Poll results and devlog (Patreon)

As you can see above, I've redone the first, basic, initial wallpaper that you see in the main menu. The idea was that you unlock better ones later, but it was still too low of quality. And having that as the first thing a new player sees is no good. Also changed the music. Now, on to the poll results.

As a reminder, Patreon nor SS allow me to weight your votes, so I have to do it in excel. Your points are worth:

Supporters & Guard Members - 1 point per vote

Merchant Members - 2 points per vote

Mage Members - 3 points per vote

Waifu Owner -4 points per vote

Panda Harem Owner -6 points per vote

Combined Patreon and SS votes:

• Amanda und Paulina - 0
• Erika - 0
• Susan and friend - 0
• Monika - 9
• Endemica - 11
• Anisa - 17
• Ichika - 19
• Burger manager - 23

Patreon voters:
0 Ama Pau   15 Anisa   20 Burger   11 Ende   0 Eri   13 Ichi   9 Monika   0 Susan

SS voters:
Anisa: 2   Burger: 3   Ichika: 6

Congrats to everyone who voted for the burger manager. Either people really love burgers, or wanna get the girl pregnant. I should be able to touch on Ichika as well I believe.

Now, plans for 0.30. The main showcase for this update will be the orgy, altho players not taking part will also get to attend a normal party. This thing will probably take a very long time to make and I can't say what events exactly are coming, as some of them may end up being combined and merged together. Besides, there's usually multiple characters showing up in an event. 

So far two events are done: Asuka7a (school visit) and Asara8a (checking on Asara). 

Moving on, a technical devlog delving into the script work. Read if you're interested.

Game hints, events and others

Initially, with the game being much smaller in size, adding new events was a rather straightforward task. Put some event triggers on every location and add a hint into the glossary. It looked more or less like this:

if helen.story ==2 and time == morning:

jump to event

This is more or less a simplified look for an event trigger with glossary hints looking the same. This is the simplest way of throwing events into a game and it's worked well for a long time. (And why change something that works well, right?) Issues arose with more content and the addition of world map hints.

Adding hints to the world map was a must, lest the player wander lost and give up, but this meant I needed to make 3 entries for every event. 1 for the worldmap, 1 for the trigger and 1 for the glossary hint. Couldn't reuse them as they worked differently.

Another issue and more entries arose with the stories merging. Sometimes to proceed with a character, you need to proceed with other character's events. This meant throwing more entries into the glossary telling the player to proceed with another character's events.

I've automated most of the glossaries and merged the event triggers with glossary hints. Map hints are still a seperate thing for more clarity, but overall it works well and reduces work amount for new events. The game now specifices more clearly what character stories you should follow, for example Varess story 4 (watching porn together with the DOA girls) required completing Asuka's, Asara's and Helen's events, but only stated 'Proceed with other girls'. Now it's more specified and tells you what girls exactly are left.

This is mostly a thing for easier development but it should help a bit if you're ever lost.

A few more changes, that were already posted on discord:

-next event interrupt - with the new event triggers, the game can now check if an event was just completed and prevent a new one for starting. This stops the player from ending in an event loop, where one triggers after the other. You now get a simple pop up window with the event name and option to jump back home

-location names - I've improved the current location system. This mostly makes life easier for me. The player gets now to see the current location in free roam mode.

-save naming - you can now name your save files. The save name prompt will only appear once when the save has no name. Once you name it, it won't show up again. To rename it, simply delete it and save again. To keep it as no name, simply put in a space.

And some screenshots already posted on discord.