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Long time, no see

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Okay, so if you remember, I was working on NaNoWriMo last time I posted, making it about 5 months since my last post. Gomen ne.

Voidspiral is working on a new game, called Assault Magister Tactics. It’s combining a lot of our old projects in to one coherent idea. We’re prototyping it right now, and its coming along well. Voidspiral is also publishing commit messages from AMT to twitter, so that’s cool. We’ve also got a kanban board for development progress over here.

I’m also learning C# finally, and I have to say, I’m perfectly comfortable there already. Yes, there are things that are better in C# than Unityscript. Yes it’s more powerful. Yes, it was more intimidating. No, there’s not that much different between C# and Unitscript. All told, I’m happy to add another language to my resume. I haven’t worked in it extensively yet, (aside from about a thousand lines on AMT) but I feel like I can solve any challenge given to me with enough time. Now, if only I had some books on well structured code…

I’m also finally getting around to music theory. I bought The Everything Music Theory Book, and it’s fantastic. So is Hooktheory.com. I’m learning so much from these resources I hardly have time to actually attempt making music. I’ve been doing practices, rhythm sequences, chord sequences, etc. My sheet reading is still very slow, but I’m getting the theory at least. I want to make AMT something I can do completely myself… Thought NGui looks soooooo good. As a designer, and an indie game developer, I want it so hard. I’m really trying to be frugal on this project though, so I haven’t gotten it yet.

I’m considering going freelance at some point, to spend more time on indie game dev and design work that I can enjoy, but that’s probably a long way off.

As for NaNoWriMo, I did win, and I topped over 80,000 words in November 2012. Total, that story is almost 100,000 words. I’m working my way through editing it, but I’m a little afraid that I like the story too much and I’m not being hard enough on it. I’m always picking at the details rather than the structure or events. Well, anyway, that’s still going. Someday I’ll bookstart that thing on Pubslush or something.

One last thing,  I’ve been trying to grapple with setting up Koken and using it for a new portfolio, but I can’t get it running in my test environment, so right now its a no-go.

Still on the table:

  • Oubliette 2 (Stalled at the Kickstarter Video Phase, I’m terrible at recording myself and talking to a camera about my games.)
  • MEK (Stalled at the Kickstarter Video Phase, Same Reason)
  • PixelTails (Stalled on the massive updates thing)

Thats it for now, and I promise to update more frequently. Again.

The Cat Knight Chapter 1

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A Hunt

by Joseph Bush

 

The Cat Knight Cover“Listen closely, Priest, and I will tell you why I am so reluctant in this task,” the knight said, taking his time positioning himself for the deathblow. The young girl below his glimmering mirror sword cowered and whimpered pathetically in the dirt path outside the hamlet.

“She is but a soulless monster, sir knight! Do away with this evil.”

“Firstly, my companion and I have much more pressing business to pursue. A demon runs rampant and I stand here wasting my time on your errand,” the furious knight fumed. Continue reading →

Trucker

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Being the most successful serial killer in New England is not as easy as it sounds. Really. It takes a lot of lying, cheating, and stealing. It also requires way more honesty than you’d imagine.
I’m not going to tell you my secrets, because my publisher would probably get sued for publishing a how-to on murder. He doesn’t deserve it. Me on the other hand, I’m a whole different kettle of fish.

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Hunger

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She cried as she fed. The tears streaked clean lines down her blood-soaked face. Sobs racked her chest, tight with terror and strange, dark power. Her fingers ached. She let her head hang in shame, blood dripping off of her chin into her dark lap in the moonlight. Her arms were soaked to the elbow in thick, clotting blackness. The blood of a young man pooled in her lap, sticking to her thighs under her shredded skirt.

The scent of fresh flesh stung her nostrils, her hunger rose. Whimpering, she held a morsel before her eyes. The tears rose again, uncontrollable, as she lifted it to her mouth. The hunger was unbearable, like a rift in her belly, threatening to tear her in half.

Her head pounding, roaring like a great dragon, she leaned over his body. She bit off another chunk, its tang sharp and horribly delicious. Her mind raced, trying desperately to reconcile her hunger and her nature. No longer in control, her thoughts drifted and slowed, congealing, as her body took over, feeding.

Everything faded, her sanity slipped. Her vision clouded, the roar growing, drowning out all else. As she faded, a different her rose, older, stronger.

She picked up a cape, standing.

It was heavy in her hand, not fabric but woven metal.

Then, darkness.

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NaNoWriMo MS Finished!

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I finished my manuscript for NaNoWriMo last night, with 4 days to spare. Congratulations me!

It’s weird. Do you ever get that feeling of emptiness at the end of reading a really good book? It’s like that. I feel like I’m not sure what to do now. Like part of me is missing. But that’s a good thing. It means I enjoyed working on it.

Now I can kick back and forget about my manuscript for a few weeks and let it stew. When we get back from Japan I’ll start editing the thing, and let some people read it. Depending on the feedback I get, I may actually start shopping it around to some agents to see if anyone’s interested.

I’ll be posting exerpts and such after a bit. Look forward to hearing about Rosethorn & Lotus!

Full Circle

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A while back, in July, we posted about a game called Don’t take it personally babe, it just ain’t your story. What we didn’t realize at the time is that the game was created for a “contest” of sorts called NaNoRenO. NaNoRenO is the visual novel version of NaNoWriMo, which we are now in the process of wrapping up. Due to DTPB, we started working on our own visual novels, specifically the ones in the world of Poethulu (terrible name subject to change). After working on The Ritual and The Darkness Cannot Touch Her, we heard about NaNoWriMo and decided to enter. Recently, we spotted a game called Digital, A Love Story, which was made by the same person as DTPB. We realized that the game was created for NaNoRenO, bringing us full circle.

Isn’t it strange how the world works sometimes?