Jessika's Diary #11 - September Development Update

Hello everyone,

Time for another peek behind the scenes at the development of that next release, and the good news is that we are on track for our projected roadmap. Both Jr. X and Sommy have been working really hard on the new features planned for the second major demo, and we are going to be looking at the progress made on those today. 

The World Map

First up, as you can see Sommy has been working on the overworld map, which will allow you to choose which location to visit. On the coding side, Jr. X has built the node system, which will allow you to travel across the map. If you haven’t previously read about our planned node system, the map will be composed of two types of node - core nodes and secondary nodes. Core nodes are areas that must be visited to progress the game, while secondary nodes are ones that can be visited for side quests, and other optional content. This will be implemented in the next release.

Inventory

Next up, Sommy has designed the UI needed for the inventory as seen above, and Jr. X is currently in the process of coding it. In addition to implementing the inventory, we’ll also be adding a few new items to the next release; new weapons, armour, accessories, and key items, for you to have a play around with.

Kink System

We’re also currently introducing the kink system. The first part of this is the kinks themselves, sexy negative conditions that occur when the girls get lust broken, or when they use the brothel. The second part is the brothel itself, which offers an alternative way to reducing lust than spending your hard-earned gold at the church, with the cost being a kink instead. We’ve currently added a few kinks to the game and they are working nicely, with more to come in future.

Polls, Polls, Polls

With two new female characters, we need a ton of new animations, and with that comes more polls than a US election. We’ve been asking our backers what they want to see when it comes to Amalia and Melaina getting it on with themselves, each other, the other girls, and the enemies currently in the game. These are still ongoing, so if you want to get in on them, you can pledge at the $10 level, and help shape what sexy animations will be in the next release. 

Animations

Sommy has been very busy at work on the animation front. Both Amalia and Mel are finished on the combat sprite side, and he’s been working hard on the sex animations. Once we got the results for the polls mentioned above, Sommy has done a lot of base images for those, which our backers have seen. The next step is splicing these and animating them in Spine, which he’ll be starting this month. We’ve got twenty-three of these planned for the next build, so it’ll be worth the wait.   

That’s it for today, we’ll have more to share in the coming weeks, and at some point in the future, a WIP build for our backers once the new systems are tested and relatively bug-free. I’d just like to thank you all for your support at this time. We realize it is not the most exciting part of development, but once all the core systems are finished, we will be able to release at a faster rate and focus on adding tons more sexy content.

- Lord A.