Author: SaltyJustice

Version 4.23 is out

The changelog is on the support page and also bundled with the update if you got it on Steam. This is mostly a bugfix and QoL update, with some new gameplay and audio options to configure voice clips and whatnot. Of important note is the new badge system in chapter 1, allowing you to equip and unequip badges so enemy categories will ignore you if they would ignore that specific form.

This will also be added to chapter 5 when I do that update, as will a lot of other things.

I am currently still doing a few more fixes for the translation and modernizing the WHI combat code in anticipation of the Hard Mode update, as well as making the big pile of abilities it will need. Bug reports for Ch1 have slowed down so I may be able to start the chapter 5 fixes before the end of February.

The Results of the Poll

Oh boy.

Oh boy.

This means that – me as an insect girl won. Yes, really. I am technically a character in the game because I appear in the end credits, but how did that actually win? So I will be PERSONALLY commissioning Chic to draw the second place winner, Living Armor, because the other 1000 people who played the game and don’t care about our weird in-jokes will want to see a WHI thing and not my own vanity project even though it’s not a damn vanity project, YOU voted for it.

For reference, I suggested “Verand petting a corgi”. It got 7 votes. I love democracy.

As for when to expect this, it will be posted when it is ready. February is an extremely busy month for Chic, so I don’t know when. It will be posted on Steam, Itch.io, and here whenever it is ready.

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!

Coding and Whatnot

The artists are off to the races on getting the chapter 5 stuff ready. Chicken is going to be finally getting the paragons to all have proper palette changes instead of just color inversion. Me? I fixed a ton of bugs last week and worked on a few features. There will be another bugfix patch for chapter 1 this week, as a few more bugs have popped up, and I have a feature or two I need to add (the badges system to chapter 1).

However, I spent a few days updating WHI’s Japanese translation. Fixed some errors, updated the spreadsheet, and switched the spacing to monospace. It’s all coming together! I have been told the translation is about 50% done.

Once that’s done, it’s back to the chapter 1 bugfixes, as well as doing a bunch of code updates to bring the combat AIs in line with the new systems. Lots of backend work that the player doesn’t really see but trust me, it’s worth it.

Witch Hunter Izana – Vote for Chic’s Art!

Last week I asked the public for their ideas. Chic decided to remove some of them, the rest? They’re on this public poll, vote for any that interest you! Next week I will send the results to Chic and hopefully we’ll have the 1000 sales reward done by the end of February.

Curious Cat

Look at him go.

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!

Definitely got 100% of the bugs this time, yep. Not a single bug for the rest of development. The update and changelog are on the support page as usual, and can be found on Itch.io and the Steam beta branch.

The update is now on the supporter page. This is mostly bugfixes, but has a few QoL changes and some added abilities. The changelog is on the supporter page.

That’s right, chapter 1’s update is now out for Patrons and Subscribers. I will be putting up the Itch.io version shortly and then figuring out what I’m doing for Steam (Steam is dropping OSX 32-bit support so I need to reconfigure the game a bunch, oh joy).

This update becomes public on the last day of February. It features 4 new forms, several new quests, an absurdly dangerous combat area filled with nasty paragons, a host of bugfixes, an updated map, new characters, a trainer who can trade platina for EXP, a fortune teller who can help you find catalysts you missed, a new way to deal with the rubber quest…

Look there’s a lot of stuff in this update. Hopefully it will hold you over while I get the chapter 5 update ready. The real sinister purpose of this update was to get all of you to bugtest the code modernizations I’ve done so get those bug reports rolling.

If you’re not a patron or subscriber or Itch.io… er (Itcher?) then you can get the password and download right now for just a buck! A single dollar! And if you can’t do that, we accept pictures of your animals, or poetry!

Silly Witch Hunter Izana Art Poll

Remember how I said that if WHI passes 1000 sales, Chic will make a piece of art (possibly horny)? Well, we passed 1000 sales! This week, go to this google form and throw in your suggestions. Next week, we’ll vote on which one Chic has to make. Chic reserves the right to remove any she doesn’t like from consideration.

Curious Cat

The Links

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!

Update is Next Week!

That’s right, next week we got us an update coming out. We’re putting the finishing touches on the balance right now, and I’m dealing with a few extra topic situations and the like. Unfortunately, the maps and one extra CG will not be ready in time for the initial launch, that will have to get patched in.

As usual, patrons/subscribers/whatever will get the game on the 29th of January, while the public will get it on the last day of February.

Get psyched!

Fan Art

If you want to cancel your patreon/subscribestar/whatever due to the knowledge that this is what I do with my money, I agree with you, but please don’t punish the artists. Koops and Stinkehund don’t do stuff like this, they deserve your support.

Made by the brilliant Mugenbine, script by Salty :3

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!

Projected Release Date

Now that things have calmed down and I have all of the features of the release done, I am going to have the release out by the last day of January for Patrons. Non-patrons get to have it on the last day of February.

Coding and Stuff

Urimas is currently working on the final sprite sheet (I want the trainer character to be doing aerobics!), Hund is working on the last “extra scene bit”, Koops is actually done but being a real sweetheart and making some extra talk sprites to add a bit of jazz, and Chicken actually finished a concept. For chapter 3. Yeah he spends most of his time at work so we put him on very long term assignments.

As for the coding part, I have finished putting in the voice acting for Mei, added a special-effects system so she can have a spooky echo when she’s a ghost, finished the new combat area’s scripts, and am now fixing up bugs and putting in enemy stats.

Curious Cat

Fan Art!

A silly comic commissioned from Mugenbine. Personally I think it needed to involve more punching but I keep getting told that you can’t just hit people every time you have a problem despite that being what RPGs are about???

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!

Coding and Bugs

Bugs bugs bugs there’s so many bugs. This is what happens when you overhaul a hundred ability files, scripts, and classes. But I’m almost done those, ho ho ho. There’s a few more minor features to be added, and most importantly, the big optional combat section I need to finish.

Urimas got me some sprites and Koops should be finishing some character concepts this week. I’m very tired!

New Debate: Is Niko Perfect?

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!

I got Sick!

Stomach flu, it sucks! I’ve lost a week of work and more than that of sleep. Feeling better now so it’s time to finish up the maps. I’m sending a build to the testers tomorrow no matter what.

Sprites are all done, portraits are done, it’s all on me. *Sigh*

Curious Cat

New Year, Old Links

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!

Holidays!

Boy does we got some presents for you this year. First up, Koops’ eyes lit up when I said we could have a fortune teller in chapter 2. Reindeer Girl. Never get in the way of an artist who is inspired. So here we have our festive holiday reindeer girl fortune teller!

But that’s not all! Remember those designs we had made? Spacesuit Christine and Lounge-singer Christine got made into space pinups!

And you can get them on RedBubble because some people have been asking for more designs on there. Finally, a shower curtain for me!

Now go enjoy all your favourite holiday traditions, like eating whatever you find in the grease trap, or setting the house on fire for tax reasons. I know what I’m doing!

Curious Cat

You will be visited by three links and then wake up and yell at a random kid over what day it is.

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!