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Requesting Game Feedback

With Enter the Expansion Mansion now content complete, I wanted to make this post to collect feedback. I am a deeply insecure person who views everything I do as inferior, so I'm actively fishing for comments on what everyone thinks of the finished product. (That was somewhat of a joke. Please don't hesitate to offer constructive criticisms, as well.)

So, please, comment below and let me know what endings you got, which were your favorites. What did you think of the setting, tone, chara...

Version 1.6.0 Release!!!

This is it! The testing is finished. The bugs are worked out (at least the ones I found). The game is now content complete. Future updates will be rare and focused on minor fixes that may crop up over time. Please feel free to continue commenting about typos and bugs. You guys have been a massive help in that regard. It would take me weeks of constant work to debug the entire game alone. I feel my time is better spent on the development/writing side after a point.

Anyway, thank you all ...

Contest Announcement

Hello, Patrons!

I JUST finished the primary work on V1.6.0. All that remains is the testing, which will absolutely be finished tomorrow at some point. Once the game is released, I will be taking next week off, more or less.

I want a palate cleanser of some kind to refresh and celebrate before I move on to B.E. JOIful development (which I've already devoted a lot of mental energy to). So, I'm going to take a bit to create a SUPER short simple choose your own adventure BE story. It'...

3/2 Update

I'm currently working on the final bit of prose for the game. Once I'm finished, I'll spend today and tomorrow working on testing. I should be able to finish that pretty quickly.

I'm absolutely on track to complete and release Version 1.6.0 on Sunday.

So close!

2/27 Update

I was still having some minor personal health issues yesterday. The bad news is that meant I had to miss work. The good news is I had many extra hours to work on the game!

I got a ton of prose written for the ending, and I'm now down to one final decision tree, for which I need to crank out 5 new (relatively short) passages. Then it's on to debugging!

And guys, let me tell you that, while I'm certainly biased, this is easily some of the hottest stuff I've ever written. It kept g...

2/26 Roadmap

As I mentioned in my update, I was unable to finish the last ending this week. I did, however, make tons of progress on it. It's long. Like, really long.

To date, the big growth sequence with Meloni was the single longest segment of prose in the game. This is way longer. I really hope everyone enjoys it. It's pretty much 100% smut.

My progress yesterday was also hampered by a (non-life-threatening) serious personal medical issue that is hopefully more or less over. I'm taking th...

2/24 Update

It's looking like I might not be able to finish the final ending by Monday, though I plan to hit it heavy this weekend. There's a ton of prose going into this no holds barred insane ending. I want to ensure that those who go through the trouble of getting the "best" ending really get the BEST ending.

That said, debugging shouldn't take very long with this final area. There's a lot going on, but it's mostly self contained, so very minimal work on other areas should be needed.

I'm...

2/21 Update

Hey there, everyone!

Work on the final ending is still chugging along pretty well. It's turning out to be a good deal longer than I first expected, so it'll likely take me all week working at a heavy pace in order to make it happen, but certainly doable by my estimation.

I wanted to update, though, a bit more on what I've got planned for my next couple of projects. This is all still pretty early conceptually, so it can certainly change.

Once Enter the Expansion Mansion is fi...

2/19 Roadmap

It was a pretty normal week last week. Got to work on the game about as much as expected and I checked off the full list of tasks.

This week is a big one. There is only one task on the list this time.

1. Finish the final ending.

Of course, the final ending is a long one with its own small branches to contend with, so it'll definitely take me all week. After that, all that remains for V1.6.0 is testing and release!

And then it'll be time to move on to the next proje...

2/12 Roadmap

I had hoped to get more done last week, but (fairly minor) health problems, work stuff, and a major increase in stuff I needed to do outside of game dev meant that I had pretty minimal time to devote. To add fuel to the fire, I had made a pretty dumb mistake with the ending logic coding that I needed fix before I could move on. That took some of that precious little time.

Still, I did get everything done I REALLY wanted to (barely). I am now on the three new endings for V1.6.0. That wil...

2/5 Roadmap

It's been a hell of a week...

Real life got busy for a bit, and I lost internet for several days.

On the game development front, the last area had a few things that turned out to be WAY more complex to code than anticipated, so I ultimately split down the middle and reduced the complexity by reworking my approach to the final area a bit. What that means for last week's checklist is that I did manage to finish the interactive elements I wanted to, as well as the inventory integrati...

1/29 Roadmap

I spent the weekend busting my ass and have gotten close to the one third complete point with V1.6.0. The new area is added, and all but one of the interactive elements are finished. That last interactive element will include the new character stuff, and then there's the 3 new endings and sub-endings to contend with.

This week will be another normal one for my amount of free time, so I'm hopeful I can make a lot of progress. I'm excited to be wrapping up the game and starting something...

1/26 Update

It's been a productive week. V1.5.2 has obviously been released, and I've spent my free time working hard on V1.6.0. I've already got the final area outlined, and the skeleton for the interactive elements is in place. I'm starting work on fleshing those out before I add in the final character of the game (shouldn't be hard to guess who it is).

This last area is sort of the victory lap for those who manage to get this far, but once you arrive, you won't be home free. I've got some things...

Version 1.5.2 Release!

I've had a busy and productive day today. I've been working on the game pretty much non-stop for about 10 hours. And it was enough time to finalize the new Version release and give it a quick couple of tests to ensure the changes didn't break anything. (They did, of course, but I caught the problems.)

Here's a quick summary of what's different in V1.5.2:

Added "Info" menu option to check wife's breast size and mood, as well as current inventory items

Changed left/right and n...

1/22 Roadmap

I am still snowed in, so it's looking like at least a few more days of free time. I've still been hard at work on going through the game and changing all of the directions. The work is going pretty well so far, so I don't expect it to take more than this week to finish up. After that, I'll be releasing the new update and then moving on to the big V1.6.0 update. I've already got a good idea of everything I want to include in that, and it should be pretty simple to code, as there's an obvious b...

Commission Tier?

This is an idea I've been considering for a while, and it would, at minimum, be after finishing Enter the Expansion Mansion that I would consider implementing it.

I've considered creating a third Patron tier that would be something like $50/mo and limited to probably 1 Patron (at least at first). This tier would include the usual supporter access such as Version releases and polls, but it would also include a single, very short custom project just for the Patron. I would keep it limited...

1/18 Update

With the winter weather still making things difficult, I have a good amount of extra time this week. As such, I've begun work on V1.5.2. This small update will add in another small feature that I've wanted to include for a while that'll just make things a tiny bit more player-friendly. I won't say what it is, but I've almost got it fully integrated after working for about 4 hours on it today. Had to do some more learning on the language to make it work. Don't get super hyped, though. I'm keep...

Version 1.5.1 Release!

After a few long days of dealing with the fallout from the winter storm, I finally had things calm down enough that I was able to knock out some good testing and bug fixes. Please note that I'm in no way 100% certain that I got everything, so if you notice anything odd, PLEASE don't hesitate to let me know.

This version, as mentioned before, includes assorted bug and typo fixes, including:

Fixed bug that caused the Countess to remain after being vanquished

Fixed b...

1/15 Roadmap

Currently getting pounded by a winter storm, so not sure how much is going to get done this week. I'm hoping to finish up debugging for V1.5.1 and get it out by the end of the week, but that's up to mother nature and my local power company and Internet provider. Hopefully things go well. Stay safe out there, for those of you in similar weather.

1. Finish debugging

2. Release V1.5.1

A Sneak Peak at Game #2

With Enter the Expansion Mansion coming to a close in a few updates, I've started plotting some content for the next game so that I can jump right into it.

Here's a preview sketch I threw together of the planned cover art. I will be commissioning an actual artist with real skills to do the final piece.

The title is still a work in progress, but I'm leaning more and more toward leaving it as BE JOIful. Also considered have been iMETAgirl and Sexy Words on Your Screen.

Just...

Best Girl?

Work is continuing on the debugging for V1.5.1. I've successfully fixed a few of the more annoying bugs already, and I'm about to start going through run after run to hunt for others. Once that's done, it'll be on to the next small update before tackling the grand finale. And to better help guide my decisions for the last area, I need to know who is the best girl. 

Game spoilers follow:

Who's your waifu of choice of the characters in the game so far? Obviously the wife has th...

1/8 Roadmap

Well, V1.5.0 is released to Patrons. I'm exhausted from a marathon writing weekend, so I'll be taking a few days to rest and relax before diving into V1.5.1.

That's going to consist entirely of bug and typo fixes, so please keep the reports coming. You can comment on the 1.5.0 post or just message me. Anything you report saves me time and makes the game that much better! Thank you so much to those of you already doing so.

I'm hoping the fixes won't take longer than 1-2 weeks. Af...

Version 1.5.0 Release!

That's right, ya pervs! I'm coming at you with a surprise drop! I've had a very productive weekend, and all of the major work on V1.5.0 came together at long last.

As mentioned before, this is a rougher release than normal, so expect typos and minor bugs to show up.

I did spend this morning and last night running through the major new options to make sure it wasn't totally busted, but that's all the debugging I've done so far. I'll be pumping out V1.5.1 in a week or two with the r...

Best Word?

What, in your opinion, is the best word to, heh, come across when you're reading about boobs getting bigger? That is, which of these really turns your crank? 

Update 1/2

The last of the "bad ending" wishes is complete. There's now two endings that result in implied death, so choose wisely!

Next up will be the "standard" wishes. This includes also adding in the seventh and final of the regular expansion sequence for the wife. If all keeps going well, I'll be starting the testing later next week at my current pace.

1/1 Roadmap

I've been picking away at the wishes steadily while juggling all the usual year end festivities. I hope all of you are having a great start to the new year.

This week, I'll be finishing up the "bad ending" wishes and moving on to the "normal" wishes. I'm hoping that two weeks of work will be enough to button things up and move on to a quick test period before launch.

Checklist:

1. Continue work on wishes.

Ever onward!

Update 12/29

Well, I've officially finished more than half of the seventeen wishes that I'm putting into the game. Many of these are things I had always intended to include, and a couple are inspired by wishes suggested by Patrons some time ago.

I'm averaging about one to one and a half new wishes completed each day that I'm able to work on the game at this point, as the remaining wishes involve more prose being written. Currently, I've finished the "dead end" wishes and the "epilogue" wishes. I'm n...

Roadmap 11/25

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! And a wonderful Monday to those who don't!

Last week saw me fully complete six of the seventeen wishes and set up the scaffolding and repetitive prose for the remaining eleven.

This week will be more of the same as I chug along on the multitude of wishes, including adding a few endings and a new growth sequence for the wife.

So once again:

1. Continue work on wishes.

Until next time!

Update 12/23

Well, I lost a couple days due to some seasonal illness that snuck up on me. I still can't breathe through half my face...

That said, I've spent the other days this week hard at work on the SEVENTEEN wishes. So far, I've finished the five simplest wish sequences, as well as most of one of the trickier ones.

I've also been having to go back and tweak some code in older areas in order to integrate what I'm calling the "Epilogue Wishes." These are a few wishes that will have no immed...

Update: What have I done?

Well, this update may very well turn out to be a lesson in hubris... I just finished with setting up the skeleton of all the wishes (creating the links and passages and wording of the initial wishes, etc.). That leaves the coding and prose to do for each of them.

The insanity of it all is that I have put *checks notes* SEVENTEEN different wishes into the game... Some of these will be impossible to grant. Some will lead to new endings. Some will be required to progress to the "true" endi...