Now Hiring! Mid-December Project Update!

Welcome to the mid-December 1.5 update devlog!

First off I wanted to thank everyone for their support! We have continued to sell copies of the game throughout the month and from the bottom of my heart I wanted to thank everyone for there support!

Originally when I started Tyler and Ryan, I had a different idea for the main purpose of the game. I figured consumers would want sex before story. How I came to that conclusion was simply looking at "What's popular" on itch.io. It wasn't until I played a few other gay visual novels, that I realized I didn't want that for Tyler & Ryan. The scope for the game has expanded to include more romance and character interaction between Tyler and Ryan. To accomidate that, I've decided to throw some more cash behind the game. Like legit money. 

While I do have patreon page available(Blackenmace Studios is creating Tyler and Ryan | Patreon), but there really isn't a good reason for people to subscribe yet. You can help us out by donating to our project, but we don't have any member perks yet, so I wanted to show how are ramping up staff and taking a slightly different direction with Tyler and Ryan.

We have a fantastic writer on staff, and he is working hard on flushing out the new flow for the first part of Tyler and Ryan. Without sharing any spoilers, basically the core beats of the story have to remain intact. The cliff hanger ending, core parts about Tyler, etc will remain intact. However dialogue is going to be updated, character development is going to be a lot more flushed out, and while we will have sex scenes, the relationship between Tyler and Ryan will start off more as a hook up and can evolve into something more depending on the choices you make through out the story(I mean beyond the cliff hanger ending).

We have a new staffing requirement! We are looking to hire a UI artist. 

This also comes with another announcement. We are switching from chapters to days to break up the different content in the game. How that is going to work, we will go into at a later date, but we are looking to hire a UI artist to come in and help us design and create art for the new visual elements in Tyler and Ryan. We are looking for artists of all skill levels, and we have the cash to pay for a legit artist, so please send your resume to jmarshall@blackenmace.com!

(This is a pre-release, in development, screenshot, and again dialogue is going to change heavily, since we have a professional writer on the team! This image is to show what kind of UI work we are looking for! )

We have a new staffing requirement! We are looking to hire a character concept artist!

Another major announcement to the Tyler and Ryan project, we are looking to hire a character concept artist for new romantic characters that you can pursue instead of Ryan during the next section of the game. What that looks like is still being worked on, and what's great about our story that we have flushed for the next section, it's going to work great. 

This means that the portion of the game that is released currently, is basically the intro to the game and then the meat of the story starts about 20% into the next unreleased section of the game.

The characters themselves in terms of story have been flushed out and we are looking for a character concept artist to come in and help us flush out the visual look for the new romantic character paths! 

If your interested please send your resume to jmarshall@blackenmace.com!

We have a new staffing requirement! We are looking to hire a musician!

Music is the core part of the visual novel experience. It really sets the mood for the scene and allows you to feel as if your inside the environment. We currently have a contract musician we are working with, but there is enough work that having a second musician we can use really makes a lot of sense, so please if your interested please contract us at jmarshall@blackenmace.com!

Release timelines:

This means we will probably push back the release dates for the 1.5 patch and next round of content while we ramp up the team for the project! By expanding the scope of the project and being able to have more money to throw behind the project to get more talent on the team, means we can deliver a quality story and experience for our community!

I thank everyone for buying the game for $2.99, every little bit goes back into the project. The goal is I want people to feel for the characters in our story. I don't people just to come for the sex, I want people to stay for the story as well. 

Stay tuned!