And 5m4 is in testing!

Already getting great bug reports from my testers, and I hope to be able to release c5m4 to my patrons on or before the 5th.  After I do that, I will be releasing c5m3 to the public!

c5m4 preliminary patch notes:
-Unable to leave Corsix and pursue your missing slaves, the player will have time to explore the city himself and meet a few of the locals.
-You'll get access to most of your harem again, giving you a chance to find out what they did while you were incarcerated and maybe meet a few of the people they 'met'.
-Multipart quests for Donna, Fenja, Joan, Cindy and Kathleen.
-An extended post-coital conversation with Angelica about what lays ahead.  Well both post-coital and precoital.
-2 new minor slaves are capturable, Yvone and Beta.  Although there might be a more profitable use for Beta than having her laze about your home.
-One future slave introduced.
-Currently 287 pages of text added, likely ~50 more before release.
-Currently 211 images, likely ~100 more before release.

Retcons:
-Noemi didn't leave town without saying goodbye.  You'll find her in your garrison.

Bug Fixes/Adjustments
-Reduced the number of events in Corsix to smooth performance.  Some people will still have performance issues in Corsix, this is just my first stab at fixing, or at least improving, it.
-Smoothed out some transitions in Noemi's 'Doing Time' sequence

And of course, 5m3 teasers from current Patron content. Two are from the game itself, one is from the bonus scenes only available to $25+ patrons.

An update on the update!

Starting to put everything together, combining the images, text and mechaincs into the game itself. Should be in testing before the end of the month, hopefully release within a few days of Feb 5th.

Complete short of assembly: Donna, Angelica, Cindy, Joan/Beta, Fenja/Yvone, Noemi and Fiona's scene. I've bumped Kathleen's priority up as she's another active quest, and I want you all out doing things after the trial arc.

Bubble, but unlikely : Phoebe and Sarah. They're both passive interactions with just talking/scene.

Next month: Naitay, Heather and Fiona's post-quest content/interactions if you didn't capture Fiona in Eowen. Hiro should be back and writing during Feb, and t51b has taken over Fiona, so that will leave me with a realitively short to-do list mysef. My current plan is to finish up my odds and ends in Corsix and then start rewriting the tram.

If it works out that way; Feb will be 5m4 and March will be the start of chapter 6 as you all take the tram into Denai to track down your AWOL women and go hunting for a few more!

 

And as always, some teasers from the 5m3 content my patrons are currently enjoying!

 

 

Just an update for everyone on how 5m4 development is going:

Almost certain to be part of 5m4:

Donna, Angelica, and Cindy have already been fully written and just need a few more images or code.  Joan/Beta, Fenja/Yvone, Noemi and Phoebe are fully plotted out and somewhat written.  And of course, there’s a scene for Fiona coming as that’s what the patrons voted for!

On the bubble:

Kathleen, Jessica, Sarah all have concepts for content.  But I can’t be sure if there will be enough time to get them done before I release 5m4.

Which is most of the follow up that needs to be done for Corsix.  Sam, Terra, Cecilia and Rhea/Alena don’t have relevant content in town.  Heather, Fiona and Naitay will likely be finished up in the following content patch and I’ll get as far into chapter 6 content then as time allows!

I hope to get 5m4 out to my patrons in Early February.  They’ve been enjoying the 5m3 content for a few weeks now, and when 5m4 is ready for them, 5m3 will become the public version!  And of course, teasers!

Feedback request on Jessica.

After a series of early game patches, we're making good progress on c5m4.  But Jessica's upcoming content is something which I'm thinking about quite a bit.  In version 1, one of the main fetishes she embodied was sexual exploitation.  You let other men fuck her, use her for your own benefit.  And she over time will learn to get off on that.  But a lot of the work I've done on chapter 5 has shown me that a very significant number of my players might not enjoy that content.

So I'm asking for feedback on how to rewrite Jessica's content.  Likely there will be a primary line mirroring how it worked in version 1, but I'm trying to figure out if it's worth a lot of additional work to create a secondary arc where she doesn't get used that way.  There's a few ways I think I could do it.

1.  Because it's isolated to a single slave and all at your direct order, it's acceptable.  Keep it mostly as is, just with the usual quality improvement.  Tomas's dark scene with her has to be fundamentally changed either way, but the Donnie light/dark and Tomas light scenes all were strong as is.

2.  Create a choice point where you can refuse that content, but at the cost of most of her future content if you choose to keep her to yourself.  A bit of talking to bring the events into the plot without you commanding her to fuck other men, but then only content that would have occured either way.  

3.  Create a choice point, and then try to create parallel arcs.  Where an exploitation scene has a mirror non-exploitation scene.  If that sounds like the ideal solution, keep in mind that there's a fixed amount of content we can generate and that would mean less content along any single path.

But I'm sure that there's other options I haven't thought of.  Tell me what you think!  I'm likely to decide this by a two part Patreon poll at some point, but for now I just want feedback.

And of course, some teasers from the c5m3 content which my patreons are currently enjoying!

Public version upgraded to c5m2.2

Had worked on a playthrough over the last few days and found a large number of small bugs, and a few fairly significant ones.  Enough fixes that I want to get these out to the public immediately, rather than having them wait for a month for the Patron version to rotate down.  Patrons get early access to content, but I want everyone to be playing a bug-free game!
(bug found in 2.1, updated to 2.2 to fix bug)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FhcE83OTIzUTdrQUE

c5m2.2
-Fixes fadeout after leaving Hideout

c5m2.1
Bug fixes/adjustments
-Fixed an issue where Fenja could get stuck by trying to serve Laviticus while looking away.
-Fixed an issue where Fiona had to be captured to do Fenja's quest
-Fixed an issue with the demon's first visit
-More map size fixes
-fixed a progression issue w/ Vercin
-Fixed a progression issue w/ Naitay
-Fixed multiple weather issues
-Fixed an issue that new items weren't added to Fiona's shop after you enslaved her.  Click on the items on the table to add them to the shop.
-Slid the availability of the unique quests one step back in the story progression. Doable just before the passage is clear instead of just after.
-Added weather affects to all coastal areas.
-Fixed an issue where a dead Ralph entering a brothel = game over
-Fixed an issue with the beach quest and collecting 6+ wine casks.
-Alice's face and sprite updated.  No additional interactions added.
-If you cross into Corsix with Rhea/Alena and your dark/light, they will be removed from your harem.  You will have the chance to recapture them later.
-16 new flavor NPCs in Corsix

Transitioning into 5m4!

For December and January I had been polling my patrons to see what they wanted after the trial was over.  Do we immediately plunge deeper into Rata or take a month to get the main character out into the streets of Corsix, finishing up some of the quests that your slaves started before and maybe adding another woman or two to your harem?  The answer was overwhelmingly to stay in Corsix for another release (84% of the vote) so February’s release will be c5m4, a sidequest release in Corsix and the areas immediately surrounding it.

While the player won’t be able to go back into Celee at this point, there’s a lot to do in Corsix.  The area around Corsix was never explored in v1.  So, you’ll have a few local sidequests to complete inside of town, but I really want the player to get out and doing things again.  A few of the loose ends from the slave quests easily transform into a few dungeon quests, so there will be a chance to slay some monsters, get some loot as well as getting some more booty!

I don’t know yet if I’ll be able to complete all the post-trial content in a month.  Hiro is dealing with some personal difficulties and won’t be able to write this month, so it’s just T51b and I writing.  He’ll be working on Fiona, both as a slave and free, and possibly Noemi/Sarah, leaving the rest for me.  My first guess is that March will be split between finishing up the quests and then jumping into the tram, but I’ll give you more updates and a patreon poll when we get further along.