The Perils of Bianca

Devlog

• Postmortem #4: Storytelling
  August 05, 2025 by Red Mackerel

  I set up The Perils of Bianca as a visual novel in which choices matter (see Postmortem #2 on that). What I did not realize when I began working on the game is that this design interferes with storyte... Continue reading

  
• "The Perils of Bianca" 1.0.2 released
  August 04, 2025 by Red Mackerel

  I released version 1.0.2 of The Perils of Bianca . I fixed a few small bugs and spelling mistakes, none consequential. I added a bit of extra dialogue at one point. I had to fix one image in Jaclyn's... Continue reading

  
• Postmortem #3: Visualizations
  August 03, 2025 by Red Mackerel

  For the visualizations of The Perils of Bianca I used the same tools as I used for Sinderella : StudioNeo v2 and GIMP . StudioNeo is the scene creation toolkit for Honey Select 2 . I noticed that this... Continue reading

  
• Postmortem #2: Choices that matter
  August 02, 2025 by Red Mackerel

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  In many visual novels "choices" have very little impact on how the game plays out. These games offer a single path through the story. Sometimes they have some dead-end or side branches which all eithe... Continue reading

  
• Postmortem #1: Game release
  July 31, 2025 by Red Mackerel

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  I decided to write some postmortems about The Perils of Bianca . There probably will be about half-a-dozen of them. The first one is on the release of the game. I have released my game The Perils of B... Continue reading

  
• "The Perils of Bianca" 1.0.1 released
  July 29, 2025 by Red Mackerel

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  I have made a few small updates to The Perils of Bianca . I fixed a handful of textual issues (spelling mistakes and such), and fixed a few small logic bugs (details are in the release notes in the ga... Continue reading

  
• Itch.io, payment processors, and the moral minority
  July 28, 2025 by Red Mackerel

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  I have spent some thought on the situation with itch.io , the payment processors, and Collective Shout , and what is happening mystifies me. It is fairly clear to me that the payment processors gave i... Continue reading

  
• "The Perils of Bianca" 1.0 released
  July 26, 2025 by Red Mackerel

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  To start with, if you are looking for the itch.io page for the new game, here it is: The Perils of Bianca . The game is complete. From now on, I expect that only minor bug fixes will be made. I have b... Continue reading