Just Gotta Share

This post image was inspired by a really random app idea for size queens, or those interested in hooking up with well-endowed men near them. This is unlikely to be added to the game as something functional... it's just something that seems to "fit" into the game world.

I was fixing up The Drips sexy-STD in the game so that the early stages of the condition are more obvious, and treating it while in the early stages will properly kill it. (As it was, treating the early phase of the disease wouldn't stop you from getting the later stage.) While I was at it, I improved the messages a bit and added two new diseases along with a centralized method to contract SSTDs.

The first new disease is really just something minor, the common cold. It doesn't really have any effects besides making your character more tired. The second disease is something I'm calling the Wet Heat. It's a disease that causes excessive sweating, along with some estrus-like effects. It can be treated at the doctor's office, of course, but will also resolve naturally when the player receives enough creampies. 

Profuse sweating is one of the primary symptoms of Wet Heat.

It'll be interesting to see what you guys think of this particular disease, as we've had some requests for a heat-like condition in the past. I'll probably still add a chemically-induced estrus condition later, but will probably avoid making it into a randomly contractable disease.

On a more serious note, I thought I'd let you guys know what's going on with me. It hasn't been the best week, to be honest. My wife's surgery last week did not go well. The surgery was supposed to be a five-hour laparoscopic procedure to remove her rectum and related tissue. What ended up happening was a 14-hour procedure and partially opening her abdominal cavity. She had a major bleed during the procedure and lost about 2 liters of blood. It also seems that the cancer spread in an unusual way through the other tissues that they didn't see on the MRI, so they had to involve pathology and make sure they removed it all.

It was actually about two days before I had any sort of conversation with her after that, she was heavily sedated in the ICU for most of that time. Pretty much all I got was a single text message that said "pain pain pai". When I did finally get to talk to her, she was really loopy from the painkillers. Fortunately, she's doing much better now, and today when I talked to her she seemed much more like normal. 

Between that, and some work issues going on, I haven't been able to nearly as much writing done as I would have liked. There are still two weeks to play catch-up where possible to try and make up lost progress, but there's still a good chance I won't get everything done I was hoping to. I'll do my best though!

On the bright side, Besty's work on the sex toy system has been coming along quite nicely. There are already several toys in the game with various functionality. Masturbation has also been taken out of the bedroom and put into the action menu, so now it's possible to masturbate all over Muschi Valley. You can also finally use those fuck machine home items by attaching your dildo of choice. :D

That's just a sample of some of the items already in the game. He has also tried to integrate the use of toys into various scenes. For example, if you try to talk to someone while gagged, you'll end up making something of a fool of yourself. We'll still need your help to spot various places in the game that don't quite work with a particular type of sex toy in use, of course. There's a lot of content, and a lot of sex toys, so if you do happen to see a place where the events don't quite match having your toy equipped, please let us know. 

I suspect that gags and chastity devices will be the most likely to have major conflicts, so Besty will be focusing on those scenes initially. :D  It's also worth noting that like always, we've made sex toys easily expansible and made it easy to support modding for custom sex toys. One of the goals for the coming months is finishing the mod interfaces for all the various systems that don't currently have them. 

I think this blog post has gone on long enough, so...

Thanks for all your support!

o7

ThaumX

Mammoth

I hope this innuendo was obvious enough, I was debating adding a shadow on the wall there...

So this is the usual update to talk about what we're planning to add to AW this month. Sadly, February is a shorter month and I have to do a little travel due to my wife's surgery, though we should still have a nice version 32 release for you at the beginning of March. :D  I'm going to try out creating a list this time to see if it makes covering what we'll be adding a bit easier to write and read... Here goes!

Body Portraits

I plan on adding some new variations to body portraits, probably something to do with muscle tone or fat. I hope to keep adding slowly to the body portrait each month until it gets sufficiently representative. For those that are curious, we're planning on doing skin tones too, though that will be one of the last things we do. It'll be much easier to make skin tone variants if all the assets are done at once, which is why we're saving it for the end.

Main Story Questline

I'll be doing a good amount of writing this month to continue the main story. First I'm finishing up the in-the-lab conversation dialog for phase one, then I'll be writing phase two, the phase two dialog, and the wrap-up and possibly the intros into phase three. Phase two involves some... unique activities to gather the required materials, so should be fun. Depending on how things go with sex writing and my speed in general, I'm planning to spend any extra time on the phase 3 quest and dialog.

Sex Writing

It's past time for me to start writing some improved content for the general sex system. I'm planning on focusing initially on heavy editing of existing content, then moving on to adding in more risky/pregnancy kink content. Depending on how well things are going, I may start adding new variations to actions, or I may return to the main story stuff. 

Sex Toy System & Sex Toys

Besty's main project for the month is finally getting sex toys into the game. This includes toys that can be used/worn inside and out of sex and with devices like sex machines in the home. It also includes things like chastity devices and fun little remote devices like this one:

The sex toy system and the relationships/dating expansion are pretty much the last remaining mechanical elements of the game. There are of course some minor improvements, balancing, and such things, but those usually make up a small portion of a release... The big thing will be content over the coming months, and even the work on relationships will involve new relationship content. It's pretty exciting, I think.

Other Stuff

We'll be doing the usual bug fixing and minor improvements to code of course. There will probably also be some small events or other content added to the game, they make for a good change of pace to keep from getting burnt out on one thing. As an example, I've started completing some of the map actions that thus far have been incomplete, such as the downtown park or parking garage.

That's pretty much it for this month's plans, it's shaping up to be a fun release!

As always, thanks so much for all your support; it wouldn't be possible without you.

o7

ThaumX

The Kiss Release - Version 0.31 Change Log

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Kiss Release!

It's finally time to start exploring the main story after the prologue and meet your alter-ego in Lily's basement lab. Because it's been a while, and there are plenty of new players, I wanted to take a moment to point out that the male and female start stories are quite different. They have totally different prologues, and they have quite different relationships with Lily, the story's central NPC.

The male and female stories are actually part of the same overall story. When playing the male start story, you'll end up meeting the female-start NPC, and vice-versa. Each start gives you a different perspective and information about what's going on in the story, with Lily, and with the town itself. If you haven't tried both starts, I think you'll be surprised by what you discover and I recommend giving each side a try!

The way that Lily acts toward the opposite start NPC is one of the possibilities available if you play that start. However, it's important to note that the version portrayed is only one of several possibilities if you're playing that side. It all depends on the choices you make. It's also worth noting that the female start main quest is generally more difficult, though not excessively so.

I view the two starts as a collection of mirrored and opposite attributes. Probably the easiest way to describe it is by using the metaphor of a dark and placid lake. The male start character floats above the surface of the lake, looking down at her reflection and the female start character beneath the surface of the water. The female start character stares up at a distorted version of the male start character. She is in a much darker and colder place compared to the character floating above the lake. 

This month we did more bug fixing, balance improvement, and improvement of minor and overlooked things. The cheat modes got some love and care, NPCs were given clothes to wear, and I fixed the body portrait's pubic hair. I apologize for that rhyme. Besty has added undressing to the sex system, so you no longer start mystically naked. I focused on the main quest/storyline, which revolves around the effort to rebuild the rejuvinator. You can now visit Lily's house, ring her doorbell, and help fix the machine in her basement lab. It took some work to set up Lily's Lab as the central location for quest progression, but I think you'll agree that it's worth it for the types of character mingling it allows.

Thanks as always for your support, I really hope you enjoy this release!

Change Log

Stats:

Words: 2,172,579

Characters: 13,100,957

Code: 193,147 lines

PC Body Portrait: 32,440,320 combinations

Thaum's Changes:

• Resized the status bars in the top right corner of the screen.
• Allows showing 6 rather than 5 progress bars.
• Added a milk fullness progress bar for lactating characters.
• Non-lactating characters will show energy and health separately.
• Cheat mode overhaul
• All but one cheat modes are now functional and work as intended.
• The non-functional mode is NPCs starting with higher like value
• New cheat mode added: Milk Tank.
• Allows characters to store 4 times the milk in their breasts without affecting milk production rate.
• Body Portrait Updates
• Pubic hair options fixed to work better with other skin shadow overlays.
• Three new pregnancy belly sizes, bringing the total number of pregnant sizes up to 7.
• The NPC viewer in the social menu now displays the NPC's body portrait if the character is a female or futa.
• Added a cock and balls overlay to display futa NPCs correctly.
• Lactation will now give a reduced happiness and stress benefit.
• Minor tweaks to the interaction between different status values.
• Exercise will now cause you to gain a small amount of happiness if your happiness is low.
• Some improvements to vigor gain overnight and during naps.
• Vigor gain will now display properly in the status record.
• The Farm Coop area now has proper descriptive text for all the areas. Finally.
• NPC relationships will now decay over time if you don't maintain contact.
• The rate of decay, and how long you can go without contacting or spending time with an NPC depends on the type of relationship you have.
• Romantic relationships tend to decay faster than friendships.
• Younger, less secure, romances decay faster than stronger more mature ones.
• A new main story quest added to the game for both male and female starts.
• Lily will contact you toward the end of your third week of play after the prologue.
• The initial phase of the quest has a good deal of writing for each.
• Each has the possibility for some extra frisky content such as giving Lily a blowjob or looking at her junk.
• New artwork for Lily's junk added to the game, a standard drawing and an anatomical drawing.
• Quest gives you access to Lily's basement laboratory, where you can work on the quest and also meet and interact with Lily and your male/female start opposite.
• Completing the opening portion of the quest will give you a new inventory item that grants access to the lab.
• The current amount of conversation in the lab is limited due to time constraints. Each phase of the main story quest will open new conversation options in Lily's Lab.
• NPC characters appear and work in the lab, based on their own schedules, and you'll see them working on a number of different tasks based on the main story progress.
• A new interface for Lily's lab centered around making progress toward repairing the rejuvinator.
• The initial phase of repairs allows pretty straight-forward work toward completion, while future phases will have other interesting activities.
• Gives progress in percent and with a special progress bar.
• Shows tasks of the repairs completed, the task in progress, and any future tasks that your character is aware of.
• It provides different options to work toward quest completion and talk to other people in the lab.
• Boobs and Silicone:
• Bra cup size is now properly calculated when the character is lactating and has breast implants.
• The amount of silicone contribution to current breast size is shown in the status menu in parenthesis.
• You can now navigate to Lily's place from the Appletree map.
• Female-start characters will have to meet Lily first.
• You will arive outside Lily's place, giving you the option to explore, look around, ring her doorbell, and enter her basement lab directly if you have access.
• Lily won't like it if you ring her doorbell in the middle of the night.
• Two new achievements added to the game, "Sparky" and "Jehovah's Witness"
• Both involve ringing Lily's doorbell...
• A new home item, a lemonade jug, was added to the game.
• Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
• The first action button to travel to the bridge to commit suicide will now appear earlier in the depression status so that the transition from having one to having many buttons will not be so dramatic.
• There is now an action button while at the bridge to commit suicide when you have the suicide bad end.
• You can now commit suicide without having flagged a bad end as long as you are depressed enough.
• The existing game soundtrack has been replaced with a new one.
• Some minor bug and typo fixes.

Besty's Changes:

• NPC got their own clothing generator dressing them up into proper attires.
• Sex system was expanded to allow undressing both NPCs and PC during the scene.
• Some actions and positions are available now only when your (or NPC) clothes are not in the way.
• Breast size reduce surgery added to the medical district.
• Added the actual ability to start sex with a stranger in the club. You need to attract one by dancing first.
• Dates and Hangouts:
• Almost every location has new actions! (test needed)
• Now you can try to kiss your date! Good luck with this.
• New dating area and new coffee place added.
• Little changes in the city map
• Bug Fixes:
• Proposing the date/hangout without selecting the proper meeting place first must not cause the error now. Default meeting place is Park. (test needed)
• Hair color fixes:
• Best head salon now actually dyes your hair.
• White, Cafe Noir and some other colored hair are displayed properly in the character portrait.
• The color order was also fixed in female portraits.
• Starvation bug was tested and it seems I fixed it actually last month lol.
• Laundry button was added to all home tiers bathrooms. (need to test out the nightly auto laundry)
• Addiction to sex, cum and creampies grows slower now.
• Tanning lesbo scene fixed, there were also a report about red text but I believe it is the result of <<has>> macro still derping and not the scene itself. ANyway, was not able to replicate twine errors while testing.
• All grease now dries off properly over time (test needed)
• Forgetful "on the pill" selfthought fixed.
• Bcorps printer event sex (test needed)
• Missed date\hang Check fixed (test needed)
• Fixed legs shaving both auto and override options.
• Fixed NPC induced hangout/dates asks (probably, test needed)
• Asks will not happen one after another now.
• Also texting box will not cause errors
• Fixed addiction balance and withdrawal consequences.
• Starting 1661 code fixed to 1551  to fit the actual letters panel.
• Fixed the areas where you can get raped.
• Descriptions in npc census.