Insatiable Hearts 0.23.0

Hiii, I'm still alive 😵‍💫

Finally back with an update for the game, bringing in new art assets, a new date, two new bad ends, two tf sets and a few other things ~

Hope everyone has been alright in this long gap here, I kept starting and stopping a bunch of stuff as I've been juggling applying to jobs and apartments as we're trying to move to a safer state and have kind of been struggling through a period of burn out - hence the major slow down on updates. I'd like to say I'll be back on that update grind soon as there's still so much content I want to create, but updates may either be small or infrequent for the rest of the season as we're going to be packing up and moving out by July (most likely)

I'll try to be a little more ontop of communicating where I'm at with the project, but as always I'm most active on the development Discord for suggestions, bug reports or just chatting should you need to find me quicker haha

So, anyways! What's exactly in this update? Not the most, but there's a few treats here and there. I've added a new character, Gracie Hart, the deer milf who I mentioned a bit last patreon post. She can be found at the bar, has some dialog and a whole 5 stages of weight gain with art assets for them. There's two new bad ends, one with a drone queen who can hypnotize the player and convert their body and another one with a hallucinogenic plant person that can unbirth the player. There's also now a plant person TF set and the dubious doll from the previous update can now give the player doll TF set stuff when used like an item. There's a few new scenes and set up for future content, a couple simple items added and few other little things. You can find the changelog below!

Version 0.23.0 - (03/31/25)

Additions
+ Added a short encounter to the astral sea, a mutagenic rain cloud
+ Added an upstairs area to the bar, the player can check some of the guest rooms and occasionally steal money from unattended rooms
+ Added several new backgrounds and art assets for areas of the bar and the temple of melmatria
+ Added a new encounter to the grotto with the Queen of Blackhearts that leads to a drone TF bad end. Escaping the queen will leave you marked for later
+ Being marked by the Queen of Blackhearts will cause a small handful of flavor scene to occur in the bar and other areas, this currently has no other effect
+ Added a new encounter to the swamp, a patch of carnivorous plants with fruit. The fruit can be collected or the central mass can be interacted with to taste its nectar and experience a new bad end
+ Added a new item Droserad fruit which causes a new plant based tf
+ Added a new species transformation set; Droserad, including new changes to skin, head, limbs, photosynthesis and more
+ Added a new species transformation set: Doll; including new skin, hair, limb and other effects
+ Added a new encounter to the bar, Gracie Hart the deer woman with a missing friend. This is setup to the beginning of Blair's quest.
+ Added a new item, "old photo", a quest item given by Gracie
+ Added art assets for milkbloom petals, droserad fruit and the old photo
+ Like the heart meter for some characters, there is now a weight meter that shows how close they are the current maximum for that character. Currently this is only for Kip, Amelie and Gracie
+ Gracie can be courted and have dinner ordered for her
+ Gracie has 5 stages of weight gain with respective art that shows on her examination page

Changes
~ Increased maximum photosynthesis level to 10, up from 5
~ The dubious doll now has an interaction scene when used from the inventory as well as causing an increase in lucidity and sloth
~ Status effects that stack without specified timers will now add 10 minutes per level to the base effects timer
~ The player can now consult self and milk self while in the melmatrian temple

Fixes
x Time now passes while exploring the grotto as its supposed to
x Breast weight described in the max breast size now will properly show in kilograms when in metric mode
x Fixed some errors with Laurent effect player's capacity
x Several typo fixes as reported by community members hailbreaker, slime doll and firesoul
x Fixed Delphi's quest not being removed after it's completed

patch 0.23.1 - (04/05/2025)

x Fixed several of the droesrad TFs not printing the proper transformation text
x Fixed gracie's intro scene replaying each time she's met due to an incorrect flag
x Fixed a broken link preventing the player from leaving the droserad nectar scene
x Fixed the droserad fruits being picked being error objects
x Fixed a world state tag in the bar counter scene
x Fixed the missing "fraud" vice stat on the corruption tooltip
x added missing mutagen indicators for several of the mutations
~ Mutagens no longer deplete when the mutation bar is empty, and instead will fade at 0.5 points every minute
~ Most stats now round only to the first decimal place for visual clarity
~ Added a few more possible background effects to the standard "unknown outcome" mutation
+ The mutagen bar will now gradually fill if the player has excess mutagens in their system
+ Total mutagen's now display in the tool tip and on the bar

patch 0.23.2 - (04/13/2025)

x Fixed an issue with droserad hair mutations
x Fixed a spare '.' breaking dialog when gracie is at 3 relationship hearts and 3 weight levels
x Fixed a malformed flag when completing Delphi's herb quest
x Fixed the vulpine leg transformation not properly applying

For the next update I want to get some work done on the milking room for the temple, flesh out blair's content more, and work more on some of y'alls suggestions and poll results. I feel way behind with all the other life stuff ive been caught up in. Till next time, thank you so much for your support as always. You folk are so lovely and have kept me afloat through rough times. Much love 💕💕💕💕