February Update Published!

The major 1.1 February update is now live with a bunch of major changes discussed below. The biggest change that will be immediately noticeable is that the progression system has been simplified a lot – you now can just educate your slaves at school without worrying about their mood. The second major change is that the brothel minigame has been completely reworked to be a much more fun system.

For the March update I will be focusing on a major graphical improvement. Most of the UI consists of placeholders that I quickly threw together, so I will be going through and redoing much of it. I also hope to do a huge rework of the personality system, though I don’t know if that will make it into the March update or not. Finally, I am considering changing the game from a turn-based (“click to end the Year”) to a real-time mechanism, though I doubt I will make much progress on that before April. More details will be available in a Patreon post.

Without further ado, the (major) changes for February:

• Download modification – The base game available here on Itch will now include the 140 NSFW picsets that were previously a “small download pack”. That is why the Itch download size is increasing from ~200MB to 1+ Gigabyte. The addition download packs on Mega will include the remaining 1300 picsets. Mega download will be consolidated from 14 files into 5 files. You don’t NEED to redownload the Mega download – the original 14 files should still work, but if you downloaded the previous girlpacks, I would recommend deleting them and using the new 5 girlpacks.
• A nearly complete rewrite of the source code – this took up by far the most time and sucked up further time squashing the bugs that emerged from it. However, the code is much, MUCH cleaner now and will be significantly easier to update going forward. Players won’t actually see any effects from the rewrite, but in the long-term it will make the experience better. Bug-smashing the new code also took a lot of energy, and I think I got them all, but if your find any, please let me know!
• The beginnings of graphical improvements – most noticeable in the Town screen, I’ve begun an overhaul of the UI. This is extremely difficult and frustrating for me as I am not a very good UI visionary or editor, but it will give you an idea of the path things on heading down.
• Mood changes – Mood has been, effectively, disabled for the time being. Going back and playing the game, I felt that it was overly and unnecessarily complicated in the way that you develop your slaves. That isn’t really the focus that I want for the game, and I think there are more entertaining ways that I can develop for you to interact with your slaves.
• Slave progression – you can now send you slaves directly to school to improve their skills to prepare them for sale. You can speed up this process by purchasing special school items from the Tavern. The effect of this is to simplify the progression substantially. I promise more nuance will be reintroduced in a future update, which I anticipate will be more enjoyable than the previous system.
• Brothel – the brothel minigame has been completely reworked. I will be refining it a bit as I get feedback on it, but I think already it is much more enjoyable than it previously was and fits in much better with the larger game.
• Personality changes – minor reworkings of the Personality system, mainly by renaming personality traits from {Submissive, Aggressive, Compassionate, Confident, Silly, Serious}à {Submissive, Aggressive, Sensitive, Decisive, Creative, Reflective}. The reason for this is that keeping the endings all “-ive” will help the player mentally keep track of which words are Personality words and which are skills. This is leading into a larger rework of the personality/mood system that will come in March/April.
• Tons of smaller changes, but I think those are the major ones.