Version 2.4.3, Kobolds & Kittens

Dev Notes

• Our seventh weekly build! Amongst this one’s features are a couple of major scenes (which I hope you’ve been looking forward to as much as I have), a boatload of new voice acting, and some small but significant tweaks to the game experience.

Features

• Scene: the commoner girl has a surprise for you (collab with Eliterose, Dreamweaver choice).
• Scene: let’s not leave Sabetha & Inej hanging.
• Plot: congratulations! It’s a boy (collab with Eliterose).
• Art: Ziz lends the dragon a hand (Lubbio).
• Art: Marie-Anne does some work on all fours (Lubbio).
• Animation: the huntress’s wounded idles (Amon Ra).
• Voice: Darja’s responses to premature advances (Jess).
• Voice: Inej’s capture, escape, and release.
• Voice: revised, expanded, and even more punchable lines for Regent Balthorne (Joff).
• Voice: the dragon’s lair building choices, and interactions with Heloise (GreyScale).
• Voice: Breaker’s graduation for Marie-Anne (Rado).
• Voice: assorted kobolds (Ash).
• Music: the draft version of our new lair theme (Mortalitech).
• BG: new backgrounds for the shack, demonic altar, inferno, and the protean rapture (Mortalitech).
• BG: retouched backgrounds for the courtyard, wildlands, town, and peasant room (Mortalitech).

Tweaks

• The rogue sisters’ intro skit has been updated, and will play once more.
• A new ‘Goofiness’ content flag has been added to the Preferences menu. It does… well, who knows?
• Failing a strength or charm check now grants you a bonus point in the corresponding attribute. This should provide some flexibility if you wish to alter direction mid-game.
• When you ask Cuchilla her name, you can give her a nickname.
• Improved image handling during the farmgirl’s happy captive scenes.
• Added support for flipped graphics, starting with the huntress in interludes.
• Sleeping with the nun grants Potency.
• If you don’t like your initial options for capturing Valzira, you may return to Malagar later for another brainstorming session.
• The nun’s animations now face towards the left.
• The lair theme transitions in more smoothly.
• The rogue sisters’ painted portraits are a little taller.

Fixes

• You can no longer use the power of indecision to farm reputation at the Gutter’s Cove tavern.
• The chamber will properly ‘reset’ if you revisit it after it has been used.
• Your first time with Issa grants Potency more consistently.
• Issa’s room decor is more consistent.
• Restored a missing image for the Inquisitrix.
• Assorted grammar and stage direction improvements.
• And everything found in the playtest (thanks GrayRaven!).