Devlog 4/9/23 💻✨ (Patreon)

This weekend I sat down to work on Succubus Simulator, and I was playing around with some ideas for future chapters when I got very, very carried away. Some of you may know that I have a tendency to hyperfixate on things. When inspiration strikes, I get like a 10x efficiency boost if I'm doing the thing my brain is hyperfixated on, and I can't really focus on anything else, which means it's generally a good idea to just do what it wants. It does kind of make me feel like a video game character with a very specific and slightly annoying trait, though.

Which is how this mini game/tool came to exist:

Playable here: https://welcome2heaven.itch.io/pixel-sprite-creator

I was trying to figure out ways to let players customize characters more, but I don't think I'll actually be using this method in Succubus Simulator. I like that the playable characters (well, only one has appeared so far, but in the future there will be more) are people in their own right. I may make it possible to edit clothing colors and stuff like that, though.

Some glaring limitations still exist, like how I haven't figured out how to make other body types in a way that doesn't require that I re-draw all the layers. Different poses would also require that I redraw everything.

If you're curious how I made this, basically I drew every clothing item + the base body in gray scale, and then put tint effects on the items that change based on what colors the player picks. This basically makes the white areas into whatever color the players picks, while the black lines remain mostly unchanged.

Look how cursed it looks without colors lol:

Terrifying. Oh, also, I was originally going to make the options a little more NSFW (which is why I drew a vag and penis and some other more NSFW items) but decided against adding them to the actual game since I'm pretty sure mostly minors play these types of games and I don't feel comfortable with that. Maybe I'll make a NSFW Patreon only version in the future if people want it.

Pic of the layers and frames in all their glory:

I'm kinda happy with this short lil game because it only took me about one day to draw everything, half a day to code, and then the rest of that day to add all the assets (which was the hardest part, simply because it was tedious). Plus, it was fun!

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And as for progress on the bonus chapter, I began working on the script :3