It's a new year, and now that Catalyst Wake is complete, I can move on to my other projects. I'm planning to release a lot of content this year. Here's an update on what the status is for all of my upcoming projects. Phantom Limb Phantom Limb is currently being rethought from scratch, due to both me and DWaM feeling like the project strayed from its original goal and didn't meet a high enough quality standard. It's being re-envisioned as a shorter story. I'm not sure when it

Catalyst Wake now has all the extra content that I'd originally planned to be in the game on release, as well as a few other tweaks. There are now character bios for everyone — even a few unexpected characters! Each bio has custom artwork of the character, plus stats and other information, and an animated personality pie chart! I've also included every single TEW comic ever released, right there in the game! They are rather old though, so the artwork isn't amazing or anything

Edwyn Tiong kindly agreed to this interview — here are his answers! What's something about Oxlo you relate to and what's something that's the complete opposite to you? Oxlo being the ultimate cool guy with no chill who curb-stomps everyone he comes across is something I heavily relate to but also: I realize I am definitely in no way shape or form able to do those things, ha! Ahh, wish fulfillment! Did you have a model or images in mind when coming up with the voice for Oxlo?

The Evolving World: Catalyst Wake is now available to play on itch.io! It will be coming to Steam on February 10th. A big thank you to Anjali Kunapaneni for their casting and voice direction on this project, and the entire cast for their wonderful performances. It really means a lot to me to​ see these characters I made up when I was a teenager brought to life, there's truly nothing better. I recommend downloading it through the itch.io app for the best experience, as somet

We're one day away from Catalyst Wake's release!! Just in case you didn't know this already, the game will be coming to Steam on February 10th next year, but is releasing on itch.io tomorrow. This is because the end of the year is a bad time to release games on Steam. The past week has been a lot of work. It took me about three full days to compose the music, two full days to do all the sound effects... and I'm still working on putting in the voices. Hoping to finish that up

I completed 115 CGs this week, bringing the total CGs in Masks to 558. And with that, every CG in Catalyst Wake has been completed!! Even though I won't have time to extend the Summit fight sequence, I do want to go back in and revise some CGs I made. And I haven't post-processed or implemented them yet. But I'm planning to finish all of that today. So even though I'm TECHNICALLY still not done with the CGs, I'm like 99.9% done, so good enough, right? I think I've made 115 CG

Sean Chiplock kindly agreed to this interview — here are his answers! What's something about Miles you relate to and what's something that's the complete opposite to you? Miles comes across as someone who is very dedicated to their own way of approaching things - even if they are acting on behalf of someone else's orders, how they achieve their objective still seems to rely on their individual strategy. I can identify with that kind of determination, of wanting to play to you

I completed 48 CGs this week, bringing the total CGs in Masks to 399! However, 27 of those CGs were only used on one particular shot. It's so many frames it's practically an animation, and took me about four days to complete. Once the game is out, you'll see why all that effort was needed, but it definitely slowed me down this week. It's why I was calling it the most difficult scene I had left. I don't have much time before my deadline — only 15 days. It's also a super busy t

Ahhh the end is in sight!! I can feel it! This past week, I concentrated on the hardest scenes first. I'm currently halfway through what I've determined is the most difficult scene. I have four scenes left to complete after this one!! I completed 37 CGs this week, bringing the total CGs in Masks to 351. I can definitely finish all the CGs this month. The question will be, can I implement the music, sound effects, voices, and extra content in the remaining time? It's true that

Well after last week's somewhat depressing post, here's a much more exciting one! I completed 54 CGs this week, bringing the total CGs in Masks to 314. Of course, because I did the action scenes first, it doesn't take nearly as long to play as the other two yet, despite having almost as many CGs. I will be continuing to work on the trickiest scenes first, and saving the easy scenes for the end of the month. These next two weeks will be super busy, because I'm going to really

This past week, I had a somewhat sobering conversation with a marketing professional about Catalyst Wake. But it was also really helpful. I've thought about some things, and I'm going to make some adjustments to the release schedule — more on that later. First of all, I'm pretty surprised to have been approached by any marketing people at all, and they did so because they liked the look of the game, so that's very flattering. But of course, the amount of wishlists this game h

This past week, I finally reached the 1000 CG milestone. To be more specific, there are now 1012 CGs in Catalyst Wake. Now, quantity isn't an indication of quality by any means. However, when I started this project, I wanted to make a rather high number of CGs, and in the back of my mind, the 1000 CG goal was always something I wanted to hit. Mist contains 385 CGs, Summit contains 346 CGs, and so far Masks contains 267 CGs. I would've reached it sooner, but I've been procrast

Hello again! I'm back at it with the CGs again, currently working on the first scene in Masks. It's a big relief that I already finished the biggest scene, as the other scenes aren't nearly as long, and as I complete more and more of them, I'm hoping that will create a "motivation snowball" effect as each one becomes easier to make. There are some particularly interesting scenes in Masks that I can't wait to make, but this first scene is a "walking and talking" scene. Talking

I'm happy to say that Ivy Dupler, who voices Sabbatical, also agreed to answer some questions over email! Here are her answers! What's something about Sabbatical you relate to and what's something that's the complete opposite to you? I can definitely relate to how Sabbatical tries to come across as confident while secretly feeling a little insecure: but just like she does during the meeting, it's always important to push past it and find that confidence. As for how she's unli

I can't believe it's been a whole year since my last Methods Halloween post. Time seems to just fly by. I continue my work on Catalyst Wake, but don't think I've forgotten about Methods! Here are three special illustrations. This time I decided to go in a different direction. Instead of wearing costumes, the characters have been transformed into various Halloween monsters. Enjoy! (Content warning: Body Horror) Detective Ashdown as Ashula Detective Noose as the Candie Demon De

I asked Gianni Matragrano, of Namo fame, if he would be willing to do a quick email interview. He kindly agreed! Here are his answers to the questions I'm sure everyone has been dying to ask! What's something about Namo you relate to and what's something that's the complete opposite to you? Well I'm still pretty young, about 28 I think, but to me I feel a connection with Namo's whole thing of having done all kinds of crazy stuff in his life and now, a bit more tired from it a

Well, I'm about halfway through creating all the backgrounds I need. I also spent some time in the first part of the week working on another scene, which means Masks now has three scenes complete, out of twelve. The longest scene may be done, but I suspect it will take at least a month to draw the remaining CGs, even if all the backgrounds were done. It's a good thing I moved that release date! In other news, I recently decided to enroll in a 15-week online course that starts

The Final Battle Gauntlet is now over. Yesterday, I finally completed the "Final Battle" sequence that I'd started working on mid-September. It contains 214 CGs and took 27 days to complete, when I account for the days that I was unable to work on it for various reasons. As usual, I underestimated how many CGs it would be, and how many I could make consecutively. The next time I do a gauntlet, which will be pretty soon, I'll make sure to plan for just a week of dedicated work

I'm posting this at night because, as you may have guessed, I was making CGs all day and didn't want to kill my momentum. But yes, I am still not finished with this scene! Right now I'm busy rendering out the backgrounds, which is a delicate operation so I can't set up more shots, but I strategically hit that render button right after prepping a batch of around 34 CGs. Since my computer can handle running Cheetah3D and Animate at the same time, I'm able to finish those CGs wh

So, after another week of CGs, it seems I was right on the money with my estimate last week. It will probably take another week to finish the final third of this scene. And remember that this is just one scene — albeit the longest one. And speaking of how short the game is, that's been on my mind as well, in terms of how to price it. This past week I ran a small poll on Twitter asking people's opinions on how it should be priced. It basically sums up my dilemma. The votes are