November 1 Update
Added 2025-11-01 17:01:32 +0000 UTCEarly weekly update because this one is just jam-packed. >_< Lots of news, but some fun stuff too!
The biggest business news for me is that this coming Tuesday (November 4), Audible will launch the Depthless Hunger audiobook, and the ebook will relaunch as well. This has been pretty stressful, but rather than get into that, here are the links:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Depthless-Hunger-Audiobook/B0FX64WVSR
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXVCN78K
This is different from all my previous releases, because it's through a publisher: they gave me a big advance and they're hoping to recoup their investment. If the series doesn't turn a profit, I don't have to give back a cent, but I likely burn that bridge forever, as they're not going to double-down on an unprofitable investment.
I've long had in mind an appeal when this happened... but I'm not going to do it, not now. I'm not convinced that the audience really exists for this project or that it will find success. All of you are familiar with my negativity by now so I won't belabor things.
So get the book if the story sounds appealing or you want to support this project going forward. At some point in the future, hopefully, I will get another shot at industry funding, and I will ask for everyone's support then. This is likely to be just another building block in making my career secure.
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Let's shift gears with some simple fun: see above for some entertaining statistics extracted from TLS now that it's complete. ^-^ The one I'm happiest about is that the story of TLS includes nearly 2400 unique faces, but Lamsey had the idea to highlight some stats for various characteristics expressions.
Some don't surprise me - I'm always looking for opportunities to have Iris blush or Orilise look shady - but other numbers came out different than expected. I would not have guessed that I only used the Tertia face 12 times, for example.
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Now for something unusual... I've made a post on GameDevClassifieds and r/INAT, which you can upvote if you want:
https://old.reddit.com/r/INAT/comments/1olsz5k/revshare_i_know_not_all_teams_need_a_writer_but_i/
To be perfectly honest, I don't expect much to come from this. But I've spoken before about wanting to find more collaborators, and I know my tendency is to be inwardly-focused and closed off. Making some posts is low reward, but also very low risk. If there's any chance out there that people are looking for someone with my skillset, I want to have at least tried to signal my availability.
I don't talk about it much, but I do reach out to other creators sometimes. So far nothing has come of it, despite some conversations that seemed promising at first. One of these may yet work out, multiplying what I can pull off in future projects.
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It's been just a little bit over a week since TLS officially launched and it's hard to say how well it's doing because normal metrics don't necessarily apply here. We blew past the previous number of concurrent players and the game is consistently higher than the previous max, but I hear from so many people who are long time fans of the game who waited until now to replay, so I'm not sure how many new players are coming in.
Anyway, I put out version 1.0.1 to do a little cleanup. The changes won't be relevant to most, but it should reduce duplicate bug reports. Haven't bothered with a blog post yet, but here are normal and RTP version links for supporters.
The game could still use more reviews, they never hurt! I also submitted the game to GOG again, so it wouldn't hurt to upvote the Dreamlist page. That has increased a lot since I last saw it, even before I linked it from the recent release.
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Now, one more image for fun:
According to the text dump, Sarai curses 439 times! Obviously she favors some words much more than others, and the word cloud is not perfectly proportional, but I think it's fun. ^-^
Comments
I'm glad to hear that you've enjoyed TLS so much. ^-^ I'm happy that others appreciate my sensibilities when it comes to creating games and fictional worlds, and thanks to everyone's support I intend to keep doing it for a very long time!
Sierra Lee
2025-11-07 00:56:32 +0000 UTCThe most recent update post is fine for comments! FYI, you have a previous comment that isn't showing, but that isn't my doing: there's some sort of Patreon feature that I wasn't aware of that filtered it. Thank you for your review and support!
Sierra Lee
2025-11-07 00:55:30 +0000 UTCtruthfully this has been one of the most enjoyable games that I have had the pleasure of experiencing in the past five years. One of my favorite genres of games is RPG‘s, and to be perfectly honest, even though I know I am not that old considering I just turned 31 on the second I have always loved the old style RPG‘s as well because it didn’t rely on graphics to look past poor writing/storyline. And while a lot of games use sex and much of the same aspect to ignore obvious issues and the game, you have truly given a work of art that reflects so much passion. I have had to force myself to slow down because I don’t wanna miss anything and I’m enjoying it too much to let it end. I think I’m currently sitting at 160 hours in game and I still haven’t finished it when normally I can complete a game in a day or two. My wife watches me play or gets updates from me daily and the story and character depth has won me over from the first 30 mins of gameplay. And as someone who creates entire new worlds on a regular basis as a DM for DND, there is not a single detail that I have found in this game that seemed less than stellar. I will most certainly be getting every other game you have had a part in because once I finish this and probably replay at least twice, I will need more 😅 thank you thank you thank you 100 times!
Christopher
2025-11-07 00:05:38 +0000 UTCOkay so here is my spiel unless there is somewhere else to write this or DM (please feel free to correct or direct me as i am new here)
Christopher
2025-11-06 23:56:52 +0000 UTC
