Devlog No.028

This devlog is basically me getting back on my feet in a sense. I'm currently working on Twelve Smoldering Tea Leaves uh... 'animation' so I don't want to spend too much time on this before getting right back to that. I'll spoil a tiny bit there and let you know she's going to get her 'airship' wish. I mean, for some of you, her tf will be no surprise. I dunno why, but I just kept thinking of magma and 'hot' with her and it just came out that she was this hotheaded, hot haired, hot eyed, gal. I think 'hot aired' will be fitting.

In terms of the actual game development, slower than usual. I'll talk a little more about plans. A friend asked me about the NPC implementation, so why not, lets talk about that?

My plan is to actually enhance the NPC system near the end when I actually add them in. I think it'll just be a month straight of me grabbing the wires, straightening them out, and then adding to them and creating a nice robust system for it.

The idea here is nothing new. When you talk to these NPCs, you'll have a few options.

Transform(I'm not actually sure what this option should be called... but it'll be a very 'general' term to use for all the NPCs)
Talk
Leave

Leave is obvious. You leave and they say goodbye.

Transform is pretty straightforward. If you haven't tfed the NPC, it'll ask you to use a TF item. If you don't have one, it'll be blanked out or you won't be able to say yes. Or it'll throw a 'You don't have the necessary item.'

Talk on the other hand will be me expressing my 'lore' into the universe. Well Aria's version of it anyway. I will make it so it brings up another dialogue box with other topics you can ask the NPC. After you TF the NPC, the dialogue options will increase and you'll be able to talk to them about other things.

It should be a simple system that also rewards you for tfing the NPC with more dialogue to talk to them about.

I haven't really talked about it too much, but I'm keeping the game a little 'subdued' on the sexuality. That means no nudity as I believe I have said in the past. That also means the characters won't have sex or anything like that. I may 'imply' that NPCs are doing it or that they have done it, but you won't actually see any of it in the game. The most you will get is some perky nipples and tight panties. Hopefully not a disqualifier there long term.

Not that I am aiming for some specific rating or something (Especially not considering the subject matter we deal with here!) but just more about the vibe of the game overall. I prefer that line of cute and sexy fun expansion versus really hardcore or 'too soft' where you barely get any 'real' expansion or transformation out of it. So you'll never see a character fully nude (unless they are covering themselves or it's ambiguous) and you'll never see sex in the game. (But you might get some implied stuff at the end...)

Anyway, the reason I mention that is because I do definitely intend to ride that line. You will get NPCs who rather like expanding and transforming and will let you know during and afterward through in game text vocalizations. Most of the time though, I am going to try to make the expansion and transformation hinge on something 'fun' rather than 'gratifying'. But here and there I'm sure I might lean more towards the sexy end of things.

Long story short, the transformable NPCs should have a variety of fun and 'interesting' dialogue before, during, and after their transformations.

And that's really all I have to say here for now. I'm sorry I don't have too much to say in regards to the actual development of the game, but that's because nearly all the time has been recovering/moving from the outage and also from getting the NPCs for the previous months. (I have actually done some in game programming for the barrels, but it's mostly just polish and planning so not much to say) I have done some minor work on the sprites and tiles too, but nothing worth note. Next devlog should be more fulfilling.

Also Twelve Smoldering Tea Leaves tf should be PLENTY fulfilling when I finish it!