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Progress Report: 2/9/2026
Altered eventscene to use a callback system to run through events rather than an aggressive update check, vastly reducing potential for bugs and overlap.Events now queue and no longer attempt to run out of turn under any circumstances.Updated old code to modern standards and replaced as much redundant code as possible with functions, etc.This week, I primarily just worked on one thing, which was the event scene. That's the scene which displays all in-battle events like combat, dialogue, dige...
Progress Report: 2/2/2026
Restored more battle functionality. Designed next unit for Don to draw.Designed new Battle UI.Added parallax backgrounds for battles.Ascertained that drawing a parallax background myself would take too long by it taking too long for me to draw one.Experimented with various battle setups.Created pip style health bar for battle along with animations.(Blur shader courtesy of hmal)More progress on the combat/event scene! The battle UI is mostly complete, and I think a fighting game style UI will be ...
Progress Report: 1/26/2026
Created new UI for status menuCreated new UI for attack confirmationCreated mockup for new battle sceneFinalized final harpyBegan designing Dr. AstridPartially restored menu functionality in battlesReworked battle action menu so universal actions such as attack or swallow are always present without needing to go into sub-menus.Reworked various battle scripts to be global instead of instancedBegan creating ability icon mockupsBegan/continued work on gameplay/story essential NPC designs(Background...
Character Preview: Harpy Duchess
"The cruel and bloody Harpy Duchess, debauched rulers of Celaeno. A tribe of six-winged harpies, treated as the born leaders of the harpy people. Extreme danger! Avoid at all costs! While not especially strong on their own, each is surrounded by an army of harpies which serve at her beck and call. If you have the misfortune of encountering one, your best chance of survival is to immediately prostrate yourself and grovel. Appeal to her vain nature, and make yourself appear to be a lowly creat...
Progress Report: 1/12/2026
Finished tearing out old battle system and patching up the resulting errorsAdded a proper input manager to support keybinding changes and controllersStarted process of adding next characterPlanned out and began work on new battle systemAdded multiple zoom levels and overhead view to battleTokens will now be silhouetted in their team colors when behind terrainBegan replacement of placeholder UI assetsWork continues on the battle overhaul! It's just getting started, but my goal here is to get ...
Venus Derby Randomizer Base v2
I'm back from vacation, and I bring horse girls! Namely, a second attempt at the randomizer for Venus Derby. As a reminder, VD is a game being made by hmal/slough that I am doing game design for and attempting to create a character randomizer for on the side. In the final product, a characters face, species, arm pose, leg pose, race outfit, colors, etc. will all be randomized while they all share the same torso. You can see here, there is a nude base ready along with mockups for the academy ...
Merry Christmas (WIP)
A special piece of art to celebrate the game of the year!
Progress Report: 12/22/2025
Hello again everyone, it's been another good week for VT! The new work method I was talking about last week has been working extremely well, and I'm serious when I say that I'm confident that it will continue to do so going forward. I've had plenty of bursts of productivity before, but this is the first time since I started that I have felt like my workflow is so grounded and sustainable.Enough about that though, how is development going? I have mostly been continuing on cleaning...
General Update: 12/15/25
Hello again! For the new year, I'm making some big changes to how I work. I'm trying to work a set number of hours each week, work set days, work on stream or on call with others, and post my hours worked every day. In other words, I'm going to treat this like a normal job. Romantic as it is, the life of a creative auteur carried by passion is no good way to get work done and hasn't worked for me so far. If I stick with this, you can expect work on VT to be a lot more consistent....
New Concept Art
EDIT: Added updated art for snake Vessel (Alongside old art.)This week, I have some sketches for you as I try to stave off my inner artist, err the beast gets hungry and makes me stop coding. The first is... well, she's fat. She's a fox- or maybe a corgi, and her outfit is of a retail or fast-food oriented Vessel. Her body is soft and fluffy, her ears are soft and fluffy, her face is soft and fluffy, so her personality will probably be soft and fluffy too. She was designed with no plan w...
Dev Journal: Looking Back on the Third Year of Development
Wow, three years... It's hard to believe it's already been three years since VT's development started. I can't thank you all enough for giving me this opportunity, not to get too sappy over an adult game but it has genuinely been life changing.As usual, I'll be doing a post talking a bit about development and issues I've had over the last year. These posts are usually long and kind of boring, so if that's not your thing, feel free to skip this one!This year has been a...
Character Preview: Harpy Wingmaiden
"Harpy society is heavily divided into classes, and those at the lowest stratum are called Wingmaidens. A species of harpy, not a role, these maids of the sky serve their knights and ladies through wing, talon, and, quite frequently, body. Yes, to the surprise of many that visit the Grand Duchy of Celaeno, the entire species is not only willing, but eager to be eaten. I didn't understand it myself before I saw it with my own eyes. While it's common for monster girls to prey on lesser...
Dev Journal: Back to It
Seems like this year has been all about art, huh? Whoops. That was unintentional. Without realizing it, I guess I've been thinking about myself more and more as an artist and less as a developer as VT has gone on. It actually reached a point a few days ago where I started to think about how nice it would be to have someone else make the game, just so that I could focus on the art. And that's when I finally realized, wait. What the fuck? I don't want to be an artist. I want to be a ga...
Happy Birthday Don!
Today is the birthday of the main artist of VT, TeeradonSs! Thanks for all the years of art, Don, hope your birthday has been amazing!P.S. Work on the new outfit has been slow, but just fast enough I haven't dropped it to code instead. Kind of as expected, I have a lot more trouble drawing for the game than I do drawing normally for various reasons, but there's no better way to solve that than to just keep going and get accustomed to it. In the meantime, you can find the art process for ...
General Update: 11/03/25
Nothing new to report from last week, I am now mostly done with the new outfit and have a few days of work coding left besides. I genuinely have no idea how long I have left on the art, in the past it could have been a couple weeks or more still, but I've gotten much faster since drawing bunny Corn. If you'd like to see a preview of the outfit, there was one posted on the blog channel of the discord with base colors for Halloween. On that note, I'm also trying something new where I h...
Outfit Preview: A Spooky Silhouette...
Legends speak of a ghostly Vessel, a fallen soldier clad all in black, carrying a flaming pumpkin. Don't walk alone at night, for they say this Vessel seeks head, and many a lonely traveler has fallen to her pursuit and reached their finish. Do you dare to brave the halls of the base at night? Or will you cower in your bed, lest the fell spirit capture and drain you of your very essence? This October... the scariest event of the year is if I will finish this art in time for Halloween (I won&...
The Voices Won
Cooler heads did not prevail and, unfortunately, I was forced to make a summer outfit for Dusk against my will. This outfit probably won't appear until it's more seasonably appropriate, so please look forward to hot monster girl summer next year.Aside from this design, I've been working on a real piece of art for the game too, and as long as I don't run out of steam it should show up in the next build. If I do, no big deal, I'll just finish up the build like nothing happened ...
General Update: 10/14/25
Progress on the thing I mentioned a couple weeks ago has been going great! It's actually been a lot easier than I thought and I've been able to clean up other areas of the game connected to it as well. I think I could push something out later this week if I stuck to dev work, but I've also been itching to draw again to the point where I'm a little distracted, so I'm not sure which I'll pursue yet. I'm not really in a rush to deliver a build without new content, so...
Femboy Poll
EDIT: Alright, thank you so much for all the feedback everyone! I think, based on the results so far, I'm going to go ahead with what I had planned, which would be to add a couple of male units in NPC/prey roles, and then possibly add one or two as rare enemies.To explain that a bit more, certain maps may have both male and female elves appearing as friendly guest units. In VT's universe, elves are vegan and will not eat meat, making them the prey of choice for many other monsters. By pr...
General Update: 9/29/25
Not much to report this week, I've been working on the issues I mentioned last time and making decent headway. Honestly it's really exciting to get all these changes done, because they've been sorely needed for a while. Other than that, I'm hoping to start that art challenge I mentioned a while back where I give myself a week or so to draw a character for the game soon. Maybe once this update is out? In any case, thank you so much for your support, and I'll see you all again ...
Public Enemy Number One
The next update, which will primarily be a code update, is almost done, but there's one thing I absolutely need to do before I go any further on development. When I was originally coding the lobby for VT, I made it in about a week, and in that rush I made the absolutely terrible decision to completely separate unit handling in the lobby from the battles. The end result of that is many operations now have to be coded twice, and there are countless extra opportunities for errors and oversights...
Venus Derby Progress Report
As mentioned a few weeks ago, I am now working on a second game alongside the developer of Vorecade, and I've finally had the chance to start working on the random character system. To explain that, each character in Venus Derby will have the same base torso and head, but their default arm and leg pose, chest and thigh size, face, hair, accessories, color palette, species, and race outfit will all be randomized. Since I already have my hands full wrangling art and designs for VT, I wanted to...
Thoughts on Character Design
For today I thought I'd give some scattered thoughts on character design you may or may not find interesting. I've been working on it a lot this year, trying to come up with a good thesis for the perfect method of doing it, but for the most part what I've learned is that character design is a skill, just like any other, which just takes learning and practice.This Character:Above you can see a planned character for VT I made a couple days ago. I've been trying out a new process wh...
Character Preview: Harpy Raptor
"Within the Demon King's realm lies the Grand Duchy of Celaeno, a small nation of harpies feared for its military might. Harpies are not known for their physical strength, but their abilities of flight more than make up for this. None make greater use of those abilities than the Raptors, chief soldiers of the harpy army. These winged warriors have trained their rears to accommodate objects of great size, enabling them to drop from above and consume their foes in one fell swoop. Even if t...
How to Draw Cute Faces
In order to draw a cute anime face, one must first understand how it is connected to the real human face. In other words, one must understand its visual language and the meaning of the strange symbols making it up. This is something that I've had to learn on my own, and I've found that the more I can connect the two the better I get at actually drawing anime faces. To get started, let's trace over the ideal starting point, Cilian Murphy's face.Your typical anime style is an effor...
Presenting: Venus Derby!
Presenting a totally original vore experience, Venus Derby!Kemokko. Girls inheriting the appearance of animals, with appetites that belie their size. They have existed as our companions for millennia, living with us, fighting with us, and devouring us. Each kemokko is a precious blessing from the Goddess, and all humans are prepared to one day give their own body to satiate a kemokko's hunger.Train animal girl athletes!Voresen Sports University, a prestigious school for elite kemokko athlete...
Happy Vore Day!
...Wait, it's still Vore Day, right?
Character Preview: Marionette
"Monsters created through dark magic that tirelessly serve their master until death. So-called 'Marionettes' are normally safe so long as you aren't trespassing on their master's domain, but woe be unto would-be thieves and uninvited guests. Marionettes attack in numbers and use their high physical strength and massive claws to tear through opponents, making fighting them on their home terrain incredibly difficult. If they manage to digest one of your companions, or even one ...
Outfit Spotlight: Chubby Bunny
A costume Cornucopia donned to celebrate your second anniversary together. The original concept would have included wrist cuffs and high-heels, but Cornucopia made her own modifications in her characteristic fashion. Despite its humble appearance, it is constructed from hi-tech materials that allow it to stretch immensely while still tightly hugging the body at any size. Her twintails are a final touch from Sampo, who, when approached for comment, said she definitely didn't style them that w...
