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Mind Blind Update: Chapter 14

What's New:1) The beginning of the new process where Button has to identify Nick if cooperating with Noh. It's very much a work-in-progress that my brain is still untangling the logistics of (psychic science is hard, guys!), but I'll be trying to finish it tonight and updating the link every thousand words or so (every few hours).2) Scenes with Sally should Button refuse Noh's offer, both romance and friendship versions (crush ver...

Defeating Your Inner Demons

I'm doing my best to get the update posted tonight, but I had one of my famous (infamous?) last minute epiphanies. So it'll probably be up at midnight at the earliest 😅(I swear that I'm doing my best to keep deadlines, but pre-update adrenaline nerves often leads to last-minute creative bursts. Insert cliched phrase about being "merciless in the face of my muse blahblahblah" here.)WARNING: MEGA SPOILERY BITSOriginally in th...

Writer's Blog: Chekhov's Squirt Gun

Wordcount: 462kNext Update: October 27Warning: Spoilers!Another blogpost, which means another entry in the “things I plan to change during Mind Blind’s rewrite.” Not to be repetitive, but it’s where my head is at right now. My list of future fixes is sixty-eight bullets point long as of the writing of this post, and I fully anticipate it surpassing one-hundred by the end of the month.Today I’m going to talk about a gun. Chekhov’s gun,...

MB Saucy Side: Hot and Cold (Ambrosia Version)

Inspired By: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/press-release/ because science is sexyAU where Button is a college student and Rosy is their tutor.* * * *When Ambrosia volunteered to help you study for your biology final, you hadn’t anticipated that her unorthodox tutoring methods.Your lashes brush against the soft silk of Ambrosia’s dress sash currently tied securely around your eyes. You can vaguely tell her location due to the turned-...

MB Saucy Side: Hot and Cold (Ambrose Version)

Inspired By: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/press-release/ because science is sexyAU where Button is a college student and Rosy is their tutor.* * * *When Ambrose volunteered to help you study for your biology final, you hadn’t anticipated that his unorthodox tutoring methods.Your lashes brush against the soft silk of Ambrose’s tie, currently tied securely around your eyes. You can vaguely tell his location due to the turned-on lamp ...

Lady Death's Diary: Chapter 23

“You found this in the library?” Delphine’s voice was skeptical. She set down the grimoire on her desk, using one hand to keep it open while the other motioned me to pull my chair closer.I nodded. Delphine likely wouldn’t turn Colm in for holding onto an illegal text, but it wasn’t my secret to tell. “The binding’s age piqued my curiosity. The spell looks as if it might be useful.” Since the quickening spell was similar to the slo...

Delivery Teaser: On Being Ghosted

Some mortals who pass on with unfinished business enter into the intangible phase of existence—that is, they become ghosts.Despite shedding the physical limitations of their human body, ghosts become immobile, tethered to the location at which they died or a place which had significance to them back when they were still a Flesher (in Delivery, referring to ghosts as “dead” and humans as “alive” is the height of rudeness). Ghosts end up ...

Mind Blind Chapter 14 Update!

Word Count: 421,000Average Playthrough: 98kNotes (with spoilers): The scenes where Button dismisses Noh early on aren't fully implemented yet, but you can still play through Noh's conversation up to the final choice (dun-dun-duuuuunnnn).Nover!Button scenes are also in for Chapter 13, although pointing the gun at Kenzie will lead to a (figurative!) dead end since I'm currently contemplate whether or not I should allow them to be kidnap...

Dashingdon Down, Have Some Code

First delay was my fault. This second delay, I'm blaming on the universe.Dashingdon is currently down (I've been trying to access it for a while with no luck, and no one on the Sanctum seems able to access the site either). That being said, I did promise an update today.Attached to this post is the coded file for the first part of Chapter 14. There's still some dead ends (it only includes the conversation with Noh part, and I took off...

Update Delayed, But Have A Blooper Reel

I'm still fixing code, so the demo update won't be out until tomorrow. I'm so sorry, everyone! I truly thought that I could get it out by tonight, but I likely have at least two more hours of bug quashing ahead of me.Problem in a little more depth: I had both dialogues with Noh (at the safehouse and at Nick's house) using the same scene, with the differences written within using *if variables. This lead to an issue that I'm ca...

Writer's Blog: Disappearing Stats and The Evolving Biography

Word Count: 426kNext Update: October 16 (aka tomorrow evening)In addition to the romance reworkings that I mentioned in my last blog post, I’ll also be doing major overhauls of how stats present in the menu screen.In the second draft (which will be done after I get this alpha out), many relationship stats will not longer show. Nick and the main ROs will remain (complete with Nick’s possible 200%), but Button's relationship with their pare...

Lady Death's Diary: Chapter 22.5

From the Personal Correspondence of Lady Vitrula RhysDear Tru,Apologies for the delay between this letter and my last. Work has kept me busy of late—I could regale you with my adventures in paperwork but I expect you’d find the details as tedious as I do. Instead, I’ve decided to share another of Anterdon’s fables since you enjoyed the last one so much. Theo finds my hobby of collecting such stories to be childish (a judgement he feels it...

Mind Blind Teaser (Spoilers)

I've been pretty much offline these past couple days due to computer problems and also due to being completely absorbed with this newest chapter (BECAUSE NOH). Anyhow, as apology for my silence, here's a teaser for the next update on October 16.I mentioned in a recent post that Button can walk away from Noh and thus never learn their identity. Obviously, this part is still a WIP (as is the whole game), but I wanted to share a little about...

Writer's Blog: Recoding Love

First off: thanks to my neighbor for letting me use her computer! Now onto “Friday’s” blog post.Ahem.The list of things which I intend to polish during Mind Blind’s second draft is too lengthy to include in a single post, but today I’m going to talk about one of the most important aspects which I intend to rework: Romance.When I first started writing and coding Mind Blind, I didn’t know what I was doing. To some extent, I still don’...

October Interviewee is . . . REESE

Note: I'm currently having computer issues and stuck using my phone, so am announcing this month's interview subject a day early in lieu of tonight's blog post (which will be released tomorrow afternoon after I get my laptop fixed).The interviewee is Reese, and I could not be more thrilled for the chance to heckle them. Ask your questions via this post or the interview channel on the Sanctum of Spoilers . . . And don't pull your p...

Lady Death's Diary: Chapter 22

I stiffened. My studies with Delphine weren’t a secret—it had taken a year into my residency at Bellcrest for other courtiers to cease ogling me as if horns had sprouted from my temples. As my behavior otherwise had given no sign of mental degradation, most eventually accepted my apprenticeship as an unfortunate character quirk that they deigned to overlook in light of my impeccable manners. Even Kothe’s citizens had begrudgingly reaccepted...

Operation Marshmallow Marston

A Sequel To: www.patreon.com/posts/mb-short-story-56788958* * * *Glitch morosely trailed his fingertips along the price plaques that lined the store’s small aisle—Jet Puffed, Campfire, a no-name brand with plain black print that the sweltering heat had caused to bleed through the plastic and stain the marshmallows within a dingy grey. There was another bag, a brand he didn’t recognize, with a googly-eyed mascot that looked like the illicit ...

October Interview Poll

Vote for the next Mind Blind interviewee!I decided to save any follow-up interviews of the ROs until after the first draft of the game is done--that way, you'll be able to ask them questions about major, but as of yet unrevealed, plot points.That being said, there's still four people to choose from (five, if you count Clarence as human).

Writer's Blog: October Roadmap

I finally figured out how to quash the loops that were happening in Chapter 13! The fix involved a lot of word bloat, which I usually try to avoid, but now things will be better remembered like whether or not Kenzie is holding AL, and you won't get trapped in the Matrix. (That being said, Chapter 13 is now 15,000 words longer.)There were too many variables to code for each path, so dialogue options previously looped back to paths you hadn’t...

MB Interview: Disaster Cousins (Liz Version)

Warning: Contains Light Spoilers for Future Chapters in Mind BlindButton is referred to as "Ellery." Usually I can get around using a first name in these interviews, but Caleb's overentitled sense of closeness required a proper first name in order to portray.* * * *A spotlight shines on Nicholas Wiseman, his black attire more suitable for a funeral than the host of a talk show. For the first time since these interviews began, he isn�...

MB Interview: Disaster Cousins (Andy Version)

MB Short Story: Gone Fishing

Featuring: Grayson and Kent, with appearances by Nick and FerroInspired By: This weekend's most live recent Q&A, where the subject of unlikely pairs going camping got brought up* * * *If asked, Grayson would’ve been hard-pressed to explain the elaborate series of events which had led to him driving an RV. Although, to clarify, the RV wasn’t the mystifying part—the camper had been rented two months in advance—but rather how, in additio...

MB Saucy Side: Actions Speak Louder (Kenna)

“Is everything okay?”Kenna doesn’t respond to your question as the front door slams behind her. Instead, she kneels down to scratch behind Antigone’s ear.You suppress a sigh. After a year of cohabitating, you should be used to being ignored in favor of the shih tzus. Usually, you don’t begrudge Annie and Cass their owner’s affection, but when your fiancée returns from work two hours early and with a figurative thundercloud looming ab...

MB Saucy Side: Actions Speak Louder (Kent)

“Is everything okay?”Kent doesn’t respond to your question as the front door slams behind him. He kneels down to scratch behind Antigone’s ear.You suppress a sigh. After a year of cohabitating, you should be used to being ignored in favor of the shih tzus. Usually, you don’t begrudge Annie and Cass their owner’s affection, but when your fiancé returns from work two hours early and with a figurative thundercloud looming above his head...

Mind Blind Bloopers: Button's Reel of Violent Outtakes

There weren’t all that many funny bloopers this time, but I did let Button go a wee bit feral in this latest Chapter and had to reign them back (Mind Blind is PG-13, after all). Here are the options that didn’t make the cut due to being overly violent.So, uh, read at your own discretion.* * * *You wait until Andy touches the dial before dropping the EMP device into the air vent. Immediately, there’s a blue flash, followed by a sizzle and An...

Mind Blind Update

I was having some serious issues with looping scenes earlier that took me a few hours to fix, but I believe they're all sorted. Basically, Kenzie kept taking the Pollard Test multiple times. Maybe they enjoyed AL's tender administrations?Missing stuff: Nover!Buttons are still missing half the scene in Chapter 13 due to a separate looping issue that I'm currently working on solving. For Chapter 14, the scene only plays under certain ci...

Writer's Blog: Speaking Styles

In college, I took a screenwriting class where we had to write a short script in groups of four. Although it soon became obvious that I was incapable of constructing a short plot able to be played out in fifteen minutes, and that I became bored and distracted when asked to write the scenery and stage direction. What I was good at was editing dialogue so that each character sounded distinct, and it quickly became my role in the group. The other th...

Lady Death's Diary: Chapter 21

My breaths rasped in and out. Inhaling was hard, exhaling harder. Acid from my stomach burned my throat as I fended off a wave of nausea. My feet were rooted to the floor: I couldn’t sit down, couldn’t move. I could only stare at the message before me.I’ll win.Rereading those last two words managed to shake me out of my trance. I forced my leaden feet to walk towards my bookcase, where I retrieved my copy of Yainharrow. I turned the first p...

Aeon Student Guide: Telekinesis

Out of all known types of mental agility, telekinesis is the rarest and least understood. Although most people believe that telekinesis is the ability to move matter, the actual science of telekinesis is not so simple—nor fully comprehended, due to the extreme rarity of its occurrence.Initially, telekinesis was thought to be a byproduct of electromagnetic fields generated by a Telekinetic’s unique brand of Z-waves, which travel a shorter dist...

Writer’s Blog: Whittling Down Your Endings

Total Wordcount: 392k (not including Chapter 14 material)Next Update: September 25 – this will include the final part of Chapter 13, and hopefully the first part of Chapter 14Today’s blog falls on a Saturday, as my mother flew in last night and we were up watching Florence Foster Jenkins. As my mom reads these posts, I’ll simply say that it’s been, uh, delightful to have her here in Chicago. Simply delightful.. . . As delightful as hearin...