Public Release: World a79, Mundanity a22, "Losing Big"

Did this month seem to last forever to everyone, or just me because I spent at least half of it sick? Bleh.

Anyhoo, I'll talk a little about the year ahead after I get to the contents of this update:

Devious World

• Main: Gwyn has a third option after getting shot down by Maria.
• Main: Austin can take a look at the camera from the box of his uncle's artifacts.
• Main: Austin can also go down during Motoko's time in the bath, or not bother with an alarm.
• Main: Jamie can discover he's bought a new item from the mysterious store.
• Main: Cat Burglar Eric can decide to steal another jewel while burgling Lianna Guyer's bedroom.
• Main: Cyan has a new game in the infernal VR rig's list.

Devious Mundanity

• Main: Michika can tell Heiloh she wants the Cutlass drone to be shiny.
• Main: Michika can actually take the genetic material retrieval job.
• Main: Leo can decide he's going to take everything from Nova.

Losing Big

• A short prose story in my cyberpunk setting of Makarzia, featuring a small group of mercenaries operating in Megasector 8.

File is here or here.

Now, that done, and with this being the last public release of the year, let's do the standard "the year ahead" thing that most content creators are doing with their final releases of the year.

In the year ahead I'm expecting things to be mostly the same... some months will be better than others for writing, and that's one of those things that's just gotta be accepted when dealing with how my brain works. I rallied in the last week of this month enough that I think it's a fairly meaty update, but when I have particularly bad months I'll let you know and probably give the month's charge a pass. (This was almost one of those, but like I said I think I made enough of a comeback this week.)

One change I think I'll go ahead and codify is that in the year ahead I'm going to reserve the right to either supplement or replace incrementals with lewd prose stories. Sometimes I have good ideas for scenes, some featuring Devious characters, that would be awkward to fit within the confines of the game... they'd require too many branches that basically just exist to enable one scene idea, among other things, which is frustrating for everyone I think since it just spawns more redlinks. I think relaxing on the idea of occasionally just putting out largely self-contained short stories featuring the same sort of content you follow the game for is a better idea. As with incrementals, these stories will stay exclusive to the subscription tiers until the public release at the end of the month.

(In effect this has always kind of been a thing, I'm just going to make it more official that this will happen sometimes going forward.)

Anyway, that's the plan for the next year. Keep doing my best to get game updates done, occasionally supplement those with prose stories, and maybe find an occasional extra spoon or two for Kai's Story.

See you next year!

Edit: Cyan path should be fixed now.