#tag game: xuna

[mt07131]

OC in detail tag meme :3

I was tagged by @dekarios and I'm gonna tag hmmmmm @cerbin-aen-feainn @grapecaseschoices @rexcaliburechoes and @redwayfarers

Gonna keep the bg3 train going and do the babygirl Xuna teehee

[ PERSONAL]

Financial: wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty

Medical: fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / not applicable

Class: upper / middle / working / unsure

Education: has a degree / studying / unschooled

Criminal Record: yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but not caught / yes, but charges were dismissed

[ FAMILY ]

Children: had a child or children / wants children / doesn't want children

Relationship with Family: close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased

Affiliation: orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parent(s) / not applicable

[ TRAITS + TENDENCIES ]

extroverted / introverted / in between

disorganized / organized / in between

close minded / open-minded / in between

calm/ anxious / in between

disagreeable / agreeable / in between

cautious / reckless / in between

patient / impatient / in between

outspoken / reserved /in between

leader / follower / in between

empathetic / vicious bastard / in between

optimistic / pessimistic / in between

traditional / modern / in between

hard-working / lazy / in between

cultured / uncultured / in between

loyal / disloyal

faithful / unfaithful

[ BELIEFS ]

Faith: monotheist / polytheist/ atheist / agnostic

Belief in Ghosts or Spirits: yes/ no / don’t know / don’t care

Belief in an Afterlife: yes/ no / don’t know / don’t care

Belief in Reincarnation: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

Belief in Aliens: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

Religious: orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious

Philosophical: yes / no

[ SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION ]

Sexuality: heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / other

Sex: sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable / naïve and clueless

Romance: romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naïve and clueless / romance suspicious

Sexually: adventurous / experienced / naïve / inexperienced / curious

Potential Sexual Partners: male/ female / t4t / none / all

Potential Romantic Partners: male/ female / t4t / none / all

[ ABILITIES ]

Combat Skills: excellent / good / moderate/ poor / none

Literacy Skills: excellent / good/ moderate / poor / none

Artistic Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

Technical Skills: excellent / good / moderate/ poor / none

[ HABITS ]

Drinking Alcohol: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / alcoholic

Smoking: tried it / trying to quit / quit / never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / chain-smoker

Recreational Drugs: never / quit / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / addict

Medicinal Drugs: never / some medication needed / frequently / to excess

Unhealthy Food: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently /binge eater

Splurge Spending: never / sometimes/ frequently / shopaholic

Gambling: never / rarely/ sometimes / frequently / compulsive gambler

[plottwiststudios]

Women of Xal II Kickstarter: Delayed?

Hey, have you heard of the overly ambitious visual novel titled "Women of Xal" for Steam and Itch.io? (PC/Mac/Linux) Because that plays into why we might need to shelf the series for a few years. Full breakdown under the cut. (No spoilers)

For those who have gotten the True Ending, you should be fully aware that the story is about to vastly expand outside of Xuna's castle. It's a narrative must where everything that happens, happens well outside the scope of the original game in so many ways. And let's talk about scope! Especially if you have no idea what's so staggering about the original Women of Xal visual novel:

600+ optional choices we painstakingly programmed

Branching paths that people are still asking for guides on

A dozen romance options

Poly and gay options that interact with one another

Voice acting from now VERY popular voice actors

A 15 hour story full of mystery, lore, and tense politics

110 track soundtrack

4 Endings

Animations

Thousands of art assets (Bless Cat)

Years of hard work and long nights

No AI Art

100% positive reviews as of this post

Recouped $6000+, or roughly a fraction of the cost of development. After 2+ years of being released

Note that very last bullet point. Doing things for the art and passion is amazing and all, but I can't be investing literal thousands of hours into creating a game for a subset of a subset of a subset of people. I have bigger projects I want to finally get to work on. Ones I really hoped Women of Xal I would help a bit with funding. But it's not. And because of certain facts about the game, it may never be able to do so. To no fault of any of the players.

When I made Women of Xal I, my time was more readily available and I was quite a bit younger. The cost of running a company and creating a game like WoX as the first product hadn't quite hit me. I was also silly enough to believe "if you make it, they will come" to a degree. That part makes me grin in a not fun way.

But these days I have a job that takes me away from creating, but does pay the bills and debts. Debts I don't want to get into again in order to create the sequel that will undoubtedly come with far higher costs due to the game's scope. I have a better understanding of the costs of hiring returning and appropriate talent necessary to create a game better than the last. (I don't personally believe in being satisfied with an intentional steep downgrade.)

Yes there is the Kickstarter option for Women of Xal II, but there are plenty of costs and time investment that makes it an unviable avenue to explore during this point in time. After all, who but the people who sat down and explored everything the first game had to offer would understand how we came up with a $50,000 Kickstarter price tag for a visual novel's sequel? Especially since too many will look at the first Kickstarter and believe we made the first game with only $14,000.

I have thought about giving Women of Xal I a modernized facelift with a smaller Kickstarter, complete with a ton of new features and fun ways to streamline and highlight the narration's strong points, but there's a LOT of baggage that comes with that, including not wanting to go backwards when I still want to create my "pipe dream" projects.

So I'm thinking we'll give it a bit more thought these next few days, and if we can't think of a solution that we haven't already tried, we'll officially announce the delay (and before you suggest your own ideas, know that there's a 99% chance we've already tried it).

A long, long post just to say I do sincerely apologize for having people wait longer, but I am literally still a few thousand dollars away from paying off all my debt that came from funding the first game. It's a micro-trauma I do not feel inclined to repeating again. When the franchise is in a better place, or I am emotionally/physically, I will return back to Women of Xal to finish the story. If I cannot, I will release a summary of events that transpire after the first game's true ending.

But for now, I'm going to focus on financial and emotional healing, and creating projects that I feel will be more appreciated by both myself and people who are turned off by what "Women of Xal" offers.

Thank you all for supporting our small company these past several years. <3

-John

[theelderhazelnut]

WIP Wednesday Friday

Tagged by the wonderful @lethal-justice ! Thank you darling!

This is a part of a spicy "Ombra x Lady Xuna" one-shot. @vivilovespink

   Ombra definitely wouldn’t be standing there if they didn’t share that irresistible kiss that night in the closet. She wasn’t sure if she had to thank her comrades for compulsively planning that stupid game, or blame them. She loved the danger after all, and she never felt shameful to sinfully step into the forbidden abyss of her ungovernable desires and fantasies.

As she straightened her back, the bathrobe cloth brushed softly on her naked skin. Even the thought of offering her body so accessibly to the mystic rushed the blood to her hot center, making it pulse with excitement.

No pressure tags: @bar10du @kmofficial @scentedcandleibex @loreoflemons @darialovesstuff @loverofthewindgod @ninibear3000 @aliyaaaepel3

[mt07131]

what kind of art would someone make about you? (link here)

Tagged by: @grapecaseschoices and I'm tagging @quinnorion @cerbin-aen-feainn @sparrow-in-boots @robin-in-the-library @sevlawless @fragilestorm and anyone else who wants to do it <3

Ghost- Poetry

you choose your words carefully and your words will be heard. you’re smart as hell. you know it and so does everyone else and you carry yourself with a sort of confidence. you’re a bit of an artist yourself, even if unintentional. you can find beauty in mundanity but you also know when to be a realist. people fall in love with you because you are a confident mystery and they're dying to find out more. you fear that this attraction that people have to you is based purely in curiosity and nothing else.

Kal De Young- Films

you are wild and there’s no way for your essence to be captured in a frozen format. you are a character and the only way to describe you is to capture you in motion. you are electric. people are naturally drawn to you because you exude confidence. everything you do, you seem to know what your next step is. you are the muse to many, even if you don't know it, but deep down you do. people tend to fall in love with the idea of which i'm sure can be exhausting.

Maeve Divine- Novels

you fall in love easily and hard, and you are the image that pops into someone’s brain when they think of a love interest. you are a romantic and find yourself falling in love a hundred times a day because your imagination is wild and certainly knows how to get the best of you. you are soft and delicate and need to be handled with care, because a heartbreak would break you into a million pieces. you don’t want much else except to be loved and to love. you want to live out your wildest dreams, and the person that loves you can't help but let their imagination run wild with you.

Katarina Petrova- Paintings

everything you do is a work of art. you are beautiful without even trying, simply lounging around looks like you’re posing and waiting for someone to sketch you. you come off as light and easy but you are often misunderstood. people don’t tend to see you for who you really are, and focus too much on how effortlessly you appear to navigate the world. there's some kind of darkness behind your eyes that only some can see under all the layers of paint.

Xuna- Films

you are wild and there’s no way for your essence to be captured in a frozen format. you are a character and the only way to describe you is to capture you in motion. you are electric. people are naturally drawn to you because you exude confidence. everything you do, you seem to know what your next step is. you are the muse to many, even if you don't know it, but deep down you do. people tend to fall in love with the idea of which i'm sure can be exhausting.

[mt07131]

what form of love do you embody?

Quiz, I was tagged by @grapecaseschoices aaaand I'm just gonna tag @cerbin-aen-feainn (torturing you specifically ily bestie) and also whoever wants to do it <3

Ghost

love as religion [ love as the sole object of your reverence--nothing about you is holy, but maybe your love for another is ] when sappho said "in the crooks of your body i find my religion" and when the cast of les mis sang "to love another person is to see the face of God" and when halsey said "i found God, i found him in a lover" and when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

Kal De Young

love as a choice [ love is beautiful because it's built deliberately ] when casey mcquinston wrote "that's the choice. i love him, with all that, because of all that, on purpose. i love him on purpose" and when jenny slate tweeted "i just want someone to grab my little face and scream on purpose, on purpose i am going to care about you" and when jodi picoult wrote "after fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling. it's a choice" and when the good place said "if soulmates do exist, they're not found they're made"

Katarina Petrova

love as being known [ love is knowing all of someone and loving them anyway ] when tim kreider said "if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" and when joe wright said "The idea that these two people know each other, knew each other when they first saw each other. That they recognized each other from their future" and when micah nemerever said "it was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly"

Xuna

love as hunger [ love as ravenous desire, love as something fragrant and home-built ] when florence welch said "we all have a hunger" and when jenny slate asked "who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?" and when violet trefusis wrote "I want you hungrily, frenziedly. passionately. I am starving for you…" and when anne carson asked "what are we made of but hunger and rage?"

[mt07131]

Hihi besties, I officially got off my ass and add Xuna to my OC page, so she is now open for any ask/tag games and other OCisms

[plottwiststudios]

A Fun Little Tumblr Game

EARLY ACCESS STEAM LINK

EARLY ACCESS ITCH.IO < -- I keep 95% of the profit

I want to see how well this does! For every like this particular cost nets, I will divulge some fun little factoids about the visual novel “Women of Xal”’s production throughout the years. But wait, there’s more!

I will be keeping score of how people interact with this post! Certain actions net this smol fandom group points, which will be auto redeemed once milestones are crossed by you lovely fans. It’ll make sense once you see the point system!

POINT SYSTEM

For every like: 1 Point

For every reblog: 2 Points

For every new follow: 3 Points

Fanart/Animation of Women of Xal: 10 Points Each

For every reblog, ask, and/or reply with commentary discussing what you like about WoX (Early Access or generally) : 5 Points (10 points max!)

Join the fan Discord server for the PTverse: 10 Points

For any fun “essay” on the game and/or its characters/plots/themes: 15 Points (Be sure to tag me and/or “Women of Xal” so I can count it!)

For every copy of Women of Xal sold on Steam or Itch.io from now until the 22nd of August 2021: 20 Points

Silly Bonus: For every $1 you give to my Ko-fi page: 2 Points :’3

REWARDS

150 Points: Raffle for 1 Steam key for Women of Xal

300 Points: I’ll let the character Velvet back on Tumblr for a day

500 Points: Raffle for Steam Key. I tell everyone the next big project(s)

1000 Points: I’ll let Liz take over my Tumblr for a day

2000 Points: Raffle for Steam Key, .mp3 and MIDI for WoX’s OP

5000 Points: I’ll let Xuna take over my Tumblr for a day

9000 Points: Raffle for Steam Key. Fan Vote For Secondary Reward

10,000 Points: Early Access Vol.1 Soundtrack Free For Tumblr! 

15,000 Points: Raffle for Steam Key. Fan Vote for Secondary Reward

25,000 Points: I’ll. I’ll... appear on video on the internet to thank you all.

30,000 Points: I’ll livestream a game (fandom choice via vote!) Raffle

The rules are VERY simple: No bots, no takebacks!, no negativity, and most importantly, this is a team effort. When you earn a point, everyone does! To be incredibly clear, that means if one person gets 3 points, and another gets 2, then the fandom has 5 points in total. 145 points away from the first milestone. The rewards above are given to all who follow my blog, at the same time, and cannot be subtracted. If for some wild reason the likes outnumber the interesting factoids of the game’s development, I’ll convert the rest into points (5 likes in the surplus group = 1 point) What fans can vote on will be determined by the team. Though you can always pitch ideas.

There is no clear deadline; it’s whenever I feel like not doing this anymore. However, I will say that I will only reblog this two times for timezones. We are 2,500+ fans strong. I know we can do this! >3

Thank you for reading, and LET’S HECKING GO! 

[plottwiststudios]

There's a "big" post scheduled at 12 EST (because I'll be asleep and staving off anxiety and fatigue at that time), which is about Women of Xal. But in the meantime, yes! The team will most certainly be stalking our game's tags on Tumblr and Twitter! Chiefly:

#WomenofXal

#WoX

#Xuna

#ClaniceDidNothingWrong

#XjenaIsAGayDisaster