Ruffleneck

Hello everyone! I have a small (medium size?) devlog to share with you, I also have some information about a small sale coming up early next month to celebrate Pride, but lets start with report on the progress itself :3 On to progress report; ENEMIES First pass is basically complete internally; you

You can get the build here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141636926 :3 r35e Yule Special Patch Changelist (see below for full release notes): NEW - Four new Yule skins - In addition to already existing yule ful on Skiia, there’s now also one special skin on Iskaai, one on Kizan, and two on Saardan.

Download here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141636926/ <3 r35b Patch Changelist: NEW - Pathfinder quest added. Note: If you found intact Pathfinder before, it is switched to a broken version that you can continue / start the quest with <3 NEW - Saardan theme music. NEW - GUI scale rework to hopeful

Go get it, right meow, right heow---r... err! https://www.patreon.com/posts/141636926

Gold Cohort+ early release can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hunt-and-snare-141636926 Full release on 8.11.2025 <3 r35 Changelist: NEW - Intro Cinematics - Added game intro that goes through each of the Backgrounds with their own unique introduction with some shared story bits leading

Intro cinematics work and set up. Character’s are just placeholders, and are missing materials and clothes, poses, and such. Player is also the monster with all the ears and horns xD This is from the hunter background intro. All the backgrounds have their own mid section for the intro. There’s basic

Kess queer art by our artist and level designer Onfe <3

Heya! If you've ever been curious about Sapphire Safari, we've bundled together with Henley / Kinky Fridays for Sapphire Safari and Hunt and Snare; if you own Sapphire Safari or Hunt and Snare, you can get the other with a small discount, or on both if you own neither :3 https://store.steampowered.c

Some raw animations on the three upcoming guns ^^ Pathfinder; It’s heavy with way too big caliber, so it has a lot of kickback, and A LOT OF BOOM. The jiggles are not in the raw animation itself, but you can imagine some of the body parts jiggling and the ears flopping about cutely :3 Animation is l

You may ask…. what is that thing? Glad you asked! That’s an animation rig. It is basically used to animate characters. The weird stripped mesh that have very visible facets is my skinning guidelines ^^ Here’s a pose test with the rig. All the rings and circles and such of different colors are differ

r34c is not critical, but if you haven't updated since release and are on r34, it is definitely highly recommended to update because r34a and r34b have critical fixes! <3 Patreon build here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117931422 r34c Hotfix: Reduced number of [redacted] on Saardan by third Fixed c

You can get it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117931422/ :3 r34 Changelist: NEW Island - Saardan - First pass includes; Right side of the island has Grey Port with 14 NPCs to meet. Saardan heev and ful, small huntable species, spawn around the right side of the island. There’s currently default

We’ve shown some experiments on the event/cinematics style, but it’s now starting to get more finalized as a concept and we’re finally starting to work on it properly. Hunt and Snare’s events/cinematics will have stylized mood screens along with narration ^^ The basic idea is that each event or plot

Patreon release here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101512054 Hotfix r33c changes: Fixed Nikka and Annay additional act location problems. Fixed Pail's ego making him float a little bit. Fixed Pail's ego making a random house float a little bit. Fixed occlusion problems causing a ship bed to disappe

Link to release: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101512054 Have fun everyone! <3 r33b Changelist: NEW Feature - Hireable NPCs - Each island now has randomly spawning NPCs that you can speak to and hire for Guild Drakes. By default the hireable NPCs are procedurally generated like Wild Bred are, but in

r33 Experimental release for Gold Cohorts ($20+) can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101512054 Full release 12.4.2024 ♥ r33 Changelist: NEW Feature - Hireable NPCs - Each island now has randomly spawning NPCs that you can speak to and hire for Guild Drakes. By default the hireable NPCs

Pretty close to a new release now, hence the lack of snippets as of late. There's still a few things to tweak and adjust prior release, but not long now ^^ ~Ruffleneck

Saardan’s main town (ignore the bright spots, some weird graphics glitch in editor xD) Tiny drydock of sorts ^^ Random pretty nook :3 Lots of desert in the distance. Very Saardan view honestly x) Along the desert there are a few oases with camps in them, another place to meet characters in besides t

https://www.patreon.com/posts/92130040 r32c hotfix Fixed flycam positioning wrong for some full acts. Fixed flycam vibrating when exiting a full act. Fixed exiting to menu mid conversation allowing weird variable states. Conversations now do not autosave until the conversation is ended. Fixed date l

Get it here https://www.patreon.com/posts/92130040 <3

Experimental r32 release to Gold Cohort ($20+) and can be gotten here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92130040 Full release on 17th of November, 2023! <3 r32 Changelist: NEW Feature - Overworld Sailing - First pass of sailing added where you now sail between islands. All three islands are accessible

(Please note no volcano island you can dock on, it's just decoration xD ...for now at least... uh...) Hi! I just wanted to make a quick update so everyone knows where we are at the moment ^^ BUILD STATUS; Doing final tests for the build, and it should basically be ready for early release *very* soon

There's still 6 more days to submit your applications for the writing test ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/89723278 ). We'll start going through the applications after the deadline ^^ Just so that this isn't a needless ping for others; Build is not far away now. Doing some final changes and tweaks ^

We’re looking for additional writers for Hunt and Snare to help fill our islands up with colorful characters, some to expand the lore and build up the world, others just for nice little casual bang bangs <3 Our game is very LGBTQ friendly, as such you will be writing characters of all spectrums of t

You can find the Patrons Only post (due to NSFW images) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/89313519?pr=true And the public post (with NSFW images xD) here: https://www.ruffleneck.com/devblog/?p=256 <3

Near Iskaai and Herlstead while on sailing map ^^ There’s a reason we start with this image, and the reason is that it looks really nice. That’s it! I mean, it also shows a few things I want to write about :3 First of all is probably the most apparent thing; The two big lines starting with “to” and

Above is a screenshot of progress on Saardan’s “main” biome, kinda a mix between savannah and a desert ^^ A spiky biome is visible behind the trees and other plants, and red deep desert further away. The “spiky tooth” biome that was visible in the screenshot before ^^ Random view that looks nice ^^

(edit: Looks like Patreon no longer supports linking images... xD) Above is a zoomed up (down?) view on the sailing map of the Skiia. There will be some additional guis for the Kirhaal name tag and some other things likely too, and the ship is visually static, but getting there ^^ Zoomed out by Iska

The new r31 build can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/79754071 r31c Changelist: NEW Species - Heev - You can now make new hare characters with unique set of 10 patterns and 7 tails <3 NEW Island - Iskaai First Pass - The wild hare island, colder and further north than Skiia. The first p

Iskaai is a smallish island further north from Skiia. Slightly colder in climate, and quite a bit dryer island in comparison, but it is the home to the Heev, the primary hare species on Skiir :3 The main town-... err, village-... I mean, hamlet, of sorts, on the island is called Herlstead. It is rea

(above) Overworld sailing map tests :3 There’s still much to set up visually + some GUI to mark the ports, but the basic ideas are there; points of interests to explore (sunken ship top right), floating treasure (mid right, super realistic), shoals that slow you down (the lighter spots). Most of the

The new r30 build can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/75112201 r30 Changelist: NEW - Hare Species Preview - You can meet a hare captain (species preview) on Kizan. She is located somewhere at the beach here for the first encounter; NEW Additional Acts - Captain Bimmy acts; 1 for player