Happy new Year! About 2022 and big plans for 2023

Hi guys!

Many people know me as a developer who spares no expense in developing a game. I have a lot of ideas, a lot of experience in development, and a lot of possibilities. Thanks to you, I want to make Lust Hunter the best game in its genre for a lot of people.

And now I want to tell you about my ideas for next year:

Shortly:

• New user interface
• New wardrobe improve and new clothing
• Body customizations
• New Tavern features
• New relationships with NPC, new events and new genders
• New enemy
• New types of sex animations for all enemy
• New location
• New card for battle
• Brothel and Prison improves
• Statistics
• Problems with android build size
• Steam version?
• Unity engine or new game?

New user interface:

When I first started developing Lust Hunter, I didn't know where I would end up. I had a general idea. I often listen to my audience, and I added a lot of different features. But now I see that some elements of the interface need to be improved. 

For example, displaying name, range, gender, life bar, your skills, coins and points is not always necessary. For example, outside of battles, it doesn't matter what skills you have. And at the moment of battle it doesn't matter how much money you have. I want to redesign the UI for a simpler visual.

Also now there are some problems with the mandatory quest items. For example, someone loses cups, which are needed for Rascal. This is unacceptable, so I want to separate the mandatory items from the general inventory.

Navigation. I've already done a lot of work on navigating between locations. But now I want to improve it. Last year I promised to make navigation easier, and I did add the necessary transitions. For example, I added an instant transition from the clothing store to your closet. Or a transition from the Church of Patrons, the place where bonus clothes are handed out, to your home closet. This makes it easier to move, and speeds up the transition time. I want to make the game easier and clearer.

A good practice in app development is to jump to any action in 3 steps. It's not always possible, but it's something I want to strive for.

New wardrobe improve and new clothing:

In 2022, I did a lot of closet improvements. I also added a huge amount of new clothes. Each added garment averages four pieces. I added 36 new suits to the church of patrons' bonus clothes alone.

That's about 100 different pieces of clothing that you can combine to your liking. I also added clothing sorting, so you can decide for yourself whether to put your underwear under your tights, or on top of your tights. Wear a bra under a blouse, or over a blouse. A simple sorting system based on drag and drop solves this problem. I also added the ability to quicksave outfits and quickload them right in your wardrobe. There are 5 slots.

This year the patrons gave me a great idea. Now every piece of clothing has a modifier that gives your character bonuses, like increasing your HP, or allowing you to escape from combat. Or increases your reward after combat. Or increases your attack cards in combat. When I was designing it, I thought it was really cool. But now I realize that players choose clothes by these modifiers, not by how they look.

That makes me sad. Because between sexy panties with +50hp, and granny panties with +300hp. The player always chooses granny panties.

That's my mistake. So in 2023 I want to correct it. I want to decouple modifiers from clothing. And you will choose which modifier to choose for a particular clothing. This will allow you to choose whatever clothes you want. And any modifiers for it. Each piece of clothing will contain its own slot for a modifier. You can buy new modifiers in the store, or create them from found items.

Body customizations:

One of the main features of the game is the possibility to change into any clothes with the ability to combine them with other parts. This allows for thousands of different clothing options. In 2022 I added the ability to change hairstyles. I added many different kinds of hairstyles, mustaches, intimate hair and beards, and the ability to change their color. But I don't think this is enough. 

So in 2023 I will add the ability to change the size of genitals and boobs! It's going to be amazing. You can customize your character any way you want. This feature will not apply to animations, but it will give you more immersion in the game.

New Tavern features:

In 2022, I added a lot of new features to the tavern. Now you can change your hair, choose your color. For male characters, you can change mustaches and beards. I added the ability to drink beer and become drunk. This is only a small part of the ideas that I have had time to implement. 

In 2023, I will add the ability to gamble with Gaffer Choo or other NPCs. I won't say yet whether it will be card games, or dice, or something else entirely. But it will definitely be cool. You'll be able to have a more fun time in the tavern. 

After completing the quest with lumberjack (#30 and #31 quests) nothing happens. This is wrong. In 2023 I will add it to the tavern. You'll be able to talk to him, or even have a drink. For those who have already completed the quest, he will be added automatically. In general, I want to add the ability to drink with any NPC in the game.

New relationships with NPC, new events and new genders:

In 2022, I added the ability to make relationships with NPCs. A relationship consists of several stages. First, you have to compliment/argue in a certain sequence. Then you have to perform a task unique to each NPC. For example, answer questions correctly or wear the right clothes. Then you must give five items to the NPC. After that, a unique Event opens up with that NPC. After completing an Event, you have the option to invite the NPC to your house and have sex with them. In 2022 I only had time to add 3 Event for 3 NPCs. This is a big step in the development of the Lust Hunter game. 

In 2023, I want to add 4 more realtionsips and events for the other 4 NPCs (Gaffer Choo, Gunin Crawl, Rat and Lunberjack) These will be fascinating stories. Right now I have the basis for them.

When I started designing the game, I didn't think about the variability of NPC genders. But after I made a complete custom selection of the gender of the game's main character, I thought about the following. Players who play as futa versus futa are not interested in male or female NPCs. They only want to see futa NPCs. Players who play as male vs male enemies. Are not interested in female and futa NPCs. So I decided to add a variety of gender NPCs to the game. Technically it's not hard to do, but it increases the amount of work for Event many times over. This will allow me to do a full FUTA or full gay or full lesbian game. I will add the ability to choose a gender NPC when creating a character, or when changing a character in the church of patrons. 

There will be four options to choose from:

• Standard, NPCs are the same as now, with different genders. 
• All female
• All futa
• All male

New enemy:

I've been developing the game for three years now. The first build had only Satyr male, nymph female and forest fairy female. 

In 2022 I added 23 new enemies. The total number of enemies is now 36. I added:

• 8 male
• 6 futa
• 5 female

I consider it a great achievement. Not many games can boast so many unique enemies with unique combat mechanics and loot. But this is not the limit!

I will be adding 3 new enemies as early as January 2023:

Сentaur female, futa and male. As well as dozens of animations to it.

Then over the course of the year I added many more new enemies. Whether you knew it or not, when I add a new enemy, I usually add a new location. In 2023, I will be adding:

• Сentaur (female, futa, male) more info link 
• Mermaid (female, futa, male)
• Pharaoh (female, futa, male)
• Horned Monster
• And something else (you can offer me your own variant)

It will be cool, you can get a unique experience when fighting them, and a worthy reward after winning!

New types of sex animations for all enemy:

There are now, on average, about 18 unique animations available for each enemy. From simple hand and foot flirting to full-on sex and 69. In my plans, this was only the first step in developing animations for enemies. The next step will be to add more highly specialized fetishes. Such as bondage, golden shower, punishment, pregnant, domination or passive in a role with several enemies at the same time. I also want to hear from you what fetishes you are interested in. This will diversify the gameplay and satisfy your lustful desires.

New location:

In 2022 I added many new locations, such as mountains with harpies and a farm with cows. And I finalized the location of the snowy forest. This allowed for a new gameplay experience in oyas with new enemies and to enjoy the scenic locations. 

In 2023, I want to add a lot more locations. In the Farm location there will be a ship that you can travel in. It will definitely be a desert with an Egyptian theme. It will be a half-water location where you can catch fish and mermaids. Right now I'm thinking about a swamp location, I'll have some polls on that soon.

New card for battle:

The basis of combat in the game is the creation of decks of cards with which you fight the enemies. I try to diversify this process as much as possible. That's why in 2023 I want to add a lot of new cards with new abilities, and even create a full-fledged card store with the ability to craft!

Brothel and Prison improves:

I spent a great deal of time this year improving the prison and the brothel. The main feature of the December updates is the new interactive system of improving skills in the prison. You now have your own hand to lust with your enemies. It's amazing.

In 2023, I will add the ability to make enemies pregnant in prison. I'll add cool new animations. I'll also add lots of new animations with multiple enemies in the brothel. I want to improve the interactivity and diversify it even more. 

In the brothel, I'll add whores that you save on the map, and you can interact with them. I'll also improve the system of selling enemies from the prison to the brothel, and add a little more interaction. And of course new relationships with NPCs in the brothel!

Statistics:

What Lust Hunter really lacks is statistics. Now you can't find out how many enemies you've fucked, what your favorite animation is, or what your favorite pose is. Do you like to dominate or obey. How many and what kind of potions you drink. How many traps you set and how much alcohol you drank in the tavern. How many enemies have you caught, what's your favorite and lamest enemy. What are your favorite clothes. All these questions will be answered by the new statistics system. Most of it will be available immediately, but some of the statistics will be collected only after the update. Then I'll add a separate channel on discord where you can brag about it.

Problems with android build size:

Not many people know, but Renpy limits the size of the android version to 2gb. If the build is larger than this, it will not run on your android device. In 2022 I decided to split the android build into 3 versions. For female, male and futa/realfuta characters.

But it didn't help for long. The latest versions are steadily approaching the 2gb limit. And found a great solution. I will use a new format for animations - webp, instead of png. And reduce the compression quality to 50%, visually, because of the small screen android device you will not notice the difference, but it will reduce the build in 1.5-2 times. WIN and MAC versions will remain unchanged.

This will allow me to add hundreds or even thousands more animations to the game.

Steam version?

I've been thinking about the Steam version of the game for a long time. And maybe in 2023 I will be able to fulfill my dream and release my first game on Steam. I don't know what version I'll release yet, how often I'll update it. Because the main distribution platform for Lust Hunter is Patreon. If the steem version comes out, I'll add a lot of achievements, and I'll give all my patrons free keys to the game.

Unity engine or new game?

In this poll I wanted to know your opinion on the porting of Lust Hunter to the unity engine. Most voted for porting, but now I feel like I can't do it. Because I don't know Unity and C# very well. So I had a genius idea. A new little game in the world of Lust Hunter on the Unity engine! It will allow me to learn my capabilities in Unity and build the whole process of developing a game on this engine. Naturally I won't start making it until I take another poll and get your opinion.

Thank you for support me. Thank you for read all of this. Thank you and Happy new year!

The next version of Lust Hunter will be released on January 15, 2023. See you soon!