Posted March 29, 2024 by aura-dev
Note that the public release will be in 3 weeks. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura on itch.
Aaaand that marks the end of lewd month! With this update we are finally in a good spot in all the Roya content, only missing one more scene in the Underground and the Charlotte content. Other remaining lewd content is all in the Earth corruption scenes.
What this means exactly, let's take a look in the short summary in numbers for this month! We have 2 new H-CGs, 2 new mental changes, 10 new lewd scene (2 of them Corruption Scenes), 3 Corruption scenes, 1 new quest, 1 new area, and a bunch of new items and skills!
As usual, in the following I will give an overview over these new changes. For more detailed updates, check out the devlog posts.
Let's start with the lewd content! Lord Trademond, the final piece of the maid storyline was added this month. Get the last item you need from him in order to enter Richard's Domain without having to use the collar --- for a hefty price of course! Or... work as a maid and see the fruits of Aura's maid trainings with two major scene variations between high and low obedience.
The other Roya area with lewd content is the Brothel which had its last customers added in this update. Meet an old business partner on Arwin who takes full advantage of finding the killer of his business source in a brothel, and re-meet Francois who has two majorly different reactions to finding Aura in the brothel.
And then it's back into the real world. There we have only a few new corruption scenes this week where we revisit the progress of Rose's corruption as well as the cumulation event of Aura becoming less and less capable of dealing with her lust without going to Richard.
Finally, we also have a bunch of new H-CGs. The Maid Academy is now fully completed with the Paulina Training scenes having recieved their CG set and on Earth, the Cheerleading Game 3 scene has now been illustrated. Oh right, and the Masturbating At Home scene also received some minor variations.
hen, let's stick a bit around in Roya and look at the non-lewd content we have there. There are two major contributions to report on. For one, our assistant developer Trihan has implemented a new Intermediate Adenturer Quest Poison Swamps with the full set of a new dungeon, a boss monster with custom mechanics, a Vice choice, and useful rewards, especially if you listen to Desmond's proposal...
The second major addition, are a bunch of new skills and items. Rank III Martials and Spells, new items at the workshop, companions learning and being able to teach Rank II skills and so on. I won't be giving a detailed list here and instead just reference the changelog or devlog posts.
What I have been working on this week, is something I usually don't report on too much in the update posts. About half a year ago, we started to generalize, refactor, and extract the base functionaliy of SKA into a separate project in order to make it easier to start new projects in the future that share or use a set of the SKA features. E.g. menu overhaul, bestiary, NG+, etc.
The result of this week's work (which was supposed to only be a couple days and then the rest vacation time, but I needed pretty much the entire week to finish it... :'D) is the release of the 1.0.0 version of the AuraMZ Template Game, containing a bunch of the features developed for SKA and setup in a template project.
https://aura-dev.itch.io/auramz
It's free to use for non-commercial and commercial projects, only the UI assets requiring to buy a license for commercial purposes. Not very relevant for the players here but hopefully interesting to other developers. I hope the refactorings didn't break anything... :'D
Aaaand that's it for the update! Yesterday I discussed the next H-CG with our artist Emubi, which will be the Lord Trademond H-CG so we can completely close out this event line next month. Next month, I will be transitioning into the development of Chapter 3-B which means our focus will return next month at the Earth Corruption scenes and stay there until we reach the Corruption Ending!