Hey everyone! You may (or may not) have noticed we’ve decided to pause our Patreon pledges for the time being. The issues we’ve been having with the hardware have taken progress from slowly moving on to hardly getting anything done, and so, after some back and forth, we both agreed it’d be for the best not to charge our patrons for the time being.
This does not mean we are stopping ...
2023-10-31 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Before we get started, Gizmo is off this week, busy with moving stuff but would like to thank you all for your unexpectedly thorough knowledge on dealing with roaches and would like you to know the situation is under control now.
Going back to SOP, I've encountered some setbacks with my GPU, resulting in black renders (and DAZ isn't the only program I'm hav...
2023-10-03 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Before we get started, if you just happened to have joined our Discord server in the past few weeks… We’re sorry, okay? That must have been confusing to you. And, like, to everyone else in there.
But not really that sorry.
We’ve got a bunch of stuff to share with y’all and that was ...
2023-09-19 16:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello there, long time no see!
Summer has been a bit of a fever dream, both metaphorically and literally. Our individual struggles during this period have seriously deteriorated our pace,...
2023-08-27 12:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
MC’s backstory? Amy’s curves? Becca’s hair?! We’ve been teasing at this dev log for long enough and I’m currently going through a fever-induced writing frenzy so sit tight, ‘cause it’s gonna be a long one.
First of all, let’s get some things out of the way:
Did you know you can now add Strangers on Paper to your Steam Wishlist? Go!
It’s been a running joke between Grogu and I that we usually take turns in terms of wellbeing: I’ll get sick and step back from GGS for a bit while Grogu works some of his visual magic, and b...
2023-07-20 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s actual announcement time! Woo!
We are very excited to let you all know Chapter 2 of Strangers in Paper will be available this coming September. And I’ll take this chance to remind you this will be the second of three (or maybe four) chapters. The story was always planned to last that long, there’s just some minor setbacks that may stretch it just a little bit (...
2023-07-09 18:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Disclaimer
Before we get started, I want to clarify that I'm not an expert with DAZ by no means, and to this day, I still hate it, but it's clearly mutual. Also, my current work revolves around cinematography, so some of the points I'm going to mention are things in which I alrea...
2023-07-08 15:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
A little more of Becca here to remind you SOP is on Steam now and all additions to wishlists are very much welcome! We know you guys are already familiar with blue-haired Becca, which is why we have included that version of her here, but there's just something about Chapter 2's blonde Becca......
2023-07-05 17:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We are VERY happy to announce Strangers on Paper will be released on Steam! If you are familiar with the platform, you may know wishlists are quite important to new games, so we'd really appreciate it if you were to add SOP to yours, and then ask your mom, your dog, and neighbors to do so too.
Hi, everyone!
We hope you’ve been doing well! We’d like to let you all know of things that are coming your way these upcoming weeks. We’ve been preparing some content we can’t wait to share with you, such as:
This week it’ll be a month since the first early release of Strangers On Paper and, wow. We’ve gone from slowly figuring things out, to devoting every free minute of our days to it, to creating free minutes in our days, to thinking of nothing but it, to getting it out there, to being overwhelmed by everyone’s lovely response, to… going back to slowly figuring things ou...
2023-06-15 16:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So... When we set up the Childhood Crush tier almost two weeks ago, we did not expect you folks to jump on it the way you did. Therefore, we figured we might as well add something more intermediate for those of you who want to be more than Friends but are not quite the...
2023-06-05 14:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Upon releasing Chapter 1 of Strangers on Paper, we have collected some questions we’ve seen pop up in different places and thought we could answer them all in one post for your convenience.
To say these have been some busy weeks would be quite the understatement. I don’t even know how to write a dev log anymore. I mean, right now we should be taking a break. We said we would do so after the release. Wait two or three days and take at least a week or something off.
So why did I just spend the whole day writing and why is Grogu already working on the new scenes?
I thin...
2023-05-24 17:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We have now added a very special reward for those who want to go the extra mile.
This is something we've been wanting to do for a while since we're big suckers for tangible goods, so here it goes.
By pledging as a "Childhood Crush", you will get all rewards from the other t...
2023-05-23 17:35:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is everyone! Strangers On Paper Chapter 1: Crisistunity is finally out.
Summary:
What better place to find a muse than among strangers in a bar? What begins as a quest for inspiration may end up helping you and others escape solitude, whether it's for one night, or for the rest of your lives.
Strangers On Paper is a story-driven visual novel where your c...
These past few days have been so exciting and exhausting and we're so happy to share this with you. Thank you always for your love and support.
2023-05-13 12:45:24 +0000 UTC View Post
About a month ago I had this idea that, whenever we felt the game was "done" we should interview each other about the process of it. And... I guess that day is here. We may have snuck in a little announcement in it.
Gizmo: HEY. Wanna do the interview thing we talked ab...
2023-05-12 13:48:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This is our last log in April, which means next month SOP comes out which means... wait, what?!
Since the last few logs have been pretty text-heavy, we figured this one could be just render-heavy to give your eyes some well-deserved rest. As we reach the finish line, we're trying our b...
2023-04-27 16:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostI often joke about having “too many hobbies”. There’s a lot of things I enjoy doing, yet there’s not enough time in the world to dedicate myself to just one. Yet, if I had to choose, it would ultimately be writing. The kind of exhilarating feelings I get when I read or write are something else. Writing has been my companion, my therapist, my best friend, my worst enemy...
2023-04-14 15:36:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Grogu: Many times in our no-meetings we have talked about how we’d like SOP to be perceived, and we both agree that we feel like some indie movie directors entering a movie festival for the first time (?)
I remember when we talked about the first few scenes, or...
2023-04-07 16:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostGizmo: Every time I write a scene, I have an idea in my mind of what it would look like. Sometimes it’s a bit like remembering a dream - I sort of understand the surroundings the characters are in, though the color of the sky may keep changing and there’s some gaps here and there. Other times, I have very specific shots in mind, I could tell you exactly how many feet each c...
2023-03-28 15:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, hope you're having a fantastic weekend. A few bumps have interrupted our production in the last few weeks, some of them were welcome, some were heartbreaking, but nonetheless we're pretty much where we were expecting to be by now. My own "interruptions" have mostly resulted in "you will be editing chapters on a bus at 3am instead of in the comfort of your home" or "you wil...
2023-03-18 16:19:03 +0000 UTC View PostYou know when you’re playing “A Plague Tale” and you just think to yourself, “Hey, let’s ditch everything and just create a post apocalyptic game”?
Don’t worry, it’s just an intrusive thought, it’ll go away soon along with “and that really nice thing your friend said, he was just being kind”.
So this week we did something we’d been sort of p...
2023-02-17 20:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne of our earliest discussions about how we would promote the visual novel was regarding the subject of tags. Ah, how I loathe that word. It made me cringe every time we brought up the subject. Sure, tags are important, but have you considered the different styles of cursors we could be using? Or changing the font from regular to bold? Now those are matters of uttermost urgen...
2023-02-11 01:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we thought we could treat you all with a little preview video of the menu... and then got a little carried away :)
We're still working on polishing some details but HELL is it rewarding to see it all come together like this. Bare in mind this is not the final version!
We hope you ...
2023-01-29 02:47:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we got to test an updated version of the scenes that introduce the characters in Chapter 1.
And wow.
One of my favorite parts of this whole process is the moment I get to see the renders. For the most part of my life, I'd always dreamed of writing books. It was only in recent yea...
2023-01-20 16:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been a rocky start of the year, to say the least. Health setbacks aside, we are finally back on track and have been hard at work on SOT.
It’s crazy to think we initially thought this would be a simple, short project. I guess it still is - more than anything else we’d come up with initi...
2023-01-15 15:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostCreatively speaking, this year has been amazing. There is so much we have learned and can't wait to share with the world. It's been a bumpy road for sure, but anything that's worth working on will pose a few challenges.
I think some of the main takeways from these past few months would be:
