GAME PROGRESS REPORT - APRIL (3072 and S.L.P) (Patreon)

Hey folks,

It's time for a new game progress report.

Disclaimer: I'm posting these to be transparent on game development and show progress done. However, it goes without saying that some of the stuff you see here may be considered to be spoilers. Although I do my best to keep the big narrative points out (and believe me, there is a lot I would like to show, but that I'm leaving out for you to find and experience in game).

That said, in an effort to minimize spoilers. I'm going to post cropped versions of major image assets in the actual report. People who don't care about spoilers can check out the full uncropped versions in the attached files below.

This progress report will cover progress on both 3072-AD and the Squeal little Piggy games.

Starting off with 3072 AD:

- [3072 AD] New and updated assets -

New image assets were drawn this month to support the implementation of Barb's final trials if you chose to submit to her and become her permanent drone.

The new stuff is:

- NEW - Ash head-scissoring mini-game: Animated, these will be used in one of the new mini-games, which involves Barb's ties around her drone's pretty head!

- NEW - Mag scene: A scene involving Mag if you managed to get to be taken and kept by Barb to this point.

- UPDATED - Spanking mini-game: These image assets have been polished and updated (with Ash now wearing the drone suit). And are ready to be used for the spanking mini-game.

- UPDATED - Boot-licking: Variants of these with ash in the Drone suits have been made.

- UPDATED - Breath-play:  These image assets have been polished and updated (with Ash now wearing the Drone suit). And they are ready to be used for the breath-play mini-game.


With these done, the next phase will be to implement them in game for their respective scenes and mini-games for the upcoming patch. Work has already started on the implementation but is not yet completed.



Preview of the new image assets (Full uncropped versions are available in attached files if you don't mind spoilers)

 

- [SQUEAL LITTLE PIGGY] New and updated assets -

S.L.P has also received some new and updated assets.

To begin with, one of the three main romanceable characters: the Goth/edgy girl, has received a bit of an overhaul for the following reasons:

1) While I was happy with the quality of the other characters, I think it wasn't exactly at their level. So she needed a bit of a clean up.

2) I think the school uniform design was a bit bland. So I wanted to remake it to make it more stellar and flashy.

3) Narratively, her old look was causing me a bit of a problem. So I had to change her design to make sure it worked with the story. I also wanted her to stand out a lot more from the other regular students at the faculty.

With this in mind, her character was remade from scratch to fit in better with the story, mood and visual quality to match the other characters. While keeping her look of an edgy, goth and slightly tomboyish persona.

Note: That she is still edgy, goth. And her "Goth Domina rubber" outfit still remains the same as before. This won't really change.

So the changes are mainly in her head, and her student uniform.





The Goth/Edgy character: Old version and updated version.

Additionally, there is a new secondary character: The bar tender that was created.

Like the police officer lady, these are part of my plan to create a large cast of interesting characters to meet and interact with to make the world feel populated.

These are not just disposable NPCs, I do have plans to create juicy and kinky options with at least some of them, even though they are not part of the "big three."

There will be a lot more of these secondary characters added. Since this game has no combat and is mainly a life simulator, It's important to give players a lot of interesting characters to interact with.



The Bar tender!

- [SQUEAL LITTLE PIGGY] New locations/Day and night cycle/ Time management UI-

Lastly, as I'm doing a "life simulator" type of game, I worked on several things to make "managing your free" time something you need to consider.

1) The flow of time: Time will not pass in real time (That is to say, there won't be a timer in the background ticking passively). Instead, time will move forward every time you do something.

IE: moving to a different location, attending classes, meeting up and doing things with characters, working a job, going to sleep... Having a kinky session?

Doing any activity will move the clock forward. Meaning that you can't do everything in one day. You'll have to choose among your options carefully.

2) Exterior maps have Noon - Afternoon- Night variants. So as the day passes, the environment, NPC population, and available activities change. Making the world feel alive and dynamic.

3) Each time a day begins, or time passes, a UI will pop-in to inform you of the updated time.


If you played the persona games, it's a similar system.
It's not annoying or hard to manage. Just a factor to consider when you choose what you want to do during the day.

Time mechanic at shopping district [Day version]

 

Time mechanic at shopping district [Night version]

- Conclusion -

Progress this month was pretty good.

For 3072 AD, I can now start putting the last sub ash mini-games together. That will be my goal for next month. After that I'll have to do the Game over scene for sub Ash to wrap things up with Barb (Sub ash route) and conclude in the next patch.

The warrior Ash will be done after that, and will be much shorter. Since Barb is a "Sub Ash"-focused boss.


For Squeal little Piggy, progress is good even though I mainly work on this in my free time (weekends). Since I've finished programing all the main game systems, and upscaling the game to 2K, it's just making the content at this point at a steady pace. Creating the scenes, adding assets, the dialog, etc... I'm not comfortable giving a hard release date for the first playable demo patch, but I know that this is moving forward steadily, and I'm getting there.

That's it for this month's dev report.
Thank you all for your support! Have good one!