Version 0.15.0 Released (Patreon)

You should have links for version 0.15.0 soon.

All feedback welcome, as usual! One thing I'd like to hear from people, however, is how much ProN they have and who they have maxed or close to maxed. Just a straw poll for design purposes. I'd appreciate hearing from you even if you're not usually the commenting type.

First, I want to take a moment to thank all the people who helped make this update possible:

- Lone Wolf, without whom the replay system and most other custom coding would never have gotten finished.

- RCP, for producing a huge number of custom sprites and animations.

- Decanter, for solving the Support Slaves problem and noticing a lot of things I missed.

- Scrambler, both for his sprites and for his patience in waiting for them to be used at the right time.

- Nomo, for fixing graphical problems I have nowhere near the skill to do myself.

New features:

- Reunion chapter of the game.

- Four new plot sex scenes, three new affection sex scenes.

- Auto-dash. By default, you dash normally and walk with Shift, but you can switch it back to the original way in the...

- New options menu: control sound, screen color, text speed, and battle animations.

- Text skipping: press Ctrl to start skipping. Combined with text speed above, this can either progress dialogue steadily or fly through it.

- New save system (number of saves supported increased substantially). Old saves will not display correctly until resaved in the new version.

Changes to previous sections:

- Party members now show relationship points early on in Feroholm for the sake of consistency.

- Clocks on Simon's route now display your exact day number.

- Small stairs on Simon's route now clearly indicate whether they go up or down a floor.

Balance changes:

- Support Slaves now works as planned. It also gives the option to be named differently; players who have already obtained the skill can rename it if they use a save from the 0.14.x ending screen.

- Suppress Lust and Lust Renewal have been entirely rebalanced to better fall in line with the plot.

- TP gain has been standardized, removing several oversights.

Sex sprites:

- 24 new sex sprites added, bringing the total up to 39.

- There is now sprite sex in camp during the free roaming section in Chapter 2.

- The lovers in the Withered Fortress now have a sex animation.

- Aka's route now has a custom animation if you approach the Doomed King armor again.

- The Crimson Bordello trainers on Simon's route now have animations.

- All harem members have sprite sex on the bed in the new area.

Cosmetic changes:

- Altina's placeholder sprites have been replaced with custom sprites.

- New nude sprite for Yarra.

- Large music files replaced with much smaller formats.

- Fixes to Yarra's faces for art style consistency.

So yeah, I got it done in the end. ^-^ It wasn't forcing myself, I really love working on games.

However, I lacked time and saves to thoroughly test every possible combination of choices this route. The chance of something being broken is 99.9%. Save wisely.

You get your primary investment returns this chapter. I separated investments and returns so much because I wanted to show there are other benefits, so people just didn't choose the highest monetary returns as the "right" investments. You can pick up some investments you skipped before, but note that the results in the future may not be quite the same. Mercenaries in particular will behave differently depending on how long they've been with you.

Note that the game now has 39 sex animations total. I really doubt anyone is playing any game for tiny sprite sex, but I think people get attached to the little characters and having these animations helps fuse the game together into a more cohesive whole. This is what I was talking about last update, not full art (I somehow gave the wrong impression judging by the comments). Getting full CGs is still an open question.

Not sure what else to say. This week has been quite an emotional ride, hope everybody else is doing well and enjoys this reunion chapter.