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One of my favorite games. I'm looking forward to the next update. I understand why it takes so long. You do an amazing job of keeping it immersive by being selective in which scenes. It is nice to have similar looking characters instead this scene shes Asian, next scene she has red hair, etc. eth Only thing I don't like is the file structure. Since, I like to replace things in game with my own clips and pics.
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I have played the game several times, but this time I don't know why, I lost many events... haloween party never occured, shaun has only invited me in the club once, jasmynn - the sunday dinner with a guy didn't happen and nothing has moved on after accepting (i previous tries i have done everything), devilish guy - i called and then nothing happened. Also, in none of my games I have managed the cam girl. Pls help
Hmm... well, we are hoping to finally(!) have the next update out for Patrons this weekend (if all goes well). It will be public (and posted here) a week after the Patron release. It might be best to wait until the new release, as this one has fixed all of the bugs that we have been notified of, both here and through other sites.
There were a couple of bugs that were inadvertently introduced in the last update due to some fiddling with legacy code. IIRC, there may have been a conflict between the Halloween party and the club, which might be what you are describing. There was definitely a bug with the Devilish Dad path that blocked that path when starting over from the beginning. Both of these have been fixed now.
I'm not sure what might be going on with the Jasmynn path, but I will check on it. Make sure you are dressed appropriately when you go to meet him at Spencer's bar.
The cam girl site does require a certain stat level (try watching a lot of Amateur porn), but I think the level might be set too high. I will think about how to balance this out a bit more, and perhaps change this for this next update. (There is also a shortcut, if you lose the Dick-cathlon to Abby...)
Thank you for your reply!
Shaun's path moved forward. Jasmynn, I don't remember how, but one day in the progress I saw that I can meet steve at spencer's. Probably when I lost the first time, it got lost for a bit, or just i have to check a specific day.
I lost haloween. Devilish guy the same. On cam girl I have done everything, probably the stat is really high.
Last time I played was 0.3.1. I'm playing again. Normally I'd try to play through all the comment before saying anything, if at all, but I couldn't. Here's my commentary on the preface:
This game does that strange thing where it ignores the characteristics it itself sets for it's main characters.
You start off as a goody two shoes virgin whose been with only one guy and was saving yourself to marriage moving to the city, right into the unknown, and your immediate response is to start lusting after every guy you see, including multiple men at once, and being openly and confidently flirtatious. Nah, I don't buy it. Doesn't read. Shit writing. Doesn't jive gameplay-wise either, since you're supposed to start off as pure inhibited romantic, and gradually progress towards corruption, hedonism, and casual sexuality. Either the MC should be much more awkward in forcing behaviour she isn't familiar with, and clearly be FORCING it, or the entire corruption/inhibition system should be torn out since you've decided to write the MC as a sudden wanton slut from go.
And it's not even consistent. Like, one second the MC is openly talking about wanting to fuck multiple dudes, and then apparently finds the person she's talking to vaguely mentioning sex with her boyfriend to be weird? What.
Then on top of that, I'm not entirely sure who the intro was written for. Like, I'd wager the major audience of porn games, especially ones like this, are male, and this features heterosexual (and I think lesbian? haven't gotten there, but the stats screen suggests it) interactions, yet the intro goes into details about stuff like the skin of the dudes the MC is lusting after... which is clearly written for an audience that wants to be fucked by dudes, and finds them attractive in more "soft" ways, like is common in a lot of porn written for women. So not only does it seem the developer can't write a consistent MC either narratively or mechanically, but they also appear to be confused about their audience.
This is legitimately atrocious. I don't even know how you write something this badly. It's not even writing skill that's the problem. I have no idea how a human even arrives at the decisions necessary to produce material like this.
Like, I don't really want to be mean about this because I know a lot of work goes into this stuff, but I feel like trying to soften what I'm saying would only undermine my message.
EDIT: And now the follow-up. I managed to make it to, I think, Nov 22. Approximately nothing has happened in game since the change over of the month, either at the job, or with any of the other characters.I know with the one room mate I need to meet them at like 2 am on sunday,but I don't care. The other room mate I'm supposedly supposed to improve my relationship with, but I've been doing that for ages and nothing. Abby and coffeedude stopped calling me. Sister hasn't come up again. I met up with coffeedude again and it went nowhere. I'm sure I could probably figure out the right time to call Abby to set up meeting, but I don't want to. Prior to this it felt like progress was driven by a combination of my actions, and NPC "actions," but this ended half my playtime ago, and I no longer care to continue playing this game. All my prior criticism of the writing in the intro still holds after having played this long. Oh, and as far as I can tell, half the locations in this game are completely redundant, and there's little development of the basic systems that are there. And having the images for your clothing randomize every time you open the wardrove is obnoxious af, and you should feel bad. There's also basically nothing to do in this game most of the time. The basic gameplay loop is a wasteland.
This game does that strange thing where it ignores the characteristics it itself sets for it's main characters.
You start off as a goody two shoes virgin whose been with only one guy and was saving yourself to marriage moving to the city, right into the unknown, and your immediate response is to start lusting after every guy you see, including multiple men at once, and being openly and confidently flirtatious. Nah, I don't buy it. Doesn't read. Shit writing. Doesn't jive gameplay-wise either, since you're supposed to start off as pure inhibited romantic, and gradually progress towards corruption, hedonism, and casual sexuality. Either the MC should be much more awkward in forcing behaviour she isn't familiar with, and clearly be FORCING it, or the entire corruption/inhibition system should be torn out since you've decided to write the MC as a sudden wanton slut from go.
And it's not even consistent. Like, one second the MC is openly talking about wanting to fuck multiple dudes, and then apparently finds the person she's talking to vaguely mentioning sex with her boyfriend to be weird? What.
Then on top of that, I'm not entirely sure who the intro was written for. Like, I'd wager the major audience of porn games, especially ones like this, are male, and this features heterosexual (and I think lesbian? haven't gotten there, but the stats screen suggests it) interactions, yet the intro goes into details about stuff like the skin of the dudes the MC is lusting after... which is clearly written for an audience that wants to be fucked by dudes, and finds them attractive in more "soft" ways, like is common in a lot of porn written for women. So not only does it seem the developer can't write a consistent MC either narratively or mechanically, but they also appear to be confused about their audience.
This is legitimately atrocious. I don't even know how you write something this badly. It's not even writing skill that's the problem. I have no idea how a human even arrives at the decisions necessary to produce material like this.
Like, I don't really want to be mean about this because I know a lot of work goes into this stuff, but I feel like trying to soften what I'm saying would only undermine my message.
EDIT: And now the follow-up. I managed to make it to, I think, Nov 22. Approximately nothing has happened in game since the change over of the month, either at the job, or with any of the other characters.I know with the one room mate I need to meet them at like 2 am on sunday,but I don't care. The other room mate I'm supposedly supposed to improve my relationship with, but I've been doing that for ages and nothing. Abby and coffeedude stopped calling me. Sister hasn't come up again. I met up with coffeedude again and it went nowhere. I'm sure I could probably figure out the right time to call Abby to set up meeting, but I don't want to. Prior to this it felt like progress was driven by a combination of my actions, and NPC "actions," but this ended half my playtime ago, and I no longer care to continue playing this game. All my prior criticism of the writing in the intro still holds after having played this long. Oh, and as far as I can tell, half the locations in this game are completely redundant, and there's little development of the basic systems that are there. And having the images for your clothing randomize every time you open the wardrove is obnoxious af, and you should feel bad. There's also basically nothing to do in this game most of the time. The basic gameplay loop is a wasteland.
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We are excited to (finally) announce that In Her Own Hands Version 0.7.0 is now available for all Patrons at the "Surprise Me" level ($5) and above.
This update is the first update within the progression of the 0.7.x content and will be released to the public one week from today. Any necessary bugfixes will be incorporated in our next release. The walk-through for this version will be finished and released to Patrons at "Delight Me" ($9) and above in the next week.
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Introducing "Just the Tip," Our New Progress Tracker/Hint System
Based on your feedback, we have completely revamped the Progress Tracker/Hint System (now found in "Just the Tip" in the sidebar) to better assist players as they navigate the game. This effort was quite significant as we went back through all game content to create task-based "Tips" to help players progress that then display as "Achievements" once you have experienced the content.
While the nature of the hints is still the same, each action/hint is now listed separately (though hidden until unlocked by prerequisite actions), instead of progressive. Under the old system, tackling certain actions in certain orders could "break" the progressive hints. The new system prevents this, while also providing a "blueprint" for how much content is available in each romantic path. We also added hints for non-romantic activities, such as scenes available at each job, for the protagonist by herself, etc.
We prioritized this comprehensive effort in tandem with the Version 0.7.x content updates so that it comes together to provide the best playing experience. And, if you are using a saved game, all content you've unlocked will automatically populate the Progress Tracker. We may still make a few tweaks to the formatting but are very pleased with the result--and believe that many of you may discover "Tips" to uncover quite a bit of previously undiscovered content within all versions of In Her Own Hands released to date.
"Just the Tip" still only provides hints to keep you on track, nothing like the comprehensive Official Walkthrough and Scene Guide that gives you all the dirty details, but we have heard your suggestions to make this more useful and are excited for the debut of "Just the Tip" in Version 0.7.0.
At Home With Abby
The results from our Patron Poll could not have been more clear--it was all about Abby! This came as no surprise, for Abby is the most well-developed character with the most unique scenes in the game thus far. And while we had debated whether or not we wanted version 0.7.x to add to Abby's path, we took your input and *ran* with it beyond even what we had originally scoped. This was one of the main reasons for the time between releases. We wanted to do this well for all of the fans of the dynamic between Becca and Abby.
We're thrilled to announce, therefore, that Version 0.7.0 deeply develops the friendship between our protagonist and Abby by adding the ability to spend significant amounts of time together in Becca's apartment, including sleepovers. A variety of text invites will be available after you have reached a certain level of friendship with Abby (hint: we DARE you to take the pair as far as you can) and can be sent at any time of the week, though some nights may reveal different timing, characters, and content.
Choosing to allow Abby to be at home with our protagonist (and her roommates) essentially meant recreating the apartment with its rooms, daily schedule, and activities, but now navigating as a pair of besties. And, since Abby is probably the wilder of the two, that also means some "fun" adventures as their friendship grows even more comfortable. There are some hidden series of activities, all of which can be found in the new "Just the Tip" Progress Tracker, which are unlocked based on the choices made as friends during Abby's visit.
Players should keep in mind that if you invite Abby over, you may miss other content or planned activities (e.g. meet ups or dates), just as you would in real life. Abby also has work and her own schedule that you cannot override. That said, we really invested a lot of time and creativity into how the two young women would interact in the apartment and can't wait for you to enjoy being at home with Abby.
Would You Like to Play a Game?
In her trademark wild-child style, Abby introduces something we think will be new and exciting for players, an "Icebreaker" game of sorts, that can be unlocked and initiated during sleepovers on certain nights in version 0.7.0. This large, repeatable game plays out with Abby, our protagonist, and the two "hot roomies," Bobby and Shaun, and will help to develop more of the characterization of the two guys.
We will likely share more on the "game within a game" in a future post and want players to experience the new scenes as somewhat of a surprise and delight (see what we did there), but suffice it to say that there is a lot of intention behind every aspect of the apartment party. We worked through every question and answer to not only keep them in character, but also influence the progression and the possible outcomes. Again, "Just the Tip" will give you a hint of just how many endings to the game exist, and we encourage you to play in ways that allow you to enjoy each and every one.
We certainly enjoyed creating them!
More Jasmynn Dates and Misc Other Updates
With our shift to truly build out a new apartment world for Abby and Becca, plus the party game, we limited our update to the Jasmynn path to a couple additional dates. We think it's important that "Crystal" experience variety within the escort experience and will continue to add to this storyline.
Since Steve was a priority to Patrons based on our poll, we decided to split out our special plans for his storyline to a quick, subsequent release within the version 0.7.x updates. And, while his story takes root as part of Jasmynn's path and will branch off to create the first choice-triggered narrative ending, you will also be able to elect to reject Steve and stay on Jasmynn's path proper. So, stay tuned for a little spoonful of Steve (ahem, hint!) in what we hope will be just the next month.
Beyond all of the content above, and phew... it is quite a bit, we also made some aesthetic changes/upgrades and A LOT of major and minor bugs fixes. Under the hood, we also cleaned up a lot of messy code from early in the development of IHOH, which should improve the efficiency of the game for anyone who starts from the beginning. This task will continue in future updates as well.
Looking Ahead
As we mentioned above, we plan on a special Steve-focused release next and hope to have that out quickly given the more limited scope. After that, we will continue to move through the character-driven Version 0.7.x updates that we've discussed
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, adding to virtually every path within the game.We plan to have the Walkthrough completed next week. We will let Patrons at the Delight Me ($9) and higher tiers as soon as it is ready.
As always, if you find any errors or bugs that managed to sneak past us, please post them in the
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Changelog, v0.7.0 (spoiler-free):
- Just the Tip... Progress Tracker/Hint System
- Abby sleepover invitation, with three possible, variable response types, and several variable responses within each type
- Abby sleepover event series, with numerous available activities, including five different progressive series of scenes/events
- "Abby's Ice Breaker" five-round mini-game with Abby, protagonist, Bobby, and Shaun, with at least nine different possible endings depending on the combination of chance and choices
- Two new short dates as an escort working for Jasmynn
- Minor change: Invitation to Halloween party changed from Saturday to Sunday to prevent conflicts with other events that were sometimes preventing the event from initiating
- Bug fix: Scarlett's "Romance Potential" was copying Bobby's on the Contacts page
- Bug fix: Text-message pop-up will automatically close in places where this is appropriate (formerly had to be manually closed)
- Bug fix: Links to continue did not appear in Diner during second visit from Devilish Dad
- Bug fix: Dick-cathlon videos were displaying at wrong width/too small
- Bug fix: Player would be "kicked out" of bathroom if showering/naked when it was Bobby or Shaun's turn to shower.
- Numerous other minor text and formatting changes, bug fixes as reported
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Will look forward to replaying from the start...
Looking at the update couldn't see anything for Cassidy; is that in the pipeline for future releases?
Also maybe going to the club on your own? Thanks.
Looking at the update couldn't see anything for Cassidy; is that in the pipeline for future releases?
Also maybe going to the club on your own? Thanks.
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i was so sad with how short Cassidy's content is for now i really hope they expand on it soon!
We did a Patron poll a few months back to determine which paths should be developed first as we move into the latter half of the game. You can see the results at
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Cassidy only received a few votes, so her dedicated update will be some months away.
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!How can I go to the interview for the waitress position? I've played the game before, but I just don't remember.
Edit: Doh! Don't go to the coffee shop, go to the diner.
Edit: Doh! Don't go to the coffee shop, go to the diner.
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I find no content The only scene I had was with Bobby when I came home drunk. The Problem is there is no Questguide atleast I can't find any. My currrent stats are:
Arousal: 970
Romance: 24
Inhibition: 232
Corruption: 142
Beauty Bonus: 20
Fitness Bonus: 23
And when am I allowed to use the "tinder app"
Arousal: 970
Romance: 24
Inhibition: 232
Corruption: 142
Beauty Bonus: 20
Fitness Bonus: 23
And when am I allowed to use the "tinder app"
I mostly like this game, but goodness does it suffer from "requires 5 clicks when 1 should do" syndrome