I have decided that with the 0.10 update being quite a ways out and a couple key areas in the game that I want to bring up to the current standards, I will be releasing a 0.9+ update on the 31st of July. This update won’t be as large as one of the major title updates but will cover some of the core improvements that I wanted to fit into 0.9 that just didn’t make the cut. Here are some of the highlights. I have also decided that it’s probably better to just bundle 0.9 and 0.9+ releases together for the public so rather than releasing 0.9 a week earlier and then dropping 0.9+ right after I will be making 0.9+ the official public release of the game on the 31st of August.

Remastered Sprites for Original Cast

I’ve wanted to make improvements to the sprites for the cast for a while now and the 0.9+ update is a perfect time to test the waters and get a few stages into the game. I’m thinking of doing the first 3 stages for Hazel, Sophia and Rebecca for now to see how they land and moving on from there. The goal is to really push the designs farther to truly make each of the girls look and feel distinct from each other, and to make each gain more interesting and unique. Here is a look at Rebecca’s new and improved sprite as an example. Her gain was always supposed to be about a bulking phase taken to the extremes and now I think I can actually achieve that through her sprites as well as her story. Expect to be able to see her pile on the pounds on top of her initially muscular form, slowly losing her chiseled shape to hedonistic excess.

New Expressions

I think that some of the older expressions don’t meet the standards of the game’s current fidelity so I am looking to improve expressions one by one. Some girls may retain some of the old expressions in the update but there will be some new ones to bring more life to each of the girls.

Balance

I’m happy with how the new feeding session mechanics landed but there is a clear imbalance between some of the items in the game, making the game feel a bit repetitive with only a few viable options. I will be taking a deeper look at rebalancing some outliers such as hold and mash challenge foods as well as the scoring, stat gains and overall stat structure for the girls.

QOL

Many great suggestions have been made for improving 0.9 and I think it would be better to have them be part of the 0.9 update rather than having to wait for 0.10 so I will be adding in some things like:

Notifiers to indicate a hangout has not been completed

Liked/Disliked food notifiers

Expanding CG viewer functionality to allow for comparison to older stages

Improvements to the inspect animations

and a lot of smaller improvements

The Future

I will be working on the 0.9+ update for the next week or two and after that will continue grinding on the larger 0.10 patch. The plans for the 0.10 patch remain the same as the last devlog so if you want to know what’s planned for that patch you can check that out there.