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Queen of the Seas Public - 0.12j HOTFIX

Fixing some more bugs that were brought to my attention and a slight improvement in the quest journal to make things easier to understand.

General

• Quest descriptions for item requirements now use the familiar description string instead of the items name.

Golden Isle

• Fixed a typo in the 'Golden Goods' store data that was causing the incorrect number of torches and shovels to be offered.
• Fixed a typo in the 'Smugglers Den' store data that was causing the incorrect number of torches and shovels to be offered.

Isla Harbor

• Fixed a typo at the 'General Store' store data that was causing the incorrect number of torches and shovels to be offered.

Queen of the Seas Exclusive - 0.12j Hotfix

Fixing some more bugs that were brought to my attention and a slight improvement in the quest journal to make things easier to understand.

General

• Quest descriptions for item requirements now use the familiar description string instead of the items name.

Golden Isle

• Fixed a typo in the 'Golden Goods' store data that was causing the incorrect number of torches and shovels to be offered.
• Fixed a typo in the 'Smugglers Den' store data that was causing the incorrect number of torches and shovels to be offered.

Isla Harbor

• Fixed a typo at the 'General Store' store data that was causing the incorrect number of torches and shovels to be offered.

Queen Public - 0.12i HOTFIX

Abamond

• Monsters now have collision detection with each other.

Port Royale

• The relic shop menu is now correctly accessible after completing Bram's intro quest.

Queen Exclusive - 0.12i HOTFIX

Abamond

• Monsters now have collision detection with each other.

Port Royale

• The relic shop menu is now correctly accessible after completing Bram's intro quest.

Queen of the Seas Exclusive - 0.12h Hotfix

 The patreon cheat version of the game including these balance issues reported by players:

Abamond

• Rebalance of some monster encounters.
• Increased some loot drops values.

Salty Mermaid

• Increased frequency of lootbox reward and decreased willpower hit on the Captain's "Sissy Training" job.
• Decreased willpower hit on Kipler's "Personal Whore" job.
• Increased frequency of lootbox reward from Cookie's "Helping out in the Galley" job.
• Decreased willpower hit from Cookie's "Free Meal" job.

Queen of the Seas Public - 0.12h Hotfix

This hotfix addresses several balance issues reported by players:

Abamond

• Rebalance of some monster encounters.
• Increased some loot drops values.

Salty Mermaid

• Increased frequency of lootbox reward and decreased willpower hit on the Captain's "Sissy Training" job.
• Decreased willpower hit on Kipler's "Personal Whore" job.
• Increased frequency of lootbox reward from Cookie's "Helping out in the Galley" job.
• Decreased willpower hit from Cookie's "Free Meal" job.

Cheers!

Mal

Queen of the Seas - 0.12g Exclusive Version

Cheat version of the 0.12g hotfix.

Keep on the lookout for 0.13 updates coming soon!

Cheers!

Mal

Queen of the Seas - 0.12g Public Release

Just a couple of minor bug fixes - an increase to unarmed combat damage and an oversight that didn't allow for a cutlass to be available in the game where it should have been.

Cheers!

Mal

Queen of the Seas - Exclusive Version 0.12f

The cheat version of the 0.12f release for Patreon supporters. 

Thank you once again for your continued support and look forward to version 0.13 updates starting soon!

Cheers,

Mal

Queen of the Seas - Public Release 0.12f

Lots of great additions to this version - a continuation of Bertie's quest line, random encounters in Abamond and a special shop that can concoct a variety of powerful potions.

Thanks to everyone who supported the game for the last month, you guys are the ones making these releases happen regularly!

Cheers,

Mal

Queen Exclusive - Release Candidate 0.12f

Please enjoy this cheat version of 0.12f and thank you for your support. My $5 dollar and above patrons make up the largest portion of all of the support that I get. You guys are the backbone that keep these releases coming!

Have a great weekend and keep a look out for 0.13 updates and blog posts coming next week!

Cheers,

Mal

Queen 0.12f Release Candidate

This update has some bug fixes to the Abamond monster encounters and the addition of a new effect for weapons (Sharpness) as well as a new obtainable weapon to fill in  an itemization gap.

Enjoy playing this weekend and 0.13 builds will start dropping next week.

Cheers and thanks for your continued support!

Mal

Background images / Wallpapers

Just a couple of large background images made for the game. One 'normal' and one lewdie.

These will be going on the new website I'm building to host the game. The same artist is the one who did the previous lewd images that I posted and will likely be illustrating a lot of the scenes in the game.

Cheers,

Mal

Upcoming Release Schedule

Hi everyone!

Just a quick note on the upcoming release schedule through the end of the month.

• 23/06 - Patreon Play Test 0.12 (RELEASED)
• 28/06 - Patreon RELEASE CANDIDATE 0.12 
• 01/07 - Public Release 0.12
• 06/07 - First Backer Release 0.13

As usual, there will be support / hotfixes for 0.12 throughout the month of July posted here first and eventually at other places time permitting. There may also be a surprise artwork update for Patrons on or around the middle to end of this week. Keep on the lookout for it!

Thanks again everyone for your continuing support of this game!

Mal

Queen Play Test 0.12e Cheat Build

This is the cheat version of 0.12e for Fans and Backers.

Included in this update is a tiny upgrade to the cheat menu. At the bottom there is now a 'Misc' section that allows you to customize your characters name(s) and their girlfriends name as well.

Cheers and thanks for all your support!

Mal

Queen of the Seas - Play Test 0.12e

This version contains a continuation of Bertie's quest line, a new asset (pirate hat) and a new game system for Abamond.

You will find now that the caverns beneath Abamond are inhabited by ever increasingly difficult monsters that when defeated can occasionally drop 'relics'. These relics can be turned in after a simple quest to create a variety of powerful potion effects.

Please remember to post any bugs you find either to here, or to the subreddit (link in the game). 

Cheers,

Mal

Queen of the Seas Exclusive - 0.11j (Hotfix)

This should be the last hot fix on 0.11 - sorry for the unusually high number of post-release fixes. I feel like we're still tweaking stuff and patching stuff up from the huge amount of code that was part of 0.10.

This hotfix includes a fix for using items in combat (it works again) and now the difficulty setting controls how fast you lose willpower from corruption.

Cheers,

Mal

Queen of the Seas Public Release - 0.11j (Hotfix)

This should be the last hot fix on 0.11 - sorry for the unusually high number of post-release fixes. I feel like we're still tweaking stuff and patching stuff up from the huge amount of code that was part of 0.10.

This hotfix includes a fix for using items in combat (it works again) and now the difficulty setting controls how fast you lose willpower from corruption.

Cheers,

Mal

Pimpin' Pink Pirate Hats

I started moving on to the second part of the 0.12 update today - new graphical avatar assets. The image above contains a rough draft of 2 of the eventual 5 layers of vector drawing that will go into making the pirate hat. 

Once I get the rough dimensions worked out on the standard dummy model for each layer, I'm then going to have to do another pass and make those dimensions scale based on the players current head shape. It's about as fun to do as it sounds. 

There's a good chance that I won't get this 100% to where I want it to be on the first pass, as some of the embellishments I want to add (scalable skull and bones, shading, feather, etc) are frankly, a real pain in the ass to do correctly. However, I'll definitely get it into some sort of shape where it appears in the game, allowing you to start building out your pirate look.

On that note, I hope everyone is having a great weekend and look forward to the imminent 0.12 play test release that is coming up for Patreon supporters!

Cheers,

Mal

Queen of the Seas Exclusive 0.11i (Hot Fix)

Fixes some game stopping bugs, mostly with combat.

Enjoy and please keep reporting bugs!

Cheers,

Mal

Queen of the Seas Public Release 0.11i (Hotfix)

Fixes a bug that can trap the player in a broken passage and some bugs with combat and saving. 

Please keep reporting bugs, thank you!

Cheers,

Mal

0.11 Hotfix coming this weekend

Just a heads up that a 0.11 hotfix is coming this weekend to fix a few bugs. If you're still having issues with 0.11, then this would be a great time to report them either here or on the subreddit so that I can get the fixes out to you guys!

Cheers,

Mal

Rough draft of relic shop

Screenshot is mostly just for demonstration purposes! This probably isn't how the actual interface will work, but it's sufficient for me to work out all of the logic required for what I'm trying to do.

Basically, you will be able to turn in one (or more) normal items and some relics from Abamond and 'create' a new item. In the example above, those are all enhancement potions that grant stats, body changes or skills. There will also be a sub category of healing / cleansing foods, will power recovery foods, weapons and clothing.

It'll probably take me an additional 1-2 days to add all the items and get this looking how I want to it, but after that I'll drop 0.12c for the Backers and move on to the rest of the updates for this release. Like usual, I'll try to get a public play test out before the end of the month for all my Patrons.

I think after this however I'm going to close the book on Abamond, at least temporarily. I have additional plans for boss monsters and special story encounters, but it'll have to wait as I have other areas of the game to flesh out that are higher priority.

Cheers,

Mal

Trying desperately hard to not rewrite the shop system

Not that it couldn't use it. It's one of the oldest collections of code in the game and has existed since before jobs, quests, etc. 

I mean, it's not a bad system, but it has certain limitations that I don't really like. For instance, right now I am trying to do something kind of esoteric. I've added special relics to dig spots and monsters in Abamond and at one shop I would like for the player to be able to "spend" these relics as currency. Not that big of a deal, except the current shop interface doesn't really support this.

I've toyed with a couple of options here and I can't decide which one is better - rewriting at least part of the shop interface to be able to handle what is essentially "multiple currencies", or just making a custom one off interface for this particular shop that looks and feels like the normal shop interface.

Really, what it comes down to is "How much will I use this if I add it as an option to the main code base?" and I think the answer is "not very much", but then again... WHO KNOWS?

I mean, the idea of having special currencies is kind of cool. Like courtesan tokens or relics, these are things you can hunt for and then turn in for loot that you might need that isn't available in other ways (and doesn't lower you coins score). So, from a game play option, it's kind of cool. On the other hand, if this proliferates so that there are like a dozen different "currencies", then that's just a mind numbing pain for players. Clearly there's a fine line here that I don't want to cross.

Oh well, I'll probably come up with a solution sometime tomorrow and then push out 0.12c either then or the day after for Backers to mess around with. Once I figure out what I'm doing and implementing, all I have to do then is work out the rewards... which is largely just data entry on my part due to the way I structured the game.

I know, "very interesting stuff"... er not, but hey, this is what keeps me up until *looks at clock* almost 1am on a Monday night... sheesh!

Cheers

Mal

0.12 Update - Monsters in the Depths!

Along with adding more content that heads towards the Mutiny! ending. I'm trying to get in at least a partial update to Abamond that includes adding monster encounters and collectables that can be turned in for potions and other power ups. 

The gif above displays the guts of the system - basically I added monster spawning and AI path finding to the Rogue-Like, but then merged it with our JRPG style combat system. 

There's still a lot of work to do here on the technical side, but the most daunting part is going to be creating the custom combat assets I need for the monsters that I'm going to add. We'll probably start out not so ambitious and then fill it in over time with more entertaining stuff.

Backers should be able to access this new content in a few days, so stay tuned!

Cheers,

Mal

Queen of the Seas Public Release 0.11h (Hotfix)

Hi everyone! There was a mistake in the 0.11g build where some very important combat balance changes for encounters on the Salty Mermaid were not published. This hot fix rectifies that!

Thanks and please enjoy!

Mal

Queen of the Seas Exclusive - 0.11h (Hotfix)

Hi everyone! 

There was a mistake that went into the final 0.11g build that did not include some important combat balancing for the random encounters on the Salty Mermaid. The attached file fixes that!

Cheers,

Mal

Post a Pirate, win a Prize

So... I had to do a lot of reading up on this to make sure it was all above the board, and it turns out that while I can't do a raffle for Patrons only, I can do a give away for anyone who uses the site. 

So, here it is - our first annual (um what?) community event!

Rules:

• Post your OC Pirate, any format allowed (line art, finger painting, magazine collages, butter sculptures).
• Points for sexy
• Points for funny
• Points for aaaaaaaaargh!

Prizes:

• 1st Prize: Video Game of your choice, up to 30 buckaroos USD.
• 2nd Prize: Video Game of your choice, up to $20 USD.
• 3rd Prize: Video game of my choice.  *muahahaha*

Delivery Platform to be decided later (we can definitely do Steam and probably something like dlsite if I just forward you the codes). Worst case scenario I will fucking mail you the game on a series of  5 1⁄4-inch floppy disks, but lets not do that.

The contest will run until July 4th, 2019 because MURRICA... er, because that's when I will have the money to do this :)

Have fun!

Queen of the Seas - Exclusive Version 0.11g

This is the official cheat enabled version of 0.11g for Fan level supporters and above. Please enjoy and thank you for your continued support. 

Patrons like you are the primary reason why this game is still pushing ahead rapidly as well as why we are branching out into adding custom hand drawn illustrations to future releases.

Thank you!

Mal

Queen of the Seas Public Release - 0.11g

Lots of additions and improvements in this version - 

• New avatar fidelity and new avatar items.
• Avatars for some of the key characters created.
• New Courtesan skill and associated quest and shops.
• Continuation of Black Bertie's quest line (as voted for by Patrons)
• More customization available in Cheat menu (Fans and above only)
• And lots more

Please check the full change long for a complete list of additions in 0.11!

Cheers and once again, thank you to all my Patrons who keep making this game possible!

Mal