this month's lore post is a glimpse at Rory's POV leading up to a certain recent scene in Chapter 2! warning for blood and violence (approximately the same amount as in the book)
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Cammore, Arizona is a quaint little town. Rory might even call it charming. It’s really too bad she won’t be staying long, but she ...
2021-03-18 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
this has been a very good week for writing! I'm approximately halfway through the remainder of Chapter 2! I've also made some progress on my remaining commissions and a couple extra fun things I have coming up soon 😉
all in all, I've been averaging about 1200 words a day, which is not bad at all! I'm...
2021-03-16 17:42:26 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
Very exciting week last week! I actually got the last bits of my itch.io page ironed out and the Twine version of Speaker went out to my patrons and betas yesterday! I've gotten some amazing feedback so far, and I'm looking forward to it going live with the completion of Chapter 2 😁 which I'm still hopeful will ...
2021-03-09 18:36:40 +0000 UTC View Post
well, I think I've done as much testing as I can on my own, so the Twine version of Speaker is officially here!
A little information before you head over there: this is not a content update. This version ends at the same ...
2021-03-08 23:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Track List:
One More Light - Linkin Park
Clarity - Zedd featuring Foxes
I Wanna Be Yours - Arctic Monkeys
Soothsayer - Of Monsters and Men
Waves - Dean Lewis
When We Were Young - Adele
Hello My ...
2021-03-04 12:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostI already have a lot of fun ideas for this and I can't wait to start working on it 😁
I'm not sure when exactly I'll have this one done and ready to be read. It's going to be an interactive special, most likely in Twine, which means it's going to take a little extra work t...
2021-03-02 19:19:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello and happy Tuesday! How is it already March again?
For those who haven't seen it, the demo was updated on Sunday! It is simultaneously a very short update from a gameplay perspective and a very long update from a wordcount update, due to all the potential variation in that scene :) I'm really proud of how it turned out and how much ev...
2021-03-02 19:06:18 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Q&A: How would the ROs react to a small MC who can often be found climbing furniture (sometimes rather dangerously) to reach something?? If the ROs, during the deep crushing stage, see them start to fall, (I assume they would all try to catch the Speaker but please correct me if I'm wrong) wha...
2021-02-27 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostI've been playing with color schemes for Speaker (I've finished importing the writing itself into Twine!) and I have a few favorites, but I really can't pick which one I like best. So I thought I would put the choice to all of you!
Also, a quick THANK YOU to Kayleen for your helpful suggestions! 💙
Option 1...
2021-02-26 05:38:12 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
busy, busy week this week! I finished writing and coding the next update and it went out to patrons and betas on Sunday. then I started playing around with Twine and seeing how feasible it will be to move it over. Turns out, very much so!
so I'll be working on that (when I'm not writing) until I get cau...
2021-02-23 19:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostLiam/Lily really stole the show with over 40% of the vote!
I've been having a lot of fun figuring out some good AUs that would play well with what makes Li unique while also not being something that would require an entire novel on its own (I briefly entertained adding a "vampire au" option, for example, but I know I'd end...
2021-02-22 19:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis was a big one, y'all! I'm actually kind of surprised I got as much done as I did, especially with the power problems last week, but I managed to get over 15,000 words of fight scenes and surprise bonding done!
My goal is to get the chapter finished for the next update! I'm hopeful that I can finish these last few scen...
2021-02-21 06:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostA love story as old as time. A girl and her twin meet a dog-shadow-thing.
Set about 15 years (give or take a year or two) before the start of Speaker, when the Speaker and the Seer are 10 years old. 2nd person, no pronouns used for the Speaker and Seer is referred to only as "your sister"
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“Are you sure this...
2021-02-19 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe stayed at my 25 patron goal, so for as long as we do I'll be doing a Q&A at the end of every month :)
You can leave a question in the comments below, send an ask on the speakergame tumblr, or leave a question in the #ask-the-author channel on discord!
happy Tuesday!
I'm gonna have to be pretty quick this week. We're under rolling blackouts here because, essentially, it's so cold that everyone's heaters are using more electricity than the powerplants can create, so we're getting controlled power outages to prevent widespread uncontrolled power loss. It is cold on a level I previously cou...
2021-02-16 18:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostI'd had the idea, briefly, of doing some Valentine's Day specials for the ROs, but I ultimately decided not to. It's too early in the story to give quite that big of a look into what the romances might look like 😉
instead, I'm planning to make a series of interactive specials featuring each of the ROs! All of them will be AU, n...
2021-02-15 19:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostWoo, it's Tuesday again already! It really snuck up on me this week.
This has been a fantastic week for writing! I've finished approximately half of the branches in the next scene! I've also skipped ahead a little and got a thousand words done on the scene that comes after, to make sure all the branches will be able to end up there organic...
2021-02-09 18:38:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Track List:
Until the Levee - Joy Williams
Even If It Hurts - Sam Tinnesz
Helium - Sia
Need The Sun To Break - James Bay
arms - Christina Perri
Shatter Me - Lindsey Stirling featuring Lzzy Hale
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2021-02-04 12:20:59 +0000 UTC View PostHappy February!
I once again spent most of this week under the weather. This is the first time I've gotten sick since I went into lockdown (last March 😅) so I think my body has forgotten how to cope with being sick. It took much longer than I'd like to start feeling like a functional person again. Thank y'all for all the get well messag...
2021-02-02 18:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostAnonymous asked: Q&A Patreon: since youre a critrole fan, what would the ROs' (whichever ROs from any of the RO sets you want/would find most interesting) internal reaction to being in a yasha @caleb "Do you love her/him/them?"/"Who?"/"I don't need to tell you who" scene (and who would be their "yasha" confronting the...
2021-01-30 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
I didn't get as much done this week as I would have liked. I was a bit under the weather, so I took a break from answering asks (as I'm sure y'all noticed) and just concentrated on writing when I could.
The patreon beta updated a couple days ago, so we're on schedule for the public update early next week :D j...
2021-01-26 18:41:16 +0000 UTC View Post(this was supposed to go up tomorrow, but I accidentally updated it early and decided to go ahead and upload the whole thing 😊)
Kana's finally here! I'm so happy to get to introduce them at last. This update ends on a really unfortunate cliffhanger, but the scene right after is really involved so I didn't quite get it done yet.
We reached my 25 patron goal, so for as long as we stay there I'll be doing a Q&A at the end of every month :)
You can leave a question in the comments below, send an ask on the speakergame tumblr, or leave a question in the #ask-the-author channel on discord! <...
2021-01-21 21:03:45 +0000 UTC View Posthey! happy Tuesday again, my friends :)
this week has been more writing, writing, writing. we've reached some big, major scenes that involve a lot of branching and variation - 4 different branches that each have 8 variations, in fact! it's a lot more involved than I expected it to be, but it's worth it. this is a scene we've been ...
2021-01-19 18:48:45 +0000 UTC View PostI decided for my first lore post I'd give you some information about shapeshifters - information that may come in handy very soon...
Lycanthropy - the act of changing shape between a human and animal form - was t...
2021-01-18 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Posthey, it's Tuesday! this week really flew by!
This has overall been a good week! It started out with a few issues (nothing serious, but things that kept me from being able to write), but the last couple days I've finally been able to double down and make some big progress! We've reached some scenes I've been really looking forward ...
2021-01-12 18:36:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Track List:
Courage - P!nk
Yours If You Want It - Rascal Flatts
Patricia - Florence + The Machine
Heartbeat - SAILR
Real Life Fairytale - Plumb
Movement - Hozier
Fearless - Taylor Swift
We...
2021-01-07 12:20:01 +0000 UTC View Posthello and happy Tuesday!
this has been a good week for writing! I've gotten to a scene that I've been looking forward to writing for literally months. It's actually one of the first scenes that popped into my head when I began this book, so it's been a long time coming. I'm excited to finally put it on paper!
the public demo update w...
2021-01-05 18:42:55 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR! We made it!
We finally get to continue the story! Sleep in a cheap motel, have some questionable dreams, and have a conversation with your newest travel companion (this scene will be different based on what path you took in chapter 1)!
Total word count so far: 79,431 before code
What kind of things would you be interested in learning more about in future lore posts? I plan to include some things from all these categories, but I'm curious what kinds of things folks want to see! (feel free to choose as many as you'd like)
2020-12-29 21:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post