itch-io – Pandemonium Development

Harpy New Year

December 31, 2024 SaltyJustice

Development

I was away for the last while but I still got some work done. WHI’s hard mode is implemented and proofread, major design by Ack. I’ve done the backend updates and worked out some of the kinks, now it just needs to be tested extensively. This means Hard Mode might launch within a week or two!

There’s also some mod updates and stuff coming, but Hard Mode is my current focus. If everything goes well all three of the WHI updates will launch at the exact same time!

Next week I’ll be showing off some more Ravenbrook stuff. For now, there was an avalanche of fan art because someone got “Mary Christmas” into their head and never looked back. They didn’t even apologize for it.

A werecat by Coco!

Did you think I was kidding?

I wasn’t (by Dazzlekeith)

This one is the cutest.

It keeps happening. I told you.

Don’t have a party without me!

I started with zero witty quips for all these wonderful Mary pieces and I ran out long ago.

You thought it would ever stop and you were wrong.

And I saved the best for last.

By Dias.

AND A LATE ENTRY.

By db_Palette!

I can’t pick just one as my favourite argh this is what I get for taking time off. Well no more!

QUESTIONS? Answers.

It got cut off but the last one says “There’s no monstergirl to monstergirl TF”

The Link Pile

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. You can get the audiobook on Amazon as well.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!

You can get the Pandemonium novel series by Bottled Starlight writer MarioneTTe on Amazon. Coming (at some point) to Itch.io once the exclusivity deals expire -_-

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

Development Update: December 16th, 2024

December 17, 2024 SaltyJustice

Tales of Strings: Passed Hand

That’s right, it’s out! You can get it on Itch.io! Thanks to everyone for making it possible, I’ve got more stories in the tank too.

As before, if you’re a patron over 15$ over the course of October to December, you can get a free copy. I can send itch.io keys, please contact me via the patreon message thing or Discord if that’ll take too long. The holidays are coming up so sorry if I’m slow.

Other Development

I am working on Hard Mode, and I have done the mod update stuff (currently in testing). You will be getting an updated mod from db_palette, including a new monster form. I want to bundle this in with the Hard Mode update if I can so I hope I won’t keep you waiting too long. The first release will be a public beta, because Hard Mode is going to require a lot of testing to get it tuned right.

Once that’s done, the JP translation should hopefully be completed soon. It might also get bundled in with the next WHI release. I’m also going to be doing some (boring) backend work to reduce the game’s memory and hard drive footprints by unloading data not used in WHI (the game is technically a mod of RoP so there’s some junk that gets loaded but never used). I also have to finish the UI overhaul. Fun stuff ahead.

Whispers…

Fan Art

Great Kumquat is going to start a skitterer band. By Toffee.

They don’t know what the holiday is! It doesn’t even snow on the moon! You’re insane, Xandra! Insane!

The Link Pile

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. You can get the audiobook on Amazon as well.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!

You can get the Pandemonium novel series by Bottled Starlight writer MarioneTTe on Amazon. Coming (at some point) to Itch.io once the exclusivity deals expire -_-

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

Development Update: December 9th, 2024

December 9, 2024 SaltyJustice

Coding and Stuff

Argh

I have been working my butt off trying to get workshop support ready. The long and short of it is that it keeps crashing due to Steam related interface stuff, the other parts are ready to go. I think I’m going to have to ask the Valve devs for help on this one because it’s driving me nuts.

I will post a Witches of Ravenbrook update later today, just some leftover bugfixes. In addition, BadIron posted a guide to getting the game to run on Android using an emulator.

You can read it here. If you’re using a tablet this might help! I will add this to the Itch.io page during the update as well.

In addition, the AltDragons mod is done and ready for WHI, and hopefully I get the workshop going again so I can update the PaletteForms mod and you can all enjoy it on Steam. Seriously this API stuff is driving me up the wall.

Next week I will be looking into getting Hard Mode ready for release, any additional touches needed for the JP translation, and I’m working on a release optimizer so WHI and WoR will have smaller memory footprints. So much to do.

Tales of Strings 2?

It’s not quite ready yet but will almost certainly be done next week. The audiobook is completed, all images are done, it just needs to be formatted for ADX.

ToS 3 and 4 are also in the “get an artist to do their thing” stage.

Christmas Comes Early

Fan Art

Mary by BeffKawa! At this point I think people are wanting a String Tyrant sequel.

No seriously. Mary by LightKlok.

Some Darkmatter Fanart by PlainJane!

We have a skitterer problem but this could also count as skeleton fanart? By Coco.

These bits of 90’s anime art of the WoR protagonists done by Coco!

The Link Pile

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. You can get the audiobook on Amazon as well.

You can get the Pandemonium novel series by Bottled Starlight writer MarioneTTe on Amazon. Coming (at some point) to Itch.io once the exclusivity deals expire -_-

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

Witches of Ravenbrook Prototype Released!

November 18, 2024 SaltyJustice

Go get it, the prototype is free to play.

I’ll have a more comprehensive post later, right now just play it and I’ll work on a patch to fix the problems that have come up.

If you are a new follower due to WoR and are wondering what is going on: We do a post here every Monday keeping you up to date on what our studio is doing. Next week I will outline our plans for WoR, WHI, RoP and maybe even ToS going forward. Wow we have a lot of games and stuff!

Whispering

Fan Art

Polaris by Glacecup! She’s very popular, it’s because she’s wise and also owns her own house.

PUMPKIN

You people deserve a better class of cat and Pumpkin is here to deliver.

The Link Pile

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. You can get the audiobook on Amazon as well.

You can get the Pandemonium novel series by Bottled Starlight writer MarioneTTe on Amazon. Coming (at some point) to Itch.io once the exclusivity deals expire -_-

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

Development Update: November 11th, 2024

November 12, 2024 SaltyJustice

Witches of Ravenbrook Prototype Will Come Out On November 18th

The Riders lost.

The prototype is largely ready, we are running over it for bugs and new potential features. Navigation is better, it got some new items, I fixed a ton of memory leaks, and the art is now done and loaded in.

I think it’s good and fun and I want to be done with it because I am insane. Yes, I can’t wait to go back to working on WHI. I look forward to different work. A unique kind of madness.

Other Things

Artists for Witch Hunter Izana, Chicmonster, made a silly Itch.io game about Moo-deng. It’s free. Go play it why not it’ll take you five minutes.

She also made a video about making the game, because she’s a nard. If you want to see Chic talk about learning to code (which is VERY amusing to me) and making sprites and stuff, this is your big chance.

WHO IS THAT?