Lust Complex News (Patreon)

Hi everybody,

I'm afraid I'll have to postpone Lust Complex v0.2 due to the fact that I couldn't complete the H part of the game I wanted to include. Without this part, I feel like it's better to delay it rather than deliver the new version with only non H new content.

The part I worked on this month was the shopping and the blackmail features.

With the shopping feature coming to the game, I've decided to review the balance of money required to purchase new apartments and furniture. The idea here is to make a smooth game experience by having new stuff to do each week even with little income. In v0.1, the balance was completely off with too many months to unlock a new apartment. With this shopping menu, the price of apartments will be greatly reduce and in exchange, you'll have to furnish the room yourself by buying pieces of furniture little by little. Some furniture will be mandatory to get a new tenant, other will unlock new potential blackmail events which you'll be able to record with the spy cam and finally, other furniture will simply increase your fame. By splitting the cost of stuff in several items, it should make the game feel more active by having more stuff to do more frequently. Furniture will be split in 3 quality levels, similar to the apartment. Each quality level will have its own model which also did slow me down since I could find some models but had to create my own for some of them.

You'll also be able to upgrade the building, the idea is to make the second and third floor as well as the Standard quality and Deluxe quality inaccessible at first and require to purchase some upgrades to unlock it. It also means more unique 3D models for the apartment building to represent this evolution. More work but hopefully worth it in the end.

And of course, let's not forget some extra items, like condoms, since Patrons voted to include pregnancy management in the game, you'll need those to control this if you don't want to pay child support for a hundred kids :D (Still not sure how to handle the post pregnancy yet, I'm open to ideas ;p)

Another reason I'm a bit slower than expected is because I want to make the game more visually appealing by creating my own game icons as you can see in the screenshot (still need some work). Unlike Glassix where it's mainly textual, having images in Lust Complex should hopefully make the game more attractive. I'd like the top menu to also be changed to icons in the future.

As for the blackmail part, the more furniture you'll add to a room, the more blackmail event chances you'll get. Those events will either be H, like a girl masturbating, or some illegal stuff going on (I still need to think about the latter part, there are a lot of way to go for this). Once you have enough, you'll be able to corrupt the girl little by little. I'll give more explanation about it next month though since it's still a bit in early development. For the corruption part, it'll be similar to Glassix, with basic orders at first than more intimate ones in the end. I'll go the same way I did for Glassix, working on the first low levels at first then adding more H options with each version.

Sorry again about the delay and thanks for your patience!