Roundup

Several little things going on at the moment...

The Valentine's Weekly Bundle is still going on over at Humble, which covers a variety of visual novels as well as the option to upgrade for a love pillow... from Hatoful Boyfriend.

The lovely Deji created some fun art for the upcoming Black Closet:

The game is still in beta, but is very nearly complete. I'm really busy right now but I expect we can officially launch it sometime next month.

And, as mentioned, Sword Daughter is now on Steam (and some people are paying very odd prices for the emoticons, but who knows if that will last?)

Sword Daughter - Now on Steam

(Chibis by Simon Adventure)

Sword Daughter is now available on Steam!



The game includes all your typical steam-powered bells and whistles, like trading cards, collectible backgrounds, and achievements. (If you already own the game, you will need to play through it again to unlock most of the achievements, but this should be easy enough to do with the section map.)

Speaking of which, if you bought the game direct from my website and want a Steam key, please email me with your order information and I'll happily hand one over. Please do ask by email rather than by forums, it makes it so much easier to keep my key list organised.

Emptying out my card holder

Just going to pile up and list some of the business cards and sites I've been picking up while doing the convention circuit this year!

Pippenwycks - leather things with eyes and teeth. (Bags, books, dice cups, keychains, whatever.)

KMKdesigns - steampunk/goth/lolita fashion, will do large sizes and custom designs

Alienphant - fashion/accessories with spikes and tentacles. the sweet lolita tentacle print is too cute!

Stylin Online - For the days when you need to feel like a superhero in your bathrobe

alicechan - artist

The League of Proper Villains - Honestly I couldn't tell what these guys were on about. Steampunk. Something. But they insisted I take a card or face dire consequences.

Dr Brassy - Steampunk jewelry that involves eyes. (I have a thing for eyes.)

cryptostore - Art and tights? socks? in interesting patterns but very limited sizes.

Back to Earth Creations - jewelrystuff

Rebecca Yanovskaya - artist of unusual style

Kelly Loftus - many and varied plush octopi

Plus some cards for porny things you probably don't need to hear about, although some of you might be interested in the link to the yaoi comic that I swear I don't even remember visiting the booth of...

Date Warp wallpaper

For the Steam release, I commissioned a bunch of extra art to create trading cards and wallpaper. However, you shouldn't have to be a Steam user just to see the new pictures! Here's one of the new collectible graphics for Date Warp:

Motivational Bonus Art

Since I actually am trying to get Black Closet moving again, I had some chibi versions of the characters done up as enthusiasm/inspiration.

This isn't exactly how they appear in-game obviously but important personality notes shine through...


C|| Thais, Mallory and Althea 1/2 by Philaphobia on deviantART
C|| Rowan, Vonne and Elsa by Philaphobia on deviantART

more bonus arts

Dumping in the other art I had made for Science Girls

Doughnut!!! by xunini on deviantART  

 

Thumb Wrestling

 

The Trouble With Slirrups

Also, if you somehow haven't heard, Magical Diary and Planet Stronghold are on the Humble Bundle this week, supporting RenPy. So if you haven't played, or you want to donate more to VN development... go have a look!

Let's Science!

Science Girls by Pocolla on deviantART (Above - bonus art, not an in-game image. There's more coming!) It's that time again! What time is it? Time to announce a game being available on Steam - Science Girls!
 The Steam release of the game has a bunch of little polish upgrades applied to it. New music, new animations, new map tiles, and so on (and yes, achievements). No new plot if you've played it before but a lot of tweaks to make the overall experience more enjoyable.

(Also, I notice that steam users have tagged the game 'Visual Novel'. Well, okay, if you say so. I generally don't think it counts because the talking part takes a clear backseat to the hitting monsters part, but... There is dialog, and it's in a VN-ish format, and there are some choices you can make and they have a small impact on the game, and it's RenPy, so... Close enough?)

Defender of Pure Hearts

And I thought to myself: Self, there is not nearly enough art of Elodie as Tuxedo Mask out there. You should do something about that.

So I did.

Comm Elodie as Tuxedo mask by Lily-Fu on deviantART

I'm not mad. I'm just drawn that way.

A little bonus graphic I had done by bunpurr of Linds from Date Warp:

It is worth noting that this is the only game I have left on Greenlight that hasn't quite gotten the tip yet. I have done pretty much nothing at all to advertise it since the day Greenlight launched, because I really wasn't sure how well a visual novel - with a scifi theme, but a female protagonist and a host of pretty boys - would go over with the Steam audience and didn't want to blow out my credit pushing something on them that they didn't want. So I left it to sink or swim on its own merits... which has meant hovering somewhere just outside the top100 for a while now.

If it ever did pass, that would be a great excuse for me to finally get the Special Bonus Exciting Thing done for it that I've kind of wanted to do for a long time... So, you know, it's up to you. :)

Queen of all she surveys

(below - a bit more bonus art of Elodie + Briony)

Long Live the Queen - Commission by ~HeadlessHatter on deviantART

Bonus Art

Things I do around Christmas time - commmission lots of artists to make individual pictures for my fun, rather than having to deal solely with people for business purposes which is much more stressful. Not all of that art is related to my games or appropriate for this blog, but this one is...

Callum by =Azzedar-san on deviantART

Prince Callum, from The Royal Trap