Still Alive

You have permission to commence with the freaking out now.

And that could mean a) freaking out from happiness that I'm actually back and not dead, b) freaking out at me for being a colossal jackass, or c) probably both if you still bother to come here after almost a full year of inactivity.

I would say that Mystic Girl is done but even I can't make that joke at this point. It's still sitting around somewhere, largely where it was when I made the post below this. It's possible I could finish it at some point. It's also obviously possible I could not. I probably should, just as some sort of repentance.

At this point, why did I bother coming back? I'm not sure. I guess just to say thanks to anyone who was sincerely concerned about my health. I don't really deserve that sort of concern. I made a promise I fully intended to keep and I broke it. No excuses, I just outright broke it.

Where was I? What have I been doing? Why didn't I say anything?

The project I was working on before, that kept me from having time to work on Mystic Girl, went poorly. So when it was over my spirit was a little broken and I just didn't want to do it anymore. It took a while for me to get over things. For a while I just didn't do very much, and then I busied myself with other matters.

So here we are almost a year later. I'm doing pretty good now. Happier, healthier, and working on things that are going very well for me. If Mystic Girl can fit into this life somehow it'll get done. That's no promise, though. I'm not making those anymore.

I am, however, going to read through the entire ludicrously long series of comments on that last post. As self-inflicted punishment. =)

I am so smart. S-M-R-T

"...so expect my typical substanceless 2-4* week updates..."

"*take whatever number I say, triple it, and you've got a realistic estimate!"

2-4 x 3 = 6-12
Weeks before updating: 7

Am I good or am I good? Eh? Eh?

Yeah. So, things have not changed since the last time I posted. So, things are going how I expected. Mystic Girl is still on hiatus, but as much as I know it seems like "it's dead! he'll never finish it!" that's not true. AFAIK, I'll be able to start working on it again in 1-2 months. There will be no changes to the release date short of me getting hit by a car or something.

Of course that still means the earliest it can possibly come out is October, so you're in for a bit of a wait regardless of what happens. I would keep your sights set on December though so I don't disappoint you :D

Great Balls of Fire

Hey hey hey, what's up? How's everyone doing? Nice weather, eh?

Yeah, you just want to know about Mystic Girl. Ok, I get it.

To quote one of the comments on my last post: "He has claimed to be lazy. And proved himself to be such." Man, I wish I could just say that again today. I like being lazy -- when you can afford to be lazy, life is going good. But actually I've been working really, really hard. Unfortunately (for you guys) it hasn't been on Mystic Girl. The net result being I haven't really worked on Mystic Girl in the last couple of weeks because booting up Flash when I don't have to is somewhat painful.

You don't have to freak out though, I have a backup plan. It's called that December release date I mentioned earlier. The game will be done this year, but at this rate it being a Christmas present is not out of the question. Ah, such is life. Taking advantage of cool opportunities means putting others on the backburner for a while. Otherwise, you get burned out.

Well I am kind of burned out, so expect my typical substanceless 2-4* week updates about how tough my life is and Mystic Girl is so much work and yadda yadda yadda whine whine whine for the next couple months. Maybe I'll get back to talking about interesting hentai topics like I originally wanted to, since I don't do much writing lately.

In happier news, there's a couple of cool things I can tell you about:

onikain (Mr. Awesome Fanart) has been working on a full-out Demon Girl doujin. I haven't seen it, don't know what it's about, and probably annoyed him by not responding to emails for two weeks but if he finishes it no doubt it will be cool (and very hot).
EDIT: I'm a silly person who doesn't check his own forums. You can already see the doujin here

Another person I probably turned off with lack of email response (double kill!) is a very sexy voice actress for Mystic Girl. But if I can beg for some more samples, that base will be covered (actually I've been thinking of having multiple selectable voices. Because options are good and, you know, I don't have too much work already).

Lastly Battle Jesus put together some Jungle themed music which I might throw in, and I had a chance a while back to play with some music software as well so you may get to hear my ridiculously beginner composing skills at work.

*take whatever number I say, triple it, and you've got a realistic estimate!

Contributions

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Bonus Feature #8:
Mystic Girl plays out like an arena endurance challenge where you fight off enemies. You can get knocked out by running out of energy similar to Demon Girl, but this time your arousal meter drops when you aren’t gettin’ busy so you can recover in-between attacks. Don’t think it’ll be easy though, there may be other things you have to be doing to avoid losing...
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Do you want Mystic Girl to come out faster? Do you want to apply your exceptional talents to help make that happen? Do you want other people to help out because you don’t know what the heck you are doing? Then you will be happy, because I’m going to temporarily accept contributions to the game.

Basically I’m looking for any of three things:

1. Background environments.
   
2. Background music.
   
3. Fanart.
   
4. Voice work (this, folks, is called a “long shot”)
   

But before I go into any more detail about these things I have to make a few things absolutely clear to anyone even thinking about helping out.

• I am not desperate for help. This is not a call out to aid with development problems or anything like that. This is simply an opportunity for people to contribute if that sounds like fun to them.
  
  
• Currently I am still planning on selling a expanded version of the game (for cheap). Any contributions to the game will be done on a strictly volunteer basis. You will not be paid for your contributions in any manner. I will flat-out refuse content from anyone who even mentions anything to the contrary.
  
  
• I can and will reject anything that I do not want to include. I will not sugar coat things to avoid hurting your feelings. I’m not going to slap everyone’s name into the credits who sends me stuff if I don’t use it. Making content is done at your own risk, I give no guarantees that it will not be wasted time.
  
  
• You should be fully aware that I do not follow any sort of schedule with regards to making hentai and can (and likely will) continue to disappear for weeks at a time, so don’t freak out if you submit stuff that doesn’t elicit any sort of response.
  

So if you still want to help knowing all that, here’s the details of what I’m looking for:

1. Environments – These are the background images for the different stages. I would like to have varied environments this time. It doesn’t really matter what sort of location it is, although keep in mind this is fantasy and there’s a bunch of monsters running about so a modern urban landscape is not appropriate. Try to stick to basic fantasy settings like: desert, mountain range, snow field, grassy plains, etc.
   Break your images into three layers: Background, midground, foreground. Make sure the actual ground of the environment stretches from the very bottom to ~200 pixels up. Here’s an old placeholder picture (ha, no spoilers for you) as an example. Grass as foreground, bright trees as midground, tree silhouettes as background.
   You should have three separate 800x1200 images that link together horizontally to create the level (the example picture is about 800x600 because it’s just an old example). Everything must be original and hand drawn. No tracing, no inserting pictures, just draw in Flash. Don’t make it incredibly complex and have tons of crazy animation or anything because it will run like crap, but it should look much nicer than the example.
   
   
2. Music – Pretty self-explanatory. Some track that is appropriate to play in the background. If it would fit in Jungle/Demon Girl it would fit here too. Well, it’s not hell themed so no hardcore Norwegian death metal or anything like that. Doesn’t need to be fancy or very long. It should loop cleanly and not be annoying -- try to keep it more subdued. Of course this should be entirely original work as well. Don’t send me songs you didn’t make. Don’t send me remixes of songs you didn’t make. Completely original stuff only.
   
   
3. Fanart – I may put in unlockable pictures if people submit them. There’s already an image of Mystic Girl here, so you can just draw her lookin’ pretty. Also, Demon and Jungle Girl pictures are fine.
   
   
4. Voice Work – If you are a girl with a cute voice and like making moaning noises, you could be Mystic Girl! No, I don’t expect anyone to actually do this ^^ But someone could if they wanted. Basically I’d need moaning noises for different levels of arousal (low, high, orgasm) and stifled moans for blowjobs. In the rare chance that someone did want to try and do this, send me a little sample first so I can check recording quality before you go nuts with it.
   

Here's a forum thread with more details and submission guidelines: Mystic Girl Community Contributions

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