Jan Dev Log (Patreon)

This is the third monthly dev log. (This was last month's.)

Hi everyone! 

I hope you all had a wonderful start to 2025. If you celebrate, happy lunar new year! 🍊 

Plans for 2025

This year, I’m aiming for steady progress for both Merry Crisis and CT:OS, with a focus on expanding the visual novel adaptation of Merry Crisis, finishing the text-version of the game, and reaching a big narrative milestone for CT:OS (e.g. end of the fall semester).

I’ll also be working toward my goal of trying out a year of full-time game development in 2026, which brings me to…

Patreon & Ko-Fi

This month, I’ve officially launched a Patreon! This will work alongside Ko-Fi, offering early access to updates, sneak peeks at development, and other exclusive ccontent. Pricing and tiers will be the same for both, and I will be releasing all content and demo links on both platforms.

If you’ve been enjoying my work and would like to support me, you can now do so through whichever platform you prefer! 

For 2026, I hope to release more content on both platforms! (12 months isn't too long from now, and I've already been trial-running some extra behind the scenes exclusive content for subscribers especially from next year onwards! See the teaser for City of Smoke and Ashes here)

Cogdemos.ink link

Speaking of platforms, I've also ported over both CT:OS and Merry Crisis to the new hosting website. Here are the links!

CT:OS

The next chapter of CT:OS has been my focus for this month, and it's been shaping up nicely! I'm about halfway through the chapter, with about 42k words of content including code so far.

This update stitches together the 3~ weeks between the events in the previous semi-release (post-Sam's visit: G's dinner and halloween), fleshing out the weeks leading-up to the doubles pairs who are picked to represent Cargill at the National Doubles Championships. 

Scenes written so far:

• Receive your midterm results 📝

• Kiss in a corn maze 🌽 

• Bicker over the best fall dessert with your hallmates 🥧

• Play some doubles matches

• Decide whether to pair up with Felix in mixed doubles (if you do well enough), or your regular men's/women's partner (Rayyan/Tobin) 🌶

• Call Sam to let them know you've been picked to play at the tournament 🤩

• Re-contextualised Felix hookup at the Halloween party... 🎃 and deal with the consequences of your hookup (if you hooked up).

Next up: 

I will be knocking out the bus ride and the first 2 rounds of the doubles championships! My goal is to have this chapter ready by end of February, so stay tuned!

Note: For those who opt to partner Felix, whether because you want the drama, or genuinely want to be friends, or because you want to play against Sam at the tournament (or avoid that)... let's just say these next 2 chapters will be an interesting ride.

Merry Crisis 

Development on the visual novel version of Merry Crisis is moving along smoothly! Here are some peeks at the character art completed this month!

After the last chapter update in December, I will also devote some time over the next 2 months to look through the bugs and feedback I've received :) 

Thank you all for your continued support—your messages, theories, and enthusiasm keep me going every day. Here’s to an amazing year ahead!