I’m confident enough with the Under the Table game now to confirm its final beta, which I will be sharing tomorrow on Patreon and Subscribestar. It will be available to download for top tier subscribers, now titled Size Hero ($25) and Belly Filler ($50). I’ll also send out a link by DM to active subscribers from other tiers with over $30 total spend.
I’d welcome all your feedback here, so I can iron out any remaining niggles before its release.
With that in place, I’m announcing a release date for the complete game as May 15th 2025.
It will be available publicly to purchase at an introductory price of £19.99 from my store here: https://ashtonmonsterhorror.com
Or from itch.io here: https://rbashton.itch.io/under-the-table
(The price will go up to £24.99 from June 1st.)
Since the early beta, I’ve tidied up some errors, evened out some image colouring, added/expanded on a couple of animations, tidied up some sounds and added more screams! I’ve not added more game content and don’t now plan to for the full release as I need to draw a line under this project – but we’ll see how sales go. If things are good, I might revisit the content cut from the book.
One major update in the meantime, though, is that I’ve compiled the game on Android and it seems to be fully functioning. So: there will be a mobile version as part of the beta tomorrow, and available on the release date!
Android Games
On that point, I’m going back and revisiting my earlier games to add mobile versions for them too. The first is Dorm Till Dawn, which I’ve already got an Android version working for, available to download now through the same links as before. I’ll do a proper mobile release announcement for it soon.
I’ll follow this with mobile versions for Toyeater and Enclownter.
I don’t have access to an Apple system, however, so I can’t currently produce the games for iOS.
Updates to my Subscriber System
Having reached a point where there’s a ton of material on my subscriptions sites (Patreon & Subscribestar), including these much bigger game projects, I’ve decided to revise my subscription system. This is to keep things simpler and to streamline what I’m sharing on here. It’s also partly because I’m not comfortable storing all my material on a third-party site, and partly because subscribers come and go so frequently I don’t feel it’s fair that newcomers/one-off visitors receive all the content that more long-term subscribers have supported over the years.
I’m going to start removing or recategorizing the older content over the coming weeks, with the games only available two at a time, one ‘regular’ and one ‘premium’, and the serials limited to the most recent handful of stories (probably a half dozen or so, so it’ll still be a lot of content!). I’ll keep up all the videos and images for now.
The tiers moving forward will now operate as below:
· Popcorn Tinies ($3) – work-in-progress updates, art shares, short stories and short animations/previews
· Regular Fries ($5) – all the above plus early or exclusive access to full animations
· A Real Mouthful ($10) – all the above plus weekly serialised fiction & the latest comic
· Size Champion ($15) – all the above plus the 2 most recent downloadable eBooks and the latest regular game
· Size Hero ($25) – all the above plus the latest game download and complete serial eBooks in advance
· Belly Filler ($50) – all the above plus all the regular games & latest 3 comics
For an ongoing incentive, I’ll keep providing advanced game previews and other benefits (as they occur to me) to active subscribers depending on total subscription amounts, regardless of membership tier.
I’ve already updated the tier descriptions on the site but it’ll take me a while to actually reassign the content, so the bottom line here is if there are any downloads you want from the back catalogue, do save them now as they’ll slowly be removed. And thanks to everyone for your ongoing support!
Serial Plans
With everything else going on I’m still struggling to find time to complete Bikini Kaiju but it is now up to 18 chapters and the ARC should be complete next week (possibly 21 or 22 chapters total now…). This means the serial will be running for a little while, and I’d really like to continue it with a sequel, so do expect more from this world. (Did I mention I’m working on a little animation for it too?)
I’m also thinking about returning to the Nidings soon, or something similar. Maybe mixing in some giant orc action… But in the meantime, I’m planning to put together the first Nidings trilogy into a collected edition, for anyone that’s yet to dip into it or would like a single chunky book.
