The Mithril Hourglass

Also known as the "v0.X.Y" updates, as opposed to the "v0.X" updates that include significant new content. The way this was handled for Maids & Masters was largely that "v0.X" updates meant the main story was progressing, and "v0.X.Y" updates meant no main story, but might still have some side quest

If you didn't read this week's dev blog post, training is finally fully reworked, implemented, and tested, so now I'm clear to finally start working on new content. That content ended up being related to the rendering I've been doing, which was previewed in last week's post. Which is technically bot

It's a scary time for a lot of people in a lot of ways for a lot of different reasons these days. While we can't do as much as we might like for everyone, we can stand proud in the face of adversity and continue pushing toward the future we want to see. And I can keep giving you one of the best deal

If you read this week's blog post, you can skip to the poll at the end. This is mostly just a cross-post of that. If you didn't, the TL;DR is that I've been kicking around the idea of offering commissions for a while, but haven't actually talked about it for two main reasons - my confidence in my sk

Redemption Harem might be using a "zero XP" system that means your characters don't gain levels, but it's definitely still an RPG, and your characters will definitely still grow as you play the game. More accurately, Eckhard grows as you play the game. Lots of different actions increase his professi

This almost wasn't ready to post about today, but thanks to some last-minute breakthroughs, I'm happy to say the hunting rework is now (mostly) ready! I say mostly because I still need to implement it across the various animals you can see and update all their loot tables to reference your Hunter le

This is still in development, so some things might change from this post to final implementation, but I think I've got enough set in place to talk about it. If you've played the demo, farming was set up in a "plant <crop> in row <X>" fashion, which - especially early on, when you only have two chara

Well, despite my best efforts, v0.1 isn't going to be ready today, even if I put another six hours into trying to get it there. While it's entirely playable, there are still some major mechanics that I haven't been able to get implemented yet. The big ones are still tied to combat - the parry system

Like the crafting system, if you've played the demo for Redemption Harem (and if you haven't, you can still find the demo in the collections or over on itch), you've run into some of the survival mechanics. Mostly managing Condition using the items you can craft, find, and buy. You might also have n

If you've played the demo for Redemption Harem (and if you haven't, you can find the demo in the collections or over on itch), you probably ran into the very janky crafting system. While it works, it works in the same sense as the war map does in Maids & Masters; I'm using a massive pile of script t

Development on Redemption Harem v0.1 is well underway, but with all the plugins and other infrastructure I need to set up, there's not much to say about it. So here's a bunch of other games to help you pass the time! It's that time of year again. Sun. Sand. Girls in bikinis. Not to mention one of th

I'm a day late (nearly two, given the time of day), but I just got home (and haven't even finished unpacking), so let's take a moment to talk about my next project - Redemption Harem. It probably won't surprise you (and I certainly hope it doesn't disappoint you) to learn that Redemption Harem is my

Well, if you couldn't guess just by seeing there's no attachment to download here, bad news: the guide is getting delayed by a week. Appendix A covering all the Maids, all their affection quests, and doing a deep dive on how their skills work and how best to equip and use them in combat was a lot mo

We've officially broken 300 pages! At the time I'm writing this, I still have the Sanctum of Lightning to finish before getting into the castle at the end of the story, but despite falling behind a bit (more on that on the dev blog) the shrines and Servants have gone pretty quickly and smoothly, so

I know I already shared a map page, but I'm kinda out of unique types of pages to show you until I start making appendix pages, and this lets you see a page number that's pretty close to where the current end of the guide is up to. It also lets me bring up the war in a more general sense so I can as

And still only a week behind schedule, which by a certain definition, is actually right on time! If I'm lucky, you'll actually have your hands on the full guide by the end of the month. Figuring out what caused most of the original formatting errors went a long way toward preventing new ones from po

For as close as act 2 of the Maids & Masters Strategy guide is to being done, it isn't quite done yet. While I could probably crunch down and get it done tomorrow, I don't want to burn myself out, nor do I want to scramble around my weekend just for the sake of putting something up a day late (or wo

This was supposed to go up yesterday, but I didn't realize what day it was until I woke up today and noticed it was Saturday. Sorry about that. The good news is that progress on the guide is going very well this week. Not quite well enough for me to announce a date for the Act 2 "test build," but st

I know it's not the most exciting preview, but I'm out of town this weekend and only have about 10 minutes to slap this together. I'll get you a strategy guide page preview with a little more substance next week. The main things I want to show off here is that the guide is broken down by quest, and

This would be a page preview, but how the page looks in the table of contents will change as more of the rest of the table gets filled out, and they'll be the last thing I complete since I'm building the guide in page order. So instead of posting an unfinished page, I'll just tell you what I've got

And only a week behind schedule! I can hope that came through with an appropriate amount of sarcasm, but given some of the estimates I've done on how long making this guide is going to take me and some of the issues I've had with it this past week, only being one week behind where I want to be actua

I'm trying to avoid posting guide page previews in consecutive weeks because past a certain point, I run out of types of pages to post, but like I mentioned on the dev blog, this past week was very busy for me, which kept me from getting the Act 1 "test build" of the guide out today. I did make a de

The guide is officially over 80 pages, and I'm not even done with Act 1 yet. Part of the reason for that are the map pages, which I've tried to make as large as possible for the sake of readability. For example: Some of the sizing is a little different, with different maps giving you wider overviews

While I'm still early in the process, I want to give everyone a chance to call out what they want to see in the guide. Suggesting a thing doesn't guarantee that it will appear, but like I've said so many times in the past - I like feedback. If you see something (or, more specifically, don't see some

Progress on the strategy guide so far has been slow due to some real life things I have to deal with, but progress has also been steady. As a bit of a teaser (and one that isn't in the Arrival portion preview that the VIPs got their hands on), here's a type of page you'll be seeing fairly often in t

Precious Kouhai's third update is now available to the public! Windows: https://pixeldrain.com/u/YwiJ6jqk Mac: https://pixeldrain.com/u/xL5J7zsH Android: https://pixeldrain.com/u/MzZfXgrb

Feels a little weird to be putting a "1.0" on this already, but PK was always meant to be short and I'm still committed to putting out the ending next week, so here we are. As I've said before, PK updates will ship with whatever content is finished rather than insisting on arbitrary content goals, w

If you haven't noticed by now, the Patreon page has been overhauled, tiers have been updated, a new tier got added, and now this post is here. Let's use this post to cover what has (and hasn't) changed, shall we? First, the new look. I can't revert it, so if you hate it, I apologize, take it up with

I mentioned it with the PK early access post yesterday, but since it's more relevant here, I'll take a minute to actually talk about it. The Next Project poll has closed, and my next project will be a full strategy guide for Maids & Masters. This will include Maids & Masters: Arrival and probably th

Precious Kouhai's second release is now available to the public! Windows: https://pixeldrain.com/u/b4YTbVrj Mac: https://pixeldrain.com/u/w61Z5hzN Android: https://pixeldrain.com/u/nKEzJiyC

I'm gonna do the Precious Kouhai previews quick and dirty. I don't think many of you will mind, given the expressed general disinterest I've seen, but I still want to be open and honest with y'all. This preview shows a whole bunch of things besides the new content - how renders look now that I'm usi

First - nobody panic. Finishing my first full game is a huge deal (at least to me), but in the grand scheme of things, we're still just getting started. The first thing I wanted to do is take some time to rest and recover. There's over 5000 development hours over the last four years in Maids & Maste

As much as I'd like to talk to you about what's next now that Maids & Masters is finished, I managed to get very sick today. So instead, here's a big ol' bundle: https://itch.io/b/3437/winter-adult-games I will do everything in my power to get better quickly, because we absolutely have some importan

v0.23.4, the last update before v1.0, is now in early access! Windows version: https://pixeldrain.com/u/pLLcPDkR Mac Version: https://pixeldrain.com/u/yfMKJ73f Change log is available on the dev blog: https://themithrilhourglass.blogspot.com/2025/11/maids-masters-v0234-release.html