A busy May

Hi everyone! Hope all is well.
It's getting warm here! Foto and I have moved our bed downstairs, which in my mind is the point when summer truly begins here. It's a strange feeling - all of a sudden the house feels a lot different. It's usually dark, since we keep the window shutters down, and the kitties are a lot lazier and lounging around more. I start to feel a bit lazy too, hehe.

It gets quite hot here but I'm still looking forward to it - we're going to the beach this weekend, too! ^_^

In the meantime, here's what I've been up to:

Windowpane Games...

I made another thing with windowpane! S*ssy Caption Aesthetic II is a small followup to a zine I made in 2023. This one is in true windowpane style, with some collage, video, and music. Working on this was fun, and also helped me track down a few bugs/improvements I needed to make in the engine.

...and Windowpane!

Speaking of the engine - it's out now! You can download Windowpane and make your own little weird multimedia-collage-storybooks, too. Let me know what you think!

Strawberry 1.1

Strawberry Starter got a 1.1 update with some new features. Special thanks to Em Reed for testing and also suggesting the "minifeeds" feature, which was a cool idea. I'm really happy to get this update out because it introduces the much-needed backup feature, which also makes upgrading versions a lot easier. If something turns out to be broken (inevitably it will) it'll be a lot easier for people to migrate their blogs.

There's also a sweet new neapolitan theme. Just in time for summer 😎

Videotome

The Videotome engines weren't feeling too great, so Katey the cute CSS nurse rolled up their skirts and jabbed their bums with a big vitamin injection. (Joke.)

I was hired by Freya to redo the CSS for the engines, so they should look a lot better on mobile now! There's never been a better time to make something with them. There are quite a few engines to choose from, so take your pick!

House Improvements

I've got a new Katey Pet game for you to play! It's embedded right into the homepage. Have fun feeding me and giving me toys.

I've also made a new page chronicling some of my favorite things. It's a living document; I plan to update it slowly with whatever comes to mind. I was also sitting on this update for a while, so getting it done is quite a relief.

Katreon Thanks

A big thank you to everyone who sent a donation since my last post. Some people even signed up for a regular contribution through Patreon, which is wild to me... I'm happy the stuff I make can brighten peoples day to that extent!! Thank you all for your wonderful support.

As I said before, I never expected to make any money off of putting my art on the internet. It is not really a "career path" I want to pursue - I'd be happy doing something else while that career funds my projects instead. Increasingly though, it seems like this kind of thing is all I can really do... so, bear (ha) with me a little longer until I can find some more stable $$$ opportunities.

What's next for Katey?

I've cleared out a big backlog of projects, so it's time for something new. I might end up doing Toxic Yuri Jam, or making another tool (I've been prototyping some things, but we'll see). It really depends; everything feels very tentative right now.

See you next time!