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Release Day!

0.9.4 for Handler+

0.9.3 for Origin+

Our dear, talented Fictionary pointed out to me the other day that while we had planned this to be a 'hotfix' and 0.9.3.1, given how much content was in it we should really consider it a full release. Hence 0.9.4.

So what's all in it?

  • Fixes for issues players were having with the 'Bodies' list.

  • Fixes for some headshots not appearing correctly...

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Release Day + Progress Report

0.9.3 for Dossier+

I've just wrapped the writing of the club infiltration and what's behind 'That Door'. It was a lot of fun to write, with some sexy moments on either end and a lot of tension in the middle. I was drawing inspiration from those do-or-die moments in Mission Impossible films.

It was also a lot of coding. Way more than I had originally expected. I had to keep track and code in variations based on Claire's appearance and abi...

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Release Day

0.9.3 for Sudden Agents

This past week I was prepping the Rocker/Music/Rebel Claire for a Quick Start. In the process, I found a number of bugs from the last release (mostly in the Acting line) and corrected those errors. So the Rocker Claire Quick Start will release with 0.9.4, since I need a working path to be able to finalize this Claire.

Who is she? She's had a rough life: broken home, her first 'relationship' was with her father, she's ostra...

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0.9.3 Release!

For Handlers +

Long overdue:

This is a partial release and includes the improvements and expansion to the acting paths for High School and College -- complete with new bodies selection. The next phase of the Big Event will come shortly in a 0.9.3.1 release.

That's it? NOPE.

I'd say this is more of a technical release than content, namely:

  • A new design for the 'bodies' selection adds age and ethnicity and ...

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Progress Report

0.9.2.1 for Origin

I had a rough week. Who woulda known that it was hard to work on this game sitting in airports during ten hour travel delays or around a week-long work trip? I had thought that the release would have been easy away from home, but it was the opposite. For that, I apologize. 0.9.3 is on its way, just delayed.

That doesn't mean that we've been paused. Quite the contrary:

  • Lewd...

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Release Day + Progress Report

0.9.2 for Origin

0.9.2.1 for Dossier

Looks like new Tattoo Options and tanlines are going to win the poll with new Piercing options coming in a close third. We'll get cracking on those shortly.

Also, we're aiming for a 0.9.3 release next week ideally!

In other art news, we've got a look for Lori! What do you think of her? Euji, Anika and Sakura coming up next.2025-05-03 20:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Release Day + Progress Update

0.9.2.1 for Sudden Agents+

0.9.2 for Dossier

Writing/re-writing/upgrading the Acting arcs in the Prologue has begun. Gonna be expanding and proofing the existing content while adding a couple more vignettes for performative Claires out there.

We'll also be releasing another Quick Start Claire on 0.9.3 -- Music/Rock Claire. Still working out the kind of girl that she is, but I'm thinking a m...

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Release Day

0.9.2.1 for Handlers+

0.9.2 for Sudden Agents

We're dropping a hotfix! Which -- as we always do -- is more than simply bugfixes. Here's what 0.9.2.1 encompasses:

  • Dead-ends have been fixed in: Prom, Argentina's Gap Year, the Big Event.

  • Other fixes to 'bodies' selection passages that were troublesome.

  • An improved and 'stowable' stats display for t...

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Release Day!

0.9.2 for Handlers and Agency Chiefs

0.9.1.1 for Origin

The lead up to the Big Event is complete and released to our top tier supporters!

  • If Claire's working at the Club, she can be potentially selected to work the Big Event. If not, she can try and maneuver her way onto the team during the intervening nights. If she's not working at the Club she can figure out what approach she and the EROS team are going to have that night.

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Release Day + Progress Report

0.9.1.1 for Dossier

It's been a lot of writing over the past couple weeks. One of the most difficult aspects of approaching this release has been where to draw a line in the sand. There's a TON of content between the approach, waiting, event and outro, so it certainly needs to be split into a couple releases. So as I've written, I've been trying to find the most natural place to put a release break. As I mentioned the last progress report,...

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Release Day

0.9.1.1 for Sudden Agents

During the past week, we've implemented the first version of Claire's 'personalities' into Act I and begun structuring the "Big Event".

  • There's some time between the announcement and it happening, so there's time for Claire to report to EROS, attempt to get 'hired' for it or not, as well as establish the atmosphere of the club in the meantime.

  • There's two major pathways for the event: Claire picked for the even...

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Release Day + 0.9.2 Update

0.9.1 has dropped for Origin.

For 0.9.2, I'll be focusing entirely on the Big Event at the Club in Act I. That also means that we're going to have to implement a prototype of the 'personality' coding that we were planning to release in 0.10. But rather than wait til then and have to re-write the Big Event, we'll be using this as a trial outing and then take our learnings into 0.10 for a full A...

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0.9.1.1 Release!

For Handlers+

0.9.1.0 will drop for Origin on the normal release day.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Gap Year!

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Quick 0.9.1.1 Update

Wow, does my developer gotta get it together.

Writing is finished and ready to go out!

But my developer is out of commission moving for a few days so the release is still delayed. I will make sure to hit them later, no worries there! I hope you understand and look forward to the release asap!!

(their words)

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Sincerest apologies, I had been pushing to get this out on the weekend and found out about the move then.

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Release Day + Status Update

0.9.0 for Dossier

Apologies for the delayed release day. I was trying to get 0.9.0.1 delivered on the same day and we were so close. Per usual, we were trying to put too much into it (probably more a 0.9.1 than hotfix, but whatevs), and the coding of the additional things was a bigger bite than I had expected.

Why?

  • A half-dozen new pieces of passage art (thanks Gertan!).

  • Finishing t...

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Release Day + Progress Report

0.9.1 for Sudden Agents

I'm wrapping up the writing on the Au Pair arc and I'm going to be asking you all for some input on what the unique outfit for Claire should be. Couldn't come up with something on my own that fit the following vibe: Winter + Hot. Any thoughts? Post them in the Discord!

Fictionary has started work on a new UX/UI which will switch over in the transition to the main game. Should be a great shift in feel. He's looking to show an initial pr...

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Release Day + Poll Results!

0.9.1 for Handlers+

What's in this release?

  • Updated the stats panel to be toggle-able for RPG players. It remains at the top as we figure out how to make it more integrated.

  • Every stat and trait has its own gif and they're all in our pop-up notifications.

  • Speaking of notifications, we're streamlining how they appear, so it's less inundating and easier to follow. 2025-03-01 04:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post

0.10 Content Poll

Our priority with 0.10 will be the implementation and re-writing of current Act I content with Personalities in mind.

But, that won't take up all of our bandwidth. There will absolutely be new content as well during the dev cycle.

Should we focus on new Act I content with a few additions/clean-ups to the Prologue...

OR

Should we focus on cleaning up and rounding out as much of the Prologue as possible with a little bit of advancement to Act I?

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Release Day

0.9.0 for Origin

Tomorrow we'll drop a poll to help orient our content work for 0.10. It won't simply be us adding in the personalities -- there's too many other opportunities. So this will see what you want the extra bandwidth to be spent on.

This past week we've continued working on the elements mentioned last post: re-orienting the RPG stats and seeing how easy / complicated putting the pop-up notifications into a single box might be. This...

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Release Day, Poll Results & Progress Report

First, an apology from me : this past month has been a whirlwind: the company I work for did a massive acquisition, completely disregarding the fact that I was moving homes. Too much for one person. But both are winding down (finished the move yesterday), so back to the grindstone!

Dossier received 0.9.0 moments ago and I apologize for the delay there, lack of internet and things in boxes made it a nightmare.

We're working on 0.9.1, which ha...

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Release Day

0.9.0 for Sudden Agents

As you may have seen, we dropped a poll about 0.10 and what we should focus on in the next development cycle while we're trucking along on this one. It's how we roll here: forward thinking and making sure what we're focused on is what you're looking for and want to see.

This poll is about 'personalities' -- should there be multiple versions of scenes in the main game that reflect the type of person Claire i...

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0.10 Poll

Now that we're into 0.9 development, we wanted to seek out input for our next dev cycle (0.10! crazy right?).

Our first poll is focused on content in the main game. We've heard some rumblings that players are feeling a bit too railroaded -- that their Claire is acting in ways she shouldn't.

A solve to that would be developing 'personalities' for Claire, and depending on her traits she would shift from one personality into another. <...

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Release Day!

0.9.0 for Handlers+

0.8.5 for Origin

annnd...

0.8 Public!

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This has been a retrospective update, improving and expanding on the European and African Gap Years. We're also back-filling a dozen or so new pieces of passage art, 60 assets covering many of the new breast size.

  • Claire can go deeper into her tribal status ...

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Release Day

0.8.5 for Dossier

Apologies for the tardiness, after having back-to-back cold/virus things over the past month, I wanted to get our the next release as soon as possible and was writing and re-coding the Gap Years and completely lost track of time. I'm about halfway through Europe and aim to release 0.9.0 alongside the Public release as soon as it's done, rather than wait for a 'release day'.

In the meantime, our art...

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Release Day!

0.8.5 for Sudden Agents

Meanwhile, we've been preparing the 0.8 Public version which will include the Prologue improvements and changes (including the RPG Character Generator), and allow players to get their first taste of Act I -- maybe a bit of Tallinn or Bangkok, maybe the initial contact with EROS in Manila. Everything else will be for supporters until some future Public version.

For our supporters, it's time for the 0.9...

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Release Day!

0.8.5.0 For Handlers and up.

This is a technical-focused update.

  • The new breast size that you all voted on has been implemented. There may be some errors with upper clothing as we work on the backlog of assets for that new chest-size.

  • A lot of work has been put into the new character creator option. There are now three ways to enjoy the character creation: the normal, established Prologue; the Quick-Start Claires,...

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Progress Report

Yesterday (Release Day!), we dropped 0.8.4.1 for Origin. We hope everyone's enjoying that release.

I've been quite sick the past couple weeks, and the 'RPG'-open for the Prologue is a lot more involved than we were expecting. (Who woulda known there were a lot of interrelated stats and choices?!)

Still, we're trucking along. Here are some images from an Alpha version of what we're working on.

2025-01-03 03:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Release Day + Poll Results

0.8.4.1 to Dossier

In the past week we've been integrating the new option of an 'RPG' start to the Prologue, which will streamline the character creation for those who want more agency over Claire. Additionally, there's more HD and passage art that have been implemented. Speaking of art...

That was a close poll!

B was a clear last place, but it was neck and neck between A and C, and...A took it (barely!). So we'll be adding in this newer (larger) cup...

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Which Size Should We Add?

Which Size Should We Add?

These three gifs represent three different 'inserts' of cupsize. One between our current two smallest, one between our current medium and large, and one between our current large and huge.

How these will be represented in-game is a range of "tiny" to "huge" or A/AA's to E's.

Which size feels like the right *fit* for us to add?

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Release Day!

0.8.4.1 for Sudden Agents

0.8.3 for Origin

Happy Holidays to everyone!

We're coming to the end of the year and the end of the 0.8 dev cycle. There have been so many additions, updates and improvements, the list would go on too long. That's boring. That's tedious.

Instead, how about excitement? What will 0.8.5 contain?

  • Improved and Expanded Backpacker Gap Year

  • A new way to start th...

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