Mr. Pengo

A bit early, but I figured people wouldn't mind! 🎃 As promised, here are the first ever Jezebel halloween costumes, in what I'm hoping will become a yearly tradition! Duvessa as Celestia Ludenberg from Danganronpa Erika and August as Bebop and Rocksteady from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Veska as A

Thank you all so very much for your patience through this completely unplanned 3 week hiatus from these status updates. As I said in the discord, though I have been busy, the real reason I wasn't posting was because I didn't have it in me to give another excuse about the bonus story releasing, so I

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It's official! Duvessa, Veska, and Dragana presently occupy the podium of the top 3 female characters, as voted by you! Just as promised, these three will be receiving special artwork closer to Halloween. I'm not gonna lie, tho...I have an idea for Erika that I really like, so she's probably getting

Today's preview is the final form of the Valiancourt meeting room background; I think it looks pretty nice, if I do say so myself, but feel free to tell me what you think as well! One thing I'm trying to be conscious of in future is getting important backgrounds that don't exist yet made in advance

Okay, so I waited until Monday to release the next one. IDK, posting one yesterday just felt wacko early. Next one on Sunday for sure. In the meantime, please enjoy another vague and potentially confusing preview. My plan to go all in starting October remains. These are the final days of the prepera

I've wanted to do one of these for a while, but now is as good a time as ever, as there are stakes to the contest! The top 3 girls as voted by you will receive their own Halloween costume art next month! Only the female characters this time; a male character poll might be a thing a ways down the lin

Sorry about not actually living up to my promise to return to a Sunday release date with these; it'll happen next time for sure, but I'm having legitimate internet issues that prevented me from doing it sooner. Please enjoy the vague allusion to future lore in this screenshot as an apology. I don't

Apologies for being a few days late; it relates directly to the increased busyness in my life I alluded to recently. I just haven't felt like writing one of these after getting home post-super busy day, but they will be back to the normal schedule on Sunday in five days. I've been getting a lot of t

I continue to get new background art made; today's preview is the sketch for the Valiancourt meeting room, another frequently used background that has been AI generated until now. After this, I'll likely get to making those generic streets I was talking about last week. I sort of told myself that I'

The process of de-AIifying the backgrounds in the game is being done in order of use. In other words, I want to procure real art for the backgrounds I use the most frequently, first. Today's preview image is the new art for Duvessa's office, which I use all the time, and which will feature in update

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Hello all Just posting this to let you know that the update will be coming today, the 14th, but will likely drop very late, around 11 PM Pacific time. I am hard at work fine-tuning things to make sure it is perfect for then. Thanks! EDIT: Might be a bit later than that. I'm doing my best, 100% guara

I am super jazzed to finally be able to announce a release date for the next update! It took longer than I had hoped, and it wasn't as smooth of a process as is ideal, but we got there! I said I wanted it out in the first week of August, earlier, but I've given myself an extra week to iron everythin

Today's preview is not actually a preview. It's a line from the first episode that I've always particularly liked, but that many people probably never saw. I wanted to share, as I feel like it's the perfect combination of Duvessa being equal parts existentialist and savage. I am happy to tell you th

I'm happy to announce that Jezebel has oficially released on Steam Early Access! Anyone who gets the game on there will have access to new releases at the same time as the lowest tier (Serf) all the way through to Episode 4, at least. You can find the NSFW patch for the game right here! If anyone is

The game is probably gonna just miss a July release date. Like, I'm thinking it'll drop in the first week of August. I'll have an official release date out by the end of the month. Relativistically, the wait is now pretty short, so I imagine you guys won't mind particularly much. My only concern is

Last week I said I might know by now whether I'd get the update out in July...but I'm still not certain. I continue to work away at coding every day, but there were a couple days last week I wasn't feeling well, so some days less so. Either way, I continue to work dilligently; given the track record

Coding continues to go well. I don't have too much in the way of specifics, but I'll say that next week's status update will be more interesting. I'll be able to say with confidence whether or not it'll be out in July on the 19th, I think. My intention is to announce a release date only when I've co

I am pleased to announce that I am finished writing! It's been a bumpy ride, full of inaccurate estimates about how long it will take, and it did indeed take longer than I wanted it to, but it's all downhill from here! I'm gonna put my best foot forward to be finished with the coding as soon as I ca

I've comissioned some rainy versions of various backgrounds in the game, so I thought I'd select a rainy scene for this week's preview. I think the Griffin's Beak one looks quite nice. So I'm not totally done with the writing, but I'm in the midst of doing the climactic scene of Pt. 2 right now. I f

Happy Father's Day! Despite my consistent work, the writing thing stays at 95% this week. I'd like to give some inside baseball about the process: right now, the text document for Episode 2 Pt. 2 alone contains a whopping 182,585 words. Now, even if I am very liberal in subtracting the text that mig

PSA regarding the bonus story I promised would be done by now last week: it is 100% finished, but I noticed a small thing in the art I wanted changed. I am waiting on the artist to do so, and the moment they do I will put it out. It should be within 24 hours. Still not quite finished with writing, b

I've bumped the writing thing up to 90% done this week. I know I said 95% was the goal but, in my defence, it often feels like there are roughly five seconds between Sundays so it can be a bit difficult to keep up. The good news is that I am regularly writing every single day, and it will be ready w

One of those weeks where I just couldn't find a good line from the script to put in a preview...so enjoy this CG of Dragana presented without context instead! I'm not done with the writing yet, but we're getting there progressively quickly. The good news is that I just finished writing the last big

Just a quick post to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the game's first release, which was one year ago on May 25th, 2025. A lot has happened since then, but it is my goal to do better on the update front over the next 365 days than I did in the previous. The goal is to put out at least three up

In case it needs mentioning, Duvessa is, in fact, not addressing Branko, but a hapless offscreen victim. XD Remember how I said last week that my process might involve making predictions that are ultimately wrong? And how I also said that I'll know for sure whether or not I'll be done with writing i

Hey hey hey I got a lot of writing done in the past week, though there is still a fair bit left to go. I think of like this: if it's getting to be toward the end of May and I see the finish line, I'll go all-in on writing as much as I can to make it so. I can't wait to get this update out and see wh

It is absolutely nuts how fast Sundays creep up on me every week. I feel like I just wrote the last one yesterday. I blink, and a week is gone. So it goes. I actually did get a lot more writing done in the past seven days; I remain confident that I can be done with this portion of the process this m

Yo; progress wasn't as great this week, mostly because I was working on other things also associated with the game, namely the last bonus scene and the Steam release. When I make estimates like the May 10th one from a few weeks ago, I always assume I'm a hyperefficient robot capable of much greater

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What's up; writing progressed quite a bit this week, and I got a couple really productive sessions in. I'll do my best to do right by my prediction of May 10th from last week, but who knows. I even had one day where I got way less done than I had anticipated, but what little stuff I did write at the

Sorry for being a few days late this week; I was busy with a ton of stuff, and I wanted to make sure that the writing schedule I mentioned last week was finalized before putting anything out. Budgeting my time for each day, I managed to churn out an estimate that I'll be done writing by May 10th, an

I didn't get nearly as much writing done in the past six days as I'd have liked to, due to a myriad of issues, the most prescient of which being that I am yet again stuck feeling indifferent about writing a scene with a bunch of different minor variations in branching options. It's really lame feeli

A bit late this week for uninteresting reasons; Sunday status updates will resume as always on the weekend. I'm finally done with censoring the game for Steam; it took me way longer than it had any right to because I wasn't enthused about combing through the script and taking a hatchet to it. Not my

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