Games Report 02/11/23

It's Saturday (and BáiYù) again! This post might be a little messy since I was supposed to be back at my weekend warehouse job, meaning that I lost a lot of time getting preparing for nothing...

Something's Wrong With Sunny Day Jack

Damare has been composing banger after banger, and if you haven't listened to it yet, here's Nick's theme and a draft for REDACTED'S song!

Sleepy Time Jack

Version 0.2.1 is now live on itch!

• Implemented new voice files, including Sleep Timer dialogue
  
• Implemented corresponding lines to dialogue arrays
  
• Implemented 1 & 2 minute Message Intervals
  
• Implemented Sleep Timer Off Mode (does not trigger sleep dialogue)
  
• Added Patron Names, writer credit to Jude 
  
• V 0.2.1: Fixed a typo that broke the game during Jack's Clothed dialogue
  

All patrons can grab the latest version of the game off itch.io with this link! If you downloaded it during yesterday's soft launch, please download it again to fix this bug. For players on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux OS, you can even install the itch app to automatically download new updates the moment they get posted.

This update is bought to you by Jude, the original writer for the majority of these lines, and NaughtyMaus. We're thankful that they wrote in more lines for Jack's Shirtless and Nude modes, and will be filling in more lines for the Holiday Greetings update. Please look forward to it!

In addition to the above, we've set a new Patreon Goal for $6000/mo to begin translating the text for Sleepy Time Jack into Latin Spanish and Japanese, in that order! We know that our foreign language players have been waiting patiently for us to bring the app to their languages, and if we reach this goal this month, we can accelerate that process. 

The Groom of Gallagher Mansion

The first draft stands at roughly over 26K with all endings written! This is very admittedly much more than we all anticipated when we rebooted the project. Like, way more.

"Elias is such a fun and fanciful phantom... you'll most certainly fall for him right away!"

- Johan Faulstich, TGoGM Editor

Oriana is also now on programming duty, doing a few tests with Elias' sprite to see what level of animation they can achieve in Unity.

Personal Shill Time: The Trans Witches are Witches Bundle

Yeah alright, Sauce keeps telling me that I can talk about my stuff outside of SnaccPop Studios, so if there was ever a time for me to go do that, it's now.

KRITIQAL's Trans Witches are Witches Bundle on itch.io is live until February 24, 2023.

A bundle of witchcraft and wizardry without the transphobia, antisemitism, and alt-right grifters. Reject Hogwarts Legacy's bigotry and support independent LGBTQ+ creators.

For $60, you can support a ton of queer developers and play their games full of inclusive magic and spellcasting! Games in this bundle include my very own Lotus: The Self-Made Witch, a tiny crafting VN about brewing HRT with your bestie(?), as well as Johan's Nameless: The Departed Cycle, a dark fantasy horror/romance VN about monsters lurking in a cursed forest (please heed the CWs before playing!).

If $60 is a bit tight on your budget but you want to show your support, you can also buy the $10 version of the bundle for nearly all the same items. Every purchase counts!

Future Reports?

So far I've posted our weekly games report on Saturday because I always do a little bit of development each day, but now that I'm supposed to be back at my weekend warehouse job (there was some hiccup with the short-term disability office not talking to HR for me), it's going to be difficult to finalize the updates and post them in time. It's not a simple matter of quitting either, especially as other Americans will attest to the fact that healthcare is often tied to traditional employment, and my day job just so happens to provide one of the best insurance plans that a civilian can buy as one of our benefits. I'll just have to see how things go this weekend and possibly the next to see if I can handle it or if it'll trigger my chronic pain conditions again.

If I have to stay at my day job though, would you all like your updates on some other day of the week? Let me know in the comments what y'all think.