It’s been a busy couple of weeks for everybody on the team. The patch notes might not seem all that huge, but that’s mostly because I just don’t have the energy to dig through and comprehensively list every last little thing that got fixed up since the last update. The last build was in a pretty good place, so the burning desire to “force” another update out and potentially untip the scales back to something less stable wasn’t a lingering thought, so we’ve just been plugging away, sweepin’ the floors, keeping everything ticking over. We’ve got some old faces back again and getting up to speed with the code, and our weekly meetings have had a definitive shift in tone from ‘Getting back to where we were before the port’ to spending the overwhelming duration discussing whole new content.

First and foremost, no specific backer content this patch. We’ve got new content, but half of it is obviously time-dependant being that it’s a halloween related event, and the other stuff is a whole gaggle of smaller interactions across TONS of existing content. It didn’t make sense to try and gate it off in any way.

Backers are going to be getting a big, meaty new dungeon soon though; Fenoxo has put the finishing touches on the last of the combat mechanics, so now all that is left is gluing the content all together and getting it tested. SOON™.

I lost a week massively upgrading the build system and cleaning up things that have been bugging me about it for a while; it is much, much faster than the last iteration, which is incredible considering that in and of itself was rapid as hell. And then I lost another week to what I originally thought was a dying graphics card, but turns out to have been a dying displayport cable instead. I had no idea that a goddamn displayport cable could dead ass kill windows, but we live and learn I guess!

I might have to rapid-fire out a couple of builds to ensure some new components of the build process are working as expected across all the release types, but there should be no big goofs lingering to bite our hand off.

0.9.022 Changelog:

• PUBLIC: Sophora, Syri Sit, Squid Wallslut, Anno’s Maid Titjob, Olympia Facesmothering, Kui-Rodenian Porno and Amber Preg are all now public. (Many!)
• PUBLIC: There’s a new Halloween event available involving Lorelei. (B & Lighterflud)
• PUBLIC: The Slave Uniform on Zheng Shi has been moved out of the mines and onto the Slave Pen tile near Maike’s Shack (Where Tivf is) in the Hangar. Wearing it now acts as a disguise through the Mines & Foundry decks. Jumpers and Slyveren Slavebreakers have new scenes the player can be subjected to in order to maintain the disguise. (Will & Leek)
• There is now an integrated update checker built into the game. The first time you load up this patch, you’ll be prompted if you want to enable it, and the option to change is tucked in the options menu if you change your mind. (Gedan)
• Dizzy should now be considered potential nursery staff correctly.
• There’s been a lot of small tweaking to the formatting of the combat UI, including new overlays to better communicate enemies who have been defeated. (Jacques)
• A big overhaul of how we organize certain commonly used functions for specific NPCs. We might have missed and broken a few things, but we’ve moved a few thousand of them around probably so… (lowercase_donkey)
• There’s been a massive number of commits fixing small issues all over the place. I’m not going to attempt to dig through every one and list it, but it is a lot. (Many!)
• Seriously, it’s like a couple hundred commits of fixes. (Many!)
• There’s now a panic button to hide the game UI, bound to “[” by default. (Jacques)
• A bunch of data in the image manifest has been normalized for display. (lowercase_donkey)

I’m back out of the other-project mines now, but this week has mostly been a wash for me. I got tagged in to handle some annoying little bugs that are still being fished out of the UI menu generation change a few weeks back, but I think we’re finally at the point all of those might be squared away properly now. The rate of new stuff getting broken definitely feels like it’s slowed, so my next couple of weeks now that I’m back TiTSin full-time is gonna be about smashing through the backlog of forum reports and chopping through as many things as I can before swinging into a lot of little QoL things that I’ve got sat on my list.

Fen has been hard at work battering on his dungeon goos and getting to grips with working in the depths of the ported code to make a crazy, over-the-top eldritch abomination of code, befitting their status as gooey monsters I guess!

Sophora should have been made public this week, but I feel like we’ve only just with this patch got her properly squared away so we’re gonna give backers another week with her being exclusive, so we’re gonna stick a pin in the content rollout pipeline until next week and just release a big bugfix rollup update.

0.9.021 Changelog:

• Added some more of the completed card assets. (Jacques)
• Staggered has been buffed to a 20% stat reduction, up from 10%. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed crashes relating to the Combat UI and non-standard exits from the combat process. (Gedan)
• Fixed a few more items that didn’t return to the inventory after consumption. (Gedan)
• Fixed Skin Clears bad end process. (Gedan)
• Fixed a bunch of items that trigger masturbation scenes not properly generating menus. (Gedan)
• Fixed Grenade crashes. (Leek)
• Fixed cancelling the image upload process for avatars. (Leek)
• Made the Android app package use Fullscreen an added a dedicated close button to the main menu. (Leek, Jacques, Gedan)
• Clarified the equip button tooltips. (Leek)
• Fixed a fated name. (lowercase_donkey)
• Usual assortment of bust tweaking. (lowercase_donkey)
• SlutRay now does 5 psionic damage instead of 4 tease damage. Advanced SlutRay now does psionic damage. The Heavy SlutRay now does 9 psionic damage instead of 8 tease damage. (Fenoxo)
• Sophora has had a great many more fixes, balance changes and tweaks. (Leek)
• SynthSheath should now have proper sales limits from Shekka. (Gedan)
• Tweaked the damage output for smuggler grenades. (Gedan)
• Tweaked part of rescuring Kiro to ensure the final scene in the chain cannot be overwritten by another event happening. (Gedan)
• Renvara should no longer freeze the game. (Fenoxo)
• There is now an option to disable the “Hologram” effect used in various places of the UI (Jacques)
• Fixed the “Shopkeeper is null” error when sometimes using the drop interface. (Gedan)
• Fixed a softlock on Poe A. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed cocksocks not allowing target selection. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a couple of unparsed variants in FarrowQuest. (lowercase_donkey)

Last couple weeks have been a little off kilter for the release times now; I’ve taken a while off to work on another project that is coming up for a big patch, so I’ve not had my eyeballs fully on keeping up with TiTS things. I’ve been getting my fingers involved whenever somebody has specifically directed me to something that needed my attention, but my day-to-day has been elsewhere for the most part, and it’s only today as part of our weekly meeting that I realized we were going to be coming up on 2 weeks without a patch – time to change that!

Everybody has been cleaning up a lot of the things left hanging after my big chopping into the UI component flow to resolve button generation issues. A huge amount of things having shifted in meaning subtly over the course of the port has piled up a lot of simple to fix but hard to head-off mistakes that are now being resolved as part of it. Generally, just a lot of cleaning up all over the place I guess, so it makes sense to not let this stuff sit unreleased for too much longer, especially considering I haven’t been committing too much stuff to subtle break different stuff in the background.

Fen is still deep in the mines working away on the dungeon encounters, and he’s having a grand old time trying to maintain his sanity whilst twisting the combat system into making goo dopplegangers work that can take on the appearance and some of the combat capabilities of the things they are duplicating. It sounds like he’s through the rougest parts of making that work, but I do not envy the man for deciding to make it happen.

0.9.020 Changelog:

• Backer: Two new extra scenes; Olympia Facesmothering and Kui-Rodenian Porno. (William & Leek)
• Public: The LoveStarz expansion is now public.
• Public: The Anyxine Worship & Assfuck scenes are also now publically accessible. (William & Leek)
• There are handful of new items available from Xanthe, Busky and Inessa, and a few that are tied to certain holiday events. (??? & Leek)
• More items that were causing menu generation issues have been fixed. (Basically everybody)
• The way ship events are triggered has been juggled a little further to make more sense with the new ships-have-actual-interiors paradigm we now have. (lowercase_donkey)
• Attacks that hit multiple enemies but didn’t primarily target the first enemy in the list should no longer hit the attacker. (Gedan)
• The usual assortment of typo fixes and bust tweaking. (lowercase_donkey)
• Attempted to catch issues with calcSalePrice vanishing when using the Drop Item UI component. (Gedan)
• A great many tweaks once more to Sophora. (Many fingies in this pie, but mostly Fen & Leek)
• Paige has had more work done to ensure scenes work properly with the modernized versions of our genitalia selection menus. (lowercase_donkey)

 

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Some of this stuff already got hotfixed last night but I’m just gonna throw it down into a version bumping changelog here.

Most of this is fixing up the runoff from the core element flow I bad-touched in 0.9.017. tl;dr a lot of things had been implemented around a flawed always-call-the-main-game-menu function that was happening as part of element switching, hiding many of these problems. I suspect there are probably more, knowing just how many weird and unique one-off things we’ve had to build up over the years but this should get all of the most common things left over.

TiTS 0.9.018:

• Holiday’s halloween event shouldn’t lose the final scene when returning to the players ship. (Gedan)
• Shop-specific exit code should now be properly called, and should now avoid a handful of vendor-specific softlocks. (Gedan)
• The Omnisuit and Goo Armor should be properly marked as not usable, and instead only exposes equippable and interactable prompts. (Gedan)
• Item usage flow has been tweaked. Consumable items used outside of combat should now by default return to the inventory display after whatever scenes and menus they create are complete, and leaving the inventory display should no longer return to the last item consumption prompt display. (Gedan)
• The shop interface should now display alternate currency types more consistently. (Gedan)
• Some typos and busts fixes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Being moved to Frosty’s cave as part of a scene should no longer get you stuck there. (Gedan)
• Appearance buttons should be better behaved and generate appropriately. (Gedan)
• Fleeing from combat should no longer crash. (Gedan)
• Dropping items should no longer softlock. (Gedan)

A bit more of a gap between updates than I would like, but the last couple weeks have been both extremely long and filled with a lot of difficult challenges to handle. We’ve all mostly been concerned with cleaning things up rather than continuing to ratchet out new content, and I am somewhat loathe to shove a new version out without having something new for people to do with it.

Speaking for myself, I’ve been tied up fishing out annoying bugs that take a couple hours at a time to pin down and ensure get fixed properly rather than trying to paper over. This usually leaves me in a rush come “update time” to just merge something in for content and get a build out of the door, but we’ve had a couple of stumbles now because of that and I’m not gonna do it again. I guess somebody needs to be the final arbiter of quality before pushing the build button, and frankly I’ve been doing a bad job of it. Until my plate is clean of the more time consuming and complex fixes that I need to get done I’m just going to have to be satisfied with letting builds roll out without new content if I haven’t had a chance to properly rifle through the new stuff.

It seems like the Android version went off pretty smooth though. I haven’t seen many, if any complaints about it outside of people that have been holding off playing wondering where things have moved to- special mention for cheats here I guess!

Back 2 da codemines…

TiTS 0.9.017:

• Backer A new Syri scene, a new wallslut scene and a new maid-Anno scene are available. (Will & Leek)
• Public Syri’s couchfuck is now available in public builds. (Savin & Gedan)
• Public “Tail Me More”, a new item available from Jade. Consumable that adds more tails. (??? & Leek)
• Cleaned up a lot of the keybind handling and element switching that drives moving between different UI layouts for Inventory, the Codex etc. This should clean up some of the weird states the UI could get into sometimes, as well as bypassing calls into game logic when returning to the main text display and potentially triggering random events when no time has passed. (Gedan)
• Tons more bust and image tweaks. (lowercase_donkey)
• The bust display should no longer display a copy of the default placeholder bust if one of the requested busts in a multi-bust display call isn’t available. (Leek)
• Cleaned up cached data that leaked into the UI state when using the Inspect option in the inventory, overwriting the defaults in later instances where the defaults were required. (Gedan)
• A Read All button for the codex. (Leek)
• A whole mess of typos, formatting fixes and unhandled text logic has been cleaned up. (Gedan, Leek, lowercase_donkey & Jacques00)
• Fixed the artist priority list in the options menu resetting when reopening the options menu after it has been changed and then losing the setting. (Gedan)
• Implants are now treated as equipment for the purposes of storage systems. (Gedan)
• Fixed Olympia’s cock selection process testing the wrong type flag for human dongs. (Gedan)
• Fix Beatrice scarf not being given to players if they gave her a lot of savicite at once. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an issue in the Kiro+Paige threesome that could swap the PC and Pagies positions around depending on the order of the prior scenes. (Gedan)
• The Take Advantage perk now actually does what it says it should. (Gedan)
• Fixed specific-item-checking for piercings. Various stat effects due to piercings that were broken should now be functional. (Gedan)
• Fixed Hot Honey Ham breaking from Yammi. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed the “feruzeCuzLead” error. (lowercase_donkey)
• A whole pile of tweaks and fixes for Sophora. More still remains. (Basically everybody)

I’ve had my head shoved into digging into Android things for most of the last week. I decided that using an emulator was kind of a shonky way to really go about it, so I hunted down an appropriately low end android tablet to use as a testing device, something representative of a good number of years of potential devices people would actually end up using. Using that I ran into a couple things that absolutely needed to be fixed and then started to look into performance things, identifying a few places we could do better to make the game work better on lower-end devices – most of that work is still pending, but having an actual real device to see it first hand has helped to find things far better than wondering if its emulator jank or an actual problem to look into.

And then I had to spend most of today massaging the process through the build process to deal with all the stupid android shit that needed to be handled to get things working. Got there in the end…

Back to da codemines.

TiTS 0.9.016:

• Backer: A new enemy has been added to Zheng Shi and can be triggered in one of three ways: defeating Maike and the Forgehound, defeating 20 Bored Jumpers, or defeating the Shock Hopper. When a condition is met, an amazonian laquine will come after you, and can be a recurring nemesis on ZS and beyond… depending on your choices. (William & Leek)
• Public: The Zheng Shi OpsDeck is now available to the public.
• Public: Pudding Panic is now available to the public.
• Public: A collection of scenes for Shekka, Able and Anyxine is now available to the public.
• The first Android APKs are now available. (Gedan)
• Various other build process things have been changed to accelerate the build time. (Gedan)
• Minor tweaks to the new race scoring system to better support the starting races. (Gedan)
• More busts have been wired up. (lowercase_donkey)
• A couple of return-to-game-menu hangs have been fixed. (lowercase_donkey)
• More codex entries have had formatting updates. (Jacques00)
• Various Mitch fixes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the Wargii Hold XP and Credit rewards. (DrunkZombie)

Most of my time over the last week was eaten up by finally getting my hands into the race-determination code and reworking it extensively from the old system. The old way presented a few weird and troublesome nested conditions in order to achieve a couple of potential results from the system and it was proving ever more difficult for people to navigate the requirements in a satisfactory way to say nothing of how annoying it was becoming to add new possibilities into the mix.

The new way of doing things is a lot flatter, but it’s based on the same underlying requirements of the old way – which is a long winded way for me to say that this will probably need a lot of tweaking going forward to file off all of the edge-cases that have been left over. There’s been three core changes that I’ve made to the old requirements, which in some cases may have left certain score-identifiers very unspecific:
Score penalties are mostly gone
Where possible I’ve tried to remove specific genitalia requirements (because it was easier than ensuring the requirements were present and appropriate for all score functions)
Nested type-becomes-type tests are gone

With all the saves that I have, the results have proven to be pretty on the nose for what I expect but I didn’t want to get deep into the mines on trying to blindly fumble through messing with the existing requirements before I got some feedback from people with more esoteric player data… so it’s time to update and wait for the probable pile of bug reports.

Apologies for no new backer content this week, but I haven’t had the time to get into the backlog and get something implemented with all the time spent on trying things with the new race-score system.

TiTS 0.9.015:

• Public: Edan preg is now public.
• Player races are now determined by a new system. (Gedan)
• Jasvalla has an updated intro sequence that allows her activation to be avoided. There is also a cheat to reset her interactions back into this state for people that have already engaged with her. (Nonesuch, Fenoxo & lowercase_donkey)
• Disarming Jasvalla stops her from using her slut ray. (Gedan)
• Mitch has questlog entries. (lowercase_donkey)
• A crash during KaraQuest2 when moving the players ship has been resolved. (lowercase_donkey)
• Codex formatting has been updated in a bunch more places. (Jacques00)
• Yammi’s food menu now supports being broken up to not overflow the 15 buttons. (Gedan)
• The Rotate Minigame should now properly support limited moves and total failure attempts. (Gedan)
• A few items that only make sense to be purchased one-at-a-time have had purchase limits applied. (lowercase_donkey)
• Perdita should now only show stories you do not already own. (lowercase_donkey)
• The Punk SpecOps should no longer crash when submitting to them without entering combat. (Gedan)
• Fixed an instance of an undefined function being shoved into the event queue. (Gedan)
• Cocksocks and cockrings are now presented on the “Your Piercings” inventory tab, allowing them to be interacted with and removed. (Gedan)
• Hardlight dongs should no longer impregnate Haley (DrunkZombie)
• It should now be possible to correctly delete autosave slots. (Gedan)
• The persistent storage popup has been removed entirely. This proved to be unwieldy to properly manage under certain browsers because of how they grant the persistent storage permission. (Gedan)

Another weird week; I caught somebody asking questions about the backer-credits thing and had a sudden realization that I hadn’t gotten around to setting the system back up for the JS port. I jumped on that immediately and combined it with the thinking that we should also be doing a much better job of crediting all the people that have contributed to the game over the years. The list is in no way complete as yet, I’ve been putting the word out and letting people get back to me with the details if they want putting in the credits for any writing, art or coding that they’ve done for us.

If you’re a contributor that hasn’t got the message already, send us a word with how you want crediting in the credits page and we’ll get on it!

After that we didn’t have anything pending in the code-merge queue for new content ready to go out, so I jumped on the first thing at the top of the Ready2Code list and pulled this Love Starz expansion out. Took a little longer to get through than I had hoped, but I stumbled into a few things to tweak along the way and cleaned up a few other bits and pieces as I was getting it together.

Everybody seems to have stuck their face into big, weighty projects all at the same time so there should be some fat new content drops coming along soon!

TiTS 0.9.014:

• Backer: A weighty expansion to the Love Starz is now available. Once you’ve worked your way through the existing events, the group will split up and head off for their own little vay-cays that the player can stumble across. (Fr0sty & Gedan).
• Backer: A buttstuff scene for Anyxine as a bonus! (Savin & Leek)
• Public: Jasvalla is now available to the public; a Dzaan Alpha stalker seeking to make the player her beta. The player can submit outright, make her earn the right to collar them, or have her dealt with by the proper authorities. If the player chooses to submit to her, they will be invited to her home to undergo repeatable training events and eventually a Bad End. You can kick things off by bumping into her in the Tavros elevator, after visiting Mhen’ga at least once. (Nonesuch & Leek)
• A credits screen has been built to handle all of our staff, contributors and backers. (Gedan)
• RotateMinigame beams can now properly reach the far edge of the right and top sides of the board when passed into a 4-way-open node. (Gedan)
• More Dhaal busts should be working and wired up appropriately. (lowercase_donkey)
• Inseminator Pro should ensure an absolute minimum cum value that won’t potentially break things. (DrunkZombie)
• Cleaned up some more combat things, including a reworking of Charge Shield that should better format its output. (Fenoxo)
  • [Fen wrote ‘dis part] – Previously charge shield would simply wedge a damage pop-up into the text of enemy’s attack, often with the descriptive output suppressed. There were some real confusing moments this would cause where it would look like you were getting hit harder than you were. I made it proc once per turn max and made it show up in the end of round procs with full descriptive text. I also change the combat initializing code to assign every combatant a unique number so that the charge shield statuses can better “remember” who set them off.
  • [More Fen] Urbolg’s combat will now end if you defeat him, even if his drone is still up.
  • [More Fen] Cleaned up a number of issues with the Queensguard/Taivra fights.
  • [More Fen] Adjustments to HP made via “changeHP” should properly output the HP change in combat.
• Gabilani Chemists should no longer progressively increase the amount of loot they’re carting around. (DrunkZombie)
• Roxy should no longer break the buttons during her first encounter. (DrunkZombie)