Fen here with a long overdue public patch. Mostly I’ve just been fixing bugs of late. Producing sensual writing has been… hard lately. I’m not sure how much of this is due to getting older, how much is my medication, and how much is just plain burnout from a decade of churning out magma-hot smut, reading other people’s highly varied smut (for review), and coding smut (both mine and others). All I know that I’m so much slower than I used to be, and I don’t like it any more than you do.

Saying it out loud like that sounds like admitting defeat, and I’m not. This is still the best fucking job on the planet, and I’m hardly the only person involved at this point. Let me drop the patch notes, and I’ll share some WIP screenshots from the javascript build after the break!

0.8.148 Changelog:

• Image-embedded version updated! You can grab it off Mega, but you’ll need a stand-alone flash player that can handle it’s 600MB+ girth to play with it. What’s different? You can zoom in on most character busts and some scenes come with embedded art. Enjoy!
• Shekka, Tuuva, and Del all had modifications made to their “give a synthsheath” routines to better handle “first-time” uses (in the event text) and to unlock the Codex entry if needed at the end.
• Fixed a large number of small bugs in Gianna’s content.
• Giving Gianna silicone should now give slightly Gianna slightly more confidence, better enabling you to max out her confidence score before recruiting her (or after).
• Fixed Molli being able to impregnate you when she shouldn’t be able to impregnate you.
• Fixed some broken parsers in Molli’s bad end.
• Sera’s “Tainted Love” event has had its odds changed: 0 chance first time they pick up the salary, 2/3s chance thereafter until it activates, 1/4 chance for the repeat after the PC’s gotten it.
• The Gabilani Chemist should no longer use her weapon while disarmed… unless I missed another check somewhere.
• The Gabilani Chemist’s oral addiction unlock scene should no longer be repeatable. Silly me, letting you unlock the same perk multiple times!
• Milodan Futazons should play nicer with “blocked” orifices.
• The Gabilani Cyborg now has fixed sexual preferences.
• The Gabilani Cyborg’s lock-on attack now properly increases her accuracy by 30%. (It also displays as an visible icon on the cyborg’s stat pane.)
• The Gabilani Cyborg’s aimed shot now does a little increased damage.
• The Gryvain Techie got some tweaks to her AI routine to help her use her abilities at the correct time.
• Pheromones and the “Sweet Tooth” effect should now both increase tease “to-hit” chance.
• EMP grenades shouldn’t display damage twice any longer.
• A few more places properly track you slipping a load into Feruze.
• Fixed a few incorrect checks in Ardia’s content.
• All text will no longer become bold if you recruit Gianna with a “Hard” personality type.
• Typo fixes and minor bugfixes I probably forgot to list because they’re so minor or were committed to the github too stealthily for my big dumb minotaur eyes.

Now if you’re interested in mad code science, eyeball below…

0.8.147 Changelog:

• Molli can now be interacted with at Cherry’s Tap-Hall whenever Cherry is busy in her room. The big squishy goo comes with six different talk topics and four sex scenes, as well as a possible bad-end for those with truly titanic loads (36 thousand liters or more).
• New Gianna scenes: ‘taur service. While it’s one button, the scene is vastly different depending on which set of genitals you direct her to pleasure.
• New Anno pic in the image pack for huskar Anno in a maid outfit.
• Azariah can now play with Paige and Kiro assuming you have both onboard!

Update: I wrote this last night but the build deployment choked. Now Geddy has it fixed but my home internet is out, so patreon and SS posts and image pack uploads will have to wait.

Well, the air conditioning in my office is out. It got hot enough for one of the grip pads on my mouse to separate the other night. I still managed to chunk out more Azariah, but I must flee back to the respite of my laptop for now…

0.8.146 Changelog:

• New Azariah scene: Marathon! Have a marathon bang with Azariah and her harem. Depending on the player character’s libido, this scene can extend on for quite a while…
• New Azariah scene: Share (w/Harem)! Have fun with one part of Azariah while her harem helps with the other.
• Cleaned up a few small bugs in Azariah and probably introduced a bunch more in the process.

Heyo, I have to say, resorting all the bugs from the bug report forum a second time took longer than I expected given that we had most of the new ones handled already. So, in light of that I’ve fixed a bunch more and pushed one last public patch before I dip into shoveling hot new content out for the backers.

Image-embedded version available! (Larger version of the game that includes the ability to zoom in on character busts and has some images directly embedded into the game. Requires stand-alone flash player.)

0.8.145 Changelog:

• Re-merged some of DrunkZombie’s pregnancy changes that got lost in the server-moving shuffle.

0.8.144 Changelog:

• If you choose “Stay Solo” after completing Kiro’s recruitment quest, you should now be able to recruit onto your crew later, and yes, she comes with the ship.
• A spot where you could cum in Feruze without it being tracked was found and fixed.
• Fixed another issue with the “Get Service” scenes for the “The Twins” in Kiro’s quest that should improve the accessibility of the phallic version.
• Fixed handling of back-mounted genitalia’s orgasms in a scene with the gabilani chemist.
• Fixed a random variant in Feruze’s 69 scene not being random.
• Fixed two broken parsers in Azariah’s scenes.
• Added texts for NPCs using the “Low Blow” attack and hitting but not stunning. Previously, no text was written for this scenario.
• Half-Leithans should no longer have their race show as “Leithan” at creation.
• The Gabilani Chemist’s “Insta-rut” and “Insta-heat” attacks will now only be used if the PC is eligible for those status affects.
• Feruze has been assigned a modest grouping of sexual preferences. Previously, she had none defined. These affect the effectiveness of tease attacks.
• Fixed a small pile of typos.

JavaScript Port Updates:

• We officially brought Leek onto the team part-time to help Gedan with the porting legwork.
• Though Leek hasn’t reported to me on it yet, I can see the repo, and porting of Breedwell and Aurora is already ongoing.
• Geddy’s been chasing server shit most of the weekend. Just today I noticed I couldn’t paste images into forum posts for quick attachment/embeds and got that fixed, and DrunkZombie notices some email confirmation issues that might need handling too. Bear with us as we file off the rough edges.
• Speaking of the new server, it’s handling the load like a champ. Depending on how it keeps up, I may see about directly hosting image-embedded builds in the future.

It’s midnight here now, so instead of coding the Azariah stuff for backers tonight, I’ll have to poke at that tomorrow, assuming I’m not eaten by family responsibilities. (Edit: It looks like the patch deployment system was broken when I wrote this, so the update got delayed a bit…) Figuring out the various issues with Kiro recruitment burned more time than I thought. Who would have thought having an NPC that:

• can be two different followers
• can finish recruitment of at any time
• comes with her own ship whether you have room or not

…would be fiddly…?