Progress Report / Survey (Patreon)

Howdy! Here’s what’s up:

We implemented the winners of our polls to the game and now both me and Moana are busy with the final event for the next update (boobjob).

In this post I’ll primarily talk about “breasts” and I’m curious to know what sizes are popular, so there is a small survey at the end.

Above you can see the winners of our last three polls - nose ring, hips and “fake” breasts.

Nose Ring - Option “V3” won with 108 votes (option “V5” had 100 votes).

Fake breasts - Option 1 won with 137 votes (option 4 had 76 votes)

Hips - Option 2 won and is far ahead of its competition.

P.S: There’s a small announcement in regards to the “fake” size at the end of this post.

After reading your feedback under our last “fake breasts” poll, I’d like to talk about “technical debt”:

It’s no secret that our game wasn’t intended to be like this from the beginning, we initially didn’t plan to include this amount of customization in it - it kind of happened over the course of multiple updates.

Which means that we have “technical debt” - text that needs to be updated, events that need to be layered, NPC art that needs to be redrawn.

To make sure that our “technical debt” won’t grow any further, we’re now implementing this character art overhaul for Kira. Including body-mods that won’t be accessible for a long time.

Now, knowing what sizes of breasts Kira will have and how they look - I am finally able to draw “full” events, with all artwork being present in advance.

As for the “technical debt” we already have, I’ve been slowly preparing to deal with it, and now I just have to finish drawing 5 remaining breast sizes for older events. This way, when we will implement new body mods - we won’t have to redo every single event in our game.

Our current plan is to upgrade older events along with new content, one older event per update, right after we finish the “Farm” part of Vivarium.

We’re proud of the amount of variability Defenestration has to offer, I can’t even imagine our game without “Dumb” Kira or breast expansion events. But, because of the same variability, it’s pretty hard and time consuming to implement anything new.

However, just like I passively became better at drawing and Moana at coding, I’m sure we’ll adjust and become faster at working with this amount of variability. Especially now when we have all shapes and sizes set in stone.

With all that in mind, here's what I’ve been thinking in regards to “fake” breasts.

Yes, maybe we’ll add it, and here’s what I mean by “maybe”:

Originally, the game was planned to only have “natural” breast sizes and I’ve added one “fake” size to our roster, due to it being requested a couple of times. But, now that I can see that there is a demand for it, I might be able to do something about it.

First of all, adding new breasts to Kira’s character art is a lot of work, since we have plenty of outfits and some poses to adjust in order for them to work. But, it’s a “one time” thing.

So, once again, the real issue is events. 

I have sizes 1, 3 and 5 ready for pretty much all our events (not implemented everywhere, but drawn), and I’ve yet to finish drawing three more sizes - 7,9 and Fake for older events.

In the near future, I’ll have to draw every single event with 6 different sizes which is a lot. Especially since, more often than not, the difference in the size of Kira’s breasts means that I also have to draw different hands, writings, piercings, fluids etc.

However, since I’m going to revisit my old art, I will draw “Fake 2” breasts in a couple of events and time myself.

Given that “Fake 2” size has the same shape as the “Fake 1”, it might not be that time consuming to add it. But I still have to test it.

That is why, maybe we’ll add it. First, I have to test it out and see how much of my time it will eat.

I hope this post manages to convey what we’re thinking and I hope you understand why I’m hesitant to include “Fake 2” to our game. But I do hear you and I will test out how difficult this addition might be.

Current event that I’m working on (boobjob) seems perfect for this test, but each event is a different case, so I’ll have to test it in multiple places. In any case, I will share our final decision in the upcoming weeks.

On top of that, I still remember a time when our game had only 4 events and most of them were about “brainwashing”. Back then, not surprisingly, every “event” poll we conducted resulted in more “brainwashing” events winning - because that was our audience at a time.

Because of that experience, I think that once our game will have “fake” and “giant” breast sizes, we will attract more people interested in them.

Since this post turned out to be so heavily focused on “breasts”, I’d like to conduct a little survey:

With what breast size do you plan on playing? (If "Fake 2" will be implemented)

That’s all I wanted to ask today, thank you all for your feedback, patience and support! The end is near!