Change

It's been a while since I have talked about the future, so I figured it'd be a good time to remedy that. Perhaps everything going on has made me a little more introspective, but I spent some time the other day thinking about all the things we've built and written in AW, as well as the things that we still have to do. Even though I was obviously there, doing the work, it still feels pretty crazy thinking about just how much work has been accomplished.

There's still plenty of work to do, of course, but most of that comes down to writing new content. And there are a lot of places to put content... Originally the intent had been to support a wide variety of potential content from submissions, as well as giving the player a bigger world to explore. However, we've found that there simply aren't that many people interested in submitting their own writing for the game. That may change in the future, but we aren't going to count on it. In order to create a better game experience overall, we'll be cutting some planned content from some map areas, and using that time on the more central locations.

As they say, hindsight is 20/20, and in retrospect, I probably should have gone with a more constrained game world. That would have allowed the game areas to have a higher density of content written by us. That doesn't mean that it has to stay that way forever, but we are committed to hitting a 1.0 release within the planned development period. After we hit 1.0, we're planning on continuing work to expand the game with new features and content. Having the game world appropriately sized for that will be handy. We're also going to continue supporting mods, so there will be "space" for people to do interesting things. 

All that said, it's not like there won't be a lot of content in 1.0, just not some of the content that is implied by all the areas on the map. For example, the resort area near Lake Clitea adds a hotel, water park, boating, beach, and a golf course, which could accommodate a lot of different sexy content, but we don't have much official content planned in that location for 1.0. Our efforts are going to be focused on the main game areas instead, focusing the most on areas where players spend most of their playtime.

Areas on the map with minimal content planned for 1.0:

• Lake Clitea Resort Area
• Threesome Peak
• Riesewood Camping Area
• Area 69
• Institute Campus

Areas on the map with some content for 1.0:

• Hoden Springs
• Sahnetorte Bridge
• Muschi Valley Visitor Center
• Farm COOP Center
• Bullseye Ubercenter
• Angler Woods

Outside of strictly content work, we have some remaining work on systems to do. The biggest is the upcoming relationship expansion, to allow more full-featured relationships in the game. We also have the creche and interactions with your potential children, a theme overhaul to unify and standardize the game's UI, and the ending content generator to mix together various aspects of your playthrough (such as job performance and friendships) into the main story ending. I've been working on the kink expansion of the sex system this month, so you'll be able to see more content in that area starting with the next release.

As far as content is concerned, we have writing to do for the main story, the various jobs, schools, relationships, and more location and time-based events. We also want to make pointer quests that will direct players toward more of the existing game content. There are also a lot of smaller content areas that need some thousands of words here and there. Writing is going to be the bulk of our work on the way to the 1.0 release. 

As far as the timeline goes, we're still shooting for hitting the 1.0 release at the very end of 2020, with the final beta probably taking place in December.

2020 is proving to be one hell of a year so far, but this is possible, provided the aliens don't invade...

I've been committed to trying to stick to the planned development timeline I released when the project first went public. I'm not a big fan of projects with indefinite development time myself, and didn't want to leave my supporters wondering "when will this be done?". 

That said, we are planning on expansions of AW after 1.0 to add new content and potentially even new mechanics to allow things such as playing as a futa character. We're going to create plans and definite timeframes for each expansion though. These will likely be in the 3 to 6 month range, but we'll be asking patrons what they want when the time comes. I believe that the world of AW has a ton of potential for growth, but I think it is essential to maintain the same level of transparency and consistency that we have during the development of the main game.

As far as the expansions go, because they will be adding on to a fully-playable game, we'll be able to give more control to our supporters. The things we work on of course, and most importantly, when to stop altogether. We don't want to abandon the game, of course, but we also don't want to drag out development just to get more money (money wasn't the main motivator behind this project in the first place). When the time comes, I'm sure it'll be exciting to start working on a new adult project. :D

As always, thank you all for your support. AW wouldn't be possible without you!

o7

ThaumX

Prepared

Hello everyone, it seems things are going a little crazy with covid-19.

I've been following the virus since mid January, epidemiology has been a sort of hobby subject of mine since I was a kid (yep, I'm a total nerd). Sadly, things have been going pretty much as expected, though I never thought people would start hoarding toilet paper for some reason. 

The game of thrones played out differently than expected.

As toilet paper illustrates, many of the difficulties people will face will be related to people panicking or doing stupid things. In Guam, a mild panic started when the first cases of covid-19 were confirmed a couple days ago. This also happened to result in the military effectively shutting down the Naval Hospital, meaning all our appointments were canceled. My wife is recovering well, but has been having issues with her stoma... we'll just have to manage for now.

We aren't in bad shape, despite the commissaries closing and the empty shelves at the local grocery stores. I typically try to keep some extra food and supplies on hand, just because of the difficulty with logistics and the tendency for typhoons and other crazy things to happen out here. It takes longer for stores to restock here due to the large transit times of ocean shipping that delivers the food.

I still have to go to work, but with most people teleworking, it's nice and calm here. A good environment for writing :D I do have a little extra support work to do for when my coworkers have issues doing things at home... but in exchange they aren't breaking anything here, so it'll probably balance out eventually. Hopefully.

Besty continues to work from his high-rise bunker, though he says a babushka was threatening to eat a cashier at the local grocery store when he visited. I'm pretty sure he was joking about that, but I suppose you never really know when it comes to Russia and babushkas. :D

We'll keep working on version 0.33, and we hope you guys have as safe and pleasant a time as possible. 

Possibly Useful Info:

If you happen to be suffering from a toilet paper shortage due to people hoarding toilet paper in your area, this may be a solution for you. 

It's a bidet spray, and perhaps they will become more popular as a result of all of this. I got familiar with bidets while living in Europe, and then more recently found that handheld sprays were pretty much ubiquitous in SE Asia where toilet paper is more of a luxury. While it may seem unusual at first, I have to say that they're excellent for getting clean. I even installed some sprays in my home bathrooms many years ago as a result. The sprays themselves are inexpensive to purchase, and very easy to install. I bought mine from Home Depot. 

Hot Sand

Hello everyone, so I've finally made it back to Guam and gotten things (mostly) in order around here. It's quite a relief, and it also means I'll be able to get back to a more typical schedule and a better working environment. That's good because it's surprisingly difficult to write smut in a hospital or cancer treatment area. All the noise and distractions suck--especially with my attention span--but that atmosphere also makes it really hard to get into the right mindset to write at all.

Not that I have any complaints about the experience, I'm just happy to get back home and work. Things with my wife have continued to improve, and she seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered. Dealing with an ileostomy is... a unique experience, to be sure, but you just gotta do what you gotta do. On the bright side, the pathology report came back saying that the radiation and chemo had a full therapeutic effect. The removed lymph nodes along with the tumor itself had no sign of cancer, which is pretty much the best result we could have hoped for. She'll still be doing the really serious FULVOX chemo course starting next week to catch any cells that may have migrated away from the tumor site, but her prognosis is good.

In AW news, for this month we're going to be focusing primarily on content again, though Besty will be doing some more work on the sex toy system. I'm going to be splitting my efforts between the main story and the sex system writing. As usual, we'll probably squeeze in a few other small chunks of content here and there, and I'd like to spend at least a little time expanding on the body portraits. We may also get some work done on expanding the current lineup of mod interfaces, but that's more of a hopeful plan for what to do if everything else goes smoothly.

It seems like 2020 has been one hell of a crazy year thus far. I'm not sure it's going to get any better, but I certainly hope it does! In any case, I'd like to say thanks for your continued support of AW, especially with everything that's been going on with my family and the world in general. It means the world to me; Accidental Woman wouldn't be possible otherwise.

o7

ThaumX

The Cute Release - Version 0.32 Change Log

It's finally time for version 32!

I'm not going to lie; this has been a shitty month for me. The wife's surgery, and then trying to work on AW while taking care of her and handling multi-hour doctor appointments. Troublesome things going on at work, the annoyance of travel in general, and my layover in South Korea in particular.  Overall it hasn't been the best set of weeks. That said, I still think we have a pretty cool release for you guys.

The biggest thing to see is probably sex toys, with a variety of fun items to try out.  There are 15 items, which range from dildos to chastity devices. There's also a solid chunk of new content in the main story quest, mostly in phase two. As usual, we've also got some miscellaneous new stuff and improvements, like a new SSTD (Wet Heat) and improved bimbo/slut parsing.

I'm surprisingly tired, so let's get down to business.

Change Log

Words: 2,229,189 (Characters: 13,329,294)

Code Lines: 194,962

Body Portrait Combos: 32,440,320

• Added actions to downtown central park area.
• Added actions to the downtown parking garage.
• Fixes to the Drips disease.
• Can now be effectively treated during the cold phase.
• Added a common cold disease that has no major consequences, as an alternative to more serious diseases.
• Added a new Sexy STD called Wet Heat.
• It combines excessive sweating with some estrus-like effects.
• Has some mind-altering effects such as adding kinks if left untreated.
• Eventually will start causing brain damage (+bimbo)
• Can be cured by receiving vaginal creampies, pregnancy not required.
• Can also be cured by the doctor, but doing so can have adverse effects.
• Added function to give the player an SSTD based on weighted probability.
• Replaces basic method of giving the player the Drips.
• Added new post-parser system to SugarCube.
• Parses key segments of game text immediately after rendering (about 50ms)
• Can selectively parse text such as speech or internal monologues.
• Replaces the global parser functions for bimbo, slut, and cumslut effects.
• Added a gagged parser that turns player speech into gagged sounds.
• Parses speech as various mmph sounds, followed by actual text in parenthesis. "Mmmph mmmph! (Hello there!)"
• Appletree residents are unsurprisingly used to interpreting the speech of gagged residents. Sort of like how we can understand people from Liverpool in the UK.
• Fixed the pregnancy status icon so it only appears when the player knows they are pregnant.
• Player will no longer have periods described while pregnant.
• Reworked method of traveling to Lily's place. Should now work as expected.
• Added game encyclopedia entry on credit chits, a physical form of game currency.
• Added second phase of the rejuvenator repair quest.
• Currently has a generous deadline (5 weeks) but won't take that long.
• Involves purchasing enameled wire from contacts around Appletree.
• Some of the contacts expect a little 'extra payment' for their efforts.
• About 9,000 words of new mostly-erotic content.
• Also some appropriate gifs, because. 
• Added more writing to the various conversation options during the phase 1 quest.
• About 3,000 words, primarily to the female-start Lily.
• Improved the sex AI so that it picks actions more reliably.
• Will no longer pick "impossible actions".
• Anal sex can no longer result in an accidental vaginal creampie.
• Beware Prude's Russian Mafia connections.
• Several bug fixes and minor boops.
• End of the annoying texting app fails.
• Picking a new home from the real estate office actually lets you move.
• You can no longer be abducted by Jimbo while safe at home.
• Et cetera.
• etc.

Besty's Changes!

• Sex toys are now a thing!
• Sex toy system implemented
• Toys can be purchased from the Prude sex shop in the adult district, viewed in the inventory, and used from the action menu.
• 15 toys are currently available.
• Dildos
• Plugs
• Chastity devices
• Gags
• "Other Stuff"
• New self-thoughts to go along with sex toy use.
• Sex system now takes sex toys into account.
• New button to remove toys in the scene
• NOTE: need to do an action after removing a toy to make any previously forbidden sex positions available. (Known issue)
• Added support for toys to these scenes:
• Maid
• Psycho
• Prostitution (Oldest Profession and Street Corner)
• Street rape
• Masturbation
• Added "Semen Bottle" item to the Cum & Go convenience store.
• New happy poster is available in the BBB store.
• Backward compatibility was updated to check for new toy stuff, but you may encounter some errors if using a save from an older game version. Errors shouldn't really affect anything. Hopefully.
• Masturbation has been removed from the bedroom and added to the actions menu.
• Now you can masturbate everywhere!
• New game encyclopedia entries:
• Nutrition
• Surgery
• Stress
• Happiness

Thanks for your support everyone!

We hope you enjoy the Cute Release!

Be Prepared

Hello everyone, it's time for a quick update on what's going on with AW.

The good news is that we've got sex toys and new content for you in version 32. The bad news is that we're going to delay the release by a day or possibly two. I think you'll support our reasoning for the delay, however, which is murdering bugs. 

With the implementation of sex toys, we decided to do some wider testing before release, and recruited some testers to go over the dev build of version 32. They did an excellent job, and found lots of bugs. Now we need to go through and fix them. Many of the bugs are minor, some are obscure, and a few are serious. We think it'll be better to fix all the bugs we can and have a higher-quality release, rather than fix the most critical bugs and leave the rest in the v32 release.

On the home front, I'm currently staying in Hawaii to care for my wife. She's been recovering steadily from her surgery, but still needs a lot of support. I've been working on AW in the time between caring for her and taking her to doctor appointments and such. Luckily we'll be able to return home next week, and things can be a little more normal.

That's all for now, I'm going to get back to work!

o7

ThaumX