Offcuts

don't worry man take your time, cause in that time you'll be able to do so much more, ignore the impatient fan's they may act and say mean things but their just excited for the next update, i have faith in you, still one of my favorite vis-nov games.

Oh lookie.  Stencilbits lost another one of his butt plugs.  Here to tell us all about how he's hard at work on this game non stop and how it's still coming soon next month and to keep waiting on it despite the fact it's been languishing as 'mostly ready' for the past 4 years.

So has stencilbits officially and finally went blind yet?  I haven't bothered to read the last few months worth of garbage on his Patreon.  I'd like to preserve brain cells if possible.

I don’t really understand the situation on what’s happening with the dev, but it seems like that the dev is being hated a lot based on the comments I have come  across, and I have just played this game not long ago, though it seems like that the game haven’t updated in more than a years now, despite that I would like to say that the fact this game is free for people to play , I can see that the dev really puts in hard work in the dialogue, for a visual novel, I think the dev should be more appreciated, and consider that the game aren’t paid to get nor with paid content, the game should at least deserves a better praise .

I didn’t get all the endings right now but I think I would like to try more in the game

More like Charlie Brown than Ray Charles.

Dude will be going deaf next, and spend another year talking about his hearing aid and all the problems he had with it.

Guess all those years of posting retina cancer month after month finally caught up with this guy.

I would normally inclined to show sympathy, but my response after reading his latest cool story is...

OK 👌

 Get a load of this Ray Charles shit.

Monthly update Ray Charles edition.

This is another update post, a bit late as always, but finally here nonetheless. Another deadline missed, so at this point I feel I should share some news that I have mostly kept under wraps until now, although I'm sure some people might have already made some guesses. I'm a pretty private person, so sharing things from my own personal life always feels a bit clumsy. I tried to delay writing this post as long as possible, hoping that things would settle on their own at the last minute, but of course that didn't happen.
So, straight to the point. I have been struggling with my eyesight for a while now. At first, I just chalked it up as normal eye strain as I mostly work with computers all day. Some eye exercises every now and then with some rest during weekends usually helped. Until they didn't.
After some eye pain episodes at work, my doctor diagnosed some kind of ocular hypertension. Nothing too serious yet, eye drops, rest and limiting screen time seemed to help. Still, writing or reading anything longer than a few paragraphs was difficult for a while, unless I maxed out the font size.
The more severe issues started last spring and I have tried to keep this secret until now. Even back then, Offcuts 0.4 was mostly ready, just missing some finishing touches, so I thought a delay of a few months probably wouldn't hurt much. Rinse and repeat a few times after that as the situation didn't improve much. Things started to look better again a few months ago and I was finally planning to actually release Offcuts 0.4, until another eye pain episode last November sent me to a specialist eye doctor, who suspected glaucoma.
Glaucoma can be a pretty severe eye disease that can eventually make you blind if left untreated. Needless to say, the potential diagnosis was and is a shock to me, especially as I'm not even that old yet. Fortunately, the diagnosis is not certain yet and it can often take a long time (even years) to confirm as it's not a cut-and-dry diagnosis. There is still a good chance this is something else and much more harmless. Meanwhile, there are also some good treatment and preventive care options available, some of which I'm already using.
This has been another messy and stressful year for me, trying to juggle my job and hobbies while trying to manage this health issue. Still, finally writing this post and putting things out in the open feels like a big relief. Repeatedly trying to guess and miss any deadlines and other predictions felt awful and I don't blame anyone who has felt frustrated, but at least now you know the reason.
So, what about Offcuts 0.4? Fortunately, it has been mostly ready for a long time now, I just haven't managed to write (or read) much since last spring. I have wanted to give the script a final proofreading pass for a while now, but reading a script of over 50k words in my current state is pretty rough. Still, even in the worst case I can eventually wrangle 0.4 together somehow, eyes closed if needed. However, I currently try to prioritize my day job as I'm worried about how my condition might affect my work in the future in case the worst scenario happens.
I have no plans of giving up yet, but the next few months and doctor visits will be important to see where I'm heading (pun intended, I guess). Still, I have no plans to stop doing this little hobby unless I absolutely have to. I'm optimistic and I'll try to use my winter vacation to recover as much as possible, so expect a next Patreon post at some point in January. I'll see you in the next update. (Pun intended again, funny how many of our language idioms have something to do with sight.) Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone despite the bad news!
And as always, I'm not going to take any Patreon payments until 0.4 is out (I'll temporarily suspend my Patreon at the end of each month until then).

Wow!  This page and game still a thing?

Fuck you, Stencilbits lovers.  All you dumbass Stencilbit cucks should be hung by the balls and beat with a bat.

I know everyone is mad at you right now for not updating the game but can you pleased do it I love this game and I want to see the other girls love routes 

Well, here comes Stencilbits with his dead game making his usual end of the month rounds, right on schedule for the past 4 years.

And who'd of guessed?  He wants us to wait another 2-3 weeks for another blockbuster of an update.

But I'm sure all the patrons who have stayed signed for 4 years waiting on this garbage all collectively fell out of their seats.

Are you guys pumped and excited it's the end of the month and Stencilbits will be digging up the corpse of this game to dance it around and pretend it's coming out again next month.

4 years without an update is crazy

Meh.  I've got no interest in this anymore.  It's an endless trollfest on the trollercoaster.  Game is dead and done.  Those are the facts.  Last update was what... almost 4 fucking years ago?  Then we've had all this monthly bullshit since.  Anybody with a functioning brain would know even at that pace if just one relevant render was made for each of those months, there'd be a finished product here.   Most of the game is ragdolls simply copy pasted over pre-rendered backgrounds, and about as zero effort as you can fucking get.  The fact that he claims to have rebuilt the game in godot is also rather telling, because godot is a bug riddled piece of trash, so apparently godot and this game deserve each other.  It will give Stencilbits plenty of bugs to hunt down and jerk off too for many months to come.

Welp.  This place now a ghost town.  Perhaps all have moved on?

Wonder what Stencilbits will lie about this month?  I'm sure he keeps an emergency stash of excuses, so he never runs low.  Even after 4 years.

Offcuts 0.4 is pretty much done and has been for a while, now I'm just trying to clean up my calendar a bit so I can immediately get back to writing and art production once I hit that release button.

The latest and greatest update of all time just dropped on the patreon.  Like an atom bomb.  This update completely blew me away.

0.4 is mostly done and has been done for a while.  Stencilbits is preparing to hit the release button right now this very moment.

😀🔫

The May Monthly Update

"Once upon a time edition"

Once upon a time, there was a game called Offcuts.

Then the dev ruined it.

The end.

Waiting on the resident trolls from the Stencilbits trollfens to come and have an aneurysm over the latest monthly post.  Spam the page and tell everybody how much you hate it but yet you keep coming back to it every single month.

Almost time for another Stenciltastic monthly update full of procrastination and excuses even though the game has been "almost done" for over 2 years.

What excuses does Stencilbits have in store for the masses this month?

What a nice comment section (sarcasm)

Came for the babes, stayed for the comments.

Welp.  Seems more people are only interested in insulting each other once again rather than discussing the game.  Posters here are very biased and I have mine as well. 

Since this game is becoming more of an extinct dinosaur every year, soooooo, status quo as best case?

The latest post is up.  Has been up for a couple of days.  Surprised nobody noticed.

Looking forward to hearing the next laughing stock of a monthly post and prime example of why script kiddies should stay off the internet.

How did Stencilbits go from not doing shit with Offcuts for 3 or 4 years to having anything to do with Godot in less than 2 months?

I wonder what he is going to pick up this month to excuse himself with?  Maybe he started working for NASA or some shit looking for extraterrestrial planets.   That ought to keep him busy well into the foreseeable future.

What a rag of a comment area.

Stencilbits already sat himself up going forward, he's been suposedly working on Godot so he has plenty of fresh excuses when he comes back with being in over his head and can't get anything to work the way he wants, so he goes back to the drawing board to test and retest everything again for 900 million more updates.

And in the next Chronicles of Stencilbits, we'll get another lame excuse.

Ironic that Stencilbits mentions disaster effecting this game, when he himself has been the biggest disaster to this game.

Here it is, gang.  Another worthless garbage post.  Just what the world was waiting for.

Monthly Update: Always Has Been Edition
March is ending soon, which means it's time for the tried and true monthly update! As mentioned in my previous update, Godot Game Engine 4.0 was released as planned, after almost four years. I did some work on it and I hope it will eventually take its place among Unity and Unreal Engine as Blender has done in the 3D graphics field. But enough of that for now. With my little side quest out of the way, it's time to follow the example and finally do my own release with Offcuts 0.4. With every kind of disaster on the way, from a global pandemic to several hardware failures, it has been a long and occasionally painful journey.
Still, every journey has to end eventually and I spent most of the time this month double-checking the script and doing other final preparations. From updating Ren'Py to the latest version and re-installing the Android SDK, things look good. I'll maybe try to make a quick test release at some point to make sure my release builds still work after a few years of pause, but if something has broken, it shouldn't be that hard to fix at this point. Fingers crossed!
And as always, I'm not going to take any Patreon payments until 0.4 is out (I'll temporarily suspend my Patreon at the end of each month until then).
The rest of the post is mostly copied from my previous updates for those who are new or want to be reminded of what will be coming next. See you in the next post, thanks for your support and patience!

As was predicted for his newest miserable excuse, he is yet again talking about Godot.