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Game Devlog 1/1/24
🕑 Added 2024-01-02 06:10:26 +0000 UTCJESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
I blink and my aged mortal coil brings me fuckin further through time faster than a blowjob from my step mother. Time fuckin flies doesn't it?
You know what else fucking flies?
a fuckin pigeon retard duh
Oh yeah happy fuckin NEW YEAR!!! Its been quiet on my front and I apologize, painful life changing shit happened in July and the pain still fuckin echoes to present day, but don't worry, I'm not goin anywhere yet until this game is in your hands.
We got another BEEFY FUCKIN DEVLOG SO GET YOUR TEQUILA AND LETS CHA CHA SLIDE.
[ Today's Article ]
Amount in the List isn't that compelling, but it's the content within that makes it fuckin beefy!!! Read on for further details brooooooooo
- Daily Objectives Implemented!
- Chores
- Updated the Character by Character Text
- Dialogue Subtexts
- Dialogue EXP Color
- Unlockable Dialogue Choices
- Added Emotes too ALL of Ashley's Chit Chat Dialogue
- Overhauled how Random Dialogue works with Ashley
- Adding Time to go by and EXP to be gained When Talking
- Updated Bust Placement
- New Busts
- Fixed Bugs
- New Side Story Plot!
- You can Now Find Panties Scattered through the Apartment
- ALOT OF Screen Animations
Progress
- Daily Objectives Implemented... 100% DONE... ← Daily Objectives are now Implemented and additions can be made very easily! We currently have 23 Objectives in total!
- Chores... 75% DONE... ← Chores Functionality wise? Fuckin DONE. Art wise? They Need to be Inked and colored but they are workin as intended just needs a final art pass!
- Dialogue Subtexts... 99.9999% DONE... ← Done we just recently found a bug where it doesn't specify the level requirement needed
- Dialogue EXP Color... 100% DONE... ← For easier Dialogue choice recognition, each dialogue choice has a color depending on the stat it increases!
- Unlockable Dialogue Choices... TBD... ← Some are unlockable right now, maybe Ill add more but right now a select few are. There will be more of course I just don't know how many for the demo at the moment
- Added Emotes too ALL of Ashley's Chit Chat Dialogue... 100% DONE... ← Yeah pretty self explanatory lol. All of her in game sandbox dialogue uses animations
- Overhauled how Random Dialogue works with Ashley... 100% DONE... ← I'll go into more detail about this further down the Post
- Adding Time to go by and EXP to be gained When Talking... 100% DONE... ← Done BUT WILL BE BALANCED HEAVILY AS DEVELOPMENT PROGRESSES~!
- Updated Bust Placement... 100% DONE... ← I didn't like how far apart the character were when they were talking, it also felt harder to read their faces towards each other as well to also get along with the text, so I slightly centered them so they'd be closer but left enough space in the middle for any screen animations that need to happen between them.
- New Busts... 70% DONE... ← Certain body parts are kind of in some rough state so I just finalize certain parts of their bodies!
- New Side Story Plot!... 100% DONE... ← More details towards the end of this post!
- ALOT OF Screen Animations... 25% DONE... ← There is ALOT of screen animations!
- You can Now Find Panties Scattered through the Apartment... 75% DONE... ← Thats right, you can find panties Scattered around the apartment! I wonder what happens when you find one?????????????
Daily Objectives Implemented
The Random Objectives we currently have are
Right now there's a total of Random Daily Objectives 5 that you start out with every day but that amount can change over time. There will be even more objectives and it will get more and more perverted, I'm just doing stuff that doesn't require much planning for now.
Future Objectives Could be things like: Cum in Ashley's Coffee in the Morning 3 Times, Spank Her Morning-Noon-Night to show her whose boss, Empty 50mL's of cum in her etc...
Objective Awareness Dialogue
Depending on the Objective that's active, like say you need to do something sexual with her, when you ask to fuck the dialogue she says will be related to the current active Objective!!!
Chores
Certain Chores are ONLY available when there's an Objective Active
The chores aspect of the game is a way to gain my experience. BUT , it's also a way to see more sexual content that I will be workin on next. With chores content we later will experiment with very simplistic and satisfying "Quick Time Events" this way you can actually participate in whats goin on instead of sitting back grinding by just "Looking at the fuckin SCREEN" they will be sprinkled throughout as Doing Chores Normally rewards you with more Affections Points since Ashley doesn't have to do a god damn thing
Current Chores
- Washing Dishes
- Sweeping
- Taking Out the Trash
There is text Displayed on Chores/Objectives Completed on certain ones along with fanfare music
Dialogue Related Additions
Alot of these additions are very nice polished QoL changes and emphasize what our dialogue engine can introduce to the gameplay you'll experience and will help you make better decisions on what you'd wanna pick
Dialogue Choice Subtexts
These can range from a wide array of little details for you to decide what each Dialogue Choice Can do
Dialogue EXP Color
We programmed the Subtext color to mimic the color of the stat you'll gain EXP from you choose to select it.
Unlockable Dialogue Choices
Alot of Dialogue Choices won't be available right of that bat you will get the same dialogue from Ashley BUT there will be choices you'd didn't have before that you can select as a regard for increasing that stat
Added Emotes too ALL of Ashley's Chit Chat Dialogue
All of Ash's Dialogue is now Accompanied with emotes for her to play as she reacts to your choices or just emotes as she's talking!
Revamped Ashley's Random Dialogue Pool
I reorganized how her Dialogue Pools work. I didn't want players to just stand there and spam it for now even though I'm sure that would be really fuckin possible in the future with more and more dialogue added but in the mean time I separated her dialogue into 4 seperate categories: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, & Night!
So you can deplete all the possible dialogue in each "Day State" and you'll start getting very very generic lines hinting at you to check back later
Adding Time to go by and EXP to be gained When Talking
This is something I'm gonna have to be constantly balancing but I can't over balance it because not all the content is ready ya know? I do want the player to take into account their actions use up time so they should choose wisely. I might adjust the time functionality to scale it with each content update so as we keep releasing newer builds, actions will slowly take up more and more time
As it is right now, any action you do time goes by whether its talking to Ashley, doing chores, special interactions, or any specific cutscenes that happen.
^^^^ The Gif Above shows how Time Gets Added! ^^^^
Bust Related Additions
total of 12 variation of Busts Plus 8 New Bust Poses Altogether with Zack and Ashley
Updated Bust Placement
This I felt was very much needed to center the characters more, i want it to feel personal liek they are actually talking but still enough negative space for breathing room and whatever else needs to be on screen~! Also the UI for the busts is WAAAAAY less intrusive now!
Before
After
New Busts
Screen Animations
Find Panties Scattered!
Contains 1 Intro Sequence + 5 Different Panties in total + 1 Screen Animation + 3 Different Dialogues Depending on Ashley's Level (Reluctant, Passive, & Conquered Dialogue) Also things happen differently when you interact with them as she follows you!
That's right! A good old fashioned Panty Raid! But you call the shots! You decide when you wanna go hunting for panties!
Panties Constantly respawn around the house you can decide to collect em and interact with Ashley about em anytime. Go to her when you find them to unwind and unload B)
Plot B Side Story!!!!
Story Content Contains:
2 Screen Animations + 6 Overlay Comic Panels + 2 New CG's + 4 Cutscenes + 1 Objective
I'm sure you've seen concept of this girl flying around, thats right she's involved in the Plot B Side Story! This is the evolution of her style as it progressed. While Zack and Ashley have a more white person punk rock, grunge, dirty A E S T H E T I C
I decided to go on the opposite side~
more Ebony
She is Ashley's Opposite small tits... But ALL A S S.
1st Concept
2nd Concept
3rd Concept
How Does it Start?
The Plot itself you have to activate in the apartment without any hints. its an all you kind of plot. You want it? Go find it!
She's a ghost with some power to her. she doesn't talk much but she feels somethings off about Zack..... and decides to try and scare him off.....
Okay Holy shit I think that's everything????????? Like jesus christ I hope this game is good Im gonna be so embarassed if its shit lmao
Sorry for lack of stuff throughout the months again some shit happen during the summer and I'm getting over it now. I wanna start the New Year right by you guys so I hope this was worth the wait! We're getting into gameplay territory so I gotta tread carefully to not fuck up!
Thank you guys soooo fuckin much for supporting us!
Love Ya
- Pyro
Comments
Life On Food Stamps
Finally got around to reading this. So hype
Volvallad
Ok guys, now this is epic!
