Dev Blog : 0.11 is getting closer !

Hello everyone !
   I hope you're doing well, and that you are ready for the holiday season to come. For my part, I'm doing great, just a bit all over the place, with a lot of things to do, and ending up slacking more than I would like. Also, having internet out twice this last month haven't helped. But hey, that doesn't mean I haven't worked on the game, don't worry for that ! Let's dive into the news !
 

Boobs to grab attention ! But who's your favorite ?

 
0.11 release date, and more news :
   As you've probably realised by now, I won't keep my promise of having the 0.11 released at the end of the month. The update ended up being much bigger than I imagined, and require quite a lot of work. I've made really good progress and I'm in a good rythm lately though.
I can give you definitive dates, and gonna force myself to respect them :
-The BETA will be released mid- december, around the 15
-The full release will be two weeks after, so around the end of december

   Maybe I'll cut some optional scenes from my plan, but the main part of the update is already there and done. It's mostly additional scenes (like the ones from the game poll) that I need to do. If I can't  add them in this update, I'll move them on 0.12. But I'd like to have at least a few done and added. I'll go more in details about in later in this blog.

   Another thing I'd like to try, is share weekly news, every Monday, on what I did this past week. It'll be a much shorter format than the big dev blogs, but it'll be a nice little update every week, to see how the game is going. It'll also force me to post more here, because I know I can get pretty bad with communication sometimes. Sorry for that, I hope this will help.
It won't replace the devblogs though, just some extra news on top, with sometimes more details than the dev blogs that can just sum up a lot of my work.
Now, let's dive more into 0.11 and talk about what's coming !

The grimoire quest :
   Now that I think about it, I wonder why I considered 0.11 as a "small" update. It has new mechanics, 4 new sidequests, the redesign of a character, a big boos fight, a lot of scenes, and more...
Well, I guess I can't make small updates, I'm doomed to being ambitious !

You're gonna be forced to reexplore a bit !

 
   I've you've red my last dev blog (here), you know about the new allegiance system, as well as the emissary system. And if you don't, go read it, I won't speak more about it in here. But those sytems are now fully implemented and functional, as well as the quest to get them. Same for the sidequests for each faction !

   What I've been working on, this month, is more about the main quest in itself, and all the consequences. If you remember correctly (well, if you did all the content until the end in 0.10), after giving the goblin and bandits orders to Ursula, you were left with a dissapointing reward, and a new quest : to find her grimoire. And you had no other informations about it, or what to do, since it was for 0.11.

   Well now, after getting the quest, you'll encounter some pages lying around in the map. There's ten in total, and you need to gather all of them to unlock a new location. The pages aren't specially hidden under some branch or anything, but since they're all across the map, you might need to explore everywhere before getting them. If you have trouble with them, you can always ask help from the Watcher, she'll give you some clue about their location.
   And it's a good idea to go see her anyway, since one of those pages is close the the ruins' door. As the Watcher was an optionnal character (and the gallery too), some people might have never met her, and this forced me to limit her appearance outside her zone. But with this, you'll be forced to go meet her. This way, I can use her much more ease, knowing that the player met her, and have discovered the gallery.

Yay, more riddles ! Honestly, these are just rhymes, pretty easy to understand

Hvitstrom, a new foe or companion ?
   Once you get all of your pages, you'll unlock a new location, where the grimoire is. But it's not alone there. There's a big angry horse guarding him, Hvitstrom. In order to get the book, you'll need to defeat him. And here's where a good chunk of my time went, for things that I didn't planned originally. But the result malkes it worth it !

   After this fight, you'll get a new skill (who gets it will depend on how you won the fight) to summon him (only usable while in the map). He will come to you, and you'll need to pay a small price. That settled, you'll be able to choose where to move, and boom, a small picture of the travel, and you're there ! There's currently 8 locations you can travel to, and I'll update it as I make new ones. Later on, I might also make it than you can call him during a fight, to help you. It'll be for later though, but there could be some fun things to do with him.

 
But in all that, what about the grimoire ?

Ursula's Rejunevation :
   When you finally defeat Hvitstrom, Ursula will get back her grimoire, that she needed for a rejunevation ritual. This is the perfect opportunity to add her new redesigned model to the game, that you've probably seen some time ago (https://www.patreon.com/posts/ursulas-redesign-112104920).
She will get introduced with a small animation and some pics, and will finally five you a well deserved reward for all your hard work. It will be a scene with her and Lothar, that I still need to make. I would also like to give her a scene with Illonia, but I know I won't have the time, so I'll do it later, when I'll have more time.

   With her new body, and her grimoire back in her hand, she'll finally be able to help you get more infos about Illonia's womb crest, closing that main quest too, at last ! You won't have any new main quest for the moment, unless you still have the quest to save Elleria, after being defeated by the ogre. That will be the focus for the next part of the story, but it'll be for later, because first comes the pregnancy updates, that will take quite some time !
 

A good balance between her original design and new elements !

 
   On Ursula's side, her new model means the usual : new sprite, new pics for her talking interactions and all. And also, that her old repeatable scenes will need to be updated. I will see how much work updating her repeatable scene with Lothar will take, if I make it in this version or not. As for her masturbation scene, it will be replaced with a brand new scene, winner of the game scene poll : her summoning a futa clone of herself for some selfcest !

Let me tell you that some of the pics that come for this updates are some of the hottest I've even made, in my humble opinion ! I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do !!! :D

Other content, and polls results :
   First of all, I know I've been late on it, but here's the result of this month pinup and game scene poll ! I wanted to share it earlier, but internet got down for a week, and then I though I might as well share it in this dev blog !
   For this month's game scene, the winner is Milk Shortage, where Illonia and some breast expansion spells are here to fight against the lack of milk in the morning tea !!!
And the pinup scene is Gnome vs Goblins, where our dear gnome seller Grelnidard has to face two cock hungry goblin girls !
For the details of the score, check here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MH22SmcFNBdYqhLtQghSAqdKWQW6FNQV_4S8ChbILcc/edit?usp=sharing
 

I absolutly love that pic !!!

 
   While I'm at it, let's speak quickly about the game scene polls. I hope you like them, and the ability to choose a new scene a bit out of my regular plan is fun for you. Big thanks to the people on that tier for their amazing ideas, they're a ton of fun to read and imagine ! And also thanks for joining that tier, cause it greatly helps with income.
   I'm pretty late on them though, I need to get faster and have a better planning. I've almost finished the September scene (Ursula's selfcest), only the last two pics to do ! But I haven't started the October one (Desiderius' pets), and now there's a new one to do. The first one will be in the BETA since it's almost done, the second might be kept for the full release, since I might be too short to do it in time for the BETA. The one from this month and forward will go in 0.12, unless a miracle happens. I'm gonna try to work faster on them to avoid a big backlog though. But I really like that system and what it can bring !

What's done and remains to be done :
   I've done a really good chunk of the update : all fours sidequest are done, implemented and playtested, along the new scenes in it, and the emissary system.
The boss fight and fast travel options too, are completly done, as well as all the pics and scenes related to it.
Ursula's redesign is done, and the pics around it are rendered, but I haven't implemented that part yet, it'll be my work in the next weeks. I also need to finish her selfcest scene, and do her scene with Lothar.
One thing I haven't touched, and that is pretty important in that update, is sprites. Ursula need and updated one, and Hvitstrom requires his own too, as well as some small custom sprites for the side quests. It's not that much work (although Hvitstrom might take time, seeing his size), but it's still something to do.
Overall, while there's still some work, I'm on a good rythm, and getting closer to the end ! I'll keep the date announced earlier, I don't want to push that release after the end of the year ! So be prepared !!!
 

Butt expansion ! Sadly not a spell Lothar will learn.. For now...

 
   Alright, and I think with that, we've summed up everything ! Thanks for your patience, being for the development, or just reading all this ! Expect more frequent news with the monday updates each week ! In the meantime, see ya !!!

As always, thanks a lot for your support ! 0.11 is close, and 2025 too ! Plenty of good things to looks forward to ! In the meantime, stay horny, stay awesome ! :D