Dev Diary #31 - 0.2.7 Progression and Thoughts (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you're all having an enjoyable start to the new year. For me, I'm excited about the future of SL. My goal is to make a career out of developing H-Games and hoping that this is my breakout year. Serena's Scarlet Contract will definitely be completed for the next update, and I want to spend the rest of my time fiddling with code to keep the game fresh and exciting.

Some goals for this update:

• Finish Serena's Scarlet Contract (Highest Priority)
• Mess around with different mechanics for the game (Medium priority)
• Possibly introduce a new character (Low priority)

Finishing Serena's Arc

The plan is to finish her Scarlet Contract in this update. It will consist of a prelude scene and the actual Scarlet Contract scene. As per usual, I want the Scarlet Contract scene to be very long, very interesting, and very sensual. It will involve some background story between Serena and MC's relationship. I know that a lot of people already like Serena and I hope that this "new" story of Serena continues to keep your interest in her.

Because of the complexity of the scene, I'm not sure if I'll be able to have enough time to add another event for the girls. We will see. To be honest, last month burned me out a bit. It feels like a challenge to produce 3 quality scenes every month. I've been very slow and taking my time with the ending of Serena's arc, not just because I want it to be good, but because I just have days where I just want to lay down on my bed and do nothing. It's depressing, but here's hoping that mood changes in the coming days.

So far, I'm about 30% finished with her scene. There's still a long way to go and I'm praying I can finish by the end of the week. I'm planning an update for early next month, and I want extra time to be able to work on other parts of the game after I'm done with Serena.

PS: Her Scarlet Contract will be $10,000. Whether that is too much or too little, I'm not sure yet. It honestly doesn't feel like a grind at all, but it's probably because I'm the dev and I know the most optimal route to making money in-game.

I feel that the game needs more nudity...

After thinking about this for many, many months, I finally believe that we should have the option to invite girls to your bedroom to do lewd things with. Initially, I felt that having too many sex scenes with a girl would de-value her (e.g. Azula being one of the least popular characters while Estelle being the most popular). I figured that the gallery would be enough to satisfy most people's urges but now that scenes are becoming much longer and more "serious", it might be tedious for players to click through the gallery dialog just to get to the juicy parts they want to see.

My plan will be to alert players after a scene ends that a girl is willing to do X in the bedroom in the future or something. It will be a short, sex scene with barely any dialog. I may reuse some sex scenes (such as Silvia's handjob scene) as I believe that it'll fit well with the situation. I also think I should add some more optional voyeur scenes, but I'm not completely sold on this yet.

PS: Did you know that you can peek at Silvia/Estelle in the bathroom every morning? Silvia appears during the weekdays while Estelle appears on the weekends.

Plans for after Serena...

After I'm done with Serena's arc, we'll jump over to either the school or the church arc. I'm actually thinking of doing the school first (minus a certain fiery redhead) and the church arc concurrently. No idea how long that'll take me but I want to spend a month or possibly two just messing around with some new and old characters. I feel like I've been doing too much "serious" stuff with the game, which isn't a bad thing, but sometimes a little light-heartedness is fun and interesting to work on. When that happens, we'll be having the good ol' character polls again for scenes (probably). Maybe we'll have a poll to see if people would prefer to see the Powder Girls or the Schoolgirls later this month.

As usual, thank you all for your continued support. It's always hard for me to gauge what and how long something takes for development to be complete as things are always changing. I believe this month has been BIG in terms of growth for the game, and I thank you all for showing faith in me.

A kind and generous man/woman has also recently purchased the $100 tier for SL and has opted to keep MC's name the same (For those who didn't know, you have the option to change MC's default name if you purchase this $100 tier). Thank you so much for this. Please look forward to this update.