June Development Update
Summer is here! At least for those of us in the north part of this spinning ball in space. Here's an update on the various projects we have in progress. Drop any questions you have in the comments and I'll answer as best I can.
Warlord
Warlord chapter 13 was released early June and chapter 14 is well in progress. I have 14 animations rendered and still have a couple more. In addition there's quite a bit more writing to do. Chapter 14 is looking like it might be one of the longest chapters. We'll see if it beats out chapter 7 for that title. It looks like it might be ready by the end of next week (June 30th). As usual, it'll come out as a beta first for upper-tiers and then roll out to everyone else about a week after. Check out a few of the renders from chapter 14 above.
Warlord is set to have about 16 chapters. So that means that the story will be complete likely in August. I'm really excited about the ending and I hope you will all enjoy it (all the endings).
Athena's Revenge
I did manage to get some good work done on Athena's Revenge chapter 1. Some of the chapter 1 renders are above. There's a lot of work still to be done as I'm only 10% complete with the renders. I'll get back to work on AR right after Warlord chapter 14 is out. In the meantime, I will continue to release monthly "writing preview" editions with special stylized graphics (excluding video at the moment). Be sure to vote for July's theme.
Catching Heat
I spent a few minutes this month taking a look at Catching Heat. Catching Heat was the first game I did and is a prequel to Euryale's Gambit. It tells the story of how Euryale gained the lust energy to travel back in time to the 19th century. It was designed to have exclusively AI graphics back before AI was cool (or good). In those few minutes, I was able to update the build system to what is now being used by Athena's Revenge and Warlord. This build system can generate AI graphical assets with the right settings.
I don't know if there is any interest in this game, but at some point in the future it could be resurrected if there is.