Spiral Atlas Games

Some might consider you an unlikely protagonist for a romance game. You have no mysterious childhood friends, no vanished memories, and not one dead parent to your name. But at seventeen you have finally been invited to your first season in Bath, and thus stand at the cusp of a great - and highly interactive - adventure.

What happiness lies before you! The happiness of a progress through a long suite of lofty rooms, exhibiting the remains of magnificent furniture, though now for many years deserted. The happiness of being stopped in your way along narrow, winding vaults, by a low, grated door.

Perhaps, even...love?

Play Northanger Abbey: Rewritten and find out!

Will you follow the plot of the novel and be a woman charmed by the snarky priest Henry Tilney? Would you rather you dance with him as a cross dressing man? Or perhaps the melancholy artist Eleanor has caught your eye, and you wish to have no gender at all. The choice is yours!

Dance, love, and discover the secrets of the Abbey!

I am working on improving the Northanger Abbey art

As part of that I created some 1900s English Street Backgrounds

I was commissioned to make a low res loungeroom

I added a web version of Pride or Prejudice! It was much easier than I thought it would be.

I uploaded Version 1.07 of A Hungry Heart, which includes a new scene.

I wrote a tutorial for adding easier background descriptions to npckc's Caption Tool

And right now I am working on a tiny Poirot Visual Novel adaption for O2A2!

So the only thing I did publicly was release Countryside Backgrounds.

But behind the scenes I've been working on getting Northanger Abbey on Steam! More on that when I have something to link to.

After some thought I realised I'm not suited to that kind of payment model.

I mean noone has signed up as a paid member anyway (not counting my partner, who doesn't even MAKE games, he's just being supportive <3) but I suddenly realised that if anyone did I'd constantly feel guilty when I wasn't Making Content. So it's a lose-lose situation. And I had less than a handful of free subscribers, who can always follow me elsewhere.

I'm going to crosspost this a few places just in case someone tries to find my patreon, fails, and gets confused, since afaict I won't be able to explain anything on the account itself once it's shut down.

I felt like poking this again after my last post years ago and thought other people might find it useful.

The short answer is: I make about $100 a year, and generally less than 1% of downloads result in any payment. Which is vanishingly small compared to how much time I put in, especially since my stuff is fairly well received by the people who do check it out. But I'm a solo dev hobbyist, so my works have some rough edges, and I put very little effort into self promotion etc.
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Using Unreal Engine to Render Toon Shaded Environments, the technique I used to create these Anime Style Factory Backgrounds.

Tutorial: Making a Toon Shaded Background

A tutorial for making 3D backgrounds as in my recently posted house backgrounds.

I've created a pay what you want collection of eight backgrounds for use in visual novels.

The Spiral Atlas Spritemaker is a browser based tool for creating 2D anime-style visual novel sprites and character art.

Set the colour, shape, and pattern of thousands of image components to construct millions of possible characters, use a preset, or generate a random character with your choice of gender presentation and the option of fantastical elements.

Read the guide, follow the tutorial, or check out the example game.

The Spritemaker is open source and images created with it can be used in any sort of project, including commercial projects.