100%, absolutely go ahead!

On the subject of giving Asterion a hat, the main thing holding us back from doing so is the way his horns are layered, really, since the layering usually goes

>fur color layer
>body layer
>a LOT of clothing layers
>emote layer
>nose ring layer
>headwear layer (stuff like glasses, etc)
>horns layer
>horn accessory layer

Asterion's horn shape will be customizable in the future (though there are already sprites for this) so it's a layer on its own.

Adding headwear like hats or crowns becomes an issue because for most of his sprites, it would have to rest between the horns, so we'd have to split the horn and horn accessory layers into two, so

>fur color layer
>body layer
>a LOT of clothing layers
>emote layer
>nose ring layer
>back horn layer
>back horn accessory layer
>headwear (glasses, etc. but could also allow hats, crowns, etc)
>front horn layer
>front horn accessory layer

It's... kind of a lot. And there's an additional complication: remember when I said "most of his sprites"? The layer order for the front facing sprites would have to be the same as the original, or else the hat would clip between horns. An alternative would be to have all the front facing horn sprites on the back horn layer and not render the front horn/accessory layers if asterion is front facing, I suppose.

And that's not getting into the trouble of shaping the hat to acommodate all these horn shapes. So, it's doable, but very complicated. You have our blessing to try, though.

There may be some spoilers if you code dive so do it at your own discretion and try not to spoil other people though.

Echoing what nanoff said, go right ahead and have fun! Modding the game is alright with us.

Update, created most of the asset art for a single hat, my only issue is that i'm struggling with the code, I keep getting an error when the game tries to load asterion on the screen, getting this error:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

  File "game/script_build05.rpy", line 20819, in script

    you "If anything, I'd like you to accept that you're good.{w=0.4}

  File "game/characters_images.rpy", line 69, in <module>

    if Asterion.stage == "buff" and Asterion.hatwear != "none":

AttributeError: 'AsterionObject' object has no attribute 'hatwear'

--

I've inserted everything that other assets have, but it doesn't seem to want to work. does anyone have any idea?

Flower crown

If anyone is interested, here is a preview of the hat I've made, the flowers are based on endemic flowers from Crete called Tulipa cretica :)

the eyes named something which I don't see unless he blushes, took liberties of adding a (blush effect, just for the preview)

this one was a nightmare to do due to the head being thrown back in surprise. it looks a tad ugly

Made it for a silly joke on the clothing suggestions thread for a hoodie, but may as well put it here, I may make the other poses at some point.

Wasn't a fan of the icon and text, also tried to thin out some of the lines

I was talking with the team about this thread, and I'm leaning on sharing here some thoughts touching on the flower crown mod Kentas is doing but mainly modding as a whole.

When we started Minotaur Hotel we went back and forth on whether having people mod the game would be a good or a bad thing. For a while we leaned on them being good, because modding is almost always a positive force in a game's community, then we weren't too keen on it because we realised it could have a chilling effect on other games being made.

Ever since we released Build 0.5, however, it's become abundantly clear just how mature, thoughtful, creative and smart this community has become. A little exploration of the forum should show that well enough.

So, for anyone coming here in doubt on what's our stance on modding, we're ok and happy with it. It means a lot that Minotaur Hotel has become the sort of game that motivates people to mod in neat ideas.

If you, unknown reader, would like to make a mod of your own but are worried about it being ok or not... Well, if you're adding cute stuff like Kentas' flower crown or hoodie, that should always be alright.

If you're going for something spicier or kinkier... That's mostly good too. Evidently we are connoisseurs of the adult content ourselves. At the same time we'd rather people not go too far. I'd rather not put any hard rules at this moment, but as a general rule of thumb we'd just like people to avoid extreme content. By that I mean scatological stuff, gore (what's already in the game is arguably too much already), that sort of stuff. If you're in doubt you can just ask in the forum and it shouldn't take long for us to give you an answer.

In case more people jump into modding I'll setup a pinned thread for it.

progression of the holiday outfit, it feels a tad awkward trying to make loose hanging sleeves for the buff boy, but I think I'm getting a hang of it (holiday hat coming soon) 

This might be rather presumptuous of me, but would the Dev team consider adding atleast my code and changes  to the layering system that allows hats to the next build? From what I hear it's content will be focused on side characters and would probably be easy to insert the code in without causing issues since it the build won't touch Asterion too much.