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Progress Update: Fur, Patterns, and Heads
It's been a while since my last post, but I promise I wasn't just sitting on my ass and playing video games. I just got a little too wrapped up in development and lost track of time.I've finished the head assets (minus some texture fixes). They have expressions, and can be morphed with the existing face sliders (to an extent). These six species will have the total head replacements shown. The rest from the laboratory (and all of the a...
Refined Exo and Transformation Design
First, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who sent me feedback (or just "research materials"). It really helped me to refine the next patch. Since then, I've been doing a lot of thinking and experimenting, and I think I have a final design for how the new content will work. Overall, I'm planning on adding about 21 new species, each with levels of transformation.Design Changes:Slave Market ChangesThe Exo Market was getting a bit...
Exo Experiments
I've started experimenting with different ways of handling the new exos, and I need data. Please let me know which of the following styles appeal to you. Unless there's broad consensus that something is terrible, I will try to include it as an option, so please only vote for things you would personally enjoy seeing in gameNote that these are all relatively rough, and will all look a bit better once properly implemented (except for vanilla...
Version 0.20: OwO - Tentative Design
Now that 0.19 is finished, it's time for me to get started on 0.20. I know it's been a short voting period (I blame the holidays), but the winner is Exo Market II.This one is a bit out of my area, so I'm going to be relying heavily on you all (and a few gigs of... research material) to guide me in the right direction.I've set up a survery here.If you're interested in shaping the direction of this patch, please take it. It'...
Version 0.19 Now available for Brothel Owners! Cutscene Graphics Overhaul
0.19 is finally ready to go! This one adds and changes a lot of different things, but basically makes the events and slaves look better.DownloadWindowsMac OSLinuxChangelog:New Face GeneratorI've rewritten the face generator, and all slaves going forward will be a lot prettier. Unfortunately, this isn't retroactive, so any duds you had from old saves will stay the way they are.It's also moddable. Just export characters from the inspect...
Possible Features for 0.20
0.19 is almost done, which means it's time for a vote on the next feature! You all know the drill.
Sneak Peek: Makeup
When I came back from my break and looked at the game with fresh eyes, the characters really stuck out, and not in a good way. It's long past time they got some serious work.With that in mind, I built a new makeup and tattoo system with a few different styles to choose from. Like the clothing system, this will be usable from the inspection screen, the rules assistant, and the scripting engine.The downside of this is that I'm not going to ...
Sneak Peek: New Face Generator
Holidays are over, which means development is back into full swing. Over the last few days, I completely rewrote the face generator, and I think it's finally ready to show off (along with one of the new hairstyles that will be in the next update).The new algorithm works by combining a library of hand-sculpted faces into new ones. It still has a decent amount of variety, but not nearly as many duds.It's also moddable. In 0.19, adding new f...
Environment Preview: The Juvie Corporation
The Juvie Corporation makes its money by keeping captives alive until they're old enough to sell. They don't do any significant training, but make up for the low quality with colossal volume. And now their showroom isn't just your suite.In more "nuts and bolts" news, I've added four new hairstyles to the next patch, bringing the total to 10. Thanks to everyone, especially the testers who have been feeding me bug reports ab...
0.19 Alpha: Cutscene Overhaul - Now Available for Brothel Owners
Hey all,At long last, here's 0.19 Alpha. This one focuses on the new clothing system, and has a lot of changes under the hood to accommodate that. It also has some bugfixes and new environments.This is a lot more "alpha" than the usual alphas. Expect some pretty serious bugs. I've made some changes to the core architecture for both the environments and clothing, and decided to put this out a little earlier than usual so I can get ...
Environment Preview: Your Ship
Your personal fighter is the latest environment I've set up for the next update. It comfortably seats a captain and two souvenirs.In other news, I got a bit carried away with outfits and added some more. There are now 27 distinct outfits, composed of 91 components. That's likely the end of it for this patch, but the new clothing system makes it really easy to add new ones. As an added bonus, it might be possible to create outfit mods in t...
Sneak Peek: Raiders' Union
I'm still working hard on environments, and just finished the Raiders' Union slave market. The description and soundscape will be changing a bit to match the new aesthetic as well.The Raiders' Union is a place where opportunistic pirates from around the galaxy can come and sell their acquisitions. This is the most varied of the markets, though most will be recent captures and not used to their lives as slaves.There's still a lot o...
Sneak Peek: Campsite
Hey all,As I mentioned in the patch notes, one of the focuses of this update is going to be building out 3D environments for all of the cutscenes. Here's the campsite from my favorite random event (taken during the day, before everything goes to shit).There are a LOT of these in the pipeline, and I'll be showing some of them off as I get through them. If all goes according to plan, a number of these will be in the same update as the dress...
Sneak Peek: Dressing Room
While the game lets you commit some serious crimes against humanity, you can't yet commit any against fashion. I decided to fix that. The next update will add around 20 new outfits for slaves, and let you mix and match any of the (roughly) 60 available components of those outfits in any way you see fit. You will also be able to individually color most of them with a variety of texture choices (like The Sims' dressing room, but slightly mo...
0.18: Even More Polish! Now available for Brothel Owners
0.18 is finally ready! It mostly fixes bugs (so many bugs), but also improves the slaves generation and display. Long story short, they should be much prettier now.Before the download links, I have a request for the community: 0.18 adds an "Export" button on the slave inspection screen, which saves the slave to a file in in the game directory. If you send me your favorites, I can start to make a template library, which will make slaves lo...
0.19 Preliminary Design
Hey all,I'm putting the final touches on 0.18, which means it's time to publish the preliminary design for 0.19 is below:Animations:Widen body sliders where possible (allow 110% pregnancy, smaller/larger breasts, etc)Make slaves look away if high fear and not obedientComplete stripping system (integrated with H screen)Move brow in time with thrustsMore dynamic expressionsTweaks to existing events to make them use the speed and orgasm cont...
0.18a: Polish (So Much Polish): Now Available for Brothel Owners
0.18a is ready to go! This one has an insane amount of small changes, most of which were suggestions from you. As always, thank you all for the ideas and support.WindowsMac OSLinuxChangelog:Economic Report Added new Economic Report screen under the "station information" menu. Removed economic report notification This has a graph of money over time, as well as information about income and expenses per month It also contains a report of all...
A Tradeoff
Edit: We have a winner. Things will continue as usual.Original post:I've been thinking about buying a motion capture rig so that I can record better animations (longer sex loops, more positions, and a bunch of new poses for events). Unfortunately, they're very expensive, and I can't justify it with the amount of money that's currently coming in.I've given this some thought, and decided to put it to a vote.If "Buy the Rig&#...
0.17 Stable Now Available for Brothel Owners
At long last, 0.17 Stable is ready to go! It adds a bunch of new events that let you get to know the faction leaders a bit better, allows you to assign slaves to run your planets, and fixes a ton of bugs.WindowsMac OSLinuxChangelog:Faction Leaders At least four new "date" events per faction leader (Some, particularly Tyrant, have more). These range from attending an auction with Raza to terrorizing primitives with Fei. Leaders may now sur...
0.18 Preliminary Design: Quality of Life
0.17 is likely going to be released this weekend (adding slave proxies, a lot of interactions with faction leaders, and fixes for some features from 0.17b), and it's time to start planning for 0.18. This one is going to be a little different.There are about 70 tasks sitting in my "Polish and Procrastination" list. I'm going to address a chunk of those before I get into adding anything new (including the cutscene graphics overhaul,...
Sneak Peek: Raza's Office
On top of the new long-form "date" events, faction leaders are getting their own unique environments. Hopefully, that will help to bring some color to their personalities.Environments for other cutscenes will be added as part of the cutscene graphics overhaul in 0.18.
0.17b Released! Galaxy Map Changes and Main Story - Now available for Brothel Owners
This patch addresses some of the grind of the galaxy map and adds more to the main story. It also has a ton of bug fixes and general improvements.WindowsMacOsLinuxChangelog:Galaxy Map UpgradeArmies now take time to arrive at their destination. It's not too long, but enough that you can't spam "Launch Takeover," and there is now a reason to attack with less than your full force. Armies will move while you're on the station view...
Teaser: Military Base Upgrade
0.17b is likely going to be released to diplomats and above tomorrow, barring any significant issues.I've added docks to the military base so you can easily distinguish between "Available," "Repairing," and "Travelling." Ships will be appropriately missing from their docks when in transit (repair will look the same for now).The new freely-rotating camera from 0.17a (which will be released to brothel owners tomorrow) al...
0.18 Feature Options
May as well get this vote going. You know the drill.
0.17 Alpha: Optimizations, Menial Slaves, and The Pillar - Now Available for Brothel Owners
Download (Windows)MacOSLinuxChangelogOptimizationsMy machine can now pretty easily hit 2000 population (up from 300). Your results may vary, but it should be a substantial improvement.Increased citizen and tourist population maximums to 500 to account for the optimization.The downside of this patch is that some clothes don't look as nice in the station view, but that seemed like an acceptable sacrifice.Reduced texture sizes in less-critical a...
Data and Stretch Goal Changes
I wanted to start this post by thanking you all for your support of this project. With your help, the community has already grown far beyond my expectations, and it's showing no signs of slowing down.DataThe backlog of polish items has grown to an insane length, and needs to be prioritized. Your votes below will help me do that. If there's something I'm missing, please let me know in the comments.Stretch Goals:The next stretch goal wi...
Sneak Peek: Stress Test
I made some optimizations. It still chugs a little when you zoom way out, but still no crashes at around 1600 characters.
Sneak Peek: The Pillar
Here's a sneak peek at the new Pillar. You can zoom your camera directly into the hole, and build out rooms using the wrench icons at the doors below,Note that it cuts through the middle of the station. Anything that you have already built in that space will be automatically demolished and refunded when you load a game from a previous version.The current plan is to release the 4X overhaul in three phases.The first, "Underground," will...
0.16: Stats Overhaul & 4X Teaser (Now for Brothel Owners)
I made some changes to the plan, and don't think there's any need for another beta, so here's the full version of 0.16:DownloadMacOs (experimental)Changelog (since 0.16 Beta 2):New Furniture: Racetrack (in the arena) Yoga Mat (in the spa)Leaderboard:There is now a leaderboard button at the bottom of the slave list. It tracks: Time on station Times had sex Times pregnant / Children born Racetrack Record Fighting Pit Record4X Overhaul H...
0.17 Preliminary Design: 4X Overhaul II
It looks like we have a winner, so I took a break from 0.16 to do a bit of planning around 0.17. It looks like this is going to be a long one, and might even get split into two separate versions if it starts to throw off the schedule.This design is also subject to more change than usual, as there are a lot of new systems here, and it's probable that they'll get altered as I play with them.Design:The Pillar:The station will get a new regio...
