April 8, 2021
ArtTrials in Tainted Space
40 Comments

Let me begin by apologizing for the lack of additional Gianna crew content. I have some work on the backburner, but Savin also did me the favor of kicking my butt into gear on the visual novel during Wednesday’s team meeting. I’ll talk more about that after the patch notes, but let me hit you with those first. A lot of bug-fixing got done over the last few days along with some work on a commission from B…

Image Embedded version updated. (Requires a stand-alone flash player.)

0.8.139 Changelog:

  • Salacious Sally can now be met on Dhaal. She’s a working-girl Slyveren under the employ of one Azariah, who will be getting content in a future patch. She has one scene with a few choices along the way, and depending on how you treat her, you could get an invite to some future content…
  • Newly created Leithans should now have their skinType set to “skin” instead of “scales”. In addition, most of their extremities will now be tagged as both chitin & scales. LeithaCharms have been updated appropriately – as well as the leithanScore() function that is used to determine if the PC qualifies as a Leithan.
  • When accessing the crew menu, Gianna’s text description should now vary based on her personality and appearance state, like it does on New Texas.
  • T1-K4’s STD immunity treatment should now actually make you SSTD immune.
  • Dove Balm can now remove back tentacles, shark fins, etc.
  • The MaxLaz Rifle dropped by the Gryvain Techie in FIRST14 now properly does burning damage and is tagged as an energy weapon and laser.
  • Gryvain pregnancy can now properly give you strawberry milk.
  • The highestWetness() function was bugged and should function properly now.
  • Thyvara’s button text should now fit the button.
  • Made a slight tweak to the galomax text to handle an edge-case.
  • You can now take down the posters from FIRST-14 if you hung them up.
  • Kase’s arm would not count as “healed” until you asked him about it. To address this, once Kase’s arm is healed, he will immediately talk about it when approaching him.
  • Fixed an instance of misgendering Jack/Jill, the rival.
  • Fixed an exploit that allowed you to access Gianna’s crew menu before recruiting her.
  • The equine mechanic on Myrellion can no longer crash your game by impregnating a vagina that doesn’t exist.
  • You can no longer use “wait” instead of “rest” to cheese some HP/energy recovery while wearing a slave collar.
  • Tweaked the appearance screen facial display for Kui-tan to be more accurate.

If you haven’t heard of our visual novel, well… it’s been in a bit of development hell for an age. We have a great script by SomeKindofWizard of CoC2 fame, amazing art by Hizzacked, Jacques00, and Moira, and most of it put together using Ren’py. What’s missing is audio and polish. Sure, I had put together a good chunk of the introduction segment months and months AND MONTHS ago, but it’s largely sat since then. No longer. In the past few days I’ve chunked through the rest of the introduction and all of chapter one. This thing will be going on Steam, Gaben-depending, and if you’d like an idea of what it will look like, well, look no further.