Hello everyone!
As most of you are no doubt aware, the public version of the demo went out on Saturday. It has a couple typo and flow fixes that the most recent Patreon demo doesn't, so for the next little while I'd recommend that version.
Of course, that doesn't really apply if you g...
2024-10-28 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Early access for the demo has begun, as most of you are aware. Those who haven't gotten access yet will be getting it on Wednesday, so I hope you're looking forward to that.
I do apologise if you come across any typos; I was editing while very, very ill and suspect I ma...
2024-10-21 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As promised, the early access period for the first demo (chapters one and two) begins now. Since you're Blossoms, you get a week with it before it goes out to the public, and I really hope you enjoy it.
You may have already read this in the last weekly update, but what w...
2024-10-19 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI just realized I never confirmed for everyone the exact dates the tiers would be getting access to the BotL demo. You can probably infer it from the release date I gave on tumblr and the tier descriptions, but now you don't have to!
The Full Bloom tier got the demo yesterday, the 16th. Thi...
2024-10-17 07:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As promised, the early access period for the first demo (chapters one and two) begins now. Since you're Full Blooms, you get first crack at the whole thing, and I really hope you enjoy it.
You may have already read this in the last weekly update, but what we have here i...
2024-10-16 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostGood news, everyone!
Chapter Two is now fully written. I added another 9,000 words this week, rounding the chapter out at 71k. This means the total length of the first two chapters is 130,000 words, which is right around what I was hoping for, to keep me on track for a 600k word sequel. Tha...
2024-10-14 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
If you're not aware, I've been doing a bonus content series where one of the characters gives their perspective on another, usually from an existing or 'missing' game scene somewhere, and assuming that the second character is in a romance with the PC.
So, this month, Ch...
2024-10-09 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Spooky season is here at last, and I'm sure for most of you that means things must be finally cooling off. They're warming up here in the southern hemisphere, but I suppose I'll just have to cope.
Anyway! I've been making good progress on BotL so far this month; chapt...
2024-10-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
The end of September is (finally) upon us, and you all know what that means—the BIP is here.
This one has everything I've written so far, amounting to just over 100k words in total, not counting the character creator or save generator. It has all of Chapter One, an...
2024-09-30 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
The BIP is due in an hour, for everyone in Bud Tier or above. In the meantime, progress this week went fairly well. I added 8,000 words to Chapter Two, bringing it to a total right now of 53,000. I'm not totally done with the Hekate-route version of the Hekate and Hermes scen...
2024-09-30 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
We're rounding the bend into the last part of September, here. I've written another 10,000 words this week, bringing the total for chapter two to 45,000. This puts me partway through the Hermes and Hekate group scene, which has been interesting for a number of reasons. Structu...
2024-09-23 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, everyone!
I continue to be just generally blown away by the response to FoA. It seems to be doing rather well, in terms of the number of people playing it, and that's really reassuring. I sort of thought only a handful of people (perhaps this very handful here, as a matter of ...
2024-09-16 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I'm currently just starting with a bonus content series that involves taking a look at one character from the perspective of another, usually with some reference to a PC in there somewhere. Last month, we had Hades's POV on Hekate just before her version of the fruit scene. Th...
2024-09-11 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone, and welcome if you're new!
Last week, as everyone knows, FoA finally released to the public. I think that went mostly well, though I have no idea about numbers or anything like that. As expected, I've already done a number of bugfixes; I'm hoping there won't be legions more...
2024-09-09 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I tell you I'm having one long, slow anxiety attack...
Anyway, hey everyone! It's release week here in FoA-land, and as you might be able to imagine I am on tenterhooks about it. Hopefully I'll come up with something a little bit more reasonable than 'please buy it and m...
2024-09-02 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
If you're new around these parts, the BIP is my form of "monthly update," where patrons get access to what I've written over the previous month, usually in the form of a partial chapter. In this case, what we have is Blood of the Living's character creator, save generator, ...
2024-08-31 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Welcome to the last weekly update for August. This one has some important information about upcoming changes to the Patreon, so it might be a good idea to read until the end.
As far as progress this week, I managed another square 7,000, bringing Chapter Two up to 13,000...
2024-08-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As you voted, the bonus content piece this month is from Hades's POV, and it's about Hekate, who in this instance features on her route. I hope you all enjoy the read.
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He follows her through the orchard, trailing behind her like a satellite to a st...
2024-08-21 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
My birthday week went... okay? At least as far as writing goes, haha. I've managed another 8,000 words, finishing off the last of Chapter One and bringing me 6,000 of the way into Chapter Two, which was enough to finish on the introductory scene and get into the first major pa...
2024-08-19 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone.
It's been sort of a mixed week here. On the one hand, I've made another 7,000 words of steady progress, putting me partway through the last Hekate scene of Chapter One. So it's not quite done, but it's on the way there, and will definitely be finished this week, at which point...
2024-08-12 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Welcome to the last installment of the storyline preview series. This one's going to be a little short, because firstly it's only about one subplot and secondly because I'm going to be keeping things vague so as to leave a few surprises, but today I'm going to talk a little bi...
2024-08-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Welcome to August. This month is a lot of things for me, but among them is FoA's birthday! It's been four years, as of the 10th, since I started working on a little cozy project to make myself feel less bleak and hopeless in a very bleak and hopeless time. I had part of Dias...
2024-08-05 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
As promised, the July BIP adds 30,000 new words. For those of you on the Hades, Hermes, of Charon routes, you have the complete first chapter, whereas those of you on the Pyri, Alekto, or Hekate routes will have everything but the last scene with your RO/PO.
As with ...
2024-07-31 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
As is traditional, the hour before the BIP drops, I throw a poll out there. This time, we've got a new rotation of bonus contents, and per a very good suggestion I've received, this time I'm going to be doing something in the style 'Character A, from Character B's perspectiv...
2024-07-31 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBuckle up, everyone, there's news.
As you may or may not have heard via Tumblr already, FoA now has a tentative release date of September 2024 according to Steam, and early in that month according to HG staff. This is, of course, contingent on me getting the final version of the ga...
2024-07-29 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I can't say I have a lot of news to report this week, really. I've been making steady forward progress on the chapter, to the tune of another 7,000 words, bringing the total as of this writing up to 26,000. For some idea what that means, the chapter has a total of three scenes...
2024-07-22 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
This month's bonus content is from the end of FoA—in this case, from the "no sequel" end of FoA, where the PC (in this case, a Persephone), elects to stay behind on Olympus full-time. What follows is Pyri's version of the conversation that follows that discussion, and the la...
2024-07-17 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
More solid progress to report this week—another 7,000 words down, bringing the chapter up to 19,000 as of this writing. I'll soon be moving into the individual RO/PO scenes at the end of it, so I don't think that overall the chapter will be too monstrous in length. Maybe som...
2024-07-15 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, everyone!
The first week of this month was a productive one for me. So far, I'm in line with my goal of 30,000 words for this month; I wrote 7,000 of them this week, and I've been mostly happy with how the chapter is shaping up so far. Hopefully you all will be, too, when you r...
2024-07-08 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
This month, we have the last of the previews for BotL. As always, these are subject to change, and in the case of these particular subplots, they may be cut short or absent from the game entirely depending on what you choose, because they both have to do with the PC's parents!...
2024-07-03 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post