Updated my commission sheet ^c^

H-ERO - The Maverick Manor 1.1 is OUT! Happy Halloween!~ pyksies.itch.io/maverick-manor www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/... For the full list of new additions, check out the devlog! pyksies.itch.io/maverick-man... #twine #nsfw #adult-games #text-games #halloween

www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/... New Newgrounds submission for 1.1 due to a major error in the publishing process making the game unplayable until someone informed me 4 hours later. Sorry! New page!

3 Days 'til Maverick Manor 1.1! For this one, you're gunna wanna see the blog post about it! It's about the new combat system!~ pyksies.itch.io/maverick-man...

5 Days 'til Maverick Manor 1.1!~ Two new major scenes add considerable bulk to the game's lewd count, and so do Supporter Cameos! These Cameos feature detailed descriptions of submitted characters, and the lewd situations they find themselves in. For more info, message me! $20, or $30 for two!

The Maverick Manor 1.1 will release in 7 days, on Halloween! This will be an update on Itchio and a fresh launch on Newgrounds! pyksies.itch.io/maverick-manor Let's start with something small, but vital. 1.1 upgrades to a new Save API, featuring autosave slots, nameable saves, and a clearer layout!

The Maverick Manor 1.1 has entered beta-testing! To cap off this game, the series name is being changed to 'H•ERO'. Hazard Heroines was something I hastily plucked to get the game out on time, and I like this punchier name more! Plus, it's punnier. :3c

Cool gamedev life hack! If you don't look at your project, the bugs don't exist!

Christ. 'Useless' doesn't begin to cover it.

oh ok, if you say so

Weighing in at 130k~ words, the Codex is done and I'm steaming ahead to the 1.1 of Maverick Manor.

Don't get complacent just because Canada, Australia, and the UK has petitions going around right now (look at my feed for the link) we in the US need to do our part and keep the pressure on them and our own reps both to kill the bills currently in Congress we can do it! #SaveSpeech

I am nearly done with my Codex for this setting! It's. An amount of words! A lot of them. Help me.

gum commercials for giants be like "how it fo's to fee fii gum"

It's an honour 💜

I can't emphasize enough how much your direct action, calling these processors every day, has forced these statements and the news coverage to happen. It's so important that we keep going. We have been shown they can bleed so be like sharks. Keep up the pressure and more things will start cracking.

HHtMM is now 'Free'! - Hazard Heroines - the Maverick Manor pyksies.itch.io/maverick-man...

Well, doom and gloom aside, shook off the rust to get some writing done. 3k words before I knew it. I recently got a new keyboard, finally in a position to spend a decent amount on a -good- one, and by god! How silly I was not to do this sooner. Seriously, writers, get yourself a nice keyboard!!

itch.io/updates/upda... Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe are all still targets in this campaign, but Stripe should be major priority now. You can no longer purchase adult content on itch.io with Stripe as of today: this, in combination with early commentary, implies they're the prime culprit.

Mouthwashing, Fear and Hunger, and other horror games that deal with dark subject matter - in condemnation of it - are now also deindexed from Itchio. Where's the buck stop? How famous and well-received does a game have to be to immunize itself from this censorship? You gotta be GTA, now? Unless...

Regarding the Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal (etc) situation: There's a post going around that Visa have requested people email them regarding this matter instead of calling them. By all means, do that as well: but don't do that -instead-. Emails are easier to ignore! Calls tie up resources.

The Online Safety Act in the UK is as disruptive as anyone with half a braincell could have told you, but politicians don't like listening to experts, they like making them state their expert opinions before going 'well we disagree with your expert opinions'. Wankery at the highest levels. (cont)

Cheat Sheet v.2 nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i more comprehensive info can be found here: stop-paypros.neocities.org yellat.money MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!

Visa and Stripe, in particular, are now at the point where their support numbers will go 'is this about steam/itchio?...' when called. So, it's working. Keep going. And don't fall for the trap of 'well, it's kinks -I- don't like for now, so it's not so bad!'

Angered by the wave of online censorship this week? Go yell at the money. yellat.money #nsfw #adultgames #censorship #mastercard #visa

Fuck, sign this too. They came for Steam, they came for Itch. They'll fuck other places too if you don't say something. I've already signed this. Please do what you can.

I meant to repost this one. Here are the numbers of the people oppressing videogame players, artists, the everyday people you know. Give them (Respectful) Hell. We are far more than one-thousand strong.

Itch.io is currently blocking all (appropriately-tagged and disclaimed) adult/nsfw games from showing up in their search function. Some pages (like 'most popular) for the adult section itself still work, but direct searching of tags does not.

Really saddened over what Adventure Gamers has become. It was THE resource for adventure game news for almost 25 years. Seeing my first games reviewed there in the early 00s was the biggest thrill in the world. To see it turn into THIS is heartbreaking. Enshittification destroys everything.

I'm still alive! Still writing! Knocked off the Codex list so far is various foundational concepts to the setting, a timeline of history for how this alternate reality got to this stage, and now a lot of writing about various Magical Disciplines; because a Super setting needs silly wizards in it.

Whoops! I'm still bad at posting. But I've not got much to report, in the sense that I'm just writing away! A lot of the systems are done, I've got a lot of Codex stuff to write. This setting's lived in my head for many years; there's a lot to put to screen!~

Wild how draining a coding hurdle can be. But, hurdle hurdled. Currently writing a lot of lore for the Hazard Heroines setting, to be included in the newly revamped Codex system!

Cooking up a revamp of my 'Struggle' system for grabbing attacks, to fit with the new UI. Injects a bit more 'horny danger' into proceedings, with your goal being to use limited moves to fill an 'Escape' bar before the enemy can fill their Capture bar!~ #nsfw #adultDev

Did some optimization and managed to shave my enemy attack scripts down by 50-60%, depending on individual scripts. Overhaul proceeds apace!

Got my new gallery template/autogen set up, alongside my kink filtering system. In the games, Warn and Forbid divert the player to a content warning or skip the scene. In the Fantasize gallery - reframed as the protag's fantasy - these tags get warning colours instead. #nsfw #adultDev #adultGames

I thought the templating job for scene-specific content warnings would take me a couple of hours. It ended up being a full work day. At least it's one-and-done!~

As an inexperienced/untrained programmer, making two arrays talk to one another is sort of like trying to acclimatize two cats to one another's presence in your household. Stuff is broken and you're pretty sure one did a shit in protest. #nsfw #adultDev

Rereading my own scenes so I can make their proper tag lists for the new system. Thankfully not as harrowing an experience as your brain will always trick you into thinking it'll be, if you haven't read something you wrote for a while. #adultDev #nsfw

Huzzah! I have substantially revamped my kink tagging/filtering system. - Generates page via tags of each scene in the game. - Tells the player how many times a kink/tag shows up in the game. - Only shows the tags that show up in this game. - Hovering over a tag explains it. #nsfw #adultdev

A shrewd businessfrog knows how to sweeten the deal.

Took one day off and now I don't remember what I was doing or what my game is called or my mother's face- Ah. The humble checklist. You were by my side, all along... #gamedev

Good news! I escaped the CSS mines. Thanks as always to the peeps on the Twine Discord server. If you ever have a problem, rest assured that plenty of experienced devs are happy to procrastinate from their own projects to help you with yours!~ #gamedev #twine

Ran into a CSS issue, couldn't immediately overcome it, and felt every last joule of energy, enthusiasm, joy and hope for the future jettison from my body in 0.13 seconds flat. I'm back in the CSS mines. #gamedev

Make checklists. I'm telling you this so maybe it'll sink in for me, too. Progress can seem so dauntingly out of perception when you're at the bottom of the hill, but checklists turn progress visual, quantifiable. And when you hit that 50% hump; UNF. #gamedev

Progress on new/reworked Status Effects seemed pretty good last night, until I realized a systems connection I'd overlooked (armour and accessory stats, and how they can give resistance stats). What followed was 8 layers of 'wait I forgot- wait I forgot- WAIT I FORGOT-' Done now! Phew. #gamedev

It's fading now, but I got hit with a bolt of hyperfocus like the good ol' days. Estimate I knocked out about 30% of this dang status effect overhaul in a single night. Shame I struggle to find an equilibrium between 'nothing' and 'ALL THE WORK', pfft! #gamedev

A fairly productive weekend! Mostly improving my living space, but hit a major milestone in the status effects rework.

I finished Cyberpunk 2077, finally. I'm still not sure how I'd rate it! It's a game I recommend cautiously, I think. It's also still pretty damn buggy! But it held my attention for over 100 hours, and the main quest content is solid.

I fell for the nap trap, folks... 'Oh I'll just lie down for 15 minutes-- aaaand it's been 3 hours and I had a weird dream.' Still managed to get some work done, though. Finishing the current roster of DoT effects tonight, then it's onto the 'Doom' effects. >:3c

I really need to get better at regular posting, but I don't always have things to say! I dunno how people do it, pft. Working on status effects under the new system! Got a whole lot cooked up. Having 3 factors to tweak per-status effect gives me a lotta room for making more!