Ren'Py Silk and the City of Seduction [v3.11] [Devious Delight Games]

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Monday Update: Next Dev Cycle Pacing

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Hello all,

Work on the new update is going well. We're getting closer every day, but likely still a couple weeks out at the earliest. With that said, we are already turning out sights to the next update.

Shortly after Act 3 drops, I'll be returning to University. I won't have as much time to develop but I will still dedicate what spare time I have to the project. Because a lot of the writing and implementation happens in the last month of each dev cycle, it also coincided with finals week last year.

As such, until Christmas, I am going to experiment shifting from one big release around Christmas to several smaller updates throughout the semester. I've drawn up some preemptive plans but these are general ideas that are not set in stone. Additionally, from this point onward, we are completely ditching AI art. Additionally, I am going to try to replace one AI scene per mini update. Keep an eye out to determine some of the content coming in these updates.

Update 1 (Mid September): 2-4 scenes with Original Art. Planned characters: Spider-Woman, Ghost-Rider, Scorpion

Update 2 (Halloween): 2-3 scenes with Original Art plus a Halloween event. Planned characters: Black Cat, Spider-Woman, Olivia Octavius, Scorpion

Update 3 (Christmas): 2-4 scenes with Original Art; might do a second Christmas event. Planned characters: Widow (Farm), Black Rabbit, Scorpion

Fetish Poll: 1 voted scene from the Fetish Poll will arrive sometime between these three updates; dependent on when it can be finished.

A couple of small notes: First, the planned content doesn't include existing art that is being used in a new context. Second, the new original art is likely best case scenario. I do not know the workload of the semester yet so everything here is subject to change. Update 1 and 2 could end up getting combined, for example.

That's all I have this week. As always, I appreciate your ongoing support!
 
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Glad you're enjoying yourself so far!

In regards to Black Cat, I'm assuming that you're talking about the police investigation scenes. They are the start of their own questline that is different from Black Cat's main romance story, so they are technically optional for her progression, but looking at it now there is no way the player would know that beforehand! I'll try to make it more clear in a future release. Future scenes in this particular questline are currently planned to involve the pair consensually branching out with other partners, but as it is now it is rather one sided and feels like Silk is cheating.

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe a full lesbian route is currently available for Black Cat if you ignore the Police Investigation scenes. I do not believe any other partners or scenes are mandatory to continue viewing her content. Her questline by itself should provide Silk and Black Cat enough corruption and bond to continue.

Finally, I'll freely admit that sound effects and music are my Achilles Heel and are often the very last thing on my mind when developing so I tend to overlook them! I'll definitely look at improving the sound of the selection noise.

I appreciate the feedback!
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Dev, I think I found a bug. When progressing the landlord can't pay rent route in act 1, you'll eventually get the warning that you need to progress to act 2 in order to continue, but then the next scene will play anyway, you can basically see all of the scenes way before you should be able to. Don't know if it's game breaking but I loaded an earlier save to be safe.
 
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And so ash seeketh embers said:
Dev, I think I found a bug. When progressing the landlord can't pay rent route in act 1, you'll eventually get the warning that you need to progress to act 2 in order to continue, but then the next scene will play anyway, you can basically see all of the scenes way before you should be able to. Don't know if it's game breaking but I loaded an earlier save to be safe.
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Yep, that definitely isn't intended. It shouldn't be game breaking but I don't blame you for playing it safe. Will fix, thank you!
 
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Personally i have no idea what these superhero stuff is about... without combat this text based "you win" doesnt give me the feeling of winning. All i care is how reinar will build his harem. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Hello all,

Work on the update continues. In the meantime, I wanted to figure out some future content via community input. We will be working to revamp the Scorpion scenes here soon so I figured I'd propose some options about how this could go down.

The polls can be found in Discord at #silk-publicpolls and #silk-patronpolls. Remember that Patrons/Subscribers can vote in both polls, effectively doubling their voting power!
Scorpion's scenes present a unique opportunity to introduce a certain category of erotic content: addiction. This would naturally involve drugs of various types; as well as a spiral to obtain a greater and greater high at greater and greater cost. I'm not sure how interested people are in this type of content, so this poll will help figure that out. Keep in mind that this content would be rather mean spirited.
Importantly, addiction content would bring up new mechanics that the player would have to balance. The more addicted Cindy is, the more she'll do to maintain that status; performing lewd acts regardless of how corrupt she is. I haven't determined how she will go sober, but it wouldn't be as easy choosing to do so. She'd be addicted, after all!

Option 1 - Everything remains mostly the same. Scorpion's scenes receive new art and minor rewrites to accommodate them, but the context and outcome is mostly the same as it currently is. Choose this if you are not interested or against addiction content being added.

If you are interested in addiction content, choose any of the following options.

Option 2a - The scenes remain the same but open a potential "addiction" storyline where Cindy becomes interested in trying out drugs as a result of her exposure to Scorpion's toxins. This option maintains his current game over and the new addiction content is mostly separate from him.

Option 2b - Scorpion's scenes focus more on "dosing" Silk more and more each encounter; resulting in a temporary dependence on drugs. This would alter all of Scorpion's scenes and remove his game over for now; eventually adding in something similar later on. This option could result in Scorpion becoming a recurring character if Silk chooses she wants more drugs later.
 
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GonoszTraktoros said:
Personally i have no idea what these superhero stuff is about... without combat this text based "you win" doesnt give me the feeling of winning. All i care is how reinar will build his harem. :ROFLMAO:
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That's totally fair. I originally planned to have a combat system in game, but Patreon members voted against it. That said, the story is mostly there to provide a good set up for interesting H content so I don't really mind not having combat.
 
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That's totally fair. I originally planned to have a combat system in game, but Patreon members voted against it. That said, the story is mostly there to provide a good set up for interesting H content so I don't really mind not having combat.
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I have nightmares about how pointless and unfun the fights were in the early sections of other renpy games like 4 elements trainer. So I am personally quite happy to have it be an "are you prepared" check.
 
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Devious Delight Games said:
That's totally fair. I originally planned to have a combat system in game, but Patreon members voted against it. That said, the story is mostly there to provide a good set up for interesting H content so I don't really mind not having combat.
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Probably for the best. Designing a combat system can be a real pain, half the time they usually devolve to the Final Fantasy turn-based battle configuration... which is basically just timers with hp and mana stamina bars. Still, could be interesting to implement conversation battles or something during the "boss" fights, since they seem to need more than just arriving to the battle.
 
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slowparson said:
Probably for the best. Designing a combat system can be a real pain, half the time they usually devolve to the Final Fantasy turn-based battle configuration... which is basically just timers with hp and mana stamina bars. Still, could be interesting to implement conversation battles or something during the "boss" fights, since they seem to need more than just arriving to the battle.
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That's an interesting idea! We will finally be replacing the art for the Scorpion scenes in the next few updates (after the one currently being worked on) so while working on them I could see about spicing up his "boss" fight, too. No promises but I could see there being some great potential there.
 
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