In Their Own Hands v. 0.1.2α (Announcement) (Patreon)

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The alpha release of In Their Own Hands ver. 0.1.2 is finally finished! As usual please let me know if you encounter any bugs, either in a direct message or as a comment on this post. There are some changes in early parts of the game, so playing from the beginning is recommended. However, saves from previous versions should still all work properly.

This update is almost entirely focused on the wife ("Jenny"), at least as far as the big scenes. There was a reason for the poll last week, as I really needed a temperature check on the perception of Jenny. The results reflected some comments I have received elsewhere, but not what I wanted. The top three characteristics were Selfish, Promiscuous (In the past/pre-marriage), and Intelligent. I can understand Selfish, as someone asserting their own desires is always a bit Selfish. Intelligent is also good. I couldn't understand the Promiscuous part though. In my mind, Jenny was not a virgin, but I never envisioned her as being promiscuous. I edited the preface a little bit to make this a little more clear, but also added some more context in a fairly long flashback that makes its appearance in this update. The flashback itself was always planned, but I changed it a little bit to help dispel this "Promiscuous" idea.

I also made some other small adjustments to try to make Jenny a little more "likable." For some reason, the way that I was calculating "Talk about my day" reactions caused Jenny to come across as not wanting to hear about how her husband's day went. That's not how it should be. I wanted to try to make it so that she cared less if their relationship got worse but she does love her husband. Positive reactions are now more likely to that topic of conversation.

The big sequence of scenes/events tied to the February poll will only come up on certain paths, due to its nature. The February path poll voters chose "Wife cheating" and the scene poll voters chose Shaun, so I had to build an entire sequence of events that would lead to Jenny and Shaun hooking up. I wanted to get to the big payoff, which explains the delay. Let me know what you think about the build-up to that scene. At this point, it will only happen under the "make it work" option if Satisfaction gets low enough to trigger cheating. Future updates will include alternate cheating triggers and alternate ways to see these events with other relationship types but this is it right now. However, it did also give me the opportunity to create a part of the scene that has a clue for the husband if you play without the wife pov, if you do the right thing at the right time. (Hint: You should do the dishes after she cooks dinner, to be nice.)

There are some other changes listed in the changelog below that should be pretty self-explanatory.

This was a short month, so I knew that meeting my release schedule goal was gonna be tough. I am currently planning to release the public version a little early, on 3 March. I will get the polls going on 1 March. If any Patrons with early access ($5 and up) object, please let me know and I will reconsider. The walkthrough will also be ready no later than the 3rd.

Thanks again for your support!

S&D

Changelog v. 0.1.2α

• Flashback sequence (Wife)
• Sequence of related scenes/events with Shaun (February poll results)
• Changed triggers for events at massage parlor so that they will occur only after the above event(s)
• Both husband and wife Arousal now goes down slightly when sleeping overnight
• Adjusted the "Talk about my day" options to be more favorable
• Slight edits to wife pov Preface
• Expanded the Husband and Wife massage scenes (added alternate scenes), and limited the total number of massages per day
• Added "generic" repeating scenes with Boss (Mr. Day) at work/office
• Added another "Research" option in the beginning (before Relationship talk)
• Made Wife taking photo of Brian in shower a mandatory scene (not RNG)
• Added "something stupidt" videos to laptop
• Other miscellaneous text edits and bug fixes