I’m not dead, honest. Bess didn’t get the better of me, although it was touch and go for a while.

Straight off the back of Bess, one of the single biggest additions of content to TiTS to date, I started working on Savin’s latest dungeon-creation. UNFORTUNATELY FOR MY SANITY, said content makes heavy usage of something we’d discussed doing months ago, and provisionally scheduled for post-Myrellion-story-completion.

We are now post-Myrellion-story-completion. Which means I’ve (already) spent the last week or so refactoring combat entirely, from the ground up. ‘WHY?’ I hear you ask? To add proper support for group combat to the game, both for groups of enemies and NPCs to support the player in combat. The former will probably start to show up in a lot of places. Savin already has a fair few dungeon encounters in the game that technically should have been implemented as proper group fights, but a lot of the code lacked support and testing for it. The latter though is going to be pretty much exclusively reserved for special story arcs along the way; we’re not intending on allowing the player to slum around with their waifus in combat full-time or anything like that.

I’ve made good progress on it, but I’m still probably something like a week or so away from getting it out of the door. There’s a LOT of little bits and pieces all over the game that has to be touched up to support this, not least actually fixing up the combat encounters themselves once the underlying system is in place. The time I spent fiddling with Silence is coming into its own here, as I’ve already solved a lot of the non-obvious problems and made a small scale version of the system there- a lot of changes to make to how its being presented need to get done, but most of the work itself is simply converting the existing combat attacks to the correct format and adding in support for various things (like actual AoE damage to attacks that should have it) along the way. That said, I have KaraQuest 2.0 already rough-coded, pretty much the only thing it is missing are the fight implementations, so expect a big fat update soon™.

Now then, on a TANGENTIALLY RELATED NOTE.

Nearly a year ago now, a fantastic artist (and now friend), BNG, started to piece together his own game. Born of the desire to do something similar to CoC but with a far more artistically focused design, he’s been chipping away for months and months, slowly learning and piecing together ideas and designs to build his own game- something similar to what Fenoxo and the rest of us have been building here, but with a unique spice and different direction taken. The game design is starting to come together….

More work got done writing the centaur encounter. Another 2,800 words or so were jammed out, completing the male path. I’m probably going to wind up cutting the herm version so that I can get this out in time for Halloween. I just gotta jam out some girly funtimes, then let hermtaurs choose which breeding urge they’d like to focus on for the event.

Savin jumped in with a costume of his own, and bodyslammed my meager wordcount into the ground with 6,000ish words of amazonian Master Chief knockoff or something. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m looking forward to coding it.

Now to play a level of Halo 5 before bed as a reward~

I resumed work on my centaur stuff today. It’s a bit late in coming because nothing got done over the weekend. Sunday I still had a headache that started mid Saturday, and it only got progressively worse as the night went on. Needless to say, all I wound up doing is playing some videogames and watching loads of youtube videos.

But that can’t keep a good Skellinoxo down. Afflictions of the flesh are to be shed as I embrace my true, skeletal form! My only concern today was to write 2,500ish words of content for my centaur transformation halloween event. It’s mostly getting so long because I decided it would be a good idea to allow the player to decide what gender of centaur-creature they become with this event.

The transformation is all written up, as is being overwhelmed by “breeding urges,” but they all cut off when the PC wanders into a bar (where all kinds of partying and crazy sex acts are happening as part of this libidinous celebration). If you guys want to leave suggestions for what Male/Female/Herm taur-PC’s could do in the bar, my ears are open. I’ve already come up with some fun ideas:

• Lining girls up underneath herm PC’s and seeing how many you can bathe in cum while being taken from behind (Herm).
• Bending girls over tables or chairs for mating (Male).
• Pinning a swollen kui-tan under your massive ‘taur hips and fucking him senseless (Fem).

I think there’s probably some better ideas for the last two, though.