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Course of Temptation Dev Diary #108
🕑 Added 2026-01-16 20:10:28 +0000 UTC
Hello friends! It is dev diary time!
We are now on v0.7.5g with a new update out today. This one just contains a bunch of minor bugfixes. Unless there's some major "accidentally created a new bug while fixing an old bug" situation, this is likely the last update until early access to the February content update.
This is one of those weeks where I've been basically entirely buried in code and haven't done any event writing, so I don't really have many screenshots to share... unless you want screenshots of code. Do you? Is that what you want??
Yes, I really do like my curly braces to look like that, why do you ask?
Anyway, interestingly, this isn't actually a new method. It's existed ever since I added the birth control options a few monthly updates ago. Its purpose is to check a number of factors and return a value between 0 and 1 representing the probability that the NPC (or the PC) is fertile that day. At the time, I wrote it just to tie together everything I'd done with birth control while it was fresh in my mind, and there it remained, never actually used.
Well, now it is used! This week I'm working on extending the work I began earlier so that, you know, becoming pregnant is actually a possibility. This fertility probability needs to be resolved into a final roll and then potentially become an actual pregnancy, which then has to advance over time and reach a conclusion. Under the hood, I've got this done except for the very end. But, again, this is just code — the events and other narrative stuff are a whole other task.
Along with this comes a bunch of other stuff, like an app to keep track of fertility level (probably not the final look), pregnancy tests, and so on. It's a fair bit of work, but it'll also check off a big roadmap item that a lot of people have been asking for, so there's that.
Besides that... and I'm going out of chronological order for some reason... I also finished student year advancement earlier in the week.
Over summer, fourth year students will graduate, either converting to townies or, if they're of no apparent interest to the PC, being removed from the game entirely. A minimum of 25% of graduating students, randomly chosen, will become townies regardless. I may even increase this to 50%.
First, second, and third year students then all advance by a year, transitioning into the more advanced versions of their courses. Then an all-new set of students is generated to become the new incoming first years. This new cohort isn't the size of the year the PC is in, but rather, like the upper classes, is a sort of smaller representative sample. They'll be less likely to be highlighted in events than students in your own year, but they will be around and interactable, and will give opportunities for new relationships if you keep playing past a year.
Students graduating will no doubt leave the sports teams a little tattered, and potentially without captains as well. Incoming freshmen will fill out their ranks again, and an upper year member will be promoted to captain. As I mentioned last week, at some point we want the PC to be able to vie for the captain spot, but that will require some specific attention that probably isn't in scope for 0.8.
Another thing I want to do with 0.8 is expand the year with an extra month. Little-known fact: originally the game had only four months! I imagined the player would play through 12 or 16 months (depending on whether summer was actually playable), graduate from college, and that would be about long enough for a full experience. However, in early playtesting, everything just went by way too fast, so I gave each non-summer season an extra month.
Why didn't summer get an extra month at this time? I have no idea! It'd sure be easier for me now if I'd done it then.
It's not quite as easy as just shoving an extra month into the list, although that is step one. All other references to months will need to be checked out too, and anything that stores a time (hangouts, scheduled shoots, games, etc etc) will also need to be updated in save data. It'll be tricky, but it's doable!
I'm mainly thinking about this now because the total length of the game year figures into how long the duration of a game pregnancy should be. With an eight month year, the game will default to a proportionate six month pregnancy, but you can set it to a realistic nine months or all the way down to one month if you want to do some kind of human-rabbit hybrid roleplay. I don't judge.
I'll keep working on 0.8 for a bit longer this month, but within the next week I'll need to be switching over to the February content update. The contributors already have some stuff in store for that, such as a new location and hangout type and a new holiday, and of course I have some plans of my own. But I'll talk more about that next Friday.
So, that's all for now! Thank you for reading, and as always, thank you so much for your support. Have a good weekend!
Comments
Ari
Wow seems like the next update will be huge
DamienPascal
As a software dev, I don't like that your curly braces start on the next line down instead of in-line, but other than that excited for the update.
Potato Lord
I have risen from the void to leave a comment once more. All of this looks good. Your code is truly beautiful 😉. As I have said before I am not the most excited for pregnancy, happy other people are really pumped for it though and more content is good content in my book. With that said I am excited for year advancement and the future possibilities of being able to become a teacher and then mess with the students taking full inappropriate advantage of our position of power. From taking over the Librarians sub/dom basement to being a coach and adding "extra training" onto the teams or just being a teacher and using that to your advantage be it give "extra circular" ways of having a student raise Thayer failing grade or just deciding to fail a student just because you can. Sad that nothing has been done with the mascot path as I still think there a ton of potential in it. From dom and sub stuff to do with the football and cheerleader all to making just normal friends with them, being g a exception to there normal bully and douchy/ bitch behavior all depending on how you interact with them. Im also curious if any of the bus stuff/ school events like the "brainwashing" will ever be expanded or touched again. Regardless it all looking fantastic. Truly phenomenal work as always. Excited to see what all to come as always.
Dunan Rayne
Speaking of pregnancy, if you are truly planning to add childbirth and babies to the game, wouldn't a female PC have to move out of the dorms? It would be impossible to live in a single room with a dorm roommate while raising a baby that cries at all hours of the day and night. That's why, as I've mentioned before, how about making students with poor academic records move out of the dorms starting from their sophomore year and having them rent a place in Riverside instead? There seem to be so many houses in Riverside. Couldn't the PC move into one of those? She could live alone, or share a place with a friend to save on rent; she might even find a random roommate through an app or live with her boyfriend. Perhaps one—or even several—of her fuck buddies might end up moving in and living with her.
Dunan Rayne
Is the pregnancy system finally being added to the game? I’m really looking forward to it! By the way, I’ve asked this before, but what happens if the PC is female and she gets pregnant? When she gets close to her due date, will she have to take a break from her studies for about a semester? Also, what happens if she has so many sex partners that she doesn't know who the biological father is? If she has a boyfriend, would she be able to deceive him into believing that the baby is his? And I see that you're working on the grade system. I think it would be great if special nicknames or "fame" based on their reputation were added to the PC or NPCs as they advance to the next grade. For instance, if a male PC is highly promiscuous and has conquered many female NPCs, he could earn a notorious nickname or reputation symbolizing his sexual conquests as he moves up a year. Once that kind of fame follows him, he would be marked as a major "red flag" and a dangerous figure to watch out for among incoming female freshmen. Modest female NPCs might try to avoid him, while women who are drawn to that kind of notoriety would find him even more attractive. Alternatively, if the PC is female and has lived like a total slut during her freshman and sophomore years, she would gain a massive reputation and a distinct nickname on campus. For the incoming male freshmen overflowing with testosterone, she would become a "challenge" they must conquer to prove their masculinity. The upperclassmen who have already "been there and done that" would look on with satisfied smiles, coaching and encouraging their juniors to follow in their footsteps. I'd love to see various types of reputations: a nickname for being a "slut," a reputation as a "nerd," or even a "sports star," and so on. Furthermore, it would be amazing if these nicknames or reputations existed separately outside of the campus as well. As the years pass in River Rat, the PC could become something of a mascot for the town. For example, if the PC has a large bust, she could be known as "The Milk Jug of River Rat."
