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You could have just googled 'hard light technology': Hard light technology, a staple of science fiction, refers to manipulating light (photons) to behave like solid matter, creating tangible, load-bearing structures, tools, or weapons, often achieved by giving massless photons mass via complex fields or dense mediums, allowing them to interact with the physical world, much like the advanced Forerunner tech in Halo or the tools in games like Destiny. 

Don't compare your project to others. Things have changed alot with all the censorship pushing on the internet. It's changed the ecosystem alot. It's hard to get found in the first place, let alone hook people in or draw them in enough not to get downloaded and then ending up in their backlog. Alot of things have changed so anyone ending up as an explosive success is just not really going to happen.

Take time for yourself and regain your passion, or just luck out with one of thoes random bursts of inspiration where suddenly you manage to pump out enough work for 2 updates and then it dies as suddenly as it came. (I've ended up having to make use of thoes on a flagship thing i work on just because i got tired of working on the same thing for too long, and realised i could improve it if i pretty much rebuild the entire thing.) If you work with no passion it ends up showing either in the writing or art, since creative endeavors really rely on your current frame of mind.

Sure. If you've got a patreon account, just click the link. Then click Kael Tiger, that's the author of FBtW. Then click join free, it'll either be there or under the three dot button. This will send a notification to you anytime Kael makes a patreon post and tell you if it's for paid members or free for anyone.

After Itch.io did the whole getting rid of NSFW stuff, i went through just joining author's i follow patreons as a free member to keep up to date with things.

It's a good thing i also copy and pasted the post into the actual message under the link then too.

No, the original Far beyond the world isn't dead. The author posted an update message on his patreon thats free for anyone to view.

No the link isn't a scam, you don't download anything like thoes dodgy ones.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/from-beyond-142439098?utm_campaign=patron_engageme...

Disclamer, i guess. These are just my own thoughts. I don't mean any hate and hope it does come accross as constructive criticism. I second guess myself on this as i always feel like i 'sound' like an ass when i type.

To begin with your scope was way off, your 12 options from the start was 3 separate VNs. But then to also make it that you would be writing a complete DnD campaign along with 4 individual routes. It was FAR too much. The general route honestly could have just been the first DnD session. It introduced the characters and their personality, which is all the general route needs to do. You can then choose who you want to persue. It would have been easier for you to then skim over any DnD actions focusing on the MC's relationship with your chosen route. It would cut down on the count and keep things more concise.

Projects can work without focusing on high quality art. Password for instance, Grizz straight up said that doing full coloured CGs would slow down development and did a patreon poll to see if everyone would be fine with just sketches. I don't remember the exact amount but it was around 80% picked sketches, because the writing and story carried the VN.

I think you over estimate your writing. Even in this post: "I went into this with the belief that what was missing in the marketplace was more serious writing. More focus on craft and prose." - Because all these other VNs are so inferior, shallow and of such low quality. They don't care about the 'ART' of writing. Your writing style is... very stilted and sound clinical. Even when the characters have casual conversations it sound pretentious, like a conversation about the weather is a deep philosophical exploration. It's awkward and feels unnatural.

Honestly, 'pretentious' best describes the feeling of your writing.

I enjoyed my time reading the VN, getting passed the off awkwardness, and Gin's overly 'twitter'? like behaviours. I'm not sure what the right word for it is, but just the preachy 'you need consent for everything, always. Want to hold hands? You must ask consent, always.' Like how many times do you walk down the street, or sit in the park people watching and hear anyone who're together stop and formally ask "May i hold your hand?" Like after the first time, you simply do it because you care for each other and it's a way of showing affection. Unless the other person tells you the first time they don't do physical displays of affection or like holding hands.

However even though i enjoyed the VN, i did often find my mind and attention wandering to other things, or just find myself doing other things when i'm supposed reading it. The proplems with the writing just made it unable to hook me or hold my attention for extended periods of time. Usually taking me a few days to get through an update.

Again, i mean no hate in what i have said. I enjoyed the VN and hope you find success in your future projects. I'll still be following and giving what you put out a read.

Devlogs are for path notes style info and communication with people who are following you. Wolfstar sins and paradise do it where they just update the main page then the comments get flooded with "Whats the update?" Because no one has any idea.

Should be after day 10 but before you meet Oz. Unless you mean you've gone start to finish of the VN 4 times, in wich i don't think it shows up again as it doesn't change anything really.

He never does. Whatever you think happened, it wasn't that.

Kael's coming back now. https://www.patreon.com/posts/from-beyond-142439098?utm_campaign=patron_engageme...

Kael's made a post, free to view:- https://www.patreon.com/posts/from-beyond-142439098?utm_campaign=patron_engageme...

Hi everyone!

It’s been a long while, and I owe you an honest update without needless fluff.

The last two years have been among the hardest of our lives. Both of our mothers were diagnosed with cancer, and one of them with very low chances of survival. Although their stories have a somewhat happy ending, much of our time and energy went into traveling back and forth to Poland, taking care of loved ones, and covering mounting medical expenses. It’s been emotionally and financially draining, but family comes first, and we did what we had to do. I wasn’t in a mental state to deal with social media, and I’m sorry I left many in the dark.

In the middle of it all, our landlord found out that we were a gay couple — something he had a problem with — and he issued us a “no-fault” eviction. We fought it in court for the better part of last year, hoping reason would prevail, but we eventually lost and had to move homes while everything else was falling apart. Packing our lives under that kind of stress is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone, and it only further distanced me from everyone and everything.

Amid all that chaos, a little light came into our lives - Bruno, our adopted husky son. He’s been our ray of sunshine, our daily reason to wake up and smile. But even that came with challenges. The kennels mishandled his adoption paperwork, leaving us in a legal maze between vets and registries. He was abandoned at six months of age by wealthy owners who had registered him in one of the tax havens, which complicated everything even further.

I wanted to come back here much sooner. Every few weeks I’d tell myself, this is the moment, but I kept feeling bad about showing up empty-handed. I tried to prepare something meaningful to share, but nothing ever felt “enough,” and before I knew it, weeks had turned into months.

All of this took its toll — emotionally, physically, and creatively. I needed time to process my emotions and rebuild my confidence before returning here, because you all deserve more than a half-hearted update.

Now that things are finally settling down, I’m finding my footing again. Thank you, truly, for your patience, kindness, and the quiet support many of you have shown even in my absence. It means more than you know. With my life quieting down, I not only want but need to return to Far Beyond the World. I must reclaim a sense of control and normalcy in my life, and (fingers crossed), it’s finally starting to settle into a more acceptable pace.

I’ll be sharing updates soon, both personal and creative, and I hope you’ll still be here to see where this journey goes next. Thank you for staying, for caring, and for giving me the space to find my way back to you, dear readers, who ultimately give purpose to my artistic endeavours.

With my deepest gratitude,

~Kael

Glad to hear things are better after your charlie sheen exit. I enjoyed tooth so if you ever felt you wanted to continue it, great. If not, that's fine too. I look forward to seeing future endevors. 

I only just noticed the chaos undivided moon.

There is no free version of these. It's why it's on his patreon. I'm not a member so i don't have them either. Anyone can see the title of his patreon posts though and the last one was the script for chapter 22.

There's no sequel because Pervader isn't done yet. The next part has some tricky writing in it and he was unhappy with it and felt he didn't have the skills to do it justice, so he moved away to focusing on his art and improving his skills. He started something called 'horny gael' which was going to be a sort of nsfw roguelike i think? It's been like years since so i can't remember but anyway i think giga got burned out on it or didn't find it helping his artistic creativity flow and stopped.

Either way don't expect an update within the next year or two.

I don't pay so i can only say, the last pareon post was in january and the script for chapter 22. Make of that what you will.

I think they're really busy with uni stuff. On discord they've posted some stuff about their class coding projects and group projects. Hopefully they get some time to get a build out sooner rather than later if they intend more than one build this year considering the current in progress build was meant to be half done when they made the patreon post.

It looks like Tate's route still happens just with Tate and Aiden instead of with Cody. You find them stealing food in one of the routes and they just make excuses not to talk about it. I don't remember anything about sandwiches in Dallans route. It's been a while since i've gone through them all.

I think if you just pick the things he wants to hear he offers to let you sleep in his room with him or sleep in the guest room.

D-Did you just turn Therium down when he asks you for sex when staying at his dorm? He flat out asks you pretty much.

Fuck, it's been so long since i went through it all. Well Alvy is the new leader of the summoners i think. Which is one reason Therium hates him being snubed as the next leader as well as being replaced as the next fav of whoever Therium and furless cat guy? work for.

You make it sound like axes can't be made without industrial tech. Copper bladed axes where found dating back to 4000BC in egypt, bronze axes at 2200BC in england and ireland, Iron axes at 800BC. An axe is very much primitive tech. Primitive tech is anything that can be made without modern day tools or materials.

A cart wheel is primitive. A car wheel is not.

Primitive tech actually has a definition. It's not just a nebulous idea. 

Car wheels require modern day manufacturing. Steel production needed for it was only about the 1800s.

No it was last updated april 11th.

H-Have you actually played this? What wolf? Do you mean Loken the husky? 

It's explained later on WHY the MC understand their language. 

The MC has no memories but does have his subconsious memories. Amnesia USUALLY effects explicit memory (conscious recall of events and facts), but not always implicit memory (unconscious knowledge and skills). This is the most common form of how amnesia effects the mind.

People travel to and from the area where they live, they aren't completely blind to oceans existing. 

Saying axes and shields as primitive technology is true considering the MC know about AI and an age of technology.

Also, please use paragraphs or just breaks. You're massive wall of text is difficult and painful to read through.

Its scam bots it was happening for i think over a month before all the censorship issues.

It also renders the whole youtubekids thing pointless.

And now youtube is asking for id in USA. It's all down hill from here boys.

try proton vpn, it's free and while there are sumbscirption options the free version is enough to do what we need.

Could be get a downloadable version incase Itch.io nukes the game?

Paths:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-topic-of-42690779

I got Proton just incase. The free version is enough to get past it. It uses something called K-ID to verify things. It's pretty much just an AI that scans the image shown and instantly says yes or no, no data is stored. But it can also be fooled by images off google and shit since its AI. I find it more interesting that other countries want to do it too, like america.

Trying to enter any NSFW servers on discord require ID, but nothing is stored after verification. The camera shit is buggy as fuck, with fucked up zoom needing your browser at -50% just to show instructions and no way to actually start the scan or picture. So yay. Good thing i never use discord for that stuff, just for VN updates.

I can say that as someone in england seemingly not much has changed. Discord and patreon are still fully accessable. Itch has it so if you aren't logged in it asks for a date of birth but nothing stopping anyone from faking it. Funny enough the only thing thats blocked is the 'View all by ______' on itch that is region locked. I don't know why a menu is region locked but, Ehh.

If you're logged in its on the right of the screen under the add to collections button.

For some reason the join for free button on your patreon doesn't work for me. I'm able to join others, just not yours. Anyone else having this issue?

Last patreon post said Lys was having trouble finding an artist, and interestingly mentioned his name Lysdesign comes from the ukrainian word for fox Lys. 

I'm thinking the dev is ukrainian, and with the Ukrainian russian war... I hope nothing bad has happened, but if Lys is still in Ukraine getting work done on a FVN would be difficult.

No you just need to be logged in have 18+ enabled and just use the 'furry' tag in the browse menu. Add more tags like 'gay' if you want to narrow it down. The shadowban has only just happened. Honestly i don't get why Itch didn't just ban the ability for NSFW projects to get donations and money rather than a shadowban, but oh well, what's done is done.

It's not just capitals, it's a word that is given more emphasise, more attention given to it. I think the first bad end password is always in the letter dave gets, but it's been a while since i've seen the bad end since i made a list of all the passwords when i first found them.

Password is in the bad ending. You need to use them at the vault the day before they die, if you use it earlier it will just say it cant ressonate yet. After ressonating just keep playing and Dave will use what the vault shows him.