We will back focusing on Liora next month! This will be the first update of Part 3 as we are now firmly seated in the Midgame. If you check out the roadmap post, this means that a new type of lewd scene will now become relevant: Lewd scenes that are triggered not by the contract but by Liora herself due to her increased corruption levels.
Getting started on that is the bigger goal of April's update. Let's look at the detailed week-by-week breakdown.
Week 1: A bit more freelancer management as usual as I both need to instruct our freelancers in their projects for this month and also integrate the artist works that should have been finished last week already. I already posted the new artist H-CGs which I integrated todays and Deniis plans to finish the H-CG variations for the Tier 2 Banditwear costume this week, so integrating that one will also be on my todo list.
For my own work, I will be pretty much continuing my work where I left off in February; I mentioned in the project plan back there that if I had time I wanted to get started on adding more Rean related content to accompany the deteriorating relationship values.
In particular I want to focus on updating the Rean Date Sex module to react better to Liora's increasing corruption and to make the whole event ready for VA. I will also need some extra art assets here so we can finally illustrate the Erectyle Dysfunction affecting Rean and also some extra facial expressions for Liora, I hope I can somehow squeeze those inbetween the costume comissions...
Week 2: In the second week I plan to get started on this month's main event. I will be adding more passives that produce Sexual Frustration and and also passives that prevent Sexual Frustration from resetting. My plan is to have effects such as "Creampie Addiction II: -10 Sexual Frustration Reduction on Orgasm except by Creampie" so the build up doesn't get constantly reset as it does now.
Then I will be adding a new masturbation event for Liora that gets triggered by high Sexual Frustration. I will need to see then what else I can fit into the week; since this is a fresh new pasture there's a lot room to cover and not sure what I want to tackle first.
It will probably be a story module for the Rean Date Sex scene where Edgar is fucking Ariadne on the upper floor and Liora hears them (and if Rean is not satsifying her feels jealous and distratced) to fit into the work of the previous week on exanding the Rean Date Sex event with corruption progress, but depending on time constraints and what-not it could be something else.
Week 3: My birthday is in this week, so it will be a bit of a slower week with me just doing some general work here and there. Adding the first Rank II Martial skills, a new contract clause that makes Liora "answer honestly" when she is having sex with Edgar, some new NPCs as prosperity increases, some reacting to Liora being with Edgar so often, etc. Not going to tackle all of this or it wouldn't be a slower week :'D but basically there is huge pile of smaller work where I intend to tackle some pieces during this week.
Week 4: And then it's back to dungeon work for the last week. After focusing on the side areas in the past months, I will be back on the main dungeon in this month. The focus will be the two floors of the West Wing building.
In terms of freelancers, I have the following plans:
RPGM DevOur assistant developer Trihan will be iterating the new Frame Job quest. While I liked the general work, I the third witness requires a major rework. Trihan will also continue working on the quest side with a new minor Negotiation Quest similar to the one he added in February.
The remaining time then will be dedicated to a list of smaller UI/UX improvements that I prepared, like showing Edgar's items in the Item list in battle.
2D Art
Our Liora artist Deniis is basically going to be busy drawing the H-CG variations for the new costumes and then as mentioned above, I hope we can also get the minor Rean Sex variations going.
Our SKA artist Emubi has begun work on the H-CG for the new Investor Claude scene from last week. I feel like I mentioned this in some previous post, but don't remember where, but we also discussed a first test for animation bonus content. We picked the Lorraine x Roland scene as the candidate as its rather recent yet simple with just 2 people and no variations to consider.
Voice Acting
We will continue the approach of doing some story progress + some h-scene progress. I think it would be good to finish all the week 1 + the Garrick introduction event. For the h-scene will probably go with sexual service / the Edgar Work event.
I was hoping this could be the month where Garrick can join the party if Rean is not available + Edgar is Impatient to make progress, but it seems there still a bit other stuff going on to get there, so that one will need to wait for next update.
Anyways, that's the plan for the month!