Hello and welcome back to Paradise! It's nice and sunny here.
Let's get right into it.
The Lost Path: Stag Route
It was brought to my attention awhile ago that there is a missing path. Or rather the path starts and then just disappears. The Stag Route; which had been part of the plan at the start of the game but somehow I forgot about it and it fell through the cracks.
It was suppose to start with choosing Threesome with Derek in Chapter 1 and then kinda just went nowhere and merged with the other paths. I'm not even sure how I could have overlooked it but I did. So yeah, no idea what happened.
But this is a perfect opportunity to test something I was thinking about for the future. I had this idea for after I had completed the game. The idea was that I could release new paths as DLC or something. The plan was to re-use as much of the existing images as possible and craft an entirely new experience with different types of paths. In theory I should be able to layer new routes/stories on top of the existing game without having to render a ton of images. Just different dialogue and telling a new story with the existing renders.
So that's what I'm going to do with the Stag Route. I'm going to try this idea and see if it can work. So Stag Route if people are unfamiliar with this term will be an offshoot of the Netorase path.
A Stag is a dominant man who encourages his female partner to have sex with others, either in his presence, or on her own. With Stag/vixen there is little similarity to cuckholding, where the man is submissive and often subjected to taunting and humiliation from his dominant female partner while, or after, she has sex with another man.
So yeah, we'll see how it goes. I don't know if it will be in Version 0.6 yet so I'll let you know in the future.
Version 0.5:
Thank you to everyone who helped with reporting bugs. Hopefully squashed all them bugs flat and it's smooth sailing from here on out. There will be a version 0.5.3 on Monday which adds in a few missing pictures and fixes some bugs. If you didn't have a problem with 0.5.2 there won't be a need for you to update. If you are still having problems then hopefully 0.5.3 will fix your issue. If you are using a language other than English; make sure you've downloaded the Translation Pack. There was issues with the translation files in the initial release of 0.5.2. that caused crashing or not starting new content.
Version 0.6:
I'll most likely start working on the next version this weekend or I may take the weekend off to relax and recharge. Haven't decided yet, either way here are a few things I hope to accomplish for this version.
Cheat Menu for the in-game phone that will allow you to change Story Path and Story Branch as well as some variables. I'm not sure if all variables will be available for edit. (There are a lot of them)
Finish up the Contacts page, mostly boring data entry left to do.
Chapter 5 of course.
I want to add a little notification window that pops up on-screen whenever a variable is modified or set. I think this could be very helpful to give players feedback when something happens after making a choice. Possibly have a toggle in the menu for those players who don't want to see notifications.
The notification idea also spawned another idea. Achievements; I dunno could be interesting and a simple little thing to add.
I want to try an idea for the in-game walkthrough; I think I may finally have an idea on how to implement it. Saving this for last because I don't know if I'll have time. It's gonna require quite a bit of coding. I'll give more info when I start working on it
That's it for this week. Have a great weekend!