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November Newsflash #2

Happy Friday to you! If you are someone who does Thanksgiving, I hope it went well for you. I've been a bit ill this week, but I am really pleased with the progress on Honor Bound (plus a few Royal Affairs epilogue edits).

2023-11-24 19:22:55 +0000 UTC View Post

November Side Story: Fiore Roldan, 1752

In this bonus short story, Fiore and Jaime enjoy a well-earned vacation.

The sun and the long, luxurious lunch have made them both sleepy. Birds sing in the little courtyard below, a...

2023-11-15 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

November Newsflash #1

Hello and happy Friday! I've been mostly writing Honor Bound this fortnight, with a few Royal Affairs expanded epilogue edits.

Here is a nice instrumental song from my Honor Bou...

Honor Bound Chapter 4: alpha preview

Here's the readable Chapter 4 preview! It represents less than half of what there is to play through in this section of the chapter. I hope you enjoy this tidbit in advance of December's full playable Patreon update!

Upcoming plans: November

Good afternoon, all! First, if you're looking for more games to play, I made a digest of all the ChoiceScript updates and releases from October that I could find. Check it out!...

November Q&A Post

Hello everyone!

This went great last month so I'm going to do it again in the same way. Here's the link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form...

November Bonus Supplement Vote

Hello, Bonus Supplement folks!

Here is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story from the perspective of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on the 15th!

October 2023 Newsflash #2

Good afternoon, everyone! I've mostly been doing the Royal Affairs expanded epilogue this fortnight, with a little smidgeon of Honor Bound.

Here's what I have been listening to on a loop ...

October Side Story: Matia Frasada, 1748

In this bonus short story, a mountain survey has gone dangerously wrong.

Content notes: mild sexual references, mild subconscious dysphoria. In this story, Matia uses an outdated name and pronouns, as it's s...

Early access alpha writing - thoughts?

Hello all and good afternoon for Sunday! I've been thinking about how I'm structuring what I share on here.

Putting up a full playable chapter every other month is a good rhythm for my writing speed and I want to keep doing it as I continue making Honor Bound, but I was wondering if you'd a...

October 2023 Newsflash #1

I've been working on the Royal Affairs expanded epilogue this fortnight! Here's a track from my Royal Affairs playlist - I've been listening to the playlist constantly to get back in ...

Honor Bound Early Access: Chapter 3

Dear subscribers, I'm so pleased to share Chapter 3 today - play it here!

I...

Upcoming plans: October

Good afternoon, all! First, if you're looking for more games to play, I made a digest of all the ChoiceScript updates and releases from September that I could find. Che...

October Q&A Post

Good morning all!

Here's your link to the anonymous exclusive Q&A form! I will answer about spoilers, NSFW stuff if it's not super graphic, lore, character stuff, an...

October Bonus Supplement Vote

Good morning, Bonus Supplement folks!

Here is your chance to vote for this month's Bonus Supplement short story taken from the past of a character from the Creme de la Creme universe. The story of your choice will go up on the 18th!

September Newsflash #3

Well, I have had some stumbling blocks this fortnight, mostly in the shape of my child getting sick, then me getting sick - I had an ear infection which laid me out up for a week. But I'm feeling better now, and am back in the zone.

2023-09-29 15:58:10 +0000 UTC View Post

September Side Story: Varenn Korzha, 1754

In this bonus short story, Lieutenant Korzha receives an unwanted letter.

Content notes: references to death and to abusive families (non-graphic)

Password: amatothecat

2023-09-16 12:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Supplement Tier is Back!

We are back with a (gentle, polite) vengeance!

After a lot of soul-searching and making sure I have enough time and energy to do it, I'm restarting bonus stories on here. At £11+ you can gain access to the archive o...

September Newsflash #2

I've had a much bigger proportion of my time spent on writing this fortnight, and I'm honestly loving getting back into things! I don't expect to write as much as this every fortnight, but it has been really wonderful to take a good run at it.

Here is a 2023-09-15 15:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post

September Newsflash #1

This should be the last of the "I have been very busy with family things and have not been working much" newsflashes for a while. Although being on holiday was truly lovely, all-day childcare for six weeks is a lot and I'm eager to get back to full-time writing.

2023-09-01 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post

August Newsflash #2

As you'll see from the numbers on this one, I haven't been doing much new writing, or much work at all, as I've been on holiday!

What I've done on the game itself is do an update including a few fixes/tweaks/clarifications as well as reframing the asexuality choices in Chapter 2. What I've ...

Honor Bound Chapter 2 Anonymous Feedback Survey

By popular demand, (and also my own demand, haha) I've made a fresh survey for Chapter 2! It has some new questions to fit the new chapter - if you have a moment and have thou...

Small Chapter 1-2 update

I've made a small update - mostly typos, but also a couple of tweaks. You can now have had a negative relationship with the foster family in the orphan background, and I've re...

August Newsflash #1 and Special Announcement

I've been doing lots of bits and pieces this fortnight. Chapter 5 is outlined and I've been doing work on coding it, I wrote a little character study for one of the Honor Bound characters, and I did some quick fixes on Elite Status: Platinum Concierge which came out last week. (Elite Status: Plat...

Honor Bound Early Access Update: Chapter 2

Dear subscribers, thank you so much for your support!

Here is the next Honor Bound update: 2023-08-01 15:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post

July Newsflash #2

Lots of Chapter 4 writing this fortnight, and today I finished the first draft of it. Hooray!

This was the most challenging chapter I've done so far in Honor Bound because there are some big differences in tone and environment, and there was a lot of concepts to introduce in a short space o...

Q&A Question Post - July

Hello and welcome to the July question post! If you have a question that you'd like answered please do! You can post in the comments here, or on this anonymous f...

Honor Bound Newsflash: July #1

I'm excited about Honor Bound Chapter 1 being out in the wild! I so appreciate the comments on it during June - it really helped me refine it before other people got their eyes on it - and I'm really looking forward to sharing Chapter 2 in August for Sneak Preview subscribers and above. If you ha...

Small Chapter 1 update

I've pushed another update for the early access demo which adds and changes a few variables. It's mostly things which will become relevant later, some of which are more plot-relevant and others are things like setting an initial hairstyle which can then be changed and for the change to be referen...

June Q&A Answer Post

Welcome to June's Q&A post! Enjoy!

I was just wondering if you were going to write any future works highlighting Genneser. I was just rereading "noblesse ablige" and it came across as if Genesser university was the ideal place to go to in the... continent? Creme de la creme worl...