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Update Ver 13.1 Changelog and Plan for Next Release
🕑 Added 2024-09-21 17:47:08 +0000 UTCThe Update is finally here! It was significantly more work than I had intended which caused some delays, but I'm very happy with the results.
The new Baroness spanking scene is particularly fun and I'm sure that you all will enjoy it! Now first things first, let me tell you what the new content is for this update and then I will tell you about some of the known issues and the plans for the next update.
New Content:
*New Spanking Scene with Baroness
*New Blackmail Quest with Baroness (with images and sprites)
*Finished Lewd Drawing Quest
*New Animated portraits for Baronessa1
*New Animated portraits for Baronessa2
*New Sprites for Baronessa1
*New Sprites for Baronessa2
*New Sprites for Maids
*New Sprites for Sitting
*New Sprites for Dancing
*New Sprites for Cleaning
*Peep on Baronessa1
*Peep on Baronessa2
*Scrying Bowl animation
*Can buy Quicksilver from Tanner/Jeweler
*Can gather Sootheweed by Forest Pool
The animated Spanking Scene is gated off with 20 leverage points (so technically, anything that increases leverage can access the scene), but if Greely does not have the leverage points it launches the new Blackmail quest "Fool's Gold". This quest is also a lot of fun and it involves the fireform spell, a new potion recipe, a new forgery event and new CGs.
The new spanking is easily my new favorite scene and let's just say that I have been spending a lot of time "enjoying" it. I have also added in a lot of animations into the back-end so that this scene will become a lot more interactive. Currently you can use the paddle or riding crop and one of multiple outfits. However, I have created additional animations for talking and emotions which I will work on integrating.
The Baronessas (Baron's daughters) have new portraits and Greely can peep on them in the secret passageways to learn a bit more of their secrets.
I've also integrated a lot of the skills, tasks and interactions into all of the characters. The idea is that every NPC should be able to be manipulated, trained, etc and we are getting a lot closer to achieving that goal.
Known Issues:
The biggest problem right now is the initial load time. When launching the game on my desktop, the game takes ~45-60 seconds to load. This is unacceptably slow and has to do with loading a bunch of text files for the ink system. Once loaded, the game works absolutely fine, but this is a bummer that needs to be addressed. I’m working on trying to find a way to cut down on this load. If you have any ideas, pls let me know.
I'm also working on improving the scrying skill. I’ve added a little bowl animation and it looks super cool, but it is also still a bit buggy. Honestly, the whole scrying thing has limited use at present and so I will be converting it into ink. Once it is in ink, it should work fine and will allow for a lot more content to be added quickly, but it is still currently in the more cumbersome native RPGmaker interface.
Finally, the task system for assigning tasks to your maids is not super-reliable yet. The dancing task works, but is too short and the “gathering ingredients” task doesn’t work at all yet.
I think that I can clean this up relatively quickly, and if so, I will include a patch in a week or two to fix it.
Going forward:
Sadly, I wasn’t able to incorporate the Maid BJ into this update. I have all of the artwork done for it, but this build was already late so I had to make the tough decision to hold off on it for this update.
I will definitely be including it in the next update though along with a lot additional new content. Having backers on Patreon and Subscribestar has enabled me to contract out some of the art work which makes the whole process much faster and the quality of the art so good!
In the next update I will be updating the main maid sprites. I have two variations of the new maid so this will give them a little bit more distinction beyond hair color/style, additionally they will now include animated mouths for talking and more expressions.
Finally, I’m keenly aware that there isn’t actually any “sex” in the game yet. There is spanking, bjs, hjs and anal, but no straight sex. As such I will be working on getting this going along with the much requested impregnation.
I will also be working on some mechanics to make more ingredients repeatable so that you don’t need to hunt around for them too much.
As always, I’m super appreciative of all your support: especially financial support, but also support through playing, feedback and bug-testing.
Please keep it coming! As long as you keep supporting me, I’ll keep making this game into the most depraved and lusty adventure imaginable.
If you would like to play the latest build, you can access it with the $5 tier contribution and above.
Comments
New Guy
Thanks Waffel! I think this might help, let me check with my programmer.
waffel
The best way to decrease loading times is to use fewer but bigger files. So all the text files associated witht the ink system, make a system where you have a header section (preferably in a binary format) that points to the individual text parts for the what you used the individual files for. A 2 GB game should load no slower that 7 seconds on slow hardware if the bandwidths are properly utilised. Slow SSD drives today usually deliver 300MB/s, my own NVMe delivers 6-7GB/s, but high utilisation require fewer but bigger files. To make it even faster, your problem is that you are using a prebuild engine, one that even uses JS. The best thing to do would to load the game files in their entirety, and afterward just point where the stuff is located, removing the necessity to really parse them, other than the header. I don't think that is easy in JS even though it is trivial in C/C++. Hope this piece of inforation helps, otherwise I need more context :)
