State of the Game: The Monastic Life (Patreon)

Welcome to February all, it's time for another update! First off, the public version of the game has now been updated, with v0.5.0 available on the usual itch.io page and the new NewGrounds link! This release was focused very heavily on writing, with several scenes to kick off the main Seeder plotline, and an introduction to our next Specialist, the Seedcarrier. I did get halfway though setting up a new smut scene, but unfortunately it will need to wait until the next release to be added. The Seedcarrier represents a bit of a divergence from typical Carnal Specialists - while normally they require some convincing on the player's part to adapt to a Figura way of life, you may find that the Seedcarrier already has a fairly strong...philosophy along those lines of his own.

In addition to standard scenes, the variety of action flavor text to be found in the procedural scenes has been greatly expanded, with a full doubling of the number of lines in the game. A new CG has been added as well for the Player/XO scene added last month - now, granted, CGs involving characters which are both 100% customizable are a tricky problem, but I believe I've found a workable way to keep things visually interesting in scenes like that. Seedcarrier portraits can now be unlocked also, even if the scene itself is still in progress.

For the next release, my first objective will be to finish off that scene and its variants. Second, it will be time to get the Heat system working, in which if you spend too long in a single system, trouble will find you. As I mentioned last month, getting that working will unlock the ability to properly implement and balance a number of other systems, although I will try and do a mix of written scenes and mechanics updates for a while. February is a short month, but I will probably be aiming v0.6.1 for the 17th, which will leave a fairly short cycle for the following update. The next Art Pack update meanwhile can be expected this weekend.

Patron links will follow, and you can find the patch notes below. Thanks for playing!

v0.6.0 Change Log

Game Functions:

• The Flower and Daenad Iond added as map destinations, once unlocked via story scenes.

Scene Content:

• Many new flavor text entries added to procedural romance scenes.
• Numerous scenes added progressing the main Seeder plotline.
• Seedcarrier introduction scenes added.

Art Content:

• 'XO's Interruption' CG added to scene and gallery. Scene will need to be replayed to unlock in gallery.
• Backgrounds added to Everroots University, Path's End and Daenad Iond scenes.
• Seedcarrier Gallery portraits are now unlockable via gameplay.​

Codex Entries:

• None

Bug Fixes:

• None

Known Issues:

• None