HTML Blue Swallow [v0.10 Public] [Blue Swallow]

[mc18762020]

Progress Report


.9.5 is likely to release this week!

The content for Claire's working the club while the Big Event is happening is finished. This includes arcs for each of the jobs as well as the decision to capitalize on the night or play it carefully (and any decision points/results past that).

What I'm currently working on is the branching paths in Makati at the Big Event. Each type of work has its own lead in and then an option on how to proceed, which branches to another, branches to another, and then all of them resolve.

I've been handling the screen issues and some out-of-memory errors on my laptop as best I can over the past couple weeks, all engines firing on release.

Given that I think the existing content wasn't accessible due to a simple code error, there should be a whole new world accessed on this release. (Something like 20-30 passages, 5000+ lines of content)

Lewd has been working on the pixel art for tanline implementation.

Zach has been adding a couple needed statuses for us (rested and disgusted, the latter for when Claire is not turned on by things).

Fict has been doing amazing work digging into all the errors and coding issues and fixing them for the next release. Deserves quite the kudos!

Noice is working on a variation on the creampie gif so that you all can vote on your preference. This will help guide future versions of these pieces of art.

We've also added another dozen instances of passage art -- I was looking at the filesize and I think the 0.9 dev cycle has effectively doubled the size of the game with the art and assets that have been added in.

I look forward to the next post when I can declare 0.9 complete and delivered for our top-tier supporters. Then we'll build out the 0.9 public release and show the world a piece of what we've been working on and improving over these past couple months.

Thank you for your support and patience!

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[Furmilk]

Ok, my last jake related question, is it possible to get pregnant by him?

 

[Uniformed]

Ok, my last jake related question, is it possible to get pregnant by him?

It's been a while since I've last played this, but yes, it is possible. However, when I did it, there was no dialog changes at all to support that scenario.
The game just treats it as if "Petey" was the father, not Jake. In fact, during the normal pregnancy scenes, you get the option to "tell the family" and "tell the father"... And there was absolutely no indication of the fact that Jake would be under both categories.
I was a little disappointed at that, too.

 

[mc18762020]

0.9.5 Release!


0.9.5 for our Handlers+

The Big Event is complete! That's 6,000+ lines of added content over 30 different passages!

If Claire isn't selected for the event there are a couple pathways for her to get her spy on. That's right, this is the first instance of real spying going on!

• Do some sleuthing at the Club when everyone's away
• Attend the Party with Nate, if she doesn't work at the Club
• Infiltrate the Club with Angelo, if she doesn't work at the Club

And! If she's discovered 'That Door' while working at the Club, a 'side mission' with Angelo is also now available to be unlocked.

If she does get selected for the event...

• Her job matters and affects how the night evolves and who she's with
• She'll be able to gain some intel on characters she may have met or missed before
• She'll have multiple opportunities to pick targets or keep pressing her luck until the party ends
• Each party encounter has multiple results, depending on numerous variables.

Of course there's more than content: we've added a few more states that affect stats; the pixel art baseline for tanlines to be added in 0.10; another dozen pieces of passage art; IMMENSE improvements to code and QOL changes, bug fixes a plenty; and a headshot for a certain potential Honeypot path!

This rounds out the 0.9 dev cycle which has brought you:

• The Blue Swallow Theme! (Check out the artist that made it:
  
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• Enhanced and upgraded Acting paths!
• The Big Event! Will Claire find a way in? How will she approach the event if she isn't selected? How does she bide her time meanwhile?
• The Argentinian 'Au Pair' Arc!
• New and improved "bodies" selection in High School, Gap Year and University!
• Four new outfits!
• New Trait Gifs for the Pop-ups!
• New Passage Art customized to your Claire for the High School graduation scene, thanks Noice! Let him know your thoughts, this is just an example of future similar content to be added.
• 65 new HD assets that cover the new breast size and many of the last elements of clothing in the game!
• Nearly EIGHTY new pieces of passage art
• All the pixel-tops have been updated for the new cup-size, shouldn't see any missing assets now!
• Claire can go deeper into her tribal status with the Ovatwa.
• A half-dozen new vignettes have been added to the European Gap Year.
• Hundreds and hundreds and //hundreds// of added speech bubbles
• Headshots for two dozen important characters used with their speech!
• Dozens of fixes to code, repairing blocked paths, and removing hard/soft locks!

Thanks to everyone who is a part of this project, we're doing our best to release as much quality content as quickly as possible (it's all of our second or third jobs!). Thank you for being a part of the community and guiding its development.

We hope more of you will join and help us keep building the world of Blue Swallow.



Let's thank the team that's put all this together:

Noice1bruh - All the HD art! -- do you love their art? Check out their

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too!

Fictionary - Lead Front-End and UX/UI. Does. It. All.

Zachari - Front-End Dev Support

LewdPirate - Our first artist and creates all our Pixel assets!

Gertan - Handles most of our Passage art!

Magisthus - Creating our headshots

CassieBare - Writer, designer, plotting and building Blue Swallow since day 1

️ What's to come in the next 0.10 release ?

• Focus on Act I -- pushing forward with the content in Act I ( a few more days of work) with some ancillary attention given to an HSV or two.
• Personalities! We'll implement and re-write the current content with an eye to three new 'sliding-scale' personality types for Claire: Prude/Normal/Slut
• Act I Friends, Dating and Bona paths will be continued!
• Enhancing and Expanding High School dating. Let's make it matter more.
• Additional hairstyles, piercings, and a few more tattoos!!
• More Piercings rendering on the doll (thinking a stuck-out tongue to show a piercing there occasionally)
• Disheveled versions of clothes -- pulled-down and pulled-aside underwear, for example!
• Tan-lines, as promised!
• Possibly Hair variations (ever wanted highlights?)
• Enhancing and Expanding the 'family' aspect of the Prologue to give more character and specificity.

If we do get a boost of support (hell, if all Free members joined at $1, we'd nearly double our ability to pay contractors and focus on this game), we'll likely be reducing the cost of our upper end tiers, but we'd need to see consistent, unflagging support. Quite a few join, grab a release and go, which makes us sad Swallows.

We sincerely appreciate the continued support and want to give back! Thank you!

 

[CassieBare]

0.9 Public Release


What's different from the last (0.8) Public version?

• Immense amounts of QoL updates and improvements, bug fixes repairing soft and hard locks.
• Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of speech bubbles (and headshots!)
• Improved Dossier functionality, content, and usefulness
• A hundred? new pieces of passage art
• New Quick-Start and RPG-style Start functionality for different playstyles
• Public Access to a teaser of what's in Manila (Act I)
• Exhibitionist Claire's at graduation
• Enhancing and Expanding High School dating.
• NEW Au Pair Gap Year Arc
• Acting HSVs in high school and college being expanded and improved
• New 'states' in Act I that affect Claire's skills, traits and abilities
• Dozens new encounters for Backpacking Gap Year, a deeper expansion of the African Ovatwa Gap year
• New variables (age, ethnicity) to 'bodies', giving an enhanced understanding of who Claire's sexual partners are
• Expanded options for the sexual partners lists at the end of High School and College
• New tattoos!
• New and improved interface when making 'final selections' on Claire's physical traits and outward appearance.
• Breast Implant potential at the end of High School and College
• New outfits
• Blue Swallow Theme song!

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[CrusadeX]

0.9 Public Release

first, thank you for an official link here in f95.
second, for the game in general.
third, isn't the uploader's link is of later version of the game?

 

[CassieBare]

first, thank you for an official link here in f95.
second, for the game in general.
third, isn't the uploader's link is of later version of the game?

I would argue no.

While 0.9.1.1 has 'access' to later progression in Act I than 0.9 Public, it's from 7 or 8 releases ago (three months?) and a lot of the added content, art, improvements, etc are from the Prologue as well.

Also 0.9.1.1 is missing most of the 0.9 Act I content anyway.

This is the better version. Far fewer bugs, better look, better design, better content.

 

[bluetear]

When trying the new 0.9 Public Release, after each choice in the Home base I get the (Please save. Then, Keep it moving.) page that ends the game. I've tried creating my own character and playing through the entire game and skipping act one. Both options only let me choose one path in the Home Base before it ends the game early

 

[vicaddict]

I really want to say thank you and good job to all the people involved in this game. I have been enjoying it since the first public release. Continue your work and may you never encounter writer's block or consider scenes not to be hot enough to release^^

 

[CassieBare]

When trying the new 0.9 Public Release, after each choice in the Home base I get the (Please save. Then, Keep it moving.) page that ends the game. I've tried creating my own character and playing through the entire game and skipping act one. Both options only let me choose one path in the Home Base before it ends the game early

Thanks for the report!

Do you get to *do* the choice you made and then exit or does it send you straight to the exit?

 

[bluetear]

Thanks for the report!

Do you get to *do* the choice you made and then exit or does it send you straight to the exit?

Ya so for example if my first choice is to look for a job in the club. I'll choose an outcome, bartender, dancer etc but when I start my first day off I'll go through the first day and once it's over then I'll get the (Please save. Then, Keep it moving.).

So far all the options will allow you to play through the first interaction and when that day ends it will send you to that screen.

EDIT The initial 4 options you get when first getting to the Home Base will be fine, they'll bring you to the rest of the choices. It's once you choose one of those choices, make friends, find a date, meet with your case officer then it will bring you to the (Please save. Then, Keep it moving.) page after.

 

[CassieBare]

Ya so for example if my first choice is to look for a job in the club. I'll choose an outcome, bartender, dancer etc but when I start my first day off I'll go through the first day and once it's over then I'll get the (Please save. Then, Keep it moving.).

So far all the options will allow you to play through the first interaction and when that day ends it will send you to that screen.

EDIT The initial 4 options you get when first getting to the Home Base will be fine, they'll bring you to the rest of the choices. It's once you choose one of those choices, make friends, find a date, meet with your case officer then it will bring you to the (Please save. Then, Keep it moving.) page after.

Great, I think I get why.

We'll try for another public drop in a week or so.

 

[cooldevo]

Not sure if it's new to this version, but ran across a few things:

1. Friend (default, Taylor). Female version. First partner, took to prom, stayed faithful, and committed to a LDR with her. It seems like Taylor shows up in not just the female, but also the male (with the 'boys' scenes) scenes. The below three spoiler screengrabs are from one continuous scene/screen before going to College.
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2. When dating Taylor (my case female), same details as above example. Stayed committed to her in college, kept the LDR going; and didn't cheat on her.
   1. During the summer trip home, she shows up with a guy, surprising the MC and they stopped hanging out.
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   2. A few scenes/screens later, when finishing college, MC has to break up with Taylor. Didn't the fact she's met a guy and stopped hanging out with MC mean that the relationship is over? And why does Taylor act confused, angry, and talks of moving in, when she was last seen by the MC with a guy? I don't recall any scene with her apologizing or wanting to get back together....
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[goodick]

oh new version, does her pussy still count as tight after 2 times giving birth like in old version?

 

[slexywexy]

when i am on the stats page for the RPG start i can edit any of the stats, i tried to browser it just wont let me type in a new number or scroll or anything. is it meant to be like this or am i bugged somehow?

 

[CassieBare]

oh new version, does her pussy still count as tight after 2 times giving birth like in old version?

Each birth 'un' tightens one step.

View attachment 5114170 when i am on the stats page for the RPG start i can edit any of the stats, i tried to browser it just wont let me type in a new number or scroll or anything. is it meant to be like this or am i bugged somehow?

You aren't meant to edit stats. You need to make selections which will affect the stats.

 

[4lewds]

This is pretty good, look forward to dropping money on it when its completed. keep it up devs!

 

[Mercedes]

CassieBare
I've downloaded and launched the version twice now, but certain images aren't showing up. For example, piercings and tattoos during character creation and the avatar on the left side.
Images from the story, like the parents' shower scene, packed suitcases, etc., are showing up.

 

[kndaldakf]

I for the life of me can not seem to date Ava in college. I had chose Ava as the first relationship in highschool and didn't cheat but I still can not get the option during the college arc.

 

[mc18762020]

"Release Day + Progress Report


0.9.5.1 for Sudden Agents+

We'll be releasing a new Public version with the 'correct' number of Act I days soon. So if you've hit a wall of content in the Public version, no fear, we're on the case.

Noice has been hard at work on our 'finishing' gifs and now we've got two to compare and decide between (see below). We're trying to figure out which style to use going forward for the other creamy endings. One version is tighter on the 'action' and a bit more detailed, while the other offers more customization for 'your' Claire. One version requires more art assets, while the other is a more manual process of generating the animation.

Fict has been working on an android-friendly version and the code necessary for touchscreens. We'll give an update on that as soon as possible!

We've also commissioned a new batch of Headshots for some of the characters that Claire encounters in the Big Event who may have a larger role in Act I.

Finally, I've begun work on implementing the Personality mechanic into Act I, re-writing portions and adding content to align with each Personality type when needed. This should allow for a more tailored and 'real-feel' experience based on the Claire that was created in the Prologue. There are three archetypes: Slut, Normal, Prude. It's a sliding-scale and influenced by choices made in Act I, and there are grey-areas between each of them where she can have multiple options. Beware the ends of the spectrum, where she might get locked-in and have a hard time feeling like she has agency. (pun intended)

Also! We've got a poll going in our #playtest Discord channel for our Handlers and Agency Chiefs. They're voting on which style of 'finish' animation we should be making from here on out. Here are the two versions, a close-up and one that shows more of Claire's body:
If you're one of those two tiers, head over to the Discord and get your vote counted! As always, it's you our supporters who guide our decisions!

I hope you have enjoyed and will enjoy our 0.9 content and are looking forward to what we're working on in 0.10.

We really appreciate any and all support that you do and can give us. If you're not able to contribute (even the $1 access to our Discord helps us month-to-month, if you can!), please head over to these places and throw us a positive review:

Or post about the game in your communities where you find other games like us!"

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