As you may be aware, I've been writing Mermaid Liaisons, the sequel to Elven Relations, for some time. I started writing script in March this year, so 5 months ago. The game's story is divided into 6 chapters, and I've written basically 4 of them. (Because of assorted branches that can occur within each chapter, it's not quite as straightforward as ( Read more... )

Well, Rachael and I had a great Christmas holiday, spending a few days with each of our families, having fun, eating wonderful food and playing many great games. And now we're back, what has 2009 brought so far?

( A new housemate! )

Hmm, it turns out I post sufficiently infrequently that I've made barely any mention on this journal of the Ren'Py TileEngine and UnitEngine that I've been working on since Christmas. It began its journey as just the isometric engine for my planned tactical-combat ren'ai game. Then it turned out that the Lemmasoft forums were celebrating their 5 ( Read more... )

As some of you may know, I've been off work for a few days with the norovirus. (Medical TMI BBC link) In fact, I've had it twice, once 2 or 3 weeks ago, and once this week. One of the interesting things about this is that you're meant to avoid people for 48 hours after symptoms end, to avoid infecting them. So this has resulted in me having some ( Read more... )