Progress 10.04.2026

Hello all!

Annoyingly, rendering is going slowly, but I should be able to finish it tonight. Set building has eaten a lot of time since about every scene requires a new set. And that can be anything from ten minutes to four hours. That and some of the textures... yeah. Not happy with them, that’s why I don’t usually use the render queue. Not sure why, but ground textures usually aren’t that great on a lot of environments. Most of the time, the building and other textures are great and detailed. Ground? Nah, it’s solid, works well enough... Right.

Writing, on the other hand, I’m happy with. Silver linings and all that.

No preview as anything I’ve worked on since Monday would be heavy spoilers. So something else, man and his familiar, again. Truthfully, I did this to test the environment. It was something I picked up to discount something else I needed. I’m mostly happy. Same thing as in a lot of environments, the ground texture leaves something to be desired. That could have been remedied with foliage. There is some grass on the hills/cliffs, but not where it would matter. But that is something I can fix in various ways; if nothing else, I’ll add a fog. And Yes I do have an idea for it...

And then the second one, and even more water. Same thing, testing the environment again. Water from the original didn’t work, but I wasn’t expecting much considering who made the environment to begin with, but the replacement I use is nice. The cave itself works, but again the ground. Luckily, I have decent sand shaders I can use. Assuming the mesh is alright. Anyway, lots of water this time. I’ll take a break and hopefully finish the rendering so I can just code tomorrow. You all have a great weekend!

Progress 04.06.2026

Hello all!

Well then, yet another progress post! Hooray! How are things?

Rendering? It’s in... okay state. I have to do some double renders for this part and next, basically doing two scenes at the same time so it is a sort of slow but steady. I have about twoish scenes left to render. The trick? They are about half of the script. Ah, well, it will be done.

Writing? It’s going, not okay, but not that bad either. Lot to do, but if I can pull some time to write, it will be alright for the most part. Yeah, with the set building ahead? Well, always can dream, can’t I?

And then... I ended up liking this render. Although now I noticed that for some reason the normal map isn’t working. Read that as "skin details". Slightly annoying, but not the end of the world. But then again, probably shouldn’t notice much of those at this distance, anyway.

And second related to the first one. Not really a spoiler. Trouble ahead? Well, that’s a given, considering the stories I do trouble sooner or later pop up.One of the things that annoy me when working with Daz is lack of practical clothing for females. There is a couple police uniforms, but there is no real "tactical" outfits. Need to kitbash things, and then it is just praying things work together. Anyway, short break for me, then finishing this scene up and hopefully writing.

Progress 03.04.2026

Hello all!

It’s been... interesting week. I’m not anywhere near I want to be, but that is unfortunately to be expected. There has been a lot of set building during this update. Annoying, but nothing out of the ordinary. Also, there are several renders that might seem to have color distortion. This is intentional, the effect used them is intentionally "eating" light. So it isn’t an error.

Writing... It’s in update 0.11.0. Yeah... not happy at all with it, but it is what it is. Too many ideas floating in my head isn’t a good thing when you need to build sets and you want to write. Anyway...

Friendships. Lan and Susan have become friends over the years, so there is occasionally some friendly "banter" between the two. And those of you who are on Miyuki’s and Susan’s path already know the exchange between those two.

 

Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. If not? Have a niceish render about... some random thought that popped into my head. Hmm need to find a better firebreath effect for the dragon for future.

And something I do extremely rarely, mostly because I'm not that great at promoting things. Even my own stuff.

Anyway time for some shameless shilling...

Droid Productions (https://www.patreon.com/cw/droidproductions) is launching their latest game, Wings of Empire, on Steam. I know a lot of you liked Love of Magic and Morningstar, so if you like space operas, check it out ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3203710/Wings_of_Empire/ )

And if you managed to read this far. Have a great weekend you all!

Progress 30.03.2026 and Changelog for Sorcerer 2 0.6.0

Hello all!

Well, it was too tall an order to expect things to go smoothly, but that being said... it is release day. So what’s up?

Started rendering 0.7.0, shock there, I know. I won’t get that much done because of the whole do the builds thing today. Which went too smoothly, and I fully expect something to blow up. But overall, the usual start of a new update as renders go.

Writing? Yeah... Did I mention that I had to re-render four of the animations? No? Well, now I did, thus it ate time from writing, so a bit behind. But depending on how sleepy I feel tonight, I might catch up with it, mostly. Eh, not too concerned about it.

And then... plot twists? Well, not really. Not everything is as it seems, though. I have a couple of regrets in this update (0.7.0). Everything is as it should be, just I’m not entirely happy how they went. Not enough choices to give. There was one obvious place in the update, but I wrote it a bit, and it would have led to a dead end. I try to keep as close as possible to the lore I’ve established. I’ve bent it in places, but never really broken it. That path would have ended up breaking the lore substantially. It was good writing in my opinion, just not the right game for it. Anyway...

Changelog:

Sorcerer 0.6.0

• 521 renders

• The next part of the story

• 1 hidden image

Grammar, spelling, bug, feature, and other fixes (Thanks to Adry, Shaddy, BryonSmothers3DX, Bread, Horny Toad, oaiki, Digitalzig, Elhemeer)

Note: Codex hasn’t updated with the couple minor characters in this build, the re-rendering the animations took too much time to make the required renders for them. It will be updated soonish.

Release scehdule:

• $15 Tier: As soon as I get the post up

• $10 Tier 1st of April

• $5 Tier: 2nd of April

• $3 Tier: 3rd of April

• Public: 13th of April

SHA256:

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Sorcerer2-0.6.0-mac-C.zip

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Sorcerer2-0.6.0-pc-C.zip

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Sorcerer2-0.6.0-pc.zip

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Sorcerer2-0.6.0-Update-C.zip

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Sorcerer2-0.6.0-Update.zip

Public Release: Sorcerer 2 0.5.1

 

Tested and played through it a few times, and all the saves worked. But that doesn't mean things didn't slip by. So, as always, if there are any issues, please report them on Discord if possible. That way, I notice them quicker.

Sorcerer 2 0.5.1

Full:

PC:
https://mega.nz/file/qqBHSQyR#Jvfk5nl7wfw0xuOQIkomlhT_vgNIB1fCBD1-wATExX8
https://pixeldrain.com/u/pBfinmuq
https://gofile.io/d/aahP6T

Mac:
https://mega.nz/file/2v4RGQhL#cOaHInEgUVXdeQmDnSPltlL1bkNX-8yvPjfxZJEiK00
https://pixeldrain.com/u/9ex8RGvB
https://gofile.io/d/IQ3A6x

Update only:
https://mega.nz/file/frw3QLKC#YaHTQAiZXh19hFIKGmoMO5bF4qUd1CW4XuRLXGBAUPc
https://pixeldrain.com/u/4FeQ9gKo
https://gofile.io/d/v906v9

Android:
https://mega.nz/file/2nRSGIhQ#3mPCh5oPU0tc9CJKbco6XwFvM2E30XBGHXtpjqYfG5Q
https://pixeldrain.com/u/y7xxwjXY
https://gofile.io/d/yJZQOl

Compressed:

PC:
https://mega.nz/file/DqxHEIYD#TzRTuuzUe6JNFj-YALQXuT8ddewoxh3gby1yMGid1eU
https://pixeldrain.com/u/7JVw4Rwd
https://gofile.io/d/M3TJBY

Mac:
https://mega.nz/file/DjZjwDqZ#bFGeJlAIsCTHJHnPgHFtKvORNnH4fCLjKzABguI3x7s
https://pixeldrain.com/u/pRaCviZE
https://gofile.io/d/8QMVwj

Update Only:
https://mega.nz/file/zqolQb5L#95w_xezNqt38eMohPjsLU4BFoqVNr8cAOsJpsYa2KV4
https://pixeldrain.com/u/ytykfPpZ
https://gofile.io/d/r0FpZV 

Progress 27.03.2026

Hello all!

Yeah... final scene to render. Well, about five renders, really. It has been... a lot. I’m at 565 renders, minus fixes and a few extras. And then need to do a couple of portrait renders. Ehh... And on top of everything, I needed to add a scene to update 6 so things make sense in 7... whee... But that being said, rendering is done tonight. Hopefully. I get to do most, if not all, of the post work tonight as well. So tomorrow there will be only coding things. I might need to rethink the release schedule a bit since there is a lot of work, as everything requires new sets to be made at this stage. That and we are heading towards summer, so things might get a bit hairy especially now that I’m trying to do animations of some sort. Annoying.

Anyway, writing? Writing is... where it is supposed to be, although I’m slightly skeptical about my ability to finish it when I want. But I’ll try...

And this is the extra scene. It’s Detective Randall’s initiation (part 1) to secrets. It shouldn’t be a too big of a spoiler that it happens sooner or later. There are a lot of these... let’s call them world-building scenes. Especially if we pair them with the hidden renders. This is something "new" that I’m trying to do with Sorcerer 2, giving more glimpses of what else is going on... as long as they make a sort of sense. This scene, I could have skipped, but it helps to know things in update 7 so it makes sense. Eh, enough rambling, short break and finishing up the renders. You all have a great weekend!

Progress 23.03.2026

Hello all!

How is it going? Decently on my end. One scene that I expected to take longer took longer. But it was worth doing the scene; now I know what to expect in the future. So all is good, fourish scenes to render. Four and a half, maybe. Rendering times aren’t ideal for the scenes, but it is what it is; reflections tends to be annoying.

Writing? It is in a good place overall, still not in the rhythm I would want, but getting there.

 

Mystery person, or maybe not, all things considered. This is a scene that can be missed. So if you don’t see her, well, you might want to think about your choices. Well, a choice. It isn’t anything crucial as is. Nothing important haven’t been lost... yet. Right, time for a quick break and then finish up the scene I’m doing.