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LL 0.0.8 Changelog

Players now have a choice of game modes, easy or normal. Normal mode is the style of play in 0.0.7, where you have to balance seducing the girls quickly and killing Aureus. Easy mode returns to an earlier form of game play where once you kill Aureus, all the girls he captured become available again.

It is now possible to have up to 10 slaves, and there is a second page to accommodate the girls without over-crowding.

Game no longer prompts you to increase a stat if you have 1000 experienc...

Damsels Progress

So, just wanted to share some of the things I'm working on... the picture above shows three characters I have assets for. The Enchantress, on the right, will be in 0.4, and the Pirate and Shield Maiden will come along later as I have time to do their renders and work out the associated coding.

The picture also shows some higher quality background assets that I'm using now. Some of the older renders have been updated and that process will continue. I'm really psyched about improving the game on...

Damsels 0.3 Changelog

There's a lot here. I won't apologize for that. :) 

New Content:

New Fetish, Sadism. No new renders for this, but girls with Sadism gain lust rapidly as they damage monsters.

New character class, Barbarian, complete with renders. The Barbarian is best as a front line fighter, dishing out more damage than the Amazon but also more vulnerable. Her sexuality is higher but her willingness to accept magic items is less.

Added new environment, the Blood Plains....

Progress Report

I've been sick this week with a nasty cold ... which is bad for me, but it does mean that I've been working on the games rather than being at my day job, so hopefully that's good for you.

I'm testing and tweaking LL 0.0.8 this afternoon, and all is working fine. Most of the changes are minor, but the larger changes is that it will now be possible to get all 10 girls into your harem, and there will be an option at the beginning to disable the "Aureus kills the girls" mechanic that many people d...

Changelog for Damsels 0.2

There's a lot here. I've been busy.

New Content:

Added class, Priestess, with appropriate renders and skills

Travelling a long ways through the Western Woods now gives the possibility of a cheap recruit

New magic item types -- Belts increase Constitution, and are usable by all classes. Wands are usable only be spell casters.

New non-combat encounters in the Western Woods

A second level of the dungeon, with more difficult monsters

Four new mo...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.8 Progress

I've been making some bug fixes and so forth while I'm waiting for my wife to get up this morning. I'm testing a variant that will let you choose between different ways to play the game. I know that some people don't like Aureus killing the girls -- to my mind it adds a sense of urgency to what you're doing, and makes your choices matter, and that's something I find desirable in a game. But not everyone is me, so there will be an option to turn that feature off.

Improved Combat Screen for Damsels

Thank you to the commenters who encouraged me to find a better way -- much happier with this look. :)

Damsels and Dragons, 0.1 Release

So, here is a demo version of Damsels and Dragons.

PC Version 

Mac Version 

In Damsels and Dragons you play a man who is managing a group of female adventurers -- 4 at first, but more as time goes on -- forming parties, sending them on adventures, gettin...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.8 progress

I've mostly worked out the kinks with having more than 5 slaves, so Lucretia's Legacy is moving along on schedule or a little ahead. There's no major technical challenges in anything else I have planned for 0.0.8 so far, so there should be no problems with a January release.

An addendum to my previous post about Damsels -- I expect to have a version of that out to patrons this week, possibly as soon as tomorrow if testing goes well this evening.

Damsels Progress

I've been a little quiet about the Damsels project lately, and it's because it's been going through some changes that are of more interest from a programming point of view than from a players. Basically, I decided that the way I had it set up would make it too hard to deliver executables to my patrons. I explored converting the project to Unity, but in the end I decided that I would be able to produce a higher quality product by going back to Ren'py. I've now converted the project over and have ...

Bondage Island 1.0

I've had a few small changes I wanted to make to Bondage Island, but I didn't want to take time out with my other projects to make them. I changed the ending credits to honor my $10 contributors, and some of the patrons who made helpful comments during the Bondage Island process, and I added an intro character who delivers some of the information you need to play the game once you reach the island. Nothing has been changed about game play. But with these changes, I'm considering the project to b...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.8 plans

Just wanted to update you on what I have going forward. Now that I've changed the way Aureus functions, the door is open for me to lift the hard limit on the number of slaves you can have. This would entail having a second page for the slave screen; it would also involve a different formula for determining your current maximum. Right now, that formula is Dominance divided by 4, rounded down, but I'm looking at something more complex: 2 + (Dominance - 10) // 2 + (Charisma - 10) // 3.

// means d...

LL 0.0.7 Progress

I did a bunch of testing the last few days, and found a few bugs. Nothing show stopping, and in fact one of those bugs existed in previous versions -- I just never found it because it required a different play style to trigger. I'll be doing some more testing to make sure my fixes are working as intended.

I'm happy with Aureus's new stalking algorithm, but I do think there might be some fiddling with some of the timing, from a play balance perspective. I'm looking forward to some community fee...

More on Damsels and Dragons

So a few people have asked for more information about my new project, and I thought I'd share a few comments about the game flow. Damsels is a roster/harem management game, with aspects of old school hack-slash fantasy adventure.

You start out with 4 women -- just enough for an adventuring party, but you can recruit one more a week if you have the money. You can send adventuring parties out to gather loot and magic items, and to get experience, but after they go out...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.7 progress

I took a little break from doing renders to do some code changes.

It used to be that if you successfully made a girl your slave, when Aureus would have captured her, he simply captured someone else instead. The result of this is that if you were having a very successful game, Aureus would simply collect the girls that are harder to get, often when you were just about to have success with them. That won't be the case in 0.0.7 -- instead each girl is rated as to how hard she is, and...

New Project

I've been working on something new in my spare time, and I'm ready to talk about it some. The working title of the game is "Damsels and Dungeons," but the name may change.

It's a departure for me, in that it's not a Ren'py game -- in fact, it's being written from the ground up, using Python and the Pygame extension. Ren'py is made primarily for graphic novels, and while one can do other things with it, it's essentially non-structured programming approach is ideal for a linear story and lends i...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.7 progress

I'm moving along nicely with this, and in fact perhaps my goals weren't very ambitious with this update. It has required a lot of  posing and rendering time, however. I've got threesome scenes done involving 4 more of the girls, and the change in the way Aureus works is moving along but needs tweaks. I don't see any problems in having a mid-December release.

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.7 Progress

I've been working on threesomes today for the new release.  I love the sexiness of them, and I'm really pleased with how some of the renders are coming out. I hate how fiddly they are... posing three figures, so that they are all in the right relation to each other, is time consuming.  I managed to get Desiree's corset in one of them, so that will finally appear, briefly in the game... it doesn't stay on long. :)

All of the girls in the game will have at least one threesome scene, an...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.6 Changelog

Content:

Added a new character, Ella, complete with slave menu scenes.

Added slave menu scenes for Raven

Added a psychiatrist visit for Julia

Gameplay:

Fixed various issues involving enslaved girls being available when I didn't want them to be.

Changed game ending text slightly.

Bugs:

Fixed a bug where Karen's apartment would not properly react to her being captured in some situations.

LL 0.0.6 Progress

I spent the morning running the code I'd written last week, and fixing little things, adding images where they were needed, and so forth. I won't say that I would yet call it totally tested. What I can say is that it works, and I think it's fun. Ella presents a non-trivial puzzle to be solved, and working on her makes it a little harder to accomplish everything else the player would like to do.

I also did a few renders and some riding to bring make using both Ella and Raven for sex from the sl...

LL 0.0.6 Progress

I wrote more Ella scenes, and caught up on the renders associated with those scenes and the ones I've already written. No pic today, however -- most of the renders I did are either R or X rated, or would reveal a little more of Ella's story than I want to before release.

I'm feeling very good that work on her story will be done in time for a mid-to-late November release, and that I'll be able to get some slave menu content (including some girl-girl scenes, and more extensive sex with Raven) do...

Ella (Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.6 progress)

Hi there. This is Ella, the next girl to be added to Lucretia's Legacy. Ella is a psychiatrist, following up on the nymphomania thread with Julia, but she also has a secret of her own. I'm hoping you'll enjoy it!

All is proceeding for LL 0.0.6 to be released in November, probably after mid-month because I'll be traveling to San Francisco for a week and that will take a little time away from the game.

I'm anticipating a 0.0.7 release in December, probably followed by a 0.1.0 release in Ja...

Changelog for 0.0.5

 Gameplay:

There is no artificial time limit on the game anymore. The game will now continue until Aureus captures all the remaining available non-enslaved women. If Aureus dies, the game will continue until you choose to end it.

Bugs:

Fixed a bug causing Karen to have the effects of being bitten when you bite Marianne from the slave menu.

Fixed several text errors.

Max dancing with Flora picture no longer appears when you're dancing with Flora.

Fixed a bug t...

LL Playtesting

And changed some code as a result, so more testing. I hope to have my independent tester look at it on one of the next three nights, and I'll release it the day after... i.e., by Thursday at the latest, Tuesday at the earliest. Thanks for your patience... the content is finished for the release, I just want to make it as bug free an experience as possible.

Sex, sex, sex (An LL 0.0.5 update)

So I've been writing a lot of sex scenes and doing a lot of renders today. All of the existing characters will now have some kind of new content accessible from the slave menu, consisting of at least three renders and a bunch of new writing.

Tomorrow I'll be redirecting my efforts to testing, so that I can release 0.0.5 next week.

LL 0.0.5 Progress, 10/5

Plenty to report today. As you can see, Julia's about to get bitten.

Wrote and did renders for an extra slave menu option for Julia. I'll continue to do those extra options as I get inspiration for them, and I'm finding it easier to do them one at a time then trying to crank out a set of 8 of them.

I worked on Raven's story too. I wrote a combat scene, I wrote a sex scene, and did renders for both. I think the plot line with her is interesting, and I'm pretty happy with it. ...

Lucretia's Legacy, and the Patreon

I want to thank all the wonderful people who have donated to this Patreon. Work on the game continues, and when this game is finished, I intend to make another. I continue to improve my skills, and I'm energized about making these kinds of games.

I mentioned earlier that I was shifting direction a little bit on LL, and that's continued to be fruitful. Today I've been doing the coding and writing for a plot line that I had in the back of my mind very early in creation. The girl you saw last wee...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.5 -- Creativity

The picture above is of Raven, and she can be your worst enemy -- or, of course, you can convert her into your obedient slave.

I was looking yesterday to do something different, something non-repetitive, and something that took advantage of the kind of game I've built in Lucretia's Legacy. I had a couple of new ideas, and one of them is Raven. I stayed awake half the night thinking about the game, so I've been working on very little sleep, but I'm happy with what I've accomplished so far today...

Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.5 Progress

This nifty little silhouette was a by product of some odd lighting -- it doesn't appear in the game, but I thought it was worth sharing. A fully lit Geri *is* in the game.

I've been working on the slave menu options, and have been encountering a few problems.

Honestly, the entire mechanics of the game are set up around making a girl your slave, not what to do with her once you have her. I've come up with a few neat ideas for benefits to having particular girls in your harem, but not for ...

LL 0.0.5

I've been doing some coding for Lucretia's Legacy 0.0.5, and have added events for Sophia and Julia that become available only once you have made them your slave as well as doing some general code cleanup.

I've was out of town last weekend, and will be out of town next weekend too, so that's slowing progress a little bit. All very temporary, and next week there will be a post with pictures and more dramatic changes.