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Course of Temptation Dev Diary #55
🕑 Added 2024-09-27 19:10:34 +0000 UTC
Hello friends! October is almost here, and with it will come the October update!
First off, let me show you something Drakon has been working on that's probably a long time coming!
The People dialog now displays a few graphical icons, indicating at a glance who your friends and lovers are, who's nearby and can be talked to, and so on.
What's the star icon, you might ask? Those are people you have favorited! It's not yet completely functional, but the basic idea is that favoriting somebody is no longer just a function of the phone but will also apply in other contexts, making it easier to keep track of characters you're especially interested in.
If you've a keen eye, you might have already noticed my other big focus for the last few days.
The game's month of Gourdtober combines aspects of October and November. At the end of the month during the fall break is Harvest Eve, where we honor the dead and make offerings to the creatures of the Otherworld in the hopes of achieving a good harvest and prosperity for the whole community.
Of course nowadays it's pretty much just an excuse to dress up and party.
To fit the theme, the October update will bring in costumes, with more and more NPCs getting into the spirit as the week goes on, culminating in a Harvest Eve party on Friday with new events.
You can purchase costumes both piecemeal and as whole outfits.
One key aspect of costumes also ties into a frequent request: the ability to anonymize yourself with a mask. This is actually pretty complicated and would involve altering a great many events, so, for now at least, the times where you can use masks is fairly limited. Obscuring your identity will pretty much only be acceptable during Harvest Eve week, and there are no classes during that week anyway so we don't have to worry about that. Hiding your identity in town also won't be accepted, so it's pretty much just an on campus thing.
Eventually it'd be fun to expand masks and anonymizing into more contexts — but for now, the main calculation here is just what I can get done by the end of the month!
NPCs may be partly or entirely anonymized by their costumes too, which, of course, is something that can play into some new events during this week.
I remember last year some people really wanted some Halloween-themed events. I did too, but the game was about three months old then, and I thought I should spend time on fundamentals instead. It's fun to finally be adding some seasonal content... and it also lays some groundwork for the seasons & holidays roadmap item. After all, roadmap items don't have to be one single giant update — some are probably better suited to being implemented over several smaller monthly updates like this one.
So that's what I've been working on this week! I hope to get the Harvest Eve party events done over the weekend, and by Monday I'll be rolling in contributions and completing as many smaller miscellaneous tasks as I can get through just ahead of early access. Once early access is out, you can expect some more new features to come in alongside whatever bugfixes end up being required, up until public release a week later. And then I'll be back to the big River Rat update.
That's all for now! Have a good weekend, and I'll be back next week with another progress report. And as always, I really appreciate your support! I couldn't do it without you!
Comments
Cat girls are best girls, so give me them cute little paws!
Yeeessss, let me get knocked up lol
yankee0284
this game is on a wonderful arc, started from a great place, and consistently excellent updates. The capacity to impregnate will change a lot of coding, but is a high tier priority for quite a number, i would assume. As well as the ability to shift main partners in group sex scenes. I find myself having to be very specific when trying to pleasure several others, perhaps a primary target option. Wonderful and high quality effort so far, much appreciated.
atha
I really enjoy your game! One small detail that would be (for me at least) great to add would be +a year to the MC age after winter or summer break vacations so we can feel that he/she grow up as we move to the next period. Great job m8!
Yui Funami
considering the amount of clothing and appearance combos it would require a downgrade in options
Raziq Noorali
*Always* love the UI improvements!
DeBone
Will there be a pc portrait in the future? Just like DOL where we can see how our pc looks like and how the clothes are like
Foxy Abi
The development of this game feels so much more steady than so many others!!! So glad I found it~
Benjamen EightySix
Love the idea of masks and being able to anonymize yourself. Can't wait for that to be expanded.
Hugo Trainor
I am eagerly awaiting the update!
Hugo Trainor
Yay costumes! I have always had my character dress up for that last Gourdtober party. I was a little taken aback when my male character wore a dress and the only reaction was a nice college girl who exclaimed "Your dress has pockets! Where did you get it?" I guess you need to be far more freaky to cause a fuss at F-K U!
Borkus
So excited 😩
Vayes
Can't wait for face masks so I can roleplay as the class beauty that secretly streams lol
Matt Black
Love all of this ❤️
