March 18th, 2020: Progress Report
Hey everyone, Rem here with this week's Progress Report!
Since last week, I've split my time with working on Club Bifrost and Karryn's Prison. And this week, I'm going to finish up what needs to be done on Club Bifrost before next week's release, as well as begin editing work on Island SAGA. I'm of course also going to work on Karryn's Prison when I can.
And since it's has been a while and all the information so far has been mentioned in bits and pieces in previous posts, I'm going to summarize what is going to be in the next version release (v.5) of Karryn's Prison.
v.5 will include two new guard scenes, the defeat battle for losing in Level 2, and the Visitor Center Receptionist side job. In addition to all that, v.5 will also feature a ton of additions for most of the existing scenes, whether it is adding new facial expressions or new text lines spoken by Karryn or enemies.
There has been a couple of major coding additions to the game since v.4. Two of them are the obvious Level 2 Defeated battle and Receptionist side job. The other major addition is something hidden in the backend where I did and redid how Karryn should react depending on her statuses such as passives and slut level. IIRC, a few scenes in v.4 already had images and code for Karryn's facial expression changing depending on her passives. But the more I did things in the old system, the more clunky it seemed so I redid all of that and unified them under a new system.
It's a lot of words just to say, hey, there is this unsexy backend system that I spent time making but it will help make it feel like Karryn's sluttiness is visually progressing in addition to all the gameplay effects that gaining passives have.
Of course, just writing a bunch of code wouldn't matter without Sachinama also writing new lines and drawing facial expressions. And it's not easy to draw facial expression showing long term progressive change either! The face is the window to a character's soul and if you draw the eyes a millimeter too far apart, suddenly instead of a sexy expression, you got a herpy-derpy expression on your hands.
As for the release date for v.5, I've been trying since early February to make it in time by the end of March to release v.5 for our $10+ Patrons, but I want to warn everyone that it's likely that the $10+ Patron v.5 release is going to happen in April. Nevermind the work that I need to do first on Club Bifrost and Island SAGA, there's a lot of new text that I need write and translate for Karryn's Prison. There's also all the new code that I need to test first.
Hopefully today's Progress Report has been able to answer a lot of questions about the v.5 release that you may have had! Hmm? You want details about the Visitor Center Receptionist side job?
Well, it's a receptionist job, like the type you would see in a dentist's office anywhere or something. Successfully setting up visitations for visitors would give you an instant Order bonus to the prison. It's not sexy, and maybe even a bit tedious even.
However... sources say that something interesting might happen as Karryn keeps working as a receptionist......