Hotfix v3 added. Important crashes and mechanics fixed; make sure to redownload.
Pregnancy is back. In the waking world.
Seeing as how the story caught up with pregnancy now, some of the mechanics have been revised and restored or new ones added. It's a challenge to come up with a system that's both narrative cohesive and respects player agency, but I think I've worked something out that I don't entirely hate. As a result pregnancy is now more prevalent, with some caveats.Note that no reactions in the waking world exist at this moment, outside the main story. That might be the next update.
There now exists a persistent array that tracks pregnancy data when awake. It's excluded from most interactions in the dream world.Normally, it's empty and does absolutely nothing. However, if something's in it, every morning that data's counter goes down and once at 0, the pregnancy stage goes up.Birth currently only occurs at the start of a dream, after which MC wakes up. And one more place.By default every stage has a counter of 3. Real pregnancy functions the same way as other transformations do: if something were to increases the stage in a dream, in the real world this would only set the current stage counter to 0.There are 11 pregnancy stages, each being roughly a month equivalent.
There is also a "limiter" now. This exists for story purposes. Basically, it limits how far a story initiated pregnancy can progress at any given moment.(i.e it would be rather silly for MC to have morning sickness while overdue.)It's uncapped for freeform variants as there are no unique interactions yet.
Story pregnancy completely overrides freeform content, and treats it as non canon. Realistically, it will have its own route at some point, but this is the immediate solution.
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Hotfix v5
fixed floor item duplication when loading game from Home.
upon loading, the game will check the save file's game version and remove any duplicated plushies. Any regular items I guess can stay duplicated.
plushies placed into storage are now accessible
large items in storage are now properly scaled to the rest of the grid
This was quite an adventure to fix...
Hotfix v4
Fixed clothes that take up multiple cells disappearing when placed into an unavailable slot with the keyboard.
Hid meta objects from the Woods Lab map.
Lab scanner doesn't restrict regular pregnancies now.
Decontamination room and c-alpha don't restore body sizes to ones before merging with the Squidrabbit, if no Squidrabbit transformation is present.
I've added heterochromia functionality for a future update, which is largely untested at the moment. Let me know if you spot anything weird with the eye colors, or maybe even crashes. The older versions are still available, just in case.
Hotfix v3
New arm movement walking animation wasn't enabled for freeplay.
Fixed mall crash if changing room was accessed prior to ending Kari's dress up event. You can't go in now. This is because the wardrobe gets overwritten during the event, so anything you'd buy prior would be gone.
Decontamination and c-alpha now remove pregnancy only if the player was male prior to Squidrabbit merge.
Fixed visual glitch when talking to NPCs from the side, when they had an isometric view face in the conversation. I don't even know how to explain, but something somewhere was fixed.
Real world pregnancy now properly disappears after giving birth in a dream. Only after it reaches full term in the waking world.
Fixed Kari's smalltalk crash when randoming the 29th conversation (there are 28)
Fixed crash when talking to Kari immediately after Yuri comments MC's cleavage.
Fixed 10 month animation missing sprites
Hotfix v2
Forgot to add a way for the new animation to end.
Pregnancy Caveats
The Fertility Crest(festival of life) is what facilitates this functionality. At the moment, there is no way of removing it once acquired.
It works with Banshees (and some creativity) to simulate a stage 1 to full term progression, and with instant variants (i.e harlequins)
Harlequins themselves now count as parasites and are persistent in dreams by default.
They'll grow a bit and then have a 50% chance to be born at the start of a dream.
Venus Parasite makes all other dream pregnancies (i.e ghosts) persistent as well, but in dreams only. Fertility Crest has priority.
Removing Venus removes the pregnancy on the next dream. Though you might find it difficult if unprepared for a very simple reason.
Festival baby requires hip size 7 or 8, for the animation to end successfully.
This was a lot of work and I'm expecting bugs that slipped through. Like at the very moment of writing this I'm wondering what happens when the player has both the crest and Venus. Hope I don't forget to test it.
Any help with testing is always appreciated.
Story
-Continuation of Kari's route.
-Ends at Yuri stating she'll visit MC.
~450 dialogue lines
-Added Kari's beach conversation and Yuri's park conversation.
~150 dialogue lines; with this every girl now has an area specific conversation
Other Notable Changes
-Added Festival of Life birth animation variant.
-Changed front and back view arm movement while walking to be more feminine for MC. Running uses the legacy version. Let me know if this looks off and needs tweaking.Currently changes after the haircut dream with Rin.
-Added 3 more eye shapes.
-Added a surprise to time warps. Progress the story to find out what it does, though you don't need to.
-Added a special effect for Nanami's pills
-Added a new way of getting C-GAMMA
-Fertility crest only appears underneath clothing. And occasionally over clothing every ~minute.
-Slight tweaks to birth animations (10 months' are a little larger than 9)
-Made some changes to side view walking animation with large bellies.
-Changed dress hemline for side view pregnancy pose. I think it's slightly better now. Still work in progress.
What's next
Kari's story is taking a break for a bit. There's a lot of work to do in the waking world.
New named NPCs. They won't be in the front and center like the main cast, but I think it would be fun to have some characters that aren't in on what's going on.
I'm also somewhat unhappy how Yuri's commentary on body changes turned out. I think it's better to sparse out what characters comment on, hence some new characters would help. Also will be adding some dialogue to unnamed NPC.
Following that the dream hub will need a lot of updating. Mainly interactables. Now that clothing and pregnancy are in a better state, there's fair amount of customization that could be added through it.
Bath conversations with Rin will use actual flags instead of Coherence. It's actually the main reason Rin hasn't had much new dialogue: I don't want to dump information without context.
I'm still working on new animations too, though that's a separate thing.