I wanted to write a summary for previous updates as well but was too embarrassed to seem vain. Well, now I really want to write one so I’m finally going to do it. Feel free to ignore this wall of text. Sorry, no tits here.
The original concept in my mind for Hawatia was “Nazi Wakanda”. Not Nazi in the geocide sense, but a high tech nation of dark skinned people who regarded themselves superior to all others. When I was young I watched
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with John Travolta set in a world where the social and economic positions of Black people and White people are reversed and I guess some of the echoes lingered. When I saw
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in the Daz store everything clicked. I knew who the Hawatians were.
I didn’t want to bring the noise from our world to Hawatia. I never use the terms “black people” or “white people”, I just wanted something different, not another Tolkien or Martin clone. This is (porn) fantasy, we can do whatever we like as long as it has a wet cunt and some big ‘ol titties.
Some stuff I didn’t love about this update:
- In the Red Arena you only fight women, but there’s no story justification for that. I considered adding some “fluff fights” with men, maybe just a text and an image of you standing over a defeated dude. Maybe I’ll add it in the future.
- Never managed to get any “something to do” for Taamul the butler, the one hiding in the forest. For Yuki it was her daughter, for Abustan the farmer it was the boars (or a punch in the nose) but for Taamul… nothing.
- Not exactly related to “things I didn’t like”, but my Discord gang has been pushing me to try Desert Stalker and I promised them I’ll do it after the release. Good thing I waited because I saw I have used some 3D assets used in Desert Stalker. Now I feel how some girls feel showing up to a party and seeing another girl wearing the same dress. Awkward. Desert Stalker kicks ass, by the way. Give it a try.
But thankfully, there’s more I did like about this update:
- Using the term “salmon” (and “Fish”) as a derogatory term for “pink people”.
- How the Red Arena fit into the Hawatian supremacy point of view. Only non-Hawatians fight in the arena, to remind the cultured folk how barbarians act.
- I’ll elaborate on this in a future post, but I like how you have the option, when Abustan the farmer asks you to kill the boars, to just punch him in his stupid face. In so many games you play a wimpy loser, I want Vae Victis - Khan to be a game where you can feel powerful and from time to time, just get something you want by punching someone, with no sophistication or conditions. Just tell me what I need to know or I’ll fucking kill you thank you very much.
- Did you notice Abustan’s dog once you start punching him? The pig, on the other hand, doesn’t give a shit.
- This quest was the first one where you actually get to see the ruling Wench. I should do this more.
- Much more music, and it’s original too. I hired a composer for this update, it was a lot of fun throwing ideas back and forth. Now the other quests feel empty, too quiet, but don’t worry, by the time 0.5 rolls out I’m going to fill all the previous quests with original music too.
- Fucking Zuri next to her father, that was nasty, especially in the Seduction flow. And Lady Zuma’s seduction flow was also nasty. In way, some seduction flows are harsher than the rapes.
- I liked Gleeful the she-orc. Her name is a nod to Joe Abercrombie’s characters and I loved how in the middle of the sex she sort of turns the tables on Karder.
- It was a good update for orcs in general. From Gleeful the arena fighter, Horn the slaver who hates messy books and the Balint and Valk guards who act as witnesses to Zuri’s redemption. My orcs are not stupid chunks of meat, but people.
- No one got the “Balint and Valk” reference? Anyone? Anyone?
Thanks for playing (more so if you actually
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!), and thanks for reading this. The poll will close in 18 hours and so far it seems that 74% of my backers wish version 0.5 to focus on existing characters exclusively, so expect to see more of your favorite characters around April, I'm already bursting with ideas. Good night!
