Project Cancelled

The horse has had a broken leg for a while and it got brain damage from a misplaced bullet. Time to just give it a mercy shot and end it. Extended post about why over on LoK for those interested.

Opening up a blog for my new (much more reasonable and attemptable) project here: http://corruptedhonor.blogspot.com

There's not much to look at right now.

I lied.

Yeah, I know what I said about that last post being the last post until I had this current chapter complete.

Progress is currently a matter of two granite blocks grinding against each other with the hopes of moving a couple centimeters, to put it lightly. I'm really sad that I wasn't able to get an update out for the game's anniversary, seeing as that was my original goal this summer. Currently sitting here working on Engineering and Physics homework... My engineering class doesn't even begin until tomorrow and they already have me doing work!

Point being, I've had a few folks ask me about the state of the game, update frequency, and writing.

The state of the game is thus: Work Study permitting, I'll continue to work on Jenallia's wrath. For those expecting a ton of new plot and story: I'm sorry (see below), for those expecting a bunch of smut: Rejoice! Progress will continue, and hopefully pick up the pace a bit, but it's still going to be slow going simply due to time constraints. (I've debated bringing my laptop to school on Tuesdays since I have a 3 hour gap in between learning how to be a teacher and engineering.) I love to produce content for you guys- This has always been the case! ... But this game is relatively low on my list of "important things I need to do as soon as possible."


Update Frequency: This is the smut update. This update will feature by far more porn than probably 3, 4 updates combined. For those who have followed the project, while I like the sexual literature being in the game, it is probably my biggest block and takes longer than any other part of the game to produce.

The reason? I figure that it's far enough into the game that people who just wanted porn have to work for it, and early enough into the game that it gets the mass porn wave out of folks' systems.

What does this mean for development? It means that it will likely speed up as soon as this chapter is finished as each chapter afterwards will have a maximum of 5 to 7 scenes. They may even have none. This means I need your opinions on a very important change to how I do things though.


I'm considering releasing the sex scenes as "patches" in future updates. The actual update will be released, and then I'll release a "patch" players can download that adds in the sex scenes for that chapter. This would allow me to get out storyline updates a little more quickly. Additionally, players who are waiting for a story update will have a more definitive timeframe between updates, and folks who want the sex with it can just wait a bit longer for the "premium" bonus. (It would be in the sense of everything leading up to the sex scene being in, with the scene itself having an "IOU," or "TBA" in its place.) Poll on the forums or comment below with opinions.


Writing: I've had folks ask me about writing, so here's my official stance on it, since it's changed a bit over the course of this project admittedly. Please note that you are always welcome to send suggestions and things you'd like to see my way and I'll look over them. I love to look over them since they sometimes give me a fresh perspective. These guidelines are for folks who want to write out a piece of actual story.

1. All writers who want to add their own little piece should PM me, preferably on the LoK forums since I check those most frequently.
2. I reserve the right to decline any writing submission sent to me.
3. I am not a grammar/spelling nazi, so chances are if I decline it, it has to do with the content or how it would affect the story.
4. If I decline it, I will tell you why I declined it. E.G. "I can't see Nytarra willingly having sex with the three-eyed giant mantis that's going to eat her head afterwards." (If someone jokingly writes out a script for that I might consider adding it for shits and giggles)
5. I reserve the right to alter submissions, but will inform folks about if I plan to or not so that they can decide if they still want me to add it or not.
6. You will receive full credit OOCly at the beginning of a sub quest or story you submit.
7. This doesn't apply to books. Books added to the game are much more lenient about getting through unless they're incredibly obscene. Anyone who wants to write a book should just write a short story/long story/story and send it to me if you'd like it added.
6. The only rule I have that doesn't fall under 4 is format. I want these things to be written out like they'd appear in a play and/or program, not like someone suggesting how it would go.

Example of a format I would decline:

So like... Nytarra goes into the woods and finds this giant preying mantis, and after some talking she ends up having a choice to kill it or fuck it based on her purity/corruption and other stuff.


As far as I'm concerned, this is a suggestion, not a story or piece of writing submitted.

Example of a format I would accept: (movie pitch format)

Finding a woman crying in the streets, Nytarra asks her what's wrong. The woman proceeds to tell her about how her daughter was eaten by a giant preying mantis to which Lucien may make a quip about it not being the only thing eating her. Upon going into the woods to find this mantis, assuming Nytarra has a high corruption modifier and decent sexy skill, she imagines herself having sex with a preying mantis caused by Lucien's sexual comment earlier. The player will have the option to kill or fuck the Mantis upon encountering it.

A little more detailed, but if you don't want to come up with the dialogue, I need to at least know the basic gyst of what happens and what sort of comments you think folks might make.

Another example of a format I would accept: (script book format)

Nytarra: "Why are you crying? Is something wrong?"
Exclamation point over woman's head
If high relationship value with Lucien, question mark over his head
Woman: "My... My daughter was taken by a giant mantis the other day! I fear the worst, that she may have been eaten!"
Lucien: "Well it wouldn't be the first thing to eat her. Hmhmhm...."
Anger expression over woman's head
etc.

Basically how a scriptbook would run or how RPGmaker handles events.


Hell, you can send in a combination of the two, or other methods. It just has to be clear cut, not too obscene, realistic for the characters, and understandable. If those requirements are met, I can (and likely will) add it if it's submitted.





Anyways, thank you to all the supporters! 30k pageviews, heh. I really need to get my ass in gear.

Working when possible, and I just realized I'm really dumb.

Still alive and kicking, working on the project as always! I got caught up in this NWN server called Thay for a bit, but it gave me the downtime I was trying to find to finally get my ass back into gear. (sounds silly, but it's true!)

This'll probably be my last post until I actually release Chapter 2/begining of 3. I'll respond to comments, but don't expect any new posts for a while.


Noticed people were posting in other parts of the blog that I hadn't even noticed... I feel really stupid now, going back to check it out and respond to 'em, sorry if it seemed like I was ignoring you guys! (I didn't even realize folks were commenting on them until I checked recent comments...)

And uhh... For those of you who found that future plans thing... Yeah most of that needs to be revised and edited. They're old notes and while the general gyst is similar, the plotline has been altered (in my opinion) pretty drastically.

I start my new job tomorrow! It's a minimum wage back end job at a local goodwill, but a job is a job, and money is good. Seems I'll have time to work on the game in the evenings since most days they have me working the morning shift.

A Confession

Got some work done on the bath house and inn today, plan is to try and finish those, ease my way into the brothel.

I still got a quest to put together involving breaking into the Circle building (fun!) and then with a few minor touch ups to the city (such as making it more lively) it'll be complete and I can focus on After-city events at the beginning of chapter three.

The current plot tree of added items is sort of as follows:

Isolated Teaching Institute --> Prison --> Escape --> City --> Brothel-related items --> Lanae (and/or potential for Lucien Dominant relationship beginings) --> Waypoint towards Zenith Heights --> End of current version.

about 2/3rds of the city is done, it's just some items that are either incomplete or need some defining/refining to completely add. I want to take a look at the Iris relationship again and try and alter some things (It's hard to portray how the two have a potential to grow closer when I jump through three events and then they're separated). The brothel still has plenty of smut to do, but most of it is going to be generic sex scenes, the only major part of the brothel to do still is finish the guard post side quest, and make a separate quest involving our heroine breaking into the local circle HQ.


On a different and more personal note...


I've thought long and hard on this topic, but I figure if I'm going to be transparent about what's going on with the game, I shouldn't lie to you guys, even if it hurts my reputation/puts a bit of a stigma on the game, it's something I should be honest about.


I'm uhh... Not a college student. Well I will be in about three months, but I'm not currently one. I have every plan to go into mechanical engineering, and hopefully one day work towards a doctorate in particle physics, but I actually just graduated from High School this morning.

I'm actually 19, my age isn't a question of if I began work on it as a minor or not, but I felt like there's a certain... Stigma to begin work on a porn game and still be going to high school. I felt like if folks were aware of this fact, my game wouldn't have been able to pick up because people would have passed it off as "dumb teenage shit" without giving it a try, so I lied a bit about myself to try and give it more weight. I hope you'll all enjoy the game nonetheless for what it is, and I realize a lot of you don't give a fuck about how old I am so long as I'm old enough, but I have a strong moral compass and lying just doesn't sit well with me.

I'm making this game in my spare time for fun (like I've always stated), but lately it's been hard to do so because I have to dedicate a solid few hours to get anything significant done. If I sit in a public area, I risk one of my siblings (two older, two younger) or parent from seeing what I'm working on, but when I work on it in private I seem like a social recluse, so it's quite hard to find time to work on smut. Well that and smut results in serious writer's block.

In any case, here's a link to the most recent bit I've been working on. When I get the "official" version 0.6 out, it'll feature a mega link on top of the other ones for ease of access (I'll still keep a file dropper link though... I -really- like file dropper, even if it only keeps it saved if folks are downloading it.)

ttp://www.filedropper.com/jenalliawrathuntestedlatest 

Progress!

So. I've been working on Lanae's stuff some more today, almost finished with the scene, but I got finals coming up so... Yeah. Will see how things go.

Huh.

So the polls really are broken from what I can tell... Not sure if it's just me having multiple polls running or what, but... Yeah. I somehow lost half the votes.

I did take the advice that was given in them though. Will apply it, and I'll have a new poll up (assuming it's working) when the next update comes out. Working when I can on that...

Writer's Block Sucks Hardcore.

So... I've been jumping around with work. Where I -should- be putting finishing touches on the town and continuing work on the brothel, I instead decided it would be in my best interests to work on some monster H-scenes down in the Borisville sewers and to work on the Lanae event.

SPOILERS BELOW THIS LINE

It began to make me think here... And I don't want moral grounds to be Red Blue and Green between your three companions. Moral grounds should be subjective. Thus, while the choice between Lucien or Lanae will still be a matter of evil vs. chaotic sort of good, it'll be much more morally grey, hopefully leaving the player feeling unsure if they made the right decision or not.

END SPOILERS

So with that, I might work on this a bit more today, I might go play some games and chill... Thank you all for being so patient and I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to put out content for all y'all!

Also, saw this recently. If you haven't heard it, it's really quite a classy tune.