Progress Report (Patreon)

Howdy, here's what’s up!

We’re almost done with our upcoming 0.4.9.9 version and we will release it sometime next week. In this version I wanted to layer the shower event and add a missing initial “Pink Kira” event, but we only had time to do the “Pink Kira”, due to it ending up being rather complex.

The event itself is rather art-heavy, it’s not layered completely (only has expressions right now), but it already has 57 pictures. The reason for that is simple, Kira has three poses in it (mirror and two similar shower poses) and there’s 4 different “pink Kira” poses. Plus there’s an “enlarged” cut-in for everything that is going on in the room.

As for the text, it explains how our fetish mechanics work and introduces the “Pink Kira” as a character. While it is primarily focused on the exposition, it features a bunch of naked Kira’s and has an erotic nature - hence, it’s a “sexposition” event. Needless to say, it’s meant to happen early in the game, so it happens right after you’ve seen the “tolstoy” event (taking a shower for the second time).

We also made a “mirror” pose that is meant to be repeatable, but we will only implement it in the “Tolstoy” event for now. If you wish to see it, you’ll have to either replay the beginning of the game, or just look at the teaser picture in this post. .

After uploading 0.4.9.9, we’ll work on 0.4.9.9a, in which we will aim to layer everything shower related, add as many updated NPC artworks as possible and prepare for the v0.5, which will advance the main story to a certain point.

0.4.9.9 will bring in some new lore and setup for a system that we want to implement this year (after v0.5 update).

I’ve talked about this before, it’s the “Charisma” stat overhaul. Basically, apart from it still being used in quests and dialogues to get discounts and shortcuts, charisma will become a currency.

You’ll be able to spend it on perks and fetishes (like “no panties” fetish), to both add them and remove them from Kira’s fractured mind.

I want this feature to be a “difficult choice”, to make the player think whether or not it’s worth spending Charisma, or keeping it for the sake of more dialogue options. Of course that implies that we’ll go through all our quests and events to implement more charisma options.

For example, we’ll add a charisma option to convince a random person to click on 10 Leninals instead of Kira.

We will also start giving 1 charisma point for every quest completed, as a universal reward, on top of other ways of acquiring it.

The “fetish” system itself will also get a boost.

As you may know, various “fetish” dialogue references are already implemented all over the game, and now we want to add visual cues for you to understand when they actually proc. Because right now there’s no way for the player to know when they are seeing “fetish” text (is it just a normal part of the event? A high Lust stat? Or a fetish Kira has?).

And what fetishes Kira even has? How to get them? What kinds are out there?

Getting them is rather simple, either you do a certain thing 10 times (like sleeping without underwear to get “no panties” fetish) or you see a specific H-event (Chief Officer for “no panties” fetish). This particular aspect of the game gets explained in our upcoming “Pink Kira” shower event.

As for what kinds of fetishes are out there - it’s an interface issue. Overall, I’d say we have a rather decent working “fetish system” that lacks visual cues and interface. And this year we aim to fix that.

It’s also worth mentioning that not all “fetishes”  will have a significant impact on the overall game. Which is why I want all currently implemented and planned ones to have a corresponding “Pink Kira” shower H-event (once the fetish gets acquired). This way all of them will have some universal impact/reward.

In the picture above you can see a part of the artwork for the “pink Kira” event, but that’s not the only purpose of this particular “Mirror” pose.

The “Mirror” pose will become repeatable. In it you will be able to eventually apply make-up (related to Katya), get various different kinds of H-event, wear sext-toys (like butt plugs) and talk to Kira’s alter egos (Pink and Red Kiras) on demand.

Now, we want the Mirror event to automatically occur right after the shower event, but we’re afraid that the whole “shower” sequence will become too tedious and feel “grindy” (which is not our intention). So we’ll test things out and see whether or not it should be a part of the “shower” or a stand alone thing on a sink near it.

The repeatable “mirror” will be implemented in one of the upcoming updates. I’m not sure in which particular update, because it’s not the priority right now, but you will be able to see it in the game at the start of the initial “Tolstoy” shower event in case you’ll want to replay it.

All of this leads me to 0.5 update.

0.5 will advance the main story to a point where you will unlock fetish removal/acquisition options and be actually told to visit Vivarium (I’ve mentioned in the past that it’s a main plot, now it all will connect).

But 0.5, won’t actually have “fetish perk tree” feature yet, because I doubt that we’ll manage to do an interface for it, along with the plot advancement that will happen.

Speaking of plot advancement and H-events 0.5 will have - you’ll get to know more about both the rebels and the KGB, fix Shwift’s head and unlock a repeatable prison pole event. Yes, I want to kill two birds with one stone (update and layer “prison pole” artwork and implement a second stage + repeatable version of it).

Now, the above mentioned story advancement will require a lot of time to actually implement. Which is why the next version will be more “system” oriented and we’ll call it something like 0.4.9.9a

In 0.4.9.9a we will aim to layer all our newest shower artworks and I’ll do my best to upgrade the character art for as many NPCs as I can (with the help of an AI).  At the same time I want to finish writing for 0.5 (I already have most of the script, but I need to polish it and add references) and Moana will prepare for its implementation.

All in all, the fetish perk tree, charisma overhaul, repeatable shower, Pink Kira H-events for individual fetishes, interface and visual cues for “Fetish” procs in dialogues are meant to make our game feel more like a game. We want to give you more choices and options and more ways for you to make Kira your own.

We’ve decided to advance the main plot in 0.5, because of the version number. It implies that half of the game should be complete, and while the story itself is far from being worthy of this version number, with all out “systems” and Kira’s character art being implemented almost to 100%, it will indeed feel like half of the game. At least in our eyes.

0.4.9.9 will be out next week and then the next update will be focused on the preparations for 0.5 - Npc art, layering of the shower events, polishing the script. We’ll do our best to finish as much as we can and to deliver the new version as soon as possible.

I hope you can see that we’re trying to do better and be more frequent with our updates, I promise we’ll do our best to keep this up! As per usual, thank you all for your patience and support, the end is near!