This week got a little derailed but in a weird and very good way.
I found out about another game project that's in my wheelhouse, wandered into their discord, and now might be doing some writing for them. I'll post more details on that as things are finalised. They already have writers, so it's more filling in some background lore, maybe a guest scene or two. The project...
2023-07-02 10:28:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for the monthly update and for all the people waiting, yes, finally Eve Satana makes an appearance in the House.
We're also back to the regular plain text version. The official releases will stay like this for the next few months. I've been testing some graphics options in experimental releases, but it will be a while before I can start to add them to the main branch...
2023-06-30 10:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 182: LICH QUEEN
I've overrun by one day, but never mind. Can't have the player leaving a region without a boss fight.
Once the player places the last plate in the correct position, a mechanism will click, indicating the main gate is now unlocked.
However, as soon as they've made it back to the main gate, they will find the LICH QUEEN waiting for the...
2023-06-26 00:39:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe first half of the week I carried on working on the new House of Hellish Harlots proof-of-concept display. I wanted to see if I could add UI elements such as a 'health bar', a sprite map to visually show current round, and some rudimentary effects and animations such as an indicator for when the harlot gets the player to ejaculate.
I thought this would be straightforward, and it ...
2023-06-25 11:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the new HoHH graphics demo I've been playing around with.
The main addition is completely customising the player UI to remove the UI bar on the left of the screen and replace it with a small control panel.
The demo is just a proof-of-concept. It only has a single scenario (Sapoonis) and snippets to represent each NPC and their location within the House.
I'm also ...
2023-06-22 09:24:14 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 175: GRAVEYARD (PATH TO EXIT GATE)
The player can walk down the path to the main exit gate without being accosted. While walking they'll see the sexy spectral forms of various GHOST GIRLs drifting between the tombstones. They leave the player alone for now as he walks down to the large main gate that is the only way in or out of the graveyard.
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Quite pleased with how this week went. Originally I was going to split it between more HoHH UI/Display tinkering and short story writing. The HoHH tinkering went so well I decided to push that hard while it was going well.
Last time I was focusing on getting the basic display to look better than plain text on a background.
This time I was looking at replacing the basic U...
2023-06-18 12:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 168: TOMB PALACE (SECRET ENTRANCE)
The VAMPIRESS NPC takes the player down a hidden path and unlocks a secret entrance. Through a series of narrow vents, this leads the player into the heart of the tomb palace and they come out on a balcony above a large hall of impressive treasures.
The balcony leads to three rooms where the LICH QUEEN stores her favouri...
2023-06-11 23:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate is a little late today as I was travelling back home.
The reason for that was a little complicated. I failed to pick up tickets for a music festival before it sold out, but neglected to tell my mate that before he got around to booking the hotel rooms. A slight breakdown in communication later and I suddenly found myself with a 3-night stay elsewhere.
I thought I'...
2023-06-11 18:08:55 +0000 UTC View PostAs mentioned in the recent update post, I've spent the last few days banging my head against various HTML/CSS guides to see if I can make House of Hellish Harlots look better than the basic Twine Sugarcube look.
On Sunday I hacked this little demo together.
It is very much a hack. I just took various passages from the NPCs to indicate the various NPC locations and added Sapoon...
2023-06-05 11:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 161: TOMB STREET (PALADIN)
This is another tomb room with no-one outside it. Ducking in will present the player an unusual sight and a meeting with one of the recurring NPCs (which they may have met before).
This is the NPC PALADIN, and they're exactly as named: a big broad man in holy armour.
The PALADIN has just slain one of the ZOMBIE WHOREs and ...
2023-06-05 00:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm gradually getting free of this annoying lingering plague.
Last week I got the usual HoHH update out. I hope people enjoyed playing with the new harlots.
I started typing up the Squishy Slime Girl pair.
Bratty Succubus has a name, Brittnee, and has been fully edited and is ready to be implemented.
The reason I haven't started implementing her is I remembered I'd...
2023-06-04 10:53:09 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 154: TOMB STREETS (ZOMBIE WHORE NPC)
Despite being underground, the tomb streets are busy and gaudy. The player sees lots of men walking up and down a main thoroughfare while lots of ZOMBIE WHOREs try to tempt them.
One will approach and proposition the player. If the player accepts, she will take him over to her 'tomb'.
The 'tombs' have been ...
2023-06-02 00:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe last day of the month means it's time for a House of Hellish Harlots update.
First up, you might be wondering what happened to v0.045. Because I've been preparing these releases in advance, they were prepared and numbered as one harlot per release. Even though I'm behind where I'd like to be on the short story writing (thanks to all the plagues currently running a...
2023-05-31 11:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 151: BOSS ALRAUNE
The sylvan theatre used to be an openair stage for the more artistically minded residents of the city to put on shows during the warm summer months. It's now the central lair of the BOSS ALRAUNE that's taken over the park.
There are three ways of getting to her.
The regular one is solving her puzzle fetch quest. The BOSS ALRA...
2023-05-29 13:23:42 +0000 UTC View PostA very quick update as I'm about to head off on a trip for the day.
The week was a little fractured thanks to a nuisance cough lingering for far longer than I'd like. As with most of the month, I kept things ticking over when I could.
Eve Satana is now implemented and fully tested. I've prepared her release and she's ready to go for the end of June.
Bratty Succubus...
2023-05-28 05:41:02 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 147: WOODS (SYLVAN THEATRE ENTRANCE)
Paths through the wood also bend towards the impressive Sylvan Theatre in the upper left corner of the park. Originally there used to be an entrance here. Multiple entrances even. The outer wall of the structure has several archways. Just like with the BOSS ALRAUNE's puzzle gate, they are firmly blocked wit...
2023-05-22 00:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently I feel like I'm in one of those old Hammer horror films where some construction crew accidentally breaks a forbidden seal and subjects the nearest village to a curse of endless plagues. In just over a month I've had gastric flu, regular flu, and now a persistent cough that feels like I'm trying to hack up a lung about 20 times a day.
Fun times.
(I think it's my body...
It's roughly the middle of the month, so time to put out another updated H-space Bestiary story.
A while back I wrote some super shorts that were just succubi and monster girls doing their thing to (un)lucky humans in an alien dimension. I've been gradually going over those old shorts and beefing them up into 'proper' short stories.
This was originally the Bubble-Tail Succubus...
2023-05-18 11:10:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is some more lovely harlot art, again from the Atlantis27/Thraeh combo. This time a player taking a hot bath with the lovely water nymph Sapoonismenee Nerei. I'm guessing this player had DEX 5 and got plenty of Sapoonis's special foam in the body-to-body massage that followed. ;)
It's nice to see more details of the opulent luxury of some of the harlot's rooms.
I d...
ROOM 138: SUCCUFAIRY AVIARY
The last feature in this section of the park is a large cage in the shape of a small outhouse. This did used to be an aviary where one of Ur-Carnosa's wealthier and more eccentric nobles used to keep rare and exotic birds. The SUCCUFAIRIES have turned it into a home and many can be seen flitting around inside.
The player has t...
2023-05-15 00:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostA scratchy week. I was all over the place at the start of it and got my shit together in the second half.
I've made the code changes required in HoHH to handle the non-standard aspects of Eve Satana's scenario. I need to test them to make sure the checks I'm doing work and don't slow the rest of the game down. If that's fine, I'll get a release put together (probably ear...
2023-05-14 11:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 128: POOL (GAZEBO)
Roughly in the centre of the pool is an elegant gazebo. This used to be a place for visitors to take a seat and enjoy the tranquillity of the lake. It's completely overgrown and choked with vines now.
It's also another of the BOSS ALRAUNE's traps. As the player enters the structure, special flowers open up and pour aphrodisi...
2023-05-08 00:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostA frustrating week. I came back from my break, got the usual admin stuff done at the start of the month, and then got knocked on my ass with another flu-type bug.
I wasn't able to get too much done this week, but did recover enough to get Mistress Eve Satana mostly implemented last night. The regular parts of her scenario are done. The outstanding bits involve tweaking s...
2023-05-07 11:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostA quick note. All the wet weather we've been having appears to have triggered plague season in my little village. I'm down with some sort of flu/covid bug again. I'm behind on rooms at the moment. I'll catch up once I've shaken this.
ROOM 122: PARK ENTRANCE
Before the lust daemons descended and took the city, what is now c...
2023-05-03 00:42:12 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 121: THE WALL
May is a 31-day month, so I'll devote that odd day to a 'one-room' feature.
Ur-Carnosa is a fortified city that has expanded in size multiple times in its history, each expansion adding a new outer wall. The heart of Ur-Carnosa – and the player's goal – lies behind a high wall. The only humans going through the gates are l...
2023-05-02 00:57:16 +0000 UTC View PostNo update this week. I was mostly off the internet and taking a break to recharge the batteries.
It is, however, the last day of the month, which means it's time for a new House of Hellish Harlots release. This is the v0.044 release which adds one new harlot. She's been a long time coming, as you're finally going to play with the 'mindflayer girl' harlot I mentioned ages...
2023-04-30 12:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostROOM 120: THE NEST (BUG QUEEN)
The downward tunnel opens out into a large cavern festooned with lots of strands of white silk. The GRUB QUEEN is waiting for the player. She's not too unhappy about the player defeating all of her BUG DAUGHTERs. In her eyes that means he's strong genetic stock and she's going to suck every last drop out of cum out of him t...
2023-04-24 01:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostLast week ended up with more focus on the H-space Bestiary rewrites. I put a new(ish) story out - "Men are from Mars, Mantraps are from Venus". You can find this a couple of posts below or in the pinned post.
I typed up another one. I'll leave that on the side for a month, so I can edit it with fresh eyes. I also wrote the new sections for another one. I curr...
2023-04-23 10:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostOne of my ongoing background projects is to take the old H-space bestiary shorts I wrote a few years back and beef them up into proper short stories. Here's the latest.
This was originally the Venus Mantrap story. I fleshed out the background to explain how the soldiers got there and also to try and build up the classic "Green Hell" jungle atmosphere.
As with the origina...
2023-04-19 10:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post