Sorry about the delay on this one! I actually had it written a few days ago, but lost track of posting it with everything else going on. I keep trying to find a better way to explore what life is like in this world, and try to think about the "normal people" and what their lives are like. Problem being, a lot of it is going to be rather bori...
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As I talked about toward the end of the recent release announcement, I'm feeling very split on what to work on now that v0.09 is done. I'd wanted a nice, short update, but animations ended up turning into a pretty large chunk of work to get running smoo...
2025-08-10 09:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostLast time I pushed myself to find a good story just about friendship, and this time I wanted to explore another form of bond that might come up in this setting. This one is a little more complicated, and now that I'm finished, I kinda wish I'd focused a little more on it toward the end. I let myself get carried away with other aspects and had to...
2025-08-01 01:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostNew version, new cheats! Have fun!
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I knew I needed to make some more backgrounds for minor things, but I didn't realize it would be quite this many! The anatomy is just there for context, these previews are all about the action in the back! Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything, and these should cover all the animation needs for the basic system to "work." At least these ones wen...
2025-07-03 21:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostThis one kinda got away from me in the end! I had some fun with this. The funny thing is, I really struggled figuring out what I was going to write about this month. I eventually decided on two aspects that I really wanted to find a way to combine in one story: another aspect of what's going on in this world on the socioeconomic level, and a sto...
2025-07-01 07:04:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally ready! There were delays with getting the pieces put together in the longer term, and I'd hoped to have these previews put together last week, but I forgot how much dang work it is just to turn all the pieces into gifs that actually work and look decent!
Well, with this, we have all the big, basic pieces for representing sexy time...
So, my previous, public dev journal was pretty positive and painted a hopeful picture for the near future. I hoped to have a basic set of mix-and-match animation pieces done and working in the game pretty soon so I could turn around a nice, quick update ...
2025-06-07 07:49:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis one started with the idea that some towns of "people" would develop in isolation, too far or behind too much hostile terrain to have any contact with anyone else. I worked some on what that would involve, what that would look like, and what struggles they'd deal with, but at some point it turned into something else entirely. In the back of ...
2025-05-31 20:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostI've danced around it a lot, but I feel like I haven't delved too much into what exactly it's like in the "monstrous" areas of the world in Project Wild One. I knew it would be hard to put a finger on since it would be pretty chaotic and varied from one town to the next, but I wanted to try and narrow down what the common themes would be, and wh...
2025-04-30 22:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, we haven't had an art preview in ages! Commissioning art was always the most stressful part of my work, and PWO is a tough game to incorporate art into-- especially when I'm still hammering out a lot of what the game actually is, and how it will work! But I've had this idea cooking up a long time, and I finally found the tools to just get t...
2025-04-09 08:25:10 +0000 UTC View PostSeems April Fools is already in full swing, and the hero of today's story would be only too happy to take part. I decided to take another stab at a happy story with some cute elements, and it ended up wandering a few unexpected directions, but I'm fairly happy with it. I still feel a little like it's missing something, but I'm not sure if the th...
2025-04-01 05:54:57 +0000 UTC View PostI've been going through a lot of different things recently, mood-wise, and that put me in a weird place when I took on this side-write. I wanted to try for something happy again, but I felt a little too turbulent to settle into something sweet or quiet. This story ended up being a reflection of that. I can't call it a happy story, but maybe it's...
2025-02-28 21:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a pretty big relief to finally get v0.08 out and put the first big piece of the puzzle in your hands. I'm happy with a lot of what I've accomplished, but I knew I needed a bit more of a break from working on the Interp-Theory Mind. The next chunk will hopefully be a pretty big step forward, but I need a change of pace before I get into th...
2025-02-16 04:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostI've been avoiding it for a while, so I decided to come back to exploring the emotional situation around the player character again. I've gotten into that some in previous side-writes, but since each player will bring their own expectations and desires to the game, I think it can go a few different ways. This one didn't quite go how I wanted in ...
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New version, new cheats! Have fun!
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The new AI system, now called the Interp-Theory Mind, is finally online! Plus, new options for how to act! Find out more on the big announcement on my blog!
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I've had a bit of a rough time the last couple days, and I thought I might have to push back this side-write, but I got the chance to at least try, even if I'm in a bit of a rough mood. This is what came out. It's a little schmaltzy and unoriginal, but I'm fairly happy with it. One of those stories I sort of expected to go a little different, bu...
2025-01-01 02:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostAt the last minute, a silly write-up! I was pretty happy with how my "pamphlet" about Sluggles turned out, and I seemed to get a lot of positive feedback on it, so I thought it might be fun to take another shot at a little profile piece of a species I'm thinking about adding to Project Wild One. To be honest, I don't think this one came out as f...
2024-12-01 07:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Halloween! I debated a lot on what to do with this year's most haunted side-write, and at first I thought I'd try something a little more goofy than previous years-- maybe embrace more of the kiddy side of halloween with traditional "spooky" stuff, or maybe try and play out my own version of a cheesy slasher flick in the PWO world. In the ...
2024-10-31 02:42:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Great AI Overhaul’s first build is nearing completion! I’m feeling a little ragged at this point, but overall I’m feeling pretty positive! Let’s take a quick overview of how work has progressed, first.
Last time I dropped a public dev ...
Spending so much time deep in the mechanical guts of this game, I've had a decent stretch of time to really try and figure out what PWO is going to be about, emotionally. The theme and the mechanics need to work together, and I think it's coming together to make it clear what one major theme will be: choosing not to hurt others. This is a game a...
2024-09-28 05:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostBack in December, I explored the holiday in the world of Project Wild One celebrating the ringing of the new year, which for them, happens in the summer. So maybe it's fitting that we now take a look at what is probably their equivalent to Christmas, set on the winter solstice! I was in the mood to write something a little more cozy, but it deve...
2024-08-31 18:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostI've largely tackled a lot of the perspective from the side of the "people" in Project Wild One's setting, the furries that make up the original population of the world. This time around, I wanted to take another look at one of the other species, to see how folks live elsewhere in the world and explore a part, perhaps, of why they live so differ...
2024-07-31 00:45:22 +0000 UTC View PostLately I've been coming up with ideas for these side-writes that just turn out way too long. The idea is for it to be a fairly casual side thing that's fun, but I've been turning them into such a production I started to dread it when I realized it was time for the next one. And that's no good! So for this one, I tried to reel it in-- I had an id...
2024-07-01 02:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt seems, at once, like only seconds since I last checked in with my progress, and also like eons have passed. Life has been a whirlwind, and thank goodness, because who would want my greatest challenge to be boring? Let's have a look backward.<...
2024-06-11 23:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the last one felt like a pretty solid success, but rather too long, I challenged myself to write a story that is still fairly happy... and more reasonable in length. I think I managed a moderate success in both respects here? I agonized some over what topic to cover and finally decided something in an unusual format might go a little easie...
2024-06-01 03:50:52 +0000 UTC View Post