Quick Development Update

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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It’s technically not fan art because it’s by Koops and this also is canon and literally happened but here it is!

This, however, is not canon. Yap yap.

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Obsession (Links)

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.
WITCHES OF RAVENBROOK KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!!!

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!
Knights of Justice: Varsity Vixens is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).

Witch Hunter Izana Subtexture Update – Soon!

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!

Questions and Answers

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The Pile Containing Links

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.
WITCHES OF RAVENBROOK KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!!!

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!
Knights of Justice: Varsity Vixens is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).

Witches of Ravenbrook is FUNDED

The support was kind of overwhelming and blew right past our first set of stretch goals, so now we’re on to the second set!

It was quite stunning to see this much support! I can’t wait to start making this game so you can all play it!

If you missed out or just want to read what’s on the KS page, it’s right here.

Witch Hunter Izana v1.26 Released

A fairly minor patch that fixes some problems with the options menu and mistranslated text. Also adds functionality for resetting display names during costume setting, which allows mods to change the display names of characters.

The update is on Steam and Itch.io!

Alt-Glass and Maid Ghost Mods for WHI Released!

Play with new glass-transformations made by db_Palette (I love you) (Mega.nz / Mediafire) or change the ghost transformation into the maid ghosts from RoP by Xandra! (I also love you) (Mega.nz / Mediafire)
These will be uploaded to Steam shortly as well!

Bonus image:

The Development (of Runes of Pandemonium)

At long last I have completed the interiors, barring the two interiors I don’t have tiles for (Urimas is making them as I type this). That means the map work for the next update is done, so I’ve decided my goal is to get the raptor TF and quest all sorted out next. I should also have (most of) the resources needed for the Kitsune quest, though a few talk sprites are missing. Hopefully those will get ready soon.

Stinkehund has been working on some backgrounds for the peaks of Trafal, where if you head to the top of Mt. Itoi you’ll be able to see much of Trannadar as well as the Deadlands area near Trafal. Meanwhile, if you’re on the Dragonspine Bridge you’ll be able to see most of the Old Capitol Grounds. Breathtaking!

Whispers!

Hey check out one of my OCs (by https://bsky.app/profile/echochips.bsky.social) :3

Fan Art: A gift to the world, or a noose around your neck? The first one!

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The Link Pile (Now With Ravenbrook KS!)

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.
WITCHES OF RAVENBROOK KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!!!

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!
Knights of Justice: Varsity Vixens is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).

Head on over to Kickstarter to back it! We’ve got a month to raise 10,000 CDN to get this game funded! Let’s celebrate the Witch of Pride’s month :3

More on Ravenbrook

We’re doing pre-production work right now, getting the game’s story locked up, figuring out our asset requirements, and possibly soon, me making the proper 3D editor. Some major characters will be getting the more-proper 3D treatment too, because you all knew you wanted low-poly retro Fluffs in your game.

Meanwhile, BlueLily has been getting some things ready. Behold, the chess pieces! This is the Bishop for the Black team.

And here we have the extremely dangerous Queen for the White Team. Don’t underestimate her because she’s cute and a little rubbery, she’s basically a boss and can whallop your team. And if that happens…

Alia has been turned into a Knight piece! This is actually one of the sponsored transformation sets, it has its own encounter area and boss battles. I trust I won’t need to teach you all how to play Chess here, you can just use firewave and icebolt to take these guys down.

Ah, but who is Alia?

Want to read up on the game’s cast? All the profiles are on the Kickstarter page, go check it out!

I also feel compelled to correct some misconceptions about Chris’ favourite animals. The plushie TF for them will be this adorable patchwork duck :3

Okay, one last little treat before I go back to the normal update. While wandering around in the dungeon, you might get calls on the walkie talkie from Sable (bottom right), Alia’s band manager and fortunate survivor, giving you tips and also keeping you up to date with what’s going on back at the hub. You might also get them from Fluffs, but she’s probably just advertising sales like she doesn’t know what spam is. Or maybe she invented spam calls in ancient Mesopotamia.

These little conversations may occur randomly and can add a lot to the characterization, and will change depending on the order you play the game in – or if you join a witch. Fluffs still likes the colour of your money, after all.

We now return to your regularly scheduled development update.

Coding and Stuff for Runes of Pandemonium

I am like 2-3 maps away from finishing the maps needed for the next update. I was having trouble with some of the areas of the Dormine Aqueduct but I got a burst of inspiration so I think the final set of maps there will be really cool. Then I just need to make the spa area, which I have decided is going to feature a goddamn MINIGAME. What is wrong with me? I don’t know!

The raptor TF is also written and I have contracted Dias to get the TF comic under production. Hopefully both the new TFs will have their comics ready before launch.

I’m going to try to knock out the maps ASAP, might not work on the minigame immediately. You’ll earn a Skill Catalyst if you get a good enough score and I want a stupid bonus image where Sanya high-fives Raelynn (for making her a ton of money).

I also really want to get started on the 3D editor for WoR but, alas, my obligations are to get the next RoP update out ASAP SO PEOPLE LEAVE ME ALONE.

Also there’s gonna be new hunting mechanics in the Old Capitol Grounds :3

Wherein I Answer Questions

“Hey Salty what’s with the ‘Reveal’ button there?”
It apparently lets you see traces of who sent something anonymously, a feature I honestly don’t want because you should be able to ask questions anonymously! Get rid of that!

Fan Art Tribulations!

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By https://vgen.co/archiie (MEI MY BELOVED)

By https://bsky.app/profile/prismadreams.bsky.social/post/3lrw3lroa722w

By https://bsky.app/profile/aleklah.bsky.social/post/3lrw6srjegs2p

By https://bsky.app/profile/faslerid.bsky.social

By https://vgen.co/ramen-nood1es_arts (I’m such a furry for wolf Cyrano now :3)

By https://vgen.co/Amini_2301 (No I don’t know either)

By https://vgen.co/Yobune

By https://bsky.app/profile/echochips.bsky.social/post/3lrwmqgthe22a

By https://vgen.co/aseruNJZ

By https://bsky.app/profile/arkmist.bsky.social

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By https://vgen.co/sykeveil :3

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By https://bsky.app/profile/nymr000.bsky.social

By https://vgen.co/soooyuw

By AAAAAAAAAAAAA (That’s capital A 13 times by the way)

By https://vgen.co/mocca_chi

By https://bsky.app/profile/wind21.bsky.social/post/3ls4uap3zbs2g

By https://bsky.app/profile/manglemangos.bsky.social/post/3ls4v2fprn22e

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By https://bsky.app/profile/fuurin0.bsky.social

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By BerriBanna https://bsky.app/profile/berribanna.bsky.social

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By https://bsky.app/profile/aesonia.bsky.social

By https://vgen.co/chayote

By https://bsky.app/profile/b0rium.bsky.social

By https://vgen.co/LiliLava

By https://vgen.co/Yuji-Shirogane

By https://vgen.co/Hoyayuyu/

By Judith :3 https://vgen.co/blue_orchid/portfolio

By https://bsky.app/profile/o7saya.bsky.social

By https://vgen.co/Opalahn

By https://vgen.co/eirianart

By https://vgen.co/jermpet

By https://bsky.app/profile/ourogami.bsky.social

By https://bsky.app/profile/ourogami.bsky.social (GOTH DOLL GOTH DOLL)

By https://bsky.app/profile/zirmangoes.bsky.social/post/3lsa4h6qklc2f

By https://bsky.app/profile/echochips.bsky.social

By https://vgen.co/laaras/

By https://vgen.co/melondek

By https://bsky.app/profile/lechuzaz.bsky.social

By https://bsky.app/profile/nicanjil.bsky.social (She’s sad she has to leave her ghost friends!)

By https://vgen.co/CraneX

The Link Pile (Now With Ravenbrook KS!)

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.
WITCHES OF RAVENBROOK KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!!!

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!
Knights of Justice: Varsity Vixens is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).

Budget Report

I keep forgetting to post the June Budget Report, so now I have posted the June Budget Report. You can now not look at it.

Coding and Whatnot

Two more estates to go! Mapping for the next update is coming along well despite all the things that keep getting in my way. The WoR Kickstarter will be launching next week as well so get excited!

The Jenveld and Dormine estates need to be finished, as well as a few minor interiors, and then the maps are complete. I expect to start commissioning the TF comics this week, and maybe I’ll get the Raptor quest done soon.

Questions!?

Fan Art!

By https://bsky.app/profile/eggulette.bsky.social/post/3lr773lt22224

By https://vgen.co/Gina_C_M/

By https://bsky.app/profile/mamabeefus.bsky.social

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By https://vgen.co/Hoyayuyu

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By https://bsky.app/profile/momotowan.bsky.social

By Judith (SUGAR GLIDERS!)

The Links

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!
Knights of Justice: Varsity Vixens is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).

Tales of Strings: Varsity Vixens is now out!

Yep, the next Tales of Strings story is out. This is the first in a series I’m writing about a sentai team, the Knights of Justice and their struggles against the villainous True Path that loves brainwashing people into animal-human hybrids! Yeah, every entry includes TF, what kind of writer do you think I am? Big thanks to BlueLily who was basically the inspiration behind the whole series, I can’t stop writing about these heroic five.

You can check it out on Itch.io, or if you’re a patron and over the past 3 months have contributed over 10$, send me a DM on patreon and I’ll line up a copy. We also accept cat photos and poetry if money is tight, I just want more people to read my stories damn it. Please keep in mind Lily gets half of all the revenue so if you like his art you’re supporting it!

Ravenbrook!

Things have calmed down on the other fronts so, if everything goes well, the Witches of Ravenbrook Kickstarter will be launching in two weeks. I wanted one week but apparently it takes time to verify bank information, who knew. More on that when it launches obviously.

Game Development, Madness

In addition to getting all the KS stuff ready, I have resumed map work and completed some of the interiors. I am currently working on the Grand Imperial Hotel, which is both an important place where NPCs hang out and also a dungeon where you fight Orc Footballers. Less dangerous and more rowdy than their WHI counterparts, Miss Kigslap is at her wits end with these rough and tumble boyz.

I also completed Mt. Itoi in northeast Trafal, which means the only remaining maps are the hotel dungeon, the Dormine Estate, and the Jenveld Estate.

I also have Mario writing up the two TF sequences that are definitely going to be in the next release, Raccoon and Raptor. I really want to squeeze Kitsune in but there are some challenges on that one, it’s a very long quest chain that will take you all across the Old Capitol Grounds. Hopefully the TF comic pages will be ready by release.

How About Some ANSWERS

Fan Art Freakout!

By https://bsky.app/profile/sitlalikwe.bsky.social (God damn what a piece! Now that’s how you do a TF!)

By https://vgen.co/Superbrantendo

By https://vgen.co/liliwi

By https://bsky.app/profile/aleklah.bsky.social/post/3lqo2kemqsc2t

By https://bsky.app/profile/echobows.bsky.social (Good art captures what is important and for Izana that’s ANGER)

By https://vgen.co/aseruNJZ

By https://vgen.co/Mafuluv/ (If you like ghost maids hoo boy is there something coming for you)

By https://bsky.app/profile/mamiwashizu.bsky.social

By https://vgen.co/qui

By https://bsky.app/profile/vistrology.bsky.social

By https://bsky.app/profile/eggulette.bsky.social/post/3lqq2uw4mr22j (If you want to make Xandra happy this is how you do it)

By https://bsky.app/profile/meushikeii.bsky.social (The cute widdle face on this one makes me insane)

By https://bsky.app/profile/harune-seira.bsky.social (This card predicts cuteness but also strife)

By https://vgen.co/taquitotd (O_o)

By https://vgen.co/Reneriii_/

By https://bsky.app/profile/yamyamyammy.bsky.social/post/3lqs2rsh7ik2q

By https://bsky.app/profile/droachillustra.bsky.social (ZEKE REPRESENTATION)

By https://vgen.co/ramen-nood1es_arts (LOVE IT!)

By https://bsky.app/profile/kirilewd.bsky.social

By https://bsky.app/profile/ourogami.bsky.social (HELL YEAH)

By https://bsky.app/profile/alwenart.bsky.social

By https://bsky.app/profile/eggulette.bsky.social/post/3lqtlvqvrec2k (Quote from Chic “Cute”)

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By https://bsky.app/profile/zirathell.bsky.social (What is a RilMANi?)

By https://bsky.app/profile/charlikesalmon.bsky.social

By https://bsky.app/profile/yonniboi.bsky.social (Kitsune Sanya is hard to beat.)

By https://bsky.app/profile/toastitos.bsky.social/post/3lqvpycr4o22p (Might be my favourite depiction of her yet)

By https://bsky.app/profile/eggulette.bsky.social/post/3lqvr4lhges2i (YEAH, YUKI!)

By https://vgen.co/Hollow_OG

By https://bsky.app/profile/midnightsaint.bsky.social (You don’t just have to be cute, suave can work too)

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By https://vgen.co/HoxFals

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By https://vgen.co/000sandboxorz

So Many Links!

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!
Knights of Justice: Varsity Vixens is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).

Coding and Things That Resemble Coding

I have completed the NPCs and examinables for areas that are not Poterup village, and am now working on Poterup. There are a LOT of NPCs and subplots and topics and stuff in Poterup so this will take a while. Remember when it took me like a week to make the shopping part in Regulus and it was so worth it? Now that but it has foxes.

Once that’s done, it’s time to start on the big raptor quest and maybe some of the other area quests. I really want to get the kitsune TF and questline into the next update because I know people want that one a lot but there’s so much to do in the Old Capitol Grounds!

WHI Passes 1500 Sales, Bitbucket is Now Public

Yep. In fact the original “Public Assets” goal was 5000 sales but people keep asking me for image refs and stuff so here it is. There is still a bunch of new stuff coming to WHI. A new pack-in mod with a new playable character, some new areas added in a free DLC, male main character options, and voice acting update so you can hear Izana howl like a wolf.

Now yes I recognize that at this point you could technically compile all the assets for the game and use a compiled copy of the also-public Starlight Engine to get the game entirely for free. Please don’t do that, this game does help pay my rent. Also I’m sure there are pirates out there who have done the hard work for you anyway.

Link to the bitbucket. You can use the assets here for promotion or even borrow them for your own projects, so long as you link back to Bottled Starlight and don’t attempt to take credit for making them. Have fun!

Questions and Answers (This is in dispute)

A Torrent of Fan Art

By https://bsky.app/profile/kisetsukaze.bsky.social Nobody bites my girlfriend but ME

by https://vgen.co/_YUKIMORIN_

by https://bsky.app/profile/droachillustra.bsky.social maybe we should be hiring droach for our chapter begin/end art.

by https://www.ddinstagram.com/superbrantendoblog/p/DKKXE-ROWIC/

Last month was Mermay so take your medicine! By https://bsky.app/profile/kirilewd.bsky.social

by https://www.instagram.com/dredzanx/ Being dead IS pretty metal

by https://bsky.app/profile/o7saya.bsky.social (Best Mei)

by https://www.instagram.com/miyoi_o/

by https://www.instagram.com/alliruu

by https://bsky.app/profile/hhonchkrow234.bsky.social I blame BlueLily for making me a furry but this isn’t helping

by https://bsky.app/profile/alwenart.bsky.social

by https://bsky.app/profile/gymnopedies.bsky.social

by https://bsky.app/profile/arkmist.bsky.social

by https://www.instagram.com/2dittwoart/

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by https://bsky.app/profile/lechuzaz.bsky.social

by https://vgen.co/6shiragaku9 I am loving this Summer Werecat Mei stuff

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by https://bsky.app/profile/lepaa.bsky.social

by https://bsky.app/profile/usjkgugu.bsky.social/post/3lqasbzcks22e

(Zeke REPRESENT)

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by https://www.instagram.com/stamlex/ (Note: Izuna would never become corrupted she’s too much of a goody two shoes. Best I can do is she writes a gossip article)

by https://bsky.app/profile/jblueorchid.bsky.social/post/3lqd6mhsdo22e

by https://bsky.app/profile/zirmangoes.bsky.social/post/3lqdjaz3f2c2q

by https://bsky.app/profile/angeban.bsky.social (Sophie might have some comments!)

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by https://bsky.app/profile/bigmeandragonlady.bsky.social/post/3lqdnd4kvas2j

by https://bsky.app/profile/yer0.bsky.social/post/3lqdrt2d7422d

by https://vgen.co/Hollow_OG

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by https://bsky.app/profile/asphodelis.bsky.social

by https://bsky.app/profile/eggulette.bsky.social/post/3lqf2b374nk26 Finally Florentina gets some love!

by https://bsky.app/profile/vekuria15.bsky.social/post/3lqfdioqun22v

by https://bsky.app/profile/rpg217.bsky.social

by https://bsky.app/profile/waywardrosalind.standingintheodds.com

by https://www.instagram.com/miyoi_o?igsh=MWpyZnpic3gzc3k5cA== (Summer Werecat!)

by https://bsky.app/profile/chqileaf.art/post/3lqfnikno5s2t

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by https://bsky.app/profile/echochips.bsky.social

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By Coco

The Links will FIND YOU

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).

A Bit Of Coding

Map glue work is complete, which means I am now going through all the maps and adding NPCs and examinables. In fact, I wrote a bit more about this further down the post! It’s not exciting but it’s fun!

There’s a lot, lot, LOT of NPCs in the Old Capitol Grounds are, it’s very inhabited and has a lot to see and do. It might take me a big chunk of June just to get all of this work done. I haven’t even started on the interiors yet!

Urimas is working on some NPCs as well as some sprites for an experiment I’d like to do at some point. I’ll show those off when they are done.

On Maps and NPCs

So here we have a section of the Old Capitol Grounds, this is what a map starts to look like as NPCs and examinables are populated. The red boxes are things you can examine, the blue boxes are path nodes, and the NPCs are the NPCs.

NPCs have a sprite sheet that is sized differently from the tile sheet, it’s 16×32 instead of 16×16, and they are placed on the object layer. NPCs also have to have special properties set.

Most of the properties are fairly self-explanatory. The Dialogue property is the file that gets called when you talk to an NPC. The type is “Position”, the engine uses this to figure out where an NPC is going to be spawned in the map’s constructor and all the other properties are optional.

I’ve found a system that mostly works for me, there is always a tradeoff between simplicity of the code and flexibility to make more advanced scenes and NPCs. The sheep and chicken NPCs are spawned and set to wander around, no biggie there. The farmer NPCs are spawned, but also create a parallel script. Whenever you walk across a trigger or examine something, a script is called, but this script stops gameplay. Parallel scripts run but don’t stop gameplay, allowing NPCs to walk around as though they are controlled by a cutscene. These constructors just specify which farmer uses which script.

I try to automate these things as much as possible. The script specifies which NPC, a walk speed, and then the nodes the NPC uses. For convenience I name the nodes A0, A1, A2 etc. so that FarmerA uses the A nodes, I do this for enemies as well. The rest is automated by a function, so when you see these in game, the farmers will be walking at random between the nodes. Done!

The key here is making things as easy as possible since I’m going to have to do this a lot. A *lot*, as mentioned above, there’s a lot of NPCs in this area. Having NPCs pathing around really makes even a mundane area come alive and be interesting to explore.

Writing examinables is very easy, just get really stupid with it.

That’s all for now! Maybe in a month I’ll be working on enemies (or maybe not) and I’ll do another one.

It’s Time For ANSWERS

(Edit from Marionette: Don’t take this as gospel just yet. Salty and I will be having discussions on this travesty of “mermaids get legs.”)

Cavalcade of Fan Art!

By https://bsky.app/profile/insanexfrogy.bsky.social/post/3lnlfpjabpc22. Finally we get some more big dragons!

By https://bsky.app/profile/prismadreams.bsky.social/post/3lpkfnsdoyi2b. Why is she sad? Zap it!

By https://bsky.app/profile/morux2.bsky.social. This doesn’t count as shipping they are canonically dating!

by https://bsky.app/profile/mongnyanya.bsky.social/post/3lpkhvtzyrc2d. Aiiieeee!

by https://bsky.app/profile/usjkgugu.bsky.social

by https://bsky.app/profile/mangan3rd.bsky.social

by https://bsky.app/profile/0404a.bsky.social (NEW YAP YAP)

by https://bsky.app/profile/droachillustra.bsky.social (THE BOY HUNGERS FOR GRASS)

by https://bsky.app/profile/b0rium.bsky.social

by https://www.instagram.com/alliruu/ somehow making a black and white character colorful!

by https://bsky.app/profile/emkanmara.bsky.social/post/3lpmqlskt622e

by https://www.instagram.com/archiie_l/ FINALLY SOME STYLE THAT WORKS FOR A CAT

by https://bsky.app/profile/frogbiansvevo.bsky.social Yes, big dragons!

by https://bsky.app/profile/yamyamyammy.bsky.social Oh what is the temple going to think, this isn’t regulation miko wear!

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Also by https://bsky.app/profile/usjkgugu.bsky.social/post/3lpnkkn63tc2s

by https://bsky.app/profile/kirilewd.bsky.social. There’s a NSFW version of this but Dot isn’t wearing a bikini in that one and let me tell you that pup is CAKED so I can’t show it here.

by https://bsky.app/profile/kary-sg.bsky.social Am I going to have to make an underwater String Tyrant now?

by https://bsky.app/profile/sitlalikwe.bsky.social

By Coco

by https://bsky.app/profile/droachillustra.bsky.social (actually caused some FEELS damn it)

by https://bsky.app/profile/eggulette.bsky.social/post/3lpqpyd4scs2d See? She does smile!

by https://bsky.app/profile/eggulette.bsky.social/post/3lpqpql5nj22d Birbs forever!

by https://bsky.app/profile/jblueorchid.bsky.social/post/3lpr6zpk5ec2m Am I gonna have to make an underwater chapter 1 now!?

by https://bsky.app/profile/elisalami.bsky.social AM I GONNA HAVE TO MAKE oh right chapter 5 does have an underwater bit.

by https://bsky.app/profile/mongnyanya.bsky.social AM I GONNA HAVE TO MAKE A BEE TF IN CHAPTER 1 because I did

by https://bsky.app/profile/vekuria15.bsky.social Maram would have no problem fitting in to Victorian sensibilities and setting the bar while she does it.

by https://instagram.com/jun.art69 AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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by https://bsky.app/profile/giirroo.bsky.social okay this is my new bsky profile :3 Jessie is so cool

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by Coco

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by https://bsky.app/profile/usjkgugu.bsky.social Once again what tea does to a mfer

by https://bsky.app/profile/drcux.bsky.social Don’t worry Chris and Beth, your time is coming

by https://bsky.app/profile/fafayu.bsky.social Sanya has no idea how to kiss a girl!

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three above by https://www.deviantart.com/db-palette aieeeeeeeeee I’m losing my mind

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Oh my god this post is more art than post please send help.

The Links No Please No

Where to find us:

Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!

If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.

And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.

You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!

We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3

Bottled Starlight Games:

Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.

Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.

Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.

String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.

Other Bottled Starlight Stuff

Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!

Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.

We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).