Author: SaltyJustice

Budget Report

We do periodic budget reports. This is the report for the second half of 2022. It’s very exciting, there’s so many numbers and they go up and down and wooo!

Development Stuff

All the artists are now back to work. Urimas is making some special sprites, Chicken is finishing the Empress emotes and then wants to work on Cave Crawler Sanya. Koops is making a very special character for the next part of chapter 2. Hund is redoing the map for chapter 1 to update it to the drawn-on style of chapter 2, and it will also feature dungeon maps!

I’m working on Monoceros for the months of January and probably February. More on that in the end-of-January report on that game. Once I have that done I’ll be making the Harpy Tower Defense minigame for chapter 2.

Help Wanted

There is now exactly enough slack in our budget that we can commission an outside artist to make emotes for us. Emotes are very draining because they’re so repetitive but people love how much they bring to the conversations. We’ll be hiring artists on a contract basis to make emote sheets for us! If you know an artist (or are one!) who might fit, send them to this page.

Version 4.12 Released

It’s a bugfix release. Fixed a problem with warping and a lot of small tile issues and typos.

Curious Cat

If you’re wondering why there’s so many, it’s because I was out of town for most of December. This is the backlog. Also there’s Pumpkin and boy is she a cutie.

Fan Art!

Probably the best piece by Hadezmuze yet, it’s Lotta and her faithful doll maid Parsley. When I showed this to Chicken, he said “Is that supposed to be Lotta? More like LOTTA HIPS!”. I work with these people, be glad you don’t.

Also what if Mei was a mannequin? Also by Hadezmuze. I like mannequins what can I say. I don’t know why.

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Monoceros will get a forum thread once the demo comes out sometime in 2023.

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 do a good job but DO NOT tell them that!

I’m out of town, obviously. Not a huge update from any of us.

However, I do have some news on other games!

Unity Edition Reaches 1.0

You can download it here. Congrats to TL and all the wacky people on Discord for somehow taking an insane idea of remaking classic mode in Unity engine, adding everything to it, and then finishing and releasing it. It’s done! It is currently getting a few bugfixes and is opened up for mods, so people can keep adding new forms and gameplay stuff.

If you want to know more, you have to join our Discord (in the links section like always) because the game doesn’t have a proper page to my knowledge.

Now that the game is done, TL is moving on to another project. What is it? I don’t know, neither does TL. But I’m sure it will involve cute girls and monsters and stuff, and I’ll be sure to tell you about it when I find out more.

Odyssey of Gianna is now on Steam

Remember that really good open world game that has a bunch of transformation and stuff in it? Yeah it’s on Steam. You should go play it and loudly announce to everyone on your friends list that you’re playing an H-Game, and it’s actually really good. It’s not Doom 2 good (very few things are) but it’s up there.

That’s all from the Bottled Starlight team for 2022. In 2023 we have a whole bunch of stuff coming out. A game, a prototype, more chapter 2, and maybe a few photos of cats.

As a head’s up, there will be a very short update post next week. Obviously I’m out of town doing Holiday Things.

Coding and Art

Chicken is working on emotes, Koops is doing some raptors, and Urimas is taking a break. Hund is making an explosion, it’s gonna be cool. Me, I’m working on Peak Freaks, which should be hopefully releasing in January, and Project Carnation. More details on Carnation later, once it’s a bit further along.

Peak Freaks is an action-puzzle game where you play as a dude who looks a lot like Master Higgins from Adventure Island. Your goal is to use puzzle blocks to climb across procedurally-generated race tracks and go for the best time, and/or sabotage an AI-controlled rival for kicks.

The art is done by Chicmonster (same artist as the one working on Monoceros) and I (Salty) did the coding. I presume it’ll be available for cheap on Itch.io, that’s up to Chic.

Curious Cat

Fan Art

Artist HadezMuze made Sanya in a maid outfit and then asked for input. I said it was unfair that Zeke didn’t also get to wear a maid outfit. I regret nothing.

There’s also this alt:

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Monoceros will get a forum thread once the demo comes out sometime in 2023.

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 do a good job but DO NOT tell them that!

Coding and Stuff

A bugfix patch was released to Patrons/Subscribers/Steam/Itch (it’s on the downloads page if you missed it) fixing most of the bugs that were reported last week. There’s a couple minor collision bugs leftover. The artists are back to work and I actually got some of the Empress emotes! Hooray!

This will be a short month because The Holidays are upon us. The Werecat story cover is now complete so expect the Amazon release of that just in time for your weirdo Christmas gifts of… soft/hardcore porn stories about transformation. Okay.

I am currently working on Project Carnation, more details later on. I will also be finishing up Peak Freaks this month (hopefully) and getting Monoceros done in the early parts of 2023.

Niko

What a handsome boy.

Curious Cat

Fan Art

Based off the bunny designs from chapter 2, we have Princess Zelda! She looks too cool NOT to be a playable character in BOTW 2 right? Right, Nintendo?

You know at some point I’m going to have to break it to people that Jeanne is a nerdy, quiet type. Until then, keep making fan art of her as a badass.

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Monoceros will get a forum thread once the demo comes out sometime in 2023.

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 do a good job but DO NOT tell them that!

As usual, you can get it on the patron downloads page. If you want it via Steam or Itch.io, the Steam instructions for the beta are on the patron downloads page.

What’s that? You can’t remember where the patron download page is? You can find it in the pinned post on Patreon! Subscribers from Subscribestar will get their own version of the post, too.

What’s in version 4.10? Two major new areas, a new town with tons of NPCs, two new playable forms (Harpy and Bunny), a new party member, a pile of new enemies and items, bugfixes, backend improvements, enemy AI changes, and UI upgrades. It’s got everything you need!

If you’re a new user and don’t know how to get this stuff: You need to be a patron/subscriber, or buy the game for 1$ on Itch.io. The links are at the bottom of every blog post.

Fan Art

We got DOUBLE CHRISTINE this week. What a time to be alive!

By popular vote, she is throwing the water bottle at the camera, not stealing it.

Curious Cat

Aggressive Links

DMITRI OUT OF NOWHERE

You thought you were safe from cats because it’s the links section. GOT YOU.

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Monoceros will get a forum thread once the demo comes out sometime in 2023.

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 do a good job but DO NOT tell them that!

Development

I’m still working on the update. I have a LIGHTNING POLL right here that you should fill out (it’s one question) as to whether we should release on the 31st, or when Urimas has the sprites ready. It may be another week if the vote goes that way.

Curious Cat

Links aplenty

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Monoceros will get a forum thread once the demo comes out sometime in 2023.

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 do a good job but DO NOT tell them that!

Hell Update

I sent a bugtest build to the testers yesterday. Dozens of bugs flooded in. My release target for the next update is the end of the month, so I spent all day fixing the many, many bugs. It will likely take another day to clean them up, and that’s without any story or content changes.

I still need the bunny TF from Mario, the Harpy TF will be getting an upgrade, Chicken has to send me a fully shaded bunny Sanya (but patrons get to see the unshaded one!) and Koops is getting me some minor character art. I have pulled a gun on Urimas to get all the sprites done before I have to kill him. We’ll see if he lives.

Like always it’s time for that mad dash to release. Hence why today is HELL REVEALED.

Curiosity Revealed

Niko Revealed

Links Revealed

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Monoceros will get a forum thread once the demo comes out sometime in 2023.

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 do a good job but DO NOT tell them that!

Code and Stuff

All the maps are in place, I’m working through topics and examination text. Chicken is “back” and will be getting me Bunny Sanya ASAP so she can make it into the prototype. Amazingly, I actually delegated some work so the initial balance pass will be done by Pyxxis and not me. Amazing! Maybe the prototype will be ready on time. Otherwise, I was cleaning up some of the bugs that have been reported.

Let’s all give Urimas a collective kick up the ass to get me my sprites.

I am hoping the release will be out at the end of November. Worst case, first part of December.

Curious Cat

Fan Art

The great thing about dolls is that, even if you miss, they don’t mind. But Lotta doesn’t miss.

Parsley is absolutely getting a cameo.

And here’s Jeanne Imp! Really has that succubus vibe but who am I to judge.

A Pile of Links

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!
Monoceros will get a forum thread once the demo comes out sometime in 2023.

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 do a good job but DO NOT tell them that!