Thursday, August 30, 2012

Update 8/30: Transformation Overhaul

Yay, it's done.

BIG NOTE: This update DOES use the new RAGS 2.4.0.0 update. You can download the suite for free from here.

Major Changes:
- Catgirl, cowgirl, succubus, dragon and werewolf have all been completely overhauled to have additional traits and effects. The full list of effects would take far too long to update, so I'm gonna be lazy for now and not bother.
- Wings now allow you to fly to specific destinations once per day. Some destinations are not available (such as work locations) because it would screw up the time intervals and you wouldn't be able to work. So in the interests of not creating bugs, for now at least, you can't fly to those places.
- Dragons and Succubi have specific wing iterations that DO NOT show morality the way feathered wings do (yet). Also, succubi cannot fly: their wings are too small.
- Robots can now install upgrades by buying the toolkit (only after completing the robot TF). Note that I forgot to finish the descriptions for a lot of the steps of the upgrades, BUT the upgrades themselves will work: just keep using the Continue Working action until it's no longer available.

Minor Changes:
- A variety of stuff here and there. Nothing major, but you might notice some changes.

Bugfixes:
- A lot of stuff. Everything that was reported in the last major update was tested and re-tested, and fixed when I could reproduce it. I'm sure the new stuff will introduce new bugs, but that's life.

Other Things:
- High Succubus TF IS in the game, but the EFFECTS of the TF are not. It was either that or wings, and I figure more people will see wings. Next update.

You can download the new version here. As always, old saves are not compatible with new versions.

Early Time Stream

I have appointments this afternoon, and I'm awake now, so I might as well do some work. Really hoping to have the next update out today, but we'll see how that goes.

Also, because I'll be working on High Succubus stuff at some point, and I don't want people to see that, you might be treated to some kind of distraction. We'll see what comes up.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Tuesday Stream?!?

Time for more coding.

EDIT: And done. Robot upgrades are all done but for the writing, which shouldn't take more than 30-45 minutes. So 99% done there. Thursday, I'll have to finish the werewolf upgrades, the high succubus stuff, and the wing changes. Hopefully I can get it all done then so that I can put out a release. If not, then I'll probably cut the wing changes and push them to the next update.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Monday Stream?!

I really want to have this update out by the end of the month, so I'll be doing some work tonight. I don't know for how long, maybe as little as an hour, but work is work is progress.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Stream Time

Note to self: do not decide to organize your music. It takes forever.

Today, I want to finish the Robot Upgrades system, which, now that I know what I'm doing, shouldn't actually take that long.

Today I did not finish the Robot Upgrades system, but I did get way more than halfway through it. So I should be able to finish it in the very near future, possibly this weekend if I find the time.

I do have a bit of a quandary, though, in that there are two upgrade locations with only two special upgrades, the lower torso, and the head. The way the system works, you can have two special upgrades active at any time, so only having two upgrades for those locations makes things a bit...odd, since you don't have to make choices. So if anyone has an idea for upgrades that could go in those locations, let me know in the stream.

And before anyone suggests it, no, no artificial wombs for robots. They cannot have children, period (PUN!).

Got that all sorted out.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

RoboStream!

Time to add the robot upgrades. This'll be fun with a capital "F" & "U".

EDIT: Robot Upgrades is easy! Or rather, kind of are. I should be able to finish them on Thursday, and then they'll be done and another 100% will be added to the list.

Stream Tonight

I'm still working until 7pm on Tuesdays for the foreseeable future, but I think I'm getting used to it. So there will be a stream tonight. At some point.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Stroming Done!

I said I'd stream today, so here I am streaming. I'm going to finish Cowgirl (which is just a crawl through the dialogue, unfortunately for me), then see about finishing the Dragon or Robot TF changes.

Cowgirl and Dragon TFs are now completely done. I've also made the decision that the Succubus Lust Bomb action will not be in this update because I can't really contemplate writing two dozen sex scenes right now (unless someone wants to volunteer to do just that...). So a bunch of things bumped up to 100% today. Not too shabby. Getting closer to another update release.

Apparently RAGS has a new version, 2.4.0.0. I said after the debacle with 2.2 that I would wait until stable versions are released to update...and it seems like this is a stable update. So, I'll be working in that today. I doubt there's any substantive changes in the new version (I honestly haven't checked the changelog), but since 2.3 isn't available anymore, I have to go with what's available.

I've gotten a few questions in the last few days, so I figure I'll answer the more general ones here:
1) When installing RAGS, for the love of God use the .msi version if you're having problems with the .exe version. There's something about the .exe version that gets all funky at time.
2) RAGS only works on Windows, or Windows emulators. Sorry about that.
3) The next update will be when the next update is complete. You can see the progress on the right. I used to release much smaller, incremental updates, but now I prefer to finish new content before releasing anything.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

My Head Hurts

I was supposed to be back to 4 hour Tuesdays this week. Instead, my day job has increased my Thursdays to 8.5 hours for no apparently reason.

So no stream today. Stream on Thursday, though.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Big Time Work Done

Stream is up. I want to try to get most, if not all of the transformation changes done today. It'll take some time, and I have other things that I really need to do today, so we'll see how it goes.

Edit: stream is over, but I did get quite a bit done. I forgot how big one of the succubus changes is, so that might get pushed to a later update if it starts taking up too much time. We'll see.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Streaming Time

There's going to be two streams today. This first one will be new content from the Transformation update, and the later stream will be dedicated to bug fixes until I get bored and go back to new content (which is hopefully after the bugs are fixed).

Stream is currently down for the day. I got quite a few of the bugs fixed, except for the ones that require extensive testing (werewolf tf and a couple of others). I'll be back to work tomorrow though.