Update 26th Jan '25

There were fewer distractions this week, so I was finally able to work mostly interrupted.

I gave the Valentine's Day short story a couple of days and that was enough to get a first draft done. It's very rough and I probably stretched it a little too far to fit the theme of a Valentine's Day competition. There is an interesting monster girl and overall concept. It could potentially be spun out to a fairly short novel (50K words). I'll see how the short story goes.

After that I went back to playing around with CSS for HoHH NPC shop fronts. This had been holding me up for a while as I was having trouble understanding my own CSS from back when I put the Character Sheet together. I figured the only way to get over that was throw myself at it and put a couple of solid days of only working on it. That seemed to work. I have a rough layout mocked up that enables me to use the AI-art charm cards I created a while ago.

You can see a rough screenshot above. Ideally I'd like to bring more graphical elements in. For now I'll focus on getting a rough layout that works and doesn't look too bad, and maybe look to pretty it up later. Now I seem to have stopped confusing myself with CSS, I'll continue to work on this in my daily GameDev slot.

I've also figured out what the Slime Smother Nun game mechanics are. I've started writing her, so she's now in progress.

My plan for next week is to get the short story typed up, edited, and out. Originally I wasn't planning on releasing anything for January, but I think that might give me something to put out, although it will be a fully public release as I'm planning to enter it into Literotica's Valentine's Day story competition.

I'll continue writing the Slime Smother Nun. My target for her is the end of February.

I'll also continue working on the art upgrades for HoHH 1.5. I want to upgrade the NPC code to support autosaving and shop windows. Once that's stable I'll get back to working through the harlot scenarios to give them the new notebook functionality.

Thanks for the support and interest!
- manyeyedhydra