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News 20.02.2024
Hello, everyone!
Ten days are past us and it’s time to update you on what’s been cooking and what’s the current status for 0.11A, and some details about what’s planned next. Let’s go!
But first, as always, the art-preview (available in the next post). This time it’s the full-height art of the elf-maid which participates in one of the events from 0.11A. Looks quite delicious, and I’m not speaking only about the food on the tray that she’s holding
Next, what’s been done during the past 10 days.
First half of the time has been dedicated to finishing and releasing the seasonal update that added a short but sweet St. Valentine’s Day themed event with the most popular girl in the whole school. This event was meant as an intermediate content addition before 0.11A releases, so that there’s something new for you to play with before the update comes out. We felt that even though the seasonal event was quite short, it was still better to release it and not miss the seasonal theme. We hope you’ve liked it, even if Hermione is not your cup of tea
Second half of the development time has been used on continuing the development of 0.11A. Among inserting new logic and new art for the events, we’ve also:
This will be used in several scenarios where time is of the essence and it’s crucial to make a choice. The goal here is to create a feeling of urgency and add more immersion to the events.
Apart from that we’re continuing to add the art and the logic for the rest of 0.11A. The art is almost finished, despite setting a hard deadline. It was not possible to achieve it since we needed new art for St. Valentine’s Day, which made the artists switch to new tasks. But the day of the release is very near and we’ll work hard to bring the new version of the game as soon as possible.
Now, let’s look a bit into the future. Last time we shared our plans about expanding the activities in the potions classroom, where Marcus will be able to watch over the students making mistakes, and consequently trying to save them from the danger they brought on themselves. As a result, Marcus will be able to receive a little bit of galleons, and of course, lewd rewards from the grateful students.
In the same context, we’ve also been looking into other parts of the game that can receive similar expansions. Recently we’ve looked into the part that is an essential part of HP lore - quidditch. We feel that since we’re making the game about HP universe, we can’t skip this aspect. At the moment the general idea is to start with some sort of management activities, such as supporting a quidditch team that represents your favorite faculty, and also managing a team of cheerleaders to, khm, boost the performance of the team’s participants, as well as to show the audience which team has the best cheerleaders.
All of this is being planned with the main goal in mind - we don’t want to make a very deep and complicated system, as it will not fit the game very well, but at the same time it needs to have enough depth and progression to be enjoyable for the players. Therefore, we will need to prototype and find a balance between simple and complex progression paths, and not go too deep to keep the whole thing manageable and implementable within a reasonable time span. We hope you will like the new additions when they are in place
And now, let’s finish this news post with a voting round. Traditionally, after releasing a content patch we would be happy to hear your opinion on it. Did you like the event in the recent St. Valentine’s Day update? Was it too short, or was it fine for a seasonal event? How about the fullscreen kissing scene, did you like how Hermione looked on it, or was her face completely not like you'd expected? Please let us know by voting or commenting below!
We’ll meet again in 10 days. Until then, stay safe and have fun!
Peace✌
Your,
Sad crabs.
Hello, everyone!
Ten days are past us and it’s time to update you on what’s been cooking and what’s the current status for 0.11A, and some details about what’s planned next. Let’s go!
But first, as always, the art-preview (available in the next post). This time it’s the full-height art of the elf-maid which participates in one of the events from 0.11A. Looks quite delicious, and I’m not speaking only about the food on the tray that she’s holding
Next, what’s been done during the past 10 days.
First half of the time has been dedicated to finishing and releasing the seasonal update that added a short but sweet St. Valentine’s Day themed event with the most popular girl in the whole school. This event was meant as an intermediate content addition before 0.11A releases, so that there’s something new for you to play with before the update comes out. We felt that even though the seasonal event was quite short, it was still better to release it and not miss the seasonal theme. We hope you’ve liked it, even if Hermione is not your cup of tea
Second half of the development time has been used on continuing the development of 0.11A. Among inserting new logic and new art for the events, we’ve also:
- Fixed several bugs that were reported recently, such as the one that sometimes made the elf-maid stay on the screen during some of the events in the Headmaster’s office, and the one that caused the package from Hagrid to not properly transition between the chapters during the second part of the Mandrake sidequest. The bug with Christmas quest (part 1) not working properly in Act 2 prologue has been fixed as well. Finally, we’ve fixed another batch of typos and grammar mistakes.
- Added a new mechanic that will make it possible to create menus with time-limited choices.
This will be used in several scenarios where time is of the essence and it’s crucial to make a choice. The goal here is to create a feeling of urgency and add more immersion to the events.
Apart from that we’re continuing to add the art and the logic for the rest of 0.11A. The art is almost finished, despite setting a hard deadline. It was not possible to achieve it since we needed new art for St. Valentine’s Day, which made the artists switch to new tasks. But the day of the release is very near and we’ll work hard to bring the new version of the game as soon as possible.
Now, let’s look a bit into the future. Last time we shared our plans about expanding the activities in the potions classroom, where Marcus will be able to watch over the students making mistakes, and consequently trying to save them from the danger they brought on themselves. As a result, Marcus will be able to receive a little bit of galleons, and of course, lewd rewards from the grateful students.
In the same context, we’ve also been looking into other parts of the game that can receive similar expansions. Recently we’ve looked into the part that is an essential part of HP lore - quidditch. We feel that since we’re making the game about HP universe, we can’t skip this aspect. At the moment the general idea is to start with some sort of management activities, such as supporting a quidditch team that represents your favorite faculty, and also managing a team of cheerleaders to, khm, boost the performance of the team’s participants, as well as to show the audience which team has the best cheerleaders.
All of this is being planned with the main goal in mind - we don’t want to make a very deep and complicated system, as it will not fit the game very well, but at the same time it needs to have enough depth and progression to be enjoyable for the players. Therefore, we will need to prototype and find a balance between simple and complex progression paths, and not go too deep to keep the whole thing manageable and implementable within a reasonable time span. We hope you will like the new additions when they are in place
And now, let’s finish this news post with a voting round. Traditionally, after releasing a content patch we would be happy to hear your opinion on it. Did you like the event in the recent St. Valentine’s Day update? Was it too short, or was it fine for a seasonal event? How about the fullscreen kissing scene, did you like how Hermione looked on it, or was her face completely not like you'd expected? Please let us know by voting or commenting below!
- I liked the event very much! Hermione best waifu XOXO <3 The kissing scene art was good too!
- The event was fine, but of course it should’ve been longer! Hermione looked strange in that art too.
- It was too short, and pretty meh. Also, that was not Hermione in that art, but someone else.
- I haven’t played it yet.
- I don’t care / I want to know the results.
We’ll meet again in 10 days. Until then, stay safe and have fun!
Peace✌
Your,
Sad crabs.
