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8/24/17 and Countdown 6

Hi again people. Today I managed to do all of the persona dialogue I needed to do for the update. So that's settled. I actually have one more I forgot to do for the tutorial, but I should be able to clear that one out too. I only have 1 more character to do and 1 more sidequest and I can get to work on the last system I'll need to consider this update playable. It won't be in as finished a state as I'd like it, but it should give you all a good impression of what to expect later on. See you all ...

8/23/17 Countdown 7 and Secret

I'd recommend watching the video first.

Yes, the secret is that the Sumaki Stone now has a built in A.I. which will play a role in the journey of the player by sorting through and analyzing data, keeping track of events, storing stats, and much more. Their personality is a little... lacking, and they even seem to be outright broken in some ways! But perhaps that can be fixed. 

The Sumaki Stone will be an usable item now instead of just an excuse to have a visual element to the spank...

8/22/17 and Countdown 8

Hello again my pretties. Today, I did most of the work with basic character interactions. I still have 2 full characters to write text for. The skeleton is there, but there is a lot of text and things that need to be shuffled around in order to get them sorted out. I also had a little setback today when about 30min of work was lost due to a crash in my video card's drivers, but I thankfully save pretty often. Aside from that, I've done a lot of work on two additions I think will be appreciated i...

8/21/17 and Countdown 9

Hi again people, another countdown update.

Today I worked mostly on the systems that give the customization to scenes where the player is spanked and added more character content. I also essentially finished the main quest of the story, but still need to make sure everything works and close some loose ends. 

When it comes to the customization of the scenes, I've made several common events (which are basically shortcuts to larger code) which set up all of the variables and switches f...

8/20/17 and Countdown 9.5

Good news doods. I think I have a solution to the problem I was working on from last post about not being able to customize the spanking scenes. Before, there were certain checks that would run which would change the scene no matter what when the time came. These checked things like how much damage was done, how much you cried, how many turns went by, how much you struggled, and more. Now, these things will only be checked if it's a "normal" scene, and I can set custom requirements for each scen...

8/20/17 and Countdown 10?

Hi peeps.

Still working on the game, I've recently finished all of the varying branches of the main quest, which took a lot longer than I would have liked. While doing so, I ran into some problems with the PENPEN event which handles the scenes where the player is spanked. As the event is now, there is just too little room for customization, and special scenes where I want a certain procedure. For example, as the event is now I can't find a way to give the player 12 strokes of the cane exactly ...

8/19/17 and Endgame

Hi everyone. Just a brief update on the progress I've made so far and some things I've been thinking of about the last stages of the update. 

As things are, I'm 11 days away from the time I really want the next update out, and things are still unclear on whether I can get the full version out on time. As a general checklist for things I have left to do, I have 1 branch left of the main quest to make, 2 more characters to give full interactivity, at least a days worth of persona text left ...

8/18/17 and more progress

So I've been doing more stuff with the main quest and interactive spanking bits and it turns out... pretty much everything is working okay. I was really surprised about that, but it seems like the SORE event can be started and stopped pretty easily without much confusion or conflicts. Aside from that, I was testing the marking system again and found that the markings didn't layer quite in the way I expected. The normal settings for pictures just make them look sort of slapped on each other if yo...

8/16/17 P2 and Main Quest

Two updates in one day? Wuuuuuut?

That's right, I did lot of stuff in the game today and I was just so proud of myself that I had to brag about it, can you believe that?

First off, I pretty much finished the whole position system. The only thing I have to tune in that is how depending on the character and location, the actual sprites will need to move to certain spots in order to make the position make sense. So to correct this, I had to make a sort of mini-movement script that plays eve...

8/16/17 and Positions

Hi everything. Yeah I know what I typed.

Anyhoo today I've been doing some work on a feature I had thought of for a while, but never really let anyone know of. As you all saw in the demo, there was only really the option to take a person you were spanking over your knee. This was partially to save time and because it wasn't a big feature at the time. However, I sort of redid or updates the whole system with selecting positions. Positions will be a thing you unlock throughout your quest, you'll...

8/15/17 and Blargulfashigunukit

Hi peopos. I meant to post earlier but my internet has been shitting the bed all day. But hey, that gave me a good excuse to keep working on the game, since most of it doesn't need an internet connection to work on. With that said, about 75% of the text is done for the personas of the next update, and with that I decided to put it on hold and work on more of the actual game.

A while ago, I was on spanking thread of /d/ where there was a brief discussion on my game. One person mentioned how the...

8/11/17 and Progress

 Hi people. I've taken a new route in working with the text libraries. Instead of doing each persona at a time, I'm just going through the entire thing all at once. This way once it's done, I can focus purely on the "game" part of the development. It's still a slow road, but I'm making progress. One comforting thing about this is how once I have a persona done, it's done forever and I won't have to write any dialogue for that character type again. So the more I do, the faster the updates wi...

8/9/17 and Reorganization

Hi everyone. Recently while working on the game I noticed a lot of inconsistencies with how I've handled certain persona's, and right now I'm going through a restructuring of each of the lists. I'm not sure how this will effect the date of the next update, but I'm aiming for more simplicity and ease to work with them. Regardless, I've also decided to put out a new version before the month has ended regardless of how much I've accomplished. This version will be open to patrons only, because it wi...

8/7/17 and The Making of Verdeo's Details

`This video is an example of how I make the details for the characters in the spanking scenes. Sped up 4x. This one didn't take so long because all of the parts were simple. The classic bloomers I did the other day took ages.

8/6/17 and the making of Verdeo

I made a video showing the general process of how I make all of the emotions and faces of a character. Sped up 3x. I'll upload a video tomorrow of me making the clothing details too.

8/4/17 and Reworks

Hey again.

I've been working a lot on the design and world of the game, since this restart of the project allows me to change a lot of things I wish I did before. You'll notice that some characters have some small design changes and new areas along the way. Some parts may be redesigned entirely. For example, I just put in a lot of work to make the world map more reflective of the stuff I plan to add. I also made it twice as big (not in size, but rather in scale, so there's more detail). I've e...

8/3/17 and The Late Report

Hey people, welcome to a special late night update edition. Well, I say late, but on the east coast it's only 10PM, and everyone across the Atlantic is probably at 4+ in the morning...

Either way, today I finished the story events up to Lora's spanking and Lora's character. There's been a lot to change in between, but so far I don't see a reason why things should go SNAFU. All I have to do is draw the clothing components for her and her stuff should be finished. While I'm at it I'll make the c...

8/2/17 and Variety

I finished my first persona and have done some work on the story event of Tungsten Town. I'm taking this chance to flesh out the story a characters a little more, while also keeping it brief as can be. While working on this, I realized how beneficial it was for me to set up the game in the way I did, with it being an anthology of stories over many areas. This way, the story rarely gets stale and the player gets to see new locations and characters often.

7/30/17 and Deadline

Hi freaks,

I just wanted to drop by to say that after some of the work I've done so far, I think the deadline is still reasonable. The persona text libraries vary in complexity, so some take longer than others and it makes it hard to judge how much progress you've made as a whole. One thing I did was simplify the reactions the npc had when you switched implements. Before I had it so that if you were punishing them, they would show different amounts of distress depending on how sore they alread...

7/28/17 and Maximum Overdrive Typing

Hi people. From now on I'll be working on the persona's and general eventing for the game, so there won't be much I will be posting about. There are about 5 or 6 new personas (personae?) I need to do before the next version is released. Since each persona has 32 different common events associated with it, and I can do about 10 every day on average, the next version has a minimum ETA of 20 days. After that is the story eventing, which will take much less time. I can probably get the entire main q...

7/25/17 and Pictures Done

What it says on the tin. Now that the pictures are done, my next steps will be making sure they all show properly during the spanking scenes. Now that should be one thing that I can't possibly fuck up, since it's working fine already. Also included in the batch of new pictures are the images for the bath brush and wooden spoon implements that were voted into the game. Even though it would be way earlier than it should have, I'll make them available to the patrons through some convoluted means. A...

7/24/17 and Flowcharts

I took a bit of a break from the art portion of development to do some planning of the events I have in mind. I found a cool flowchart making software that links with google drive, and this is what I came up with after about half an hour. This one in particular is for the main  quest of Tungsten Town. There is an awkward bit in the beginning where everything is pretty linear, but then it opens up. I gave quite a few options to be had here, with at least one ending with you doing the spankin...

7/22/17 and Picture Progress #2

Second round of pictures I've made. This here is just a taste of what I've gotten done today. The only thing I have left is the pants variations and the hair parts. Speaking of, this picture are the various starting underwear your character will get depending on the character you choose.

7/21/17 and Picture Progress #1

Hidiho.

I don't have much to update you all with, so I figured I'd just post some of the art I'm working on. I'm trying something different so that instead of having to draw new clothes for every single character, I create a few generic ones and keep them as photoshop files so that I can edit the colors quickly. Of course for the more important characters, they'll still get my love in the form of their own custom outfits. Also shown here is the working body model for the younger characters. Th...

7/20/17 and Tutorial Finished!

Mostly. The whole event works just as intended, which is more than enough for me right now. Instead of adding more event content, since I'm pretty burnt out from the programming, I've been focusing on adding onto and redoing some of the art for the game. I need to make new clothes and details for the new Player options as well as all of the npc's that can be spanked in the next version. To make this less tedious, I'm making a generic guide for certain clothing types that I can just change the co...

7/19/17 and Tutorial Finished?

Yo yo yo, you should be super proud of me because today I finished the tutorial in it's entirety. Well, the '?' is there because there's some testing I still have to do of it, but from the small tests I've done along the way show that it should go fine. After this, hopefully my remaining work will get done faster. Now, regarding that big secret. My first teaser for it will be that it's something which will help you learn more about the world, and about the game itself.

7/18/17 and Menus

Hey peeps. I've been working more on the tutorial thing and my big secret on the side, since they're both interconnected. Thanks to some tips from a fellow game maker back on aotk, my tutorial idea from earlier may still be feasible. It's related to those common event menus that I use for the spanking systems, basically I'll be having a lot more of those in preparation for the big secret.

7/17/17 and SNAFU

Yeah, the tutorial I was working on was a total bust. You know the menus that appear when you want to select an action when giving a spanking? For some reason text will NOT show up with those present, which makes the tutorials more confusing then they are explanatory. The only alternative I could think of would be the gab windows, but they are very clunky and not at all suited for a rigged scene like a tutorial. Perhaps I'll have to make it text only, or show a picture of the interface ...

7/16/17 and Tutorial

Wow, I actually have something to say today!

All of my recent work has been on eventing the tutorial section of the introduction. It will take place right after the whole inn scene after your character exits the door. It will be voluntary to those who feel they are familiar enough with the new interface to skip it, but anyone who hasn't read all of the posts I've made describing all of the convoluted features will want to try it at least once. Making a spanking scene where you have to select c...

7/14/17 and Boring

Another nothing progress report. Things have been rough with starting up the new semester and I've had little time to do anything with the game. But fret not, for the show must go on, and the next version WILL come out. Eventually.