I’m working on minor quests right now while My Guy is going to be getting the start of balance work done. I don’t know how long that’s going to take! Urimas has been working with me to make tiles and Hund is working on the new area maps. Chicken DOES think we’ll be able to cram the cavecrawler TF into the update, meaning there might be up to four new TFs for the update. That makes it pretty easily the biggest update for the game ever.
Inky has completed the NPC sponsor work and is working on the sexdoll TF. We might see this for next month’s WoR update, I’ve seen the concepts and they look awesome already.
Three Short Steps Out Soon (?)
In a big upset, Judith has finished the art for the story before the editing is done. That doesn’t happen often! Knighttime is still in progress, you might get two new stories this month.
Three Short Steps, due to its subject matter, will be released for free. I don’t feel right about charging for it. So enjoy it, it’s a good story!
Kitsune quest is DONE. Took forever, it’s done. I am now going to be working on balance, and have contracted my Balance Guy (oh dear god) to put numbers on things. I’ll be making skills and enemies and stuff for the next little while, might break things up with some of the minor quests like GAMBLING or the kitsune trials of cunning.
PaletteForms Updated to v1.30, Now With Gummies!
Yep, db_palette has done it again. You can find the new gummies on the south beach. I want to make an actual campaign for the PaletteForms mod, at this point there’s so much that it could actually carry a (short) game of its own. My to-do list is long, though, so maybe later.
Here’s our roadmap for the remainder of 2025. Inky has made a big dent on the sponsor concept work, in fact producing several final pieces. She also wants to prioritize the sticker/wallpaper rewards so they’re ready for Halloween. For those of you who are backers of the high tiers, we’ll be contacting you later in the year once a few other things are done. Keep in mind this is the roadmap, we’re working to get these things ready.
As for me, I’m making good progress on the RoP chapter 2 update. After that, an engine tune-up since there have been some odd texture problems reported. There’s also a very small puzzle game prototype I want to do this year and then it’s time for WoR’s tool work. I need to get 3D level editors ready and make a bunch of updates Inky wants for the new UI of the game.
So first, Inky intends to make a few changes to the designs. First, the Witch Queen has some tails and more eyes. Here she is showing off her ankles. Scandalous!
Dahlia is also getting a new design, obscured here with a pixellation filter because IT’S A SECRET. You can see that the colours are darker here, which will be reflected in the level design as well.
Sable! One of the sponsor characters, Sable is Alia’s band manager. She survived the mess at the carnival and made her way to the neutral area in the university hub. How? The skills a good band manager picks up over the years: Getting the hell out of there when things start to go bad.
Sable keeps track of rumours and potential missions for you, helping you find quests and digging up dirt on the other characters in the pactrealms.
Elly! Another sponsor character. She happened to be wearing a bee costume at the carnival and you’ll be able to meet her. When the witches attacked… well, Honeybunns and her minions thought she was one of them. She’s going to need your help to get out of this alive and human.
Pudicitia is a succubus, but she’s not out to steal your lust. Well, sort of. She’s willing to give you some buffs and special items, in exchange for applying Influence or even applying curses to your teammates. Is she an ally? She has her own goals. Stay on her good side.
The Living Sextoy! Another sponsor teaser, this is an enemy you’ll encounter and it’s a full transformation. You can probably guess it’ll be in the Lust realm, and hoo boy is it a fun one. You’ll lose access to most non-healing magic spells when transformed, but get a fairly big bonus to… healing… spells. Yeah, healing. Look it makes their HP go up!
Lastly, we have Trine. Why is he a magic bunny and a doll maid? Trine gets around, he’s looking for a way to escape, just like you are. Unfortunately, unlike your party, he’s… not very good at fighting or sneaking. You’ll have to bail him out more than a few times, but he’s always very grateful.
Now Inky has also been working on getting some of the other characters caught up. So here’s Clover as a waitress!
I have a lot of discretion here so I decided on what I was going to pick to show off.
I hope you think I chose right. It’s nice to see Penny actually happy with a status effect isn’t it.
That’s it for this month. Next month’s update depends on what Inky and the artists get done. Keep in mind she’s still working and we haven’t hired the new artists on yet (currently looking at some portfolios). Very excited!
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I have finished the second leg of the kitsune quest, so now it’s on to the next one. The Tests of Cunning! Basically little puzzles scattered throughout Trafal like finding a specific spot on the map or shooting an object. You have to solve any 3 to complete this section of the quest and that means I can add more later. Solve them all and you maybe get a punch in the stomach.
I’ve also got Dias working on the Raccoon TF comics and Urimas working on the new sprite sheets for Sanya.
Next week will be the Witches of Ravenbrook monthly update. I’ll try to slap together a roadmap for that so you can see what our plans are.
WHI Mods!
db_Palette is BACK with a new WHI mod, this time modifying the mummies. As usual it’s on Steam or the publicfolder if you use another release.
I am told an even sillier mod might be on the way. Exciting!
New Tales of Strings Soon???
Chic finished the title and it’s making me crazy how good it is. The other pieces are on the way and I’m so damn excited.
I have also contacted a few more artists for future stories. I hope I can get releases lined up for the rest of the year.
Bottled Starlight is now on Welcome Change!
Yep, we’re on there. You can get the Tales of Strings stories there, and Varsity Vixens is 50% off until the end of August. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a place to get comics and stories explicitly about transformation. Some other big authors like Blackshirt Boy and BritTF are on there, and there’s a bunch of free comics easily found via the search bar. If you’re kind of pissed at Itch.io for their (numerous) fuck-ups as of late, including how they still kinda haven’t paid our studio like 2000 dollars yet (it’s been 4 months, Itch!) maybe give Welcome Change a look.
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I have finished the Raccoon stuff, Mario has finished the TF and I will be sending it off for comic production. I have started work on the Kitsune quest, which is long and multi-faceted so this one is going to take a while. It starts with beating up bandits and ends with a HEARTFELT LOVE SCENE.
Koops has been working on finishing up the various characters on the glacier, hopefully I won’t need any placeholders. There’s still a lot of work to do before the update is ready, as I haven’t even started enemy balance work or items. Lots to go!
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There might be a new WHI update this week, as it was reported that there might be a memory problem in some way related to mods. I’ll be looking at that as soon as I’m done the Raccoon stuff. Raccoon just needs its volunteer route put in place and it’s ready to go.
Assuming I figure out what’s up with the memory, I will then be working on the kitsune quest (assuming I can not spell it kistune in the meantime). That one is long and involved, requiring two dungeons and boss fights, a bunch of puzzles, a lot of NPCs, and a minigame.
After that, it’s chasing down all the various subquests and NPCs but the bulk of the work will be done.
Inky is making good progress on Ravenbrook, mostly catching up on filling out the forms for the other three playable protagonists and getting to work on the sponsor concept art.
At some point (not this week) I will put together a roadmap for WoR and publish it so you all know what the schedule is going to be. It’s gonna be a big game!
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At long last I finished the damn raptor quest which has been bothering me since forever. Now it’s on to the raccoon quest! Koops has been drawing up a storm and clearing out the backlog and Chicken even did Raccoon Sanya’s design! Things are looking up!
Plans for Witches of Ravenbrook
Currently, our plans are to get the sponsorships at least to the concept phase by the end of the month. Inky is working on that. Whenever the sponsorships are concepted out, we’ll move on to the Kickstarter NPC reward concept work, which will be September or so. All of this depends on Inky’s schedule of course. We will contact you via Kickstarter if you are of the tier in question.
Otherwise, it’s mostly me producing asset lists and worrying about design documents. My focus is still RoP for the time being will Inky gets the pre-production ready.
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That’s right! The KS is over! I really wasn’t expecting this, I thought we’d struggle to make the base amount and instead we’re at 260%! So what now for WoR? Well, our goal right now is to get all the sponsorship concept art done in August (if possible) while I’m writing design documents.
I’m overhauling how the class system and event system are going to work based on player feedback from the prototype. I think you’re going to like it a lot. I may share some of these design ideas later in the process, but for now, hooray!
Tales of Strings: Crush Depth
The next Tales of Strings story is out! You can find it on Itch.io. If you just want to see cool shark art, check out Judith’s post on it. This one has undersea action, shark transformation, and a bit of romance.
As usual, if you’re a patreon/subscribestar supporter for 5$ total over the months of June and July, shoot me a DM and I’ll hook you up with a free copy. We also accept poetry or photos of nearby animals!
Development Update!
I have implemented both versions of the raptor TF and all the complexities within, so now I just need to finish the final implementation of the quest and then start filling it out. It’s actually a pretty involved quest and I think it’s fun, you’ll enjoy it. Once that’s done, it’ll be moving onto the Raccoon Quest (which is considerably shorter, it’s not even a real quest!) and then maybe the kitsune stuff. I want to get all three TFs in for this release if possible.
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Witches of Ravenbrook Kickstarter Meets 8th Funding Goal! 45 Hours to Go!
That’s right, we passed our 8th Stretch Goal! (Inky will make an updated graphic later today, this post will be updated with that :3)
There are two days left, so if you want to get your name in the credits or just show support, now’s the time! I’m still just overwhelmed by the sheer amount of support here, and there’s so much work to do.
Okay About That AMA
We had an AMA last week. At almost that exact time, Reddit had some kind of major site outage. People could create new posts but couldn’t post replies, basically hamstringing the whole thing. It was extremely sad/funny that the first time we use Reddit for anything major it melts down. Hah!
We have instead created a channel on the discord to allow people to ask questions. Also if you ask them over on the BSky I will get them to Inky to answer, and I will pick a few out to post on the blog along with the Whisp.sh questions.
We may or may not do another AMA at some point, because who knows if Reddit is going to explode next time in some creative way! So for now it’ll be the usual methods.
Note: I forgot to ask permission to show people’s names and whatnot so I’ll be removing those in these images. Whoops!
There’s actually a ton of questions. I have asked the reddit moderator to also send any questions we get there along so we can get them taken care of. I didn’t post every single question here so if you’re curious hit up the discord!
Development Update (Is now in third place?)
So Koops should now be back to work after all those international shenanigans are sorted out. I have reworked the raptor quest a bunch because you can start it from multiple areas and there’s a lot of dialogue. I am now currently working through all the humorous commentary, you can ask all the NPCs in the chapter who have topics about it and most of them (except Zeke!) have something dumb to say.
We’ve also got landscapes and sprites underway, and DurrDiss delivered new music. Oh and Dias finished the raptor TF comic and Mario finished the editing on it, so now I can implement it at last! Been a lot of work this week.
The Second Knights of Justice Story (will be released next week hopefully!)
Yeah I know you’re all HOTLY ANTICIPATING it but the last art piece is still underway. Look forward to it! It’s a really good story! I’m taking a bath on this one in more ways than one!
By https://vgen.co/2D2_Art I had to make this one a gallery because oh my god look at it. It’s insane. If there’s a lifetime achievement award give it to 2D2Art here.
I kind of want to feature the anchor image as the post’s ref image but also I kind of don’t?
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I finished the subtexturing update and fixed several WHI bugs, but one of the testers is having a problem with a black screen appearing when trying to save the game. As soon as I figure out the problem a new WHI release will be put out, upgrading the engine to v4.0. This will also apply to the next RoP update and WoR when it comes out.
Other than that, I’m now back to work on the chapter 2 update. I made a dent on the raptor quest and am writing out scripts! Scripts!
June and July have been wild months but I’m hoping to really knuckle down and get these quests done so Chapter 2’s update comes out smoothly.
Witches of Ravenbrook Plans
With the reaching of the second extra-stretch goal, we have the budget to add some more monsters, more TFs, and other cool things. Inky and I had a meeting and we decided on what we’re adding. We also ended up moving some things around as the new Circus area shifts priorities around a bit. We also decided on the bonus boss but obviously I’m not spoiling that yet!
I’ll just tease you with a few of the new TFs: Circus animals, Alraunes, and Nagas! The alraunes are an idea I have for an area-specific persistent status, not an Influence TF, and depending on playtesting this all might change a lot. There’s also about two dozen new enemies who will inflict QuickTFs or status effects on you, and we added new areas like the Bunny Casino in the Greed area and a special domain in the Lust area that I won’t spoil yet.
Who are those silhouettes up there? Oh you’ll find out, believe me.
Ask Witches Anything (AWA)
We will also be hosting an AMA towards the end of the Kickstarter’s time on our reddit. The time will be Wednesday the 16th of July, 2025, after 6pm EST. Inky will be on hand to field questions, and technical stuff will be answered later by me (Salty!). You can also ask Lily questions and we will convey them to him :3
The AMA will be hosted on our Reddit. I will post a reminder post on Wednesday as well.
Stories are Underwater!
The joke is that the next story takes place underwater (and has shark girls). Yeah sure. Anyway, the next story in the Tales of Strings series, Crush Depth, has completed editing and just needs a few more illustrations to be ready! I hope to publish it before the month is done.
In addition, Petting the Werekitty will be getting illustrations. We’re looking for potential illustrators for the other RoP stories before we republish them on Itch.io. Look forward to more about that soon!
More Conventional Modes of Answering Questions
Fan Art MELTDOWN. NUCLEAR RADIATION. YOU WILL DIE DUE TO THIS FAN ART.
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Recently there have been some problems where people were getting out-of-memory crashes. Well, not recently, it’s been going on for a while but it has gotten more pronounced lately, possibly due to a windows update. Whatever the reason, people with tons of RAM still are unable to allocate large blocks of memory.
I did some research and wrote up some new code to block memory on large texture out, so hopefully this will fix things! It may cause a slight increase in loading times, at least until I figure things out. There will be a WHI update, likely this week, once we’ve had a chance to test things a bit more.
Witches of Ravenbrook Stretch Goals!
Oh dear, this means we need to put in some more enemy variants and transformations! In our original draft we had ideas for each realm, and then cut it down to 2 per realm. In the gardens, that meant we had Doll/Vinethrall. Now we’ll have to put in some of those ideas, that means you get more cool enemies and transformations to enjoy!
Other Development Stuff
I’m going to be working on optimizing and testing the subtexture improvements for a little while before I get back to work on chapter 2. The engine improvements will come to RoP during its next update, and also be added to WoR since it’s the same engine (hooray).
Unfortunately Urimas got injured so we’re going to be a bit behind on sprites (again) but he’s good at making up for lost time. We also have some (mostly) complete talk sprites so that will be on this week’s bonus stuff, courtesy of Koops!
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Pandemonium Development 