Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Incorrect walkthrough in 4m0.3

When I packaged 4m0.3 to send it out for everyone, I had put in the in-progress walkthrough for 4m1 instead of the one for 4m0.  The segment on Noemi's capture won't occur until 4m1, and cannot be done in 4m0.  Same with the Shenetore segment.

It is correct as I've seen otherwise.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

v2c4m0.3 released (bugfix version)

Thanks to everyone who sent out a bug report this weekend, I think I've fixed all of them.

Also, if you run into issues there is a built in command that will fix much of it.  Skills - Ralph - Check Id Ring will renable encounters, erase picture 1, fade in and untint the screen, resets the party size as well as setting the MC sprite back to the new version.  I would apprecaite a bug report so I can correct the issue though.

v2c4m0.3
Bug fixes
-Adjusted fight with Orc Chief for Angelica across the room
-Added code to skills-check id ring-conditional reset to have it reset party size back to 4 if it gets stuck at 1
-Adjusted the ambush in the eastern caves to make it so it can't be bugged out by killing a Tu'Than
-Renabled encounters whenever entering in a sidequest zone.
-The soldier that looks like a dwarf now looks like a dwarf all the time!

Base game
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FhdEZUeFB5WGYzdUU
Game + RTP
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FhRm9NNGpSWm5LbWs

And don't forget that the Patron rollover is at the end of the month.  If you want to contribute to development, get your pledge in before the end of the 31st!

Friday, May 27, 2016

Chapter 4 public release!



Harem Chapter 4 released!  v2c4m0.2w

We've completed the rewrite of the Lesser Corsix content and everything is ready to go!  My Patrons have been enjoying it for the few weeks but now it's time that everyone gets to play it.  Many thanks to them and the support they gave.

Content additions
-Lesser Corsix is now open!  Main storyline progress through there, heavily involved with Jessica and a new character Centura Vanessa
-Introduces Isabella, part of the Namuhist church and Centura Vanessa
-Two new quest locations, the Tower of Selem and the Corsix Mines
-23 new scenes, 2 non-canon scenes added
-369 new images for main content, 29 for two new non-canon scenes
-287 pages of new text
-New sprite and faces for the main hero
-Multiple sprite updates from Ninjician
-Updated Mapping from Hunter769
-Modifying Eowen in preparation for the reborn Brothel

I do have a Patreon page up and running.  If you enjoyed the new content and wish to support further development, any donation will help out a great deal!
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2583450&u=2583450&ty=h

Base game, requires RTP installed separately.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FhMlp5VW1rNVQ1UHM
Game w/ RTP, requires no other installation but significantly larger
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FheDI2aGJfMVU2amc

I do not create Harem by myself.  Credits:  Lead: Ker 
Chief Editor: HirotonoRei  Sprites: Ninjician  CG Script : JBurton
Maps, Scripts : Hunter769   Walkthrough: Ikatashi_Paku  3dcg Modding: Riven1978
Testing: Omnibomb, TheHiddenOne, Hunter769, Doom Panda, Riven1978

Even if you don't feel like or can't donate via Patreon, your feedback is still critical to the development of Harem.  Let me know what you thought.  What you liked and what you didn't like.  What you'd like more of, what I should focus more on and even what you thought I spent too much time on.  The quality control I get from negative feedback is critical and the morale boost I get from positive feedback even more so.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

4m1 testing begun

Alright, we've completed all the code in 4m1 and it's being tested now.  Hopefully it will be ready eary in June for Patrons, but I won't commit to a release date quite yet.

What 4m1 adds to Harem:
-The ability to capture Noemi (Finally!)
-It continues to questline for the Westlands Cheli and lets you capture Naitay in the end and acquire quite a few more women for your quest.
-A questline from the Celeean Sword branch in Lesser Corsix
-Starting the brothel questline, in 4m1 up to acquiring the inn for conversion.
-Samantha can now go to the resort
-Base scenes for Noemi, Phoebe, Rhea and Alena

-15 new scenes
-143 new images
~200 pages of new text
-2 new slaves to capture
-30min-1 hour play time.
-2 new Non-Canon scenes for $25+ Patrons


 The public release for chapter 4 will be this Friday.  Public release for 4m1 will be June 24th

And just the normal Patreon reminder.  If you want to get access to the new 4m1 content as soon as it's done and access to additional content through the tier rewards, your pledge must be in by the end of the month!  If you wait until June to pledge your donation won't get processed until July and that's when you will get your rewards.

Friday, May 13, 2016

The team grows larger and better!

There's been two exciting changes to the Harem team over the last week.  HirotonoRei, long time editor for Harem, has accepted a promotion to help me with creating side-quests as well.  With both him and I working on content, we should be able to have a similar amount of content per minor release while working on adding the brothel back into the game!

Later that week Riven1978 offered to help modify 3dcg mods for the game.  I have no ability to create 3d models whatsoever, just using what I can find on sites like 3Dcustom.net and ninjibox to find mods for the game and use them the best I can.  But they don't always match the setting for Harem and I'm always having to play with the camera angles so there's not a TV in the background of a low fantasy setting.  Hopefully that won't be a concern going forward!  He's also edited some of the bodies I use so we'll be seeing a lot less of the extreme gloss which 3dcg likes to use.  As well as fixing some broken mods I've always wanted to use and breaking some working ones to show some naughty bits :)  A huge boon to the game!

4m1 is going very well.  I have it about 80% written and about 80% imaged, 40% coded.  Probably looking about 150 images and about 100 pages of text in the new version. 
-Noemi will finally be joining the harem. 
-They'll be two new sidequest lines, Hiro's on rebuilding Lesser Corsix after the events of Chapter 4 and exploring further into the westlands with a lot of interaction with Noemi and Phoebe.
-Samantha will getting her turn at the resort and I'm happy with the way the writing worked out for it.
-You'll be able to acquire the Plateau in Eowen and start converting it into a Brothel, but it won't be finished until 4m2.  Going to be a total of 4 different scenes involved in how you choose to open it and path.
-Base scenes for Noemi, Phoebe, Rhea and Alena
-Hunter769 is working on a script to let players give the brothel their own name, but that will probably be restricted to 8 characters.  So what I'm hoping that we can do is both let the Patron's vote on a long name for the brothel but give the player an options for a short name if they wish.
-Ninjician is continuing to update the sprites in the game and they're consistently getting better and closer to the 3dcg models used in the game.
-Ikatashi_Paku has updated the walkthrough for Chapter 4 and that will be posted in a few days.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Chapter 4 released to Patrons

I just sent out Chapter 4 to Patrons today.  Public release will be on the 27th.



Content additions
-Lesser Corsix is now open!  Main storyline progress through there, heavily involved with Jessica and a new character Centura Vanessa
-Introduces Isabella, part of the Namuhist church and Centura Vanessa
-Two new quest locations, the Tower of Selem and the Corsix Mines
-23 new scenes, 2 non-canon scenes added
-369 new images for main content, 29 for two new non-canon scenes
-287 pages of new text
-New sprite and faces for the main hero
-Multiple sprite updates from Ninjician
-Updated Mapping from Hunter769
-Modifying Eowen in preparation for the reborn Brothel

Bug Fixes
-Several choices did not alter ethos properly.  The vast majority of those will be corrected when you step onto the world map