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I'm kind of annoyed I didn't see this post in my Itch Feed (Itch's fault, not yours. Some authors updates don't seem to get pushed onto the Feed even though I've been following them for months). I only happened to check this because after looking through my games folder I realized it has been quite a while since I last played. The timing is kind of perfect though cause holy changelog! Now I'm even more interested in picking this back up!

I imagine many of you will be starting new ones anyway.

Guilty as fuck, lol. Doesn't really bother me any because I like this game anyways and though I remember what happened pretty well it can't hurt to refresh myself anyways.

Also the options menu is 10/10, I wish more games had more than just the default options to pick from. The built in Walkthrough Mod makes it even better, another thing I wish more games had.

If any of you are the type to just make loads of saves so you can get all the content without just using a gallery unlocker

Feelin a little personally attacked here lol. Called out twice.

I don't think I'm gonna be doing an Olivia femdom route as it turns out

Works for me, especially since I don't care too much for femdom. Personally, I'm still all aboard the full-time Magistrate, part-time brat-tamer train anyways, girl needs some correction.

Seriously, awesome work! Can't wait for the next update, hope things go by smoothly for you!

Atemsiel2 years ago(+1)

Hah, glad you like the options menu and all the quality of life stuff I've done. Took ages, but given how complicated the game may appear at times, I felt the in game walkthrough was totally necessary. It's a lot of work though, which I expect is why most devs don't do it.

I'm currently working on a patch that fixes a couple of bugs in the release, and adds a slider in the options menu to allow players control over their image cache size. No reason to touch this slider unless the game gets laggy, and I've only had that reported on lower end machines like laptops or whatever. I expect the reason they may be having issues is because I changed the size of the image cache to be much bigger by default in this update, which does seem to help with some of the later animations on higher end machines, but I failed to account for the effect this may have on lower end machines. So I figure just letting the player set it themselves is a decent idea. (Provided there's a tooltip in the menu to actually tell them what the setting does.

Patch should just be a patch, no requirement to redownload the whole thing if someone wants to upgrade.

Thanks for the kind words though! No idea why itch didn't push it, but itch isn't the best when it comes to telling devs how their site works anyway.

TheRealArma2 years ago

The depth of the walkthrough was muuuuch more than I was expecting and now I feel a little bad for comparing it to another game I played with one.

I can't imagine how much time it took. I think the biggest and best example is that first punishment with Hikari. There's so much more to it than I was expecting there to be, it wasn't as simple as a "Did you spank her? Yes/no. If yes you didn't take it easy like you promised" sorta scenario like I thought it was before seeing what was said in the walkthrough.

Couple typos I noticed:
When the Director is no longer in the call with their superior/sponsor he notes how his computer was turned "of" and not "off"

With the Walkthrough when it comes to entering a relationship with Riley in the Reject hint/description it says "Closes submission route open"

Atemsiel2 years ago

Ahaaa, It's a shame I didn't read this 13 minutes ago when you posted it, because I just set 0.22.05 building, and coulda fixed those typos. Not gonna restart the build just for that though, but I'll fix them for next time, thanks.

Yeah there was no real way around it for some of the choices other than to just write an essay. Sadly I can't easily have the tooltips change based on what you've done, so I gotta just list a bunch of stuff. There's a lot that goes into the Akemi and Hikari stuff so they in particular have some fairly long tooltips in places. I may look at rewording them over time, but for now I kinda just had to write down what everything does or is planned to do to the best of my ability and then post it. The tips may change as well since the game is still in development. Some things may just become untrue and need to be changed.

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