Sam Tail

Pub expansion plans

I'm sure most of you have seen them. But the pub now has a new barmaid. For those that haven't seen her, here is the image again.

My aim has always been to have the three main jobs as content dense as possible. Almost to the point where I could strip out everything else from the game and just release it as a "pub waitress game".

So with that in mind, meet Trixie. She will be replacing the...

The road to v3.0 progress report pt2

Time for another progress report I think. If you haven't seen the last one, you can see it here.

Sammy now has perks. 

Some of which you would already be familiar with such as the whore/slut tags from pervious builds. But now they are proper perks that can be viewed in you...

Bursting out her new bar uniform

Pretty much all of this week has been spent in the pub. 

Sammy got herself a new uniform with some new socks and underwear to match. Now when you start working at the pub, the uniform is added to your main wardrobe so you can wear it whenever you want. But if you decide to sell something to a punter, it will also be removed from your wardrobe. So think twice if it's part of your other outfits. 

Not to worry though, you can always buy more from the pub.

2022-08-14 17:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Sammy origin stories

With the addition of perks, I decided that at the start of the game, you will get the option to pick an "origin story". Some kind of backstory for Sammy for those who want more of a roleplaying experience. Some of the perks I ended up adding turned out to be quite interesting. During the prologue, Emile starts to tease/comment about your past and you get to pick an origin.

As y...

Perking up Sammy's life

Before I get to working on the list of bugs some of the new features have caused, I wanted to get in the final one before that. Perks.

There are some that everyone is already familiar with such as whore, slut, broken, preg_want and the like. This puts them all into a nice little menu in the diary to easily see.

But it also gives me the chance to add in some more varied ones. For example in the image here, Sammy has the bimbo perk. This is a bit of an extreme one f...

The Fixer v0.2.80 downloads

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I will start by saying this is probably the buggiest build I have released but I didn't want to...

Filling out Sammy's pockets and personality.

Quite a lot of new features added this week and I hope I can get though most of them. The biggest one being that Sammy now has a fully functional inventory. Haven has been a good testing ground for all of this stuff.

Brew, smokes, contraception, quest items and a few other bits are all added and functional.

Thanks to a comment on discord asking if we can give girls like D...

Kitting out Sammy's wardrobe

This week I have been working much more on the wardrobe. A bunch of new additions have been added in preparation for Sammy's new job working on the streets at night. Here we have some completely over sexualised new outfits. A bunch of other tops were also updated for the new breast sizes, but you have already seen those in earlier builds so I wont post them.

But of course Sammy needs somewhere ...

The road to v3.0 progress report pt1

Since a full public release is going to take longer this time, I feel it is a good idea to post what I have been up to and give you all an idea of what you can expect for the big update.

So probably the part most people are interested in, the boobs. They were pretty much the first thing I got working, and from there it's all about getting the clothes to work with the new sizes....

Fixing the fixer

This week I have been getting the game back to a proper working state how it was before I added all the new features. It mostly went smoother than expected and I had time to also work on other bits. Since I had to go through all the quests anyway, I decided to update and add in some new features to the questlog.

It's not just a visual upgrade though. Next to the objectives tab you can see "stat...

A better user experience

With some of the additions I have planned such as perks, a diary and an updated questlog, it became clear a while ago that the current diary menu really needed an update. It just wasn't flexible enough to accommodate any new menus to it. So in between writing new mini events, I also got to work on testing out an updated layout for the menu.

Here we have a work in progress character biography. I...

Being branded

This week I have been writing and updating some of the smaller events that can happen everywhere. Things such as walking around (loiter), changing clothes and passing out while tired/drunk. 

While doing this I was wondering what kind of things can happen to Sammy while she is taking a nap somewhere she shouldn't? Well there is the obvious...

But I wanted more variety than this. So it...

A CG for all sizes

So I got to work earlier in the week adding in the breast sizes and pregnancy variations to all the existing CG scenes and things ended up progressing a lot faster than I had planned for. Always good when that happens. While updating for the breasts, I also added in a few bits that might have been missing from them previously. Things such as body writing, spank effects, cum on the body and anything else that wasn't quite right.

Also one of the (many) reasons I wanted to update how locat...

Giving Sammy some support

With the addition of Sammy's new "assets", I decided it's finally about time to give her some support for them and added some bras to her wardrobe. They are mostly similar to the ones she previously had but now work with her new sizes as well as transparency options.

I also decided to rework her volleyball outfit. This one is quite different from her old one and much closer to what you might ac...

Road to 0.3 Developer builds

Here we have the developer builds for what will become the next major release of The Fixer. A new build is usually added to the folder every 1-3 days so it's good to keep an eye out for updates. I usually don't announce a new build is up otherwise I would be endlessly spamming. 

You can see in this post what to expect going forward.

2022-06-07 15:53:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Outfits for the hot and the cold

Since the lake will play a large role in Sammy's life and be worked on soonish, I decided to do a bit of work on adding some new swimwear to her wardrobe. These of course work with the different breast sizes and transparencies.

Then I started working on some of her normal clothes. Cant have her walking around the streets in just swimwear.

2022-06-05 18:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post

The road to v0.3

With the release of v0.2.40, work on v0.3 will go full steam ahead. Here I will talk about what you can all expect from the v0.3 releases and what the future holds for The Fixer. This post aims to consolidate all the plans, results from votes and anything else of importance. 

Breast sizes. This is probably a good place to start. These will come in 3 sizes with all outfits ...

The Fixer v0.2.40 release

This build focuses on the mission in the pub with Simon and Bob, adding in many new routes to complete the mission. It also adds a lot of requested quality of life changes. Full changelog below.

PC Download -- MAC Download -- 2022-05-30 19:16:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Player actions

A big part of why I wanted to make a change to the travel/action interface is because of something I am calling "player actions". These are actions that no matter where in the world you are, you will be able to perform. 

Sammy in this image is in the park as you can see, and will have access to the usual run and relax actions. But you will notice there is a little square button on the acti...

Travel and transparency

So let's start with transparency. It always annoyed me that I would have multiple wardrobe entries with the same clothes but a sheer or fishnet version. This can be seen best with the tights/socks and the form fitting tee and vest. What is essentially the same article of clothing taking up 3-4 slots. So I decided to do something about that to make everyone's life easier.

Now we...

Let's talk about pregnancy length

One of the main reasons I set the game to be 4 seasons of 28 days instead of following the real world calendar is so that players could see and experience more of Sammy's overall life. Summers and Winters will pass, and with that, so will seasonal content. Things such as Summer parties on the beach, Winter market festivals and seasonal holidays. Along with that, I did it so that pregnancy would have more meaning and you will get to see the entire duration of the pregnancy cycle.

While I...

Breast sizes and custom colours

While fixing bugs and waiting on reports to come in from the recent release, I decided to check out how complicated the code for a few features I will be adding in the next release would be. As it turns out, things went a lot smoother than expected.

The breasts have been added along with the nipples. But she needed some clothes to go with it. So I redrew a few dresses for her since they would be a good testbed for ironing out any issues since they have both breasts and pregnancy variati...

Small breasts poll

So, the question is simple. Smaller, bigger or as they are? I did have more to say but I don't want my words to sway any votes, so I will talk about it afterwards and keep this short and sweet.

Large breasts poll

So, the question is simple. Smaller, bigger or as they are? I did have more to say but I don't want my words to sway any votes, so I will talk about it afterwards and keep this short and sweet.

Boys and boobs

Well, men really. But boys and boobs sounds a lot better for the title. I decided to draw the character art for Bob in the end, but he turned out a bit too good looking and wound up putting the artwork I did for Simon well over a year ago to shame. So I decided to also redraw Simon since he will probably play a larger role in the game now. Aaaand then I redrew Dr. Nikolas and Dr. Tucker...

Sinc...

The Fixer v0.2.36.20 Beta release

Here we have the update to all the pre Haven Institute storyline along with changes to the Institute surgery menu. You can now get a lot of new services from Dr. Nikolas including birth control.

There have also been heavy changes to the wardrobe. I have removed almost all limitations to it so now you can wear almost anything regardless of confidence. This doesn't come with zero downsides though. If you decide to send Sammy out in a bra and tiny thong while having zero confidence, she wi...

A date with Bob.

I don't think I have ever spoke about this before, but the way I write the stories is by setting up a basic framework of what I want to happen, then let the characters fill in all the details with very little planning from me. The characters involved are who guide the scenes and I just let it flow. This is commonly known as being a 2022-05-01 22:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Choices with Simon

Earlier in the week I asked for feedback on controlling Sammy's decisions, and much of the feedback I got showed that a majority of the time players are unaware of when or where choices are being made. So I added in some notifications to test with the updated Simon mission.

I am currently indecisive between two options. The first one is as clear as it could be to the player, but is very "gamey...

Let's talk about the players control over Sammy

While doing research on how these types of games are played, there were a few things that separate adult visual novels from traditional ones from a design perspective that I needed to be aware of. One of the major aspects is these types of games are often played one/no hands and sometimes with the text on auto. Others often skip a vast majority of the dialogue so they can get straight to the "juicy" bits.

So when it comes to giving a choice where the player needs to pick A or B, it requ...

Sammy's first mission update

When I first wrote the mission with Simon in the pub, it was done under the assumption that Sammy would be quite inexperienced. It was the first mission after all. But with the addition of school events, planned world events and other future stories, it is clear that it may not be the case anymore.

So I have decided that some new branches are needed.

This is a screenshot where Sammy meets...