Lord Arioch

Version 1.00 is finally out. It has been a long road, and there's plenty more to go with Act II on the way, but it is a big achievement, and as Sommy pointed out, I should make a big deal of it. So, here is the tale of the tape to show just how much work went into finishing the game: Words! Accordin

Hey all, First up, the road to 1.0. We're working to get it out, and it won’t be long now. The main holdup has been the list of variables to transfer to Act II, and I needed Rein’s input; he's been busy with real life, but he is free now and working on it. Once he’s finished, Jr. X will add the back

Hello everyone, Just a quick update today, as I'm still working hard on getting everything ready for the next release. I was hoping to get it out by the end of the month, but it is going to slip into early August now due to the fact that I'm still waiting on material from other writers that will nee

Hey all, First up, the not-so-good news. I was hoping DM would finish the Che-Lin wedding in time for release, but he is still working on it. I am working on the ending myself, and I don't want to add it until it is finished, which leaves me with only one event from Gern currently. There isn't much

Hey all, Bit of a late one this time, and not a lot to really discuss until Sommy gives me the okay to start sharing Act 2 stuff, but I just wanted to give you all a quick update on the new release and when it will be up. First up, what the release will contain - I've finished the Jezera NTR finale,

Just to let everyone know, it is nearly finished now, but Rein has an exam and can only get me the final scene by Sunday morning. I'll get it coded and get the release out by the end of the day (the 8th).

Just a quick update as promised in the last news post, regarding the release. I'm almost done with my writing, and Rein is making good progress, and I need to code everything so I'm currently aiming for the 5th or the 6th (Feb).

Hey all, Bit late on this and it's going to be a short one again, so lets get straight to it. Work is well underway on the next release, and as I mentioned in the release post for the previous version, it will be a smaller one due to the knock-on effect of the last one being late. In terms of what i

Just to let you all know, Rein is still working on Astarte, so it'll be a few more days.

So, good news and bad news. Good news first - Rein has been making a lot of progress with the alternative Astarte routes, and they'll be going into the next release. Bad news, he needs a few more days to get it all finished off, and I need some time to code it, so I'm pushing back the release anothe

Hello all, Going to be a quick one this time around as I have a lot to do, but I just wanted to keep you all abreast with what is going on at the moment. Before we get into the development news, if you haven't already seen on Discord or the socials, we are currently up for best visual novel (I didn'

Just to keep everyone informed, here's an update. I finished writing yesterday, but Rein has suggested I add a sex scene to one of the events, so I'm doing that today, and he's just finishing up editing Gern's large Jezera Favour finale. I just need to code those, test, add the CGs, update the galle

Hey all, If you are on Discord, you'll know I've been suffering with sinusitus lately. As a result, I haven't gotten as much as I'd like for the release done, and the other writers have been busy and not turned in much, so I've made the decision to give myself a few extra days and release in early O

Hey all, Been a while since I did one of these, but everything is moving along nicely. We got the last release out with the first chunk of the epilogue done, meaning we are one step closer to Act 2, which is something I'm going to talk about today, but first, I'm going to talk about this month's rel

Just to let everyone know, I'm pushing the release date again. It is a little light because only Rein and I are currently working on the writing, and Rein was too busy to do much. As a result, I want to get two extra events in for the epilogue before I send it out. It will definitely be out by the 3

Hey all, Once again, it's time for a round-up of what is happening here at Venus Noire. After what feels like an eternity, we are finally approaching the end of Act I. This means that we are currently very busy working on plans for Act II, some of which we have discussed the vagueries of in past new

Hello everyone, Going to be a relatively quick one today as release is fast approaching, but there's a few things to get through, so lets get straight to it. First up, I'm pushing the release back from the 25th to the 31st. Sommy is in the middle of moving house, and I wanted to give him a bit of a

Hello everyone, Just going to be a quick one today, as it is sneaking closer and closer to release, but I wanted to let you all know what was going on. Starting with the last release, it got out on time, and we even added a few more QoL changes for the Steam update, which will be in the next backer

Hello all, It is the end of yet another year; they seem to fly by so fast these days. I was hoping this would be the year the year that we managed to finish Act I, but unfortunately, that wasn't meant to be. With the progress we have made this year, along with the new writers we have hired to help,

Hello everyone, Just a quick update today going into the next release, as a lot is going on at the moment. The first thing to mention is going to be the release date - it usually would be the last Sunday of the month, which is the 24th, but due to numerous things going on (disruption from the electi

Hello guys/gals/non-binary peeps, So, first up—the bad news. As some of you already know, the page was recently suspended by Patreon. This is because they recently changed their definition of bestiality, which was human-level sapience, also to include non-human genitalia, and we have a few character

Jezera tomorrow. Just to let everyone know as well, this release is going to be a little late. My mother recently had a hip replacement and she's on her own so I have had to help out a lot and this has eaten into my coding time massively. I'm still hoping to get it out before the end of the month bu

Hey all, There was a slight delay in getting the last release out, but it turned out to be a good one. I got my stuff in, which is a minor miracle, and the new writers helped make it a really solid release. Let's get straight to it. Things are well underway regarding the next release. I'm trying to

Hello all, Just a quick word to let you all know what is going on. It took a while longer than I hoped, but I have now hired three new writers to help us get to the end of Act I. I don't have time to write to all of you who were not selected, but I want to say it was tough to choose, and I will file

Hello all, So the release was out on time, despite my dental problems, which is good, but it was a bit lighter on content than I hoped, and after discussing the issue with staff in the latest meeting, it looks like this isn't likely to change any time soon. I knew it was going to get difficult when

Hey everyone, It's a new year, and as always the work continues. We are already busy getting the March release ready, and there'll be more about that further down, but first I'd like to talk about the game's current state. Obviously, I would have liked to have Act I finished by now, but I will be th

Hello everyone, Can't believe it is almost the end of the year already, this one has just flown by. I would have liked to be closer to finishing this act by now, but unfortunately some setbacks on the writing side have slowed us down a bit. However, we are making solid progress towards the finish li

A little bad news - after discussions with the staff I have decided to push the release back from this Sunday to the last day of the month (Saturday, 30th). This is primarily for two reasons: firstly Hooky and Exagie have had to deal with real-life stuff, and this will allow them to get in extra wor

Hey everyone, Gonna be a bit of a short one today as I'm going to visit a friend until the end of next week later today (so I might be a bit slower than usual responding, but I will be keeping an eye on here as always). Still, we've got a few things to discuss, so let us get straight to it. :) First

Hey everyone, Another quick on today, as work is underway for the new release in the very near future, but I just wanted to check in with a couple of things. :) Firstly, progress on the backer release is going well as usual. I already have all the Helayna content from Nyx, and the Andras NPC arc eve

Alright, bit late this month due to being incredibly white and unable to deal with it being 30 degrees (fuck global warming) but here we go. Before we get to the upcoming release, a few things to mention. First up, you may have noticed the art on Twitter for advertising purposes looks a bit blurry l

Hey all, Got to go to a wedding today, and as always at this time of the bi-month, I'm swamped with work for the release, so this is going to be a quickie. First up, the thing you all care about - the release is going fine and should be on time as usual (unless a piano gets dropped on my head). I ha

Hello all, Sorry for the lateness, meant to do this last week, and then I came down with a case of the spring flu. Feeling better now though, so busy catching up to get the release ready for the end of next month as always. On that front, work is well underway as usual. In terms of content, we'll ha

Hello everyone, Just going to be a relatively short one today since the last one was very, very long, and I need to crack on with coding if we are going to have a release on time next Sunday (and you all know how I feel about being late). :) Talking about that release, it is all going well so far. I

Hello all, So another month and another release is out on time. Everyone seems quite happy with it, so that is good. As always work is well on the way for the next build in March, but I will talk more about that next month. Today I want to talk about what I touched upon in the last news post - the r

Hey everyone, I hope you all had a good holiday and new year. With that out of the way, everyone at VN is back at work, working hard to get this month's release out on time for the 29th. That is also going fine, but I'll be taking a break from discussing that today as usual, since I promised to talk

Hello everyone, Well, it is December, and there are only 16 more days left in 2022. This one sure flew by fast. Development-wise, I would have liked to have been further along by now, especially with the goblin arc, but as they say, shit happens, and we can only continue pressing on. The good news i

Hey All, Not doing a NftSR this month because I don't have a lot to say, just wanted to give you all a quick update on the next release. Despite being ill last week with the flu, I have managed to catch back up, most of the release is coded now, and I'm just waiting for the last few events to trickl

Hey all, Another month, another news post. Things are finally starting to settle down for me, the release was only slightly late due to the move, and there should be no issues for the next one, so everything is looking up. Moving on to what you care about, the new release is shaping up nicely. After

Just to let you guys know - I was hoping to try and get it in before the end of the month, but moving took longer than planned, so aiming for Sunday evening now.

Hey guys and gals (and NB peeps too), Unfortunately due to my situation, I'm having to move this week. I have somewhere else to go so not a problem on that front, but I will lose a lot of time which makes it impossible to get this release out by Sunday. As a result, I will be pushing this one to the

Hello, Seeds fans, Bit late with this one, the personal issues that were ongoing leading up to the last release are still ongoing, so having to deal with that, but as with the aforementioned last release, I'm doing my best to stop it from affecting the game, so hopefully, everything will be fine. De

[Update - So, I was so tired this morning I added the missing BGs to the git branch, and didn't download the new version, I just rebuilt and uploaded one that still had them missing. This fixes that.] Okay, just about got this one out on time. Has been a bit of a nightmare as after the problems I di

Hello everyone, Some bad news first. I am currently dealing with pretty much the worst thing that has happened to me in real life since starting developing Seeds of Chaos. On top of that, there is a heatwave currently starting in the UK which the country is woefully unprepared to deal with. I intend

Hey everyone, It's time for another News from the Six Realms, and I'm writing this one in the garden as it is such a lovely day outside, a rarity in this part of the world. So, last month was release month and that went well, out on time as usual, and people seem to dig it. As always, however, the n

Hey everyone, This one is gonna be super short because I am knee-deep in crunch and there's a long way to go until everything is done on Sunday evening. The good news is, as usual, everything is coming along well and we will be on time. I have already coded the new goblin arc content Exagie has writ

Hey everyone, Another release out on time, I think it is safe to say we are getting quite good at that. It saw the arrival of the first two events of the goblin arc, introducing the new characters Tue-Row, Tue-San, and Che-Lin. For those of you who enjoyed it, or those of you who haven't played it y

Hey everyone, It's that time again already, and who can believe since the last time the world has gotten even crazier? It's like the 80s all over again, and the threat of nuclear armageddon hangs over us like the sword of Damocles; at this rate, I might be writing these from a bunker in the future.

Is it almost the end of February already? This year is just flying by. Scary news from the East today as well, so thoughts and solidarity to the people of Ukraine. Anyway, as always work is well underway on the release for next month as usual. Rein and Winter have spent a large chunk of this month f

Just a quick update since there has been no News From the Six Realms this month due to circumstances (been abso-fucking-lutely rammed due to being away till the 10th, then having to do accounts). The good news is the release will be out on time on Sunday evening (UK time) as usual. I still have abou