It's how it always goes. We win everything, kill wizened "old" mentors (actually in their mid 20's or so), and then some pubescent teen pulls out some ancient thingamawhatzit and manages a last minute victory. Of course *I* was totally perfect, we only failed due to the incompetent fools around me!
Well here's a little secret: We're never actually out for the big prize of 1000 years of darkness. After the first thousand times of light always winning via last minute asspull we realized that even if we're infinitely more confident, stylish, sexy, and smart than they are we're still gonna lose. Instead we just take all the gains we can OUTSIDE of the big win. So every year (yes, our 1000 years competition happens every year in some form or another) the world gets a little more industrialized, a little sexier, a little smarter. Trust me, if the forces of light always won totally there never would have been an industrial revolution and you'd all be squatting in mud huts. You kinda need evil to invent internet pornography, after all! It's even better than regular pornography because there's almost an infinite amount of free stuff, causing horrible suffering even to the people trying to make money producing it! It's delightfully evil, and I'm happy to contribute with my free porn game.
Now about the game itself: First, I want to apologize for bugfix 4 not going up. That was my own dumbass fault. It was uploading to dropbox where NoMoshing could get it, and then right before I left to visit the airport I turned off my computer with it partially uploaded. So it wasn't his fault, it was mine. It'll be up sometime today.
My trip was wonderful, I showed my family Overwhored and they were actually Overjoyed with it. They always knew I made a NSFW game, but didn't know the details. Now they do and they were happy, and that was... honestly, pretty overwhelming. You never expect your family to support something like this. At the very least it takes the edge of worry off that they'd discover the details via some troll figuring out my real identity and being horrified. I now know quite definitively that they're not. They're just happy at the success that you, the fans, are helping me to have.
It also led me to a rather simple realization. I'm almost always in pain due to injuries I got in Iraq during military service. My family largely lives up in the Washington state area. There is a certain medicine I can only get there which, after trying a bit of it, does help immensely with the pain. It would be nice to replace the fourteen pills I take a day for pain and damage with something a lot cheaper and less side-effecty.
My family where I currently live runs a farm, and I help out with it whenever I'm not working on the game. But, sorry as I am to say it, corporate farms have basically driven us out of business. Our greenhouse business is closed and the farm itself is basically gone, almost nothing is growing here this year. We've sold all of our livestock as well. Small farms are relatively viable outside of big cities, but not in the middle of nowhere when you can't sell your crops. I mostly just feed myself and my family here. And no, I don't want to save this place. It's time for us all to move on.
I'm gonna put a new goal up on Patreon soon. If I hit (and can stay reliably at) $2500 a month I'll move up to Washington and work on Overwhored and other adult games for you all full time, reserving 500 a month to put towards this and future games. If I hit $3500 a month I'll also go back to college part time to study programming, or art, or business to manage my team better. I already went for medicine, but I'm out of the medical field for good now. I'm too burned out to ever return. It'd be nice to go back a little bit for something I actually enjoy. Besides, medicine wouldn't leave any time for working on games.
I'm reading over your feedback and bug reports and I'll get to it before long. I got a cold going through the airport so I'm gonna take it easy for the next few days, but I'll be pecking away at the game just the same.
Thanks a ton for being fans, everyone.
EDIT:
A special bonus, Sleepymaid was just drawing some bonus pics for Patreon and came up with this. I post it without comment, save to say I thought it was better publicly posted.
dont worry!! its good to hear that your travel was good!! thank you for your hard work!!
ReplyDelete$2500-$3000 a month doesn't seem like a lot to support yourself and your family, especially in any urban Washington state area (remember that cost of living will dramatically increase as you move towards the big cities).
ReplyDeleteVery glad to hear you have a positive plan for the future but please don't over-risk things based on as unreliable an income source as Patreon. Your long-term wellbeing comes first before the development of this game.
I appreciate your thoughts. I'll be living on my own there and I should note that I'm also going to start producing some SFW games as a separate source of income before long. Nothing big, just some simple hidden object games. Big with housewives. If it's profitable, it'll help serve as a backup so I'll be secure. And I won't be living in Seattle or anywhere big, a studio apartment where I'm going is just $400 or so a month. $2k will do pretty well for that.
Deletewell, i think i speak for most of us when i say get well soon. we're all hoping things work out!
ReplyDeleteYou had me at "full time" on the game, also I think I know what medicine you mean and I'm quite happy to help you afford it if it keeps you from feeling so much pain. Donation increase to be expected soon X3
ReplyDeleteYeah. And I should be clear that it's MEDICINE, not recreation. I don't drink or smoke and I have no desire to pick up any other vices any time soon.
DeleteSame here you have my support as well :) get well soon and Good job getting the nerve to show you family what you have ben up to :) I know that took alot though it seems that you family took it better then you expected :)
Deletedid the fix 4 version has been upload now??
ReplyDeleteNoMoshing is putting it up now. It'll be about half an hour or so.
Deleteok thank you!!
DeleteNice to hear everything went well. Excited to see what you will come up with next. And good luck with reaching the final goal on patreon!
ReplyDeleteI really hope you can reach that ammount, I already contributed what I could per month, and hope you can reach to your goal. Best wishes!
ReplyDeletewelcome back cypress_z the overlord of all thing evil and nsfw he has come back to rule over his loyal and faithful minons aka fans
ReplyDeleteSo What military branch did you serve in, also i can feel you on the medical field its hard, but well glad your back i wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.
ReplyDeleteI was in the army. Thanks for the well wishes!
DeleteHi Cypress
ReplyDeleteGood to see you back,refreshed and healthy.So HURRY BACK TO WORK......roflmao....
thanks for the fix4 and all.
You mentioned moving to washington to work full time on it, instead of living in the farm.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't mind, I am curious, why washington?
Welcome back, Supreme Overlord of Darkness. I am absolutely sure you could annihilate the stupid light people and enslave them. Only if you had a worthy team of eeeeevil minions that are partially brainwashed and follow your every whim. Except taking baths with you, because right now is not a time for a bath as you have more pressing issues.
ReplyDeleteI hope you will find a good place with a potential view over your empire. And hope your injuries get better. If not, you can always go under the medics blade and get your injuries...reopened, so they can close with better technology. Trust me, i had a 5 minutes course of dark medicine and i found a Dark Medicine for Dummies book
Wish u best luck and good wings on it great darklord and whenever u make a new game dont forget tô tell us ur humble worshipers ^^
ReplyDeleteStill getting weird freezes in the game. Froze when I was in the dressing room for the monster girls (one of the 4 rooms before Rubati fight).
ReplyDeleteAm I suppose to skip to a certain point in the game to get past the freezes? Should I be skipping to a point at all or play from scratch? So far this version(v4) all I've managed to do is just get outside the tower and the freezing starts for me.
Please upload your save so I can have a programmer look at it.
Deletei got this problem too after fix version 2, im port save to fix version 3. the game was freezing at the outside of the tower, so i start a new game.
Deleteversion 3 to version 4 work nicely for me
How/where do I upload my save file? Should I just email it to you?
Deletewell i do enjoy your game and keep hanging in there. i myself am ex-army and suffering daily due to a semi dislocated shoulder. keep it up ^^
ReplyDeletei appreciate yours and cypress duty to you're country even though not everyone is like me or others, like standing on the flag and sh** like that everybody know you can't let the flag touch the ground, i wanted to join the marines but i had stuff happen that was out of my control and now im disable so yeah but i support our troops no matter what
Deletethanks man, well as long people do what they can , that is why we fight after all ^^
DeleteIt's almost 6am and I haven't been able to sleep because of pain. I feel you, man.
DeleteA lot of us came out worse. I'm just glad I'm not them.
When doing the base defense it gave me a game over for talking to the tower mistress again
ReplyDeleteWow man, I can't imagine the amount of courage it took to show your family your work, I know that if I was in your shoes I would go to great lengths to keep it hidden, I am glad it all worked out for you.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Cypress. I'm glad you had a pleasant time :-)
ReplyDeleteJust a couple of question: I did the battle in bugfix 3, after the enslavement of the mayor I had a black screen saying "insert cutscene here" (or something like that). Is the cutscene in fix 4 or it will be in the next release?
Also, where the heck is Bilbine in the tower?
Thank you very much, I really appreciate your work and your dedication.
I'm glad to see I wasn't the only person who could not find Bilbine
DeleteBilbine will be in the tower in the next release, as will post-battle Bilbao. The battle was such a pain in the butt that I didn't have a chance to deal with any of that.
DeleteAs for the "insert cutscene here" that should NOT be in, I finished making the damn scene before the release. It should be in bugfix 4. I don't know why it wouldn't be, my files say it should.
I replayed the battle in bugfix 4, it still writes "insert cutscene here".
DeleteDon't worry, you did a shitload of work with that battle. Something like this is trivial :-)
My response to this particular issue:
Deletehttps://youtu.be/i1DZU4Dtv0M?t=22
Thanks for the report. I'll get on it tomorrow.
I've noticed that Branda uses her "Volte" ability A F*** LOT during your fight with her. I personally have seen her use it 5 times in a row. Is there anyway to add a line like "if ability_volte=last used, then ability_volte /= next move."?
ReplyDeleteGot my butt kicked as well 3 times in a row. I got very unlucky as She kept spawning it every time (or so it seems to me atleast :) )
DeleteI'm going to be doing the rebalancing of a lot of stuff now. I don't want to take TOO long on it because I'll want to do a lot of the stuff after Ilmatar's chapter, but that sort of thing is something I'm gonna work on fixing now.
DeleteMost of that made no sense to me ?_?
ReplyDeletelight won again we dark ones never same to be in power
ReplyDeleteany way you should put that pic in the game maybe have some mud
wrestling and and orgy look forward to the next update
Considering that there seems to be several people with freeze and locking issues in bugfix 4 will there be another bugfix release?
ReplyDeleteI still can't finish a single quest without the game locking up on me. If I am suppose to upload my save file somewhere for it to be examined where would that place be?
It's related to the save files. I have a programmer looking at it, but I don't know if/when it'll be fixed. This is why I have so much skip stuff. I hate making anyone start over again, but this is how it is with a game in development.
DeleteI guess it only happens if you use a save file where you was frozen....it happens to me...but using an older safe file....made before the point of freeze .....works well
DeleteOnce I defeated Rubati(again) and the Dwarven mayor I went to Johanna's ship but she still said it was being repaired, contrary to what the Tower mistress said. I went back a few saves and had to fight Bilbine again, but the same thing happened again once I reached the same point.
ReplyDeletewait4nextrelease.
DeleteYou went to med school?
ReplyDeleteAs someone in the midst thereof, I'd love to hear your story about why you left the field, whenever you feel like sharing it. Sorry to hear about your chronic pain, that must be really tough, but I'm glad that you find that which is attainable up in Washington to help!
Oh, and, I should add, glad to add a bit to my patreon support!
Deletedoes anyone know how to get to ilamatar? Like I need to know the location of the boat
ReplyDeletenext release but the boat is on the land with the monster girl village and the dwarves under ground fortess
Deleteoh so that part of the game has not come out yet?
DeleteI found that I was able to get both scenes with the sisters of Sayda. I went along with Taysa, but when I returned to the bandit hideout, I got the scripted scene where I would give her over to her bandit leader sister, even though the sister's event sprite is hidden. Also, Bilbine seems to have a large number of attacks that don't do anything. (pretty much all her spells that don't have costs) although I'm assuming those are placeholders for later abilities.
ReplyDeleteI've got to admit, I find the music in the Tower to be a bit aggressive, which isn't what I'd expect from what is supposed to be your home, and a place you would come to to rest. It would definitely fit as a one-off for the assault on the Tower, but I'd feel that going for a more relaxing theme would help the rest of the time.
Please keep up the awesome work, I'm loving it so far! Also, I hope you manage to get the medication you need soon, I'm not in any position to be a patron just yet, but my thoughts are with you.
I got this error:
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