Had a bee in my bonnet for the last week looking into a few more platforms for us to build releases for; once I peeked into the docs and started figuring it out I just kept going. There’s a few more things to figure out before we actually go ahead with those plans, and we might kibosh them entirely if one or two things can’t be squared away properly. I’d like to do it, but crossing the final hurdle rests out of my hands for now – but a big push to make it happen would be confirmation that there is a pressing desire for the platform in question. If you’d actually make use of a Mac downloadable build then speak up in the comments so we can better gauge how much reach this would actually have.

Fen also put the hammer down and blew his content wad on Thursday, so there’s been a big, juicy content dump last week – this week we’re mostly just cleaning house and fixing up a lot (and I mean a lot) of loose ends and bugs across the game. I fished out a few more things with the imagepack downloading process that I goofed in my last round of touching it – I think any issues left there now will likely be down to esoteric internet setups, but I guess we’ll find out after this patch goes out and if people are still having issues.

Adj has some Fully Sick™ lookin art in the pipe for Malai Quest to potentially release with, if all goes well, next week, along with Siobhan that should be slipping in as part of this patch.

Back 2 da mines.

0.9.034 Changelog:

• An oversight with bad-ends has been corrected that allowed people to continue playing when, by rights, they should have been stopped. The bad-end flagging was then persisting in saves and causing weird issues to crop up across the game, where certain actions were no longer possible because the game assumed you were in a bad-end state. We’ve corrected (we hope) the underlying end-escape issue, and we’ve cleaned up any lingering bad-end flags on save files because we don’t want to surprise-wreck a character out of nowhere. (lowercase_donkey & Gedan).
• Fix Pleasure Palette crash when players attempt to use “Vibrant” colors. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for some collar crashes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for some Pexiga crashes due to a boolean variable sharing the same name as the creature data, `pexiga`. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix Reaha button crash. (lowercase_donkey)
• Give Reaha one item at a time instead of a stack at a time. You have to earn, Reaha! (lowercase_donkey)
• Add Adj’s bust art for Siobhan (lowercase_donkey)
• A whole page of Corellah’s intro scene in the dungeon wasn’t coded in. (lowercase_donkey)
• Finally fix Amber appearing as “Dryad” in some cases with old saves even if she was crew (lowercase_donkey)
• Drop a duplicate Nova/gooarmor appearing in crew on some saves. No gooplganging on the ship! (lowercase_donkey)
• The Cryo Fang is now a melee weapon, as originally intended. If you had it equipped, you will need to re-equip it. (lowercase_donkey)
• Small tweak to lion score: big cats don’t have slitted eyes. HT Frey. (lowercase_donkey)
• Make AI type enemies vulnerable to EMP. (lowercase_donkey)
• Players in the Bright Water path of the Dhaal dungeon that take the cousin’s place will no longer get the nastygram suggesting you abandoned them. (lowercase_donkey)
• Drop the unintended +2 sexiness from BehemothScale armor, sorry space marines. (lowercase_donkey)
• Light Harness now has flags for fully exposing your body, matching the description (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix player movement not being locked for combat in Dhaal room H15 (lowercase_donkey)
• Properly hook up four alts for Shou’s Milodan Infiltrator. Shou really, really loves their alts, I hope you do too. (lowercase_donkey)
• Hook up their Zaalt nude bust. (lowercase_donkey)
• Many text fixes, including many from the forum (HT to XBoxMaster131 and their hard work). (lowercase_donkey)
• Handful of typos fixed with the Gangers (Fenoxo).
• Fix an oversight in the retry path used by the imagepack downloader causing a potential crash on the Electron side of the sandbox boundary. (Gedan)
• Some minor tweaks have been made to some code used in the Electron builds on Mac platforms. (Gedan)

 

The first little dribble of content for the next planet is here; the fleshing out of Phaedra is our next goal, but we have to start somewhere. Backers should have access to the very initial structure that we’re going to be working to expand over the next couple of months. It’s very barebones at present, but we can’t just pour months of effort into getting it to a more fleshed out state without letting people see what we’re up to!

Behind the scenes Fen has been polishing the Zaika Gangers off some more, and they are extremely close to being ready to see the light of a backer patch. I’ve also been working on polishing up an addition to Malai, the character that is going public this week. He’s got a quest coming that’ll slide in a generic Kui-Tan pregnancy, result in the vendor-boy providing a permanent discount, and has a bunch of meaty bad-ends squeezed into the combat portion. The bulk of the actual content is coded, I just gotta go back over and balance the combat, make sure it doesn’t blow up in any spectacular way, so it should be ready for next week. Once everybody else is back into the swing of regular content delivery, I’m going to slide back over to working on the UI and implementing the layout changes that Jacques helped to crystalize into the preview we showed off a few weeks back.

0.9.032 Changelog:

• BACKER: The very first initial Phaedra content is available. There is a lot more work to do here, but it is now possible to fly to a very barebones starting area for the planet and experience the first encounter, The Fuckplants. (Skom, Leek & Fenoxo)
• PUBLIC: Malai is now available to the public. A big boy rask with a weapons shop at the south-end of Gabtown. (Doots & Leek) Evidently just copying the previous patchnote is not ideal™
• Wired up Shalena busts. (Leek & Adj)
• Fix Anno’s crew button vanishing. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix big green potion so that players can properly get Blueberry Yogurt lacation what the fuck who put this in the game. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix the counter for Gwon bondage scenes so players can unlock her fourth scene. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for dong designer; players should no longer get null type dongs. (lowercase_donkey)
• Update dong designer to support large numbers of options. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix scope issues for goo boobs and crotch adjustments (lowercase_donkey)
• Added code to clear rut after pc impregnates Nastizia. (DrunkZombie)
• Also some typo cleanup in Roxy scene. (DrunkZombie)

Everybody has been distracted and in their own little worlds for the last couple of weeks for some mysterious reason; I can’t really speak specifically for what has kept everybody else busy, but I took the opportunity to cleanup and rework the Imagepack download process for the Electron Backer build. A couple people have been having issues with it, and a few gaps in how I built it came to light so I took the opportunity to really comb through it and handle as many of the missing bits as I possibly could over the holidays. Very much a case of “fix one thing, find two more problems” all the way down until it finally came together. With it handled though, it opens the door for some more image-based things that I need to get onto sorting out over the next couple of weeks; we’ve got a stash of assets that have built up over the last couple of years that we never previously had the capability to easily squish into the game, but we’re finally at a point that we can.

Plenty of other bugfixes have rolled into the repo since the last build, and I don’t want to sit on them whilst I keep plugging new content together, so you’re getting a bugfix patch, and hopefully another one soon™ with some steamy fresh content.

0.9.030 Changelog:

• The imagepack download process has been heavily reworked behind the scenes and should be more reliable. There is now also an additional option under the Graphics settings menu to delete the imagepack if it is installed. (Gedan)
• Tweaked how bulk descriptions for multifoe fights overwrite individual combat descs to be more standardized and efficient. Previously it was converting the character’s class name into a string and checking against a list of strings. Now it’s just a boolean slapped on a character object. This was done for working on the unreleased zaika gang encounter. (Fen)
• Standardized stun immunity checks to check a function in the creature object instead only checking for a specific status (which the function now checks). (Fen)
• Fixed a possible error with Bhakar’s vaginal fuck scene where it could try to route him into your ass, which the scene didn’t support. (Fen)
• Allow players to win ties with Roo. Remove some text that had her sneaking into basic blackjack. (lowercase_donkey)
• Players can no longer bet negative amounts of money in blackjack and throw the game. Honestly, who cheats at cards?! (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix Nykke’s missing pregnant bust (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix Rats Raider busts being attached to the wrong raiders (lowercase_donkey)
• Siegwulf item fix. Item stats will now correctly display on the item. Stats also changed slightly. The new stats are:
  Normal: 3 evasion, Bimbo, not Dom: 2 evasion, 5 sexiness, Bimbo Dom: 2 resolve, 4 sexiness (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix CyberneticExoskeleton to actually allow you to carry heavy weapons (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix some items softlocking player when inspected (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for LionOS not showing options. (lowercase_donkey)
• Crash fix: Sera “sex party.” (lowercase_donkey)
• Crash fixes: Gianna sex and Mirin sex. (lowercase_donkey)
• Crash fix: majinUpdate() not found. (lowercase_donkey)
• Sophora fixes: isHard() crash; intro showing wrong text based on players experiences; `legOrLegsNoun` error. (lowercase_donkey)
• FIRST-14 tutorial fixes: players will no longer get mail before they have an email set up, stop Krissy and possibly others from appearing. (lowercase_donkey)
• Improve the hints for players looking for Una bad end. (lowercase_donkey)
• Update character data on a few NPCs so it includes their canonical heights. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix Myrna and Mirin scenes warping players back to ship. This warping is a fallback when the game can’t find the place a scene is looking for; it’s helpful when you report these. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for quest log not showing Dhaal dungeon as complete (lowercase_donkey)
• Stop Kane from hurting himself in confusion when he is supposed to be interrupting the player (lowercase_donkey)
• Porno hacked drones will no longer attack their original target in the same turn they are teasing the player. (lowercase_donkey)
• Syri’s idle crew text now has the correct line breaks. (lowercase_donkey)
• Many spelling fixes. Did you know it’s “gabilani” and not “gabiliani”? (lowercase_donkey)
• Added some autofiltering to the equipment screen that should autofilter available items when selecting an item slot. (Jacques) (I believe this still needs a little work to polish it, but I ran out of time before getting to it tonight…)
• Added and fixed a few more completed cards to the set. (Jacques00)
• Cleaned up a lot of stat change displays across the game. (Jacques00)
• Fixed a bunch of Sylvie typos. (Jacques00)
• Tweaked item card renders in the equipment screen. (Jacques00)
• Minor tweaks to gooArmor text display when handled during item collection. (Jacques00)
• Tweaked item rarity colours. (Jacques00)
• Consistency for showName() capitalization. (Jacques00)