Insatiable Hearts V0.21.4

Time. What is time? Where'd the summer go? lol
Got an update for yall and a little catching up. New TFs, new encounters, some items, fixes and more ~

Hope everyone has been hanging in there, its been a bit tumultuous at home, mother in law stayed for like a month which turned out to be more distracting than helpful. I'm still out of a job despite applying like mad and getting interviews, its bleak out there. Plus with being a full time mom, to say the least, i've been exhausted.

But, Insatiable Hearts has slowly been cooking the whole time, so we got us a mid sized little update to chew on. You'll find the full changelog below, but the big highlights are the inclusion of Vulpine and Feline transformation sets, both from new items found in the meadow. We also have more content for the astral sea with an encounter with a jellyfish creature that changes with the players lucidity level. I'm also testing day night cycle affected things so you'll be able to find a kitsune breeding ritual in the meadows at night. Fixed a ton of my sloppy writing and typos thanks to the community reporting them, some bug fixes, changes and adjustments as always.

I've also been experimenting with more art assets, so you'll find a small handful of new details, like lexi's description page having a full body image, the feast queen having some placeholder art, some items now have art assets, etc. Nothing really spicy yet, but I'm working towards that. I want to get in a few more pieces of art with each update if i can, that way it's always slowly fleshing out in that regard.

 Speaking of art, since my budget is getting really tight and im still struggling to find employment im going to be concentrating on making income through the game and through opening up commissions once again until I can get work. So, between updates I'll be working away on comms on the side. If that's something you'd be interested in, here's my work in progress Commission sheet. You can always hit me up for more info in the DMs here, twitter, bluesky or discord ~

anywayyyyys, as to the upcoming updates, like i said, its Insatiable Hearts, Comm work and the endless job hunt, so, updates may be smaller but more frequent between things or they may be larger but take more time to come out, I'm going to see what balances out best. I'd like to have more focused and fuller feeling updates instead of my usually will-nilly toss along stuff, I want to start honing in on individual character's story arcs and flesh out the existing content as well as add new spice when its called for. Nico is over due for more romance, Amelie's curse has been a tease for too long, Siphona and Fyrfli basically don't have content, etc

So, the big goals obviously, long run, fill out the milk temple more for us feeding and breeding types, get stuff started for the Coven of Cetacea for us hedonistic demon lovers, more dialog and dating for us lovers.

As always, thank you all, so so much for your support, its made a world of difference in this challenging point in my life and its so fun to bring my game to life in ways we all can enjoy. I spend a lot of my time communicating more on discord, but don't be afraid to comment or chat here too, I'll try to check in where i can. Peace everyone ~

Here's the changelog:

Version 0.21.0 - (09/23/24)
Additions
+ Added new item, Astral Pearl. A rare food item found in the astral sea that can increase players lucidity, resonance and dream spall. Can be sold for a high price. These can be found in a rare event while swimming in the astral sea
+ Added a new encounter to the astral sea with the Cloudfish, a new creature that can ensnare the player. For players with higher levels of lucidity there is also some additional dialog options with her and another bad end
+ Lexi has a couple new pieces of dialog when asked about Evangeline, the anchor or her name after the cloudfish encounter.
+ Added a toggle for drugs and intoxicants, currently this only really affects the scaly moss
+ The feast queens curse can now be resisted at the start, this will count players lucidity levels against their gluttony. Successful resistance allows a milder version of the curse and lets the player continue uninterrupted. Failing to resist will result in one of three "punishments" from the feast queen. Submitting will lead to the original curse effect scene.
+ Having high enough lucidity will unlock "whispers" when items are examined allowing for extra details and observations the player normally wouldn't know.
+ Added two new TF sets, cat and fox liminals
+ Added a new item; Fox-fire flower, a vulpine TF item
+ Fox-fire flowers can now be found when exploring the meadow at night in a new scene. Standing in the swirling flowers too long will unlock an encounter with a kitsune woman and her night ritual
+ Added a new item; Cattail pods, a feline TF item
+ Cattail pods can now be found at the milk river encounter in the Meadow
+ Added some new art assets for the Feast-Queen and the start of the Foxfire scene
+ Improved species detection system and added several combination and intermediate species names for the various TFs
~ the introduction and lexi's description page now include new art assets, improved lexi's description as well
~ Added new art assets for the items: foxfire flower, strange dumpling, mystery meat, astral pearl and the autosklava canteen


Changes
~ Updated credits page to include top supporters
~ rewrote the roadmap page
~ Renamed the Red Abbess, Amelie to The Red Abbess, Acacia because we already have Amelie Roux, oops lol
~ The mutagen list page now displays an asterik next to TFs that are implemented in the game to make it more clear what's current and future content. Additionally added a few more future mutations to the list
~ More items can be purchased from the Oojinn junk merchant
~ Some of the hub locations make mention of the time of day more directly
~ Increased the affects of the breast expansion status effect as well as added addition effects to the galactogue status
~ Adjusted lexi's description scene
~ Added missing claw and paw descriptions
~ Changed version number tracking to a more standard format as suggested by Cuddlefiend
~ Most bad ends now have more effects on player's vice levels

Fixed
x Fixed a missing flag when traveling from the rainy town to the caldera that did not trigger it's shortcut option in Lexi's grotto
x Fixed several typos throughout the game as found by FireSoul, Jackie, Slime Doll and a few others
x Fixed a bugged dialog option with Renard the hunter
x Fixed an error in bethanies sex scene that caused players without cocks to have one during the orgasm scene
x Fixed an input error triggered when drinking from the astral sea
x Fixed dog tf accidently assigning rat fur type
x Fixed some endings not raising the endings counter
x Fixed blair's ending not affecting the player's stats

patch - v0.21.1

x Fixed cat and fox TFs causing random mutations

x Fixed being unable to access the caldera ruins

patch - v0.21.2 - (09/24/24)

x Fixed an error in the character panel tracking the depravity stat
x Fixed not being able to increase tail count
x Fixed a stray arrow sign that was popping up because of the species name check
x Fixed the missing cat and fox ear and fur TFs
x Fixed being unable to talk with Evangeline due to a missing options array

patch - v0.21.3 - (09/24/24)

Additions
+ Added an option to toggle off images for those that desire it

Fixes
x Fixed cat nose being assigned from the fox nose tf
x Fixed an incorrect trigger that was causing the cat and fox leg tfs to not show up
x Fixed the cat nose type not being described in the player description
x removed the unused background swirl option from the settings menu
x Fixed a dialog formatting issue with Evangeline

patch - v0.21.4 - (09/25/24)

Additions
+ Added two new background assets for the standard menus, dreamweaving, thoughts, intro sequence and other unthemed areas

Fixes
x Fixed some item description issues
x Fixed some issues with Kips dialog in the shore walking scene
x Fixed players with cocks being unable to select the option to use it during Kips egglaying scenes
x Removed unused back buttons from the relationships panel