Fates Collide

Devlog

• Progress Report
  November 04, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  Hellooooo! Time for another public report. In the previous, patron-only report I mentioned I've started mentally recovering, as I had a very difficult time period of work. And before anyone worries, I... Continue reading

  
• Progress Report
  October 03, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  Time for new report! Yay? Good news, I've made some progress from last report. Bad news, I'm still struggling mentally. I did have a few devs reach out in the last couple of weeks for their support, w... Continue reading

  
• Progress Report
  August 29, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  Progress report Quick irl part, last two days I've been dealing with some medical administrative stuff (still lots to do as I suddenly realized I dont have health insurance and I need it for one medic... Continue reading
• Progress Report
  July 25, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  Progress report Hello hello, time for another round of reporting! This one will have slightly more IRL stuff, but only slightly, so lets dive into it. It's been roughly a month since moving out, and f... Continue reading
• Progress Report
  June 16, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  Eyo! There is both lots and not lots to share in this new report. So lets start with a big IRL news that will have an impact on the game itself. I've moved out! I've talked a bit about it before (espe... Continue reading
• Progress Report
  April 27, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  A bit sooner than usual from last one, but here we go once again! This report will be quite lengthy, but it's mostly to remind some people of the current path the game is on, and to also function as a... Continue reading

  
• Progress Report
  March 21, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  Hello hello! Few more weeks passed, so good time for progress report. As many might know from my Discord, there has been unfortunately some IRL happenings that steered me of course for a solid week. M... Continue reading
• Progress Report
  February 10, 2024 by KatanaVN

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  Progress report 3 Heyooo! Time for another public report! No idea if it's because it's nightime, or I just wrote so so much in all my previous reports, but I'll keep this one short-ish. Progress has b... Continue reading
• Merry Christmas and a small progress update!
  December 25, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Merry Christmas everyone! If you are celebrating or not, I hope you still enjoy these holiday days and take it easy with a cake or two 🍰 Here are Serena and Eiko wishing you some amazing holidays t... Continue reading

  
• Update recap and next steps
  November 25, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys and girls! It's been a week since public release, so it's time to get back to work ^^ Long post ahead, you know how I like to type my thoughts by now 😂 I always write transparently and wri... Continue reading
• Fates Collide Episode 4 - Public Release!
  November 18, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  #release

  Yup, it's finally here! The new update is finally out, and I cannot even express how excited I am to finally show you what I've been cooking all this time. Thank you sincerely for waiting on me due to... Continue reading

  
• Fates Collide Episode 4 - Tequila Tier Release
  November 08, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Ep Episode 4 is now available for TEQUILA SHOOTER patrons! Coming to itch.io on the 18th of November! Yup, it's finally here! The new update is finally out, and I cannot even express how excited I am... Continue reading

  
• Episode 4 release dates!
  October 22, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Episode 4 release dates! Laaaaaaaaadies and gentlemen! Finally. We are finally at the end of the journey (misery). I am extremely happy to finally announce the release of the long awaited Episode 4.Ho... Continue reading

  
• Progress update kinda-ish
  September 18, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys and girls! Just a quick one. I've been very active on Discord in regards to progress/stuff going on, so might as well share here as well for those that aren't on the server. Progress is going... Continue reading
• Final progress report before release!
  August 15, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys and girls! A very important Progress update ahead, so buckle up 😁 Last 2-3 weeks were pretty good, and the game progressed relatively steadily. I did have major issues with Hs2 Studio (for... Continue reading

  
• Progress update
  July 13, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys and girls! Time for the public report. Few things to talk about (as always) so lets jump straight in ^^ The last 2 weeks since last report were really busy, but for the most part, it a good w... Continue reading

  
• DONE WITH EXAMS!
  June 14, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  DONE WITH EXAMS! IT FINALLY HAPPENED! With great joy (more like relief) I can finally say that the biggest hurdle to developing the game is now, starting today, out of the way. As many know, I am a st... Continue reading
• Progress update 10
  May 15, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  #progress update

  Hey hey, Katana here again. I wanted the next post to be an "excited" one, but unfortunately, that isn't really the case. I do have some good news though! 📈 IRL Initially, I wanted the next post to... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 8
  April 03, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Oi! Another small progress update ahead! This by-weekly time I actually managed some more notable progress. First week was again uni filled with stuff, but the 2nd week was much more open to work. I a... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 6
  March 03, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Progress update 6 Hey guys and girls. Decided for a few days earlier update than initially planned due to some circumstances. IRL part: Anyway, to start things off. It's tough. I've never been a fan o... Continue reading

  
• January IRL update
  January 28, 2023 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys and girls! Long time no see! Kinda. Idk, at least in any public post here. 😅 Anyway, I’ve got some “good” Katana life news to share, and some other information so everyone is up to d... Continue reading
• Happy New Year!
  December 31, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Happy New Year everyone!!! Thank you everyone for sticking by my side in 2022, and I hope I can see you all here in the next year too! The side of the year related to the game was amazing. Sucks that... Continue reading

  
• Merry Christmas!
  December 25, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Merry Christmas everyone! Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating! Even if you aren't here are some goodies to make it a better day 😊 Just another special extra to compensate for progress ^^ Please... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 2 (4)
  December 14, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys and girls! There are a few important things to discuss, so lets jump straight into it. Unfortunately, as I said in progress 3 (Patreon only), the last two weeks were... Tough . There is no su... Continue reading

  
• Progress Update
  November 17, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progressupdate

  Progress Update 1 (2) Hey guys, welcome to the 2nd progress report! (First if you are a non-patreon). If you haven’t read the previous progress report (here) , check the next point. If you did, skip... Continue reading

  
• Updated links (no more Mega links)
  October 27, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys and girls! Just a mega quick one. I managed to get in contact with the Itch customer support, and they increased my upload limit. So no more problematic download links! While at it, I updated... Continue reading
• Progress onward/small notice
  October 24, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys & girls! First of all, a big thank you to everyone for their patience and for overall a positive response toward the new update. I hope everyone liked it and is excited for what's to come! I... Continue reading
• Fates Collide Episode 3 - PUBLIC RELEASE
  October 06, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys! Thank you so much for your patience! I am finally able to share the continuation of the Fates Collide story, the episode 3. Below you can find the changelog! Episode 3 comes with: 1890 new r... Continue reading

  
• Fates Collide Episode 3 - Beer Pong Tier release
  October 01, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Hey guys! Thank you so much for your patience! I am finally able to share the continuation of the Fates Collide story, the episode 3. It's been shared so far for all the patreon tiers till Beer Pongs... Continue reading
• Important notice/old saves not working
  September 26, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Unfortunately, even though I've been trying to fix the last almost 24 hours, due to both big mistakes I've done previously in earlier releases, and overall small story flow/proofreading improvements t... Continue reading
• Release dates! (Last progress update)
  September 15, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Release dates! (Last progress update) Heyooo, the time is finally here! As previously mentioned in my posts, the last week I've been busy learning animations (and oh boy, it's quite the pain trying to... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 8
  September 08, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progressupdate

  Phew, week sure goes by quick. Lets get straight into it. It was a decent week. Besides some small irl stuff, managed to get a solid 5-6 days in. A total of 180 renders were made, and we are now just... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 7
  September 01, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Woop, here we go again! In these few days, decent progress done. Slightly slower as not only 6 days, but also I took a whole day to catch up to some stuff I neglected for a while. Anyway, for ep3, 100... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 6
  August 19, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progressupdate

  Hey guys! Uh. Lets start with “uh”. Remember last report and me mentioning researching and buying a motherboard? Well, it arrived! Aaaaaand then it went downhill afterwards. As those on Discord kn... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 5
  August 03, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Heeyooo, back at it again. Another progress update to share with you all. And to start things off… Was a decent progress! Still slightly unhappy with rendering speed as some things continuously get... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 4
  July 19, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progressupdate

  Phew. What a messy few weeks. You know it's a fun report if I talk about irl. If you are here purely for progress, you can skip the next 3 paragraphs as those are about irl situations and problems. Fi... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 3
  June 26, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progressupdate

  Heyoo, another progress update here! As you can see, I made a new progress chart, hopefully you guys like the new redesign. I uhh... Took a bit longer than I am willing to admit to create... Anyway, b... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 2 (first days of freedom)
  May 29, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progress update

  Heya folks! Been a while, hasn't it. WIth university going on, I also sliiiiightly neglected posting here, hence I missed a few small progress update posts. Anyway... Lets get straight down to busines... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 1 (Ep 3)
  April 04, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #Progress Update

  (This is a 1 week old progress update, patrons get them a soon as it is published on Patreon). And here we are, the first progress update for the new Episode! Two weeks are officially behind us, so he... Continue reading
• Episode 2.5 bugfixes
  March 03, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  Unfortunately, I have been notified that some variables, due to my stupidity, had incorrect values, aka true=false. That bug mostly influenced dialogue in Ep2.5, however some of those variables will b... Continue reading
• Episode 2.5 Public release!
  March 01, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #release

  Finally here! As mentioned many many times, episode 2.5 completely reworks all of the images that were used previously in the first half of the game (roughly 1400 images). I highly advise everyone to... Continue reading

  
• Episode 2.5 release date! (1st of March for Public)
  February 21, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #release date

  Heya everyone. After quite a few weeks we are finally at the end of the rework. While it took longer than expected (roughly 2 weeks longer) I still firmly believe reworking many more scenes than initi... Continue reading

  
• Progress update week 5 (v2.5)
  February 13, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progress update

  Alright, week 5. Just to quickly note, last weeks wasn't posted as I decided to make progress updates one week early for Patreons. So this one is the one done last week, but updated this week. The new... Continue reading

  
• Progress update week 4 (v2.5)
  January 30, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progress update

  Sunday. Yey. That's the sound of a tired University man, but also now a free man as I managed to do everything needed today (and few days earlier than planned) and am now free till March to focus on t... Continue reading

  
• Progress update week 3 (v2.5)
  January 23, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progress update

  We rollin, another Sunday is behind us. Unlike last week, unfortunately University really did kick in now and influenced my free time by quite a lot. There was still some good progress done though! Ma... Continue reading

  
• Progress update week 2 (v2.5)
  January 16, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #progress update

  Another Sunday, another progress report! University is kicking up in difficulty as expected, but game progress so far has been decent. Since last week, we got our dress poll winners, and I made progre... Continue reading

  
• Progress update week 1 (v2.5)
  January 10, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #weeklyprogress

  Aaaand a week has passed since the release of episode 2. Besides some minor hiccups, most of it has been well received. Thank you everyone for checking the game, and hopefully you liked what you playe... Continue reading

  
• Episode 2 release
  January 02, 2022 by KatanaVN

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  #release, #update

  Episode 2 is out! Please check the file downloads ^^ - 1650 new images - some character design changes - overhauled Episode 1 ending - added Gallery, improved UI and Main menu (pls give feedback) Chec... Continue reading

  
• Episode 2 progress
  October 15, 2021 by KatanaVN

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  #progress update

  Hey all! Just a quick update on how the things are going. Had to take a few weeks break due to thesis and finishing my bachelor degree (I graduated!) + applying for a new uni (masters level, I got in!... Continue reading

  
• Character updates
  August 17, 2021 by KatanaVN

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  #announcement, #characters, #design

  Hey everyone! Just wanted to share some updates regarding game characters. Super busy irl with job and writing thesis, but I wanted to give some of the game characters a little "refresh" with their lo... Continue reading

  
• Update 0.1.1. (small fixes)
  August 12, 2021 by KatanaVN

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  #bugfixes

  Hey everyone! Just a small update, mostly fixing some small issues that were brought to my attention this week. Fixed a few typos, few Raiko pictures not showing, one event in club repeating, mentioni... Continue reading

  
• First Update! Episode 1 is released
  August 07, 2021 by KatanaVN

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  I am happy to announce that my game is live! If you are into VN style games, please give it a go and give me feedback either here or on my Community Discord server. First update includes: Introduction... Continue reading