Shield Boosters & Repair Bots, Oh My!

June 14, 2019
ArtTrials in Tainted Space
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Today has been pretty good for progress. I spent 30 minutes or so putting together some commission prompts for art to get from artists like Bashko – just like the Syri pictured at right! Yes, that Syri picture will be sliding its way into the artpack soon.

My next task was to burrow back into the ship combat systems and continue to flesh them out. Today’s project was the “Gadgets” menu, where various upgrades can be used like a PC’s special abilities. I loosely based the structure on the current combat item use, since they function in similar ways, but I had to chase down some interesting new bugs in target selection that cropped up. For example, shield boosters would continually refuse to activate, citing shields being at maximum no matter what your ship’s shields were actually at, because it was incorrectly assigning the item’s target to the PC him(her?)self.

With those smashed out, I’m pleased to report that shield boosters (1/fight shield healing), repair modules (1/fight armor healing), and shield disruptors (1/fight chance to deal 50% shield damage to enemy, based on the ship’s system stats). Note that all numbers, values, and abilities are subject to change.

The remaining things I need to tackle, in no particular order:

  • Putting together some proper AI routines with various personality “types” that can be assigned to enemy ships to control them in a fight.
  • Make sure enemy ships actually fire the full volley from their guns. (Right now only PC ships will fire their machine gun all four times.)
  • Create a new ship type for our first foe, outfit it, and implement Wsan’s finished scenes.
  • Put together the UI for comparing your current ship to a new one.
  • UI for choosing to move all upgrades to your new ship
  • UI for choosing to store or sell the ship you are replacing. (And figure out how ships will be stored/retrieved.)
  • Determine how to deal with onboard storage – all items will always be stored on your “current” ship, which means I may have to prevent liftoff if you swap from a cargo ship back to the z14 and don’t have room for you 60 guns.
  • Actually buying the new ship.

Apologies

June 13, 2019
Trials in Tainted Space
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It was brought to my attention that when I said “bigger update” in my last note, some understood that to mean a game update instead of a verbal update on the work I was doing on the ship systems. Apologies for that.

Today was not the day I wanted it to be. I didn’t truly get committed to doing the codework that needed doing until this afternoon, which meant that I was burning hard on that until this late hour (approximately 2am). Needless to say, I don’t find myself with the time I intended to have to discuss ship systems with you all. I’ll still try to cover the big bullet points for you guys. Here:

  • This ship system is not the system we were talking about months back. That was more ambitious and, frankly, probably a dev-time sinkhole.
  • Ships come with some “fixed” attachments and some free slots that can be left open for more crew space or filled by more guns and upgrades.
  • Escape is accomplished by charging up your light drive – this takes one round to charge. Should you take any electrical damage to your armor/hull before escaping, the charge is lost.
  • Weapons can be toggled on and off individually. This may be an important part of combat if you rely on high energy weapons or have a ship with weaker energy generation capabilities.
  • Ship weapons can fire single shots or bursts of up to four shots.
  • I just updated storage capacity to pull storage size from your ship’s stats. It’s still 10s across the board for the Casstech.
  • You can choose not to fire any weapons to double your ship’s energy generation for that turn.
  • You can choose to evade (and not fire) to gain a 50% evasion boost.
  • Dodging/Evasion for ships works differently than for land combat. Evasion still functions as a % miss chance, but the attacking ship’s accuracy is effectively subtracted from it. For example, you could have a ship with 120% evasion, but a craft with +60% accuracy would still hit you 40% of the time.
  • Upgrade modules that provide large boosts to one ship attribute are planned, but not yet put together.
  • Special modules are planned but not yet put together – modules that allow a once per fight shield restoration or full charge of energy, for example.
  • I intend to add ship weapons with “Turret” flags that deal slightly more than double the damage of the normal version – to compensate for the fact that you must have a free crew member to staff them (making it effectively take 2 slots).

Of course, while doing this, a number of other things have gotten cleaned up. For example, shopkeeper busts should still display while you’re viewing their inventory. Penny, Amber, and a few other NPCs have been updated to allow them to be removed from your crew and re-hired. We can’t have you getting stuck on a backwater planet because you have too much crew to fly!

Again, sorry for any confusion (and dashed hopes)! I promise, this stuff is falling into place pretty quickly. Wsan is doing a hard burn to write the smutty parts of the first ship battle, and look forward to getting it in your hands to play with.

<3 Fen

[Public | TiTS] Cherry Pie

June 3, 2019
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Milky Kiro drawn by Sulcate!

Public patch time! Cherry’s content is largely finished. Now I just need to badger Adjatha into finishing her galotian helper!

Edit: Pushed out a quick tweak that should fix Big Tiddy Goth GF. Will peep at the Cherry issues after jamming food in face.

0.7.282 Changelog:

  • You can now fuck Cherry in her room… assuming you’ve found a way to deal with her paralytic skin.  …or not.
  • You can now feed Cherry bubbles from your Bubble Buddy (a TamaniCorp (TM) product!)
  • You can now “Blow Bubbles” with Cherry – which means stuffing a sextoy into her throat and face-fucking that… with a decent variety of outcomes and choices depending on how voluminous your loving can be.
  • Bug & Typo Fixes!
  • (ImagePack Only – available here) Lorelei’s busts have been added to the game. Unfortunately I pushed the new patch to the blog before merging this code fork in, so she’s only visible if you grab the image pack version for right now. Never fear – she’ll be there in all future variants of all patches.
  • Known Bug: The check for being able to lift Cherry is backwards for the “lift&fuck” scene. Sorry!

This may seem like a light month for content… and that’s because it is! There’s good reasons for it, though – I swear. I struggled through reviewing something like seven months worth of backlogged submissions, many of them well over 100 pages. Less important intrusions were activities like finding a new place to live and going to Atlanta for a weekend to enjoy Furry Weekend Atlanta (and give a panel on our games)!

I like to think that once I’m securely in my dwelling productivity will increase owing the having a proper office space. Check back in 30 days, I guess!

New This Month:

  • New Treatment variant: Faux Cow with a new cheat code (“fauxcow”) to force you to get it on your next Treatment dose!
  • New Transformation Item: Reptilum
  • New NPCs: Velta, Big Tiddy Goth GF, and Lorelei
  • NPCs with new scenes: Ceria, Cherry, male SecOp, Paige, Dane
  • New Expansion: Breedwell received an expansion for premium breeders!

[Backers | TiTS] Trials in Tainted Coding

May 27, 2019
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Not to toot my own horn, but the review backlog is done. Err… mostly, anyway. I may have farmed out a piece or two to Adjatha or Savin to handle so that I could get back to booking on the content train, but we don’t talk about that here. Not at all.

No, sir (or madam).

No, we talk about things like the long-promised Faux Cow finally making its way into the game… or the endless excuses for why these things took so long in the first place. We also talk about how absolutely banging this titty-fuck animation is, even if the artpack doesn’t play well with Gifs right now (Neither does the blog. You’ll have to view it on Furaffinity for now). Sometimes I talk about streaming, like I did this afternoon. There were lots of interruptions, but some solid progress on coding the 50+ pages of backlogged Cherry content was made.

Check it out. 0.7.281 Changelog:

  • Faux Cow has been written & coded by Skom (and they did a great job!) and presented for your inspection by yours truly. Note that it has not been extensively tested, so there may be save-crippling bugs present. Note the cheat “fauxcow” should force your next Treatment dose to make you a faux cow.
  • Reptilum (by Zavos) finally got a look-over by yours truly, had the text punched up here or there, and got added to Gene’s inventory. Wanna look like a lizard? Give it a go.
  • Velta (by Franks, coded by DrunkZombie) was added to the game. She’s related to Riya… and as you might expect from someone related to Riya, she is: A. human and B. quite a handful in the bedroom.
  • You can now meet a big tiddy goth GF on extrameet and have crazy, fucked up sex with her. Written by Fr0sty and coded by Gedan.
  • Paige got a new scene: body worship. Big thanks to B for writing another titanic sex scene and lighterfluid for coding it.
  • A new titfuck scene for the male SecOp in Zheng Shi exists. It also comes with the option to get some extra mass up top, if that’s your cup of tea. Written by Natetheman223 and coded by Jacques00.
  • Ceria got some new scenes by William. Check out the doggy-style on her! (Coded by DrunkZombie.)
  • Cherry (of Cherry’s Tap-Hall) can now be tipped with Bubble Buddy bubbles. She can also invite you back to her room for a bit of fun, but there’s a lot of placeholder stuff for the moment. I didn’t want to keep you guys waiting another minute more!
  • Lots of fixes for typos and bugs, including Lorelei’s capacity.

Ship work is going to be happening too, but I adore Cherry’s content too much to ignore. The more crimson rahn, the better.

Submissions Closed [Mostly]

May 23, 2019
Trials in Tainted Space
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Hey guys. Submissions are kicking my ass still. It probably doesn’t help that I’ve been talking about them repeatedly on the blog posts. From the 14th of this month on, we’ve had at least one new submission get added to the pile on a daily basis, which is making it damn hard for me to get current. I’m almost caught up to the 6th of this month though, sooo… I would be damn close if it wasn’t for the big uptick in submissions.

Because of this, I am no longer accepting submissions for new characters. New items and expansions for existing characters are all I will accept for the time being.

We’ve been real thin on patches while I’ve been trying to dig us out of this quagmire, and I’m not comfortable with that continuing in the long term. Once I’ve had some chance to do some actual game development again, I’ll see about tweaking the floodgates back open… but for now, let’s slow it down a bit.

P.S. I’m also waiting on new glasses. Reading everything in giant fonts makes me feel old. :/

Fenoxo Update

May 21, 2019
Trials in Tainted Space
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A quick update on my work – firstly, reviewing has been slow because there’s a number of things I’ve come across that are soooo close to being up to par that I’ve been trying to self-edit them. Additionally, I’ve had some content slide into my box via side-channels to look over as well, forcing me to delegate some of it to Adjatha and review the rest myself. A bit of good news, though: an excellently written “Faux Cow” path for the treatment sailed right through my review with flying colors. I’m honestly not convinced I could do it better.

So look forward to that, I guess.

Also, since the ship code has been going so slowly, I’ve started laying out plans for building a simpler system in the interim. It won’t contain the same ambition as the other system (which is NOT abandoned or anything). I just want to have things laid out so we can finally steal the Sidewinder and finish Zheng Shi’s main arc.

Now if you’ll excuse me, there are approximately 20 pages more of treated male zil for me to review~

Additionally, a fan reached out to me to let me know that they were making their own game (though I don’t think with blackjack and hookers quite yet). It looks like he’s got a public build up on his Patreon if you wanna give another game a try! Check out Rimhaven!

[Backers | TiTS] Lorelei the Rogue & Breedwell Premium

May 15, 2019
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Hey guys, Fenoxo here, back from FWA and clocking some hours on TiTS stuff. Before I get into the nitty gritty a few things. First, CoC2 has a public patch as of yesterday. See the post below.

As for the con itself, I shared a few odds and ends on twitter, but there was so much going on that I decided to start keeping a personal journal and clocked 2,400 words into this morning just to cover what I consider to be my personal high points. I could never hope to recount everything. Conventions are simply too intense, but as far as things I’m comfortable sharing… no, I did not join any furry orgies. Yes, I did eat at a restaurant with a giant dick in it. Turns out it also has pretty good burgers in addition to a ginormous wang. Yes, I got to see Mystery Skulls live and in concert as well as rave to a variety of furry DJs spinning EDM. The arcade was awesome, and no, furry cons are not comprised entirely of gay dudes. I saw quite a few girls prancing around wearing perky ears and flopping tails.

Every year I go there, I wind up having a blast, meet interesting people, and come back with an increasing appreciation for furries. The con has a unique, chill energy that I’ve never really experienced anywhere else – not PAX, not Gencon. Nowhere. I even got to meet Gideon, Pulsar Cardinal, Max Blackrabbit, Gnaw, Bernal, and so many others. I even got sketch commissions from some of them!

The panel went well of course. Thank you to everyone who attended! It’s super delightful to actually get to talk to people in person about the weird shit that we do and realize that there are real individuals who are actually interested in how this perverted pie gets baked.

<3

0.7.280 Changelog:

  • Dane now has a scene for fucking taurs of any gender. Taurs no longer play the standard vaginal fuck scene.
  • Roo now has busts.
  • A new character has arrived in Zheng Shi: Lorelei. This cunning rogue may take a shine to player characters who court her favor. Written by B, coded by Lighterfluid.
  • Breedwell has received a “Premium” expansion pack, and it can be yours for the low low price of 2000 smutbucks, our new premium curren- hahaha no. Just kidding. It’s an expansion pack by Nonesuch, coded by DrunkZombie. I did not give it much personal testing, so apologies for any bugs that crop up.
  • This isn’t actually in game, but I got to the end of March’s submissions and slammed into a 150+ page brick wall. Hopefully once I finish slogging through this (or abandon ship and move on), it’ll be fast going again.

Furry Weekend Atlanta

May 9, 2019
Trials in Tainted Space
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I might not label myself a furry or have an expensive animal costume, but I am going to Furry Weekend Atlanta with a coterie of TiTS and CoC2 friends! We’ll be running a panel Friday night in the after dark area – which means we can talk about weens, how we write them, and even show the latest ween-doodles from Shou.

I haven’t checked with Shou to verify that she packed merch to hand out to attendees, but if she did, there will be some prizes to hand out as well.

So if you’re there getting your yiff on (or just wandering around in a drunken haze of confusion like me), feel free to come say hi!

P.S. Backlog progress continues at pace. I’ve reached march, and though these months are THICC with submissions, I intend to be caught up to this month by next weekend.

[PUBLIC | TiTS] May the Fourth Be With You

May 4, 2019
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This isn’t a huge one, largely thanks to my efforts to clear the submission backlog and real life situations that had me riding the edge of a panic attack for a few days this week (cutting caffeine, back to back days of dental work, and getting a mortgage is tough). The good news is that I cleared through more than four months of piled up submissions and have climbed out of the 2018 backlog and into the 2019 submission pile. Last night I found a great new scene for the Male Punk SecOp, which was quite invigorating after having to reject more than 75% of submissions. Also of note: Mirrin has a huge expansion pack on the way. I’ve green-lit it pending the acceptance of a small mountain of edits.

Next weekend, you can find myself and most of the staff of TiTS and CoC2 at Furry Weekend Atlanta. If you’re in the area and wanna drop by to say hi, we will be putting on a little panel from 10:30 to 11:30 Friday night where we run through the history of how we got here and delve deep into what it’s like to work on these smutty behemoths, followed by what usually winds up being a lengthy Q/A and a “Name That Pokemon”-style game with merch for prizes.

0.7.279 Changelog:

  • A new encounter with a Slyveren toying with one of Rat’s Raiders can be found in the “prefab” tiles of the foundry. The event can only occur once every 4 days and has a few options for how you’d like to interact with it. Written by William, coded by Lighterfluid. Personally, it tickles the old Fenoxo fetish buttons pretty hard!
  • Lots of fixes and tweaks for Roxy.
  • Nova should now slurp you clean when you get covered with juices. This one is relatively untested, so let me know if you hit a bug with it (and maybe attach a save file to your bug report so we can jump on fixing it post-haste).
  • New Bust: Corona Lord Flamer (AKA: Firepup)

May is shaping up to be a great month. I’m going to get 100% caught up on the backlog if it kills me. Expect expansions for existing submitted NPCs, new Transformations, and hopefully me getting to delve into some of my own backlogged waifu quests.

What Else Is New This Month? (For Non-Backers)

  • New character: Roxy the Laquine (Uveto)
  • New enemy: Corona Lord Flamer (Zheng Shi)
  • New enemy: Lureling (Uveto)
  • More Dane content (Zheng Shi)
  • New Threesome: Amber and Celise
  • New Scene: Amber mounting bipeds with the help of taur toys
  • Not in game, but the blog has a new fiction entry by B featuring some imprisoned slyverens that is quite hot. Very hot.

Where Fen?

April 30, 2019
Trials in Tainted Space
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I’m still working through reviewing Mirrin, but at least I’m well past the 100 page mark. There’s a few factors slowing me down:

  • Dealing with a lot of stress related to trying to buy a house. Turns out that banks hate people with all their bills paid off and no debts, which has me scrambling to provide them with various bill payment paperworks and still trying to get a mortgage approved. (I currently live in a medium-sized apartment and would rather not empty the TiTS bank for my own personal house :P)
  • Tomorrow I am having some dental deep cleaning done which will require a fair amount of pain killers and whatnot.
  • The day after tomorrow I’m having the other half of my dental work done. Supposedly I’m not cavity riddled – there’s just a lot of tartar buildup to deal with around/under the gum line.
    • Protip: get your regular cleanings, folks.

I’m gonna try and do some more reviewing now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get that far. My nerves are basically shot. Thanks, anxiety, you bitch.

 

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