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Patreon page unlaunched

Hi!

Instead of pausing billing again this month, I decided to simply unlaunch the page. That means it won't be accessible until I decide to launch it again.

To be frank, motivation to write has been low since August/September. I've tried to push through it in November, but it simply made things worse, I'm afraid. Right now, all I can do is alleviate any pressure I might feel about writing (most of them are self-imposed, really) and take it as easy as I can until I feel up to writing again.

At this time of the year, I would usually do a bit of a wrap-up to tell you how the year went for my writing, what progress I've made. I won't do that this time, because I know it's not good. This year was stressful and did a number on my mental health to be honest, yet I still feel like I should have done better.

And that honestly happens everytime I looks at my word count for the year. Each time I feel down, feeling like I should have done more. Keeping track of word counts can be a useful way to measure your progress. It feels good when the numbers go up. But of course it feels shitty whenthey don't. It also gives you a dangerous tool to compare your output to other people's, to your past self even.

Right now, I feel like it's doing more harm than good so I'm going to try not keeping track of it at all next year, see how that works out for me.

I really hope things will get better next year. But to be honest, I'm not holding my breath. There's likely a lot of stress ahead, possibly less free time for me to write. My government is growing more and more hostile towards people who, like me, have a low income or are unemployed and it's likely to affect both my time and drive to write.

I do wish you a better 2024 and I thank you for being along for the ride so far, as bumpy as it's been lately.

#announcement #patreon

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Patreon billing paused for December

I'm sure it won't come as too much of a surprise. Writing is still very difficult at the moment, I only returned in November because circumstances forced my hand.

I'm currently taking another break from writing. I can only hope things will become easier soon, I'm not thrilled about getting so little progress done on each of my games. But my mental health is what it is and forcing myself is only going to make things worse.

There is another reason why dealing with Patreon has become difficult as of late: the change of policy concerning adult content. Patreon now requires all creators putting NSFW content on their page to verify their age. That involves uploading a copy of their ID to a third party website.

I'm not super comfortable with the idea, I'm not going to lie. But if I don't verify my age, Patreon will eventually stop transfering my earnings to me, unless I make the page SFW and remove all adult content from it. Which is a difficult decision to make, considering the NSFW tier is the most popular one by far.

So I need time to figure out what to do about it all.

#announcement #patreon

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11/17/23 Update

Hello everyone!

I’m writing this update a little early because I’ll be away this weekend and I won’t be able to do it tomorrow.

It’s been a really rough week, writing-wise. I continued writing one of the questions you will ask Armine during her date but everything felt off. I’ve thought about it and decided to rehaul the whole thing. I cut off nearly 4000 words and I’m now trying to rewrite the missing sections. I’m not entirely convinced it was the right call or if what I’m writing is going to be better, but I just couldn’t continue without trying to fix things first.

I’m feeling mentally exhausted and I want to move on from 8YR at the moment, to be honest. But I can’t really leave the story as is, or I will have a huge mess to fix when I come back to it and that’s not very nice to my future self lol. So I’m going to at least try finishing fixing up those questions and then I think I’ll go back to editing Nevers’s scene in Gonzague.

I wish you all a restful weekend!

#weekly update

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A new bonus is available for tiers Little Monarch and up on Patreon and Ko-Fi.

This month, I explore Armine's character, talking about her genesis, her particularities, her role in the story and her inspirations.

#interactive fiction #twine game #8 years revolution #patreon #ko-fi

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11/11/23 Update

Hi!

This week has been a little more about coding than writing. Implementing the save-to-file feature for both 8YR and Gonzague took me a bit so I ended up not writing a whole lot this week.

After I finished a scene in Armine’s date last week, I came back to the questions you can ask her. This is not the easiest part to write, to be honest. There’s a lot more variations in those and I have to add a bunch of transitions depending on what scene will come next. And as you may or may not know, transitions are the worst. I suspect it’s going to take me a while to get through this section and I might need a break from 8YR once I’m done with it.

I might do some more coding next week, if I’m feeling up to it, so writing might take a back seat again. We’ll see!

I hope you all have a nice weekend.

#weekly update #gonzague

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Are there any works where an RO intended to woo MC for personal/ulterior motives but ends up falling for real?

Hi Anon!

There are a handful of games that fit what you are looking for:

Andromeda Six by Wanderlust Games

Body Count by @bodycountgame

Hollowed Minds by @shai-manahan

The Eight Years Revolution by @eight-years-revolution

#:x #rec list #I shan't say it #but i think it's pretty obvious who it is lol

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11/06/23 — Game update 02.8 — Save to file feature

This update is purely technical and doesn’t add any new story content.

I added a custom macro to the game that will allow you to save your game into a file that you can download. This will provide you with a back-up, should your saves be erased from your cookies.

Additionally, to make the experience loading from a file a little smoother, the save and load windows are now popups, so they’ll look a little different.

I also increased the number of save slots from 5 to 9.

A few notes on how it works, please read!

Saving The ‘save to file’ link will save the corresponding slot into a file. It will only save a pre-existing save so if the slot is empty, you won’t be able to download any file. Make sure to save the usual way before downloading the file through the provided link.

Loading When loading from a file, it will overwrite the corresponding slot. You can load the file into an empty slot if you want to avoid deleting any present save.

Old saves Due to the change in formatting, I recommend you do not save to file your old saves directly. If you want to save them into a file, load them, save them again the usual way and then download the file using the ‘save to file’ link. If you don’t do this, you could end up stuck on the save page when loading from that file. If it does happen, you can leave the save page by going through the settings or the character sheet and then back to the story.

/!\ Warning to iPhone users /!\

While the feature does work on iPhone, you may have to do a little bit of fiddling if you use Safari. Safari may add .txt to your save file when downloading it. If it does, you won’t be able to load the file into the game unless you remove the .txt extension.

To do that, you’ll have to go into your files folder, press on the file until a menu opens and choose ‘rename’. Once the name of your file is selected, tap it and a few different options should show up. Changing the extension is the very last one. Delete .txt and your file should be ready for use!

I’m sorry for the inconvenience it undoubtedly is, but there’s no way around it that I’m aware of.

Links

Demo | Bonus content directory | Support me on Ko-fi or Patreon | Join the Discord server

#self reblog

[eight-years-revolution]

11/06/23 — Game update 02.8 — Save to file feature

This update is purely technical and doesn’t add any new story content.

I added a custom macro to the game that will allow you to save your game into a file that you can download. This will provide you with a back-up, should your saves be erased from your cookies.

Additionally, to make the experience loading from a file a little smoother, the save and load windows are now popups, so they’ll look a little different.

I also increased the number of save slots from 5 to 9.

A few notes on how it works, please read!

Saving The ‘save to file’ link will save the corresponding slot into a file. It will only save a pre-existing save so if the slot is empty, you won’t be able to download any file. Make sure to save the usual way before downloading the file through the provided link.

Loading When loading from a file, it will overwrite the corresponding slot. You can load the file into an empty slot if you want to avoid deleting any present save.

Old saves Due to the change in formatting, I recommend you do not save to file your old saves directly. If you want to save them into a file, load them, save them again the usual way and then download the file using the ‘save to file’ link. If you don’t do this, you could end up stuck on the save page when loading from that file. If it does happen, you can leave the save page by going through the settings or the character sheet and then back to the story.

/!\ Warning to iPhone users /!\

While the feature does work on iPhone, you may have to do a little bit of fiddling if you use Safari. Safari may add .txt to your save file when downloading it. If it does, you won’t be able to load the file into the game unless you remove the .txt extension.

To do that, you’ll have to go into your files folder, press on the file until a menu opens and choose ‘rename’. Once the name of your file is selected, tap it and a few different options should show up. Changing the extension is the very last one. Delete .txt and your file should be ready for use!

I’m sorry for the inconvenience it undoubtedly is, but there’s no way around it that I’m aware of.

Links

Demo | Bonus content directory | Support me on Ko-fi or Patreon | Join the Discord server

#interactive fiction #twine game #8 years revolution #game update #technical update

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11/04/23 Update

Hi!

It’s going to be a short one because I still haven’t got my Internet back and I have to write this on my phone. :(

In short, despite my expectations for the worse, it’s been a decent week of progress. Not nanowrimo level of progress lol. But I was able to keep up with my usual 500 words a day.

I wish luck to everyone attempting nanowrimo (and be gentle with yourselves!), but I’m going to pass for this year.

Have a nice weekend!

#weekly update

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Patreon billing resuming

Patreon billing is resuming as of today.

I was honestly about to pause for another month, but due to an Internet outage, I’m actually unable to do it. I guess circumstances (and Patreon’s app uselessness) decided for me. I suppose I should be glad that I was able to write a post to warn my patrons, but that’s the best I can say about Patreon’s app.

I’ll do my best to write bonus content for this month and we’ll see how it goes.

#announcement #patreon

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10/28/23 Update

Hi!

This week was another difficult one. Progress was made but it was minimal. I don’t foresee this to improve next week since I’m probably going to be a bit busy.

I’ve continued on with Armine’s date and finished the first question you can ask her and all subsequent choices. Instead of writing all of the different questions at once, I decided to break it up by continuing on with the next scene of the date. I think that’s the only way I can keep what little motivation I have going, so that’s what I’ll be working on next week.

It’s likely that I’ll have to switch project before even reaching the end of Armine’s date, it’s chunkier than expected (as it often happens in interactive fiction) and I don’t want to burn myself out by working too long on the same project. The next story I should be writing for is Better Off, but we’ll see how I feel about that when the time comes.

I’ve also been toying with the idea of working on a novel project that’s been on the back of my mind for a while. But it’s not ready to start drafting and I struggle to set aside the time to work on an outline. I’ll be sure to tell you more about it if I do start working on it.

As we reach the end of the month I’m also considering pausing Patreon for yet another month. I’m not happy about it, but clearly my productivity has not improved at all throughout the month so adding bonus content back into my workload is probably not a good idea.

I’ve not taken any final decision about though, so I’ll keep you posted about it in the coming days.

I hope you all have a nice restful weekend if you can. Until next week!

#weekly update

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10/21/23 Update

Hello!

This week, writing has been a little rough. I haven’t written as much as the previous weeks, but I still wrote every day, so it’s not all bad.

I’m still working on the questions you can ask Armine throughout her date. In fact, I’m barely scratching the surface. There’s a good amount of choice in those, so I already can tell it’s going to take a while to write all of them.

I don’t foresee my pace picking up anytime soon, to be honest. After moving in January, I’m finally going to be able to start unpacking lmao. I suspect that’s going to keep me busy for a bit. But I’ll do my best to write as much as I can. We’re approaching nanowrimo and I was hoping to participate this year again, but that’s probably not a good idea. I’ll probably just keep up with my usual daily goal.

I hope you all have a nice weekend!

#weekly update

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10/14/23 Update

Hello everyone!

This week pretty much continued on as the previous one. I was unfortunately unable to get back into editing and coding for Gonzague, so I stuck with drafting 8YR chapter 3. I’ll have to wait until I feel up to doing more or go back to my old routine of alternating between drafting and coding — which would be rather disappointing, I thought I had found a way to be more productive without burning myself out and I’m not thrilled either at the prospect of doing full days of editing and coding because it really strains my eyes. :(

In better news, I’m progressing slowly but surely through Armine’s date. There will be multiple parts to it and in-between each, some down time where you can ask her questions. i’ve finished the intro to the date and the first part and now am working on the questions you can ask her. After I’m done with all the questions — which might take some time lol — I’ll have 3 more parts to write before concluding the date. It might seem like a lot (and maybe it is lol), but each part should be moving along pretty fast and, since it’s Armine’s first introduction, I want players to get a firm first impression of her. It’s also an opportunity to flesh out Lagodoro and its lore.

I don’t foresee the other dates you’ll be able to go on in this chapter to be as long, Armine’s intro is really the main event of the chapter, but we’ll see.

I wish you all a nice weekend and I’ll see you next week!

#weekly update

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10/07/23 Update

Hi!

So, as I said in my previous update, I started writing again this week. It’s going fairly well so far. I’m slowly getting back into it so, for now, I’m focusing on drafting 8YR chapter 3. I’ll consider adding some editing and coding for Gonzague in my daily routine again next week.

I’m also considering not writing on Saturdays and moving the weekly update then instead of Fridays. Once I’m done writing, I want to get my mind off of things, not write an update, to be perfectly honest. So it might work better if I do just the update on Saturdays.

I’ve made some progress on the date with Armine this week. However hard writing has been lately, I do enjoy writing Armine, she’s a lot of fun. :) I hope you’ll enjoy reading those scenes as much as I enjoy writing them!

See you next week (hopefully)!

#weekly update

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September Update

Hi everyone!

I’m very sorry for this radio silence that lasted nearly all of September. Unfortunately, I didn’t have anything to report. I realized that pushing myself to keep writing was only going to make things worse and decided to take a break (again).

What I didn’t really plan for was for that break to last the rest of the month. I haven’t written a thing for over three weeks now. I would like to say it has been a healthy break and that I spent all this time truly recharging and refilling the well as mentionned in my previous update, but honestly, it’s just been me coping by playing Palia all day for three weeks straight. Cheers to being a fucked up little human. u_u

Someday I’ll figure out how to be a normal, functional creature, but today is not that day.

I plan to ease back into writing next week. Fingers crossed it goes well and things can go back to some semblance of normal (although this year seems to refuse to give me and my family a break so I’m not holding my breath).

I’m going to pause billing again for the month of October. While I want to get back into the swing of things, I’m not sure I’m up to making bonus content again yet. I’m hoping weekly updates will be back, but we’ll see how well I do next week.

I hope you all had a good month though, and until next time!

#weekly update

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09/01/23 Update

Hello!

Sorry about the lack of update last week. As mentioned in my post about the Patreon billing pause, I’m struggling with mental fatigue at the moment, so I’m focusing my efforts on the bare minimum, which is working on the stories themselves. Writing updates for the blog can take more energy than I have to spare so it’s not a priority for now.

But I’ve made progress on 8YR chapter 3 during the past two weeks. About as much as usual. I try to write 500 words a day and so far I’ve managed to keep up with that pace. I’m still working on Armine’s introduction to the story, which will keep me busy for a while, as it is the main event of this chapter.

It’s been harder editing and coding Nevers’s scene for Gonzague, however. I try to do a little bit of it when I feel up to it, but it’s not progressing as well as I would like. Part of it is that I prioritize drafting, so I have little energy left after writing to edit and code. But another part of it is that I’m not feeling very enthusiastic about my writing at the moment. I’m sure it’s a feeling all writers go through and that’s likely exacerbated by exhaustion.

I’ll do my best to go easy on myself in the coming weeks. I do have some life stuff coming up that will get in the way of writing, so there will be some ups and downs, for sure. But I’m hoping taking more breaks and trying to refill the well by reading, playing games, watching movies, etc. will help with things.

Have a nice weekend and until next time!

#weekly update #gonzague

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Patreon billing paused for September

Hello everyone!

As the title says, billing will be paused on Patreon from today (August 31st) to September 30th.

You may have noticed that I've not been very regular with my weekly updates. It's not that there's nothing to say: I'm still working on 8YR chapter 3 every day and doing my best to continue editing and coding Nevers's scene for Gonzague. But I'm mentally exhausted and it's taking everything I've got to do that, so I'm struggling with doing anything else on top of that, including weekly updates.

Which is why I decided to take a break from writing or drawing any bonus content for a month. I'll be focusing on the stories only and doing my best to make progress updates when I feel up to it.

Hopefully that'll be enough for me to feel a little more invigorated in October!

#patreon #announcement