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End of the month and what's next
🕑 Added 2017-10-27 01:03:59 +0000 UTC Hello patreons! This might be the last post of the month since I don't think there will be any news that's worth to publish here until early november.Let's talk about the last couple of months of development, what I have ready since the last overhaul and the changelog for the next patreon and public build.
Overall, I think these past couple of months have been very good for the game: New art by great artists, polished and edited texts instead of what was done almost a year ago when I started and didn't had the money to get an editor's help, and a more concrete story that's enriched by 1 year and over 300k words of story and character development.
With the build 0.2 we started the writing from the beginning, and most of the content in it is story-based and the plot, for the next build and next updates that's gonna change and be more focused in content: For the first couple of updates these will be heavily focused on characters, like Abbadon in this case, but after that I want to mix both story and mechanics, like slavery and relationship-building, at the same rate.
For 0.2.1 is going to be heavier than the previous one, with over 50k of text, it will feature the next things:
- Main story with 5 quest, where the focus will be your relationship with Helena and rebuilding your estate
- Another 5 quests for Abbadon, about it's past and his personal issues. Will unlock the ability to transform him too.
- Corruption content for Abbadon with hypnothism (with a branch of for private and one for public use of Abbadon) and an alchemy branch.
- Relationship interactions with Abbadon too, like hanging out to get to know him more, flirt, and giving him items (for now only transformation potions do something, but this will be used for gifts too)
I also have been working on modules to manage the generic NPCs, assign them jobs, and do other stuff with them, but until I dont have more art I don't like to work on it much.
This update is going to more than double the current build, and I hope you guys have a lot of fun with it, since both relationship changes and corruption changes have an effect on the conversation and feelings of the characters, that pretty much goes from "not corrupt" to "fully corrupt" if I wanted to put worths instead of numbers (which roughly are < 25 Corr, < 50, until 100)
This build is for the most part already coded, I am only waiting for the editors to deliver their texts and after that, it will be only a couple of days until I upload the patreon build, a week before public release. Overtime, I'll wait more before doing a public release, but since I feel the game is barebones right now, I want this demo out faster so people can see what the game will have in it and maybe decide to chip in and help too.
Whats next?
Although is still a little early to talk about 0.2.2, the focus of the that build will be the personal story of the MC and its mother, Lucina (the amazing blue slime girl!), with two main branches: The feral branch, where you transform her into a mindless, lustful beast, and the sanity branch, where she recovers her mind. For 0.2.3 I will likely add corruption for Lucina (with sanity, since the feral is fully corrupted and unable to change her mind further), but if I have the chance I'll add a preview in the one where she appears.
The main focus of the content will be for Helena. She is going to need a lot of work, and as with Abbadon there is no way I can fully finish her in 1-2 months, but there will be enough content to go from 0 to 100 in corruption, hoping to have 3 full ways to corrupt her as with Abbadon.
The relationship building with her will be slightly different than with Abbadon: She starts as being totally submissive, but you'll be able to change her personality into a more dominant one, just be careful because you cant change her back! This changes happen both with your decisions during your quests (including in the ones in 0.2.1) and relationships actions you'll have available.
With Abbadon I made 5 tiers of changes (when he is <25 in corr, <50, etc. and 100), but with Helena there are going to be only 4 (<33, <66, etc.) this is because while the difference in one scene of Abbadon if it is a male or a female is only a pronoun, or if he has a dick or not, for Helena I will have to rewrite the whole thing to fit her new personality.
Also, I think in order to change her you need to achive a minimum amount of corruption (thinking of the 33 as a mark), so there wont be a 100% pure helena which is also a dominant bitch that fucks you rough in the ass, because let's be honest it doesnt really fits that well with the story.
So look forward to some sub/dom action for Helena! Plus corruption and building up your relationship a little bit too!
Also as a last thing, transforming Helena is a task you will be able to do from the beginning, no need of a quest like with Abbadon to get her to do that since she is your worker and already submits to your will.
Last thing, the money of next month will be used for art: between 100 and 140 for the clothes of Helena corrupt, another 120-140 for the succubus NPC, and the rest of the money saved for editing, which this time costed me around $180. The amount of money needed for art is pretty big, since I want portraits for the generic NPCs like the succubus. If I wanted to polish them well, I would need around 250 for each, which will include a nice amount of clothing and body variations too.
In the future, If the patreon grows a little bit (sufficently above the $600 mark) I could commission CG from cute sexy robbuts. These CG will be very special, most likely reserved only for the best sex scenes, and I will do a polling to decide which character should be worked on once I have enough reserves to commission it, but for now this is out of the picture since there is a lot of things that are needed first.
Thank you all for your support!
Right now we are halfway through our goal, which helps to cover some of the art and the editing cost! I really want to thank you all for your support that is helping to keep this project both alive and growing, and I hope you guys can enjoy this game as much as I enjoy making it!
Your growing support means a lot to me, and if it keeps going like this I may be able to focus full time on the project, instead of working part time doing commissions, and maybe add people to the team as writers and more art!
Thank you all and see you early next month!
