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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Giga should have also posted this here i think just to let all the Itch people know but here, its free on patreon from december 2024: https://www.patreon.com/posts/gigasaddles-117616342
Hey everyone, it’s been a while.
As another year approaches its final hour, I’m taking the opportunity again to reflect on my creative journey and make changes where they need to happen. Let's do it.
Short summary if you don't care to read the entire thing:
It’s been almost two years since the last update. Since then, every once in a while, I hunker down with my writing and attempt to get the ball rolling, but it just hasn’t worked out yet, I’m sorry to say. A couple of months ago I did manage to get some writing done, which made me feel pretty optimistic about getting an update out soon, but things haven’t evolved from there.
It might just be that this next update in particular is more challenging than any of the previous ones. There’s some significant action and confrontation going on, which is very tough to execute correctly, all while having the evolving relationship dynamics between the main characters brewing in the background, which is also a struggle.
At the same time, I’m coming to terms with the reality that doing Pervader is really just a lot of work, more than feasible for me to keep up at a high quality, at my skill level. I have a lot of creative energy I want to spend, but Pervader hasn’t been the efficient means I thought it would be.
So, I’m not going to obsess over getting Pervader back on schedule. I’ll continue to work on other things, mainly art. When the time comes, maybe once I’ve leveled up my writing and art process, I’ll come back to Pervader and finish it.
Until then…
I feel pretty good about my creative output over the past couple of years. I feel very motivated to experiment and try different things during illustrations. Every piece is a learning opportunity. That’s also partly what thrust me to start working on Pervader, as a vehicle for my creative development.
I want to keep that momentum going, but I also want to make some adjustments.
Whenever I do commissions, I feel pressured to do my absolute best, pushing everything to look as good as possible. While this produces quality outcomes, it exclusively produces illustrations. I feel like I never sit down and sketch, do a study, or do quick paintings anymore, which isn’t something you should be skipping as an artist.
There’s a lot of room for me to make that kind of content rather than just an illustration once or twice a month. Really, I just want a good balance to my output, but the pressure I put on myself when doing commissions is heavily leaning in one direction.
I mentioned it in a previous post, but reworking my Patreon content has been on my to-do list for a while now, so I’m finally committing to it. I’m shifting away from Pervader as a main focus and settling on general artwork content.
Within the next couple of weeks I’ll be redesigning the page, wiping all subscriptions and reworking the tiers, while also switching to a monthly subscription model. If you wish to continue supporting me, you will have to pick a tier again to join.
There is an option for me to migrate everyone to the subscription model, which does give you at least a month’s time to confirm whether you want to stay onboard, but I ultimately decided it’s best to start from a clean slate. It’s a big enough move that warrants a fresh start, and I know only around 25% of you were interested in art content anyway.
Pervader updates will continue to be part of my Patreon content, including giving early access to supporters, but it’s going to take a backseat to other stuff I want to work on.
I’ve never been too keen on the idea of having full exclusive illustrations locked behind a paywall, so I don’t plan on doing that to start, though I might change my mind on it. For the foreseeable future, any full illustrations that I do will be posted publicly for everyone for free, though I might post stuff to Patreon earlier.
As far as exclusive content though, I would like to share things such as sketches, unfinished artwork, works in progress, teasers, higher resolution versions of my illustrations, alternate versions, maybe art tips or quick rundowns about my art process, things of that nature if people are interested.
Also, as has been the case previously, I’ll be doing polls allowing supporters to vote on what they’d like me to draw.
By the way, I haven’t forgotten about those Alen and Jymsar pics you guys voted on in the last polls, so that’s still on the to-do list!
I’m open to suggestions about what other supporter perks or content you guys would like, so leave a comment if you have any ideas.
Although I haven’t used Patreon for a long time now, I want to thank everyone again for their generous support over the years. You’ve all shown that Pervader is a cool story worth caring about and you want to see it through, and that means the world to me.
I know most of you don’t care too much about my non-Pervader work and won’t care to subscribe, but I want to thank you for supporting me thus far regardless. While updates have slowed to a glacial pace, I’m never giving up on Pervader.
You’ve stood behind me for the entire first half of the story. That much investment cannot fizzle out into nothing. I am committed to see it through till the end, whether it comes sooner or later.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments, and feel free to ask any questions if there’s anything I can clear up for you.
All that’s left to say is I hope you all have a wonderful end of the year full of holiday cheer! 2025 is shaping up to be a challenging period for a lot of people, so stay strong, be good, and believe in better days ahead.
Cheers!
Might i suggest if its supposed to span 3 ingame years to split it in to 3 parts. That way you could focus on doing year 1 then take a break or do a mini project in between before returning to do year 2. It should help stop from burn out too. It could also help make the story clearer for you to write, having an over arching plot over the whole 3 years but each year itw own contained plot that builds up on top of each other.
