💗 Trials of the Succubi News

Hello everyone! Due to more and more questions being asked, I thought it would be best to make a more official announcement about the expected future of Trials of the Succubi.

Milovana was never made with teases even half the size of Trials of the Succubi in mind. Despite using years of workarounds on my own and with really clever coders to expand this, I have been out of room for months now.

This is why I have been adding new scenes to the previewer and have not been able to expand TOTS beyond Version 4.0.2.

For me to make the full playable tease larger either:

1. Milovana needs to change their system. The admin has said said they want to make this change and already put in quite a bit of work on this front. However they will be too busy to implement these changes for the foreseeable future. Usually Milovana crashes get their attention again where they implement new changes. In my mind the next crash brings this as a possibility. (On average it seems to go down about once a year)

OR

2. I move things to a new engine. Over the years I have considered a few new engines the experience would be best on. I never liked the HTML engines so it would probably be Renpy.

Renpy

I would love being able to use ctrl to skip dialog and having save states.

However, a "port" would probably take me at least a month of full dedicated time alone minimum AFTER learning the engine AND not considering bugs. A big part of this reason would be I never organized all the image galleries with a transition like this in mind. I'm pretty sure I'm missing a few galleries. I'm not even sure what organizational method I would use to transfer everything over.

TeaseHub

The other new engine option is TeaseHub which is being developed solo by Teddibaer. I did a lot of testing for them and it honestly felt like their engine was already 98% of the way to mimicking a complete 1:1 Milovana experience quirks and all which was goal #1. The reason this is so important is because I could "transfer" everything over in mere minutes and make things as big as I wanted. I also wouldn't need to learn a new system!

Next, goal #2 was to allow games made in TeaseHub to transfer over to Milovana publication when needed. This would allow for an editor that wouldn't crash with Milovana and have a lot better functionality for creation. (Like copy pasting groups of information and bug diagnostics)

Goal #3 was to add optional functionality beyond what Milovana allows like holding down ctrl to skip dialog, having save states, potential for a Keystroke keyboard only version, actual gifs, and much more!

Sadly the creator has put it on hold and hasn't been communicating even though they were SO CLOSE to finishing goal #1 in my opinion.

OR

3. I split TOTS into four separate Holiday parts. This actually is way more labor and bug intensive than it might seem to be. One of the reasons I put so much time into TOTS to begin with was to really see how large I could make it. This split would be pretty counterintuitive to this goal. Furthermore, if it ever came time for any re-combination, it would be labor intensive yet again. I'm not fully decided but I do not currently want to pursue this option. (Not to mention each "part" would be around 50% of the total file size anyways due to weaving and overlap)

Conclusion: Basically I can't predict what will happen first at this point. In order to be most efficient of my time, I am counting on either Milovana makes the server change or TeaseHub returns. In the meantime I will continue to add to the Gold and Early Access previewers and hope you all stay patient with me on the journey. I'd love to hear any and all thoughts on the situation, perhaps you can convince me of something!

TLDR: I am still unsure of when the fully playable Trials of the Succubi will be possible. In the meantime I will continue to add new scenes to the previewer. Hopefully these will be able to be fully added to the full game one day but I still cannot predict when this would be.