bedlamgames

Fortnightly Progress - 4th May

Added 2017-05-04 22:19:38 +0000 UTC

Been two weeks so time for another one of these.

No Haven

Still working on the nine assignments so that they all work in the game. Working out the varied rewards so they were balanced took annoyingly long, doubly so given that the new goals on two of the assignments meant that the usual working out was trebled, but that's all done and dusted now. Most of them are started and at least half way done if not well into the final stretch sorting out the results.

Picked up some other stuff like Sadist was incorrectly being checked as Sadistic so it wasn't always affecting things like it should. I've also made it so Quick as you Like now only prevents you going on it, and yes one day when bad ends make it in you will be able to. I've also put together some new male troll art after deciding the old new one would be so much better for the assignment... and ended up coming up with a new assignment idea for the new art cause of course I did. Definitely not this update though for that one.

The other major thing I've been doing is art sources. Yes, I've finally decided that it had to be done and it's turning into just as big an arse as I expected. Just being able to specify where every bit of it was used, not even begin to go into who it was by, was an absolute fuck load of text. On the plus side that will serve as a good guide to the name of every race and assignment in the game.

That's all done now and some even have artist names and where you can find them listed, crazy I know! This is still very much under construction and don't expect it to even a tenth completely filled in when the next update comes out.

Speaking of which I don't normally do this given it's been disastrous in the past but I will give myself a deadline of by the next Fortnightly Progress for the next release.

This will come with challenges as two of the new assignments need massive new mechanical support and working out. Still, if I didn't think there was a chance I wouldn't have mentioned it and I really do want to get it done by then.

The other challenge is I came up with what I believe to be a really good solution to the idle slaver/too much micro needed in larger encampments problem. I'd like to implement it for this update, but I know it's going to take time out I may not be able to spare. Will see how things goes basically.

Commissions

Barges, at last I've seen some colours! First half specifically! Looking pretty good! Just a case now of waiting for the other half and this can finally be put to bed.

Depths is done at last and that went out yesterday on Patreon if you haven't had a chance to check it out and I've added it to the game today for the next update.

The poll winner was the dragonmaid inspired one and I've finalised the agreement with the artist. We've agreed end of June for the deadline for it, and I'm really seriously looking forward to what he does with the idea as I've laid it out to him. I honnestly do expect this one to be my favourite commission so far by a good long way.

Whorelock's Revenge

Progress as promised! For those that didn't already read this on the tumblr the gist is that I've worked out a process that will let me convert code from RAGS to code to use in Twine.

This is not a magic wand that I can use to instantly convert it as it's pretty involved and there are major complications like variables being set out of order and if-else condition construction but it's a major, major win and will be so much easier than doing it entirely from scratch from first principles like I had been before.

I know I said that I'd stream it sometime but I'm honnestly a bit leery if not outright terrified. Nobody knows what I'm doing in RAGS when I stream, but I fear using Twine in public is going to invite far too many accurate comments of you have no idea what you're doing :D

HMVs

Not the usual thing to do with the patreon side of things, but I do do a bit of video editing on occasion. I knocked out my first one involving SFMs in about 3-4 hours last Sunday, and as some people seem to have really loved it I thought I might as well mention it here too: http://bedlamgames.tumblr.com/post/160151353250/all-that-she-really-wants-hmv-okay-more-sfmmv

Picarto

And like last time, which turned out to be reasonably accurate, some predictions of upcoming streams till the next fortnightly progress. These are not set in stone so keep an eye on the tumblr announcements or just follow me on Picarto for notifications if you're interested in catching them. Time especially will usually be the time listed or up to an hour later. Also listed is the likelihood the stream will happen on that date outside of unforeseeable circumstances.