Progress update- the brain/body connection (Patreon)

Short, technical post this time. Is the nature of the engine-writing beast >.<'

I have a coding stream starting in two hours!

To new patrons: We’re in the middle of an absurdly-long update cycle. Here’s the summary and how to access content.

What's being worked on?

Making the body/brain connection.

Basically, ensuring the body/brain connection isn't circular. The body parts affect the brain, and the brain affects the body parts. It could easily turn into an infinite feedback loop if the brain and a body part both act on the same value. 

Example: 

• Touching the penis sends a pleasure signal to the brain. 
• It causes arousal, so the brain sends an erection signal to the penis. 
• An erection causes a sensation of aching to be touched.
• It causes arousal, so the brain sends an erection signal to the penis.

Within moments, we will now have a maxed-out hard penis, maxed-out arousal and the aching sensation. The infinity boner.

My plan until now was "just don't cause a feedback loop lol"... but it's probably not a good idea to let that potential disaster serve as a foundation for the entire game. So... fine. I fix. 

The final improvement.

I introduced EndStates, which serve as end-of-the-line values on body parts that don't get transmitted back to the brain. 

For example, an erection gets triggered by the brain. It affects whichever body parts it needs to (penis, clit, weird buggy ovipositor, etc). The erection is an end state. It doesn't send erection signals to the brain, so the chain of signals ends without creating a loop.

It was a challenge, since this is core engine stuff, but after spending some time spinning my wheels on it, I've broken through the problems and am implementing it now. Finishing this engine work will probably be the topic of today's stream.

What's next?

It was gonna be the attention mechanics, but I'm thinking of switching to penetration first. Getting the full game loop working visually will do a lot for prioritizing the next steps. And I think y'all will appreciate the upcoming penetration features ^^

Q&A

Will characters' different sexual experience levels come into play? Yes! Both in how they're affected by stimulation, and their personalities. It's super simple to create, for example, a prudish character who is sex-averse, and whose body doesn't respond easily to sexual touch. So, yes! In the future there'll be more to play with on this topic as well.

... and that's all for now!

Y'all have my undying gratitude for how much you've supported me throughout this project. I hate being in a position where I can't give back yet. But we're smashing through the final set of challenges one by one. 

<3!!