What's going on...

Hello everybody.

I know it's been a while since I posted on this blog. And many of you might wonder why.
There is no simple answer. Many things came together and slowly build what I perceived as a mountain of problems that kept me not only from working on the game but also outright trying to ignore it.

Since I started the project, I felt a certain pressure.
And I felt a responsibility towards my players to not only to make a good game but also to be quicker with releases. I know that I'm mostly building this up myself.

Then there is the quest log issue. Although it is a great and useful feature, the implementation of the log takes a lot of time and requires me to play the game several times to test the required script for each and every possible route. Which is very dry work and not really motivating.
On top of that I have to finish the log before I can go on with the storyline because I have to insert the log scripts first. Which resulted in outright frustration.

On top of that, there are personal issues that I still have to deal with. There were and still are changes that certain members of my family have to go through. Like my mom lost her job after 35 years and now at almost 60 finds herself without much of a perspective. I'd like to help her, but my personal financial situation is not great as well, so I can not do much about it. Which, again, is frustrating.

All of that played into my own personal problems, making it impossible for me to keep working.

I do not really know what to do right now. I did not work on the games for 2 months at least and I feel bad about it.
I did not visit my blogs or the forum threads and I did not read any comments or emails. And did not dare to do so yet.

But at least  I wanted to you to know what's going on on my side.
Maybe it's the a first step to sort things out concerning the game and the community.
And to finally get back to work and find fun in it again instead of it being something that hangs above my neck.

There's still so much story I would like to tell, so many ideas I have, but as of now, I'm putting the game officially on hiatus. That's something I never wanted to do, but I might be the right decision to get my head straight and find the energy to sort things out.

I hope I made some sense with this post.

I'm sorry.
See you around,

Mental

What's going on...

Hello everybody.

I know it's been a while since I posted on this blog. And many of you might wonder why.
There is no simple answer. Many things came together and slowly build what I perceived as a mountain of problems that kept me not only from working on the game but also outright trying to ignore it.

Since I started the project, I felt a certain pressure.
And I felt a responsibility towards my players to not only to make a good game but also to be quicker with releases. I know that I'm mostly building this up myself.

Then there is the quest log issue. Although it is a great and useful feature, the implementation of the log takes a lot of time and requires me to play the game several times to test the required script for each and every possible route. Which is very dry work and not really motivating.
On top of that I have to finish the log before I can go on with the storyline because I have to insert the log scripts first. Which resulted in outright frustration.

On top of that, there are personal issues that I still have to deal with. There were and still are changes that certain members of my family have to go through. Like my mom lost her job after 35 years and now at almost 60 finds herself without much of a perspective. I'd like to help her, but my personal financial situation is not great as well, so I can not do much about it. Which, again, is frustrating.

All of that played into my own personal problems, making it impossible for me to keep working.

I do not really know what to do right now. I did not work on the games for 2 months at least and I feel bad about it.
I did not visit my blogs or the forum threads and I did not read any comments or emails. And did not dare to do so yet.

But at least  I wanted to you to know what's going on on my side.
Maybe it's the a first step to sort things out concerning the game and the community.
And to finally get back to work and find fun in it again instead of it being something that hangs above my neck.

There's still so much story I would like to tell, so many ideas I have, but as of now, I'm putting the game officially on hiatus. That's something I never wanted to do, but I might be the right decision to get my head straight and find the energy to sort things out.

I hope I made some sense with this post.

I'm sorry.
See you around,

Mental

Quick Status Report

Polls showed that most of you are OK with breaking saves.
So be it. ^^

I have already started to adjust the game to the new scripts, biggest change will be a questlog.
I'm currently trying to come up with silly Quest names. Feel free to suggest your own. ^;)

I'm planning to provide a special save with the next save, where you can recreate the conditions of your old save. This save will skip the first 3 chapters, so you will start with Shooga and Jack at the shores of Fatienobel.

What else did I do...

Chapter 6 is about 50% complete.

Started to remake 2 of the older H-Scenes as well, finished a Scene for Noja, making it 6 new Scenes so far ( if you count the remade Cocki Sleep Scene).

The Mistra Village maps had a little make over, so did the starting map.

Did a lot of bug fixing, especially "holes" in the maps.

Remade the the Order Battlers.

I have to confess, the World Cup is a bit distracting atm and led to a temporary increase of my beer intake... and on top of that AA2 was released, so... Yeah, let's say, I'm not as productive atm as I normally would be. ^^°

I would like to thank User Mickele at this point, he's been my bug tester for a while now and is a great help and support. I think the fact that the games has as "few" bugs as it has, is mostly due to his effort.

Quick Status Report

Polls showed that most of you are OK with breaking saves.
So be it. ^^

I have already started to adjust the game to the new scripts, biggest change will be a questlog.
I'm currently trying to come up with silly Quest names. Feel free to suggest your own. ^;)

I'm planning to provide a special save with the next save, where you can recreate the conditions of your old save. This save will skip the first 3 chapters, so you will start with Shooga and Jack at the shores of Fatienobel.

What else did I do...

Chapter 6 is about 50% complete.

Started to remake 2 of the older H-Scenes as well, finished a Scene for Noja, making it 6 new Scenes so far ( if you count the remade Cocki Sleep Scene).

The Mistra Village maps had a little make over, so did the starting map.

Did a lot of bug fixing, especially "holes" in the maps.

Remade the the Order Battlers.

I have to confess, the World Cup is a bit distracting atm and led to a temporary increase of my beer intake... and on top of that AA2 was released, so... Yeah, let's say, I'm not as productive atm as I normally would be. ^^°

I would like to thank User Mickele at this point, he's been my bug tester for a while now and is a great help and support. I think the fact that the games has as "few" bugs as it has, is mostly due to his effort.

Poll is not working...

It seems like for some reason blogger polls are not working at the moment.
So please leave your feedback about the issue of breaking saves in the comment section of the last post instead.

Poll is not working...

It seems like for some reason blogger polls are not working at the moment.
So please leave your feedback about the issue of breaking saves in the comment section of the last post instead.

Status and Breaking Saves Poll

Trying to post a status update every Sunday now, but did not have the time last Sunday because family stuff.

Last week and most of this week I worked on a additional "Quest" that allow either Jeff or Jack to recruit Noja, after the Devil Hunter Noja Quest is completed.


[spoiler]
Shortly after Jeff and Jack part ways, depending on how her quest ended, Noja will either begin to stalk Jeff or try to have him testify about what happened in the ruins. 
the quest itself is rather short, it's more like either a cutscene with a potential battle with Jeff or Noja has to make it to the tower and survive. Should she die during either of these events, she's out of the game. I also made a small Gimmick that changes her actor graphic if she wears her mask or not.
[/spoiler]
Also, 2 new H-Scenes are unlockable during this, one is 80% finished (would be 100% if my PC did not crash all the time..).

Here's a preview:

Yes, Odalphes is at it again...

 After the 2nd scene is done, I can finally start with part 2 of Chapter 6

 Jeff in demon form has a new look now.

Hi, Jack, I'm Jeff, remember? You can totally trust me. No would you please follw me?

Also I tried a couple of new scripts out.
Unfortunately some of the break savegames, meaning, if you would load an old save, the game would crash. You have to start a new game to play. So I removed them again.
But I would really really like to use them. ^^
So I'm setting up a poll, so you can decide whether breaking the saves is alright with you or not.

Status and Breaking Saves Poll

Trying to post a status update every Sunday now, but did not have the time last Sunday because family stuff.

Last week and most of this week I worked on a additional "Quest" that allow either Jeff or Jack to recruit Noja, after the Devil Hunter Noja Quest is completed.

Status, Linkbucks, Donor Content, Browsing Safe(r) and Mysterious Adds

 So for some reason google has decided to place adds on my blog.
And they are pretty annoying. :/
I would just like to let you know that I'm not responsible for the new adds.
I'm still trying to find out if it's possible to get rid of them.

If you are as annoyed as I am by the adds, then I strongly advise you again to install an add blocker
Like Ad Block Plus and a anti script plug in like NoScript.

This should help you to avoid most of adds and funny scripts you might encounter when you're surfing the web.
NoScript requires some time to adjust your surfing habits, but it's totally worth it if you want to
surf safe(r). After a while you won't even think about it anymore. (Think buckling up before starting your car.)

Speaking of funny scripts: 

I said I would remove the linkbucks intermission for 3 months once I reached my donation goal of 300 € to repair my computer.

Since then I received 125 110 € in donations.

I still stand by that.
And regarding linkbucks, I know the site sucks but it's the only way atm for me to make some (very small) revenue from this game and to keep it free.

I'm am not responsible for what the intermission sites do or try to do to your computer, my only affiliation to them is, that I have an account and that's it.

Again, use the suggested plug ins to show malicious script the finger.

On the intermission site, just wait for the countdown to finish and click skip in the upper frame.

Do NOT download anything from linkbucks, do not download anything if you are unsure whether you are on the correct filehoster's download page!

My hosters are mediafire, rapidgator and uploaded. 

Any files, that do not come from these sites, are not mine and possibly evil and will eat your brain and and kill your cat with fire!

Now that that's out of the way, here's the news.

Bad new first: 

I might have accidental broken older saves. :(
I'm getting bug reports that I can not reproduce and I do not know why.
Only explanation I have is, that I did something bad and older saves might produce those bugs.

Also, until I finished the next Update - no new patches.
I'm too far into the development process of Chapter 6 and a new patch might make break more things than in would fix.

What good did I do this week:

Jack's route in Chapter 6 is complete.

Jeff''s route in Plinpe is almost complete, just have to finish on more variant to proceed to the next part (Southern Islands).
The Southern Islands are  a vacation resort, sunny, hot, girls in skimpy bikinis.
Looking forward to that part. ^^

I made 2 new bonus pics (making it 12 total now).

And remade the battlers for Cocki.

Also I remade the short H-Scene where you first meet Cocki while she's asleep.
I did not just remake the pictures but also turned it into a Minigame similar to the Foo Photo Minigame.

 

Next I'm going to remake the Jack/Cocki blow job scene and the scene of Shooga posing at the beach.

The Donor Content now contains the following features:

- Option to unlock all Scenes in the Gallery.
- Option to unlock all Bonus Pictures.
- Exclusive Magic Item Shop in Plinpe with some powerful, yet expensive accessory.

- In said shop a small puzzle. Solving it will give you a 50% discount.
- A powerful exclusive skill for Roha can be unlocked.

Planned for the future:

- An exclusive Side Quest with H-Scene.

-Possibly an Option: A cheating system. Not sure if I should keep it, since it's a a two edged sword. You can change a lot of stuff with it, like your evil level, money, give you an item that kills all enemies with one hit, change certain decisions you made earlier etc. But you can also break your game with it.

If you have other suggestions, let me know in the comments.

If you would like to donate, do so via the pay pal button.
Edit:
If you donate at least 5 €,
you will receive a response mail from me, containing a link to the last Gif-Pack and the password to unpack it. Also, once the next Update is finished, you will get another email with the password to unlock the Donor Content.

Status, Linkbucks, Donor Content, Browsing Safe(r) and Mysterious Adds

 So for some reason google has decided to place adds on my blog.
And they are pretty annoying. :/
I would just like to let you know that I'm not responsible for the new adds.
I'm still trying to find out if it's possible to get rid of them.

If you are as annoyed as I am by the adds, then I strongly advise you again to install an add blocker
Like Ad Block Plus and a anti script plug in like NoScript.

This should help you to avoid most of adds and funny scripts you might encounter when you're surfing the web.
NoScript requires some time to adjust your surfing habits, but it's totally worth it if you want to
surf safe(r). After a while you won't even think about it anymore. (Think buckling up before starting your car.)

Speaking of funny scripts: 

I said I would remove the linkbucks intermission for 3 months once I reached my donation goal of 300 € to repair my computer.

Since then I received 125 110 € in donations.

I still stand by that.
And regarding linkbucks, I know the site sucks but it's the only way atm for me to make some (very small) revenue from this game and to keep it free.

I'm am not responsible for what the intermission sites do or try to do to your computer, my only affiliation to them is, that I have an account and that's it.

Again, use the suggested plug ins to show malicious script the finger.

On the intermission site, just wait for the countdown to finish and click skip in the upper frame.

Do NOT download anything from linkbucks, do not download anything if you are unsure whether you are on the correct filehoster's download page!

My hosters are mediafire, rapidgator and uploaded. 

Any files, that do not come from these sites, are not mine and possibly evil and will eat your brain and and kill your cat with fire!

Now that that's out of the way, here's the news.

Bad new first: 

I might have accidental broken older saves. :(
I'm getting bug reports that I can not reproduce and I do not know why.
Only explanation I have is, that I did something bad and older saves might produce those bugs.

Also, until I finished the next Update - no new patches.
I'm too far into the development process of Chapter 6 and a new patch might make break more things than in would fix.

What good did I do this week:

Jack's route in Chapter 6 is complete.

Jeff''s route in Plinpe is almost complete, just have to finish on more variant to proceed to the next part (Southern Islands).
The Southern Islands are  a vacation resort, sunny, hot, girls in skimpy bikinis.
Looking forward to that part. ^^

I made 2 new bonus pics (making it 12 total now).

And remade the battlers for Cocki.

Also I remade the short H-Scene where you first meet Cocki while she's asleep.
I did not just remake the pictures but also turned it into a Minigame similar to the Foo Photo Minigame.

 

Next I'm going to remake the Jack/Cocki blow job scene and the scene of Shooga posing at the beach.

The Donor Content now contains the following features:

- Option to unlock all Scenes in the Gallery.
- Option to unlock all Bonus Pictures.
- Exclusive Magic Item Shop in Plinpe with some powerful, yet expensive accessory.

- In said shop a small puzzle. Solving it will give you a 50% discount.
- A powerful exclusive skill for Roha can be unlocked.

Planned for the future:

- An exclusive Side Quest with H-Scene.

-Possibly an Option: A cheating system. Not sure if I should keep it, since it's a a two edged sword. You can change a lot of stuff with it, like your evil level, money, give you an item that kills all enemies with one hit, change certain decisions you made earlier etc. But you can also break your game with it.

If you have other suggestions, let me know in the comments.

If you would like to donate, do so via the pay pal button.
Edit:
If you donate at least 5 €,
you will receive a response mail from me, containing a link to the last Gif-Pack and the password to unpack it. Also, once the next Update is finished, you will get another email with the password to unlock the Donor Content.