v0.29 Log #4 (Pixiv Fanbox)

Hello everyone,

Time to reveal the new creature of the update. I made a small poll on the Blue Axolotl part of the Discord asking what kind of creatures people would prefer seeing in the game and "normal animals" won over everything else (fantasy/horror/sci-fi creatures). It's a bit disappointing because they're actually the hardest kind of creature to justify in the brothel (at least through the whole process of hunting them and training them. It's much easier to have a normal horse like Jo's having his share of scenes with other girls than putting a place in the game full of wild horses that would attack Kaya with H actions x)

So I'm sorry to disappoint some of you but the new creature is not like that. Like not AT ALL ^^'

Let me present you the goblin boy.

(It's a cropped version to avoid problems :x)

This is a creature I've created a long time ago and it's 100% custom crafted (took me several hours to make it.) Those of you who read the doujins I edit for BAE might recognize a certain similarity with the goblins in Sasara's Secret 2 & 3. It's not innocent. It's actually where I took the inspiration. I wanted little guys who'd be able to act naughtily on their own and for whom the border between playing and lusting didn't exist. You will clearly see that with their attack pictures during fights.

It's a very interesting case to have thinking humanoid figures as monsters because the whole relationship with customers or with Kaya is completely different. Things are less instinctive than with the zombie dogs so it leaves place for elements that are quite unique to this stereotype.

Now I have to admit I changed something about them and it's their eyes. Originally, if I wanted to match the doujin perfectly, they should have had red eyes with no pupils/irises (full red sclera.) But I dropped the idea along the way because I came up with something that hopefully will please you: These guys are NOT the only new creature of the game.

I implemented a second creature. It's NOT meant to be hunted, but they'll be present in the same area than the goblin boys. Let me show you:

And right now I'm sure some of you feel tricked. Yeah I know. They're just "adult" goblins. But hey, the difference is big enough for me to count them as a new creature. And don't think I got lazy and did everything similar between the two kinds.

Both have their own actions in fight, and Kaya's skills picture specific pics for each. So overall, yeah it was twice the work it was supposed to be. But I REALLY needed this for the scenario.

Basically, those guys are the ones Elizabeth will face the most during her flashback. The younger ones are supposed to be more frightened and harder to reach. The behaviour of the two kinds is very different.

Now, why isn't the goblin catchable too? There are two reasons for that. Reason 1: I have 10 spots for creatures in the whole game (2 per floor.) Having two similar creatures would take an additional spot that would prevent a different creature to appear in the game. If I had stayed on the original 15 spots, maybe I'd have done it, but not anymore. Reason 2: Scenario. Kaya won't go randomly where Elizabeth used to be stuck just for sightseeing. Her goal is to get one or several goblin boys. So those goblins are just additional mobs to fight. But I do like the idea of having more type of enemies even if they're not all meant for the brothel.

And the last thing but not the least. Considering they're ALSO goblins, the token they'll drop after the fights will also be usable for the training of goblin boys. So it's a win-win situation. I do intend to reiterate that later in the game where a specific kind of creature lives with a similar other one that you can't hunt but you can fight for tokens as well. It should vary the bestiary a bit :)

Oh, and now you have the answer about the eyes. Since the goblins have yellow eyes, and they're supposed to be "grown-up" goblins, I needed the small ones to also have yellow eyes with a pupil and an iris.

We'll see in another post a bit more about them as I'll show you a bit more stuff like the battle scenes and maybe a skill pic or two :p

See ya o/