Release poll + Progress Report (Patreon)

Howdy! we’re alive and we’re working, here’s what’s up:

Fixing the art for our “groping system” is the only thing we’re struggling with, there are some other things that I would gladly do, but all of my time is spent on helping Moana with this system.

I believe I’ve failed to explain the complexity of what we’re doing and the reason behind the existence of the “groping system”, so I’m going to attempt to explain it in this post.

First of all, I mean it when I say that we’re almost done because everything is already written, drawn and coded in - this is a new stage of development that spawned into existence due to our art being layered, I’m calling it “saving and editing”, because this is what we’re technically doing.

Both gym “squatting event” and “grope system” are unique cases, and are exceptionally hard to do - “squatting event” is so complex because it shows Kira’s full body on screen, has 4 frames, shows hips and an outfit. We made it as complex because, apart from some shady medicine, it will be the only place for hip enlargement in the entire game.

As for the “grope system”, it will be used everywhere, existing events like Legion1, Vasilisa mall and Tunnel will all be transferred to it (eventually), which will save us a ton of time. Plus we will use it in other places (places like, residential area, dorm, waitress job, subway, prison etc.)

The main goal of this system is to ease our development and give you more things to do in defenestration - walking around will finally become fun.

When we will add something to this system (like a new tattoo) all of the events will automatically show it - because they will use it. This is a really huge deal for the game.

We will also use it for the Farm - so it will start “paying off” already in the next two to three updates (maybe more, we’ll see).

The amount of possible physical changes is overwhelming, and what I’m showing here is how drastic Kira can change at the moment - you can pick any combination of what is shown. There’s two “base” poses and different variations of them - hand movements, female and male gropings, self grope, male and female fingerings, naked or dressed etc. We really did try to make this thing interesting, because of how often we will use it.

The changes that the game currently offers are just one third (at best) of what it will have at the end of the game, with this system being so versatile - it will be easy for us to change things as we go (adding new partners, new movement, new hair, etc.).

We really had to break our brains when developing this - there’s no guide on how to properly do it, and rpg maker has its own limitations on top of that. Just so Moana could understand the logic behind my art-layering I had to write a 6 pages long guide and we’re still not done with it.

This week alone I had to resave 80 pictures for it, I didn’t draw anything new, just changed the layering (shadow from the hand was moved to the breast layer, male outfit layer was removed and changed to just male hand, and much much more). These changes move our layers, which means that the code needs to be adjusted as well. But they are necessary, because without them the art will lag/glitch disappear from the screen for a second and other unpleasant things will happen.

When we will be done with it - we won’t have to do it again, we will be able to use this thing as a tool for our game and we can’t just release it as it is because 10 out of 15 (both small and big) events of 0.4.7 use this system.

I know that we can fix this issue, because we already fixed it for the squatting event, which has 113 pictures right now (final version) and a three page long guide to go with it.

Because we have no experience with this thing, we really are struggling to finish it quickly, but this is something that will speed up the development in the long run, and it needs to be done right.

I hope that I’ve managed to convey what’s causing a holdup right now, and I hope you can understand why I believe that we’re almost done with it. While we’re under a lot of pressure to release 0.4.7 as soon as we can, we can’t ignore issues that 10 of our events have.

Here’s a list of what 0.4.7 will bring, and apart from benevolence and two old outfits, I already spoiled everything with our teasers:

A ton of jokes, amazing music, new outfit, two piercings, hair styling, an option to change hair, an option to change hips, new tattoo, new character art, shop interface, items, 4 squatting events, repeatable squatting event, 4 gym grope events, 3 repeatable grope events, 1 body writings event and its repeatable version, Katya grope event, two older outfits, pet training, benevolence, a ton of slightly edited art (Kira’s body, legion 2 event etc.), bugfixes, choices, autosave. And all of it will be versatile - interchangeable art and text based on your choices.

I’m certain that I’m forgetting something, but I’ll try to include everything in the changelog.

All of it is done - we’re just making it work right now, apologies for taking so long to finish this, but it’s a really hard thing to pull off.

A bit about me:

Each day I wake up and I say to myself “I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do it guys” and then Moana comes and stops me from defeating the huns, “For fucks sake, Mulan! Leave the huns alone!” She says, but I just can’t - I’ve got warrior blood, I have to defeat them.

Of course by “huns” I mean creativity, for example - I’ve already spent 2 hours making Kira’s nipples a bit darker, and now I want to upgrade Katya.

So, because there’s still things that I want to do, and because we really do not know how much of our time we need to finish editing our grope system, I want you to decide what we should do.

Option one: Split the update.

We will split the game in half, the first half will have - character art, hair styling, tattoo, gym outfit, gym squatting events, shop and all of our jokes.

Second half will have - grope events, piercings (we need grope events to be done for them) and old content (because I was asked, no, told to release it - and I’m a rebel).

Pros: You will have something to play

Cons: Most likely, I will have to suffer from “criticism” (it’s just harassment to be honest), because the update won’t have everything promised.

Option two: You do you.

We will continue working on the grope system, I really think that we’re almost there - but, I am not sure. It might take us a day or a week, or even two.

Pros: You will experience the game the way it’s meant to.

Cons: You’ll have to wait longer.

I want everyone to participate in this poll, and every vote will count as 1, because it’s not really related to in-game content. It’s just me being stressed out, and wanting to know your opinion. The poll will be up for 24 hours, and then we will either split the game or continue to work. Either way, we’re still working on it, even right now.

As usual, thank you for your patience and support, I wholeheartedly believe that the end is finally coming upon us!