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Dev Blog #128 - Daddy Made You Some Content
🕑 Added 2021-06-24 04:00:02 +0000 UTCGreetings everyone!
Today we'll be taking a look at the upcoming Thanksgiving event, specifically the new character that's coming along with it!
Quasi Community Voting
It's been an interesting road leading to up to the implementation of The Company's newest (albeit temporary?) character, but we've finally arrived at our destination! Cousin Elsa will be making her debut in Update 4.0.3, set to drop next month.
She'll be arriving Monday morning on the 20th of November, and staying with you through the Thanksgiving holiday. Since she won't be around very long, players can expect her content her, ahem, more tasteful content to come hard and fast... hopefully like the players, amirite? Guys? Fine... Anyway, you'll have plenty of time to cozy up to Elsa over the course of the week, as will the rest of the household, and the extent of that will depend on how you've been using your serums up to this point. It's entire possible for the player to experience a quiet, innocent Thanksgiving if that's what they really want, but then I don't imagine that will be the case.
During the week, players wont be going to work and Ava and Dakota will be on their normal weekend schedules, you also wont be able to skip days, either. Additionally, all random events will be disabled for the week so you'll have all the time in the world to spend poking around at the new content, as well as engaging Elsa in new scripted events, at least one per day! The scripted events are actually key to this particular block of content, as how you choose to proceed through them will have an impact on how the entirety of the event plays out, all the way up to and including the event's ending. In fact, even whether or not Elsa actually makes it back home at all is something that will be in the players' hands!
Finally, while the story will be front and center in this update, a couple other items will be getting address. Most importantly, issues with players not being able to unlock The Pit when loading saves will be resolved in the new update. I'll also be using this opportunity to add starting from Chapter 4 as a feature for all players, not just dev builds. Aside from that, any other minor bugs and issues that can be addressed will be addressed.
That's it for this week! I'm having a ton of fun writing this new content and I can't wait to start sharing it with everyone! As always, thank you all for your continued feedback and support.
Comments
Dabbling In Darkness
The downloaded version IS an offline standalone. It's just written and complied into a .html so it runs in your browser (whither you're online or not) instead of an installation .exe.
Westane
It was actually about 24 months later :P The problem isn't with adding an Asian transgirl to the game, the community has spoken and I certainly don't have any reservations, but the square peg into a round hole voting method wasn't the right way to go about it. Mako is shelved, not sacked, and I'm keeping my eyes open for opportunities to add her and others in some way.
Allison Blake
So does that mean the community voted character Mako is gone now or will they show up in future events? I know you made your opinion on this clear that you didn't like it. I agree some of it was a bit awkward (especially with the original actress choice) but at least the character was unique. Trans (relatively rare) and Asian (zero currently). Actually almost all the characters in the game are white, and while I love all the characters so far, having at least a little variety would be nice. I might be in the minority here but its just a bummer the community can vote for something, it not go as planned, and then get a veto 6 months later. Also I hope you don't take this as disrespectful. You are an absolute G and I enjoy the game very much.
john ross
What is the link to your Discord server?
ViKtor
Plz, plz, pleeezzz - we need more content!
Steven Brooks
Good to know, I just assumed since it opened in the browser it required you to be online.
Eliza Fairwinds
You can play it offline by downloading the actual files posted with each public release, you still need a browser to play it but no internet required.
Steven Brooks
I was just wondering if there were plans to turn it from a browser game to a standalone program. Being able to play offline would be great.
john ross
Ok my Trans Sissy got the event.. Pit is open... Thanks for your help :)
Westane
It shouldn't be either. Unlocking The Pit is tied to an event, not a character state, however there is a bug where loading a game from passed 11/08 can cause you to skip the event that unlocks The Pit. This is fixed in the next release.
Graeme Cracker
Is that a bug or a feature?
john ross
If the MC is a Sub or Sissy, the Pit is never open
