Project Plan November (Patreon)

And onto Chapter 3 we go! The November update will mostly be a setup update as there is a lot of stuff that we need to start now that the main events of Chapter 2 have concluded. Here's the usual project plan.

Week 1: There won't be a lot of content in this week's prerelease as I will be mostly focusing on updating my plans for Chapter 3, both on the broader scale as well as the more immediate scale for the next events that will happen. E.g. updating/detailing my plans for the mental changes and remaining corruption scenes, but also creating a bunch of concept diagrams for maps and quests. Also I still need to review Absurdity's mansuscript for Roland Quest 3. x_X As one output of this week's work, I will also post an update to the Roadmap sometime either this week or at the start of the next one.

Besides the concept work and potentially implenting some starting events, I plan to do some more minor progression updates on NPCs. Expect to be able to learn rank II DARK spells in the Nephlune Underground if you have 100+ Trust. Also I would like to add Barry somewhere into Trademond Finally, I also need to do some reviewing of the Chapter 2 corruption event timeline, as it's pointed out to me that it's possible to reach a state where you have to wait a long time to be able to remove George after doing all mental changes if you rush them.

Week 2: With the concept updated, I will then start next week into unlocking the remaining rooms in the mental world. The left room will focus on Roya stuff and you can think of it as an expansion of the Instincts room where Alicia will be able to place various restrictions on Aura to further slow her down and force her to use the collar. Expect to be either perma forced into Seductive Stance, or if I do it softer, that you will take even more stats. I still need work out the details :'D The right room on the other hand wll be focusing on the real world and will have expensive but impactful changes to bring Aura to fall. Chapter 3 will most likely not have as many events showing small deltas as the previous chapters but instead instead have longer and more impactful scenesI still plan to have a bunch of smaller scenes along as well. How exactly the balance will turn out is again something I still need to figure out.

Week 3: ...And then implement in the following week. :D After the mental rooms update in week 2, we should be ready to continue our progress in the real world. I'm not yet sure which lines I will exactly be tackling first, not even sure if they will be mental change events or if they will be just events that follow after the Cheating on George 3 scene.

Week 4: And then it's time to go back to Roya and setup the next Demon General area and with that also the next lewd area! It's been a long time since we had Maid content now it's time for it to come back! I haven't added it yet, but Richard's Anchor will be protected by a barrier. You will be given the option to destroy the barrier using SK (thus gaining corruption and losing SK for the main dungeona access) or you will be able to consult Mira on how to disable the barrier. This will lead you to a quest where you need to obtain a Rune from Lord Trademond - a road which is guarded since the beginning of the game by an NPC asking for a "Letter of Recommendation". How you will be able to obtain that letter?

By going to the Maid Academy ruled from the shaodws by the Demon General of Lust Asmodeus! I don't think we will be getting to lewd content for this in this month, as I will be mostly setting up the leadup and start stubbing out the area. But at the end of this week we should be ready to dive into the main events next month. 

The main concept of the Maid Academy will be similar to the Nephlune Underground. There will be some sort of "Grading" or "Maid Rank" (similar to Trust) and you can either advane through the Academy by increasing it by participating in the Maid Trainings and doing well, or by sneaking your way through, fighting through secret passages, etc. The details here I still need to figure out for the map design of the Academy. It's possible that a companion (Paulina) or Mira herself will join you on this, but not sure.

That covers what I will be working on, let's move on to our freelancers.

Writing

Absurdity has written the manuscript for the third Roland Quest about ten days ago, but I haven't yet reviewed it at all, ahhhhhh. For November there will be iteration work on it and also I have asked Absurdiity to write the next customer for the brothel - most likely someone into anal stuff. I'm not sure yet if it will be a fairly generic scene with just another customer (kind of what the brothel is supposed to be like) or maybe someone who gets unlocked, like a former enemy of Aura. ...Most of which are dead, though. :'D

RPGMaker Dev

The refactoring work for Vice events last month was larger than I expected, so there's still the item of general plugin refactoring that's going on from last month. And then there's implementing the Roalnd 3 quest after that. Oh, also the menu improvements. I think Trihan has enough work until the end of the year. :DDD

BGM

Attempt number X for a new default battle theme shall start next month. I don't hate the current one, I actually like it, but it's literally the Battle1 theme of the RPGMaker MZ standard toolset and I worry that as the number of MZ games increase with time, players finding their way to SKA and then having to listen to it on every battle of a 40h playthrough might be off-putting. So I definitely want to try again for another original piece of music so we can be sure it's fresh for anyone picking up the game.

Art

No change from the October plan. I will probably not make a poll about picking which H-CG to prioritize as I want to finish off the Roland H-scenes ASAP. Also Emubi won't be around from 1st to 10th of November so there will be some art production delay in that time.

And that's it! Now I really need to read the Manuscript for the Roland 3 quest - a murder mystery focused quest. After I'm doing reviewing it, I will also post it here as usual.