Other people's lifespans are deeply inconsiderate

Sorry for being a bit quiet, got dragged across country to attend a funeral, theoretically close relative, though I was less attached than some.  Still, big part of the family, needed to be there for people, and, well, since I don't really drive or anything, my transport situation got exciting.  Do not recommend.

Still, I'm back now, Patrons should be seeing an update within the next couple days, the rest of you...  Uh, will see it like a week after that.  Because that's just how we do.

Also, somehow, during my radio silence I managed to acquire another patron.  Which is really sweet.  And I'll probably stop bringing this up every time it happens once it stops being novel.  Which will be never so you'll just have to deal with me being happy to have people's support.  Financial or otherwise.

Good News Everyone!

Okay, good news, next version is done.  It's up on Patreon for the, er...  Patron that has appropriate access, and will becoming for the rest of you in about four days.

Also, sorry for going radio silent again, I got a commission for some work for someone's vanity project, and it ate up a ton of my time for about a month.  That plus moving into a new place and a few other things completely took me out of the game, as it were.  That being said, new stuff done!  And available for you to see soon.  Consider this a free tip that there'll be something to see here in the near future.

Oh!  Also, despite my relative silence, I managed to acquire a new patron.  They know who they are, and they are awesome.  Oh, and just as a thing for anyone who cares, if you end up as a patron and want me to give you a less vague shout out, I'll be happy to do so, I just never know if people want the names on their Patreon accounts shouted around the internet.

Melphy out.

Good news! Bad news! (Actually flippin' amazing news)

Well I have good news and bad news.  The good news is, I got a serious Patreon donor, like...  Higher than my actual upper limit for rewards serious. My mind boggles, and I seriously can't give an appropriate level of thanks in any way that would either: A) Make any sense, and B) sound like pandering nonsense.

You know who you are, if you want some pandering nonsense I'm sure I can deliver.

What's the bad news, then?  Ahhh, so glad you asked.  I mean, admittedly, it's not super bad news, it's just...  That means the rest of you are going to be seeing updates a bit more slowly.  The next one because I'm going to have to put together all of the tools and such that will actually permit me to make good on my Patreon promises, and also because you guys are going to start being one update behind.  Standard Patreon benefit and all that.  I won't spring that on you guys all at once, seems obnoxious.  Probably going to go the next one up when it's done, the one after that delayed like 2 days, the one after that delayed 5, etc. until the gap is up to what I've promised on my Patreon page.  Don't want to dump you guys totally in the lurch, but, you know, gotta live up to my promises, eh?

So, yeah, I think this is pretty awesome.  And I extend my apologies to any of you who will be overly inconvenienced (...  Though aaaactually, if you don't like being so inconvenienced, you can get around that.  You know.  If you want. =P)

Melphy, out!

Calling in sick... And stunningly more awesome news

Bad news first: It turns out "I've gotten over my recent illness" is actually code word for "OH GOD THAT WAS JUST THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM."  Not giving you any details (TMI abounds!), but I have been uncomfortably unwell, to say the least.  There has been a non-zero quantity of progress, but I've gone from being able to hammer out like 2k+ words a day to maybe a 400-500 word passage if I try really hard.  There may be a doctor's visit in my immediate future e_e

Stunning news: One of you, out there, somewhere, was apparently threatened enough by that baleful glowing red eye over on the right to actually visit my Patreon page.  Honestly, other than the glaring eye, I wasn't really going to emphasize it or draw attention to it until I had gotten some decent work done on the 2nd section.  It was my original plan not to put it up until that was done, but someone observed to me that spending months with no "support option" as it were was really stupid with my lack of any other source of income.  So I just kinda stuck it there.

And holy hell, someone actually though this was good enough to support.  That has got to be the best thing that's happened to me all year! (See, it's mid January so that's funny.  Laugh dammit).  I'm honestly not sure what to say about it.  I'm incredibly thankful, but trying to properly express that sort of thing seems like empty platitudes far too easily.  I just have to say, there are some of you out there who do give me feedback at times (and I do appreciate it, critical and positive, helps me improve the work), but it's usually pretty quiet around here, so I'm never sure what that means (not that I'm blaming anyone or anything, just comes with the territory I think), but this is a vote of confidence that means a lot to me.

So, you know who you are, and thank you.

Egads, a wild donation appears!

I don't have much to say today, but I feel obliged to say something, because Corinthi tossed me a donation!  And I appreciate that, so, well, uh, I'd feel inadequate if I didn't say it.

As ever, I really do appreciate the few of you have chosen to support my work, and I hope I continue to produce content that you feel lives up to what you've given me.

Status Update Mk. 1

Heyo everybody!  I fear Alpha 2 isn't actually ready yet, but it's well on its way.  Part of that is because, though I initially planned on releasing everything that could be done at the farmhouse at once, one side scene, and one major resolution part are going to be absent from the first release because there's some interactions with larger structures the game is going to use that, though I'm ready to work on now, are just a ton of coding work and you guys have been waiting for this for long enough already.  Since the next section is going to be a lot less work, and as such generally a smaller update by comparison, I figure I'll do a bunch of the back filling in that one, since much like the path leading up to the farm, it's mostly just a connector piece with one or two possible scenes in it.

Also I'd like to give a shout out to my first donator!  You know who you are, and you're automatically awesome in my book.  However, as Paypal you know, gave me your real name and such, I'm not sure if that's something you want me making public, if you have a handle or something you'd like put up on the site contact me and I'll let everyone know how cool you are.

Also also, for anyone who cares, I was doing one of my backups of Ghost Princess (I keep an all text backup, let's me easily spell check, etc...  Though as some of you know that doesn't always pan out), and the actual straight text of Ghost Princess is up to about 40 pages! 60 if you include coding lines, which I... Sort of don't.  (For those keeping track/score that's about 40 pages of size 11 Arial with line break'd rather than indented paragraphs with break line inserts to keep passages separated with some code sprinkled in so that's probably a slightly deceptive number, but still!)

Anyway, I hope to get Alpha 2 out soon, but for those eagerly awaiting it READ STATUS UPDATE. (It's directly above if you missed it)

Melphy out!