Current status:

1. In testing.
2. An outage of approximately 1 hour.
3. Finished.

This release won’t change anything about the game itself. I’m making improvements to player privacy because a lot of disturbing news is coming out of the US just now.

• In Fleshcult, people choose which gender they want to play and which gender they want to fuck.
• Fleshcult used an email address during sign up. Lots of people used a burner address (sensible!), but not everybody did.
• I’m not in the USA, but my server is.
• If Trump gets himself shot, impeached or ousted, Pence controls the US surveillance apparatus.
• Pence really doesn’t like LGBT people.
• It’s a really bad idea for me to have a  database that connects people’s email addresses with sexuality info lying around.

Here’s the plan:

• Turn all the email addresses into hashes, much like I do with passwords. Reversing a hash is pretty difficult, so hopefully that should render the database useless to anybody who gets their hands on it.
• You can still log into your old accounts. When you enter an email address I hash it and compare that hash against the database one.
• You can use anything as an account username now, not just an email address. If you’re still worried, feel free to log in and change your username to something that’s not an email address.
• Before hashing, I made a list of the emails of everyone who has opted to be on the newsletter, burned that list to a DVD, and stuffed it in my closet. It’s just email addresses, no sexuality info. If I ever restart development, I’ll use that to announce it.
• I removed the Forgot Your Password system because it relies on being able to send mail.
• You can’t buy account upgrades any more because that relies on mail.

Sorry about the inconvenience, but it’s important to take precautions before they’re required. I know I never finished that infestation tome, but this is all I could eke out time for. If the update broke something, let me know at: jack (at) (the game name) .com

This one’s just a maintenance update. (No, I haven’t restarted development. Sorry for getting your hopes up RSS readers!)

Changes:

• Installed some library updates. This has changed the cookie format, which means you’ll have to log in again. If you didn’t make a login at all, then I’m afraid your current game will be inaccessible. This kind of thing is why I have the 10 turn limit on playing without an account.
• Swapped out an under performing ad network.
• Tweaked some strangely worded passages.

This one’s just a wee release with a couple of fixes and ad improvements. Meanwhile, the prototyping of new game ideas continues…

• Filled in missing body part descriptions for tattoos and vaginal/anal training.
• Players can now revert back to demon wings.
• Ad tweaks.

I’ve been splitting my time between trying to get ads to the point where they pay for the server, and messing around prototyping new game ideas. If one of the R-rated ideas looks promising, I’ll be sure to post it here, but no joy yet. Anyway, Fleshcult:

• As an experiment, the unlimited characters / no ads upgrade is currently pay what you want, with a minimum of $2.
• You can set whether you prefer to see ads with men or women. You can do this at the start of the game, or by going into the character options in the Sanctum screen.
• You can now alter your character’s sexuality options part way through the game from the character options in the Sanctum screen.
• Ad tweaks.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed minion mergers so that they always result in a multiplier boost.
• Fixed bug where if you could make a certain plot related merge, it’d glitch out if you tried a different one.
• Fixed Internal Server Error when getting the merchant’s loan repaid.
• Fixed ads showing on the NSFW warning page, making it rather pointless!

What’s New:

• The 30 turn limit for free players has been removed.
• Ads.
• Fix for a badly timed random event that could cause a location to start off empty.
• Fixed some incorrect pronouns in titty fuck descriptions.

Please let me know if you’re a paying user and you see an ad while you’re logged in. That shouldn’t happen; they’re for free players only.

Known issues:

• I intend for the ads to reflect the sexuality preferences you choose at the beginning of the game, in order not to gross people out. It doesn’t work very well at the moment because one of the networks I’m using has very little that’s not aimed at straight males. And straight women don’t even get a category on this network!* I guess I’ll need to find some speciality ad networks to fill in the gaps.

* The first person in the comments to say “Women don’t watch porn,” will get crushed under the weight of a hundred thousand porn tumblrs and pieces of James Deen merchandise.

This release brings a new event and a new character, for a total of 18 characters and 20 random events.

• Added a new character to Old Town: the bodybuilder.
• In previous releases you could discard a tome if it offered options that grossed you out. I’ve replaced this with the ability to Hide a tome instead. It’s reversible and also it allows completionists to collect all the tomes even if they find some distasteful.
• There’s a new event that tips off players that they have collected all the tomes.
• Fixed a rare bug that was causing errors going into a new turn.
• Fixed a bunch of problems that were messing up the difficulty curve: (Thanks to Wyrd for tipping me off)
  • The exhausted minion event was getting wedged and re-triggering over and over in certain circumstances.
  • Losing the initial invasion caused it to re-trigger without a delay.
  • Put a limit on the number of concubines that can be kidnapped in an invasion. Penalising players that are doing badly tends to cause a feedback loop.
• Minion merges now take longer. Blowing through them once per turn just feels really anticlimactic.
• Renamed the Tome of Hermaphrodites to the Tome of Genital Swapping so that it’s slightly more accurate. Not entirely happy with the new name – it’s not very magical-sounding. Open to suggestions.

The next release will introduce ads, but on the other hand, unlimited turns for everybody! It’ll be v0.96, v1.0 will have to wait until the new year.

New in this release:

• More writing from Porp:
  • Added 2 characters, the nurse (downtown) and the punk (suburbs).
  • More descriptions of fisting and anal.
• 2 new random events that you might see if you manage to displease Narcissus Apotheotic.
• Fixed gender errors in size queen, receive anal and degredation slut text.
• Fixed bug in which minions would vanish if a minion cult raised their Attitude past ‘Indecisive’.

New stuff:

• 5 new random events. The previous batch made the game a bit easier, this batch will make it a bit harder:
  • A couple of new measures taken against you by the OWG in the mid to late game.
  • A couple of new troubles arising from within the lair during the mid to late game.
  • A favourable event that can occur at any point, if you meet the prerequisites.
• I’ve also increased the rate that random events occur.
• I’ve reshuffled the different mortal types to get a more even distribution through each stage of the game:
  • You can get non-generic mortals right at the start of the game.
  • The Squirter now appears a higher difficulty, because she’s tricky.
  • Incompetent Sorcerers now live in Old Town.
  • The Goth is now a concubine type.
  • This leaves a gap in Old Town where there aren’t enough beasts, which I’ll fix with in the next two versions with new characters.

New stuff:

• New character in Old Town: Size Queen.
• 3 new random events: one common, two in the early/mid game.
• Fixed bug where loosening lotion effects were permanent, rather than limited to the encounter.
• Fixed bug where you could buy buildings without enough mana.
• Fix for sanctum/lab item selections not highlighting in IE8.
• Fixed inability to select items from the tome of hermaphrodites.
• Minor server-side optimisations.

New in this release:

• 5 new random events. Two are semi-common, two are shown once, and one’s a secret for particularly horrible people. You’re not likely to see any of the new ones if you’re already in the end-game.
• Fixed an error that occurs when you fire a minion that you’re upgrading.
• Fixed an error that occurs if you reorder minions twice in a row.

For the next release I’ve got more random events planned and hopefully a new character.