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Build 0.21 Delay

Hey y'all, hope everyone's been doing fine! There's a high chance that this month's $5 patron build will be delayed — at least for several days. It's my finals period and everything's a mad rush right now 🙏

Announcement: New billing method

Hi all, I've changed my billing method to the new one that Patreon has released. Previously, all patrons will be charged the moment they pledge — and then again on the 1st of every month. This means that pledging on the 31st is a terrible idea because you'd just get charged again the next day.With this new billing method, your billing date will be the same date as the one you pledged on. This is how Patreon puts it:BILLING SCHEDULE "Patrons are charged on the day they join your mem...

OIHS September 2022 Progress Update

Build 0.20 Patch NotesCONTENT: Quest with AlexiAUTHOR'S NOTEFans of Alexi rejoice! This month's update is a fat, fat chapter entirely on Alexi. I thought I got carried away with Pyrrhus's prison plotline, but this Quest takes the cake. Ah, but the adventure is too much fun to leave malnourished. Hope y'all enjoy hanging out with the big bear~LINKSHere are the links to access the early-access builds for patrons when they come out: Raw (3 USD) Patrons: https://orangelo.itch.io/oihs...

OIHS August 2022 Progress Update

Build 0.19 Patch NotesCONTENT: Lancaster's experiment (must have helped with Crocodilian) Father Sloane's tour [tentative] Father Sloane's judgment [tentative] Arwan caught red-handedVISUAL ASPECTS: [tentative] Goblin sprite reworkMISC: [ongoing] Reworking Chapters 4-6AUTHOR'S NOTEI will stop jinxing myself and saying I'll be freer next month. It never happens! Yet another short update, but I definitely want to spend some time with the rework, so new content will be less than...

Build 0.18 Delay

Hey all, I've been terribly busy. I hope I can finish 0.18 by the end of July, but the odds are leaning towards a day or two of delay 🙏

OIHS July 2022 Progress Update

Build 0.18 Patch NotesCONTENT: Quest with Olaf and Lagos Talk to the courtesans (after Hoffman's trial) [tentative] A familiar face (at Brothel) [tentative] Client #1 (at Brothel) [tentative] Lancaster's experimentVISUAL ASPECTS: [tentative] Goblin sprite rework [tentative] Raul sprite reworkMISC: [tentative] Reworking Chapters 4-6Author's NoteA shorter chapter this month! Never been this busy in my life, dear lord. Hope y'all enjoy this update nonetheless, and maybe I'll hav...

OIHS June 2022 Progress Update

Build 0.17 Patch NotesCONTENT: Approaching Royal Courts' gate (first visit) Lord Byron and Sylvia's dilemma (only if you peeked on them) Confronting Jacques (only if you threw the match; 3 endings) Exploring the Mages' GuildVISUAL ASPECTS: Nothing! <3 Actually, I don't know. Maybe I'll draw something in the next few days. Do new backgrounds count?MISC: Reworked Chapters 1-3 Added BGM and SFX Changed GUI I'm totally lying about the above 3 points; I haven't done them y...

OIHS May 2022 Progress Update

Build 0.16 Patch NotesCONTENT:Alexi's accident (at Construction after talking to him in locker room)Alexi at the Mages' Guild (after Construction event)Olaf and Lagos arguing (first encounter at Mages')Intro to Questing with Sally (looking at Quest Board at Adventurers')Quest: SwampOlaf and Lagos arguing again (at Adventurers' after meeting them in Mages')VISUAL ASPECTS:Olaf (SFW)Lagos (SFW)Lizardman (SFW)Author's Note:Every creator must eventually experience the pain...

OIHS May 2022 Content Poll

Build 0.15 is up! You can explore it first before voting or just do it now. The poll options with names are things I have actual plans for, and I'll be finishing them all before wrapping up the Task. You can still vote for Coliseum and the Market Square if you want though, and I'll think of something for them if they win the poll.

OIHS April 2022 Progress Update

As y'all might have expected, this month will have a little lesser content than usual! The past few days have been crazy just trying to squeeze an entire month's work into a week (whew), but I actually managed to get out more than I expected :o But now that my semester is over, May will be back on the regular schedule! I might even speed things up a bit now; we've been in this city for way too long now methinks (do tell me if you agree/disagree so I can get a feel for the general sen...

Build 0.15 Delay

Henlo everyone,I'm still in the thick of finishing my finals and haven't been able to divert attention towards working on OIHS. I've only managed to squeeze out a few scenes thus far, and honestly don't foresee myself getting free from school commitments any time soon. So instead of trying to split my attention and unnecessarily stressing myself out, I'm going to focus on my academic quotas and complete them before turning back to OIHS. This is the final hurdle though, so onc...

OIHS April 2022 Content Poll

Yet another poll! I'll add some details about each location so the options are more transparent. I'm also very tired of writing smut every time, so I might cut down on that for April and focus more on progressing the StoryTM.Edit: I see having the Wolf under Cathedral made everyone suddenly interested in religion :smirk: And yes, just to clarify: getting him incarcerated equals smut in Prison, helping him escape gets another route via the Peasants/Cathedral/[spoiler].

OIHS March 2022 Progress Update

A new commissioned character arrives! Lots more for our ram coming, but I'll be pacing his content out so that it develops naturally (as with the other commissioned characters). It was fun taking up the drawing pen again after several months of not having new sprites!This month's a short chapter! I tried a new writing style that involves being a lot more succinct, and I was aggressively cutting out lines that I thought could stand to be removed. Do tell me if that makes the pacing too fa...

OIHS March 2022 Content Poll

The prison is done! I don't think we'll be visiting that area any time soon—and I'm certainly tired of writing for it. I will therefore tyrannically remove it from the poll as an option muahaha.As mentioned in my previous post, the Coliseum won the February vote and I'll be writing it as a backlog for this chapter—in addition to what wins in this poll. Also, a new commissioned character will likely be making his appearance in the Residents' District... or Quarter or Squar...

OIHS February 2022 Progress Update

I am dying! Like, literally, I am about to keel over. Juggling midterms and a visual novel on the side is not for the faint of heart, it seems. Who woulda thought? Usually, by the time the progress update is out, I'd have finished the month's build and begun finalising the nitty-gritty....But I'm still working on the content itself. And it's still the prison stuff. Once again (hmm, I'm noticing a trend here), I managed to grossly underestimate just how long a content block is...

OIHS February 2022 Content Poll

Hope you lot enjoyed the prison content! There's no real need to vote for it this time, since I intend to finish the mining event by this update anyway. But you can still do it if you want... so I guess this is a reminder that you can vote for more than one option :PThe poll will close on 1st Feb when I start writing again.

OIHS January 2022 Progress Update

It's a new year! Well... it's been a new year for a while now—but still. Anyway, school term's started again and I'm now busy drowning in readings and assignments. I'm still managing to divert enough time to OIHS for now, but the prison content is waaay longer than I had anticipated (dungeon electric boogaloo?), so it's unfortunately unfinished.I was originally planning to write a little bit for it every month until I could release the entire prison event in one go... b...

OIHS January 2022 Content Poll

Ahoy! Now that the foundations for each area in Rajt have been established (only took me a while...), we can finally explore them deeper. They'll all get their time to shine, but these polls will now inform me which places to prioritise and write about first.How it works is that I have a few areas I'm intending to expand with every update. Some are planned beforehand, some are arbitrary. Therefore, these polls will help direct where the "arbitrary" ones land on, so the readers wi...

OIHS December 2021 Progress Update

Happy/Merry early Christmas to y'all~ Hope everyone's ready for the holiday celebrations—or not; it's not for everyone and that's fine :-) The December update will be released soon, tentatively on the 25th.Build 0.11 Patch NotesCONTENT: Everyday bout — Competing in the Coliseum Jacques's favour — Competing in the Coliseum Meeting Alexi — Competing in the Coliseum Drunk revelry — second visit to Peasants' Street Drunk revelry revisit — seeing drunkards again at...

OIHS November 2021 Progress Update

Happy Thanksgiving everyone (it's giving thanks~)! Hope you're having a good day. The November update will be released soon (tentatively on the 28th).Build 0.10 Patch NotesCONTENT: Nightly visit #3 — resting at the Hare's Libido after accepting future visits during Nightly visit #2 encounter Barracks tour — SFW Barracks route Fun with City Watch trainees — NSFW Barracks route Talking to prisoners — visiting Jail conventionally (+ Thief, if encountered at Marketplace) Reminisc...

OIHS October 2021 Progress Update - Part II

Henlo everyone! This Part II of October contains the extra surprise I had in store. I've just managed to finish this, so here we are.This month has been super super productive for me. I've just been flooded with energy and non-stop churning out sprites and content. In the afterlight of that, I actually managed to blast past the roadmap I had charted for Build 0.08 and finished even Build 0.09...! I doubt I'd be able to keep this pace up ever again (especially when my finals are start...

OIHS October 2021 Progress Update - Part I

General:- Build 0.08 (Chapter 12) will be released on itch.io soon! You can access it with this link when the time comes: https://orangelo.itch.io/oihs-patreon-version/patreon-access (it'll be announced on our Discord server!)- Also, an upcoming surprise. I'm trying to complete it before the end of the month — and things are looking optimistic. Hopefully, this progress update gets the Part II that I'm intending it to get :3Content:- Several new sprites, both SFW and NSFW versions.-...

OIHS September 2021 Progress Update

General:- Public (0.06) and Patreon (0.07) versions to be released on itch.io soon!... "soon" as in Right Now, actually. I forgot to post this Patreon update beforehand :PContent:- Added one new chapter: Dungeon Cleared! (0.07)- New hobgoblin sprite (clothed and naked versions)

OIHS August 2021 Progress Update

General:- Public (0.05) and Patreon (0.06) versions to be released on itch.io soon!Content:- Added one new chapter: Beasts in the Dark (0.06)- New sprites from @earthpow

OIHS July 2021 Progress Update

General:- Public (0.04) and Patreon (0.05) versions to be released on itch.io soon!- Working with another artist @earthpow for spritesContent:- Added one new chapter: Impromptu Dungeoneering (0.05)- New sprite for Raul- Two new sprites (one by me, one by earthpow)- One sprite for an upcoming character (in 0.06)

Progress Updates will now be Patron Only

Received a warning that anything suggestive of adult nudity must not be on the public Patreon domain, so I'll have no choice but to make my Progress Update posts Patron Only.Especially because the posts often contain images of some rather scantily clad men...If you're at all interested in the progress posts, I copy-paste them on my Discord server, so you can find them there.Just putting this out there! Take care.- orange

OIHS June 2021 Progress Update

General:- Public (0.03) and Patreon (0.04) versions to be released on itch.io soon!- Reworked Arwan and Makon's spritesContent:- Added one new chapter: Long-Term Plans (0.04)- Added two new sprites for Makon- One more sprite done for Arwan — to be revealed in a later updateTentative plan for July:- Next chapter of content- Many more sprites for this new chapter

OIHS May 2021 Progress Update

General:- Public (0.02) and Patreon (0.03) versions to be released on itch.io soon!- Adjusted name colour fonts for some hard-to-read texts. Hopefully it's better now!Content:- Added one new chapter: Kidnapped! (0.03)Tentative plan for June:- Next chapter of content- Reworking some sprites- Perhaps adding nude variants of sprites?

Only I Have Skills (OIHS) launches on itch.io!

After many, many months — it's finally ready.As you must've noticed by now, the game's been transferred over to Renpy, with illustrations and what-not. Still working on music and sound effects, but hey — we've got new content, new characters, and new... action!To my current patrons, here's the link to the current 0.02 Patreon build (and future builds too): https://orangelo.itch.io/oihs-patreon-version/patreon-access You need to link your itch.io account with your Patreon ...

OIHS April 2021 Progress Update

General:-Public (0.01) and Patreon (0.02) versions to be released on itch.io soon!Content:- Added one new chapter: Toberran CitySprites:- Blacksmith sprite- Drunkard sprite- Sepheni sprite- Merchant spriteTentative plan for May:- Next chapter of content- Sprites for relevant characters- Music and sound effects