Author: SaltyJustice

Odyssey of Gianna’s release date is September 22nd

Hey remember that game? That one that Salty shilled for? It’s coming out this week.

Here’s Vhiel’s patreon post with some more details.

Having played the game myself, I (Salty) being a tester for it, I can say it has my seal of approval. It has monstergirls, it has transformation, and most of all it has game design and a story. It’s actually fun to play. Hard to believe I know.

I did a cross-promotion to this almost two years ago in October of 2019. Since then a pandemic got in the way but now it’s coming out and you should go play it and enjoy it. If you liked Pandemonium you’ll probably enjoy this. Maybe. I’m not the boss of you.

Other Development News

Koops has now finished all of the concepts for the introduction of chapter 2. I’ve moved her onto making stuff for Slitted Eye. Expect to see Space Lesbians With Ray Guns, The Movie soon.

I’m almost done the second puzzle mechanic set of chapter 2. This one is a bit more involved and will probably have lots of lovely bugs for me to fix, but I think it’s pretty fun and inventive.

Chicken has finished her part of the upcoming commission release. That means she is now back to making 3D models. She is hoping to fix up Urimas’ cat model attempts.

All of the artists are now working on Slitted Eye. We hope to have a playable demo by the end of the month.

Curious Cat

The Big Link That Makes All of the Rules

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Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

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Fresh New Kicks

Tired of all those block-pushing puzzles that other games have? So are we? As such, Sanya kicks the blocks to move them.

This is basically what game design is.

I’m still working my way through the intro to chapter 2. Block puzzles are completed, the first of three new mechanics in chapter 2’s intro. There’s even more new mechanics later in the chapter, making it a doozy to code. Chapter 5’s big thing was just lighting, which is was less complex than kicking blocks.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

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Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

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Development Roadmap

Someone asked for a roadmap, so here it is!

Slitted Eye Promotional Image!

All of the artists have been redirected to Slitted Eye work in order to get the game out ASAP. Our goal is to have it up in time for the Spooky Season. I’m still working on cutscenes and scripts for chapter 2 because most of my coding job is done until I have animation renders done.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Argue about this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy our dumb 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!

Join our Discord and curse at me in person! Hunt our testers down like dogs. Dogs!

HOLY SHIT FAN ART

Source.

If you want to make Salty very happy, fan art is how you do it. Also the artwork is just superb, somehow managing to be colorful and joyful despite rilmani being literally none of those things.

I’m (Almost) Done the Maps

That’s right, the intro section to chapter 2 is almost mapped. I need some more tiles from Urimas and then it’ll be time for all the glue, scripting, characters. You know, everything that is not placing tiles.

I’m feeling pretty good about how the maps look and feel so far. Very adventure-y.

Slitted Eye Progress

I made a simple internal prototype using sample animations. The engine is “Done” because this kind of game doesn’t actually do a lot under the hood. We’ve also finished about half of the rooms and Urimas’ next assignment is to make the animations for the first level.

And we even got Mario to write some copy for the answering machine messages!

Curious Cat

I snuck a secret cat into the curious cat images. Did you see him? He saw you.

The Link Pile

Argue about this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy our dumb 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!

Join our Discord and curse at me in person! Hunt our testers down like dogs. Dogs!

You can download it here (Mega.nz / Mediafire) (Win/Lin/Mac Bundle)

Changelog

Major
*Used string pooling to cut savefile size in half or less.
*Fixed a serious bug that was massively inflating the filesize of saves. Combined with string pooling, saves are down to ~100kb!

Minor
*Fixed typos.
*The Region Notifier will scroll offscreen during cutscenes.
*Fixed 55’s job change icons being switched for Support and Subvert.
*Enemies forced to join your side by whatever means now give half their XP/JP/Platina.

Combat Balance
*Magnesium Grenades blind reduced to 30 (was 35).
*Paragons now get +100 INI instead of *100 INI. Which was pretty bonkers.
*JX-101’s Scavenge now correctly says it targets one enemy.
*Buffed JX-101’s accuracy by 30 so she’s not as bad during her section (she’s supposed to be thematically outmatched, but not useless).
*JX-101’s Flak Round is now 100% accurate.
*SX-399’s Flak Round is now 100% accurate. Just like mom used to make!
*JX-101’s Thunderbolt Slug now has +25 to its hit rate.
*Christine’s Lancer Inspire now correctly says it targets one enemy.
*Fixed several abilities showing the wrong damage factor. I changed some backend code, so please let me know if any more cases pop up.
*Christine’s Lancer Inspire now doesn’t glance.
*Critical Strike predictions should take into account Critical Strike Damage Bonus tags.
*Christine’s Live Wire Chain Zap now does 70 stun (up from 50).
*Adjusted some of chapter 5’s enemy stun thresholds to 70 so Chain Zap is useful in specific circumstances.
*Added cooldown notifications to Christine’s abilities that were missing them.
*Prediction box will now notify you if an effect has a zero percent chance to apply.
*Fixed 55’s Spearhead Full Auto being able to miss. Because it wasn’t supposed to.

Bugs
*Fixed a bug where the Mines boss was applying DoTs for zero damage.
*Bee Sniffers are now listed as being in Starfield Swamp instead of Evermoon Forest.
*Fixed several abilities not showing their hit rate.
*Adamantite found in the mines should now actually be added to the inventory.
*Abilities not in the active class will still tick their cooldowns when you switch classes in battle. They should also now reset correctly after battles.
*Fixed abilities with extremely low application rates clamping at zero, failing to take into account bonuses against the negative.
*Embolden now correctly lists itself as a Negative charge ability.
*Fixed mind-controlled or rubbered enemies (enemies forced to join your team) not giving their paragon KO count.
*Updated predictions handler to give Always Hits to stunned enemies.
*Fixed Christine’s Bounceback to work when covering an ally.

Probably a Release Tomorrow

I’ve cleaned up a lot of combat bugs this week in addition to making maps. The maps for chapter 2’s intro are almost done, but then the bug reports rolled in. Those will be handled in tomorrow’s release.

I’ll be making a Roadmap page a bit later so people can see what the overall plans for the game are.

Mario Did a Poll

It’s mermaid bondage nonsense. Humour him by filling it out.

Slitted Eye

We’re working on it, and Urimas has just prototyped some of the in-game animations. I’m hoping to have an internal prototype out this week. It’s a fairly simple game to play, there’s just a lot going on under the hood. It’s our most media-intensive game to date.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Argue about this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy our dumb 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!

Join our Discord and curse at me in person! Hunt our testers down like dogs. Dogs!

Map Progress

I have about 7 maps to go before I’m done mapping the intro section to chapter 2. Some of these will need new tiles from Urimas, but I should have all the maps done in a day or two.

Once maps are done, I have to glue them together, do some script stuff to register them to the engine, and then it’s time to start scripting.

Slitted Eye

It’s being worked on.

Our 3D artists are very good. I hope to make an internal prototype this week, time permitting.

Removing the Censor Bars

I accidentally left the censor bars on by default in version 3.24. You can turn them off by editing Config_Adventure.lua:

There will be an update later this week to advance the Lua version and fix some typos.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Argue about this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy our dumb 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!

Join our Discord and curse at me in person! Hunt our testers down like dogs. Dogs!

Download it (Mediafire / Mega.nz) (Win/Lin/Mac Bundle)

Changelog below. This one fixes a lot of typos and an edge-case in combat where recalculating max HP would KO a low-HP character.

Changelog

Major
*Added codebase for idle animations. The only one present is Human-Mei’s idle.
*Fixed the respawning health catalyst in Regulus City 198 C. It requires a new file (or new acquiring) to fix, but it won’t respawn in NC+ anymore.
*Save notes can now go to 128 characters. It will look silly if you make it past 60, which will be your fault, not mine.

Minor
*Updated the chapter 5 credits with all 100$+ patrons up to August 2021.
*Added “Doll” to the transformation opportunities when moving into vacuum areas for NC+.

Combat Balance
*Groaning Light now correctly buffs attack power and not accuracy.

Bugs
*Fixed NC+ chapter 5 not recognizing Doll Christine in one spot in Aquatic Genetics.
*Fixed a lot of typos.
*Fixed some incorrect tiles near the Biolabs Datacore.
*(Hopefully) fixed characters switching classes or changing HP Max buffs

Probably a Patch This Week

I was going to post a patch today, but then I noticed that a bug was in the wrong column on my trello and I absolutely need to fix it *before the next patch*. So I’ll fix it and post the update tomorrow.

Budget Report

Yeah I put together a budget report for August 2021. This is because Chickenwhite is now current. The only artist with back pay due is The Stinkehund! Hooray!

What Else is Going On

I’m steadily making maps for chapter 2 and trying to discharge the myriad other responsibilities I have. I need to make a new translation for Maiden Sealed in Stone (an update got released) and hopefully finish the translation for Ruins Exploration. As well as cleaning up various bugs, doing design work for chapter 2, getting the UI update ready, and dealing with bugs that come up.

Chickenwhite will be on vacation later this month, but otherwise everyone is still working. Koops just sent me the concept for the statue girls in chapter 2, and a photo of her cat who is very cute.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Argue about this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy our dumb 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!

Join our Discord and curse at me in person! Hunt our testers down like dogs. Dogs!