Update - Twyla and Velexis kiss (Patreon)

This week's image

I made this one without really knowing exactly where it would go, but EFon's been looking at finding a place for it in the game. It's not my best pic by any means but I thought it might be entertaining at least. I think if these girls could put aside their differences they could have a lot of fun together. :) I've made other stuff this week, but I was in the mood to show an LMO pic. Also, I don't want to show the new PAT stuff because you'll see that soon in the teaser demo.

Learning Ren'py for PAT

A lot of my time this week was spent learning some of the basic systems of Ren'py. I haven't managed to master everything that I've tried just yet, but I've got some of the basic baby steps down. I think it's going to be a long, slow process but I'll try to get results as I learn. I always find it's best for me to learn something by just leaping in and trying to get a feel of how things work by trying them out before doing actual 'lessons' or tutorials. Fortunately it doesn't seem all that complex, I'm just a bad student and the documentation is a bit confusing sometimes.

The demo I'm making for PAT is planned to have an interactive section early where you can click on parts of the image to get responses ('hotspots') but I haven't worked out the technique yet - I think it's kind of an intermediate thing and I'm still very much at the novice stage. For now, therefore, the demo will probably not have that feature and will look more like a traditional and unspectacular visual novel. I'm not planning for the final version to seem like every other VN out there, though. I'll try to get that demo out soon for all patrons, since it's just a little teaser that I wouldn't feel good about asking $10 for just yet. I'll also be wanting plenty of feedback for it!

Oh, one other thing, I would imagine I'll continue in Ren'py because it's powerful and gives me more options if I hire a part-time programmer at some point, but I also might think about using other engines - there's a new program coming out soon that might be easier to learn, so I'll look at that.

Working on the next AotNM update too

I want to make an update to AotNM this month. It's likely to be one of those content patches you get in games that doesn't really have a theme or a big, single feature, but it's got a bunch of little features across the whole game. I don't know quite which ones will make the cut in the end, but I've got plenty of small things I can add with a little bit more work. It might be a little hard to market an update like that, but I hope you still appreciate it. :)

Oh, and I haven't forgotten LMO either, but that just got an update. I've programmed a few new responses in and improved access to one of the placeholder endings that I think nobody had found - it should be easier in the next version when that comes out.

So what's up with you? You doing well? I hope so. Oh, here's a question: would you be happy if PAT was pretty much a traditional VN, or would you be more interested if it was a little different? Let me know in the comments!