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Dev update 3 Aug. 2025
Sorry for the silence this past few weeks. I have been doing a lot of thinking about the future and have been procrastinating a bit with posting. There a few issues that have come up and I want to be completely open with you about them. This is a long post, so I appreciate anyone who reads the whole thing and leaves a comment to let me know your thoughts.Note: As of today, I have paused billing for this month. It will remain paused until September 3, so anyone who was already charged for this month will not be charged next month. I may also pau...
Dev update 16 Jun 2025
Just dropping a line to let you know that I am making good progress on the next update.The poll results mean that we will have a scene in the Jasmynn path with **drumroll** a Bachelor Party event!!Here's what I have already finished:Fix the Save function. Done!Introduce the CumCounter and BodyCount features. Done! (Unfortunately, there's no way to make it accurate without starting over. If you load a later saved game, however, it will accurately track everything moving forward.)Convert all of the text messages in the Jasmynn path to th...
In Their Own Hands v. 0.1.5 walkthrough now available!
The walkthrough for the current version of In Their Own Handsis now available for all Patrons at the $9 “Delight Me” tier and higher. Click here to download now.Thanks again for your support!S&D
In Her Own Hands v.0.8.3 Scene Poll & Dev Update
First things first, as you may have already seen, the Jasmynn path won the Path Poll for this update, so that will be the focus. I have also launched the Scene Poll for this month, for Patrons $19 and up. The poll offers a couple of options for what kind of date Jasmynn will send Becca on in this update --- the winner will be a game event! As a reminder, Patrons can also make their own suggestions if they think they have a better idea. Other Patrons can vote for a Patron-submitted option by clicking that heart next to the comment. If a comment ...
Dev update 1 June 2025
As you can tell from the picture, we have reason to celebrate!The polls for this update's content aren't even finished yet, and I've already found and fixed the issue with the saves!! The changes also affected the old code that I had used to allow for custom save names, but I was able to locate some code that worked in the new API, so that function has also been added back into the game! Woo-hoo!! (I'll be adding the new code into the next version of ITOH as well.)I also wanted to remind you all the Path Poll is still open until...
In Her Own Hands v.0.8.3 Path Poll & Dev Update
With the public version of In Their Own Hands ver. 0.1.5 now out of the way, I am shifting focus back over to In Her Own Hands.First, the Path Poll is now available to Patrons $9 and up. It will be open until Monday at midnight, and be made public as soon as the poll ends. Click here to access the poll.Second, a few notes about this update.Creating the public "to-do" list for the last ITOH update worked really well for keeping me on task and preventing extraneous "content creep." I will be doing that again with this update once ...
In Her Own Hands - v. 0.8.3 Path Poll
Time for the Path Poll for the next update of In Her Own Hands!This game is all about our female protagonist "Becca" and the different people that have helped her along her sexual awakening. Vote for which of these paths you want me to focus on for this month's update. I have also included a miscellaneous option for "non-sexual corruption" which may include things like crime and drugs.The winner of each month will be removed from the next poll, so that no one path completely outweighs the others. Some of the less popular pat...
In Their Own Hands, v. 0.1.5 Public Release (Announcement)
To download click here---------------------------------------------Note (changes from alpha release): I did fix two main bugs----one major, one minor----that were present in the alpha release. First, the major one: Satisfaction wasn't decreasing on the "Make it work" path, which blocked the "Cheating" path from triggering. Second, the minor one: the conversation about Shaun should have only been triggering on the non-cheating paths, but it was showing up even in "Make it Work"/"Cheating." Both are now fixed a...
In Their Own Hands v. 0.1.5α now available!
Patrons $5 and up: Click here to download the gameThe extra couple of days helped a lot. I was able to resolve one of the errors relatively quickly and made some changes that seem to have fixed the other one. (At least in the last couple of days of testing, it hasn't recurred.)This update focuses on the beginning of a path with Shaun's roommate Becca. There are two options for this path moving forward. If Jenny is on the "lesbian" path, the Becca content will start earlier in the "timeline" and the Shaun path will now st...
Quick dev update 15 May 2025
I apologize for the very slight delay. I finished the content for the new update last weekend and have been testing the last few days.While there are no coding error alerts, there is some kind of bug where some of the "Meanwhile" scenes while the MC is at work are just not loading. I am working to try to isolate the error so that I can figure out why it's happening in some instances but not others. I also encountered a bug where Jenny disappears from the home when she shouldn't. There are only two scenes that should be triggerin...
Quick dev update 20 Apr 2025
Wanted to drop a line giving my progress on the next update.First, I am aware of the issue with saves on In Her Own Hands. The problem does not exist on ITOH. I tried everything I could by myself, and when that didn't work, I reached out to a community of other users of this language. I have some clue about what might be happening, so I am going to spend some time later today to see if I can fix it. As soon as I do, I will post a new update. (This latest update to the code format apparently completely rewrote some of the API which apparentl...
Emergency bugfix release - In Her Own Hands v. 0.8.2c
Download hereThe last update introduced some new bugs making the game unplayable. Here is a new version that should have fixed all of these bugs.Basically, the compiler was converting two of the variables into symbols during initialization ---- it had never done this before, so I'm not sure why it started doing it now. But the symbols broke the code on the initialization passage and then caused other errors where other variables hadn't been properly initialized.I just changed the names of those two variables and everything seems to be w...
Quick poll: New feature?
An interesting discussion took place on a certain other adult gaming forum. One of the fans of In Her Own Hands took it upon themselves to add a few lines of custom code to the game's HTML file, in order to count how many orgasms "Becca" has. This is similar to another idea that I had and have wanted to implement for a while: a "Body Count" statistic. Now that I know that there are at least a couple of people interested in something like that, I wanted to gauge the interest of my Patrons. I would propose creating the feature...
Bugfix update - In Her Own Hands v. 0.8.2b
As promised, a quick bugfix update to address the issues with new events in the "Just the Tip . . ." section.Download
ITOH Dev update - 7 Apr 2025
Just wanted to drop a quick line about development:First, I have been informed of some errors that occur on the "Just the Tip" screen for the new content in In Her Own Hands. I will be taking care of those errors and releasing a very small public update this week. If you have encountered any other bugs, please let me know asap.Now, onto the next update, version 0.1.5 of In Their Own Hands. As a reminder, the winning path was "Cuckold - Jenny female preference" and the winning scene was "Meeting Shaun's roommate Becca"...
In Her Own Hands, v. 0.8.2 FINAL (Announcement)
Download here(Public link)Time for the Final (public) release for In Her Own Handsversion 0.8.2!The only difference from the alpha version is updating the "Just the Tip . . ." gallery to include the new scenes. No bugs were reported.Changelog (v. 0.8.2 Final - bugfix)Changed order of the text and coffee date with Cassidy following their first "real" dateAdjusted the way that work scenes are selected in order to speed up progress on work-related events (including Record Store/Cassidy)Added ability to respond to Cassidy's sexy...
In Her Own Hands v. 0.8.2 walkthrough now available!
The walkthrough for the current version of In Her Own Handsis now available for all Patrons at the $9 “Delight Me” tier and higher.Click here to download now!Thanks again for your support!S&D
In Her Own Hands v. 0.8.2 - Walkthrough
The walkthrough for v. 0.8.2 of In Her Own Handsis attached to this post.Thanks for your support!S&D
In Her Own Hands, v. 0.8.2α (Announcement)
Patrons $5 and up: Click here to download the gameAt long last, the update is ready for the alpha release! The extra time needed to finish came from two different issues. The first one was a blessing! As I wrote through some of the scenes, I decided that this couple needed time to explore their new relationship a bit. So the update ended up being much longer than I originally thought!I changed the end of the last Cassidy scenes in a couple of ways, to make them fit better into the overall narrative. First, her first text message after their fir...
Dev update 23 Feb 2025
It has been a few bad weeks since the last update. The day after posting the last update, I came down with a very bad flu --- my temperature went up to 102 degrees (Fahrenheit)! Last weekend, my daughter came down with the same thing, so (even though I was still sick myself) I had to spend every ounce of energy I could muster trying to take care of her. Needless to say, I was not able to work at all until about midway through this past week.Since then I have been alternating between continuing to finish the writing of the scenes and testing the...
Quick update 10 Feb. 2025
Well, I missed another self-imposed deadline. The only reason that I can offer is that work has not slowed down. I can dedicate a lot of time to working on the game on weekends, but weeknights I can only manage a little bit.All that said, I have managed to get all of the coding framework finished and all of the media processed. I am about halfway finished with the actual writing of the scenes. I don't expect that this will take me too much longer, though I hesitate to give an exact estimate. The absolute latest that I will finish will be so...
ITOH v. 0.1.5 Scene Poll is now open!
The results of the Path Pollfor In Their Own Hands v. 0.1.5 are in and the winner is . . . "Cuckold - Jenny female preference." The Scene Pollto choose among a couple of different options within this path is now open for all Patrons at $19 and up.Beginning this month, the Scene Poll will now also allow Patrons to make their own suggestions!Click here to vote!The poll will stay open for 3 days, closing at 11:59pm (U.S. Eastern time) on 11 February 2025.
Path Poll for In Their Own Hands v. 0.1.5 now live
The Path Poll for version 0.1.5 of In Their Own Hands is now live!The Path Poll decides which relationship-type will be the focus of this month's update.All Patrons at $9 and above can vote in the Path Poll. Patrons at $19 and above will be able to vote in the Scene Poll which chooses between several specific scenes to include.The poll will be open until 5 February 2025, at midnight (U.S. Eastern time).VOTE HERE
What's the next path? (In Their Own Hands v. 0.1.5)
Time for the next Path Poll, for Patrons $9 and up!While some content will cross over between multiple paths, you can vote for which path will receive the greatest amount of attention this month! This will likely mean 1-2 large scenes or sequences of smaller scenes.The paths that won the previous polls do not appear in this month's poll.The poll will remain open until midnight U.S. Eastern time zone on Friday 5 February 2025.
Quick update 31 Jan 2025
Just a quick note to let you know that I am almost ready for release. I just need a few days---I am hoping to finish by Sunday evening.In the meantime, I will be releasing the February Path Poll for In Their Own Handstomorrow so we can get started with the voting. February is a short month, but I may still be able to turn the next update around relatively quickly depending on the poll results.Thanks again for your support!S&D
Happy New Year update!
Happy New Year! It's a special one, because this is also the anniversary of the debut of In Their Own Hands, launched on New Year's Day one year ago. This year has also been quite momentous for In Her Own Hands, as I reworked a lot of the code and made significant improvements and was able to take over the writing duties for several updates already.As expected, between the holidays and end-of-year work responsibilities, I have been very busy this last month or two, with little time to work on the game. I have, however, been able to sque...
IHOH Dev & admin update 24 Nov. 2024
I wanted to give you guys a quick update on a couple of things:The next In Her Own Handsupdate (0.8.2)Development has already begun and is moving along on the next update. As you may have seen, the winner of the Path Poll was Cassidyand the results of the Scene Poll was a 50/50 split between "Video sexting" and "Girls' Night Out." I have actually been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to spend more time on Becca's relationship with Cassidy. I'm very excited to move this part of the story along!Change to higher-tie...
Path Poll for In Her Own Hands available
You still have time to vote in this month's Path Poll for In Her Own Hands! The Path Poll decides which story path will be the focus of this month's update.All Patrons at $9 and above can vote in the Path Poll. Patrons at $19 and above will be able to vote in the Scene Poll which chooses between several specific scenes to include.The poll will be open until Tuesday, November 5, at midnight (U.S. Eastern time).VOTE HERE
In Their Own Hands, v. 0.1.4 FINAL (Announcement)
To download click hereI know I need to improve communication.That being the case, though, I have been working very hard on this update, and I am pretty proud of where this update has ended up. It improves some of the previous scenes and adds several new sexy scenes. The best way to play is by starting over from the beginning, but it should all work even if you continue from a saved game. I am also working to try to make sure that little pieces of scenes are visible if the Wife POV is turned offFirst, I adjusted a couple of previously written pa...
