While questions about the nature of the Interim weigh heavy on his mind, Michael continues his work, which often places him in situations both familiar and new.
Windows: 2022-06-16 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
While questions about the nature of the Interim weigh heavy on his mind, Michael continues his work, which often places him in situations both familiar and new.
Windows: 2022-06-12 15:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
And here we are, with 0.03.0 ready for release. While the previous two builds were prologue and setting, this one will start showing the players how they will interact with the game over the length of the story. As mentioned in the last post, we've streamlined the backend code to reduce "spaghettification" where returning the player to the main story had a bunch of now-unnecessary code.
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2022-06-10 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As finale for our series on the cast from Now & Then throughout the years (Carol/Naomi, Alice/Julie), we have Sydney and Hana, who joined the cast as a part of their adventure. With Sydney, she's largely st...
2022-06-04 22:18:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So, all apologies for not being totally available for comments here, Discord or Twitter over the last week or so. I've been tied up in a huge day-job project that's got me working 55+ hour weeks for the next few months. And then, last week I got my Annual Cold, which means I was super doped up on a cocktail of shit that got me able to work but gave me the attention span of a gerbil. So, most of...
2022-05-30 21:09:40 +0000 UTC View Post
And work for 0.03.0 is underway. At this point, we're working to add in the major functionality for the game, which should make future updates purely a matter of building new scenes and adding them to the appropriate script file.
A big thanks goes out to patron Lightman, who suggested a way to streamline the code when players shift to side stories from the main path...
2022-05-23 22:37:09 +0000 UTC View Post
For May 2022's NSFW Wallpapers, we're going to right a wrong. At least partially. I will admit that the skinny dipping scene in Now & Then Chapter 23 is one of my favorite moments. It's fun, sexy and allows the player to get time with the cast in between more serious events. The only problem? It happens without Sydney and Julie. So, we did some wallpapers to show what it mi...
2022-05-20 21:46:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For May 2022's Public Wallpapers, we're going to right a wrong. At least partially. I will admit that the skinny dipping scene in Now & Then Chapter 23 is one of my favorite moments. It's fun, sexy and allows the player to get time with the cast in between more serious events. The only problem? It happens without Sydney and Julie. So, we did some wallpapers to show what it ...
2022-05-20 21:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post
After a few days to acclimate to his new situation, Michael starts the process of finding others left in the Interim, but not without the gravity of his situation causing some well-deserved grief of his own.
2022-05-15 15:59:01 +0000 UTC
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After a few days to acclimate to his new situation, Michael starts the process of finding others left in the Interim, but not without the gravity of his situation causing some well-deserved grief of his own.
2022-05-11 15:59:01 +0000 UTC
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After getting the first release out, which served as narrative prologue and provide a taste of what's to come, we got hard at work to make sure 0.02.0 would start transitioning the players into how the world of the Interim works. While there is still a TON to be revealed, this update should give players an idea of what to expect. And there's a fair bit of hints at story-lines and conflicts to c...
2022-05-09 22:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post
To continue our series on the cast from Now & Then throughout the years, we have Alice and Julie, who've both been a part of Jack and Carol's lives from the beginning. For Alice, except for her Chapter 16 version with longer hair, she's not had a lot of changes. For the most part, her...
2022-05-04 01:07:48 +0000 UTC View Post
And here we are, roughly at the halfway point. Most of the major scenes for this update have been built, even if they may need some adjustments. Outside of a few scenes to round out the experience and some rework for pacing, we're zooming in towards a release.
0.02.0 will have the initial Characters screen, which will let you see where you're at with the various story-lines and what...
2022-05-01 21:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm here to formally announce the development of The Interim Domain 0.02.0. Truthfully, development for this was in the works almost as soon as 0.01.0 was out the door. With the prologue nature of the first release, I knew that we'd need to jump into a proper content build. But, as with Now & Then, it'll probably a few releases before we're into full swing ...
2022-04-25 22:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The world did not end with biblical brimstone and fire. Or with a bang. Or an asteroid smashing against the Earth. It came with a flash, and when that bright light faded, everything cease to be.
The main character (of your own naming) awakens to find himself in the Interim, a rea...
2022-04-19 15:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The world did not end with biblical brimstone and fire. Or with a bang. Or an asteroid smashing against the Earth. It came with a flash, and when that bright light faded, everything cease to be.
The main character (of your own naming) awakens to find himself in the Interim, a rea...
2022-04-15 15:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For April 2022's Wallpapers, we celebrate the 2 year anniversary of ILS Productions and the launch of Now & Then. For the NSFW wallpapers, I wanted to dig out some unused lewds that didn't make it into the game, including a shot that would have extended the Naomi dream sequence.
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For April 2022's Wallpapers, we celebrate the 2 year anniversary of ILS Productions and the launch of Now & Then. For the public wallpapers, I wanted to dig out some old promo artwork that was being played with in the days of early development, including a mock up of a The Last of Us style cover. The picture of Jack flipping off his compute...
2022-04-14 00:14:52 +0000 UTC View Post
And here it is... the schedule announcement for 0.01.0 of The Interim Domain. Usually, we'd like to have a mid-development update, but with some of the content in varying states of built early on, even before Now & Then was finished, we have the first release in a playable state. Unlike N&T, where each release was done in an episodic manner, The...
2022-04-13 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Not one to spend too much time relishing in the completion of one project (not entirely, but more on that below), we're hard at work pulling 0.01.0 of The Interim Domain together. A fair amount of the development for this title was done in the background over the past year, during what little free time we had. Of course, when the big crunch of the last few releases ate up most ...
2022-04-07 22:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, April 2022's Patron-exclusive wallpapers start a series on how the cast has changed over the course of the game. With the main story bouncing between the past and the present--and even transpiring over the span of months--I wanted to show off the numerous character models employed.
To start, we have Carol and Naomi, both of whom had the largest number of variations across the...
2022-04-06 22:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Endings/Epilogues [Version 0.26.0]
Having survived the attack on the Marshand house, Jack and the girls move into White Oak and try to settle into the next chapter in their lives. Depending on the player's choices, with whom will Jack be romantically involved?
2022-03-30 16:00:01 +0000 UTC
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For March 2022's NSFW Wallpapers, I had to dance a bit of a tightrope. We're not close enough to celebrate Now & Then's 2-year anniversary (April 13th!) and I didn't want to drop anything that might spoil the Endings. So, I decided on going with a little gun/military *censored* (Because a word is auto-flagged now for devs. No really. It is.)
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For March 2022's Public Wallpapers, I had to dance a bit of a tightrope. We're not close enough to celebrate Now & Then's 2-year anniversary (April 13th!) and I didn't want to drop anything that might spoil the Endings. So, I decided on going with a little gun/military *censored* (Because a word is auto-flagged now for devs. No really. It is.)
Also, check out th...
2022-03-27 01:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Endings/Epilogues [Version 0.26.0]
Having survived the attack on the Marshand house, Jack and the girls move into White Oak and try to settle into the next chapter in their lives. Depending on the player's choices, with whom will Jack be romantically involved?
2022-03-26 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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And here we are. At the finish line (sort of). The Endings/Epilogues episode (0.26.0) is primed to be released. I'm just waiting for the last of the files to finish uploading. By now, there's not a lot to say. We've all gotten to this point together. I only hope you enjoy the results of your choices throughout the journey.
2022-03-24 22:49:59 +0000 UTC
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SPOILER WARNING. There are image and potential content spoilers here, so back away if you want to go in blind.
Thus endeth the Spoiler Warning. Thou hast been warned-eth.
All right, we're somewhere in the middle of the development cycle for the Endings/Epilogue for Now & Then. I say that in loose terms because we've been w...
2022-03-16 22:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post
SPOILERS AHEAD: There will be screenshots and commentary that can be deemed spoiler-ific to follow. I'll try not to go into details, but if you want to go in blind, back away.
LAST CHANCE TO BACK AWAY...
And, so it begins. The work for the Ending/Epilogue content for Now & Then. Though, to say it's "begun" is a bit of a stretch. More like, all o...
2022-03-07 23:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
With Now & Then coming to a close pretty soon, I figured March 2022's Patron-exclusive Wallpapers would be a throw-back to Jack and Carol's apartment and the cast as they existed before the time of the pandemic's beginning. It's my plan that the following months will be a series focusing on the characters as they've changed over the length of the story.
2022-03-05 22:03:07 +0000 UTC
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Part Three: Chapter Twenty-five [Version 0.25.0]
In the aftermath of the gunfight with Sutter, Jack and the girls attempt to refocus on settling into White Oak. Little do they know that the remains of Sutter's crew is still in the area and looking to be a problem.
2022-02-28 16:59:01 +0000 UTC
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