Xander knelt on his hands and knees a few paces away from me, combing through the long grass off the side of the road. We’d been searching for the wardstone for over an hour, but to no avail.
I took a moment to study the brood line of his back, wondering what he was thinking, before I sto...
2022-01-30 06:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I get to this week’s blog post, I’d like to make some announcements:
1) All the last three January stories will be released tomorrow (Lady Death chapters and a UCRT fairytale staring Nick as Cinderella).
2) Clarence’s interview will be on the 31st s...
2022-01-29 06:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey! Ho! Let's go!
This update bumps everyone's save file back to Chapter 15's start due to some major recoding, and unless you have a Pre-15 save, a lot of passages may break in Chapter 15 (it'll be playable but likely nonsensical due to misremembered variables).
The good news ...
2022-01-29 03:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostOH! Before I forget: there will be a demo update this Friday with Chapter 15 and some of the new Chapter 17 (although Chapter 17 has references to an unimplemented scene).
Sorry for not being as active this month—I’ve been dealing with a health issue that left me sleep ...
2022-01-27 01:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostYou lie besides Talia upon a too-short picnic blanket, blades of bluestem tickling the soles of your bare feet (“It’s just uncut hay,” Talia said when you asked about the long, reddish grass). Your skin is slick and sticky from Georgia’s humidity, your upper arm sticking to Talia’s as i...
2022-01-25 00:11:46 +0000 UTC View PostYou lie besides Ferro upon a too-short picnic blanket, blades of bluestem tickling the soles of your bare feet (“It’s just uncut hay,” Ferro said when you asked about the long, reddish grass). Your skin is slick and sticky from Georgia’s humidity, your upper arm sticking to Ferro’s as i...
2022-01-25 00:06:32 +0000 UTC View PostPelosians are perhaps the most similar to humans of all known species, despite being from a different galaxy.
The Pelosian planet’s name, like ours, is the proper noun version of their word for “dirt.” Thus, if the name of their planet was translated into English . . . it would also b...
2022-01-23 00:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe people have spoken, and January's character interview will be with Clarence Garfield, administrator to Aeon and spiller of tea! (For those of you who don't remember Clarence, he's first met in Chapter 2.)
Feel free to ask questions about Clarence himself (it's his favor...
2022-01-18 00:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to try to post some of the new Chapter 15 break-in routes (the coal chute and rewiring the front door options) this evening. This involves taking the still in-progress portions out, though, so I need to figure out how easily those scenes can be segregated.
Note that to successfull...
2022-01-18 00:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostWordcount: A lot.
Next Update: January 16
In the early days of posting Mind Blind, I was too busy hyperventilating over the fact that other humans were reading my writing to even consider the different ways that technology now enables reading...
2022-01-15 07:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe this time would be different.
. . . It wouldn’t.
I knew that it wouldn’t, because nothing about MacCleason High School was any different that it had been at South Garfield High or Eastridge High or Kimball Junior High. My senior year of high school was going t...
2022-01-12 22:39:58 +0000 UTC View PostAll the major characters in Mind Blind have been interviewed (some more than once).
Only one man remains unchosen: Clarence.
Now, some of you might think that Administrator Garfield is a boring choice. The annoying choice.
However, Clarence is a font of gossip. No...
2022-01-09 05:24:35 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, I wanted to thank all of you for seeing me through this past year!
Never in a million years could I have anticipated the level of support that I’ve received, or that I’d be able to work on Mind Blind almost full time (with the exception of some long-term students tha...
2022-01-09 05:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Nooooo!” Sally’s cry rings out like a death knell as the screen of her Switch turns black. She stares at you, the flickering light of the fireplace revealing pure anguish in her hazel eyes.
“Please, please, please tell me that the power will back on soon,” she begs.
<... 2022-01-03 03:35:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s almost 2022!
An hour before midnight, to be exact, at least according to my time. I'll make this short and sweet, because I do have a major milestone that I want to celebrate:
MIND BLIND IS OVER 500,000 words!
This is the CODED count, with the draft version being...
2022-01-01 06:43:18 +0000 UTC View PostNote of Warning: SERIOUSLY THERE ARE SPOILERS. A lot of what's talked in this interview has yet to be fully revealed in game, so you may want to save this for later if you prefer to continue being surprised by Mind Blind.
* * * * 2022-01-01 06:13:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Calling Reese a prima donna is an insult to every person named Donna.
“Curtail your appreciation until we’ve escaped,” Glitch says wryly. “No need to have the sound of your applause lead them straight to us.”
“Gross,” Glitch says, wrinkling her nose...
2021-12-29 08:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post“I need a New Year’s resolution,” Ellery declared from where she lay sprawled across the living room couch. Her head hung over the sofa arm edge, and her expression was solemn (although it was hard for Sally to be certain given that her best friend’s face was also upside down).
“D...
2021-12-29 08:28:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 has a new subway POV! (Same link as before.)
In the end, this new version isn’t all that different from the original. The changes are certainly less drastic than the various drafts I wrote up from scratch, which included passages like:
Time freezes when you see their f...
2021-12-26 08:42:39 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the Rewritten Journal of Lady Vitrula Rhys: The Sixth Death
During my later deaths, I experienced the same sequence of emotions each time I realized that I was about to die. Anger, at Letty for constantly being instrumental to my demise, and at myself for ...
2021-12-23 03:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostI’m currently dealing with a low-grade fever that’s upset my balance just enough that my thirteen-year-old neighbor accused me of being publicly inebriated when I wobbled down to the lobby for my mail. (This is not indicative of any true severity of illness, however, but rather my complete an...
2021-12-18 05:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostLoren came to visit me the next morning. Although I restricted to bed rest (Delphine having threatened to break both my legs again should I attempt to leave prematurely) and wore nothing but my nightgown, my fiancé arrived dressed in one of his most formal uniforms usually reserved for diplomat ...
2021-12-16 07:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Sooooo . . .” Glitch waggles her pierced brows suggestively. “Kenzie and I need you to settle a debate we were having about you and Fortitude.”
You glance over at Kent, who gives a half-shrug as if to say ‘leave me out of this’.
“I think that your dear Mr. Black has hid...
2021-12-14 07:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostDelivery's concept of “soul scarring” comes from my own experience with a deceased parent. When a child grows up with death, it can shape their perspectives for the rest of their life. My father died when I was eleven months old. To me, a car has never just been a car; it’s That Pl...
2021-12-12 23:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostIn this post, I will (attempt to) explain how one chapter becomes three. Because, as you may already know, Chapters 15 thorough 17 were originally all meant to just be Chapter 15.
Basically, it's like magic! Really wonky magic where the rabbits keep getting lost and then transforming into g...
2021-12-11 02:32:44 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're on the Sanctum discord (which I highly suggest you join to receive mini-update news!), you may noh that all of Chapter 16 was posted yesterday, and yet Noh's reveal was nohwhere in sight. I'll have a post on Friday about all the changes made that resulted in the reveal's many delays, bu...
2021-12-07 23:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostMy logic is irrefutable
(and totally not a byproduct of sleep-deprivation).
That's right, everyone, it's still December 5th on Planet Jo. For those of you living in the real world, though, you can now play the first half of Chapter 16 which is also mildly exciting. Ther...
2021-12-06 09:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to promptly unplug my internet again as soon as this post is published, as I've disconnected from all other human lifeforms over these last several days in order to make Chapter 16 playable from beginning to end.
(With the new tunnel scenes, Noh's first reveal now happens at...
2021-12-04 02:25:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you first met her—truly met her, that is—your first thought upon learning the breadth of her powers was not “sexy time possibilities.”
No, that night, you were a fraught livewire of anxiety and anger, most of it directed towards her. Rightfully so, she admits now in t...
When you first met him—truly met him, that is—your first thought upon learning the breadth of his powers was not “sexy time possibilities.”
No, that night, you were a fraught livewire of anxiety and anger, most of it directed towards him. Rightfully so, he admits now in the...
2021-12-01 01:28:43 +0000 UTC View Post