Release 3 Dev Update + Special Thanks!

I’d like to kick off the first dev update with a big thanks to all of you for choosing to support this project. It really means a lot seeing people get invested in the game’s continued development, especially so early on. Even I don’t know for sure just how far it will go, but If I have my way it’s just the beginning. If you’re here for the long haul, or just for a short while, the support will make all the difference.

I figured I’d spend this dev update just outlining what I have planned for the next release. I’ve already talked about this a bit, but I’ll reiterate them here for convenience, and give you the chance to ask questions or provide feedback as a supporter. Work of course has already begun, and the release should be dropping toward the end of next month. A long wait to be sure, especially factoring in the time already spent on the 2.1 patch. But big things should be happening that’ll hopefully make the wait worth it!

I’ll keep it vague, but if you want any kind of spoilers, I suggest you don’t read ahead.

Planned Release 3 Content:

Another Jen level for both routes, including:

New Story Events (currently 2 per route are planned)

I don’t want to spoil, but I’m sure you know where this is all going. The two events to cap off each route will be significant, and I suspect in my usual style, rather long.

There may also be an optional event on the lewd path, but this is just an idea at this stage. So, I’ll keep it on the down low for now.

New Daily Actions

As ever, new levels mean new things to do. These later levels build on the previous ones, rather than tossing out everything like the earlier content does. So you’ll see some of the release 2 actions returning, generally with new sub options to explore. A couple others of course will be entirely redone or new actions. I’ll have more details for you when the ideas have been fleshed out.

Job Events

Office and modelling will be getting their regular dose of events. With the introduction of the strip club, an entirely new job route should open up. At this stage I can’t say how much will be available in release 3 relating to Jen. Might just be an intro to getting her working there, but I’d like to add as much as possible. It would be nice to get this line of content in parity with the office route. But it is already two releases behind in that regard, so it might be a tall order.

Player Character Related:

Office Job

The office job will likely not be getting much in terms of its mechanics etc. Not ideal given that somehow some players are already capping out what’s actually possible…I commend your patience or ability to cheat. Either way I’ll hopefully have at least a small promotion event available once you reach a certain performance level.

Aside from that, I’m hoping to introduce a new character on this route. Much like the strip club already has a named character with a non-generic profile pic. I think I have a pretty good idea, but I’ll leave it at that until it’s something more than just an idea.

Strip Club

This will almost certainly be the biggest single feature in the next release. It’ll be a similar situation to the office job. Some simple management gameplay with some girl related content mixed in. I’ll be sure to post some previews once I’ve glued it all together.

This also likely means some content with Mel. My current intention for her is to be tied to the strip club as a side character. No plans currently for her to have the same kind of depth you get with Jen. But who knows how this will turn out down the road. The model currently used is Jessica Jaymes. I picked her as she’s a good fit for the sort of story I have planned. I’ve gotten no comments about her as far as I know, so if you have any thoughts let me know!

Multi-Job

Some players expressed an interest in being able to jump between the job routes. This is difficult to handle, and not something I really planned on doing. But I do agree it will be necessary. Thankfully due to the way the two job routes have completely different schedules, in theory there’s no reason why you couldn’t work both simultaneously.

The problem lies with the game code. It wasn’t built with the intention of tracking two jobs at once. If I am being honest the pre manager job code is old as fuck and just terrible. I’ll likely have to redo it, without breaking your save games of course. With that in mind, here’s how I was thinking this would work:

• You become a manager on one of the routes, then reach a certain level of progress.
• Through some story shenanigans, you are offered the chance to become a manager on the other route as well, skipping the initial stories for those career paths.
• You can now work at the office during normal business hours, and work at the strip club on your days off or in the evenings.
• And of course, with this would come the ability to have Jen work both jobs alongside you. I’m sure she’ll just love that.

Let me know what you think about this idea. It’s a little bit weird and not really what I had planned. But it might work. And of course, there is the fact that it will be completely optional anyway. It’s likely this will only work going from office -> strip club and not the other way around, for this release at least. Mainly due to the story writing requirements and the fact that the strip club might not be developed enough for you to receive the offer to take up the other job. Assuming all goes well, I’ll of course make it work the other way too in another update.

New characters???

This one is a little up in air. Mainly due to the workload that is already present in this next release. I’d like to introduce a new character, one that will have progression more what you’ve gotten used to. Honestly, I wanted to do this last update, but it ended up not being possible in the time frame I set. Maybe this time? Anyway, keep an eye out for a poll going up sometime soon. I’ll likely be looking to collect some feedback before committing to a major character.

Some supporter related things:

Game Cheats

I’d like to expand the cheats available to supporters. So if you have any suggestions for cheats you’d like, please don’t hesitate to post them. One in particular I’d like to do is a clothing level cheat. Given that it’s one of the more janky systems in the game that people have trouble with.

Obviously, I don’t want cheats to just outright ruin the game experience or break the code. So some might not be possible. If you find yourself opening the dev console to change values often, I’d suggest making me aware so I can implement that as a cheat. That way I can do it in a way that won’t brick your save :)

Discord

If this happens, I’ll be sure to let you all know. This will likely at first be used to distribute links to important things. Perhaps opened up for discussions etc eventually. You’ll have to bear with me, I don’t want to open a load of stuff all at once and have it negatively affect development of the game. I’ll take it step by step for now.

Polls

I’ll take a moment to explain my plans for supporter polls. These won’t be to decide what goes into l&v (unless otherwise specified) but rather for me to get a feel for what you want. Of course the higher your support tier the more influence you have on the results. And I’ll do my best to interpret these results for the benefit of the game.

Finally…

If you managed to read this far, good job. Maybe one day I’ll figure out how to keep a word count down. Until then, I’ll keep these updates to a couple a month at most. If anything changes, I’ll be sure to let you know. Thanks again for supporting!