing and I will also reboot the indecent gaming podcast. Raw audio of the recent recording will be uploaded to my patreon within a day or two; the properly edited version will be available to the public before long.<br />
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Up until a certain point I had a good weekend. I visited a local anime convention (my first) and had a good time. It ran from Friday through Sunday. I didn't go on Sunday due to the tragic events that happened on that day but the first two days were very enjoyable. NoMoshing wants me to go to Anime North next year, I may do so and hold a panel on making NSFW games there.<br />
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I've given various artists assignments for the month and am working on hiring mappers to remake some of the less pleasant maps. Unfortunately the response was overwhelming and I have to figure out an audition, something I'm not really in the mood to do right now. Still, we do what we must.<br />
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Unrelated to the game I've harvested a few crates worth of peaches. I'm going to have to can them before this weekend as that's when I'll likely travel to see my family. That's going to be a... hefty job. I was anticipating having more time and some help. Still, we do what we must.<br />
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If you see me away from here and I'm cheerful, well, I'm trying to be. My game exists to bring people joy and beyond this post you probably won't see me mention these events again. I really prefer for people to come here to read good, happy news. I sincerely hope this is the last time I have cause to make a post about a subject matter as dark as this.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-7576309633621288492015-07-30T16:46:00.003-06:002015-07-30T16:46:45.025-06:00New Release! Ver 0.5.5Hey all, the combat beta is now done. This release is mostly updates to enemies letting them have more abilities for combat but there are also a few new sex scenes. The new Mayor of Bilbao will give you a warm welcome, the Kitsune (fox-girl) in the monstergirl village now has her scene in and new artwork is put throughout. It's in the usual place. Enjoy!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410410722782252427.post-14583684543971946132015-07-27T11:56:00.000-06:002015-07-27T11:56:04.284-06:00On the next releaseI'm gonna open up the combat beta and make it a public release in a few days. I wanted to get it done today but the truth is farmwork doesn't have weekends and I've been working pretty much endlessly. On the plus side I'm starting to get fresh corn now and it's really, really tasty!<br />
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There's a bunch of new pictures going into this one, as well as some new art. Zko is well-known in the erotic mind control community and will be added to the list of artists soon; he did this replacement for the Lamia nuns!<br />
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Zko is well known in the mind control art community. <a href="http://hypnohub.net/post?tags=zko+&commit=Search">You can check out his art here on hypnohub, </a>he's done quite a bit!<br />
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I'm also working a lot on the pre-production of my next game. The expansion for Overwhored, Overwhored II and other games will happen after it. It'll be a big, fun deal! I'll give you all some more details later on - including a fun surprise collaboration with another author for the upcoming visual novel!<br />
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See you in a day or two!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033508449884532404noreply@blogger.com1