Version 0.15Beta Coming December 15th

Great news everyone; I will be releasing version 0.15beta (to $10 and up patrons) in less than two weeks time on the 15th December. Meaning the main release (to 5$ and up patrons) will be on the 22nd and all of you lovely people will have it in time for Christmas. Huzzah!

Sorry for waiting so long to set a date; I wanted the update to be substantially complete first to avoid disappointing people with delays. Thank you all for being so patient. We are currently at the final stages; I’ve got my team playtesting for bugs and continuity errors, while I polish up the script and try to cram in as much extra content as I can right up until release day.

This is a really juicy update, jammed packed with sexual content. It consists mainly of the staff training storyline which can be split into two parts; group punishments in the headmaster’s class; and the after school staff training lessons. There is a new main quest (Many Hands for Many Bottoms) which leads you through most of it. Claire and Debbie both get updated quest logs and have a number of sexy scenes that happen between staff lessons. Plus, there are also several other little extras to look out for in the dorms and the cafeteria, plus a new weekend patrol event.

Staff Training Lessons

This part of the update focuses on Claire, Amy and Debbie. Currently the actual lessons only cover basic disciplinary procedures, such as spanking and body searches. However, all three of these characters are at an advanced stage, meaning things will get pretty hot and steamy right from the get go. After the first lesson you can visit Claire’s apartment for a choice between two repeatable sex scenes. These are the first sex animations I made using a new soft body and they represent a pretty huge leap forward in terms of animation quality. Claire’s story continues from there with her punishment from the twins (in their school play outfits shown in the poster). People have been waiting a long time for this scene and I promise the twins will not disappoint.

The headmaster will also have a number of more advanced lessons for his apprentice, Debbie. Including mastering the art of cunnilingus (with help from Amy and Tia) and how to make a girl cum through penetration (with a guest appearance from Rachel). 

The Group Punishments

At the start of Chapter 2 the headmaster set the girls' essays and he’s finally got around to marking them. Unfortunately for the girls, not many of them met the headmaster's exacting standards and almost his entire class needed to be punished. Punishing the girls as a group will not raise their individual levels. Instead it will affect the girls’ collective mindset and you will increase a new statistic called “Class Unity” with levels and “rewards” similar to when punishing girls in the headmaster’s office. However, the post punishment rewards will focus on getting the girls to do things with each other rather than the headmaster (for now). 

Currently there are two class punishment scenes and it’s possible to raise Class Unity to level 3. The first class punishment is with the headmaster spanking the girls on his own, and the second one with Sally's assistance. Since these scenes can happen at the start of chapter 2 the girls have their skirts off but their shirts on. The current post punishment “rewards” are more sweet than kinky with mostly just hugs and hand-holding so far. I didn't spend too long on these first two scenes, because I wanted to put all my effort into the third class punishment. The third class punishment will happen after Debbie and Claire complete the initial part of their disciplinary training in the fifth staff lesson. By this point in chapter 2 the girls will all be in their underwear and we'd also have the new class members (Jasmine, Olivia, Arabella). Things will start to really heat up from this point forward. Unfortunately, I only made it as far as the third staff lesson. Meaning I have the fourth and fifth lessons left before I can even start the third class punishment. Therefore, there’s almost no chance of me getting to my intended ending before christmas. As nice as it would be to include it, I don’t think it’s worth delaying the update into the new year. So, essentially you can think of the class punishments aspect of the update as more of a preview of things to come. Important groundwork for much more exciting stuff to come soon.

Some nice extras

Along with the new main quest there are also a lot of little extras to discover. You can now sit and eat lunch at the cafeteria. You can see two of the girls working in the kitchen and one of them will bring you some food. Play through all the events and you’ll see two of the girls earn themselves a spanking from patricia. There’s not a great deal here at the moment, however, these scenes will be expanded upon once the girls get their new cafeteria outfits. Again, it's some important groundwork for later. You will also get a warning from Samantha about the heatwave and the fact that the girls are struggling in the dorms without air conditioning. You can visit the dorms to see the girls in various states of undress depending on the current horniness level. The headmaster also needs to supervise a group of girls showering, after they ignore some important safety signs and bathe in unsafe water.

Code Changes

As with the last few updates a substantial amount of work has gone into the games underlying code to improve the overall player experience. Code work for this release has mostly focused on additional capabilities for easy mode and hints for players to keep people from getting stuck. 

The main change is that players will get a notification before a private punishment letting them know if a girl is “ready to level” and if not they will get a hint as to what they are missing. If a girl is ready to level up, easy mode players will have a “guided punishment” option which will automatically lead the player through the punishment actions in the correct order. Easy mode can be toggled on and off at any time with no repercussions for the player, so this should also help out normal mode players stuck on a particular level.

Other changes include; you will now be able to preview new rule proposals in advance via the Review Rules tool on the PC in your office; hints for finding horniness and influence points will be provided in the quest log, as well as alerts for which quests have "not yet done" tasks; and there is also a new Student Quest for Lucy, to help guide players more easily through her existing content.

A slightly shorter but extra juicy update

This update cycle was a little different than previous ones. After version 0.14 I wrote at length about my need to write and plan ahead to future updates; to avoid getting sidetracked and to smooth out my work loads over the long term. Fortunately, I had a lot of content already written in the form of the staff training storyline. I first started work on this storyline while I was making version 0.13. However, it ended up being a more complicated storyline than I initially intended, and it proved too difficult to work on two major storylines simultaneously. Therefore I ended up cutting it for time. I added a little more to it while working on version 0.14, however, Maxine’s fundraiser got completely out of hand, so I had to cut it all again. So, when starting work on version 0.15 I had about half an update’s worth of content already written and storyboarded. It needed a lot of work, but I still figured it would buy me some time to focus on writing ahead. 

So between June and September this year I split my time fairly evenly between capturing the renders and animations for version 0.15, as well as writing ahead to version 0.16 and beyond. It wasn’t until the start of October that I was purely focussed on version 0.15. Unfortunately, I slightly misjudged the amount of work that was left to do on the staff training and class punishments storylines and I didn’t get as far with them as I would have liked. So I will be upfront about the fact that this update is a bit shorter than some of our other recent ones. Version 0.14 was over 50,000 words 1000 renders 40 videos, whereas version 0.14 will probably end up being around 42,000 words, 800 renders around 75 video animations. So the playtime is a little bit shorter but there are more animations. The update also ends more abruptly than I would have liked. I like my updates to have a big ending leaving the major issues resolved. Unfortunately, I am still a little way off wrapping up these storylines. However, there is no point in me sitting on all this juicy content just because I didn’t get quite as far as I wanted. There is plenty enough content for a satisfying release and the quality of the scenes more than makes up for the slightly reduced quantity

I also have no regrets about the time I spent writing over the summer. I made some really good progress planning out the end of Chapter 2 and the start of Chapter 3. I also made significant progress with the punishment system dialogue for Faye, the Twins and Liz. Meaning those are now much closer to appearing in the game. I’ve still got a lot of writing left to do for the next version, but I broke the back of it and I won’t be starting the next update with a blank page.

In summary

The next update is nearly ready and it’s a juicy one, jammed packed with sexual content. I will release version 0.15beta to $10 and up patrons, and the main release to 5$ (and up) patrons will be on the 22nd.