Release v0.78

In this build I’ve made a bunch of changes to the way that sex scene messages are collated internally. They’re no longer presented strictly in the order that they occur. For example, a character’s musings go into an end paragraph rather than being interleaved between all kinds of distracting sex acts. I can now apply formatting to messages. I’ve used it to italicise game mechanical messages (as opposed to narrative ones).

This one was a pain in the ass to test. Please let me know if you notice that any kinds of messages have disappeared, or if it’s composing paragraphs in a strange way.

Other changes:

  • Fixed bat wings showing up in the beast transformation menu as simply ‘wings’.

August project account balance

Donations keep on rolling in, so thanks again for your generosity. The funds remaining to complete the project have decreased slightly to $5.1k remaining, but it doesn’t pose a threat to reaching v1.0.

I had hoped to have moved on to the v0.80 series by now, which is when I’ll revisit the UI and mobile, but progress has been slow. I haven’t yet lined up a colourist with the chops to complete the art either. At least I’m building up a good stock of mortal characters: 12 in total. I promised 18 in the OffBeatr campaign, so there’s more work to do in that area, of course. (If you ordered a custom character, please e-mail me at jack@fleshcult.com. I’ve been trying to get in touch with you guys! Hopefully I haven’t been spam filtered)

Lately I’ve been experimenting with making the game compose sex scene paragraphs in a more coherent order. I’ve also been researching how to test on a variety on Android configurations without buying a whole device lab. DeviceAnywhere looks promising, but it’s laggy as shit so other ideas are welcome. (And yes, I’ve ordered actual hardware too so that I don’t miss ergonomic problems)

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Release v0.77

Here’s another release that’s aimed at putting more writing into the game:

  • Two more characters:
    • The squirter.
    • The housewife and househusband. (Thanks again to SeldomPie for his first draft here)
  • Lots of extra variations on sex scene messages from Porp, including new intros for generic characters, the loosen hole action, teasing and questions.
  • Mortals no longer make a move during an orgasm turn.
  • Procedural references to body parts are now brief nouns rather than full transformation names.

Enjoy!

Release v0.76

I spent most of the last week writing and editing. My productivity is atrocious when I’m writing rather than coding, but that’s where Fleshcult needs the most work, so I’m going to have to overcome my aversion to it.

The new stuff:

  • Two new characters:
    • The jaded hedonist.
    • The hair trigger. Tip of the hat to SeldomPie for supplying the first draft of this.
  • Lots of new rising horror, cast illusion and chastity descriptions, courtesy of Porp.
  • Some new questions for mortals to ask. Also reduced the horror increase that questions cause so they’re less likely to screw up your encounter.

Release v0.75

This release introduces locations. Depending on which location you visit on the surface, you can get different missions and different loot drops. The suburbs – the initial location – is structured so that you get a chance of picking up the most fundamental tomes early in the game.

I’ve also made some optimisations on how I’m storing body parts. This should help reduce lag.

Known Bugs:

  • If you’re resuming a character created in a previous release, some of the locations might initially have an empty list of missions. Don’t worry, they’ll fill up on the next turn or when you hit the ‘Reject’ button.

July project account balance

I’ve been making steady progress throughout June. The remaining funds have dropped slowly (down to $5.8k from $7k a couple of months ago) but that shouldn’t pose a threat to reaching project completion. Big thanks to everybody that’s helped get us this far.

This month I want to find a colourist to finish and clean up the remaining backgrounds. I also want to try organising the Visit Surface screen into locations, so that I can make sure that players are always presented with an opportunity to get certain tomes. I’ll be adding more characters too. Once I get to the v0.80 series, I’ll start to focus on the mobile UI and certain improvements to the desktop UI.

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Release v0.74

New stuff:

  • New character: The Nymphomaniac (female) and The Twink (male). Appears at low levels of the game (i.e. “Astute”).
  • Added more description variations for female orgasms and female arousal.
  • Large breasts now enable the Titty Fuck action. This has a 50/50 chance of making your partner hard, irrespective of how much Lust meter there is to go.
  • Fixed a bug where using Tease will still result in a Fear overflow.

Release v0.73

New stuff:

  • New character, the Inept Sorcerer/Sorceress. They retaliate when the player uses Cast Illusion but tend to botch to the spell, resulting in randomised effects.
  • Spell casting mortals now display a mana bar, instead of using a hidden cooldown.
  • Regular Sorcerers now have multiple kinds of spells too.
  • Rewrote some of the regular Sorcerer’s lines to be more playful and less adversarial.
  • Fixed mergers so that they always favour body parts with higher stats.

Release v0.72

This release introduces a few new things:

  • A new character: the sorcerer. Sorcerers are not fans of having illusion magic cast on them and will take defensive measures. They appear at the highest levels of the game.
  • Slightly more variation in encounter messages, courtesy of Porp.
  • Increased length of time that account activation emails are valid from 24 hours to 96.

Release v0.71

This one’s a only little one. I’ve spent most of the week sorting out tax stuff, but here’s what’s new:

  • Added descriptions for merged minions and the merge screen.
  • Added chastity belts to the sex toy shop. If it looks like you’re about to lose an encounter, you can voluntarily end it early by putting the mortal in chastity. This results in a higher level of lust the next visit. The longer you leave them, the greater the effect.
  • More rimjob messages.