Just a quick update as I've mostly been away this Fri and Sat (although I will have most of Sunday to catch up).
This week I finished all the dialogue for The Portly Gentleman (aka NPC Money), implemented it and tested it. The NPCs have been slightly awkward to implement because of my stubborn desire to make the dialogue natural and avoid the one-brainless-line problem common to RPG...
2019-11-30 23:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostLast week I got the first big demo of "House of Hellish Harlots" out. I hope you've been enjoying playing that.
After that I had a brief pause to get my head back together and also do mundane necessities such as file my taxes for the year. Now I'm back working on the next chunk of the game. This is what I want to do for the next release:
Bug Fixes.
Some minor errors i...
Still fighting winter lurgy, but I've managed to get a new demo of "House of Hellish Harlots" ready.
The first release demonstrated a skeleton of the main game loop as proof-of-concept. The second added the first harlot to give an indication of what the scenarios would be like.
This release has quite a bit of new content (but is also nowhere near the finished game). I'...
Slower progress than I would have liked this week. A few winter bugs floating around, so I've been under the weather.
The spider girl harlot, who I can now reveal is called Arana Solfugis, has been implemented and tested. She's in and a lot of you will likely meet your ends in her vagina.
I had a slight held up with the lamia, Anna Boa, but her scene is now written and...
End of the week, also the start of a new month. It's time for another update.
Most of this week was spent working on The Elegant Woman. She's the "Gossip" NPC. Her role is to impart hints and information on all the harlots (for a price). While getting sexily Bad Ended by a gorgeous succubus is a fun part of the game, I didn't want it to be too unfair and just trial...
2019-11-01 21:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn keeping with my desire to keep to vaguely regular updates, here's where I am at the moment. As I said last time, I want to release harlot scenarios in clumps rather than one-at-a-time to avoid them getting solved too quickly and ending up as "dead weight" in later versions.
As a reminder, this is what I want to get done for the next demo release:
- Player personality stats....
2019-10-26 16:20:44 +0000 UTC View PostOddly, this is one aspect of the game I haven't nailed down yet.
Player stats in HoHH work differently than in the previous CYOA scenarios I've posted. They can influence a harlot encounter, but the outcomes aren't stated directly to a player. Because there will be so many hidden influences on a scenario, I felt having random stat check rolls in there would make it too difficu...
2019-10-23 16:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostNo demo release this week. Normally I don't like doing updates without releases, but given my unfortunate habit of sometimes fading out of existence, I thought I'd try to put out more regular posts to keep people up to date of where I'm at, especially as I'm still fired up on this. (I might hit icebergs later, but currently I'm very happy with how things appear to be slotting into p...
2019-10-18 13:49:10 +0000 UTC View PostWork on "House of Hellish Harlots" is still going quite well. Last time I showed off a rough prototype of the main game loop.
Now it's time to introduce the first harlot - Sapoonismenos Nerei.
I created and added her scenario. This should give you a better idea of where the sex stuff is slotting into this little sex game.
The raw text for her scenario came in at ar...
2019-10-09 18:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Enthusiasm time" has been... quite productive.
I liked the idea I had for "House of Hellish Harlots", but wasn't sure if I could sling it together in Twine. It isn't just a typical branching story with the odd stats check, so I knew I needed to dig into objects, arrays, and various bits of 'proper' coding. None of this is overly complex, but for someone like me who is more us...
2019-10-03 19:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs I said in a previous post, bit of a weird month. At the start I thought I was doing a standalone CYOA scenario (to include in future "House of Hellish Harlots"), then it turned into working on some half-finished short stories (resulting in the 1st draft of one being completed), and finally I had a burst of inspiration on what the core gameplay loop for "House of Hellish Harlots" should...
2019-09-30 20:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostI mentioned it at the end of the last post, so here's a bit more on how the "House of Hellish Harlots" brainstorming is going.
The original idea has changed a few times. I plotted out the intro thinking it would be the start to a gamebook along similar lines to Fighting Fantasy's "House of Hell". When I implemented it in Twine I was thinking it would be the introduc...
2019-09-25 01:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I launch into more fiction analysis and (hopefully good) writing tips, I thought I'd let people know I also do updates on my blog and twitter. I'm sure most of you probably know this already, but I thought I'd throw this out just in case some of you didn't.
The blog: www.manyeyedhydra.com
Twitter: @manyeyedhydra
I'm pretty iffy at the social media side of things, ...
2019-09-20 20:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostTime for another succubus dissection as I do the author's commentary thing for the last short story I put out – "The Good, The Bad, and the Monstrous Beauty". Although in this case, it wasn't exactly a "short" story, in that it clocked in at over 11K words! As always, there will be spoilers, so go and read the story first. You should be able to pick it up in the previous pos...
2019-09-15 20:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we got there! Just before the end of the month.
Yep, still took a little longer than I'd like, but it's over freaking 11,000 words. I really should learn to rein my succubi in.
*glances over at succubi*
N-n-no. That's fine. You can have your fun.
It's another self-contained succubus short story. I know some people would rather I work...
Okay, yes, I got it wrong again. I thought I was nearly done with "The Good, the Bad, and the Monstrous Beauty," but then I ended up with another succubus that really liked to play with her food. I may have gotten carried away again.
I've just finished typing it up and it comes in at just over 11K words. That's a little... uh... longer than I was planning.
Normally...
2019-08-29 23:20:39 +0000 UTC View PostStill working on "The Good, the Bad, and the Monstrous Beauty". As with most things these days, hit a slight block near the end of the story. Only a temporary one, I'm far enough along with the story that I'll jump it over that last hurdle fairly soon. Rather than be an idiot and bash my head fruitlessly against a wall, I switched projects onto something else to clear my head....
2019-08-19 14:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostNot the greatest month.
Sorry for looking like I might have gone AWOL. Stuff came up and it turned out trying to bash some old H-space monster girl bestiary short stories into better shape was harder than it looked. They're still not ready. I'll start throwing them out as extras once I'm happy with them.
The current short story hit a similar problem of getting so...
Seems like summer has finally arrived to the UK, as in it's hot and the pollen count is so high I feel like I have a miniature slime-drooling alien stuffed up each nostril. The Glastonbury music festival was just last weekend and wasn't the traditional soggy mud bath. I wasn't there. Heavy metal is more my jam, so I was at the Download festival a couple of weeks earlier. ...
2019-07-01 17:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a bit of background and worldbuilding on the Pauxillum Constupros, the 'goblins' of the "The Banquet of the Queen of the Goblins". It's not the first time I've used them. They cropped up in the orgy scene in an earlier short story, "Trent the Traitor", as goblins with little pointed dicks. The purpose of that scene was to show H-space also has male sex monsters as well ...
2019-06-23 11:16:49 +0000 UTC View PostTime for some background notes on "The Banquet of the Queen of the Goblins". I won't be going into quite as much detail this time! Obviously, there will be spoilers, so you might want to read the story first – it can be found a couple of posts back.
(I should probably figure out how to put the stories in their own section so they're easy to find!)
This one was fairly s...
2019-06-09 11:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostEver have the feeling you've forgotten something…
Yup. I was about to do a behind-scenes piece for "The Banquet of the Queen of the Goblins", when I remembered I hadn't finished doing the one for the story before that. In my defence, I've been bunged up pretty badly for the past week or so with one of the various nasty flu bugs floating around.
Back to where we were. &...
2019-06-02 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAnd it's here.
Yup, a little (lot) later than planned. I should probably not write so many words on these things, but it is fun to get carried away.
This is the carnivorous plant girl story I started a while back. The monster girl was inspired by a monster girl in "Domination Quest - Kuro and the Naughty Monster Girls". The story is mine. It's another that ma...
2019-05-18 19:43:38 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, not going to lie. This ended up being a right royal pain to write up. When I offered up protagonist naming rights back in, ugh, that far, I had the first draft mostly done. Typing up the second draft is usually the straightforward part for me. And then, for this one, it wasn't...
Not sure what went wrong. I suspect my first draft was probably worse tha...
Firstly, apologies for another lengthy period of quietness. I ran into a fairly severe productivity slump on the second draft of the carnivorous plant girl story and had to change things up for a while rather than plowing on at measly couple-of-hundred words a day (it is still being worked on - more on that in a follow-up post).
Of the side projects I busied myself with, the one th...
And part 2 of the author's commentary on my recent boobie monster girl story, "Joey Farrell Walks Into An Obvious Booby Trap." There will likely be spoilers, so make sure to read the story first.
First part was designing the monster. The second part is how to fit characters and story around her.
Given what Oppa is, the idea I had was for her to be part of some form of tr...
2019-03-11 14:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, it's that time again.
I have another short story on the way and it's time to throw out protagonist-naming privileges to patrons.
If you don't mind a bit of vore, and you like your man-eaters to be, well... actual man-eaters, put a name forward in the comments below (or just send me a DM through Patreon if you want to be a little more private).
As before I'll pick one t...
Here's part 1 of the director's (author's?) commentary for the boobie monster girl story, "Joey Farrell Walks Into An Obvious Booby Trap" I put out last month. If you haven't read it yet, do that first as this piece will likely contain spoilers for the story.
Like most of my stories, this one started with the monster girl. The inspiration was this monster girl from Dieselmine'...
2019-02-27 14:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostAnd that boobie monster girl short story I've been hinting at for a while is finally done. This is a temporary exclusive for Patreon. I won't be putting it on Literotica, but it will appear in my next short story collection (which I'm still in the process of writing).
Wasn't this supposed to be out in November?
Yup. The last few months have no...
2019-01-26 17:53:46 +0000 UTC View PostRight, after a chaotic (very) couple of months at chez Hydra, I have finally typed up that boob monster girl story. It's currently lying at 8,000 words. What I normally do at this point is leave the story on the side for around a week while I carry on working on other stuff. The reason for this is so that when I come to edit it, it's with fresh eyes and I stand a better chance...
2019-01-20 18:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post