Hello friends! Welcome to dev diary #85! That's a lot of dev diaries, and yet, the number can only go up.
This will be a bit of a short one, not because I don't have a lot to report but rather because I'm a little bit in crunch mode with the project I'm trying to get done ahead of public release!
First of all, one new feature (I think it's already in the latest early access version) is the passage history length slider!
Passage history is, basically, the number of times you can hit the back button within the game to go back through previous passages, perhaps making different choices. The default has been 5 passages for a long time. If you don't use this feature, want a more challenging playthrough, or want to instantly shrink your save file size, you can now turn this down to 1.
Conversely, if you have indexedDB enabled, you can turn it up to a new maximum of 40. Do note that this directly bloats save file size and may also cause performance to suffer slightly, so it's best done on more powerful devices. In any case, the choice will now be yours!
As always, and because I haven't said it in a while, I strongly recommend regularly exporting your favorite saves to keep them safe from the vagaries of browser storage.
But what's really been occupying my time stems from a common request: Extending the storylines for some of our more defined characters. In particular, I've had a number of requests lately to extend the storyline of the Classroom Harasser toward what it's been hinting at: filming porn starring the PC.
"Ah, but," I said to myself, "doesn't this then suggest that such an event is only an introduction to some sort of X-rated video minicareer?" and now you begin to understand why I've been in a crunch.
I have much of the background coding for this new minicareer done, and I've just gotten to the point of beginning to work on the UI. Be warned, this is very much a prototype, and in the release version there will be some stats and stuff as you edit your video.
These X-rated videos derive directly from encounters. So, essentially, whatever you do during an encounter that you're recording, the sex acts that occur and other characteristics, will factor into your video. As you can see, some of the mechanics will be quite similar to ClickbaitTV, but others will be rather different.
So, completing this is today's project! At least, I hope I can get it all working today. If not, I'll be putting in some weekend hours!
So that's all for now, as I'm gonna get back to it! Thank you for reading, and thank you as always for your support! I couldn't do it without you!