4 new girls/outfits

Added 4 new girls/outfits into the game. One feature in the next patch is the ability to select who to take with you in the dungeon runs, aka, picking your party composition. There are the new units you can pick in addition to the current 4. 

Note: experimental character designs to test things, may not be the actual character designs.

The first is the Shield Maiden, which is a remake of the ceremonial set from HRT. She is a Frontliner, attacking with her sword and shield. Compared to Iron Mask, she is less durable but faster and quicker.

The second is the Nurse. She is a healing focused Support character. Her auto attacks are ranged and inflict lust damage and her other abilities focuses on healing and keeping your party healthy.

The third is the Researcher character. She is also a Support character. Instead of healing focused like the Nurse, she dishes out buffs and debuffs. 

Finally, we have the Escaped Girl. Which is a remake of the chains set from HRT. She is very weak in combat but her extensive experience during enslavement makes her excellent at receiving grabs. TBH she is meant more as an enemy unit, but I don't have anytime time to spent on new units in this patch cycle, so she'll have to do as the 8th. 

Devices, NSFW version.

A tease for things to come: https://twitter.com/i/status/1285997937638510592.

I finished up the remaining to-dos of devices (pathing to, collision, grab from, and so on) and they will be available in the new gallery/free-sex/"prison" room.

The capture and research mechanic in the video obviously doesn't work yet, but it is very much the kind of things I will pursuit in the future. 

Carry mechanic

Carry mechanic is done. For devices, PowerModder kindly provided some sample machine models for me to test. So I put this little skit together to demo the carrying to device mechanic: https://twitter.com/i/status/1285005719230537728.

The other big application of carry is repositioning other units during combat. It works both on allies and enemies (assuming you succeed in the Grab check first). People brought up Grabs can be difficult to use because you often get interrupted by other enemy units if you grab one of them in the face. With the carry mechanic you can now drag the enemy into a save spot first and worry less about other enemies. Here is how it works in action: https://twitter.com/i/status/1285005620811149312.

Speaking of grabs, I feel that the units behaves too "sex-adverse" in this game. That mentality made sense for Heroine Rumble, where it's about who can outlast the opponent, in this game units should enjoy it more, and shouldn't spam Escape the first chance they get. After all, if a hottie is blowing you off, why stop?

So I made these following changes:

• Grab (ability) success chance a lot higher.  
• Selecting Tease/Pleasure/Finisher chance a lot higher. 
• Pleasure: 60% base 
• Tease: 90% base 
• Finisher: same as Pleasure, but only works versus foes with > 50% lust 
• Removed 'Study' and 'Lockdown' as those options suck. 
• `Switch Grab` and "Reversal` now costs HP, but success chance alot higher. 

In addition, enemies units will now pick between `Mock`(raise the lust level of attacker) and `Reversal` instead of `Escape` on their turns. In the future, I want to incorporate some sort of sex-aversion meter, and the AI's decision matrix will be influenced by their personality: sex-adverse units tries to `Escape`, and sex-loving units favors `Relax`, `Mock` and `Reversal`.

Next up, I am going to implement a party-selection screen, where you can pick who to bring with you on each dungeon runs. Something like selecting up to 4 out of ~8 premade characters. Stay tuned.

(Starting on) Devices and Base management

Started on work on the base management portion of the game. There is a lot to do and I decided to start on the equivalent of the Prison area first. Where you can find captured enemies and play with them at your leisure. To make it more fun, that means devices!

The basic functionality is working already, as in you can hop on to a device and animations will play. This post will be public so you'll have to use your imagination on what that looks like. 

However, complementary features, such as adding a "Carry" option to drag units around during grabs is still to-do. Those features are what I am currently working on.

I also implemented the render-to-texture feature, which is shown below to render portraits to texture:

This rendering portrait feature is something that HR had but is missing in HRT. This new system is superior to the implementation in HR because rendering to texture and reuse is a lot more efficient than re-rendering the portrait every frame. In fact, HR runs alot better when I disable the rendering portrait feature when testing on low powered hardware.

Besides the obvious applications of these portrait textures, another area I want to improve is the character customization. In short, I am aiming for something like this:

Here is where the rendering-to-texture will come into play. The outfits pieces can be selectively rendered to a texture and to use as preview. Rendering-to-texture in game is generally superior to prepared texture files because it will use the same lighting system, so it gives more consistent results on how it will look like in game, but also to benefit from whatever upgrades in the in-game lighting system gets.

Character customization is still very early in development but I hope this will give you a taste of what it will be like.

Demo 3.3!

Patreon LINK.

New build is here! In this update, added a new 4th futa martial artist character to the player party and male version of trooper enemies! The encounter difficulty is unchanged, so it should be easier now with an additional player party member.

If everything goes well, I will start working on the base management side of the game.

New character!

Added a new character for the next demo! So it will be a party of 4 versus the same enemies, which should make it a lot easier.

She is a martial-arts based character and comes with a new outfit!

I choose a simpler ability design for her as I feel abilities like the Breaching Shot is not good introductory ability. She have a ranged attack as her basic attack; a Pump Up that buffs her physical attack, and a Rising Dragon melee attack that deals heavy damage to target and knocks it back, but has a cool down. The main decision points in using her are whether to use the Pump Up on round 1 or attack, and when and who to use the Rising Dragon against.

Here is a video of her in action:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1278881195552436224. 

Before I forget, she is a futa character, to test out to see if the system works as intended and to give the player more opportunity to see M/F moves.

I also added animations for certain existing abilities, you can preview here:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1278881053512364033