Mid-month updates! (Patreon)

As usual, communication is the first thing that drops when we're busy. No worries though - everything for the month is coming along more or less smoothly. We've been working on the art updates for this month in parallel - the first is going up today.

The weekly ToA update'll be up tomorrow night, possibly Tuesday if things don't go as planned - sorry for the delay again, but this month we wanted to start with the new encounter and those always take a while, especially as we add out new features for them like we are with the ogre.

It's been a slow month with no breaks - Alis was sick this week, but she's got the bulk of her work done already. We had planned for her to do the Brigand animation and to make more progress on assets, and she'll hopefully still get to those.

On the other hand, I've only had one day each weekend to work. That being said, I have gotten some time in the evenings to sneak in a little work at a time, so I've managed to put together some nice refactors that'll make developing more encounters easier and more bug-free, and I've got a few little quality of life features that I'm building out in that time as well.

The plan is to still get Ranged Combat working along with the Ogre and the new sex skills, which is going to involve the first overhaul of the sex combat so that grappling works more logically. That's probably the biggest thing currently preventing the game's combat from feeling like it fits together correctly, so we'll probably be working on aspects of it for a while, even as we next turn towards Magic.

A few other things that will be coming up sooner rather than later are the Dignity and Lust scores, more interactions with the existing erotic anti-perks (and a few new of those), and Endurance playing a more major role for sex combat. We will have Anal skill eventually, but I want to make sure that's implemented correctly rather than "roll for anal circumference." ( ?° ?? ?°)

One thing we're going to be asking about next survey round is Patreon stuff - haven't had a real deep dive into that for a while, and we want to make sure that new patrons have had a chance to say what they're looking for and what they expect and what they want us to keep doing.