Quest Failed: Chapter Two - Dev Log #118 (Patreon)

Heya everyone! I hope you're doing well!

I'm back to kick off the month with a brand new dev log--and this time I've got some shiny new illustrations to share with you all! (I'm experimenting with Patreon and attached two images today--so hopefully you can easily view them both!)

This week I wanted to showcase a hot and heavy scene with a certain bewitching lamia, who is eagerly assisting young Matt with a cut on his finger. Surely there's a more, uh...hygienic way of going about this, though? Just look at all that drool--it's dripping everywhere! Even right down into that enchanting valley of hers, gosh. Ahhh...

Uh...where was I again?

Initially this little moment in the game didn't have any art accompanying it--and instead was just a slightly steamy bit of text with regular sprites. But then the more I read over this scene as I went about my testing, I decided that it was far too important not to have some kind of CG attached to it. (And voice of course~) So I went about fixing that with this teasing little cut-in, providing an up close and intimate moment between Matthew and this long-tongued beauty.

I've found recently that small cut-ins like this are a great way to illustrate smaller moments in the story without committing to large, expensive full screen CG images--and they can be rapidly worked on without taking up too much time between other assets. You've already seen a few others, like with poor ol' Claire, and then there's some cut-ins I'm keeping a secret for story reasons. But you'll be seeing at least a few of them in your playthroughs, in between the larger, more elaborate set pieces.

How do you guys personally feel about cut-ins? Are you happy with the level of detail they provide? Are you okay with non-h scenes sometimes getting special treatment now and then like the above scene? And finally, this one is a big one, but, given what you've seen of these smaller cut-in panels--would you be open to some smaller actual h-scenes with these panels in the future, opposed to them being large full screen scenes? It wouldn't detract from the number of 'main' scenes, of course, but would sometimes allow for much smaller moments where there'd be less commitment to write out a 3,000+ scene and instead having shorter and sweeter from time to time.

Like just for an example--maybe having an oral scene where it's short and sweet without them forcing Matt to climax over fifty times, haha.

Ultimately I don't want the game to feel 'cheaper' though, and if you felt that every h-scene should be deserving of the same attention as the others, I'd totally understand. Since I do still view the erotic h-scenes as being the main appeal of QF and always try to make them feel as special as they can, via all of the descriptive writing, the images and of course the expert voicework.

But let me know what you think--and it'll help me know what people want out of my future endeavours! (Since most of the h-scenes for chapter 2 are finalised anyway, so this wouldn't affect the scope of Ch.2 much at all.)

Until next time~