Dev Log 0.36b: Magical Mammeries (Patreon)

Wooo! Preview Build week!

Oh my gosh, I will even get to go to sleep early tonight! Living the dream!

But I've now finished up the scene requests... Unless I missed one, which I hope I haven't... So contact me if I have.

While the earlier Jenny dream about her predator side hunting her prey side was kind of a fun not completion of a scene request... Today we have the real one, the Domiest vs the Subiest. So you can ask Lin to help you with a high corruption Sami, she might not know what you're after immediately, but she's nothing if not helpful.

Then, there was demand for Lina content. Lina fans at this stage are famously loud. They speak so she doesn't have to. And what do you know... we had some Lina content that needed doing. And I have to say I think it came out super cute.

Though, all up this is also a Haily week. Really, there was quite a bit of cleanup to do. Going through all her scenes and updating them for pregnancy conditions and with pregnancy sprites. But that doesn't mean new content isn't still coming through. In this case there are new chunks scattered throughout all of the Alex and Haily sleeping together scenes. Which is just a nice thing to be able to do. Also I redid some retrospectively terrible art.

Finally, some of you might have noticed that the scene guide was getting a little laggy. It's a downside of the new corruption system. As such I have broken down the larger guide into a selection of half days that you can navigate with tabs. Though, the instant I did this, I started to find it annoying and added a toggle for the old system. I'm sure we'll get used to it, and if not... Why would I remove the toggle?

One final thing for dev stuff, we're going to at last have a community poll again. I remember when they all used to take this long! Honestly I'm really glad to get back to them.

Something I've learned this past sprint is that... Well, I did all the fun stuff for Haily's pregnancy last time and just left myself the grunt work. I know how it happened, mostly due to sprite updates blocking things. It didn't help that I got so used to a 3:1 split and almost tried to fit four weeks work into 3. Next time I have to tackle something this big I'm going to pace the effort better. It's been a bit of a slog. I've been hitting my content requirements and I'm not behind schedule, but... as I say... I'm looking forward to having a solid sprint again.

If it's one thing I learnt from my long history in development of not just this, but my entire career before it, it's that you've gotta learn from yer mistakes. When I seem a bit dour here at times, it's just my method of doing a debrief. What I'm going to do better next time. You know, blackjack and hookers.

Something that has been really great about these nice concise sprints is effectively telling a little story. The evolution from one corruption level to another. It gives a fantastic focus to development and that makes things easier and faster and better.

Anyway... For story time today, as the upload isn't finished yet. I've been getting into soup lately. It's nice to just have a thermos of it by you as you work.

Except then you smell delicious soup and you drink it and now my mouth is burnt. I regret nothing.

- Love Nunu