Another update from Vren!
A large portion of the traffic for Lab Rats comes through Reddit, and I do my best to be fairly active over there. One of the most common things I saw were posts of the nature "What are some good games?", and Lab Rats is one of the common replies. If it's not provided I like to leave a link pointing here, so people can download the game from the official source rather than one of the sketchy re-hosts google might point you towards. After doing this a few times, I realized it's a pretty simple, repetitive task, and I could make a little script that did it for me. I've always wanted to play around with the Reddit API, so I took a few hours and made myself a little bot.
What does this bot do, you ask? It looks through the top posts on the popular NSFW games subreddits and checks to see if Lab Rats is mentioned in the title, self text, or comments. If it is, and there's no link provided by either the post itself or the comment it's responding to, it leaves a comment itself with a link pointing here. I also have a few checks to make sure I'm responding only when it makes sense (ie. Only respond to root comments, don't respond to comments if you've already responded to the post itself). This should save me a little bit of time commenting on posts myself, and was a fun little programming experiment to widen my skillset a bit.
Writing the script ended up being surprisingly easy, with the full python program being about 50 lines. The
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library does all the heavy lifting communicating with Reddit, including login and respecting polling limits. If you've ever wanted to do a little programming and write your own Reddit bot, that's the place to start.
Now onto the news about v0.9! All of the major and minor scenes have now been written, about 30 000 words in total. I'm in the process of imaging all of the scenes now, and have already finished the minor scenes and one of the major scenes. I still have to go through the scenes and put in the machinery that modifies resistance, keeps track of cum locations, ect, but that shouldn't take very long. I also still need to write some of the non-scene beach events, which are short and likewise won't take very long.
I should be ready to release a test version to patrons by the 20th! I'll confirm the date as soon as I'm 100% certain everything will be done by then.
