Author: SaltyJustice

Coding, Art, Things of that Nature!

I did a lot of useful, good, very important stuff in the backend. In addition to cleaning up bugs, I made it possible to embed effects in the ability script and to auto-generate prediction prototypes based on the act data. You can still override predictions if you want, such as for tutorial abilities.

All of that is nonsense to most players but it’s really useful stuff to modders, and to me (I make the game, hello) because it will cut down on those errors where the prediction shows a different value than the actual because I tweaked the balance later on.

I will be fixing up the remaining bugs in chapter 1 and getting all the engine upgrades and requests for mod features this week. Hopefully I can start on the new stuff for chapter 1 then.

Meanwhile, Giga was sick for a bit but is BACK and is working on the TF sequence for Wisphags. We got a new format this time I think you’ll all like. Urimas is making sprites and Koops has delivered the enemy concepts we’ll be using in chapter 1 and chapter 2.

Concept Art! Again!

Remember last week when you got to see concepts for two noble houses? Well this week you get to see concepts for two noble houses, but not the same ones. Contain your shock.

Here we have the members of House Insiati. Until very recently the families making up the great House were associations of guilds, rather than strict families, but the invention of a neurological-mechanical interface and steam power caused a rapid change. Over the last 40 years, Insiati went from the richest house to the most productive house, made up of industrialists, factory owners, inventors, and scientists. Getting your hands dirty is a badge of honor, and many promising students have their educations covered if they are prepared to apply to join the great House.

Once thought to be the clear frontrunner among the great Houses, the recent war and conquest of the city has brought their rise into question.

And lastly we have House Artezzi, owners of the city’s merchant and combat navy. In addition to their estates within the city, they have control over the assorted islands in the harbour area, own all the major shipyards, and are in a fraught alliance with House Insiati in hopes of getting at their steamship technology.

Being the House of the sea means they were the least affected when the city was conquered, and may well be able to survive entirely off their overseas possessions. Their House does have a serious problem, though. The elder members are clinging to power despite being well past retirement, and the youth want to change the ways of the House. The impasse has brought a flagging of their fortunes recently, with many younger members leaving in frustration, while others plot to have the elders “taken care of”.

Big thanks to BlueLily for doing these. Next week we’ll start seeing some of the named characters of the houses and possibly getting hints at their storylines.

Fine, Poll Time

GOT YOU, IT WAS A SURPRISE DMITRI.

One of the things I wanted to avoid in RoP was the reliance on bad ends because I think getting to keep playing as a new form is cool and fun. A lot of games have bad ends because that, too, is fun, and people really enjoyed the “Latex Drone Christine” thing from chapter 5. I think I will add some of those non-canon bad ends to the game, as dream sequences or future vision. I do want to keep the keep-playing format of the game as much as possible, but clearly the audience wants some bad end stuff. Not a lot, but 36% is a sizeable minority.

Every now and then you lunatics really surprise me. The dragon bad end ties with the werewolf ending? The dragon bad end! That was one of the ones I put the least effort into, having done a rewrite right before it was implemented. Alraune got the hate it deserves, but dragon…

Anyway, the reclaimed ending also got a surprisingly strong following. I don’t know exactly what to make of these results because there’s no clear pattern (HOW DID SKELETON SCORE SO LOW ARRGGH) which is not what I expected at all.

I was worried the bonus bosses were too tough but it seems the playerbase rose to the challenge. Next time they will be bullshit.

So while the price point was about correct, some people thought it was a teeny bit too expensive. This is actually expected because gamers tend to underestimate what the cost of something ought to be. 15 bucks is a real bargain, in my opinion, but it is what it is.

Another very interesting result, not least of which because 5 players were in those time chambers from Dragon Ball Z that exist as a narrative device to power up a character in a “satisfying” way despite all the power levels being made up anyway because it’s a work of fiction.

While nobody blasted the game down in 5 hours, a decent chunk did it in 10. Our testers estimated 15 was the expected play time, so you’re ahead of the curve. Stop being so good at games. I was expecting a bigger block to be sitting at 15 and very few at >20 but there’s a big block at the 20 hour mark. It’s a bimodal distribution!

Unfortunately, the Steam statistics do show me an average playtime but they don’t specify if the player beat the game or not, so I can’t really use that and the value would skew low.

Our musician did a great job and everyone thinks he shouldn’t be fired and fed to the camel spiders.

I wanted to do crafting in WHI both as a way to make the game less-linear (you choose who gets what upgrade when) while increasing the focus on combat, and apparently I achieved that goal. Fixed placements can add a lot when a chest has a good item in it, but a lot of them are chaff or consumables. WHI instead makes every chest slightly important, where you almost always get something useful but rarely get anything profound (except the Omega equipment).

The fact that a lot of people like it means it’s a strong candidate to appear in a future game.

If I do make another project in he future, a smaller number of more consequential TFs is the easy winner. I love battle TF games but there’s not much of a way to increase the consequence of each transformation and still maintain the 20 TFs that WHI has. Also Chic would probably kill me if I did that again.

People loved the art, what can I say. Look I’ll try to convince her to work for Bottled Starlight but she’s very fiercely independent.

Pretty stroke here for putting in-battle voices to RoP. I’ve already asked the VAs for some auditions. If you’re the kind of maniac who wants to voice a video game, here’s the audition document for chapter 1.

FUCK YEAH! OR to put it another way, yeah people want to see more of these characters. The DLC will happen if/when the game sells 10,000 copies so that will be some time. Chic is open to doing a sequel but obviously not right now, and I gotta focus on RoP for a while. Will the sequel focus on Izana? Caelyn? Cyrano? Or will it be a prequel?

Yeah it’ll be a prequel and it’ll be about Heron, the dog, and his adventures. Triple platinum best seller, baby.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Quick Coding Stuff

I know you’re all excited to see the results of last week’s poll but calm down, there’s an update to do first.

I am now cleaning up the various bugs from chapter 1 that have been accumulating. I may also take a shot at some QoL changes in the chapter. This is the “boring” part of game development, where each week I tell you about the exciting bugs I fixed.

Meanwhile, Koops fired out several new enemies, Giga got us a new talk sprite sheet for chapter 1 and is now working on the TF sequences (they’re special but I won’t spoil them even for patrons), Urimas is making sprites on pain of death, and even Wispy is back from vacation and promised… well nothing specific but I’m sure I’ll get more kitsunes soon.

Concept Art? Yes.

I asked noted fan artist BlueLily to design some costumes for chapter 3, because aristos can look cool even if you want to guillotine them. If you’ve played chapter 2, you know that Esmerelda de Artezzi is from Jeffespeir. Well guess what, there’s four great houses that run the city and they all have cool outfits.

Up first is House Cuorelli, better known as House Red.

But what’s going on here? Yes, part of the politics of the city is that a partirhuman cannot be appointed to an office. A workaround is that an existing office holder can be a partirhuman, but they can’t be re-appointed when their term is up. House Cuorelli is in charge of the city’s constabulary, so the sheriff here being transformed into a werefox means her political life is nearly over. It’s a popular way for the other houses to “humanely” get rid of their political opposition. You know, because assassinating them is viewed as barbaric.

Meanwhile, the city’s field military was controlled by House Ordinaci, or House Blue to most outsiders. However, an invading army recently conquered the city, and House Blue was wiped out. A handful of surviving members fled. Did they get turned into werewolves, dolls, and rubbery jesters? Yes but if you want to know more you’ll have to wait for chapter 3.

What about house Artezzi (Green) and Insiati (Yellow)? You’ll have to wait until next week to see those.

Stop Stalling and get to the Poll Results

Fine, geez. This is going to go question by question with a bit of discussion for each one. I made sure each question had an “Other” so people could give more complicated thoughts.

I just want you people to know that I have to hand-edit these replies in. I do it because I love you.

I am surprised that red robes got about 20% support for being flat out put in the game. I really thought that’d be a lot lower, because they act as beefgates that prevent you from running past enemies without engaging with the combat. WHI uses those to make sure the player can take on the frequent mandatory boss encounters, which RoP generally lacks.

They make a ton of sense in challenge areas, of which I can think of a few. Red Robes are just a formalization of the idea of a cutscene-miniboss. Equinox had a bunch of those, for example. Given a later poll question, Red Robes will likely get added to RoP in challenge areas or possibly an optional dungeon in chapter 2 themed around them. Get good at fighting, scrub!

As for the “Makes grinding too easy” schema, it makes it more convenient for sure but since you still have to beat the enemies, it only saves you a bit of time chasing down an enemy to wail on them. I don’t think it’s a huge issue in either direction, especially if they are confined to challenge areas.

For those of you who haven’t played chapter 2 yet, the crafting items are things like Light Carapace, Light Fiber, Light Leather, and then Tough Carapace, Tough Fiber, Tough Leather. There are also certain items that only drop from specific enemies, and only if you shoot them with Sanya’s rifle. Putting numerical tiers on things makes them a lot easier to understand and also easier to sort in your head. Plus, it also lets you know when you’re in an out-of-depth area (Westwoods is going to be Area 3, but it got released first so it’ll be rebalanced later).

The results are about what I expected here. The materials lose a bit of character by getting tiers but the utility is obvious. You’ll still need to get certain key items from hunting to make the best stuff, and those are uniquely named.

As expected the WHI interface is more popular by a lot. The RoP version does show the full crafting recipe for an item but anything more than 3 items and the recipe starts to get insanely long and requires in-screen scrolling. Highlighting what’s available and letting the player see what it costs with a click is a lot more intuitive. I’ve seen RPGMaker games that use this system and for once the UI works way better that way.

If you have an idea for how to make the UI even better hit me up. Until then we’ll go with the WHI version.

The results are pretty strongly in favour of a backport job for the other chapters. There is a sizeable opposition to just leaving them in chapter 2, which does make sense because chapter 2 is nonlinear and uses crafting to set equipment standards, so getting materials makes a lot of sense. Chapters 1 and 5 don’t need that sort of thing, though the Tellurium Mines fulfill that functionality since there’s always more stuff when the levels regenerate.

The strongest case to be made is to put them in every chapter even when they aren’t necessary, and make it a basic game mechanic. After all, chapter 1 is here to teach you how to play the game, even if it’s so short that you don’t need the extra stuff.

After a bunch of discussion with some utterly despicable Discord users (Pyxxis) and several upstanding Discord users (everyone else) I came up with a system. Green chests will continue to exist and will still provide the player with random low-level goodies like cash or gems, but most green chest pickups will provide Tokens. These tokens can be used to roll on charts of items, so you can choose if you’d like to roll on the weapons chart or the gems chart or the armors chart. Collecting more green chests (without resting at a campfire) increases your odds of getting extra tokens, rather than WHI’s method of giving you more materials per chest opened.

All of this token stuff is totally optional, you will find all the equipment you need from chests. I just like the idea of a playthrough being a little different each time around, and getting a lucky weapon or weird accessory from a roll makes that a little more possible. First time players will more likely find there’s a gap or two in their equipment and use the rolls to fill it because they missed the Werecat Bonus Area which has the really good accessories or whatever.

Tell me what you think of my really bad ideas!

If you didn’t play WHI: In that game, adamantite nodes appear in the overworld. Each time you rest (return to town) they reset but spawn in different locations at random. You could still get adamantite from chests but having dedicated nodes in certain areas meant the player always had a good stock of it without competing for other chest items.

And to the purple person: Chapter 1 will be limited to the first two tiers of adamantite, chapter 5 the first 3, and chapter 2 probably the first 3 with a bonus area having the 4th. You won’t be able to make max-tier gems in RoP until chapter 6.

Overally, people like adamantite nodes so I’ll add some of those. Unlike WHI I’m going to be a lot more choosy with where they are. WHI has a very linear layout so I needed to put them in the player’s path, and bonus areas like the beach and springs had a bunch of high-value nodes at the ends of the paths. In RoP, nodes will likely only appear in certain areas, like in the dry areas of Quantir and Arbonne, but not in Starfield Swamp. In chapter 5, nodes will appear in the Tellurium Mines and Serenity Crater. It will be a deliberate choice by the player to go looking for more adamantite if they need it, rather than finding it all over the place.

Chapter 2 will have a lot of nice caves to find it, and there’s a few quarries in Westwoods you’ll just love (beware the local wind elementals).

(I think that last reply got a little tripped over its own language)

In WHI, I removed EXP and made it so the player only gets money from battle, and can spend that money to level up their party. I did that because I thought it was interesting in terms of weighing cash against upgrades (gem improvements, equipment), level-ups, and skill purchases (there’s no JP in WHI). It also incidentally allowed certain players to beat the bonus bosses at level 12 so there’s that.

A small group wants to go entirely to Platina, no EXP. Most people want to keep EXP but let the player “sink” their platina to get more EXP. I think that’s probably the best idea, allowing players to spend cash to catch up party members who are behind (or focus all their resources on making Zeke level 100) or just get rid of excess money when they’ve bought all the stuff they wanted. It adds to the nonlinearity and make-each-playthrough-different too, particularly for players who know their way around and can get the best gear without spending money.

For those of you who want a low-level challenge, I’ll make a special option that zeroes EXP gain, just for you. It’s on my to-do list.

This one is pretty simple. Paragons act like Omega enemies in WHI do, but without the activator and random placement system. Instead, Omega enemies guard the best treasure in the game.

A majority wants to keep the paragons as they are and add some bonus supa-tuff areas where 100% of the enemies are paragons. Happy to oblige, it means I can put in some optional areas with cool items and you can get the ultimate challenge from groups of paragons. You thought fighting one gravemarker paragon was bad?

Paragons will also be getting a dedicated balance pass to make them a particularly tough enemy, rather than getting multipliers to stats.

Pretty overwhelmingly in favour of on-field enemy sprites. Hey, we need a make-work program to keep our spriters housed and fed, too!

(You and Urimas decide if that’s worth it though) <- lawl like Urimas has a say >:3

Pumpkin continues to be insanely popular, but Whiskey also has some “legs” as they say.

One respondent apparently got confused and replied with the name of a country. I will not be providing Poland Pix.

Here Pumpkin is seen trying to steal a bite of beef jerky.

Whiskey caught, gutted, and refitted these fish into fashionable footwear.

Generalized WHI Feedback Form

You can fill it out here. This one is just to find out what sorts of things people liked on a basic level. Did you like the skeleton bad end? What about the harpy one? Now it’s time for me to figure out which unique set of brainrots the audience has.

Curious Cat

Fan Art

This counts as fan art by HadezMuze because technically, Sweet Justice is a character created by Koops to represent me, and she’s in this picture. That makes it fan art.

I would have posted it anyway because it’s awesome and I love it but now I am technically not in the wrong!

Keep drawing stuff like this Hadez. Damn it.

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

This post is so big that it’s actually causing the WordPress interface to lag. Ha ha ha ha.

Poll Results

Wow I think the democratic response to the poll question is overwhelming. People want Pumpkin.

But the runner up, secrebots, will definitely be in chapter 5. At the meeting today we decided on our immediate course of action.
0: Some code refactors. Backend stuff, I have already changed a lot of code I had been putting off for months while WHI was in development. The autobuild system was overhauled, a lot of things are named Star instead of Sugar, and the repository comes with dependencies in it for OSX and Windows.
1: Witch Hunter Izana support. Bugfixes and QoL stuff. That will be most of this week.
2: Chapter 1 update. This one will take a few months, it contains a couple new tfs and quests. The new art is mostly done (good job Giga!) but I was busy with WHI so I haven’t even started on the code or mapping.
3: Chapter 5 update. 1 new quest and TF, the secrebots! This means I will also have an excuse to issue a bugfix on the chapter and people will help make sure I didn’t break things even worse.
I have something very special planned out for this quest, trust me. We will also attempt to add the 55’s Sundress costume for this release as well.
4: Harpy Tower Defense. The long awaited harpy TD update, a playable minigame with integration into the rest of the chapter.

After those are done, we’ll be proceeding with the rest of chapter 2. So a series of smaller updates and an excuse to cram in bugfixes, then the main event.

Witch Hunter Izana: Hard Mode Threshold Passed

Yep, at 500 units sold I said we’d make Hard Mode. Well that has happened, so it’s on my to-do list. Hard Mode will both affect normal gameplay as it will add a bunch of new abilities to unlock via attuned charms, and be its own mode you can play. You’ll need to start a new game to access it, as the NPC who activates Hard Mode disappears once you defeat the first boss.

Hard Mode is intended to be the kind of gameplay mode for experts where you need to use all your tricks to get through enemies. They’re both tougher and smarter, with new AIs and abilities designed to give you problems. Losing has never been more fun!

Exactly when Hard Mode is going to come out depends on a lot of factors, probably some time after the chapter 5 update. It doesn’t require much new art (there may or may not be new enemies added) so it’s all coding stuff, but it’s also a serious refactor and make take a lot of tweaking to get the balance just right.

Witch Hunter Izana: Feedback for RoP Poll

WHI added several new ideas, both for combat and for how to organize things like crafting, item nodes, and level ups. Some of these might work in RoP, some might not! I have my own opinions but you know I want to hear yours, too.

I made a silly poll you can reply to. You really shouldn’t if you didn’t play WHI of course.

Oh and if you did play WHI, be sure to leave a review on Steam/Itch! It helps the game’s visibility.

I will make a general game feedback poll for WHI next week, where I ask you what your favourite bad ends and stuff were.

Curious Cat

Note: See the fan art section below for the Raiju Fan Art!

Fan Art!

Cool Raiju fan art by Poliedro123. Source.

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Witch Hunter Izana is out!

If you missed it, the game is out on Steam and Itch.io! For the next week or so I will be doing bugfixes on it and adding in NG+ which I didn’t have time for before release. There have already been a few serious bugs patched out, hopefully I can get the rest in due time.

Once all of that is done, I will be doing some backend stuff on the engine that I had been holding off on for the past year or so. It’s not a good idea to redo a lot of engine stuff while working on a game. Now that the game is out, I can refactor some of the code I have been meaning to for a while.

Urimas, having busted his ass making the game’s sprites, is taking a few days off. He will then be working on getting the new forms in chapter 1 ready. Once my code refactoring is done, I’ll start work on the chapter 1 update as well. I also intend to spend a week or two cleaning up all the RoP bugs that have built up since there’s a lot of those too.

There will also be a 5$ patron vote this week, so don’t miss it!

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Get it on Steam or Itch.io!

To celebrate, here’s a Pumpkin:

Back from Vacation

Very brief update post this week. I’m back from vacation so obviously I didn’t do a whole lot and am getting caught up on the bugs I need to fix for WHI. The Steam Demo was approved and I set it for release but it does not appear to be on the search bar yet (how annoying) but otherwise things are going smoothly.

Urimas has to polish off the last few sprite sheets but he has sworn that he’ll get it done. Koops and Chicken are off on their own vacation so it’s mostly Giga and Wispy doing the art.

I also didn’t have time to do any curious cat stuff so that will all be done next week.

Fan Art

Parsley the maid doll, aka best girl, by HadezMuze!

Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Witch Hunter Izana News

The game’s demo will become public on August 20th. That’s this week! Woah! It contains slightly less story than the prototype (the demo ends when you enter the crypt, not when you beat Clementine) but considerably more TFs and bad ends due to the optional bits and enemies you can encounter early (and get totally outclassed by).

The game will also have a Soundtrack available for purchase on Steam, for 5 bucks. You can get high-quality versions of the game’s songs, and the proceeds go to DurrDiss and the studio so we can make more games.

Other Development News

I’ve been polishing up WHI for release. New icons, new victory lines, tons of bug fixes, maybe a new secret or two put into the maps, and of course typos and other little fixes. Urimas is going to get me all the remaining sprites VERY SOON OR I’LL KILL HIM, meanwhile our artists are still making more stuff for RoP. Patrons get to see more as bonus stuff!

Poll Next Week

One thing I want to do, if we have the art budget for it, is to include a TF sequence of someone else in chapter 1. Some random guy is going to get turned into a monstergirl while Mei watches! But what will he turn into? I’ll make a poll for it next week and 5$ patrons can vote on it.

This both serves to give the game more TGTF appeal (TG is implied in a lot of it but we don’t usually depict it because it’s past-tense, with one very notable exception) and possibly tease you for future monster types since the chapter 3 monsters may well be on the poll. I bet mermaids are going to sweep.

Fan Art

I am in love with the design. This is a modified Secrebot, now a maid robot, and formerly an unfortunate human named Night. This piece was made by our new artist Giga and commissioned by JustinKombat. Give Giga money, his art is good!

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Witch Hunter Izana’s forum page will launch alongside the demo.

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Witch Hunter Izana’s Steam Page! Go wishlist it! (Itch.io page comes later)

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

A note on Patreon

In case you missed it, some people were having trouble getting their Patreon payments to go through, falsely being flagged as fraud. Patreon’s official guidance on the matter is to “keep trying”. If that’s you and you keep getting declined, please remember that you can “Follow” to keep getting updates. You can even follow this very blog!

Witch Hunter Izana – It’s Done!

That’s right, the game is now done. It wasn’t done before? Nope, because while I had completed all the mandatory content, I often have to cut things before the game goes out. Not this time, WHI has everything in it. Some things got reworked based on tester feedback so you can still ask me about what stuff didn’t make it into the final game when it comes out, but I am happy to say everything I wanted made it in.

It’s now bug fixes and polish work. Just yesterday the testers caught a bug that deletes your achievements, so trust me. This part is important.

Peak Freaks Is Out

Remember Peak Freaks? The hopping puzzle game I made with Chic? Yeah it’s out. It’s also free. You can go get it on Itch.io.

Other Development Stuff

My attention is on WHI right now, but it should be noted that our artists are still working on the Chapter 1 update. Chicken is working on Cavecrawler Sanya and Koops is getting Izuna a finalized battle portrait which is very cool. Giga also delivered a new Mannequin Mei piece based on feedback and patrons get to see it this week!

Giga can be commissioned

Hey remember how we have a new artist? He’s on the commission info page. That includes some of his portfolio!

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Witch Hunter Izana’s forums is “Coming Soon”.

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Witch Hunter Izana’s Steam Page! Go wishlist it! (Itch.io page comes later)

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Coding And Stuff

All that remains for WHI is to get the achievements, quality-of-life, and a bit of postgame stuff in it, plus the developer’s island (aka the interactive credits) and the game is ready to ship. I’m killing myself to get it done in time so if you see a trail of blood in the hallway, there’s no aliens or whatever, that’s just me.

Patrons will be doing a vote this week to determine the art direction of an upcoming piece for chapter 1. Don’t miss it!

Shameless Cross Promotion

I may have gotten roped into doing a cross promotion with another game developer. This is what, the third time? We got some cute girl images in their game, so they get a blurb on the blog. That’s fair, right?

Fresh Start is a life sim game focused on the voluntary feminization of the player. It features many options giving agency to the player, with choices that truly matter and extensive customization options ranging from clothes, to hair, and body shape.

• Customize your character: Choose from 234 unique clothing items and wearable toys.
• Extensive makeup system: 39 makeup items to doll up!
• Explore the three districts, with over 25 locations to choose from?
• Browse the web: 6 websites for you to use. (Do this a lot, trust me)
• Be a gas station clerk, a cam model, an actor, or any of the 10 jobs available.
• Male by day, sissy by night: You aren’t railroaded into full-time feminization.

So what are you waiting for? Start a new life!

Silly bonus Pic:

You see why I had to do the cross promotion.

Fan Art

Courtest of JustinKombat, created by Takazumishan, Izana gets turned into a statue by a demon! I really can’t get enough of that petrified pose, something about it is so potent.

Psst there’s a bonus pic too.

And then we have two Parsleys by HadezMuze. Yes I know she’s a character in a chapter that hasn’t even been released yet but it’s canon damn you. She’s in the game!

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Witch Hunter Izana’s forums is “Coming Soon”.

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Witch Hunter Izana’s Steam Page! Go wishlist it! (Itch.io page comes later)

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!