2026 impending (positive) (Patreon)

2025 went pretty well i think!!!! my website grew a ton and i still got to be pretty dang social even after losing cohost... i'm posting on pillowfort now though, so technically i do have social media again, just the most out-of-the-way possible one. which was the appeal of cohost for me, so... are we back? are we so back? we are pretty back, i would say...

enough silliness. you are here for updates.

SO, the current state of my projects is...

• Syrup 2: Candy Alchemy RPG - early access was released on halloween! everyone got to play this thing finally!! just gotta finish the rest of the story now.

• Week with Timber (NWT sequel) - word count is at about 6k! considering NWT was 50k, it's still just barely started heheh... but i have the structure all planned out, and i am highly motivated to finish it--just not sure when exactly... probably sooner than later...

• Lonely Wolf Treat (chapter 8-3) - treat dev completely stalled this year after ch8-2 released last january... a little sad, but it happens! wish i could've made more progress on it, but not surprised that it fell to the wayside either.

• Sex Advice Succubus - the script for the next session is still only partially written... it looks like i'm ~2k words into it??? i need to just pick a month to get this thing out, maybe for nanoreno (march) since i don't want to start a new project rn... this is very much a "when i feel like it" type of game to work on, and i'll definitely be coming back around to it in 2026!

those are all the main/most relevant things i think... MORE DETAILS BELOW.

2025 recap

january was the public release of trick comes home part 2! looking back on my site updates... i did an ask session after it came out. and then i made a little web project called OCs you can steal, which... has been a little difficult for me to keep maintaining, so i'm way behind on submissions now. i've been considering putting it in archive mode x_x i'll keep thinking about what to do, but if the project dies after this year, it at least had a good run!!!

updates were sparse in february/march... i think this is because i was working on Return to Ash at Serenity Forge during this time. i didn't track my time very well because we were having daily meetings and whatnot, which i think drained my mental energy overall... the game was pretty much done by the end of march, but for marketing reasons(?) they didn't want to announce it until june... and then it released in july :') not a ton of people played it either, so it's hard to consider this game a success at all, even if i'm very proud of how it turned out. it's a good game! if you did play it, thank you!!!! i'm sorry you have no one to talk about it with lol!!!!!

in april, i released my second teto song, good intentions! it's kinda my first proper music video...? the ones before it were all just lyrics vids, but i had fun doing animations for this... turned out to be pretty iconic and resonated with a lot of listeners, so i'm glad i made it! i also did another ludum dare with my friends, and we released Icebreakers! which was my first time working with ren'py's speech bubble system--i'd really like to try using it again for future projects because it was very easy to use! if i think of something that fits for it i will definitely be doing that hehe.

did another ask session in may! again, my records for this month are lacking, which must mean i was working hard at serenity forge... i think i was just doing return to ash polish and otherwise working on my website (like i finished the new banner and stuff, since some things about my old layout had been getting on my nerves)... not much to say here otherwise.

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cw: loss of a parent

in june... my mom died. i didn't say anything about it at the time because i already had a sort of public greiving for my dad, whose health had been declining ever since i was making astra's garden. he passed away in october 2024, then my mom followed 8 months later. i still don't know what to say about it, but it felt weird not to mention it, so i'm mentioning it. i started joking to my brother that we're orphans now. our family showed us lots of love at the funeral and everything, it was basically as lovely as it possibly could have been. miss u, mom... ;_;

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Return to Ash and BAD END THEATER (console version) came out in july! i'm very detached from these releases, especially BET console since i don't really receive comments about it... but it seems like it's selling a normal amount, so people are definitely playing it, which makes me happy. because it took so long for both of these things to happen, i was feeling pretty hollow about it at the time, although i was probably just still in mourning mode from what happened in june.

at the end of july, there was a big kerfuffle about nsfw games/projects on itchio, which i've brought up a number of times now since it affects some of what i make. basically, you aren't allowed to sell that stuff on itchio anymore (though i left my existing comics up on my page). it made me think about what i'm going to do when i have new nsfw comics to release, because i've been consistently drawing those over the years (and i'm drawing a kamilla/eleni one right now even...) so like... i dunno, i might just be releasing that stuff for free from now on, which isn't ideal but... well i guess this post is not the place to get into it, i'll probably write something on my website when my next comic comes out. the thumbnails are shared on the second patreon account i created because of this fiasco, nomnomnsfw (which doesnt update often and i'm not sure if i'm allowed to link it here so just type in the url SORRY!!!!!)

in august i decided i was going to release syrup 2 in early access on steam, which meant also finally releasing syrup and the ultimate sweet on there! this was all in preparation for syrup's 10th anniversary on halloween, and i'm very happy to report that everything was finished in time and the releases were a success!!! i mean... my bar for success with those was that they came out and mostly functioned (i've had a lot of syrup 2 bugs to address in the meantime haha). so yeah, that's most of what i was working on in august/sept... i guess i was working on Puppergeist too though, which was announced in october and i am still working on it. more info in the 2026-plans half of this post haha.

starting in late september, Night with Timber completely took over my life until i was able to release it in november! it's still taken over my life... i spent the next month or so drawing doodle comics because i kept getting ideas for them... very satisfying to have a place to post them on my site, love to send people this page after they finish the game so they have even more to read!!!

finally, earlier this month the followup to moxdonald's happened! moxie's seafood restaurant, The Foxy Catch! thank you to everyone who participated, i had SOOO MUCH FUN DRAWING IT!!! i also made a character gallery, which i'm continuing to add pages to. my site has so much CONTENT now... 2025 is the year that i love my website!!!!!!

now onto 2026...

my main priorities are... Week with Timber! because i can't stop thinking about those characters!! next is Syrup 2 because it feels closer to being done that treat does, and i would like to at least finish the main story for it this year.

i'm expecting an update on the tre...WAIT...... WAIT WHAT, THEY UPDATED THE LISTINGS FOR THE TREAT PLUSHIES, we're finding this out in realtime together... i'll... i'll add the photos to my site, i don't think i got an email about this... they're so cute....... the first batch is coming out in march, sorry for the lack of updates about it before now!

february is the sort of deadline for Puppergeist, although it won't come out until... i expect summer at the earliest...? it is planned for consoles and stuff, which takes a lot of extra time. after puppergeist is done, i'll be A FREE AGENT AGAIN!!!! FREE TO CONTINUE TO UNLEASH ON WHATEVER MY BRAIN DECIDES TO LOCK ON TO!!!!!!! i'm really looking forward to this, although it's mostly what i've already been doing for the past couple months with NWT. anyway, i'm just in art grind mode for puppergeist now, the script is done and we're animating the last of the rhythm games and putting things together to make sure it all works. fingers crossed that everything turns out ok for this project, it's been a long time coming.

depending on how things look in march, i might try to finish the 3rd session of Sex Advice Succubus after all! before i lost steam on it, i had made a whole fake operating system as the bonus gallery... i'm nervous to look back into all that code and feel lost again, but i'm excited to share it too because it's pretty cool...? as long as i can fix some of the bugs i had given up on at the time...

although Lonely Wolf Treat isn't a main priority, i still want to release an update for it this year! specifically the alternate ending content that was left half-finished in the current release. moxie's stuff will need more planning but i was thinking about it a lot while drawing the foxy catch... so once i clear some other stuff off my plate, i can dive back in!

another piece of candy has continued on its regular update schedule for another full year, which makes me really happy! having guest comics to fall back on and spread out my schedule a bit has been the real saving grace i think, although now my problem has been that i have too many comics finished months in advance. i'd like to do daily updates more often because of that! and... i have been!!! because of timber... nil and drop joined the cast this year, but we lost pastille and gumdrop :'( the plot is thickening...? everyone has been requesting twigs too, so they'll also be joining. timber's birthday falls on a wednesday... let's make it happen....

WAIT SHOOT I NEVER PRINTED VOLUME 2!!! OK 2026 I SWEAR, MORE PRINT VERSIONS OF APOC!!!! i am no longer dropping the ball, i have to finish drawing the covers!!! my passion has been reignited, i can do anything!!!!

i said last year that my patreon would be less active during 2025 due to my studio work, and this was true for a while. but i'm ready to get back into it!!! i'm gonna try to be more consistent with updates and give u guys the good stuff... i still like writing these longer posts (because i like talking about my projects so much haha) and now i'll have more time/energy for it, so here we go!

i think that's everything... if i forgot something, i'm sorry! i guess i had wanted to release a vocaloid album this year, but i didn't end up finishing the songs i wanted to for that... so maybe 2026...? there are endless possibilities, i'm sure i will fill my time with all sorts of unexpected things beyond what i've mentioned here.

ok, that's all for real. there's still 2 days left of 2025, but have a happy new year everyone!!!