V0.5d / Progress Report

Howdy! Here’s what’s up:

The new version adds a small repeatable harassment event where Kira gets stopped by a militia officer, another super short (not lewd) militia event for the sake of worldbuilding and the dialogue artwork for “militia” npcs. We primarily used existing art, but I did create a new animated cut-in. 

This was not the main thing we worked on, but just a little side-update to make the wait between major updates more tolerable. As for the main update, we’re currently working on the addition of other pole events (the ones listed in the consent form), militia enforcement (in case Kira doesn’t show up for 7 days) and the “Gulag death” event (not lewd) that will free Kira from her obligations. The goal is to complete this part of the game entirely.

V0.5d (Click Me) 

Note: Save Files work, just copy your entire “save” folder from the older version into the new one.

- ”Militia” Random NPC Dialogue art

- Animated cut-in (10 frames) 

- Lewd Militia harassment event

- Not Lewd Militia harassment event 

- Bugfixes

- Reduced the size of some game files (better/faster loading, optimization)

Conditions: The lewd event can happen at the very start of the game with a certain % probability every time you enter the Residential Area location. The non-lewd one requires the party quest to be completed, otherwise it has the same conditions. 

On a more personal note, updates like this one should generally take about two weeks to make and the pole update could've been finished already, I just got bitten by Lana Del Ray. 

Yes, don’t get fooled by her “I’m retired now, look how skinny I am” charade, she still goes to hunt every summer and I was an easy prey. She turned me into the Couch Mulan and it’s difficult to make anything when you're a couch. I stared at the blank page for hours and spent a week drawing a sleeve.

But, the invisible hand of capitalism isn’t sleeping either, and it pushed me out of my slumber. So, even though I’m still a couch, here’s a little update to hopefully make the wait for the bigger one a bit brighter.

Do not get me wrong. This is not all that we did during this summer. We worked on a new outfit for Kira, Olga character redesign, layering pole event, writing new pole events, alternative “AUGs shop” events, alternative “slut version” of latest Katya event, more dialogue art for npcs, more references to Kira’s lust/int stats in pole events, Red Kira art for times when she’s “in action” and more.  

It just was more difficult than it should be because I’m currently a couch. 

That said, we also have something new to show you (apart from the update itself):

I did not just write this one short harassment H-event, I wrote multiple ones with different characters, but they still need more time in the oven -  since they’re not just regular events with a “yes or no” question. They need to have some “set-up” and ways for Kira to fight back. 

For example, the one we currently implemented has 5 options - accept to be searched by militia, bribe the militia, go to prison, use charisma or let “Red Kira” take control (will disable the event permanently). 

All 5 options have Lust/Int/Fetishes and stages (First & Second time viewings - since this event is repeatable). So, the lewd portion of this event is just another small part of the overall text, some of which can’t even be seen and most likely won’t be seen, given that the event can trigger even in the intro - but it has to be there, because it’s theoretically possible. 

This opens up some interesting possibilities - Red Kira gets unlocked later in the story, you also get more charisma for completing the quest. So, it’s entirely possible for this to be a little “revenge story” of Kira going to prison because she refused to be searched, and then later coming back to use her newfound powers on her harasser. Or for Kira becoming too lewd - which ruins her harassers “power fantasy” in this particular case. 

I want all our “harassment” events to follow a similar formula, - I want them to further emphasize the changes in Kira’s identity and showcase how Lustful/Powerful she’s becoming. 

On the “Lust” side of things - some characters will enjoy seeing Kira acting like a slut, others will get disgusted (like this new militia guy) and the Kira herself might become indifferent to the harassments, just like you, the player, after seeing an event multiple times. 

The novelty of seeing Kira touched or stripped will disappear for both her and you. So it all has to be implemented smartly - I don’t want you to become annoyed when another person stops Kira from moving to tell her she has “nice ass”, I want you to enjoy seeing Kira fight back or seeing how accustomed she’s got to the “slut life” (depends on how you play). 

Another aspect of this is that the “slut life” isn’t easy to break out of. If your Kira was walking with her tits out and then suddenly decided to have some modesty -  the characters will react, some will encourage her to reconsider, some will get angry, some will try to “help” her.  

I really got carried away while writing this, but I pretty much only have the lewd text and I still need to write the other choices (red kira, charisma, plain “no”, etc.), otherwise we’d already implement this. 

The “harassment” events I wrote have varied lengths, some are relatively big, while others have just a couple of lines to them (like catcalls). The idea is to have an overwhelming amount of them, and since they stop Kira from moving - they need a different kind of art, something without the background and relatively non-invasive. 

Which is why we were experimenting with the art of such events, I want some of them (the catcalls primarily) to just have a cut-in, no background, no anything:

In conclusion, the harassment events in our game should ideally meet the following conditions: 

- they’re meant to support the rest of the story

- they stop Kira from moving, but shouldn’t feel annoying for the player

- they should be frequent and diverse 

Harassment events will be added gradually with patreon polls and will not interfere with our “Grand plan” for the game. Everything I wrote might seem like another unfinished system, but it won’t become one. Every encounter will be its own thing - finished, but with a possibility of future expansion. 

We were also testing how they should trigger and we currently want to mix all the tools that we have at our disposal. In some events the npc will run after Kira, in others there will be an exclamation point above their head and Kira will need to interact with them, and the “autorun” events that trigger when Kira enters a location. 

And, it goes without saying, but the stripping/touching is pretty much stage 1 - We will add more stages when we’ll have more art from other important story events and side-quests. 

Now, the current roster for fast updates looks like this (it didn’t change):

If you like what you’ve read above and you want to see it, then vote for the “harassment event” again, but we will release it after the next major (pole) update, which should happen relatively soon.

Overall, things are relatively fine. I knew it would be difficult to adapt to a new schedule and switch to work on different things at the same time, but we’re getting there. Albeit, not as fast and not as smooth as I hoped. 

But, once this new schedule will be fully adapted - I firmly believe that we’ll finally get on the right track and keep everyone happy. 

This update brings one random harassment event to the residential area - the previous winner of the content poll, the new poll is already up and you can cast your vote here (in case you missed the notification):

Poll (click me)  

As for the major update - we’re currently layering the pole event, along with some new additions to it (like milk pumps, vaginal sex, double penetration).

Thank you all for your patience and support, the end is near!