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Hey there! back on development,irl situation should be a bit more stable going forward. getting ready for the next update, ecosystem is finished and i'm fixing any bugs that have piled up in this long period of time

just finished fixing this bug, it was a mess xD

next update will have the fix ^^

Finally solved this issue, the script controlling sex scenes was a mess, i did it over and it should work properlyin the next update ^^

I've finally fixed this problem..the sex code was some of the oldest in game, so it was awful lmao

I basically did the scripts from scratch, and the issues you described should be solved in the coming update ^^

Thank you <3
Sunrise Springs seems to have a bit of performance issues, I'm not sure at this point what is causing them, but I think after i'm done with the next ecosystem I will go back to the older sections and make sure everything is working as it should ^^

The gallery is planned as a reward for finishing the game ^^

yeah i know, I'm doing my best though. new update is almost finished, but irl situation makes it hard to get consistent progress in this period

Uh. that's not good. I'll check what's going on. ty for the report

I could upload the tracks to YT then, added to the task list ^^

Hey there, thanks for commenting again, I missed your older post. I will be looking for potential causes and fixes

sound needs a pretty big update, unfortunately i suck at making sound and songs, so I'm hoping to find a good sound designer / composer for it

Hey! idk how I missed this comment :/

I'll be looking for what's causing this issue as soon as I finish flora's final sprite animations. I hope to get it fixed by the next update

only 3 areas are accessible in the demo

There will be an update coming end of March. I was forced to skip a cycle due to IRL situation

Can't help you. Considering the game has a free demo, you knew very well what you were buying before you bought it

I can't help you, sorry

As written in the page, I don't plan on continuing development for this game

awesome! thanks for the feedback <3

mmh, i'll take another look at the specific room, maybe I missed a layer.

I'm glad the Pleasure in Power (previously Sonic Boom) jewel is still seen well, I am quite satisfied with the state of it, and I definitely want trigger-spells to be a viable playstyle.

Mana builds here have a strong focus on versatility. since mana can always be used to heal, and can also be used to damage, playing a mana-focused build allows for "on-the-fly" adaptation. Of course 1 or 2 mana jewels are attractive for most builds anyway, for the convenience of having more spells available.

So far, i'm happy with balance, because different builds shine in different ecosystems. A build that has trouble defeating the Lamia, for example, might breeze through the Burrower, and vice versa. And i'm very happy with that =D

yes indeed, it's been super useful! I am infinitely grateful for your help ^^

Hi! I just wanted to mention that i've figured out what is making those specific scenes lag so much. it turns out, the new blur tech is a lot more expensive than my initial tests showed.... and, because i'm a dummy, I only used it in 3/5 of the new scenes .-.

update coming soon to fix this and many other issues

Lesbian, bi, and trans are included currently or planned. Since the protagonist is female, unfortunately there won't be any MxM content

You cannot play other characters, but there are LGBT sexual interactions and more of them to come!

Nope, none of my games will, probably ever.. sorry.
I don't have a Mac to test it on, and can't justify taking the time/money to make the port over improving the game for the vast majority of players.

New patch has reduced the difficulty of the Lamia quite a bit. the moves themselves haven't changed, but both HP and speed have been reduced

Thanks for the offer! I'll contact you whenever I get round to it ^^

Ah! Yes, thanks for the notice! 

There is a "full screen toggle" in the pause and main menu. At the very least, I will make "windowed" the default option if it detects an ultra wide, and add a notice that ultra wide is not supported. Unfortunately getting ultra wide to work correctly would require a ton of changes to the in-game camera (to avoid messing up the background and showing unwanted elements) and many if not all UI screens. I will look into potential alternatives when I go over the settings for the game, which may happen over the next update.

I hope you can still enjoy the game in window mode, where resolution "snaps" to 16:9 as it is intended

Ok, I managed to recreate the lamia bug, it was indeed a checkbox missing on the collider, making the collider solid instead of an area volume. All issues are solved (i had to make a workaround for the first one, as I am short on time).

Thanks again for the massive help, I really appreciate it! <3

Ok yeah, I see the issues with fast travel. I must have been really tired/distracted when I updated the map lol
update coming soon

There's maybe a couple of non-aggressive tentacles that i'd like to lewd, that handle NPC functions such as a shop of sorts. I don't know if I'll lewd them though, I haven't gotten around to designing their looks either

I don't recall changing movements from the last update, but if you played before then, then yeah, 3 months ago I slowed down the movement a bit precisely to allow Jewels to influence it (otherwise it got to the point where it would be strong, but feel terrible to have some jewels equipped)

You too m8! thanks again for the feedback <3

That's awesome! thanks for finding all these bugs! I did not encounter them myself, but I will try my best to fix them. The fountain and spikes issues *should* be just a matter of me forgetting to set spawn points correctly, as for the clipping through the walls, that could be a matter of 1 checkbox missing, or an animation issue, or something much harder to fix.

That's a neat jewel combination! Just yesterday I designed the full collection of jewels and balanced them all to fit the planned Jewellery rework, the strategy is still possible, but there is now a greater cost to it (one of which is, trigger spells expend small amounts of mana). I also noticed this was super strong, but didn't want to just nerf it to the point of it feeling bad, so I kept it as is for now. Enjoy it while it's available ahaha <3

regarding the lag... I'm not sure what this could be about. If it were a rendering issue, it would happen in all scenes with slime pools, not just some of them. I'll investigate this, see if I can find any solvable issues

Awesome! glad you enjoy it <3

Thanks ^^
For now, I gotta focus on Aphrodisiac 2 until it's finished. After that, depending on how well the game goes, we'll see. I have a lot of ideas, both SFW and not.

Thanks for your feedback!
I may revisit the fight in the future, but for now, here's a few tips:
- Offensive Spells (right click) can be super useful against dangerous enemies, as they are all some kind of ranged. 
- Try messing around with different Jewel combinations. Some work very well against the Lamia's wide sweeping attacks.
- Most importantly, the Dash ability gives very short immunity time. I don't think this is mentioned anywhere currently (other than the jewel which extends it), but I will make sure to include the note in the new update... reworking the tutorials in-game is on the to-do list. You can tell how long the I-frames last by paying attention to the sprite: if Flora's sprite is black, you can't get hit by enemies.

The game is meant to be challenging, but not "basically impossible". Even optional fights like the Lamia are not meant to be this hard. The next ecosystem's boss has a new approach to animations that gives me much more flexibility with timings of attacks. If this approach works well, I will probably go back to existing fights and update them, but it won't happen too soon.

Again, thanks for your feedback. It's hard for me to get "first impressions" on the fight after playing it 50 times while I tweak it, so these comments are super helpful.

Hope this helps, cheers!

Everything that was free is still free! the demo version will be updated with any new feature that affects it, and will remain free.

Ecosystems beyond the first 3 are only accessible in the paid version. If you had donated any amount to the free version, you will have the paid version unlocked. Paid version will go up by 1$ for every new ecosystem I add, but if you already own it you won't have to pay more.

There's currently two kinds of scenes. The first 3 ecosystems (demo) have type A, the last one and the next update will have type B.

A. Loop: 8-12 frames of regular animation. There's no finish to the loop.

B. Slideshow: 20-30+ frames of slideshow, with second person narration. These have finishes.

no worries mate, I love hearing people are excited about my game! if you want to get daily (more or less) updates, consider joining my discord server ^^ I write down all my progress there, as well as timelines/deadlines I put on myself
the link is somewhere in the aphro2 game page ^^

Glad you enjoy the game! =D

Current intention is to do 1 ecosystem every 3 months, and that will saturate my schedule. Plan is to have 10 major ecosystems with ~3 lesser ones (tutorial, town, ???). If the game does well, I have 3 others that could get added as an expansion.

With optimal work conditions, it takes approximately 1 month for lewds, 1 month for core gameplay (level design, env, combat animations, jewels), and 1 month for polishing (sound, bgm, bugfixing, testing, and all the bits and bops that I left behind, like tutorials, NPCs, dialogues etc... and adding new features).

It is my intention to add NG+ to the game, but it's not really a grinding game, nor is it meant to be infinitely replayed. Reaching 100% completion requires 5 play-throughs, and each one unlocks a special perk. of course they are cherries-on-top, not really "core" elements, but they will be pretty cool nonetheless.

I would expect this game to be as grindy as a souls-like. you can do it, but you are better off just progressing the game/git gud.

See you in the next update (early next week I'll be adding the Lamiacle boss fight) ;)

lmao

Yup! It's not high on the priority right now, I want to get at least past the mid-game (3 more ecosystems) before I worry about it. There are 2 ways I could implemented:

• Current best: the gallery is unlocked upon beating the final boss, and remains unlocked for NG+
  • Pros: big reward for finishing the game, centralized, permanent.
  • Cons: not available for first playthough.
• Not-so-good alternative: the gallery for each ecosystem is unlocked after 100%-ing that ecosystem. 
  • Pros: available during first playthrough.
  • Cons: fragmented, locks lewds behind finding jewels instead of tentacles.

Your comment does raise an interesting point, and something that I should actually add is a lewd counter, that tells players if they met all tentacles in the current version. I used to have a message in the intro that said "there are X tentacles to find" but I got rid of it because it looked awful. I will see if I can include a functional "counter" of sorts that shows up in the pause screen or in the collection.

the Demo Is limited to the first 3 ecosystems. The full version currently has 4, and will end up with 10.

The game page has more details about the progress timeline and plan ^^