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🕑 Added 2023-09-13 14:29:43 +0000 UTC
Howdy! Here’s what’s up:
I’m done with the character artwork that I needed, and I’m currently layering our newly added events.
We’re also adding appearance references to Koba, Razin and Gulag. But only to the “Modest Proposal” Quest parts of their dialogue, we’ll add references to their older dialogues at a later date (along with other NPC’s).
So, the upcoming “bugfix” is not really a bugfix, it’s an update that polishes/finishes what we already implemented. It will have:
- “layers” (Kira’s breasts, hair etc.) for both versions of the latest H-event
- NPC character art (some are teased in this post)
- Minor artworks for the Quest (A note that you can bully out of the Guard, etc.)
- 16 pages of Kira’s “appearance references” text
- Various bugfixes
We’ll release it as soon as I finish drawing the layers, the rest of the update is good to go.
Today I wanted to talk about the “text” part of our game (without spoilers):
If you already played v0.5a, then you should’ve noticed that we’ve added some “flavor” choices. Dialogue options that let you pick how Kira behaves when she talks to someone. In that particular case it’s not just flavor, those choices affect your relationship with the characters you talk to.
Right now their disposition plays a minor part, it just determines for what Kira was imprisoned during her prison quest (the old one). And soon their disposition will affect the pole event and its potential resolution.
The reason I’m bringing this up is simple - I wanna know whether or not you want to see more “flavor” choices, even if they do absolutely nothing.
Do you think they make the game better or do you feel that since they don’t do anything, they’re not worth the effort?
Writing appearance references is a bit of a challenge, but it’s fun:
- References have to make sense within the rest of the conversation;
- Kira can have just one “lewd” thing about her or maybe she’s already looking like a cum covered school desk with her breasts just hanging around and the “reference” has to make sense in all cases;
- Kira can become “lewd” at any point, so the game has to remember whether or not an NPC has already seen her and in what state she was when she met said NPC.
So, in order to create references that satisfy all the above mentioned conditions, we’ve created separate “mini conversations” that have their own flow and are integrated into the regular conversations you can have with NPC’s.
Another benefit of this approach is in the fact that the references are separated from the general text. The text just “calls” for them and they appear if Kira is lewd - meaning, that we can easily add more text, more references or edit some parts without the need to go look through the entire game.
Currently we’re just implementing them in the Modest Proposal, and for now they reference a limited amount of things - cum on face, cum on breasts, body writings and whether or not Kira’s breasts are out.
In the future we plan to dedicate one entire update to just go through the entire game and place appearance references everywhere.
But I think we can all agree that appearance references are needed, I mean, Kira can enter the Kremlin looking like a walking condom and no one bats an eye, that’s a little bit weird in my opinion.
Above you can see already edited Shwift.
“all body mods” option and fake breasts won the polls, but I’ll talk more about her in a couple of days in a separate completely “Shwift” oriented post. I’ll also start another breasts poll and her outfit poll then.
Overall, the only real problem we have is the same one we always had - time.
I’m not fast enough, both the text and the art require an enormous amount of time, but I’ll do my best to become faster without sacrificing the quality.
I mean, I just passively become slightly faster with each new drawing I make and one day I’ll run out of the NPCs I have to draw. Plus, hopefully you’ll like Moana’s quest which would mean that I can focus on drawing more.
Meanwhile, we’ll do our best and focus more on communicating with you all, showing our progress through teasers and on conducting more polls.
The current planned release schedule is as follows:
V0.5b - the upcoming “polishing” update
V0.5c - Second part of the “Modest Proposal” Quest and Pole H-event (with layers this time)
V0.5d - “Food for thots” Quest with an H-event (Moana’s quest, with layers)
V0.5.1 - “Fetish removal” system with visuals, Vivarium “Briefing” event (story event, not erotic).
Fortunately, most of the things above are already written, but I still want to go through my script at least one more time. Then I’ll draw everything and after that we’ll return to the Farm.
That’s all I wanted to say today, thank you all for your patience and support! The end is near!
Comments
Monarch Dev
It would be nice to have all your dialogue have some effect in universe but its not always feasible. That said I would prefer that there is some flavor choices than there not be...because it gives you more leeway to roleplay.
Fresh Mulan
It probably is the easiest thing we can add, because it already has art - which is why I’ve been saving it for later. But, I think it would make more sense for us to implement it before the AUG’s shop job, since you’ll have to walk there every day and it would be cool if something happened on your way. I’ll think about it, but most likely it will be added sometime this year or early on in the next one.
Dr. Madness MNA
Speaking of Moscow and Vivarium content, how long until randos start groping Cow-Kira on the city streets?
GbAccount
Epic
Fresh Mulan
I too saw some people being dissatisfied with the choices that “do nothing”, so thank you for voicing your opinion - I think I’ll continue implementing flavor choices moving forward, at least in some quests/places.
Fresh Mulan
The release timeline has shifted, so yes - we postponed that idea. I think that since half of you like Vivarium more and the other half prefers Moscow’s content, we’ll mix them up. We’ll be releasing Vivarium content and AUG’s shop job in turns, to keep everyone interested. So I’m not 100% sure when we’ll add it, but AUG’s shop and Katya’s story continuation will definitely happen and relatively soon.
Soybo
Flavor choices are great!
GbAccount
At one point you discussed about a repeatable event taking place in the Aug shop, is this coming to 0.5.0? Or is it for a later update ?
JC
I'm all for flavor choices; I feel they add depth to both characters and scenarios. If they are a relatively small ask production wise and they provide another outlet for your humor/wit then make it so.
EngelsPringles
I vote yes to flavor choices. I'm of the opinion that not every dialogue choice has to have meaning, but at least some of them do. When it comes to games, I often see people criticize choices that don't change final dialogues/outcomes because they don't do anything. Sure, they don't do anything from a technical or progression prospective, but what they do facilitate is individual characterization of the player character. Maybe there is something that MUST happen in a story, it is a beat that cannot be missed. Allowing the player to frame that with a choice that has no technical effect can be rewarding from a fulfillment perspective. They key is, that there still must be seemingly "meaningless" choices that do effect things like quest outcomes, or disposition. When done properly, the characterization dialogue options serve to mask the disposition and outcome options, thus making the game feel less gamey. At least that's my two cents on it. Looking forward to the Shwift post, and good luck with the upcoming updates!
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