Fallen Utopia Update 32
Time for the last report of the year.
Writing:
Write Scenes - 100%
Basic Proofreading - 100%
Advanced Proofreading - 20%
Background Related:
Shortlist Library of Backgrounds - 100%
Organize Backgrounds - 90%
Select Backgrounds - 20%
Portrait Backgrounds - 15%
Sprite Related:
Gather Sprites - 100%
Prepare Sprites - 85%
Identify Expressions - 70%
Set Sprite Layout - 10%
Basic Portraiting - 65%
Advanced Portraiting - 25%
Music Related:
Gather Music - 30%
Gather Sound Effects - 80%
Select Lewd Vocals from Library - 0%
Implement Music - 0%
Implement Sound Effects - 0%
Implement Lewd Vocals - 0%
Programing Related:
Implement Additional Functions - 20%
Program New Locations - 30%
Program Quest Logic - 40%
Test Run Game - 10%
Bug Fixing - 10%
UI Related:
Update Graphics - 80%
Update Fonts - 80%
Update Programming - 65%
Other:
Insanity: 100%
Progress Since Last Update:
So... progress has slipped sideways... as always seems to happen when I'm feeling under the weather... heh.
As I was looking through the code, and working through programming the quest logic and thinking of the next updates... I sort of hit a problem.
The quality of the code is, well... lacking now that I have much more experience to look at it, it's a bit obtuse, just hard to work with, and hard to debug because of how it's structured.
Coming at a project of this scope, with the experience I had, and tools I was using, led me to make decisions at the time that seemed good, but now just make me sigh.
Trying to implement some requested features and things necessary to the story going forward was just not going to work with the systems as the were.
So... I started rewriting the code.
The good:
I'll be able to implement some of the things that people have frequently requested and things that I want to do towards the end of the game.
The bad:
Going to delay things a lot compared to my original estimate of finishing by next month.
The other good:
While doing this, I also have sit aside time to look through things and organize things to allow Monster Girl offspring and encounters to be added back into the game.
The other bad:
The monster girl offspring and encounters are going to be much more limited in comparison to their human counter parts.
Even the offspring will be closer to the way the current human encounters happen, where there is only a single combination of foreplay and then sex.
It's much harder to find the right amount of scenes / images and right types of characters, for monster girls unfortunately...
The neutral (maybe the ugly):
When this goes live, it's going to take a small conversion process to separate out the important data from the current version of the game to the new version of the game.
My current plan is to include a 'converter' game that you can only load an old save into that will then export the game out to be used by the new version.
You will only be allowed to convert saves if you are currently at the Encampment, that is the safest place to get the current state of the game from.
The new version will not see your old saves, you will get a prompt when starting a new game similar to how Foundation to Generations went asking you to import data when starting a new game (if there is any data found).
Because of fundamental changes to the code, I have to do this, but at least I'm providing a way to keep the state of your current game...
Basic Planned Process:
- Open Convertor
- Open Save At Encampment
- Follow Instructions in the Convertor
- Let Data Export
- Close Convertor
- Open Fallen Utopia
- Start New Game
- Choose to Import Old Data
- Win
If you can't follow the above steps, if more details are needed when I finish that part I'll include them, then I'll have to recommend you start a new game.
The requested features being implemented are:
- Tracking generations and descendants more accurately, you will be able to see who gave birth to who. (For the current offspring though, this information will have to be faked... because it doesn't exist.)
- Descendants by default will be using more family relationship related terms of endearment, terms of relationship, and nicknames for them. (Some of the spots slipped through also to use the wrong name too.)
- Even greater configuration of the numbers that drive the difficulty of the game, allowing those who want, to find the perfect balance for the game.
- Monster matrons will have descendants.
- Bastet : 8 Cat-girls
- Briseis : 3 Beasts
- Emelie : 7 Elves
- Eriphia : 4 Slime-girls
- Fee: 4 Fairy Girls (Human sized though)
- Hanu: 4 Ninja Girls (Sorry no real monkeys, so went with her sprite's esthetic)
- Lepo: 5 Bunny Girls
- Lilith : 7 Succubi
- Nisse : 8 Hellions
- Sphynx : 4 Harpies
- Tiamat : 4 Dragons
- The town management aspects of the game will be expanded, the numbers will be configurable in such a way that people who don't care about this aspect won't have to put much effort into it.
Other features:
- UI updating and upgrading
- Backgrounds during exploration will be affected by 'time' (amount of actions left).
- Monster girl random encounters.
- Bee : 1
- Centaur : 2
- Lamia : 3
- Sah (Zombie/Necromatic Beings) : 4
- Spider : 3
- Sprits : 2
- Beast : 3
- Dryad : 3
- Mareth : 3
- Battle System Update, numbers are going to be tweaked in anticipation of the updates after Fallen Utopia.
- Speed as a mechanic to determine turn order, will work mostly the same until the future, except the very start you will be faster than monsters with your fists and tunic... they'll probably still beat the shit out you. *laugh*
- Descendant 'Stories' will be moved back to 'Chats' and some of the original stories from the game will be brought back in as 'Stories' that descendants can tell you.
- Possibly something else that I can't remember at the moment.
Plans:
For January I plan to work on the new set of tasks I've set myself, while taking a bit of time here and there to resume the other tasks.
From there I will keep working to finish up what is needed for 'Fallen Utopia' (Elves Part 1), while taking some time to start the process of writing 'The Far Coast' (Elves Part 2).
By doing that hopefully this time next year you will have the second part in your hands, maybe sooner, but I'm slow and juggling a lot of balls.
Request:
While I do have a selection of nicknames, which I'll mention next, if people who follow this thread have some I missed, feel free to post them here. (Note though, these terms should be positive to be considered, if you want to use more degrading terms you will have the option to change these terms for all descendants at once, or on an individual level.)
nicknames (for them) = "Sweetie", "Honey", "Angel", "Sweetheart", "Sugar", "Cutie", "Baby", "Precious", "Darling", "Babe", "Beautiful", "Sweetness", "Dearest"
formal_name (for you) = "Dad", "Father", "Sir", "Sire"
pet_name (for you, going to be used in the throws of passion for sure) = "Daddy", "Papa"
Also with the town/encampment systems, I have some ideas of how to expand it and make it meaningful, but if you have suggestions please post them now, I haven't tackled that section yet, so now is the time to throw ideas at me.
As a side note, for the Elven city I don't have any plans to make it need extensive management, the residents and their descendants would be more capable than the average human / monster girl. Also don't know how I would differentiate it from the monster town.
I'll peek in and try and answer things when I have time, but I might end up addressing everything closer to the next report.
Until next time, everyone take care and be safe, see you next year on the 14th of January with the next report.
