November 2025: monthly review

• Danny Carmen, Caged was posted as an archive version on my website. 
• Ass Assassin Round 3: I'm partway through a failure chapter that's long overdue. 
• I mostly spent a lot of creative time working on chatbots, for various reasons: they allow me to iterate on an idea very quickly, much like it was when Twine first appeared on the scene; and their experimental nature meant that I was learning how to prompt them more effectively, learning the architecture needed to support this kind of work, and so on; even after the point where I had said I wouldn't work on any more. But in the long term, I want to go back to my current projects (Ass Assassin Round 3, Surrendr, Escape from Enderon) and finish them. 

• Having created various private bots, which in my honest opinion compare really well with the better ones out there on Janitor.AI (and bearing in mind this is at the cutting edge of LLM usage for erotic purposes at the moment), I think on balance that I should just release them as and when I consider them ready, but that I'm going to pivot away from the bot work once that's done. In the longer term, I can envisage turning a few of my bot scenarios into actual Twine games, such is the amount of planning that's gone into them. 
• Backlog item: all four of my games on Itch.io will receive minor updates to remove Patreon and add SubscribeStar links. 
• Ass Assassin Round 3: I'll complete the failure ending for this and aim to continue the main plot for this. 
• Surrendr: remains in progress.