Cleaning the Cobwebs

It's good to be back. So, how have things been going?

Returning to the code of The Good Son after so many months was, honestly, pretty bewildering. I mean, I learned how to use Twine, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (a little bit) all at once, on this very game... and it shows. Just passages and links everywhere. All kind of variables tracking random but important details, choices, conditions, and so on. So February was about getting my bearings, and then getting into content.

I'm happy that I've been able to plug in about two hours or so into development most days (like today!) in the late evening / night. I've made some decisions around the content of the next update that will keep the content required under control. Dates post-surgery will be kept to a minimum. This is necessary, since there are so many options. Think about it, you have nine potential lovers, and most of those can have sex scenes pre- and post- bottom surgery! That's a lot of scenes. So I needed to keep the options under control, so I could keep the scenes under control, so I could keep the workload under control. You get it.

Scenes are coming along well. The return to the Cauldron / main story content is moving along, too. Cauldron scenes post-bottom surgery are next. Honestly, as long as I keep things reasonable, this won't be such a massive lift to get done.

And it feels good to be back.

In the background, I've also been sketching out the next big plot point for Girl Spy. Basically what happens in Paris, the next city (Amsterdam) and then from there arriving in Rome. It'll be sweet. More details later.

Thanks to those still subscribed during my self-imposed exile. To the rest of you, I'm of course keeping posts like these public so you can know how things are going. Love you all, looking forward to talking about more specifics soon.

A Wild Lobster Appears

Hey everyone - guess who isn't dead!

The last six months have been absolutely wild for me, truly life changing. Some of you probably were able to read through the lines and figured this out already, but I'll spell it out for everyone else - this past summer, I had a kid. I'm a dad now. Woah!

Having a baby has been incredible, but holy shit being a father + working a full time job takes a lot out of you. That explains the awful, dreadful radio silence. It doesn't excuse it, of course, but that's the explanation.

The good news is, things are really starting to settle into a routine, at home. I'm returning to developing The Good Son and after it, Girl Spy. I can't believe it's been more than a year since I last published any content (that's Girl Spy in January 2023. I know The Good Son has been languishing for even longer.)

Does that mean people should resubscribe now?

No. Definitely not. Not until I have content to deliver to you. For those of you who have been supporting me in my hibernation, you're awesome, and it's a huge help just in terms of supporting my family each month - but you guys went above and beyond. Your patience and faith is wonderful and frankly, I don't deserve it.

Let me repeat - don't resubscribe until I release the next update of The Good Son

When is that update coming?

Not for a while. I made some good progress on it before my life got turned upside down, but there's still more than 50% of the work to do.

I just wanted to let everyone know I'm very much alive, I spend my days working and changing diapers, and I seem to have a few hours in the evenings to put towards development once more. Thankfully, my wife supports this gig of mine - she's ambivalent about the content (harharhar) but appreciates the side hustle.

Lightning Strikes

Hi everyone! I remember making a joke early in the summer that if the next update wasn't out by September, it would be because I was struck by lightning. Well, it's September, the update isn't out, so... where's the lightning?

There's been no grand tragedy, no car accident, no computer getting fried. Nothing like that. Definitely no lightning strike.

The truth is, I'm in a slightly different place in life than I was in 2020 when I started tinkering with Twine and eventually pulled together this fun little feminization game. You know how it is - my real job got bigger, better, and demanded a lot more time of me. I no longer live alone. I have dependants in my life. These things eat into development time.

I seriously underestimated how much life can get in the way of a hobby like this, especially when I only work on this hobby when I'm alone in the house.

I poked at the update over the past month, but not materially. An hour here or there does not an update make. Adding the sex swap was, in hindsight, not a good call. I mean it's awesome and it's working well. But it requires a ton of work when I really should just be wrapping up the plot, the relationships, and the game. That's what people want. Hindsight 20/20.

Is the game abandoned? absolutely not! I still want to finish it. And Girl Spy, too! That game's awesome.

Will I be pumping out updates on at all a regular schedule for the foreseeable future? Obviously not, I'd be delusional to think otherwise.

I think it would be perfectly acceptable to cancel your subscription at this point. I'm not in the business of milking away my subscribers. You can always sub back on when the update comes out.

A part of me wishes I still lived alone and could no-life develop this game (and play a lot more other erotic games) but I'm older and wiser (maybe), and life is big and wild and fun and busy, and that's great too.

You're all incredible people. It's always been so much fun talking about this game with all of you. See you on Discord. Happy to talk more there!