Update 2nd May '21 (Patreon)

It ran over by a day, but I managed to get the new version (0.018) of House of Hellish Harlots out.  You can find it in the previous post.  Trying to keep to a regular monthly release schedule helped here.  I suspect I could have pootled around on Hiru's scenario for another week or so if I hadn't had the end of month deadline to give me a kick up the ass.  That said, typing up nearly 8,000 words, editing and then implementing a 10K word scenario in a week is a little faster than I'd normally be comfortable with, and I suspect I'll have to correct more typos than usual when I give Hiru's scenario a second look.

I'm still a little concerned about harlot scenario complexity creep, but I'm falling more on the side of letting some harlots have fun if that's how the scenario runs.  There will be plenty of other more straightforward scenarios.  The important thing is to keep regularly adding new content.  We're at 28 harlots now and the basic game framework is all written.

As with all update posts following a release, I tend to look more ahead as what's been done is already covered in the release post.

Going forward, these are the next priorities:

REPLACE PLACEHOLDERS
There are three placeholder harlots left.  Once those are replaced, that should be the end of the ugly temp passages and we'll have a proper demo covering the first 4 or 5 rounds of the game (tentative plan is for 12 followed by an end 'boss'),

PUBLIC DEMO
I need to set up a website and put up a public demo.  The aim of this is to try and attract broader interest and see if that's enough to give me confidence to hire artists and maybe go further than a text-only Twine game.

Those are my two main goals for May.

I also want to write a whole bunch of new harlot scenarios so I have a stockpile again.  Writing 1st drafts still seems to have gone slow and scratchy for me, so I want to bust out of that and have a productive period again (as with when I wrote the succufairy and other scenarios a few months back).

Thanks for the continued support and I hope you have fun with Hiru no-Koochi in ver0.018
- manyeyedhydra