Well, this is embarrassing. So the theme for April's update was going to be enbies and masculine concubine options. The centerpiece being the big refactor to allow for they/them pronouns.
Off I went to remove all the little gender binaries scattered throughout the code and the save format. This took a while, but I made it and immediately discovered that it caused grammar problems everywhere. Even singular 'they' requires a plural verb. i.e. "She has exquisite nostrils" -> "They...
2023-04-27 06:27:52 +0000 UTC
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Yep, I'm pausing billing again. I guess I must be pretty run down because after taking a break, I went and got sick. Next month, then!
I did get a bit done while I was well, just not quite enough to justify an update yet:
- The enhanced lair descriptions are complete for all characters now.
- A new piece of encounter music for glam-type characters.
- Got started on improving the concubine upgrade trees. Adding more of the cool stuff that the player character gets...
2023-03-26 21:47:33 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody, fatigue's been creeping up on me and I don't think I've got enough gas in the tank for an update this month. I'll be pausing billing while I have a rest, but I'll see you again with some goodies in March.
2023-02-15 01:30:36 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- Rewrote seduction text: When you use the seduce button during an encounter, the results are much more specific and descriptive. 5 times more variations and 12 times the word count.
- Removed some irritating random events: the concubine opting to leave and the premonition of the baron's fall driving a minion insane.
- Pixies stealing mana is now part of the arc of events that leads into Stein being on your tail. Presenting...
2023-01-28 13:37:28 +0000 UTC
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Hope you've all been enjoying the holiday season. Sorry to say I didn't get everything in that I wanted this month, but who does this time of year?
What's New:
Tome of Tentacles, volume 2 is now available via underworld expedition.
Dilator Tentacle: gradually opens up an opening more and more, the longer you leave it in place.
Vacuum Tentacles: an array of ten...
2022-12-28 03:35:50 +0000 UTC
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This month I'll be working on the Tome of Tentacles, volume 2. Featuring such appendages as Suction Tentacles and the Tapered Dilator! The latter will be an alternative to loosening lotion. I'm toying with restraining tentacles - perhaps with a trust check similar to infestation - but I'm not yet sure if they'll work out.
In addition I want to clean up the random events, like I mentioned last month. Get rid of some of the ones that have become extraneous and do a better job of ...
2022-12-06 01:26:18 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- Underworld Expeditions: Once you have 6 or more tomes, you'll be offered the chance to send minions to look for high level tomes and artifacts.
- 5 new items that can found on an expedition.
- 6 new random events that can happen during an expedition.
- A new encounter music track for punks, goths, hunters, bikers, bruisers, and generic beast types.
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2022-11-27 00:37:19 +0000 UTC
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Underworld Expeditions
Send your minions out to the bazaars of the underworld to gather new tomes and artifacts! Or skip a trip to the surface and go personally.
Up till now, tomes have arrived by random event. In the late game, I want to use the Schemes system to give players ways to actively seek them out. While I'm there I'll be tweaking the random events. I'll delete some annoying ones, adjust the activation criteria of others.
I've also been working on ...
2022-11-11 00:45:13 +0000 UTC
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I'm thinking about end-game balancing and I'm curious how much mana an avid Fleshcult player accumulates. Promise not make any insane grinds based on these results.
2022-11-08 23:46:36 +0000 UTC
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Does it mesh well with the mood of the game? Or should I be trying a different approach?
(Select as many options as you like)
2022-10-27 22:43:42 +0000 UTC
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What's New: Sound Effects and Music!
- 4 music tracks: a title theme, a lair theme, and 2 encounter tracks. Eventually I would like at least 5 different encounter tracks to suit the different character personalities, but this is just the first phase.
- Sound Effects: sighs, groans and moans, male and female. I've covered the common actions for a start, more to come later.
- Lots of volume sliders. If you only want clea...
2022-10-25 06:03:21 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- Tome of Vaginal Perversion, volume 2: Available from Downtown onward. Introduces Torrential Wetness, Labyrinthine Cunts, and Prehensile Clits.
- New Character - The Raver: This scantily-clad reprobate can be found losing their mind on the dance floor at underground raves.
Bug Fixes:
- Picking options in the lab tab no longer forgets which character you're on.
- If yo...
2022-09-27 23:19:44 +0000 UTC
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This month I've been taking a break from quest stuff to work on a tome: the Tome of Vaginal Perversion, volume 2. Discover strange new transformations such as the prehensile clit, torrential wetness, and the labyrinthine cunt - where every thrust might breach a new chamber deep in the maze of branching passages.
Alongside the tome I'll be introducing a new character: The Raver. Follow the sound systems to a derelict warehouse in The Pit and you'll meet an eccentric tribe of dan...
2022-09-16 01:16:27 +0000 UTC
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New Feature - Improved Minion Descriptions:
- The descriptions of minions now start off with a character-specific line saying what they're up to and how they're doing. The line varies depending on whether they're untransformed, partially transformed, or fully transformed.
- About half of the characters have this filled in, the rest have a generic placeholder for now. Thanks go to Porpentine for writing these!
New Feature - Surface Recruits...
2022-08-26 06:12:19 +0000 UTC
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How are you finding the balance of what I've been putting out? More of this, more of that?
To clarify, the side projects I've got in mind are almost all submissive-leaning, usually centering on body modification and dilemmas. Midjourney is a machine-learning art generator. It doesn't do nudity, but it could be useful for character portraits and backgrounds.
2022-08-02 01:02:21 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- New Side Quest: The Chastity Field Generator. Ever wonder why you can only recruit people from the suburbs at the start of the game? Now you'll know why. Starts in an end of turn event after you've defeated the baron (or earlier on a brand new save).
- New Side Quest: The Robo-beast and the Robo-doll. Isn't a shame that beasts without concubines don't produce anything? What you need is some sor...
2022-07-28 12:59:53 +0000 UTC
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I really hoped to finish some side quests for this release, but I couldn't get them done in time, so for now it's just underlying subsystems and internal stuff. Sorry about that.
What's New:
- Diary page now has two new sections: Objectives and Factions.
- Objectives is a quest log that leads you through the main storyline to defeating the baron. Side quests will appear here once I've finished some.
- Factions sh...
2022-06-27 01:22:19 +0000 UTC
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It's been a year since I've started this Patreon! To celebrate, here's a sneak peek at the soundtrack I've been working on. This is a WIP version of the loop that will play when you're in the lair. I'm curious to hear what you think.
Thanks to your support, here's what I've been able to make over the past year:
- A new location with 5 character types.
- 2 tomes with 8 new transformations and 2 new pieces of equipment.
- 4 buildings.
- 8 end of turn events....
2022-06-17 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey all, it doesn't look like I'll have a May reward ready in time, so I'm going to turn off billing this month and push the build out to next month.
I spent the first part of the month doing preliminary design on what Fleshcult might look like with an overt main quest and some side quests. This lead into brainstorming ideas for side quests and planning what the UI might look like for sending minions to the surface to achieve quest objectives. Then I got sick.
I'm recovered ...
2022-05-23 01:52:53 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- 2 new buildings: Get extra flesh looms to transform minions in parallel.
- The Lab screen now has a sidebar with all your minions, showing the various transformations under way. Let me know what you think!
- Mutations are now a constant chance upon the completion of a transformation.
- Concubines can now get mutations, but it's rare.
Includes changes from the v1.16 non-patreon release:
- Tweak...
2022-04-27 04:46:45 +0000 UTC
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I promised that if we hit $666 a month of patronage I'd bring in collaborators, and now I have. I'd like to welcome Porpentine back to the project!
Back in Fleshcult's web-based era, she wrote a lot of the transformation descriptions, a whole bunch of character intros, and some of the encounter messages. With her help, I'll be able to tackle some of my more content-heavy ideas.
If you've enjoyed her past work, you might be interested in a horror novel she released recently, ...
2022-04-17 22:39:26 +0000 UTC
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This month I'm working on multiple labs. Ever been annoyed that you can't queue up lots of beast transformations, like you can for concubines? Well now you'll be able to split your apprentices between multiple flesh looms to transform beasts in parallel.
I'm also gonna revisit how mutations from Narcissus work. At the moment it's a fixed probability per turn, which means you only tend to see them in the early game. I want to see late-game merged beasts with lots more weird details.
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2022-04-05 22:52:27 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- New character: The Bruiser
- New equipment: The Electrojaculator tool belt item and the e-stim d!ldo. You can find them in the toy catalogue.
- A big technical change: instead of a compiled executable, I'm switching to distributing Fleshcult as source code and a bundled interpreter. The source is stored in fleshcult.nut, which is a zip format file - it's my tribute to WAD files. Please don't go putting mods in fleshcult.nut, it'll get tra...
2022-03-27 03:27:22 +0000 UTC
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For this month, I'll be adding the electrostim equipment I didn't get in last time, and also a new character to try it out on.
The big chunk of work for the last two weeks has been moving the game off PyInstaller. This ought to resolve the long-standing problem with vanishing exes. As a side effect, this means I'll be releasing source code for the first time, seeing as it's no longer compiled into an exe. Note that I'm not gonna actually license Fleshcult as open source - there's just n...
2022-03-15 23:14:26 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- New character, the Back-Alley Doctor.
- Vibes are now removable, slightly nerfed the lust increase.
- Retractable Claws and the Flesh-Woven Cloak now give you extra chances to Tease.
- New equipment: the Shrunken Dicklette.
- Fixed bug where a message said The Pit was unlocked at the same time as Old Town. That was incorrect: to visit The Pit, you have to defeat the Baron first.
- Somewhat more explicit hinting about ...
2022-02-25 06:11:35 +0000 UTC
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This month I'm working on assorted improvements to the encounters. I'm currently playing around with:
Vibrators: They're a bit of a booby trap at the moment. I'm working on making them removable. I'll rebalance them to be competitive with the rest of the tool belt items.
A high-end small cock. It'll reduce fear, after all, who'd be intimidated by that little thing?
What if some gear gave you a second tease? I'm thinking some of the scarier equipment...
2022-02-14 06:16:21 +0000 UTC
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I've cut it pretty fine with the January reward release, sorry about that! I guess it took some time to get back into the swing of things after the holiday.
What's New:
- New Location: The Pit. Here you can meet the new characters from the previous patreon releases, and also The Smuggler.
- New alert level mechanic for all the inhabitants of The Pit.
- Re-implemented the meters to make them easier to mod and maintain.
- Ho...
2022-01-28 03:35:46 +0000 UTC
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In the new year I'm going to take all the Patreon characters and tomes and move them into a new location. It'll be called The Pit: a dilapidated industrial zone where squatters, outlaws, and revolutionaries hang out.
I'm going to be experimenting with ways to differentiate encounters in The Pit from elsewhere. I want it to be more than just a new tab in the Visit Surface screen; somewhere with its own challenges.
Next month's new character is going to be The Smuggler: an ...
2021-12-17 04:42:23 +0000 UTC
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What's New:
- 8 new plot scenes. (The Spawning Pits, At the Speakeasy, The Job Application, The Interview, Gainfully Employed, Ecological Disturbances, The Knights of the Silent Oath, State Office of the Witchfinder General)
- You can see these by playing from a new game or an existing endgame save, after you've merged the Baron and hit 150 mana/day.
How to Play:
- Unzip it somewhere and run fleshcult.ex...
2021-12-08 22:02:42 +0000 UTC
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The patreon content next month will kick off new storylines, told through a bunch of end-of-night text scenes:
- Witness the Baron's fall play out in the Underworld.
- Find out what's happening inside the Office of the Witchfinder General.
- Get hints about the main character's past.
I'm aiming to have this ready for you in the first week of December.
2021-11-26 20:31:27 +0000 UTC
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