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08/06 Patreon Devlog
Hi everyone! Time for this week's update! I have been really busy working on the chapter 6 beta and also working a little on chapter 7.Check out the Chapter 6 teaser, above! (Ignore that typo. Just ignore it. Rofl)SummaryWorking on Ch 6 BetaWorking on Ch7 contentGame Guide (for Chapter 6 update)Coding and Other StuffBasically since my last post I've been primarily focused on a couple of things - getting the Chapter 6 beta version ready, m...
23/05/2025 Patreon Devlog
Hi everyone! Time for this week's update!SummaryRevised Daaz's bonus sceneRevised Asher's bonus sceneRevised Kav's bonus sceneRevised Noel's bonus sceneRevised Raif's bonus sceneRevised Yren's bonus sceneFinished new sprite #1 and coded it in-gameAdded a new element to Noel's spriteArtThis week I fully finished one of the two sprites needed for this chapter and got him coded in. Had previously completed his base sp...
Patreon Devlog
18/05/2025Hello everyone! Time for this week's update!SummarySprite checks and fixesAcquired a few new SFX for this chapterAdded all SFX into the scriptAdded a toggle for the new notification chimeMade a small fix to the glossaryWorked on bonus scenesRevised Asher's sceneDrafted Daaz's sceneDrafted Kav's sceneDrafted Noel's scenePlanning and plotting for Raif and YrenFinished Raif's character teaserAdded in the glossary an...
11/05/2025 Patreon
Hallo everyone! Time for this week's update!SummaryCoded in Raif/Yren's eye colour changes (which I'd forgotten to do)Finished expressions for:Kav Raif NoelYrenCharacter Trailers for:AsherDaazKavNoelCh 6 Flowchart stuff:Set up TemplateBuilt the flowchartExpression testing (just started)New sprite variations (Yren)ArtSo for a while now I've been working on these sort of character teasers that just show off the characters and hint a...
Chapter Six (Sneak Peeks)
Chapter Six is coming along. And it's time for a few sneak peeks. I'm done with sprite expressions but have to go back through the route to check placement and zoom levels as there are a few places where sprites aren't quite positioned the way I want.This will also be my test run to make sure no missing attributes are causing issues. But the expressions themselves are coded in.Here are just a few sneak peeks. I've said that this i...
03/05/2025 Patreon devlog
Hallo~o everyone! Time for this week's update!SummaryFinished up expressions for side charactersFinished Asher's expressionsFinished Daaz's expressionsWorked on one of the two sprites I needWorked on more bonus scene stuffCleaned up the scoring through Chapter 6WritingI didn't do a whole lot of bonus scene stuff this week because I was mostly focused on writing but I did work on a little roadmapping for some characters.ArtI worked...
May Q&A (Taking questions)
Hi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A.Just like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.As before, you can send questions about:characterscharacter reactionsloregame stuffgame developmentfuture releaseswriting/art methodsetcFor any of my games and characters. I will collect them and then post a Q&A style post where I...answer all of them. Only certain tiers are able to send in...
28/04/2025 Patreon Devlog
Hallooo~o everyone! Time for this week's update! (Actually it was time yesterday but we had a lesson in "Esh writes the update on Saturday then forgets it exists and never posts it" because that's sometimes I still do sometimes. πͺSummaryFinished Wil's Sprite ExpressionsStarted doing expressions for the side charactersFinished up a couple of new Sprite variationsWorked on bonus scenes!WritingI began writing the bonus scenes ...
Kav Wallpaper (City Lights)
Just another character wallpaper - this time of Kav. I'll eventually get around to doing everyone in this series but it's just taking a while since I'm super busy with working on the game.Got to finish this one since there're no CGs in Chapter 6. So that's helpful.Thank you to everyone who supports this game here on Patreon. Without you I really wouldn't be able to keep making games.~Esh
19/04/2025 Patreon devlog
Hallooo~ooooo everyone! Time for this week's update!SummarySprite expressionsGlossary accessibilityAdding new articles with descriptive textGlossary notificationWritingVery little actually - I scribbled some notes and a bit of dialogue for some of the POV scenes. Coding and Other StuffSo after my update last week, I continued to work on some accessibility related elements of development. I pushed the update I said I would but continued to mak...
13/04/2025
Hello everyone! Time for this week's update!SummaryPublished Episode 3 to the publicMostly have been focused on some bug fixesImproving accessibility featuresCoding and Other StuffSo this week I published Episode 3 publicly. It was a few days early but I'd wrapped up all the art I wanted to add and decided to go ahead and publish the build instead of waiting.I've had to push three small bug fixes since then for really minor code issue...
Game Guide (structure)
Okay everyone. So.Here is the deal.The Patreon guide for WSC is huge already at 78 pages and counting. It is only going to get longer. I've been wondering if it would be less unwieldy to break the guide up by route.It's easily going to cross 100 pages by the end. So my question is - would you prefer if I broke the PDF up into 7 individual PDFs (the 7th is for the no LI mini-path, which ends in Chapter 10) or would you prefer to keep the g...
April Q&A (Answers)
Hallo! Here are the questions from April and one from a while ago that I never got around to answering because my answers were eaten at some point (sorry Milo!)1.What type(s) of music does each LI like to listen to (if they like to listen to music)? I know we chat with Asher about this a bit, but I'm curious about the others' interests, too.Asher - Everything. Literally everything. There is no particular music he dislikes and we all know ...
06/04/2025 Patreon Devlog
Hello everyone! Time for this week's update. Let's beginSummaryFinished and coded all CGs (as of my last check in)Finished one additional art I really wanted to completePushed updates to EA.ArtAs I mentioned in my Monday check in, I managed to finally finish all the remaining CGs and get them coded in the game. I also pushed that update out to beta.I had some minor issues with Yren's and had to re-do part of it but hopefully it's ...
Mini Check-in (WSC)
Hi everyone! Sorry for the missing devlog. Just had a busy weekend.WSC Chapter 5 (Episode 3) is still in Early Access at the moment. I just finished up Yren's CG and will probably be pushing out that update in the next couple of days after I test it thoroughly.I've already started doing some of the foundational work for Chapter 6 as well but I actually have a couple of small cut ins I'd like to do for Chapter 5 too. So now that I have...
April Q&A (taking questions)
Hi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A.Just like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.As before, you can send questions about:characterscharacter reactionsloregame stuffgame developmentfuture releaseswriting/art methodsetcFor any of my games and characters. I will collect them and then post a Q&A style post where I...answer all of them. Only certain tiers are able to send in...
Cross-Promo - Infinite Stars
My friend James from Infinite Stars has a new release for his game going up and we are doing a cross promotion for our projects. You've possibly seen me mention this game before.Infinite Stars is an amare science-fiction visual novel with rich worldbuilding, deep lore and acast of very smoochable love interests.With inspiration from things like Mass Effect, The Expanse, and Star Trek, I feel like this game has a lot to offer science fiction f...
Episode 3 Early Access is released
Hello my lovely Patreon members! Below you can find the link to access the Patreon Early Access build for When Stars Collide Episode Three (AKA Chapter 5)!This build is only available to the Yellow Tea and above tiers of Patreon.This link should not be shared with anyone.And now here is some info you need about this build. Please be sure to read this because it will save you and me time.Do not use demo saves. Saves from the old demo will not work...
16/03/2024 Patreon Devlog
Helloooo~oooo everyone! Time for this week's update. Unfortunately I didn't get nearly as much work does as I wanted because my right wrist and hand woke up Tuesday morning and chose violence.But let's jump inSummaryMade lots of corrections and fixesPushed out a patch for Beta #3Worked on CGsSufferedArtI wanted to finish up two CGs this week and didn't even finish one.What happened, you ask?Tuesday morning I woke up with a pretty ...
Beta Patch and Corrections
Hi everyone! This is just to let you know that I've released a patch for the beta of Episode 3, current version number 3.2.3...This should correct some game-crashing bugs as well as fix a bunch of typos and small errors.The link and password are the same as before but you will have to visit the page and re-download.Please make sure you are playing the correct version when you load the new beta for the first time! ~Esh
10/03/2024 Patreon Devlog
Helloooo~oooo everyone! Time for this week's update. Sorry it's a bit late! Spouse got back from Japan recently and I've been swamped with bug crushing. So let's jump in.SummaryFinished Kav's CGWorked on Daaz's CGReleased the beta to the black tea patrons...Lots of bug fixingWorked on the guideAdded status bars to the game for the affinity "stat"ArtThis week for art I worked on a couple of things. First of all I fi...
Episode 3 (chapter 5) Beta Release
Hello my lovely Black Tea members! Below you can find the link to access the Patreon beta build for When Stars Collide Episode Three!This build is only available to the Black Tea tier of Patreon.No one else has access to this link.This link should not be shared with anyone.And now here is some info you need about this build. Please be sure to read this because it will save you and me time.Do not use demo saves. Saves from the old demo will not wo...
Asher Wallpaper (Lounging Around)
Another wallpaper art - this one of Asher...For some reason the colours have been completely nommed by either Patreon or something. But despite that, here we have Asher lying in bed to go with Noel's lounging around wallpaper. As always, his colour is red.You can find several resolutions below including the full sized image as well as a couple of cropped and resized versions.
March Q&A (taking questions)
Hi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A (which I have been forgetting to post)....sobJust like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.As before, you can send questions about:characterscharacter reactionsloregame stuffgame developmentfuture releaseswriting/art methodsetcFor any of my games and characters. I will collect them and then post a Q&A style post where I...answer all of...
New Characters - Sneak Peek
So I am not giving much information about these two. I feel like astute observers who have played Episode 2 won't really need much information to figure out the relevance of these two in the narrative so far.They will be appearing physically in Chapter 5 but actually when you first meet them...you still can't see their faces properly. Their faces won't be revealed to our intrepid main character for a couple more chapters actually.But ...
02/03/2024 Patreon Devlog
Helloooo~oooo everyone! Time for this week's update.SummarySketched all six CGsLined and flatted some CGsAsherDaazKavFinished Asher's CGCompleted the one remaining sprite for this episodeArtThis week I was focused almost entirely on working on the CGs. I decided this time around that was going to at least sketch out all the CGs right at the start then render them out one by one.So I did get all the CGs sketched out and several of them ful...
New Trailer
I finally received one of the two trailers for WSC. It is also available for viewing on the YouTubes. There were originally supposed to be two trailers but one person ghosted me (AUUUGH!) and so as of now, I only have one. But hopefully I will have the original main trailer by the end of March.This one was always meant to be a supplementary trailer with a slightly different focus and vibe than the main trailer. A "Thirst runway" as one pe...
22/02/2024
Hellooo everyone! Time for this week's update...Sorry I forgot last week. Spouse was getting back from Japan with a cold last weekend so I was completely distracted.SummaryFinished sprite expressions (FINALLY)Received new BGsAcquired, edited, and coded SFXMade some edits to various parts of the writingStarted the flowchartAbout half done with itStarted CGsJust sketching for nowWritingSo one of the things that makes expressions take a while is...
Chapter 5 short clips
Hiiii everyone.Just posting a few short clips and sneak peeks from Chapter 5. I'm still working on sprite expressions so if there are any long stretches of characters staring blankly straight ahead, that's why! I don't know if any of you remember how in Star Trek Enterprise, everyone would strip to their undies in the decon chamber and we got a LOT of scenes with people in their underwear and a lot of repressed tension?Yeah, I remembe...
Kav Dialogue - Sneek Peak
Working on sprite expressions and things and re-reading through all the dialogue. This bit made me laugh again.Physics - ruining everything...if everything even exists...(Kav's expressions aren't done yet so he's going to just glare at you the whole time.)
