HAA v1.1 Preview (Patreon)

Salutations friends!

March so far has been pretty busy, but I'm happy to have something to show off for my effort. I've actually been posting about my slow piece-by-piece progress on discord since the start of the month.

The short of it is that HAA v1.1's dom route is working, including several areas of new content. With your patience I'd like to go over the engine work I've done, the new content I've added, and what I have planned for the future. There's still a lot left I'd like to do but I've never been completely satisfied with a release before and I won't start now! If you'd like to ignore all this and just want the cliffnotes:

- The new engine is built from scratch compared to HAA v1. I like to think I caught everything but there's still a good chance there are still bugs to catch.
- Older saves are not compatible.
- Only the Dom route is playable, taking a break to bathe during the intro will lead to a broken scene.
- The candy shop's been overhauled to have free trials of all the candies with a new character.
- You can capture Alexis now and experiment with her as an alternative to her fate as a public use fixture.
- I implemented the new dom route scenes from the gallery I posted last year.
- A million billion new engine features and things, like a new corruption menu, the visual styles from my other games, the ability to refer to characters by name in the logbook, etc etc etc

If you'd like to give what I've done so far a shot, here's the Public Testing Release link. Keep in mind I make changes to this version often, so you could end up with some very messy save data: https://noodlejacuzzi.github.io/Human%20Alteration%20App%20PTR/Human%20Alteration%20App.html 

A lot of features are in a sort of limbo where I'd like to expand on them or dump them entirely. The clothing store is an example, I'd like to use it as a place to grab alternate outfits for the game's cast. Volunteering could be reworked into a fun game where you use the app to do lewd things to unsuspecting customers. I'd like to use the new corruption menu to give a space for editing and viewing character details. The potential ideas go on, and on, and on. Am I biting off more than I can chew?

YES!

But it's fun anyways. If you all have a good time it'll be worth it even if 50% of my ideas end up on the cutting room floor. Plus with the majority of work behind me once I've done the sub route I can get into a rhythm of doing one or two reworks a month adding content the size of a typical Anomaly Vault or Hentai University update I'm really happy with that, as real life circumstances have been eating me up lately. Being done with most of the work on HAA's engine is a big relief.

Now for an important note: It's been a year since I opened preview posts and polls up to non-patrons. While I still believe that you should save your money if you need it, and that donating to a porn game dev should not be your highest priority, I would also really like to eat. I don't like talking about myself too much, so I'll just say I'm actually a college student working towards a master's degree (Several smart cookies have noticed my most productive periods are times between trimesters). The starving student is a cliche for a reason. 

My games will still always be free to play but I'll return to patron-only previews and polls, which hopefully you'll be seeing more of in the coming months. 

The first of these polls/previews will be soon. My schedule is pretty tight but I'd still like some input on what I should do with the rest of the month. With this post the dom route is good and playable, so I could either spend more time polishing it and implementing cool ideas, or start work on the sub route now and hopefully have it ready by the end of the month. More dom route development time, or get started on the sub route now? I'll leave that up to you guys.

So my games are staying totally free, and if you're impatient / want to test builds before release that's also free, I post links to the PTR on my discord a few days before most releases. That PTR link above will stay active, in fact I might be pushing an update to it at this very moment. They are nearly always super buggy though... Thanks to everyone who's helped check what my scatterbrained self misses. 

But yeah, in short, HAA v1.1 coming (exact date to come), poll coming soon on what I should focus on along with a preview of what's planned. Thanks for everyone's patience up to now! I hope you'll enjoy the fruits of my labor! That's definitely all I have to say for today, thanks for-

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