#dev log

[glitches-and-bugs]

Oh No

PLEASE STOP SCROLLING

I am in Huge Danger. I can't afford ANYTHING. I'm sorry I keep making posts like this I thought I was fine this time and apparently I'm very fucked.

I'm a transmasc disabled autistic person and I am in need of serious help.

P*yp*l

Kofi

DM me for other payment options.

If you want commission info, also DM me I'm very desperate and flexible. SFW and otherwise.

Even if you can't donate, reblog!! Anything helps!

[idrellegames]

To celebrate Wayfarer’s third anniversary this September, we are hosting a fan works event and giveaway. The event is open to all, and there are no length or skill requirements for entries.

Up for grabs are 3 year-long access keys to Wayfarer’s alpha build.

✦ DATES

Entries are accepted from September 9, 2024 (12:00AM PDT) to September 30, 2024 (11:59 PM PDT)

Early or late entries are welcome, but will not count towards the giveaway

Winners will be drawn and contacted on October 7, 2024

Winners will be contacted via DM on Tumblr, Twitter or Instagram

✦ PRIZES

1 access key to Wayfarer’s alpha build

3 winners

Access keys will expire after 1 year

You must have an itch.io account in order to claim a prize

✦ RULES

The giveaway is open to all types of fan creation (fan art, fanfiction, whatever you want!)

NO AI GENERATED ENTRIES. Using AI will result in an immediate disqualification.

Do not claim someone else’s work as your own.

Using prompts is not mandatory. Entries that are not inspired by a prompt still count!

Entries are accepted on Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram.

You can post on other platforms (i.e. AO3) so long as you link it in a post on Tumblr, Twitter or Instagram.

You must tag @idrellegames to enter.

You may enter as many times as you wish up to 14 times.

Cross-posting to multiple platforms does not count as multiple entries (i.e. posting the same entry to Tumblr and Twitter will only count once)

Works based on Episode 3 or Patreon short stories are allowed! Please use spoiler tags accordingly.

As part of my fan work policies, I will not be reading or commenting on any fan fiction submitted for this event.

Other Socials itch.io | twitter | instagram

[gravitycircuit]

🎂🥳IT'S GRAVITY CIRCUIT'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! 🥳🎂 Time sure has flown by, can't believe we're already a full year on from the game's release, and the reception still has us floored! To celebrate, we've got a few things in store for you lovely folks -- starting off with this wonderful group piece by @jmanvelez! Stay tuned for more! Have you played the game? What did you think? Let us know! Remember, Gravity Circuit is available now on PC, Nintendo Switch and Sony PS4/PS5!

[calliopefiction]

Misplaced

Misplaced is a fantasy romance interactive fiction WIP, wherein your choices not only determine your own fate, but that of an entire kingdom. Let me take you an adventure filled with both whimsy and tragedy alike.

The current public demo goes up to the end of Chapter 7, available here: https://calliopefiction.itch.io/misplaced

The demo on Patreon goes up to the end of Chapter 8: https://www.patreon.com/CalliopeFiction

The Story:

For decades, the human kingdom of Gaiapeia has been fighting against the fae living in the surrounding lands. How this conflict started depends entirely on who you ask.

You are the child of Lady and Sir Grahm, a noble familiy who has been serving the crown for generations. Eager to follow in your father's footsteps, you have been training for years to become a knight worthy of being Prince Az'Lean's Champion - his right hand, his closest confidant, the one who protects his life from the growing danger of the fae.

When the time finally comes and you are chosen for the position, it's a dream come true. You couldn't be happier. But just one day later, on your 21st birthday, a terrible truth is revealed to you.

You are a changeling - a fae child that was smuggled into a human family with only one purpose: to gain the prince's trust and use it against him.

A war between humans and fae is surely brewing and the outcome depends entirely on you.

Features:

Customize the appearance of your MC, play as non-binary, female, or male and romance whoever you like however you like, including the choice for asexual or queer-platonic relationships.

Enjoy the story without having to worry about stats - you will be a competent knight no matter what. There is no failure or success, only different choices and their outcomes.

Shape your personality, and your trustworthiness, with your actions. Other characters' disposition to you will change depending on how they perceive you.

Pick a side early on, play the long con, or refuse to make a choice at all. There are multiple split paths that will feature the same romancable characters - but their relationship to you might vary greatly (including villain romances).

Romance:

Vynn (nb):

Vynn is one of your fellow knights and a long-time friend. Unlike you, they aren't a knight by choice and don't care much for fighting. You get the feeling they'd much rather be a bard if they could, seeing as they love playing the lute, spinning epic tales and generally being a source of levity. They are fiercely loyal and good-natured, though there is that bit of resentment that will never quite leave their heart.

Prince Az'Lean (m):

Az'Lean is your prince, the one you are sworn to protect. At a glance, he is the very picture of a fairytale prince: charming, chivalrous, and powerful. He is an excellent fighter, loves animals, and prefers to be treated like an equal. Anyone who cares to look will soon notice the darkness lurking beneath that shining exterior, festering ever since the death of his mother.

Lady Meave (f):

Maeve is a powerful dryad who was sent to educate you on the ways of the fae. She is usually playful and soft, but can get eerily intense at times. As much as she cares about decorum and courtly things, she finds joy in the simplest things and easily turns into a giggly mess. For all her humour, you can never quite tell if she is being serious. Sometimes it feels like she's just playing with you.

Thianne (f):

Thianne is a sorceress and one of Az'Lean's most trusted advisors. She is intelligent and hard-working, though sometimes at the expense of her own well-being. Although she comes across as abrasive and rude, she is always willing to help those who need it. Her dry sense of humour and brutal honesty have endeared her to just as many people as they have made her enemies.

Lester (m):

Lester is a half-fae servant, working in the castle. As with most half-fae, his presence isn't entirely welcome and his reasons for being here seem complexer than he lets on. Lester is known for his mischief and his crude humour, often pulling pranks that border on malicious. Despite the way he presents himself as laid-back and uncaring, it's clear that there's a lot he isn't opening up about.

Warnings:

This story contains potentially triggering content. There will be graphic depictions of violence, death, discrimination, body-image issues and mental illness (including panic attacks, suicidal thoughts and paranoia). Discretion is advised.

Support:

Thank you so much for showing any interest in this project at all! If you would like to receive biweekly update posts, participate in polls, and get access to bonus short stories, consider supporting me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CalliopeFiction

[entryn17]

I MADE A SITE FOR MY GAME !!!

VISIT IT HERE!

for now there is only a home page, an about with a summary and links to 6 different characters and their short descriptions. FAQ not available at this time. please note that this site doesn't look quite right on anything other than desktop. i'm still working on mobile compatibility!

[notoh-dev]

The Doctrine of Perseverance (Re)Announcement

The Doctrine of Perseverance is an indie horror and mystery game currently in development. It is being developed in RPG Maker MV and includes visual novel elements. A freeware demo was released in 2016. At the time of initial demo release, I was a senior in high school. Since then, I have spent many years developing my art and have returned to my first project. The game is still early in development, so everything is still subject to change, but I still hope you find interest in my project! I'd like to showcase some updated portraits from the 2016 version.

Melrose, the main character. The story begins on her thirteenth birthday (this portrait not yet shown), where a traumatic house fire takes place. Three years later, on Melrose's sixteenth birthday, the events of the past manifest themselves once again, showing that what happened on that day is far from over.

Suzetta, a childhood friend of Melrose. A stark contrast to Melrose, she is upbeat, mischievous, and more often than not, the most mature in their friend group. Her father is a close friend of Melrose's mom, Florence.

Silas is a friend of both Melrose and Suzetta and also Suzetta's neighbor. His family harbors distrust toward Melrose's family and the renowned 'founding families' in the city of Noxton.

For those interested in the previous rendition of the game, @flareblitzedyt has a great playthrough and playlist featuring it on Youtube. Although, I must advice that many story elements have changed since then.

The previous demo was taken down a couple of years ago, but the game page for it is still up. I intend to update it in the future. Thank you for reading, stayed tuned for additional information and screenshots!

[titanelite22]

The Coffin Of Andy And Leyley Progress report 9

TW// Mentions Of Abuse

• Interesting to see that we'll get to play as Julia in the future episodes. Julia is the one thing that helps Andrew feel and look "normal," so any cracks under the surface will be really obvious when they're presented while playing as Julia.

• ANDREW IS NOT INNOCENT ‼️ Yes, Ashley has fucked him up, but she's only half the reason. This guy did not give a FUCK about Julia telling him that she was receiving explicit and graphic threatening voicemails. Like, dude, that's your GIRLFRIEND... He didn't even offer to call the police or anything...

• We need to see more of how Julia and Andy act around each other, but the whole snapping because she's asking valid questions? It feels so controlling in the sense that now that he's snapped at her like this, she's probably gonna be afraid to bring this conversation up again in the future. She'll probably be afraid to say something he won't like or disagree with him as well.

And if she DOES bring it up again, he's gonna snap again, and she'll immediately bend and apologise to him. It's a cycle. The last text reads, 'You forgot what you wanted to talk to him about'. That's the goal. He's gonna react like that everything she brings it up. Also, the casual language ("Nah", all the sighing, his facial expressions), saying things like "is that it?". It's so demeaning.

• Ah, yes, the high school rumours were incest rumours as we expected. I wonder how they (mainly Ashley lol) acted around everyone else for these rumours to even start.

• A lot of people picked up on this, and I'm glad I wasn't the only one - What Andrew said at the end? Those are literally the things he would say to Ashley. "Nothing will ever fustrate me like you do," "I'll forgive you for everything and for anything." He's literally talking to Julia like she's Ashley... Even the way he hugs Julia is similar to how he hugs Ashley.

TLDR;

• Nemlei got tired of people victimising Andrew lol

[sanguinesky-if]

[Dev Log] September 2024

Hello! I can't believe how quickly the last month of summer went by. I hope you spent it wonderfully and had a great time!

I'm currently preparing Chapter 3 Pt. 1 for the Patreon release on September 7th, so apologize for not responding to any messages and asks, but I'm grateful for all of them. I'll do my best to catch up after the release.

Now, for the news about the update.

What was accomplished last month?

Added more content that wasn't originally part of the update.

While I'm still not happy that I postponed the release, it did allow me to add more features and variations that make the storyline more flexible. [All technical notes about the content will be included in the post announcing the release of Chapter 3 Pt. 1.] This is something I'll likely need to continue working on next month. I want to ensure that no specific choices feel overly necessary or forced just to access more content with the chosen RO.

Added an option to choose outerwear for your MC.

Now, you can choose outerwear for all clothing styles except for 'edgy', since the 'leather jacket' has already been included there from the start. Although… what could be cooler than the MC wearing a leather jacket? The MC wearing two leather jackets.

About my plans for the current month.

Chapter 3 Pt. 1: fixing discovered bugs and errors.

Romance System: updating the main post with some important clarifications.

L's Side Story: translating and outlining.

Main Story: implementing a new vice for the MC and adding more flavor text.

A detailed content release schedule for Patreon can be found here.

About the Patreon content: since I posted the poll a bit late, I'm still waiting for the results to decide which ROs will get the content this month [NSFW Alphabet / Short Stories].

Thank you for reading to the end. I'm very grateful for your support, questions and messages!

Have a wonderful week and days after that! ♥

[collegetennisoriginstory]

Dev update for CT:OS and Merry Crisis

Hi guys! Sorry it's been a while!

Life update

I've been so busy at work that I've barely had time to rest and hang with friends and family, let alone write as much as I need. I've still been spending some of my weekends writing, but rapidly discovering how little I can get done with just 5 or 6 hours of writing per week. (Crazy how much time IF-writing takes haha)

It's just peak busy period for my job right now before holiday season and things will calm down in December.

CT:OS

As y'all may know, I had been hoping to release the update in early Nov for early release folks and mid Nov for public folk.

I am still aiming to squeeze out the CT:OS update by end of Nov or early Dec and I wanted to let you all know where I'm at!

The scenes are about 95% written (all the way up to the end of the matches currently, I'm just finishing up the win/lose reactions and editing)!!

As of right now, the new update stands at a mammoth 90k+ words with code, but I think something like 35-40k in a playthrough, and there are new RO kisses for all ROs :)

The good news despite these delays is that this update (far from being a short pt. 2), is actually meaty enough to really stand as its own update.

Merry Crisis

I'll update again when I have a bit of a sense when CT:OS is done and how busy my December looks.

Ko-fi

Finally, because I don't want ko-fi folk to be paying out of pocket for this month as its taking a bit longer than expected, I will be refunding ko-fi monthly payments from beginning of Nov until the next update, which I hope will be before Dec.

Once again thanks everyone for continuing to read/play the IFs, supporting me, and sending me love/messages :)

❤️ hope to have some great update news for you guys soon!

[acornbringer]

Here's me trying to explain one of my new game mechanics 🍄

For the full vid and access to all my dev logs, consider helping out and becoming a patron 🎊

patreon.com/acornbringer

[allieebobo]

Merry Crisis—Developer's log

Romance-focused x Slice-of-life x Queer x Non-Euro-centric x Character-based

Demo | Features | Cast of characters | Back to Main Post | COG forum | Dedicated tumblr | Ko-fi

Wordcount: ~152k words

Prologue (24 Dec '21): The Departure ~19k words 

Rush home to grab your things and head to JFK airport (why exactly are you so late for your flight?)

Bump into Nat, who offers to give you a ride to the airport, because they’re... just that kind of ride-or-die (literally) friend...?

Charm, beg, or name-drop your way into getting on that plane despite your horrifying tardiness. Or: miss your flight despite your best efforts (or maybe you weren’t trying that hard?) - and spend one more night in New York.

Chapter One (10 Jun '22): The Arrival | 24 Dec ~51k words

Have your lift hijacked by Shay, your neighbour’s new tenant

Eat your favorite Singaporean food

Participate in your family’s unique Christmas tradition [Paint some ugly santa figurines, or bake and karaoke to your heart’s content or play mahjong]

Call your old friend Joony, and get lost in memories of your junior-college* days... Qiu (no surprise here) features heavily in those memories.

Have a ‘midnight heart-to-heart’ with your brother. (or not!)

Chapter Two (28 Jan '23): Christmas Day | 25 Dec !~48k words

Attend Christmas dinner with the extended family. Get embroiled in some true soap opera-style drama.

Ride off from the family dinner with Shay on their motorbike (to your mother’s horror), to a live music venue. Meet their bandmates, dance with Shay or perform on stage with the band

Call Nat, reminisce about the first and last time Nat had come to visit Singapore, and fight for a possible future together.

Sit in the park and stare out into the ocean—and have a flashback about your 18th birthday spent with your high school first love / soulmate.

End Christmas with a bang (quite literally) in Shay’s apartment.

Chapter Four (01 Jul '23): Boxing Day | 26 Dec ~55k words

“Morning after” scene with Shay if you chose to stay over

Mountain bike ride with Shay

Flashback of The Incident with Qiu

Meet Qiu again for the first time in years—either at the reunion dinner with your high school classmates, or at the coffeeshop below your block (if you chose not to go to the dinner)

[glitches-and-bugs]

I'm told there are... Ships. Tell me about those, dear viewers.

[idrellegames]

Hello all!

I hope you are having a fantastic July. It has been a bit quiet on the Wayfarer front recently, but there are many things happening behind-the-scenes.

Episode 3 is reaching its conclusion. While the episode is far from finished, it is finally approaching an end. I can’t say when the alpha will be complete or when it will be available to play publicly, but I am very glad that it is progressing. This is likely going to be the most complex episode to date and there are many variations within it to explore and replay.  

Episode 3 was last updated on July 5, 2024. Currently, it includes:

Two starting routes (this is dependent on your Episode 2 ending—you need to have gotten either Aeran's romance or friendship reconciliation ending, Aeran's low romance ending, or Veyer's ending in order to continue)

A large exploration sequence with multiple options of how to proceed

New lore and new mysteries

A new flashback sequence with your mentor

"Quality" time with Aeran (whether this is a good thing or not depends on your approval levels, but I can promise that low approval routes are a treat)

The episode is sitting at approximately 480,000 words for all total content (individual playthroughs will vary drastically depending on your choices).

If you’re interested in checking out the alpha build, now is a great time to join my Patreon. Annual subscriptions come with a 15% discount.

Please note that the alpha build is only available to the Recruit, Apprentice, Wayfarer, Master, and Grandmaster tiers.

Additionally, subscription billing is now available for monthly memberships. This means that the old Patreon format of charging on the first of the month is no more—subscription memberships now renew on the same date you signed up for that membership (i.e. if you signed up on July 10 then your next charge date would be on August 10).

More information is available here.

Creating Wayfarer is a full-time commitment and its development is solely funded through Patreon. It covers my bills, living expenses, and other costs to improve the game’s quality. I am extremely grateful to everyone who has supported my work over the years.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out! 💖

[gravitycircuit]

To commemorate Gravity Circuit's One Year Anniversary, our composer Dominic Ninmark has whipped up a banging Eurobeat remix -- free for all to enjoy! 🎶

Thumbnail artwork provided by @jmanvelez ! 🎨

Give it a listen on YouTube!🎧 Remember, you can also listen to the whole game's OST on YouTube here! If you want to support Dominic's work, you can buy the OST from his bandcamp page here!

[funbil]

NEW WEBSITE NEW GAME

My buddies and I have finally put together a website for the games we develop! We're showcasing @ricecreamart's excellent artwork and concept sketches, all the music I've ever produced for our projects, downloads for the games themselves, and we plan to update the website with behind-the-scenes development blog posts.

https://www.pitterpatterdev.com/

In fact, the first article is public right now!! It details some excellent news we have regarding nearly every single game we've released, as well as information about our NEW GAME, which is the first time we've shown anything about it publicly!

https://www.pitterpatterdev.com/

It's a huge day for the Pitter-Patter crew – and yet, this is just the beginning. Our future is brighter than it's ever been, and we'd love for you to be there for it. Hop over to our website, take a look around, check out the exciting updates to our previous works, and learn more about our NEW GAME!

Thank you for believing in us!!

https://www.pitterpatterdev.com/

[entryn17]

i made this bridge too fucking big 😭😭😭