Home Artists Posts Import Register

Content

Public release, everyone. Links at the blog as usual:

https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2017/05/tls-version-0271-public-release.html 

Version 0.27.1
 - Made a major change to the magical shop in the Rose District. If you fulfill the requirements, you'll now have a chance to buy Orgasmic Empire tier equipment here before the war! This one is a balance chance, but can be utilized by any save prior to the ending screen.
 - Various flavor additions around Yhilin.
 - The usual polishing and bugfixes.

But since you guys have already played that, I'd like to take a moment to talk about Kingdom of Deception. It just launched over at Hreinn Games, and though it isn't publicly available yet, you can find out more there:

https://www.patreon.com/hreinngames

You can get the premise and some teasers there, but I'll say a little more about it here. For those of you who liked Noxian Nights, you'll find a lot of the same things to love in this project. But for anyone who gave NN a pass, I'd strongly urge you to give KoD a try. We're aiming to make a more complex and more expansive game with this one.

I'm trying my hand at more plot branching and more extreme player decisions. Unlike Simon, who is very reserved, the protagonist of KoD has a lot of strong emotions close to the surface. This makes it plausible for players to make some very different choices for her, leading the plot in different directions. Managing choices like this in a complex plot is tricky, but I hope to stretch myself and make a satisfying game.

Very busy times these days, so I'll leave you with that! Let me know if there are any bugs introduced into this one.

Comments

Anonymous

I'll definitely give KoD a try once the public release is out. I'm looking forward to it. Re: 27.1, sounds like the major change vs. 27.0 is the magic shop. I've found that I basically never have any money, so I generally give the shops in the game a pass - I assume the game is tight financially as a way of controlling how good the PCs' equipment and items are?

sierralee

Partially. I wanted each city to be able to have a decent spread of equipment, instead of the party mysteriously getting a new tier of equipment each time they reached a new location. That meant putting the prices high enough that you have to think about your purchases. But due to the lack of backtracking, if you don't have enough money at a given point, you might not have another chance to buy that equipment. The new shop is a second shot at one of the best sets of equipment, since it's been quite a while.

wearMoniker

Playing 27.1, it struck me that the other Border Reinforcement will probably come into play with Stineford being under-defended. Iris is canny enough to exploit a hole like that. That'll risk spreading Simon's forces too thin between Steinford and Aram. Even if things are played in such a way to minimize losses and (maybe) improve relations for a Post-war summit, the trade-off will be the army gets weakened. More human and succubi dead. Less of a hand to play in conflict down the road. My own army is already on the smaller side (177) thanks to playing it safe in the initial invasion, for instance. (Not being critical here; the idea of long term "no right answer" trade-offs is appealing.)

Anonymous

While I don't really have any personal interest in KoD just based on the general premise, I definitely think it looks like a quality game based on what I've seen of the previews. I hope the launch goes well for you!

Anonymous

So, i am curious how large the war is going to be update wise. is it going to be 1 update or several? Anyway, let's how it plays out. And, i guess, now i have several weeks to prepare absolutely horrible save for the war, just to see how that plays out. =)

sierralee

There will definitely be tradeoffs, some of them hopefully difficult. ^-^ Don't be concerned about your army being on the smaller side, though, in terms of game balance I consider <150 to be small. People here are just all optimizers.

sierralee

Things have been moving crazily fast. o_o But thanks for the word of encouragement!

sierralee

It will be at least two updates and at most three (unless I really change my mind about how to structure it). Your horrible save (and my "worst possible choices" one) will be rough. Given the stakes of this war, I want players to really feel the consequences... and thus a stronger sense of gratification if they can avoid some via good preparation.

Anonymous

So today i played two last updates and that's was beautiful! Eustrin surprised me a lot! There so much good people. Their philosophy is quite different from other nations. Mausoleum and dwarve's attitude toward death of compatriots were very touching. And of course Galvia! Well.. i'll just say that Hilstara is lucky woman) As for the border incident i must compliment how unpredictably and yet plausibly consequences of your action showed itself. Last iteration of Yuhilin was short but intense. Scenes with Janine ,Yarra and Carina were sweet. But my heart once again broken because i I was reminded that i missed Altina and Lucy. *Sigh* Sorry girls... There are so much to say. About new assasin guy, Neranda, but my language skill not good enough and writing is quite tiring( P.S. I saw comments about succubus kids, but can't find this adorable creatures T___T There some kind of conditions or i'm just not observant enough?

sierralee

Thank you for typing out all that feedback, I'm happy to hear from you! ^-^ The succubus child appears in the entrance hall of the palace if your acceptance variable is high enough. If you have an old save, consider spending money to boost acceptance to see her!

Anonymous

I notice the text scrolls when you talk to robin in premium steel after you have the seer crystal.

Anonymous

Hi! Just found you page. Please tell, do you have CGs in you game?

sierralee

Hi, thanks for your interest! Though I would like to get art for this game eventually, there are no CGs right now.

NomiNomi

I noticed that making Robin's Arcane Crystal doesn't consume the Seer Crystal in the Key Items section. Is this intentional?

Anonymous

Minor bug: when talking to the "transport dwarf" in Eustrin, X chooses "Royal Tunnels" rather than the expected "Stay."

Anonymous

Hello Sierra. I found two bugs. The first one is in the Ardford bathhouse, where the payment of 500 Sx is not checked. The second is when returning to Yhilin after Eustrin; I don't have the dialog with Neranda (the one where I should choose between 'Focus on Yhilin' or 'Assist Aram') if I choose 'Order of Thaumaturgy' for my last research. If I leave the research screen without choosing one, the game gets stucked in an infinite dialog loop.

sierralee

Hi, thanks for the bug reports! The first one is easily fixed, but I'm not sure on the second. What is the dialogue that loops infinitely?

Anonymous

There's an old, minor typo in the item description of the Sylvan Dagger.

sierralee

Unless I'm entirely overlooking something, I think it's as intended. A lot of the item descriptions are casual.

Anonymous

When I play the game, all I see is text during the sex scenes. Am I supposed to see images at all? This game is so good and so well written and thought out that I'd hate to think that the only thing it's missing is sex scene images. If I'm missing them somewhere, please let me know if you could. Thank you.

Anonymous

Look like it'll be a ways off yet but hopefully Yhilin's glorious ecumenical victory against the Incubus Emperor will give Sarai the pretext she needs to reform church doctrine. Poor girl's been so desperate for so long, if she has to wait much longer before she finally gets to bed Simon he might have to use his power just to keep her from snapping like an overstretched bowstring.

NomiNomi

I think I found a grammatical error, when Esthera is talking to you in the communication before the war she says "you succubi" when it should be 'your' instead.

Anonymous

Any possibility for TLS to be release for Mac?

sierralee

I'm afraid not, the engine itself doesn't support it. I'm told it runs easily in Wine, but haven't tested it myself. Sorry!

Anonymous

Hey SL, big fan of your games. I have a question: Do you plan including artworks for the sex scenes in the future or do you rather want to stay at text-only?

sierralee

It is my hope to include artwork eventually, the difficulty is finding a good artist willing to commit to a project of this size.