Escape From Blackwood Manor: Developers Log 8th November 2026 (Patreon)

Hey everyone time for another Weekly Developers log, been another busy week for me, so busy that I had to do a mid week update just to go over all the changes/upgrades to the Escape System, you can see that here if your curious

For now i'll go over the other stuff I've been working on that isn't to do with the escape system or stuff i didn't mention in the mid week update as i have been working on it since then

So, new character sprites, Claire who has been teased and mentioned in the demo and even in the escape games route now has her overworld spritesheet and some animation busts I think around 45 or so (I might show some of these off in the supporters discord channel later)

Another thing, you might notice it says 305 new BDSM animated busts for Cat, while this is true it's not as daunting as you might think, see there's so many different combinations of gag, restraint, blindfold and also emotion that I made a huge array of animated busts for cat with practically every combination (as of right now) so no matter what happens when developing the main game i will always have animated busts ready for it

I've also been working on some other tasks which are less daunting than they sound, there are 10 new gags that can be equipped in the escape system, however they are all just re coloured ball gag sprites, see i looked it up and it turns out black was the most popular colour but i didn't really think this was true i mean red has to be the most popular right? so i figured while i was working on the animated busts I might as well have some ball gag variants so now there's like 10 different colours and there's also a medical grade ball gag (white with brown straps) as i might need that one soon for the main route

On a related not, join our discord, i want to see what actually is the most popular colour of ball gag so alongside the patron poll (which is polling between which gag to add in next, bit, ring or muzzle gag) i'll have a community poll to see what the most popular colour of ball gag is, there will actually be a reason for this but for that i need to get onto my next point

So, there will be a new game mode in the next update called "Domestic Ties" which can be accessed from the start menu, had some feedback on discord suggesting i have in a custom escape editor and then i released I had already coded something like that into the escape system months ago for testing purposes so after spending a good day on it it's now entirely coded into the game as a new game mode, the gist being you can pretty much choose whatever escape scenario you like, however I kinda don't really half ass anything so i figured this would also be a good opportunity to have some more character interactions, in particular between the heroine Cat and her Girlfriend/Mistress Amy

So this domestic ties mode on top of being a choose your own escape scenario will have some nice slice of life/NSFW elements to it (you'll see, i'm literally working on nude sprites right now)

And best of all it will tie in with the main game as the restraints/collectables you find in blackwood manor (some of them unlock glossary entries also) and in escape games will unlock new restraints and rooms for you to try out in Domestic Ties, i figured this would be the best way since it rewards you for exploring more

Anyways that's all for now, gonna get back to working on sprites after I finish writing this and plan out some new areas and do some of the writing for Blackwood Manors main route later, peace out