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More Honor Bound Setting Details

Teran

Teran is a warm, resource- and technology-rich sprawling archipelago far to the west of Westerlin and Jezhan. A belt of independent islands sit between Teran and Zaledo, some of which...

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Q&A reminder

Just a quick reminder that I'm going to be posting answers to this month's Q&A by the end of this ...

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Honor Bound Newsflash: June 23

Well, it's been a couple of weeks of working hard on Chapter 3! I've now completed the first draft, done some playtesting (both of Chapter 3 and the earlier chapters), and have got a solid outline ...

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Character Intro: Savarel

Full name: Savarel Lopes

Age: 28

Gender: selectable between cis man (he/him), cis woman (she/her) and agender (they/them)

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Small Honor Bound Demo Update

I don't always post when I do early access edits but this one adds various variables and therefore may not play ball with your save slots so I wanted to give you a heads up!

Thank you for the...

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Character Intro: Raffi

Full name: Rafferty/Raffaela/Rafaele Claudian

Age: 25

Gender: selectable between cis man (he/him), cis woman (she/her), and nonbinary ...

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Honor Bound Newsflash: June 9

This fortnight I finished coding Chapter 3 and started writing the prose! I also did edits on Chapters 1 and 2. While I was reading through Chapter 3, I deleted about 2000 words of code because it ...

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Q&A Question Post - June

Hello everyone, I hope you're well! I'm so thrilled to have been able to put up the Honor Bound demo for you, and I hope you've enjoyed it. I've had some really helpful feedback from people already...

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Honor Bound Early Access Update: Chapter 1

It's here! 2023-06-06 17:28:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Character Intro: Matia

Full name: Matia Frasada

Age: 44

Gender: selectable between trans man (he/him), trans woman (she/her), and genderqueer (they/them)

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Upcoming plans for June

Just a quick heads up that the monthly Patreon payments will be restarting on June 1st. I'm going to be putting up the early access Honor Bound demo on June 6th for Sneak Preview subscribers, and c...

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Honor Bound Newsflash: May

This fortnight I finished my draft of Chapter 2 and started planning and coding Chapter 3. 2023-05-26 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Character Intro: Varenn Korzha

Full name: Captain Varenn Korzha

Age: 41

Gender: selectable between cis man (he/him), cis woman (she/her), and agender (they/them)

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Character Intros: Fiore and Catarina

As parent and child, Fiore and Catarina are strongly linked, and their relationship with each other is tracked as well as your relationship with them as individuals. In order to get very close with...

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Project Hotsprings Newsflash

I'm going to try to get back into the swing of doing these twice a month, as it helps keep me accountable about what's going on and I do like to share and track things!

Since the start of Apr...

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Upcoming Plans and New Project Announcement!

Dear subscribers, thank you for your patience while the Patreon has been lying fallow. I'm going to be restarting payments and regular updates on here from June because... drumroll... I will be put...

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Royal Affairs is out!

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Royal Affairs is out next week on March 30th!

And to celebrate, here's a small story about one of the Royal Affairs side characters, Fabien. He's an old friend of the PC's mother, the queen of Westerlin. Here's a moment many years before Royal...

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PATREON HIATUS ANNOUNCEMENT

If you are interested in subscribing: please be aware that £6+ subscribers can view old bonus content and Q&As here, but there is currently NO EARLY ACCESS CONTENT HERE.

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Royal Affairs Portrait Commission

To celebrate Royal Affairs being out soon, I'm considering commissioning a portrait of one of the main characters. I don't know when it'll happen due to artist timings, but I wanted to let you know...

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End of Year Roundup: 2022

Thank you so much for your support this year. Between various health things (positive and negative), big (positive) family milestones, and work changes, it’s been quite the rollercoaster. It real...

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small celebration #2

As November comes to an end, I've submitted my full first draft of Royal Affairs to my editor! It's currently a total of 333000 words, and an average playthrough of 71000 words (longer than any of ...

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A small celebration

Dear all, I'm so pleased to say that I have one (1) functional first draft of Royal Affairs!

Right now it's 323,000 words, with an average playthrough of 70,000 words - both are going to go u...

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Royal Affairs Early Access Demo Update

I'm delighted to say that I'm onto coding the final chapter of Royal Affairs - what a surreal thing to say after such a long journey, but I'm so grateful for everyone who's stuck with me along the ...

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Upcoming IF panel!

Next weekend I'll be sitting down with Eric Moser (Community College Hero series, Zip!), Jim Dattilo (Zombie Exodus series, A Wise Use of Time, VTM: Out for Blood), and Zachary Sergi (Heroes Rise a...

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Royal Affairs update: Chapter 6

Here is an update! This is the whole of Chapter 6, in which there is some Drama Club....

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Newsflash August 21

I finished the Chapter 9 draft for Royal Affairs!!!

This chapter has been such a slog, not because it's been hugely complicated, but it was tough going from the mindset of editing Noblesse Ob...

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Newsflash: August 5

It's August! When did that happen?? I've been working on Royal Affairs - more sporadically than I'd have liked because of some medical issues (this is beginning to become a refrain, which is very a...

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very vague future character ideas

thinking about Them (extremely vague character concepts for extremely vague future game idea(s), you saw it here first)

  • Someone keeping everything bottled up (repressed which causes pro...

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Full Noblesse Oblige cover art!

Can I stop staring at this? NO. Am I delighted by Danelak's dungarees? YES. Look at that gorgeous sepia tone and the warm light of the fire! Look at Pascha's untucked shirt and Rys's delicious coat...

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