Howdy! Here’s what’s up:
Moana is still working on the pole H-events, and I’m working on updates that will come after. I wanted to make this post at the beginning of the year, but there’s been an accident or two. Mainly - my ribs have decided to fail me, a deeply treacherous act I shall never forget, but we’re doing our best, even with faulty ribs.
I finished upgrading Kira’s existing hairstyles and made a couple of new ones. I also started writing random harassment H-events for the park. Since, after Moana will finish suffering with the pole, the next update will be the quest that she wrote “Food4Thots”.
In this post I’ll summarize the update schedule (when it comes to content) for this year and mostly talk about Kira’s hair.
Above are all current Kira’s hairstyles that are already coded in most events in the game.
The fist one is the “reverse-lenin” haircut (or hair 0), it’s a bonus haircut of sorts - It exists purely because all hair is layered, so there needs to be something behind it and I just didn’t want to make our Kira completely bald, this hair will just be available at the mall from the start of the game and it is “locked in” (it’s design can’t be changed).
Hair 1 is Kira’s default hair, so it also can’t be changed. And Hair 3 (platinum blonde) was picked collectively via polls a long time ago, which means that it’s also “locked in”.
As for the pink hair (hair 2) - it was in the game almost since the very beginning, but it wasn’t picked via polls. I do not wish to change it too much, but it can be altered a little:
I made a “straight” version of it, which in my opinion has a “cyberpunk” vibe to it (mainly due to bladerunner, my beloved), and I made an updated version of her current in-game pink hair, same color and shape - the opposite of the straight version... What’s the word? Umm... Lesbian, yes, that sounds right.
Since I am replacing all of Kira's heads and all that comes with them (hair included), I thought I’d make another version and poll you about it. Whichever hair wins will become the new “Hair 2” (will be shown in events) and the version that will lose the poll will become a “styling option” (only shown in dialogue art).
With that out out of the way, let’s talk about the new options:
Overall, the game will have 5 hair options, that’s not that much in terms of variety, but it is a ton of art because all of it will be shown in events. So, I thought I should poll you on what the remaining “unknown” hair options should be.
Above are all the versions I made so far and there will be four separate polls about which ones we will implement. Two polls about the shape and two polls about the color. Before I start them, I am accepting suggestions and ideas, with or without examples (examples really help)
If you have something specific in mind, please do tell me either in the comments below or directly dm me (here, via email or on discord).
On a more personal note, I’ve got to experience a little bit of friendly fire since the last time we spoke. This story is somewhat “hair-adjacent” and recent (Fresh, if you will).
I went outside of my apartment exactly two times this month. The first time I went out - I got hit by a car. Nothing too serious, just a cracked rib and a few bruises. It happened because at that time it was dark, there were no street lights on, and the streets were covered in ice, due to this winter being brutally cold and due to the electricity shortage (after “casual” missile attacks).
It was very painful, but not as painful as the reaction of my bestie: “OMG! Did you get his number?!” - Like, come on! Why on earth would I get his number?! I mean, I’m single, but I’m not THAT single!
And then, just when I somewhat healed up, I got invited to meet up with my former uni friends from back in the day when I was still naive and fresh - haven’t seen any of them since the start of the war, so it was super fun, somewhat sad, but mostly wholesome.
It all went well, up until the people from a nearby table started a bar brawl. Long story short, the enemy battle maiden tried to scratch my eyes out, ripped what feels like a half of my hair and I ended up with another cracked rib, just on the other side of my body (fortunately).
I have no idea how my rib got cracked. I don’t even remember being punched in it, maybe this is just what ribs do, or perhaps mine did it out of solidarity for the working class, but it hurts rather badly.
We didn’t want to file a police report, there was no anger in our hearts, but some of us needed urgent medical care (one friend ended up with 24 stitches on his face), so we went to the veterinary clinic of another friend of ours. Now, I wasn’t exactly useful during the actual brawl, but this is the part where my skills came in handy - I devised a clever ruse to trick the unsuspecting random clinic customers, by saying “woof” as we passed them. Needless to say - no one suspected a thing after that, we all got patched up and went to our respective homes.
So, what’s the lesson I learned here? I guess I learned that my ribs are not very good.
Thank you for sticking around, despite me being absent, I just didn’t have any strength or will to do anything for awhile, because of my treacherous ribs. I’m also not sleeping that well, since I can only sleep on one side and in one pose (I know what you’re thinking - no, I’m not a bat!), but enough is enough - time for me to Mulan up and move forward. I have very big plans for this year and a lot of work to do:
The next update is still the pole one, and Moana is still struggling with it. The pole is in the way of everything else - I can write and draw indefinitely, but I need Moana to actually turn what I make into a game. The pole is just something that we have to overcome, it was poorly planned which has led to the current situation.
Then we’ll have the “Food4Thots” quest, which Moana has written all by herself and my contribution to it, apart from the artworks, will come in the form of random events - the ones I wrote so far are all taking advantage of existing artworks and are mostly focused on exhibitionism, similarly to Residential Area and Prison. But, I did make them extra insane.
Food4Thots takes place at the park and it is pretty unhinged, even by my standards. Then there’s Bobby Fisherman, another pretty absurd character that hangs out there, so I thought that I should lean into the insanity and make the park a place where crazy people live. I’m not sure whether or not what I wrote will be hot, because I deliberately went overboard with insanity, but it should at least feel unique.
We have the text for it and now most of the artwork for it already, I’ll show you some proper teasers once the pole update finally rolls out.
After that, we’ll work on the interface/fetish removal/charisma overhaul update. I have all the art for it already, this one just needs more thoughts, me and Moana will sit down and start brainstorming how we want the fetishes to work, the interface to function and just give all our in-game systems more of our dev-time.
We also want to go through the entire game to add more references to Kira’s stats and appearance and include a “briefing” event that will tie in Vivarium with the main plot.
And finally - we’ll be back to work on Vivarium.
I am still working on layering all of the existing Kira’s outfits to support pregnancy and all planned breast sizes, and I feel pretty confident that I will finish everything in time for this update. The most important things that will be added in this update are two more breast sizes for Kira, and a pregnancy system that supports all outfits and events.
At the moment, a bigger half of all our events support pregnancy and bigger breast sizes already in both art and text. There’s already hundreds of pictures and lines of dialogue that we worked on and implemented, but no one is able to actually experience it. In this update, a lot of the work that we did in advance will finally pay off.
That’s the plan for the foreseeable future, what we’ll do after those updates is still in the air, and to be honest it will most likely depend on what you will personally like or dislike.
However, this year, if things go well - we will also get some extra help and launch a new project:
Since September of last year, I’ve been working with another programmer to create a different game on Unity, a game that would use the assets from the Defenestration. A month ago another writer joined us, all to make sure that I’m not spreading out too thin. The goal of this move is to increase the quantity of updates by starting a different game with a different team. I have a lot of ideas, but I don’t have a lot of time or the ability to make everything by myself. With another writer and a coder we will be able to do both games, and everything I will draw will work for both projects - since they will share characters.
We call this second game “Pioneer Plaque” (or PP, for short). The premise is simple - same characters, different setting. I am cautiously optimistic about the progress we made with it so far, as I am not so sure we will manage to pull it off, but it starts to look serious and we’re preparing to launch the first substantial demo version this summer.
I will talk more about it and how it will work, but not much and not soon, since I’d like to keep it a secret. The only reason I’m bringing this up is because I wanted to let you know that we’re working on creative solutions on how to expand our team and increase the quantity of updates - we really do want to deliver content and more often, this new project should help with both.
That’s all I wanted to say today and if I were to summarise my feelings about the last month, I’d put it like this:
They say that “Hard times create strong men”, and I feel like I’m already at peak performance. Like, this is as strong as I can get, so I think that’s enough - time for some good times, please?
I had and still have very big plans and hopes for this year. Its start was rather unfortunate for me and my poor ribs, but I’m not going to dwell on it, my meatsuit will heal and I am very excited about what comes next.
Oh, and in case you missed the notification, there’s a poll about Kira’s hair directly below this post, and please do let me know if you have any suggestions for Kira’s hairstyles and I’ll do my best to make them.
Once again, big thank you for sticking around, your patience and support mean everything to us! Moana is doing her best, and I’m working on everything that comes after - we just have to power through this damn pole event. The end is near!