#blink_if

Hi all!

Guess what? I lied, have the update now!

The update includes the first part of chapter 2.

Link below:

Update Link

The demo includes the below:

Cy.

Get held. (Down)

Meet new people.

Learn about drugs.

Sign your soul away.

As always, if there is any issue, feel free to drop them here or onto the Google form linked at the end of the game.

Hi All,

Update time!

The update includes the final scenes for chapter 1; it ended up not being a very choice-heavy update and on the shorter side, but the first part of chapter 2 should make up for that.

Unfortunately saves won't work. I thought I was being smart making all the variables temp for the last update without thinking about the fact that they are actually needed for the rest of the story, so I had to update the files to make them actual variables. Sorry about that!

Link below:

Update Link

The demo includes the below:

A reunion.

See how messed up you got.

POV's (Honestly maybe to many.)

Dreams.

As always, if there is any issue, feel free to drop them here or onto the Google form linked at the end of the game.

I feel like I have answered this before, but I looked through the tags and couldn't find anything, so I'm going to blame the Tumblr UI because the layout of posts destroys my soul. Also bonus professor answear, not because they are going to be an RO or anything but just because I find it funny.

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Echo -

Echo eye's focused as she entered the kitchen, the blurrilness that clung to them seeming to evoparate as her eye's were drawn to you, framed perfectly by the brightness of the kitchen like a renaissance painting.

Her eyes grew wider, like she was gazing upon the forbidden, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't rip her sight away from you. Even in your half-slept form, you were flawless. Flawless enough to steal her breath and have her feet shuffling without thought, wandering to you like a siren song.

Hands lacing around you and embracing you with all the warmth she could muster, blanketing you in her like you were something precious, because you were. You were the most beautifully precious person she had ever had the pleasure of meeting, and she would make sure you knew with each feather-light peck to your neck, comforting squeeze of her arms, and muttered praise until you giggled. She would make sure you knew.

Cy -

Unfazed, Cy wanders into the kitchen, body and mind equally sluggish after what felt like having awoken from a slumber twice as long as what they had in reality.

Drawn to the scent of brewing coffee that has become their saving grace since leaving that place, keeping them from slipping into nightmares that open wounds that time has never been able to heal.

Regrets that latch onto the mind with teeth sharp enough to cause them to lash out, but those regrets and nightmares haunt them less and less when they have you next to them.

Like you are now, bathed in morning light, pictured like you were crafted by an artisan with a vision from god themselves. Perfect. Seeing you wipes any regrets and lingering doubt and pushes them forwards.

Wrapping arms gently around your waist as they lean their chin on your head, breathing you in like they are trying to replace the oxygen in their lungs. It's a reality that eclipses even dreams, radiant enough to subdue the shadows that dwell in their thoughts.

A -

A lazy saunter into the kitchen, back arching as they stretch, the thin tank top cladding their form riding up. A deep sigh falls from their lips as they push away the remnants of sleep that cling to their muscles.

The breath they released enters their lungs again as they see you, still with sleep clung to you but more than enough for them to have to breathe deep to stop their breath being stolen away.

Going about such a mundane action, but it's more than enough to have their heart leap at an attempt to leave their ribcage. The thought of swooping in behind you and wrapping you in their arms pops into mind, but they relent instead.

Leaning back against the wall and watching you work, moving around the space with effortless grace like you own the small confines, with a smile pulling at their lips. Tracing the curves and angles that your body follows.

Salem -

Salem wanders into the kitchen, old wounds aching and pulling as her muscles awaken from the deep rest of the night previous.

The aches and pains seem to lessen every so slightly at the glimpse of you, their breath retreating and eyes widening. It's stupid; she knows it's stupid to be reacting like a schoolgirl with their first crush at her age.

But what her mind has already come to a conclusion on, her body seems to reject. Her heart is still racing and eyes are unable to focus anywhere else but on you.

She finally lets go of the breath that she was subconsciously holding, allowing herself to drift closer. Maybe it wasn't the worst thing to be so infatuated with you to allow herself a moment of unrestraint. God knows it has been far too long since she last allowed herself to feel this way towards anyone.

So she drifts and drifts before she's next to you, a smile small but genuine gracing her lips. Just for you, in this moment.

Harper -

Harper stumbles into the kitchen, mind still clouded by the grogginess of restful sleep that clings to them. Occasionally blowing their sleep-tousled hair from their face, their eyes are graced by you.

Like them, equally dishevelled by a fitful rest but so much more coherently ethereal, they have to remind themself to breathe, frozen with adoring eyes only for you.

As their mind wonders how they managed to find someone so uncomprisingly amazing to share their life with? Familiar claws of uncertainty rear their head as their insincerities fight to be at the forefront of their minds.

But being here in your presence, even those aged, mocking reflections don't sting the same as they once did. Once they have fully bathed themselves in your grace, they move to be with you because they can. They can stand by your side, equal in your shared love.

Professor -

The professor enters the kitchen drawn to the allure of their morning cup of Assam tea, but the sight that greets them stops them in their tracks.

You, in the kitchen, in nothing but your underwear. They feel a tinge of frustration rise in them, but they smother it. Maybe you don't know any better. It's clear that you haven't had the most normal upbringing, even if you haven't told them. But they have told you multiple times about how unhygienic it is, multiple times. Nearly every morning.

Their feet move automatically, making their way to a drawer that holds shirts and pants that they started to store when this happened the first time. Your reasonings are already racing in their minds as they form their counterpoints.

You will not be naked or naked-adjacent in their kitchen.

RO's raging as they plainly state they want to be with the MC and MC is like "You want to be with me when we go Taco Bell? 👁️👄👁️"

Hi Guys,

I'm in the middle of doing some writing and planning for the first selectable RO's scenes in chapter 2 and wanted to put out some feelers.

So far in the game the flirt options have been labelled as 'bold', 'shy' and 'oblivious'. The original idea for this is that each RO would have the bold and shy flirt options and then a special flirt option just for them, which is what the oblivious flirt option with Echo was.

Just as an example for Cy, it was going to be a tense/passive-aggressive flirt option. But it seems that quite a lot of people like the oblivious option, so I was just wondering if you guys would prefer that to be an option for every RO and there to be 4 flirt options instead?

If the answer is yes, then I will probably look at implementing a unique option for Echo that isn't oblivious and update chapter 1 at some point in the future.

Hello!

So as I put in the post yesterday, I wanted to kind of explain more about where I have been and why I ended up not posting the update when it was near completion.

In terms of where I have been and why I have been silent on both answering questions and posting updates in general, at the start of the year I had some pretty bad medical news about a family member. At that point I was obviously troubled but kept trying to write, a couple of weeks later that family member passed away.

I was writing throughout the whole period and working on Chapter 2 and even parts of Chapter 3, but once I got the news they passed away, I just lost a lot of joy and passion for most things I was doing at the time.

I ended up isolating myself from most people around me other than for work and kind of just threw everything into writing, but once I had time to properly process everything and look back on my writing, I realised that a lot of what I was writing was really just what I was feeling at the time.

I would be lying if I said that I don't use personal emotions and experiences in my writing now, but having re-read a lot of it, it didn't come off as characters in the story or even the story I was trying to tell but more of a rant and written throw-up of whatever I was feeling at the time of writing.

The first thing I did was try to go back and rewrite a lot of it, but I was still not 100% and kind of felt myself slowly resenting not just the work but the story in general to the point that I was contemplating deleting both the demos and this Tumblr.

So instead I took time off to work on myself and get back in the right head space to actually create something that I felt was worthwhile. During that time my laptop died, and I didn't have a backup of anything I was writing.

I had little bits and pieces that I wrote on my phone, but none of it were really completed paragraphs and more outlines that I jotted down. At that point I think I was done with writing Blink. I was going to call it a write-off and just keep what is currently live and be done with it, maybe post a final post with a general outline of what I wanted the story to be.

But I took some more time, took a month off work and kind of just re-evaluated a lot of things in my life and what I prioritise, and I realised that I have been neglecting not just my own health but almost everyone around me.

The tldr really is that I have decided that I am going to continue working on Blink and the other games, but I'm not going to promise that there will be any sort of real schedule for updates or that there aren't going to be months without updates.

I would rather write something I'm truly happy with when I'm in the right mindset than write something that I'm going to regret in a couple of months.

Like I said in the other post, I am going to try to be more active here with keeping up with asks and doing blog updates even if they might be somewhat small. There will be a sneakpeak for Ch2 later today.

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to do a short update, so I've decided to split the next update up into two separate updates instead of one. This will mean that both updates are going to be pretty short, but I would rather get an update out that is shorter than push the update back another month and have it be longer.

What this should mean is that there will be an update by the end of this month in terms of what it will include. It will have a short conversation with Cy, a conversation with the professor and also the first RO scene. Pretty much the first scene were you will choose an RO to interact with minus A because they will be introduced in the other update.

That's pretty much it. I've gotten back into a pretty regular writing rhythm, and it should mean that I can hit my writing goals for this year if it keeps up.