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September 7th Progress Update

I worked on the bosses for The Depths and now have their sprites, battler images, etc.. I also finished their stats up in-game and fixed up their group fights. Still need to make levels 2 & 3, but it's nice to have the statistical stuff out of the way. :)

Edit: I just finished the level designs for Depths 2 & 3. Everything's placed.
Now I just need to add a few secret rooms, all 3 boss rooms (and set those up properly), and the Depths will be finished!

Edit 2: Still need...

September 6th Progress Update

I worked a lot on The Depths creatures tonight. All their stats are done, and their groups set up. Just a few more steps and I can begin to populate the 3 maps with them (speaking of which, I should probably make the other 2 maps also).

 https://i.imgur.com/3sllGCk.png

Seven's latest hand expressions were updated again today, so I updated some of her dialogue portraits. There was just one small issue, but I thi...

September 5th Progress Update

I finished up the enemies for Caverns levels 7 & 8, and also polished up one from the previous levels a bit. The enemies are all now placed as well. I think the only thing left is the battle background.

Until I decide what to do about the "losing to enemies" animation, new enemies will be using the "lose to titans" system, where Sienna basically teleports home and loses 25 tranquility. This system will remain for enemies that are (for whatever reason) sexually incompatible. I'd also ...

September 4th Progress Update

I was working on the 7th and 8th Caverns bosses and noticed the 6th level boss needed a few tweaks. While I haven't actually tested any of them, they should all be good to go. I do still need to add common enemies for levels 7 & 8 before The Caverns are 100% completed.

Also, here's the 4 character concepts that Mavis drew last night. It could possibly contain spoilers, but lacks context.

https://i.imgur.com/V...

Concept Art

Just spending the night getting some new concept art:
https://i.imgur.com/XpM48y9.png

I'll probably be here with Mavis as he draws the concepts over the next several hours. Feel free to stop by!

https://picarto.tv/mydirtydrawings

September 2nd Progress Update

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Adivia's 2 quests are now complete! I also added the nodes to her skill tree that are unlocked by doing her 2nd quest (as well as those for Clarinda and Marissa, which I hadn't done yet). I also fixed Adivia's special event that had been mess up and updated Sienna's portraits for that.

So that means all the kids are now fully updated. Woot! There are still a couple things I need...

September 1st Progress Update

https://i.imgur.com/seJSmPn.png

Both Clarinda and Marissa's wardrobe, dialogue, appearance, and quests are updated.

I still need to add a few things to their skill trees (easy peasy), and then I'll move on to updating Adivia. She'll be the last child that needs updating, and then I can move on to updating other characters and quests. 

Edit: I've been working on Adivia and have her appearance and wardrobe...

August 31st Progress Update

 https://i.imgur.com/aieViFx.jpg 

Still working with the kids. Nadie, Vallerie, and Charlene have all been updated (outfit upgrades, quests, and dialogue).

I also placed Charlene's 2nd quest item where it needs to be. Vallerie's item is currently on standby until I get the actual location for it built.

There's still 1 remaining "quest" item for Vallerie and 2 for Charlene. I'm not exactly sure how t...

August 30th Progress Update

I decided it would be a good time to start working on the kids' stuff, so I fixed up Nadie's dialogue and added her 2nd (which is also her last) quest. I also added her final outfit upgrade, which will require some new ingredients (one being Fairy Dust), as well as 5 greater experium. It's a pretty hefty upgrade, so it's well worth it. :)

Also I've decided that two of each child's quests will be sequential, and after you complete the 2nd one you'll get their unique fairy dust, which you c...

August 29th Progress Update

Good morning! I just finished up 9 common events for the other girls that will be helping Sienna with the whoring. Now to wrap things up by completing the other features of the whoring system (upgrades and traits, mostly). 

Edit: I finished checking out the traits and those were mostly finished already. I think I also found the reason why whoring would inexplicably just "exit" with no explanation. Will test and see.

The only things left now, are the upgrades and integrity chec...

August 28th Progress Update 2

I've been studying the whoring system and I must say it's really not a good idea to leave something unfinished. When you go back to it, you have no idea what you were doing! I'm slowly catching up though. xP

I started some new common events to account for other girls that will help Sienna with whoring (they will work when she does, but might not help otherwise. We'll see!). I got really lost when I realized that I had no descriptions for the whoring traits that you can earn. I KNEW that I...

Did someone steal your sweetroll?

https://i.imgur.com/GuBJpBu.png

I guess this is what happens when it's been over a year since your last updated release. I was hoping it would trickle down a bit more slowly but I think I've lost more patrons this month than ever before. Ouch!

I do hope that y'all will still continue to follow me on Patreon, or at least one of the forum threads like ULMF.

To all my patrons that I still have, thanks for s...

August 28th Progress Update

My how time flies! I need more days, and more hours, and more minites in those hours, and more seconds for each minute. Reminds me of back when I was in grade school and thinking, "Wow, this sure is boring! How can a single hour possibly last so long?!". Hah! xD

Well anyways, I took a look at the whoring events. I was puzzled about where the call event for displaying the "image" was located and spent a good long time looking for it. Didn't find it. I later tested it in-game to make sure i...

August 26th Progress Update

Couldn't sleep. Didn't feel cognitive enough to work on anything important so I collected all the enemy sprites for Caverns levels 7 & 8. This will be the last 2 levels of it. I've always intended on it being a place to primarily get your stained glass shards, with optional bosses.

I'm not sure if I'll have the last level lead anywhere else. Probably just end it there, considering all the freezing darkness you have to go through to get there. The final 2 bosses should be very rewardin...

August 25th Progress Update 2

I just finished the event for the red acid upgrade. Wrapping things up for it was a little more complicated than I thought (I had to replay the event a few times and make corrections regarding event facing, player position at the end, etc..). It's all finished now though. If I make anymore changes to it, then it would probably be slight tweaking and balancing during a future playthrough.

There's some things I need to take care of first, but hopefully I can wrap up the easy version of red...

August 25th Progress Update

Well I worked on the new event some more (the Red Acid upgrade), and it's almost finished now. I just need to wrap up the "after" dialogue, and restore the player party to the default setup, etc..

There will be 2 possible ways you can get the red acid, depending on your previous decisions. One way is easy (you just go get it). The other way will require some traipsing back and forth, but is more satisfying in the end. I still need to work on the "easy" way. Maybe I can finish that up tom...

August 24th Progress Update

https://i.imgur.com/0pHE5uJ.png

Bebe just sent me some of the finished hand gestures for Seven, but she's still working on a few more. I had to go ahead and work on Seven's dialogue a bit, to give Bebe ideas for what the last few hand gestures should look like. I want to work on that some more tomorrow and hopefully send Bebe a few more lines to work with. 

I also want to work on the kids' quest system a bit. I...

August 23rd Progress Update

I fixed the Tower doc/jenn "skip event" issues. There's a slight visual issue, but at least it won't result in any player grief.

I then added the Caverns level 6 boss. It might be an impossible fight, but we'll see. xD

August 22nd Progress Update

I just finished up the working concept for the new Tranquility system. Entering and exiting from there all seems to be working properly. There are some minor things like battle background and music selection that still need doing, but those are easy enough.

While testing all this out I noticed some issues with the "skip event", during the nightly dr. visits. Basically skipping one part and then letting the other play, and vice versa, can cause some issues currently. I'll be fixing that n...

August 21st Progress Update

Well I've finished an early concept for the new tranquility system. It's still got some kinks to work out (namely entry and exit issues), but I think it will work well when that's all taken care of. :)

Goodnight! (August 21st, early morning)

It's been a hard day. The grief is agonizing, but each day seems to get a little better. There are those moments when it just all comes flooding back and hits me like a sack of bricks. >.<;

I did work on the tranquility stuff a bit earlier, but didn't manage much. Hopefully today will be better. Time to get some sleep! :D

August 20th Progress Update 2

I worked on the tranquility stuff a bit this morning. I'm going to be using a concept that I had way back in the early days of FSA, when I wanted to have random dungeon levels. I've learned so much since then, and I'm still learning new stuff.

I've been a little cryptic because I wasn't sure what to do with the tranquility. I know what I want to do with it now. Sleeping with negative tranquility will send Sienna to a type of "bonus" area, where you have to defeat random monsters and coll...

August 20th Progress Update

Well it was long overdue, but I finally got around to adding monsters to The Caverns levels 5 & 6. I used a recolor of one monster and for the other group reused the ice drake (with another type of drake, which is kinda like fighting 2 mini-bosses at once), but they  work well, I think. Level 6 still needs a boss. Maybe I can think of one later today, or just use 2 previous bosses. x]

There are several complex systems that need work, but I just can't get into those right now (auc...

August 18th Progress Update

I worked on the new boss a little, adding the background for the fight and making sure everything worked properly. There was a slight error with his graphic but I just had a wrong number in there.

I think I mentioned this in a comment on a previous update, but I think I've updated most of Sienna's portraits in The Tower.

Tonight I decided to work on some enemy groups for later areas in the game. Basically just their stats. I also recycled an enemy for the caverns (levels 5 &6...

Well my little buddy died today

https://i.imgur.com/6Fx9dwH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ElRcNTV.jpg

It feels like there's a huge hole in my heart. It feels like the worst day ever. I keep going over and over what I could have done differently, how I could have spent more time with him, etc..

His kidneys were just too far gone and the only options were to bring him home ...

August 16 Progress Update

I went through a bunch of the longer dialogues in The Tower and replaced all of Sienna's portraits. I also updated some of the dialogue to be more up-to-date with the overall storyline. I wish I could put more work in but my mind has been rather preoccupied lately. Not only the problems with the indoor cats, but 3 of our outside cats have been killed.....

August 14th Progress Update

A while back someone asked if I could prevent enemies from running if they are asleep (or otherwise incapacitated). Well I couldn't manage that, or at least it's not something that could be easily done. The action is forced whenever primary enemies are defeated, so I would pretty much have to put in a condition for each state that would prevent the enemy from running. Well I certainly did not want to do that, so I've changed how minions and inactive enemies function. 

Surprised, brainless...

August 13th Progress Update

Well my favorite cat is having some trouble (again). Hopefully we can take him to the vet tomorrow but it really stresses him out (he REALLY hates the vet).

So- Basically it's been difficult to think, but I've been working on the retry options for the turn-based bosses since that doesn't require much thought (mostly copy/paste). I also worked on the tranquility stuff a bit, but nothing substantial. Just a map, and I got some ideas about how it should work, but- really just a plain boring...

August 12th Progress Update

I worked on the new event a bit more, replacing the entrances such that it's blocked off by a level 3 acid-meltable door instead of a level 1 acid-meltable door. I've also thought of a way to get the player to actually go there right away (unless you don't want to be able to melt level 3 acid-meltable doors, but you probably do!).

Well I couldn't really finish that event right now because I need some portraits first, and I really don't want to have to go through that event 2 and 3 times ...

August 11th Progress Update

Couldn't sleep. Time to work!... Well I did spend a little time on youtube first. xP  Anyways, I finished replacing Sienna & Jenn's portraits in The Tower night events, so that's done now. There's still a bunch of other dialogue spots there. I'll probably take care of all those inside The Tower first, and then wait on Kendra's portraits to do the rest.

I also want to mess around with the new auction system, so I might start that soon.

edit:
I'm not sure if I mentioned i...