TLDR

• I'm still working on the game! But the new demo is not ready yet :(
  
• Expect a lot more customization options (body shape, clothing overhaul and more)
• Personal situation is getting more stable so I should publish more consistently again
• No ETA for the next demo because I suck at time estimates.

Onto the proper post now!

Why the delay?

I’ll spare you the details of my life because that’s boring. Around the release of the demo back in February, I had to deal with a lot of issues unrelated to the game and it became impossible to work on it as much as I could before.

But my situation is finally getting stable again (not great, just stable) so I’ll resume posting about the game’s development!

What’s new about the game?

Mostly how character customization works, UX improvements, but also structural changes.

Body shape customization

I wasn’t happy with how every character was basically the same and I thought more body types would be easy to add.

I was wrong

(Still a work in progress, wording and weights will be changed)

The game will let you have tall characters, short ones, thin, chubby and anything in between. With a new UI that should be easy to use (more on that later).

And here’s the problem:

This is a NSFW game, animations HAVE to line up. Imagine two characters standing, but one of them is so tall, their hips are way above their partners’ hips so they’re just pounding the air instead! That wouldn’t work at all.

So I had to make a completely different animation system, which was hard, and is part of the reason I didn’t talk much either. If I told you months ago “Hey! New body shapes are coming!” but then hit a roadblock on another system it depends on, I would have been force to scrap the feature completely, leaving everyone disappointed.

But it works!

This is a debug scene. In the game, you can’t change your character’s proportions mid action.

When change the character’s height, the hips are automatically realigned, bending the knees as needed. It doesn’t look like much, but it has a lot of implications on how animations are made and used.

Big fundamental change like this won’t happen anymore, so hopefully I can now focus on the content!

 Also, if you want more technical info on how that animation system works let me know! It’s an interesting topic but rather involved so I’m not going into details here. It’s essentially IK animations driving a full body IK solver, but it accidentally turned into a weird physics engine on its own, so I’m using it to drive hair and breasts secondary motion too.

UX improvements

To add proper gamepad support to the game, I need to redesign the UI in a way it doesn’t require a mouse to use it. The UI is also cluttered and not very enjoyable so now’s a good time to clean it up.

Take the hair panel for example. To pick a hair style, you had to go through every options until you found the one you wanted. It’s not great and will only get worse as I add more haircuts.

So I’m changing that.

Now it works like this:

1. Pick the base style (here there’s only a bob cut, but there will be more)
2. Pick the color
3. Pick the hair length
4. Chose between straight hair, curly hair or locs

For the bob cut alone, that’s 9 different models to make! And for the demo, I plan to add:

• Pony tails
• Buns
• Afro
• And a couple of very short hair cuts (I don’t know which ones yet)

That’s a total of 6 hair cuts, with around* 9 variants each. You can imagine how bad it would be to put all of that in a dropdown menu!

*Some hair cuts might have more options, some less, but the UI panel can adapt automatically based on available options.

It’s also going to be similar for the clothes :

Again, the menus are mostly empty because I haven't added all the content back yet

Story progression

The mission system is a huge buggy mess that I can’t maintain in its current state. So many people have issues either accessing the second mission, or completing it, and I have no idea why.

So I’m rewriting the whole thing to be more robust, but also different:

• You will have a pool of missions, each with their own objectives
• You can ignore the ones you’re not interested in
• Completing a mission improves your stats and reputation
• Once you have enough reputation, the next story beat is unlocked along a new pool of missions

Most of the missions will still be about recording videos, but they will have random requirements. An easy mission could just be:
“Shoot a video in the train station”. 
You go there, find a spot and shoot whatever position you’ve unlocked, done.

Other missions might have more requirements:
“Shoot a video in missionary while wearing a maid outfit inside a laundromat”.
And now you need to unlock the position (if you haven’t already), figure out how to get that special outfit, change clothes and go to the shooting location.

Basically, I want the core game loop to look like this:

1. Customize your character
2. Shoot NSFW videos
3. Find more customization options

I don’t want to add too much side stuff as, this is a porn game and that’s the focus, but I think it’s a good balance to avoid overwhelming the player with too many options at once.

What’s next?

No idea when I’ll be done with the next build. But I’ll post regular updates on xTwitter / Mastodon, and keep the itch.io page for new releases or really big announcements. Don't expect a lot of progress reports like this one, it took me basically all day to make it and I'd rather work on the game instead.

Maybe I should open a Discord server if there’s any interest? Let me know in the comments! (I don’t have a Patreon page either, I should probably start working on it u_u).

Also if you’ve made a post but I never answered, I might have missed the notification, or I got caught up in something else and forgot. It’s fine to ping me again if I don’t answer after a day or two!

Bonus

This post is already way too long, but here’s a last video about body customization:

There’s around 12 types of breasts in the world, or something along these lines, so let’s not limit ourselves with a size slider only.

You’ll get to change the boobs shape, position and orientation. Whether you want big round breasts or smaller pointy ones looking outwards, you should be covered!

I don’t think I’ve seen that in another game, but if there are any offering this level of customization, point me towards it so I can steal all the ideas!
 

Cheers!