Posted March 25, 2022 by aura-dev
Note that the public release will be in 2 weeks. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura.
Man, months end way too fast. March is already over and the next release is here. If you are interesting the exact details of the development, please take a look into the individual devlog posts about the prereleases. Otherwise, let's take a loog at a summary below.
So, as usual, let me start with a number summary of the major additions. We've got 8 new lewd scenes, 6 new mental changes, 8 new real world scenes, and 1 new H-CG. Plus of course another batch of minor additions. Although, there is an overlap in the lewd scenes and the new real world scenes, namely for 2 of them since we have the first real world lewd scenes. Please don't get too excited over the high count of new lewd scenes, as many of them are fairly brief. Still! Overall, we've got a major major push in lewd content. And with the inclusion of Womb of Lust and the corresponding rebalancing a new way to access the related pink scenes.
Speaking of Womb of Lust, it also got a minor change: If the modifier reaches -100 a masturbation scene will trigger during Roya and Aura will spend her time masturbating over going out and advancing her quest. Besides these scenes, we also have our first real world lewd scenes which are also masturbation scenes.
Remove the Temperance Orb (which requires a whopping 20 Lewdness) and you can start the lewd story line on Earth. Aura will start having lewd thoughts and eventually start the two new masturbation scenes. There is also one lewd thought scene that plays 10 lewdness before you remove the Temperance Orb to make the transition a bit smoother. The other story line that you can start is going shopping with Patricia. To do so, simply flip the Patricia switch and then you'll be able to add the next apperance change (Earrings). These also cover the majority of the mental changes. There is one more mental changes for the shows. You can now get Aura to wear low-heeled shoes! There aren't any major reactions to this yet, though.
Finally, there is no mental change associated to it, but you can also now access a new memory in the Key Memories Room. It's a very innocent childhood memory of Alicia and Aura hanging out and watching TV.
On the Roya side, the new lewd content covers most of it. There is a new H-CG for the Formula Peddler, finishing off his lewd scenes. The Hermit received his 3rd lewd scene and there are 3 new minor lewd scenes in Trademond. Just speak to some of the new Guard NPCs to trigger them. Besides these, of course, as mentioned above, we have the 2 new Masturbation lewd scenes that can be triggered through womb of lust.
Besides the lewd content, we have some minor new content and improvements of old content that have been sitting on my backlog. Enter Mountainreach and observe the eternal repeat, trigger Charlotte's prison scene without having to talk to the adventurers, trigger the young merchant dinner 2 scene even after the festival, and I think there are a couple more. Oh, right! Also you can now activate stone tablets at some locations to unlock them as teleporters.
Finally, together with the rebalancing for making Womb of Lust available on all difficulties, there have been some more tweaks with Story and Hard mode. On Story mode, using a workshop no longer ends the day. On the other hand, since Womb of Lust is no longer Hard Mode exclusive and the game has been rebalanced for it to be "normal", Hard mode got a different major increase: You now gain corruption at a rate of 1 corruption each day! (This onyl applies if you start a new game, old Hard Mode games still use the default corruption speed).
Aaaand that's about it! There is one more meta information: The UI artist has officially jumped ship and I have started searching for a new one. I have created some recruitement ads and received some promising applications. I plan to test commission a selection of applications starting next week. Finally, below you can find the usual changelog, with one minor change: Major updates will now also contain updates to the overall stats in the log. I had been maintaining these numbers on the itch project page but found it sad that I couldn't look back and see them grow. So they are now officially part of the changelog.