Monday, November 10, 2014

Progress Update

Made some significant UI progress today; got the revamped monster selection menu all finished (just needs a couple of more icons) and I feel like it's a significant improvement over earlier iterations. I also have the ranch building expansion system fully operational. I think the UI should feel all-around much better to use. Note that these are still the old catgirl faces; they have a new and improved look that S has put together that I simply need to get the time to put in:

 I also got to starting implementation of the male breeder sex scenes that we have ready so far, these ones should be in the new build when it goes up:


I'm hesitant about establishing an ETA but the new build should be up by the 15th. I apologize for it being such a massive amount of time between this and the Halloween update I failed to deliver. I was never going to be able to get that Halloween update up in time, but even then I was hoping to at least be able to hack together what I could into a barely playable state so that you guys could at least have something. The problem is that even trying to hack together what rewritten components of the game I had finished with the existing code was just not going to work as the two builds are so incredibly different at this point.

Partly the reason it's taken so much longer after missing the Halloween deadline is that I can afford to make sure things are fully implemented for the release instead of having them sloppily tossed together, and I have been trying to squeeze in a lot more polish wherever possible, though largely I'll admit that there's just so many more issues and additional systems I've found myself having to rewrite than I predicted. There's still a lot of code for me to clean up and implement, but I've come a long way; I just did a count and since the beginning of October I've written a bit over 2,500 lines of code as part of this rebuild (and you'll all be able to confirm this by decompiling the .swf yourselves once the build is finally up). It's not the most efficient coding by far, but it's still a steady pace.

I'm still ashamed I've been so terrible at predicting and setting deadlines throughout this project, but I'm still very proud of the work I've done on this new build and I'm confident you'll enjoy it.

63 comments:

  1. It all is working on, better to get things done right rather then to rush

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  2. Keep plugging along I'm sure it'll be good

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  3. Nice updates! Good idea posting something visual so people won't be able to bitch about it.

    The new UI looks great already, but those are the "old" catgirl faces? I didn't know there was going to be an improvement, sounds wonderful.

    The sex scenes are looking amazing. Everything looks natural and polished.

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  4. Noice!

    A couple of questions though:
    1. When and/or if you're going to add more and more monster types, how would the tabs in the monster selection screen work? In that first sample picture, it looks like it can only fit one or two more tabs.
    2. If a male breeder successfully breeds with a monster, will the monster be preggers and take a week to deliver or will it be instant?

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    1. 1. When we run out of tabs we'll add a second layer of tabs behind it, and so on.

      2. I'm still playing with the male breeder/monster pregnancy mechanics, I think I may go with the monster pregnancy route but if so it'll be a while until we'd actually be able to show pregnancy in the animations.

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    2. If I may make a suggestion.
      Since you are already planning on future tab layers, I would love to see bigger tabs.
      Right now they feel really small and cramped. When I'm going to breed and select monsters it's always a little daze and mouse pointers issues trying to click the place I want, even if I can immediately recognize the tab I want. (inb4 you sux at mouse, play more fps, but seriously it feels cramped)
      A bigger QOL would be for us to be able to arrange tabs, like all catgirls, harpies, holstsaurus first (all the girls). Or tabs where you know you have your best monsters. Even monster order arrangement would be really nice, although the current, bought order, works fine.
      Now hopefully you see this H-bomb, since posting questions directed to you so late is guaranteed to never receive a reply.

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    3. Custom tabs and the ability to rearrange monsters would be cool and I'd like to add it, though I've got a lot of other things to address first so I'm not sure if/when I'd be able to add them. I'm definitely keeping them in mind, though.

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    4. Yeah custom tabs is an idea that would be cool to see in the far future, since there are a lot of other pressing matters at hand.
      But on the subject of slightly bigger tabs I was talking about something like this: http://i.imgur.com/b3gyizo.png nothing too crazy, just slightly bigger. Would be nice to see a change like this in the coming update (since you are working on that at the moment) I don't think it's that much work to make it a bit bigger? Unless it clashes with other stuff, in which case, sad times.
      I'd say that it leaves a lot less room for more tabs at the same time at hand, which could lead to more clicking when trying to find your desired monsters. But with so many new types coming I think we will end up using multiple layers anyways.

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    5. I wish to throw out there that I'm also quite interested in the M/M scenes in particular. The game as a whole is amazing so far, and I look forward to seeing the wonderful things I'm sure the future holds for it. I'd also like to say that, while waiting may not be fun, I'd rather you continue to -enjoy- working on this project than have you burn yourself out to meet the ETAs.

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    6. On the subject of bigger tabs, I understand the concern, but respectfully disagree with the suggestion. Though it would make it slightly easier to click the tabs, there would be too much needless clicking between pages trying to find the monster type you want. Having more monsters on one page makes it more convenient. Hopefully there's a way to reach a happy medium.

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    7. For this release at least we're going to stick with this tab size; we may change it in the future based on feedback.

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    8. I gotta say, I absolutely love that you are still replying our inquires. But it also always makes me feel guilty I'm making you waste incredibly precious game making time.

      By the way, what I mentioned about the tabs was that I just wanted for us to drag and drop them from a lower position to a higher one for example. This would let us keep our favourite monsters more at hand.
      You misunderstood it for super ultra customizable tabs, which actually sounds awesome, but also super time consuming to produce.
      I also agree that we should wait till the release to see how it plays, since it has a new game window size and all that.

      One final note on the picture I made ( http://i.imgur.com/b3gyizo.png )
      I hope you noticed that I added some shade to the scrolling bar (and some shine to the buttons) in my noob opinion it makes it look much more noticeable and aesthetically pleasing.

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  5. Keep up the good work man! Personally, i say don't fret over ETAs and making dates, those only led to negative feelings all around. If you set a date and you are done early, we all still have to wait, or if you miss it, some people get angry. These little daily updates are a really nice touch, but jut get it done when you get it done. I, and I'm sure many others, would enjoy a late good update rather than a bad rushed one.

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  6. Oh this is perfect! This is (If not exactly) what I was talking about last PU with the little images of current progress! Also levels? That sounds amazing, literally amazing. Keep up the great work you guys! And as for the Anon above me with the ETA's and whatnot, he/she is right, don't fret over making dates and just keep trucking on, You guys are doing awesome!

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  7. excellent work man it looks great
    and yes one ques
    does the new game contains seraph scenes too

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  8. Did you know :
    In th average, a software developed by a well managed team, fully composed of highly diplomed and remunerated profesionals of software devellopement is ONE year late and 100% out of budget. And this value become bigger as the budjet on the project increase.
    Your error was not to be late but to fix a public strict deadline and to not have beautifull collored ribon to wave to distract your patreon from your failure.
    So please stop apologize yourself so much.

    Your work is really amazing and the new UI seem very cool

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  9. Man, I really hope that cat-girl is careful with her claws during that hj...

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    1. Honestly I think I'd be too afraid to enjoy it.

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  10. Cool looking awesome so far H-bomb your doing great.

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  11. Will there be a Russian translation?Although I know English, but my Russian language is closer.
    P.S Sorry for the grammar

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  12. Male Breeder confirmed in next update :D

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  13. I've been considering becoming a patreon, but before that i would like to know: will there be more male/male animations? I am interested in both ways, but its still a great game and I can't believe it exists! It's so addicting!

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    1. Personally, I'm hoping that they work out as many animation combinations as possible. M/M, M/F, F/F... I'm hoping the new animation system will make this much easier for the animators.

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    2. There will definitely be more M/M content in the future. We're trying to branch out with content as much as we can, but unfortunately we can only do it a bit at a time.

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  14. Does that mean that "some" neotenys will make it into the next updated? and with some harvesting animation?

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  15. Good job dude. Updates with pics = win.

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  16. With the reasonable progress updates than you brings, I dont have problem in accept the delays of the playable version, specially since the game looks near to becomes beta. You are respecting the players, and that is awesome.

    Can I suggest add a hairdressernpc to the town? could be very useful for get specific hairstyles than the player want, like Felicia for catgirls and Angewomon for seraphs.

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  17. so what about female breeder animations?

    from stuff showed on s-purple blog I guess that we may get the gangbang and alpha wolf event animations. BUT what about female breeder x demon or female breeder x stallion? and harvest animations?

    also it's sad (or even it sucks_ that in the end, female elf x demon and female elf x stallion will end with those poses that include anal penetration and boring view or her back. No delicious bouncy elf tits and her happy/lewd expression, no vaginal penetration with big dick ;_; ... just her back and standard anal because "big dick"
    I somehow understand cowgirl pose (reverse cowgirl would be better still) for elf girl x stallion but in demon scene she should be visible from front at least.

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  18. UI looks awesome !!!!
    cant wait to play it :D

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  19. need more stomage bulge all races^^ and i cant wait for the next update to play!

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    1. ^
      this
      specially vaginal penetration + stomach bulge + creampie/cum pool

      hope that they will do it for stallion x female breeder or/and catgirl x stallion, elf girl x stallion

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  20. Oh, god, just seeing the revamped UI fills me with joy. I don't give a fuck about the male breeder (not into him at all) but GOD it'll be nice to be able to see what my monsters actually look like from the breeding screen.
    Any chance of 'priority' or stickied slots for monsters though?

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  21. Am I the only one who thinks that the 3rd Catgirl on the right row looks just like Nadia Fortune?

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    1. no but the bottom left one looks similar to a certain Character from High school DxD

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  22. As someone who gets off on mama-shota hentai, I gotta say, I really dig the pic of the male breeder doin' the holstaurus.

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  23. now that's an update! i could give a crap less about not getting a playable release on the deadline, as long as you come in and post something explaining what your doing, and why you missed it. preferably with teaser pictures :D

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  24. Man, I couldn't get all you've done since last build done in a year!

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  25. When you have an incestuous pairing, will it show what relation they are to each other? What about a numbered warning system, or color coded, that shows the percentage chance for having a Derpy gremlin spawn?

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  26. No worries :) Estimating programming tasks is insanely difficult.

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  27. Yo, I say if you know you won't make a deadline you set on a game that has no preset deadlines like the big game companies do, update your fans a few weeks in advance to explain.It can release some stress and your fans won't get angry and abandon your game just because you are trying to give them a well made game for them to "enjoy".

    I truly think you care a lot for your fans I would donate if I could afford to. I forgotten if you are new to coding or just doing these as a hobby, but I am still new to coding, but I like to give out strategies to people who are stressed out or just plain swamped with work. We all know in life shit happens, so please do not stress yourself out. Your fans will understand if you explain it,and if your fans are like impatient little kids after you explain it let them go, they are not true fans that love the stuff your team creates.
    I am currently learning how to code in college and this stuff is stressful and exhausting. It is probably one of the most time consuming classes I had and for new coders like myself simple programs take 2 to 3 hours of just making the code on them and another 2 to 3 hours of debugging and editing the code to meet the output you want.

    As I always say, "Wait and you shall receive" and BTW I check this blog on a regular basis so please keep up your great work.

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  28. Will we see any new harvesting animations in this new update?

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  29. Lookin good, Harista. Thanks for the update.

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  30. at least it's bigger than that shitty male elf's penis... I mean stick.
    but yeee they really need to adjust male breeder and male elf penis size and make them bigger than dicks that we can see on futa monsters.

    it's retarded when futa elf have bigger dick than male elf.... I know that Mittsies (aka "I only do detailed futa content") is part of the team but I hope they will work on this.

    Porn game (even if it's sim/rpg) with humans/humanoid males that have small penises vs females with wide hips, big thighs, sexy legs, big breasts, curvy figure, etc is stupid as fuck.

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  31. So if you play as a female breeder does that mean you can have sex with Marquis?

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  32. The male Breeder has a realisitically average sized penis.

    The Melfs are for all intents and purposes, traps/femboys, those tend to have smaller-than-average dongs to play up their feminine side.

    Futas having larger dongs is a pretty common trope when it comes to porn, this is hardly anything out of the ordinary.

    If what you want is males with giant dicks, you have multiple monsters to choose from (Demon, Dickwolf, and Stallion).

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  33. Sorry, let me make a change to what I said above: the Male Breeder is relatively HUNG.

    His dick is approximately 75% (I'd say between 60 and 90% myself depending on the angle) as long as his forearm. Considering he's an average-sized human, that's putting his package between 7 and 10 inches in length. So unless he's a short dude, he's above-average in the cock size department bare minimal, and impressively hung at best. And if he's a tall dude, that's a massive fuckstick he's packing.

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  34. "Futas having larger dongs is a pretty common"
    that's not fair actually. Why futa fans can enjoy animations with humanoid female characters with big human shaped penises while those who aren't into that odd-internet fetish have only elf boys with fucked up design/twig in place of dick?

    if I want to see female character fucked by big dick that doesn't belong to big monster I MUST have to pick futa "thing"? FFS there should be at least 3 non-giant/non-monster male creatures with big dicks (bigger than what futas have).

    "The Melfs are for all intents and purposes, traps/femboys"
    there goes scene with male elf having sex with female breeder.... she can only use his dick as toothpick. It's even more pathetic because m-elf is even bigger than female breeder.

    So those who are into male x female must stay with female breeder x dickwolf animation for next 1year?
    Because S-Purple have totally no idea for/no balls to make sex scene with f-breeder x demon/f-breeder x stallion that won't be another copy paste of incoming f-elf ANAL meh animations (oh ye that look of only her bare back and ass... wow so interesting) and beside that pathetic m-elf we have no other male creatures.
    If there is no hope/good future for m-elf then is it really that hard to find few R-18 doujinshi, comics, flashes, pictures with human female x anthro animal/monster to find inspiration? They don't have problems with stomach bulges if you look on dickwolf x f-breeder sex scene so it's weird that we still don't have vaginal sex scenes or at least concepts for f-breeder with other 2 male monsters.

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  35. This is just mainly my opinion but if you want to do something like a the breeder having a bigger cock I think the best solution is doing it like COC/TITS from Fenoxo. It is quite useful and its pretty simple in fact, though I have no idea about the coding and what not. Wouldn't that be quite good, it'd be like COC/TITS if you get to transform and see how you are and go screwing everything you see. Hmm though what I say does actually have flaws to it and would indeed take some time to implant maybe but keep in mind though if you want something to make one cocks larger I say at least give the breeder the option to buy a potion for it and the monsters because sometimes being ridiculously huge can be funny but yet again i doubt these things will be implanted because it'd take quite some time and I utmost believe that it should be done on the animations with current monsters so far and the UI and hotkeys because I get tired of clicking and its more convenient having a hotkey to speed something up.

    What I just pointed out here for those to lazy to read: Potion to make penises bigger, Better animations for current monsters, UI fixes and more hotkeys implantation

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  36. anybody have stats for h-bombs promises made vs promises broken?
    is he coding 8 hours every day really legit?
    don't wanna get scammed

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    1. You're not gonna get scammed for $1, man. They kind of have to put out content to get paid each month, and if they put out sub-par content then they're gonna hemorrhage subscribers. Simple as that. Start-up Patreons are built on trust between the content creator and their patrons. So I'd say, go for it.

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      8 hours is actually fairly lax for even some coders I know. It's entirely possible H-Bomb's actually working for longer periods of time than that pending what it is he's focused on. Some of his time may also go towards tasks involved with being the project lead, including writing up stuff like this, planning out future stuff and scheduling discussions with international team members. Remember that S-Purple, for instance, is in Israel. Timezones are a bitch.

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  37. Hey, mate -- no sweat, yeah? I think you've been making it fairly clear that you've never likely done something on this scale before. It can be a serious learning process to be not only doing stuff like this with expectations of deadlines... but to also be directing others towards a specific goal too. Patreon is good for you; don't have to worry about people screaming 'fraud!' if you fuck up initially, because they simply don't pay you.

    I'm aware that it may be just a weird fetish-y porn flash game, but I'm following this project's development because I think that it represents a very positive shift in the consumer/developer dynamic for video games. Patreon may very well be the future for independent game developers. You should be proud: you're kinda helping pave the way.

    Just remember to work and meet deadlines. Keep pushing out content. Keep speaking to your consumers. Take the most polarized comments with a grain of salt and try to look for the middle-ground when fishing for opinions.

    But above all, enjoy yourself.

    Cheers!

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  38. Will the feral trait still be added? Will Kala and the orge princess still be added too?

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  39. MAAAOAR PROGRESS UPDAAAAAATE

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  40. That last elf looks like "Meh I've had better"

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  41. Will male breeder x male monsters just be the same as female breeder? I'm fine with this just want to know if that means we'll have those quickly in that case.

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  42. Still on the lookout for those cumshot animations. Any chance they could get prioritized after this update?

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  43. From what I can decipher from your post, you want people with gigantic penises but average humanoid male body structure.

    At this point I can clearly tell that calm logic won't be helping, I told you that the Male Breeder's dick is a respectable size of 7 inches minimal and 10 inches maximum (And I don't think anyone is arguing that that is a large if not gigantic penis size, if you are, you've been watching TOO much hentai), if you made him much bigger it'd get to the point of being absolutely ridiculous in size compared to the rest of his body but you decided to ignore that fact and ramble on about... whatever it is you're rambling about, that sentence structure and overall grammar is atrocious. If you want a humanoid male monster with an inhumanly massive dong, by all means, pay $300 and make a monster yourself.

    I agree with the sentiment, Anon suggesting the CoC/TiTS path, however since that would require a large amount more models to create and animate, I don't see it as being as feasible as in a text-based game.

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  44. Male breeder!

    your Tha coolest!!!

    can we have more hair colors later?

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    1. I know theyre adding female hair styles, so it wouldnt suprise me if they did it for the male too. Color hasnt been announced yet, I imagine It wouldnt be too difficult to add in the future.

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  45. my f5 button its broken when this gonna be ready

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  46. if you are making a male breeder why not make a futanari breeder covers both bases of getting kids from male and female monsters quicker and give a chance to give the futanari trait to your female monster kids

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