Update 9th Jun '24 (Patreon)

It was a couple of days late, but I finally got the new release of House of Hellish Harlots out at the end of the month. This is v0.055 and adds the first mini-boss, the artificial scylla Rwberia Godr-0-sgwid, to the House. I'm still not happy with the algorithm to determine 'perfect matches' and Bad Ends, but for now she's functional. I'll go back later to tweak that.

For the rest of the week I've been working on the next 'mini-boss'. This is the long-awaited Temptacia scenario. I'd already written most of the start of the scenario during that period of flailing around a month or so back. I finished that off and typed up about a 1,000 words of it. I just have her separate scenes to write now. I'm currently most of the way through her paizuri scene. I'm planning to give her four other scenes - mouth, feet, sex, anal. (Patreon is flashing that warning message again, so replace 'mouth' with what Temptacia will be doing with her mouth. ;) )

I've also modified my plans for how the mini-bosses will work. They have multiple scenes because the harlot choice for their round will be limited and I don't want the player getting bored going through the same scene multiple times. Originally, they were going to give the player a free choice of all their options, but I'm going to change this to a limited choice. The House is pretty lethal and I feel what will happen is players will feel pressured to keep taking the known "safe" option in order to progress. To get around this, the mini-bosses will offer a limited choice instead. So, rather than giving the player a choice of all 5 of her scenes, a mini-boss like Temptacia will pick two of her five scenes at random, and give the player the choice between them.

This will also give an additional use for the "surrender" gift, the Black Rose. If the player brings that, the mini-boss harlot will give them a free choice of all her options. However, as usual, the player won't be leaving the room afterwards!

Unfortunately, I'm going to keep #MonsterGirl24 on pause. I want to focus everything on House of Hellish Harlots at the moment for a big push to get both the first round of mini-bosses out and the more advanced version of HoHH with the art.

The time I would have spent on #MonsterGirl24 is currently tweaking some of the old scenarios for that advanced version. Now that I've figured out a way to do it without it taking more time than is worth it, I've been adding repeat vision options to harlots where it's relevant (usually the ones that give players choices). This is just minor tweaks to dialogue and text, and is fairly quick to write and implement.

Also, now that most of the harlots are written, I might expand the harlot hint system. This is where the harlot likes the player enough to give them hints or fragments of background lore on other harlots. Sapoonis already had this as a test case. I've updated her to give hints on actual harlots in the House rather than placeholders that don't currently exist. I'm also looking to add it to other harlots where it makes sense, maybe as part of their repeat visits, so they actually have a use.

Overall, I've tested nearly all of the 36 Tier 1 harlots for the advanced version of HoHH with art. There are about 8 or so remaining where I'm just tweaking them to add simple repeat visit functionality. The last major chunk of work will likely be writing Suffocatrix Assphyxia's full repeat visit, as - like Mamilla - that will lead to a non-standard Ending where she takes the player off to be her smother toy. I want to get Temptacia's release ready for the end of the month before getting sidetracked on that.

The art for the advanced version is also going really well. All of the Tier 1s of Faction 3 are now in (that's Calliophi's portrait above) and I've sent off the descriptions for the next batch. There are two batches to go and then I'll have art for all of the 36 Tier 1 harlots. As Marwmellow takes about a month per batch, I think I'll hold back the release of a proper full HoHH1.5 demo until I have all the art in and don't have to use placeholders. This should give me a chance to get the remaining testing done and maybe also overhaul some of the placeholder UI elements.

Thanks for the interest and support!
- manyeyedhydra