Uniform

 

There are plenty of uniforms out there that could be made more interesting with some strategic changes. Besty and I probably would have enjoyed our recent trips to the hospital a bit more if the nurses all looked like this...

That'd just be impossible in practice though, sadly. Ignoring the fact that real people have varying levels of attractiveness, you're still left with something like a stripper hospital. Probably not the most reassuring place to be with serious health issues.

We're both okay, so no worries there. My wife had a CT scan done for an upcoming surgery and the radiologist noticed something strange in the images. One emergency ultrasound later, and we discovered she has a massive blood clot in her left leg. It's apparently something pretty common in people doing chemo, it's probably been slowly growing in her leg for nearly two months now. She's on blood thinner medication now, which seems to be the standard course of treatment. We just have to let her body dissolve the clot and hope none of it breaks off to cause havoc elsewhere.

Besty's trip to the hospital was about him, but out of respect for his privacy I won't share the details. Something painful and unpleasant, but not life threatening or long-term, he's already feeling better though. :D

We discovered that the 38.1 release introduced a new bug that causes problems when trying to have sex. I'm posting instructions on how to fix the issue below, until I can get a 38.2 build done. Life has been extremely hectic between living in an airbnb, working at a new job, medical stuff, mortgage/home buying stuff, trying to sell our old home, and of course working on AW... it takes some extra effort to squeeze in a new build.

For now we're going to keep plugging away toward version 39. I'm excited that we'll finally have something resembling an ending in this release, though it'll be lacking a bit in terms of content until we flesh out all the various pieces. 

Thanks as always for your support, it means the world to us, now more than ever. AW wouldn't be possible without you!

ThaumX

Sex Bug Fix for 0.38.1:

Using a text editor such as notepad, use find (ctrl+F) to find the following text:

(null!==aw.npc[e]){var t=!1;if(!1===aw.npc[e].clothes.worn.top&&0!==aw.npc[e].clothes.outfits.casual.top&&!1!==aw.npc[e].clothes.outfits.casual.top)

You can then replace it with this instead:

 (null!==aw.npc[e]){var t=!1;if(!1===aw.npc[e].clothes.worn.top&&!1!==aw.npc[e].clothes.outfits.casual.top)

Then save the file and you're good to go!

Fresh Milk

 

So it's just a quick update today because today we're doing the first new incremental bugfix release. By waiting a few days, we were able to collect new bugs from version 38, get them fixed, and now have a more stable release for everyone. The new bug tracking software Mantis has been working really well for us to keep track of things. Odrson deserves a special thank you from us for helping us out with Mantis and bug reports!

As you can see, we've fixed a lot of bugs. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to report them!

A Polish Erection

 

It's time for another update!

It's somewhat challenging to come up with post and release images that involve zero nudity, but it's pretty fun to find suggestive images that are still technically allowed. I'm not really a fan of the censorship stuff, especially when any public post is behind a "you must be 18 to view" warning. I mean, it's not like patreon is going to prevent teenagers from finding porn on the internet if they want to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In regards to "the crazy developer has moved back to the mainland" front, things have started to calm down a little. We have an offer on a house, and will hopefully find out soon if the seller will accept or counter. My day-job has everyone teleworking right now (except for a skeleton crew) due to covid concerns, which actually makes things much more difficult for me. I haven't even seen the servers or hardware I'm supposed to be in charge of, and VPN access is very limited. I see problems but have no way of fixing them yet... it's incredibly frustrating.

As far as the game goes, we're working right now on getting as many bugs as possible eradicated for a 38.1 release. The goal here is to get a nice stable base to start from for version 39 and the following versions. After that happens in the next couple of days, we'll start back in on the content expansion and starting to assemble the game's ending set up, specifically the programmatic portion determining the different pieces of the story to put together.

At this point, it probably won't be possible to trigger an actual ending, because the main quest isn't complete, but we'll see what we can do in terms of a demonstration. The writing isn't going to be complete, of course, so you'll probably just see filler notes like "joined-in on Marta's sexcapades". or "Befriended Dr. Titten" for the various things that can happen in the game.

One change we're going to make is a change to our release schedule for the various builds. This is partly because it's too damned easy to forget the date for the [patron]($1) and [public] releases, and partly to streamline how we do builds. We may start doing re-releases of the [backer] and above builds with bug fixes reported during the month applied, at the same time we do the standard new release. This will let players choose to play a more stable build, or try out the newest content.

The biggest impact this will have is that it will be slightly longer for the [patron] and [public] builds to release, 1 and 2 months respectively. These changes should make it a little easier on us, and also allows us to make releases a little more reliable. By using a git branch specifically for previous version bugs, we will also be able to improve quality as well.

That's it for now... as always, thanks so much for your support. We'll all keep doing our best to deserve it!

ThaumX

The Device Release - Version 0.38.0

 

I had to get a little creative with this month's release image due to Patreon's policy against implied/censored nudity. This month features some quests to obtain special devices for Lily's machine, so at least it's relevant. 

This has been a hell of a month for me, so I'm really putting a lot of trust in Besty and Anenn for this release. We had that fast-paced move where things were all happening at once, followed by a lockdown for our last week there that made everything 5x more complicated. There was a massive surge in covid leading up to that lockdown, and since the island only has 15 ventilators the situation doesn't look great for them.

Arriving in Minnesota, the weather has been beautiful, but there has been so much to do. We haven't had much luck on our house hunting yet, most of the available places sold shortly before we arrived. Between house hunting, and a million other little things that go with moving such as getting my wife's medical care reestablished, it's been hectic. Thankfully things should start settling down over the next month, and I should be able to get back to spending more time on AW and hanging out in Discord.

That said, there are still plenty of neat things to see in this release. There are 36 thousand new words of job content, that's about half of a YA novel. There are also special quests to obtain 4 unique devices Lily needs for her machine. These have all sorts of cool things in them, with different ways to approach obtaining them, choices to be made, and the potential for failure.

Thanks for your patience with me during this move, and thanks for your support of AW. Without you, it never would have been possible!

Changes

Words:  2,544,764 (15,259,630 characters)

Code Lines:  204,024

This month's list of changes is going to be a little more compact than usual. This is because developer effort has been more focused on writing, I haven't been as active/involved with everyone's work, and because I'm feeling lazy and don't feel like totally re-writing the lists from Besty and Anenn. The list will return to normal as life returns to normal.

• The Poll Riders VIP client scene was redone.
• It is now a unique written event rather than using the sex scene system.
• New daily job content for the janitor job (Services Division) (320 words).
• New daily job content for the massage parlor job (Fairy Tail) (110 words).
• A new stage of the main quest has been added.
• Quest is to obtain unique/rare components needed to complete Lily's machine.
• Quest Into text (1250 words).
• IR Field Coherer quest (2500 words).
• Oscillator quest (1900 words).
• Capacitor quest (1500 words).
• Spectral Lenses quest (600 words).
• New events for the game's jobs.
• Two new events for every job, totaling approximately 36,000 words.
• Some minor events for various classes at school.
• They are small occurrences meant to spice things up a bit.
• NPC Generator settings now persist between game sessions.
• The settings are saved to the browser cache automatically.
• If you wish to return to default settings for the NPC generator, use the "default" button in the generator settings menu.
• These settings should be retained across future game versions.
• A lot of bug fixing!
• We now use Mantis Bug Tracker software which has been working very well to keep track of issues and help us get them fixed.
• It's still new, so it's a learning process.
• Some bugs that are fixed or partially fixed haven't been closed/updated yet, we'll get that done soon.
• You can check out the bug tracker here.
• You need to make an account if you would like to report bugs. 
• The "real name" field is totally optional, and your email address can't be seen by other users. Your email address lets you keep informed about a bug you reported (if interested), but more importantly is useful in case we need additional info about your bug to fix it.
• If you would just like to view the bugs, you can use the username: Guest with the password: Guest