House of Hellish Harlots - Update 19.10.26

In keeping with my desire to keep to vaguely regular updates, here's where I am at the moment.  As I said last time, I want to release harlot scenarios in clumps rather than one-at-a-time to avoid them getting solved too quickly and ending up as "dead weight" in later versions.

As a reminder, this is what I want to get done for the next demo release:

- Player personality stats.
- Setting player mindset on entering the harlot's room functionality.
- NPC Madam.
- NPC Gossip.
- 4 to 6 new harlot scenarios.

My development process is fairly similar to my writing process.  1st draft is written long-hand.  2nd draft is typed up in MS Word.  Then it's copied over to twine and I stitch in the code.  Everything is compartmentalized, so it's easy to test each chunk separately.

So, how far along am I?

- Player personality stats.  Put back.

As I mentioned in the last post, I haven't nailed these down yet.  Thankfully, the game code is flexible and I can hold off on narrowing down to 5-7 attributes (physical + personality) until more harlot scenarios suggest what they should be.

- Setting player mindset.  Done.

I thought this would be tricky in Twine, but it turns out Twine supports a lot of basic HTML hacking.  A table of radio buttons isn't the prettiest, but it does what I need it to do.

- NPC Madam Mulligan functionality.  Done.

- NPC Madam Socialising functionality.  Typed up.

- NPC Gossip.  Typed up.

Of the new harlot scenarios.

Harlot #2, Suka no-Hirudo.  Done.

Harlot #3, (spider girl).  Written.

Harlot #4, Morticia Rose.  Written.

Harlot #5, Anna Boa (lamia).  Todo.

Harlot #6, (breast smother succubus).  Todo.

Harlot #7, (open - maybe Volumpula). Todo.

Harlot #7 may or may not be in the next demo release depending on how quickly I get the others done.

-manyeyedhydra