Public release DW a52, DM a4

Hey guys, before I get to the content of the update, I wanna take a moment to say a few things, those who aren't interested can go ahead and skip down to the headlined updates.

So yeah... it was a really rough month for me, I've gotta say. Things dragging on as they were with no end in sight was really starting to eat away at me and most days I had zero drive to do anything... I mostly just wanted to settle into being numb and still and not think about anything at all. There were a lot of days where I just couldn't conceive of doing anything vaguely creative like writing, and more than once I very seriously just considering putting everything on indefinite hiatus.

At the same time it felt like that would be giving in to the idea of nothing ever changing. And I instead wound up getting an incremental out every single week... not always as much as I thought I should have, but I got myself to do it, and I think a lot of it turned out to be pretty decent stuff. Certainly I got some fun out of writing it, and from early reviews people seemed pleased with reading it.

Too, I want to think everyone who has been supportive through this rough time, both with your donations and your kind words. I've received a lot of kind and caring comments on multiple fronts, and I just want to tell you all thank you. I'm sorry if I didn't respond directly to some of these... know it's not that I didn't see it or didn't care, it's just that I have this weird stupid thing where when I'm sincerely touched I have this crippling fear of coming off as underwhelmed or phony in trying to acknowledge it. I know that just saying nothing is probably worse, but well, it wouldn't be a weird and stupid fear if it was rational. So here's me saying it, simple and clean: Thank you. I appreciate it, and you, very much.

Things are beginning to look up and I'm starting to be able to have a positive outlook for the future again. Working on this project and knowing that others are enjoying it has been part of that even as some days it's been a bit of a burden... but it's one I don't intend to put down any time soon. Let's both look forward to more updates.

All that said, how about that actual update, huh?

Devious World alpha 52

• Main: Decided Jamie's PeopleSlider had too much overlap with MeistroComp's concept and replaced it with the MentaGuide. (May add it back in if I ever get some really good ideas for it.)
• Main: Jamie can fantasize about being a girl after getting called on to dogsit again.
• Main: December is now a season available to Buddy.
• Main: Monk Cyan can wait for Bellweather to wake up the morning after.
• Main: Jamie can now meet Joshua for lunch.
• Main: The magical kingdom is now available for Jamie to buy on Nile.
• Main: Mike now has a new (and available) option after making the Fast Felipe's animatronics horny.

Devious Mundanity alpha 4

• Main: Konko can now give the boobified Ryo an infusion of male hormones.
• Added Defiance to female player characters.

(If you get incrementals, the public release for Devious Mundanity is the same as the incremental, I'm afraid, most of my inspiration this month went to DW stuff. I'm aiming to get some more Kai stuff done next month though, at least that's the general plan.)

File is here or here.