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HoHH ver0.018 Delayed Until Tomorrow (1st May)

Couldn't quite pull this one off.

It's approaching midnight here and I'm still implementing the last couple of scenes.  I'll finish up implementation before I go to bed and then test and put together a release version tomorrow.

Apologies for the delay.

Kerunch! (HoHH Harlot Placeholder Poll results - delayed)

The harlot placeholder poll has ended.  I was going to go over the results, but I'm currently crunching pretty hard on the ver0.018 release.  I'll go over it in more detail next week when I'm less stressed.

As for the ver0.018 release.

Good news: The looming end of April has finally kicked my recalcitrant ass into higher gear.

Good news 2: The leech-tongue succubus is shaping up really nicely.  I think people will enjoy her.  While only including one new ...

Update 25th Apr '21

Progress is still a little slow and scratchy.

I have phases like this.  The important thing is to keep chipping away and not get stressed out.  A few pages a day is not ideal, but it keeps the project moving, even through the slow phases.

I'm still working on the leechtongue succubus.  I started typing her up early and have 2,000 words in the bank.  The 1st draft is maybe about 75% done, with a couple of scenes still to write.

I'm trying to avoid letting ...

HoHH - Placeholder Harlot Poll

It's been a while since the last poll.  I was hoping to use more of them then ran out of spare harlot scenarios.  Something I'm hoping to correct.  Once I have NPC and website distractions out of the way I might just take a month and concentrate on just writing harlot scenario 1st drafts until I have a big pile again.

Originally the placeholder scenarios were just that - I needed about 30 succubi/monster girls to test the selection algorithm.  Some I had vague ideas ...

Update 18th Apr '21

Short update this week.  I could see I was a struggling at the start of the week and decided to take a break week rather than keep pushing and then burn out completely for a couple of months.  I needed to get some other IRL stuff done and felt it was a good time to do it.

Fortunately, it wasn't a complete waste.  The leech-tongue succubus scenario is still coming along.  I've written one of her Bad Ends and will likely move onto the other pathway next week.

I'...

Update 11th Apr '21

A quietish week.  I had to take a couple of days off to do some IRL house maintenance things.

The Handsome Barman is now fully implemented.  Or rather, the bits that needed implementing at this present time are implemented.  My plan is for him to be the player's main advisor in the House.  For now that advice is to point the player in the direction of the various NPCs.  I'll be adding more later as needed.

That also means the last of the core game loop pas...

Update 4th Apr '21

Updates after a release are always fairly easy.  This week I put ver 0.017 of House of Hellish Harlots out.  You can find it in the previous post.

After that I spent the rest of the week doing the usual post-release organising of my dev files to make sure everything is up to date.  The one feature I didn't finish in time for v0.017 was the NPC Barman.  Over the weekend I finished typing up his passages and editing them.  They seem more in line with what I want n...

House of Hellish Harlots ver0.017 (Full Intro)

Okay, this is pushing things tighter than I'd have liked.  But it's done.  Version 0.017 is ready.  I'll be a little quick on this as I want to give people a chance to grab it before the clock clicks to April.

What's in this one:

FULL INTRO
The game has a beginning.  I adapted the very old intro and streamlined the options.  Yeah, the car breakdown scenario is a little hackneyed, but it's the classic.  There are also multiple options to set charact...

Update 28th Mar '21

More progress of the plodding type.  (Sums up March really.)

I've implemented all the 'fleshing out' passages.  This is adding some flesh to the bare bones of the main game loop of - present 3 harlots, go away to think, go back to pick a harlot, pick a gift, go to her room, etc.  This was just a skeleton to test the core loop.  Now it has the same level of detail as everything else (aside from the main Action phase as that's still waiting on the Barman passages).

Update 21st Mar '21

Progress is still of the slow and steady type, with this week being a little on the torturous side.

The Madam's tour and the fleshing out passages are all typed up.  I've been through them with a couple of editing sweeps.  Will likely need to give them a couple more before implementing them next week to make sure the tone is correct (will get to that later).

The Barman's pieces were a sticking point for a while.  He's supposed to explain the rules the Madam 'forge...

Hentai Game Review - Succubus Academia

My after-work-hours leisure time this week saw me playing naughty rather than regular videogames.  I liked Succubus Academia enough to write a review of it to put on my blog.  I think it should be of enough interest to x-post here:

http://www.manyeyedhydra.com/2021/03/hentai-game-review-succubus-academia.html

I wish I could hire artists this talented! &...

Update 14th Mar '21

More slow and steady progress on the intro and fleshing out of House of Hellish Harlots.

I wasn't totally happy with the Madam tour sections.  Not quite needing junking, but not right.

So I carried on with the revamp of The Madam's NPC section, thinking that should get me back in the character again.

The revamp is done and tested.  It puts her sections in line with the others and streamlines some of the dialog options (especially the unlocking of how to buy Mulliga...

Update 7th Mar '21

A half-weekish update.  I took a few days off at the end of the week to recharge the batteries.  A weekend off effectively.  Don't worry, I'll be right back at it on Monday.

The first half of the week I got tucked in to some of the items on the to-do list I posted in the last update.

They roughly break down as so:

Beginning of Game Intro.
The purpose of this part is to start the story and be a disguised 'character creation' (with a an option to skip if the ...

(Tentative) Plans for March 2021

Last post I put up what needs to be done for House of Hellish Harlots.  My aim for the next two months is to prepare a public demo of HoHH to put up on a website somewhere.  This I hope will attract more interest and - more importantly - bring in more funds I can set aside to commission art and music.

As with the last tentative plans post, I wasn't sure what I'd be doing in the month, but by the time I got around to writing the post, was already set on a path.

In this ca...

House of Hellish Harlots - Things To Do (Update 28th Feb '21)

Normally, I'd put an update post here, but that seems a bit superfluous as it's all in the release post for "House of Hellish Harlots" v0.016 I put out yesterday.

Instead I thought I'd go over a list of things that still need to be done.

SHORT TERM
Short term goal is to get a proper demo done that showcases all the mechanics and has maybe the first third of the game implemented.  This needs:

Intro
A short introduction detailing how the player ended up at the House...

House of Hellish Harlots ver0.016 (Charms)

As I mentioned in the midweek post, I did have a list of maintenance tasks to work through.  I got a chunk of them done but not all.  Of the two remaining charms, I was able to implement one and partially implement the other.  More on that to come.

Firstly, the important stuff.  Version 0.016 of The House of Hellish Harlots is ready.  As usual it is attached as a .html file.  You should be able to download it and open it with your regular internet browsers....

Version 0.016 and last bits of maintenance

It's not ready just yet!  So don't get too excited.

I have implemented and tested Pêl-O Sugn, which means I have a version ready.  However, as I mentioned in the last weekly update, there are a bunch of other little things that I also want to get done for this release.

Of the three outstanding charms, one has been implemented and tested.  There are two remaining charms.

The first is related to The Portly Gentleman's payouts.  I've been going back over th...

Update 21st Feb '21

Everything is still looking good.  February has a nasty habit of ending sooner than you realise, so I put new harlot scenario writing on hold to make sure I wouldn't have a last minute panic trying to get the last couple of harlots done.  I'm well on top of that as you'll see.

I wrote the descriptions and added 15 new charms.  These are primarily defensive.  You'll be able to buy them from The Buxom Lolibaba, but they won't do anything yet as the harlot abilities the...

Update 14th Feb '21

Version 0.016 is still roughly on schedule.

I was able to get Rubber Ball Synthetic Harlot over the hump and finish her 1st draft.  The ver0.016 release will likely be The Buxom Lolibaba + Charms + Rubber Ball Girl, Slug Girl and Asphya.

The Buxom Lolibaba is implemented, tested and ready to go.

I spent the week writing charm descriptions and function hints.  Originally, these were supposed to just be keys to get past the stronger abilities of the harder harlots, b...

Update 7th Feb '21

As I mentioned in the midweek post, I did get off to a bit of a flier.

The Charm Seller NPC is written, typed up and a good chunk of her implementation is done.

Her name is tentatively "The Buxom Lolibaba", if I think I won't get in trouble for it.  She's a shortstack witch with big tits who's described as being all ages of womanhood in one body (a borrowing from Arthurean mythology, I think, it's been a while since I've read it).  Imagine if MGQ's Arekishi drew a witch ...

(Tentative) Plans for February

I should probably put "plans" in scare quotes.  I want to avoid a similar situation to what happened last year where I said the next release would be the 'sexy snek' release, got stalled on writing a couple of the scenarios, but felt I had to bash my head against a wall and be unproductive because I'd said the next release would be the 'sexy snek' release.  As a result, I'm going to keep the plans tentative.  There are things that are close to the top of the 'things to do next'...

Update - 31st Jan '21

Updates after a release are fairly easy - got the release out!

Version 0.015 is out.  You can find it in the previous post.  I hope you enjoy it.

Queen Colubridis's scenario was a little on the longish side and it turned out I needed another 3000 words.  A very productive Monday got that done and from then it wasn't too hard to get both her and The Corruptress implemented.

Since then I've been starting work on ver0.016.  This will likely be the NPC Charm ...

House of Hellish Harlots ver0.015 (The Doctoress + potions)

The Doctor(ess) is in the House!

Version 0.015 is ready.

As usual, the file is a HTML document.  You should be able to open it with your default web browser.  There are known problems with Brave, likely because of more exacting security permissions.  It should be okay with Chrome.  In theory, it should also work with devices such as smartphones or tablets, but I'm currently not able to test on those devices.  If you have any problems, let me know.

He...

Update - 24th Jan '21

We're getting near the end of January and I'm happy to say things are still broadly on schedule.

The alternate pathway stuff for The Doctoress has been implemented and tested.

I also added some new ailments for Nurse Honey to cure.

The Doctoress would like you to know these things are not connected at all.  Her potions are perfectly safe and have no adverse effects whatsoever...

I also tweaked and re-tested Nurse Honey's NPC sections to redo action point handli...

Update - 17th Jan '21

The Doctoress's base functionality is implemented.  Testing was fun as I had to move a few blocks of text around to get the display right.  It has been tested and appears to be working okay.  I also found a fix for something I wanted to do with NPC's and Action points that I'll likely roll back to the other NPCs (and should fix any lingering bugs with The Elegant Woman) at some point in the future when I get a couple of spare days.

The only thing I need to do for her now ...

Suggestions for "Artificial Being" Harlots

I keep saying I'm going to do this, and then never get around to it, so, let's throw this open, so I can never get around to writing and implementing the ideas until 2022.

Just kidding... I hope!

The new NPC was originally designed as a way to allow players to temporarily alter their stats to get past harlots that cared about certain stats (please stop crushing my ribcage, Anna!).  I didn't really have a handle on her character until typing up Va-kyuuma, when I realised I cou...

Poll Results for the Next 2 Harlots

Looks like The Corruptress and Gluttonous Lamia ran away with that one.

I'll start typing them up this week.

As I mentioned, I will keep things flexible.  If a couple of 'artificial being' harlot ideas pan out and get written quickly, I'll switch focus on them as they will be a better fit for the release (The Doctoress plus a couple of her creations).

In the meantime, I find I'm most productive when I divide the day between handwriting 1st drafts, typing up 2nd drafts, ...

Update - 10th Jan '21

I'm still working away on The Doctoress.  I managed to get into a little bit of a tangle as it's been a while since I implemented an NPC.  I have a sort of framework.  At some point I might give all the NPCs a quick refactor to standardise their layout (I'm still worried I never quite fixed that bug with The Elegant Woman where action count could go negative).

The current status is looking a little like this:

Potions and Effects: More descriptive text and some other...

Poll to pick the next (maybe) 2 Harlots to accompany the Doctoress into the House

I'm still in the middle of stitching together all the text chunks for NPC Potions aka The Doctoress.  I want her release to also include some new harlots.  I think 2 should be doable before the end of the month.

As before, I'll throw it open to patrons to pick the two they'd like to see out of the current pool of written harlot scenarios.

There is a maybe here.  The Doctoress is a tinkerer.  As already hinted, she is responsible for creating artificial-girl-suc...

Update - 3rd Jan '21

It's the first update of the new year!

Monday was great.  I wrote, implemented and tested the potion system.  There are some specific side effects I wanted, and the system does what I want it to.

Then I hit some technical problems after my laptop charger died and I had to wait for a replacement.  I took that as an indication we are in the holiday period and I maybe should take a couple of days off for a break.

Then it was back to The Doctoress, the House's res...