Salutations! Here’s what’s up:
I couldn’t help myself and drew a bunch of somewhat different poses for the gropings we used at the gym, one thing led to another and I’ve written another H-event for Katya.
I already did the art for Katya’s new event, you can see it in a teaser attached to this post.
That being said, we’re exactly where we were last week (apart from more art for gym gropings and Katya’s event) - I still need to finish some character art, including the guys that will grope Kira, their art will be used in the gropings, so without them we can’t release the update. Previously they looked like the guy who groped Kira at the tunnel, but I want to draw a better version.
As per usual, I’ll try to explain my reasoning for this in the next part:
It all starts with the gropings system, a legacy “issue” from our still unfinished rework.
The “gropings” system itself is no longer a part of this update, since it’s proven to be pretty repetitive, useless and uninteresting in the context of this update. This fact doesn’t change anything for you, because you wouldn't see it anyways (there’s no events for it yet).
As you may know, gropings system is basically just another “pose” for Kira’s character art,it has its own set of pictures for everything - hips, breasts, tattoos, outfits etc. The idea was to add it to the game as “a tool” for us to call when we need it, for example - adding random events without forcing you to change your outfit.
You’ve already seen this “pose” in events like - Vasilisa random event (red square), Tunnel grope event, First Legion event (sort of, this one is more advanced). But you’ve seen it “hardcoded”, since we didn’t layer the pictures yet.
For this update, we once again used it (for the gym), properly this time around, so that we could finally start using it in the future. But the results were disappointing.
Since you can only wear one outfit (gym outfit), it turned out to be a bunch of small H-events that used the same art with a different text, which felt lazy to us.
Gropings system will be a good addition to our game, but it needs more dev time than we currently can afford - we need to find a way to add more “breast movement” without the need to multiply Kira’s outfits for it.
In cases like gym, where you can only wear one outfit, there’s really no need for it, since I can draw pretty much anything without worrying about what Kira is wearing. So the system went to rest for now, and you’ll get more poses and variety in gym events instead.
I’ve used a version of new gym pose for Katya, this event will occur when you’ll decide to get nipple piercings, and only if you’re dating Katya (agreed to her terms during “party quest”).
If you’re dating her - you’ll see this event and get the piercings for free, but you can’t refuse her. If you’re not dating - no event, some cash requirement, but you can refuse.
This was a bit tricky when it comes to requirements. We didn’t want you to miss any events, so we had to tie the whole "piercing" option (any piercing) to the "party quest", but this quest is sort of “hidden”, which is not ideal at the moment.
Previously it went on like this: View all chief Officer events - go to the park at night - get arrested - sleep - party - talk to Katya.
Now you can just punch the guard in the dick, and avoid half of that. Later on we will add more options to unlock revealing outfits and "night" park.
That said, Party Quest is a requirement for the piercings option to appear (for now).
We’ve been thinking about what we did, and we came to a conclusion that we missed a huge opportunity to make everyone happy and get more support:
We should have released bugfix, then an update with reworked benevolence and pet events, then another with gym squatting event (that was drawn and teased more than a month ago) and peacefully finish gropings with character art - The end result would’ve been the same, but we’d give out more updates and stress out less.
The only benefit of releasing everything at once, is that you’ll experience it fully, like an episode “Kira goes to the gym”, apart from that - we messed up.
But it’s too late now, we’re already on this path, and we’ll evaluate our choices and actions after we’ll go through with it. One thing is for sure, we don’t want to repeat this mistake, so we’ll try to do things differently with the farm.
Thank you all for your support and patience! We’re doing our best to wrap things up and the end is definitely near! |
