Update - Fumi likes to suck

tl;dr - I've restarted my Tumblr, I've been developing pictures for Attack of the Nega Maids and I've been doing a lot of work on Let Me Out thanks to your transcripts (and support, obviously).

This week's image

I don't know where this image will go yet; I just had an idea and made it, but I'm sure it'll be useful somewhere. I figured when making this image that it would be all about her sucking on a lollipop, but in the end it became more about the upskirt shot. Oh, well.

I had a request to show some Fumi this week, so here it is. Well, actually, I think this is probably Hana, but it's close enough. I have not yet decided whether I like this picture, to be honest. I'd appreciate feedback on it.

Tumblr

I've restarted my Tumblr account, so if you've got one, follow mine! Some of the purpose of it will just be to repost stuff here but I might occasionally add extra stuff. Follow me here: http://bbben-aif.tumblr.com/

Attack of the Nega Maids pictures

I made a number of pictures for AotNM this week, some for the Iku/Kim threesome and some just with the goal of just finding ways I could generally improve the base game in small ways. There are some pictures in the game that I don't like much because I made them a while back when I didn't know as much about lighting as I do now. Those can benefit quickly from relighting and some texture changes, which takes a little time but it's still relatively easy. If you'd like to see an example of that I put one up on my Tumblr.

I also have an idea to give Rio a new outfit once you've seen her sex scene, and then drop in a little surprise that will allow you extra opportunities to have fun with her in normal situations. This meant reshooting a number of Rio pics and since I was doing that anyway for the new outfit, I decided to redo the ones for the old outfit as well. Rio above all suffered from bad lighting in Iray. She worked well as a 3Delight design when I created the model back in early 2015, but when I upgraded the rendering software she didn't translate well; I had trouble getting her skin to show up clearly and not look too dark. Now I know the settings and lighting techniques to make her work, so I can fix the problems.

Let Me Out work

You may have seen that I released v0.3.0 to $5 patrons this week. I just put that up early because it was ready, more or less, but I'm not quite ready to post it publicly yet because it's untested and I don't have v0.4.0 ready yet.

Anyway, I've continued to add more responses and more paths to the ending. I've also put in a little bit of an optional hints guide at the start to explain some of the basics of getting started in the game. It's been great that I've been getting some transcripts lately, thanks for that! But I could still really use more, so don't give up on that. :)

From what I've been able to gather it seems like so far players are not having an easy time finding the new endings. I knew these would be trickier - they're endings more in the style of the original LMI endings, where you have to have a good reason, so naturally they take more thought. I do hope you guys give it a go, though, because they're not designed to be quite as hard as the ones in LMI.

I've also decided that since players have been trying a lot to get a lot of sex going in the main gameplay section (in the dungeon) it would be worth it to add more foreplay options into that dungeon section than I had initially planned. Then at least it should be a fairly simple thing to achieve some sex when you're playing the game. This is a pretty good example of how I try to intuit what people will want and enjoy out of the game design through the transcripts, too.

Next steps

First up, I'm working toward a simultaneous LMO release of v0.3.1 (for the public) and v0.4.0 (for patrons). After that I plan on focusing for my next release on getting out the first new update of PAL in a while - the first stage of Attack of the Nega Maids. I haven't fully decided on what will be in that yet, I need to look at what features I'll be able to implement first.

Let me know what you think this week! I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.