DevLog – 42

Ahoy Buccaneers!

While I'm working on the new story arc for v0.51, I want to talk about v0.50, which introduces two major new minigames that are now available to all Patrons 🏴‍☠️

One of the biggest additions is the new Lockpicking minigame, which lets you pick locks to access restricted areas, such as the girls' rooms at night. Using Lockpicks (which you can buy in Shells Town), you'll need to find the correct position for the pick and force the lock open. If you keep trying in the wrong position, the lockpick will eventually break. Every lock you successfully pick increases your new Stealth stat, which will play an important role in this and many other gameplay mechanics. Lock difficulty will also increase as you progress through the story.

Once you successfully pick the lock, you'll unlock the new Night Visit event. Robin is the first girl to receive this feature. After unlocking her door, you'll gain access to a second minigame featuring exclusive scenes designed specifically for her in the new private bedroom introduced in the previous version.

This second minigame has easily been one of the biggest challenges I've taken on in such a short amount of time. It required a tremendous amount of work to make everything feel consistent with the room itself, achieve high-quality visuals, and build all the systems working behind the scenes. Even so, the effort was absolutely worth it because this is only the foundation of a much larger system. I plan to add a lot more content to this minigame over time. The goal is to continue expanding it in future updates with new lewd animations and exclusive scenarios until every girl in the crew has her own version of this minigame inside her own room.

During the event, you'll need to interact with Robin and various objects around the room without waking her up. The Risk meter shows how close she is to waking up. If it reaches 100%, the event will end. Every action increases the risk through a dynamic risk system that temporarily rises before gradually decreasing, along with a static risk value that permanently accumulates throughout the entire visit. Your Stealth level and the girl's sleep level both directly affect the difficulty, while certain special actions can increase or reduce the overall risk even further. Future updates will introduce additional interactions and new mechanics to expand this system even more.

Stay tuned for everything that's coming next. There's a lot of exciting new content on the way!

Thank you very much, as always, for your support! 🏴‍☠️

Kampai!