Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Long Stream Details

So the long stream is tomorrow. Twelve delightful hours of streaming.

The plan is to begin around 10am EST. There will be a short break at about 7pm EST, as I have to pick up my wife from work, but until that counter reaches 12 hours (total), I'll be here. In this chair. Coding. Or playing games.

But mostly coding.

If it's anything like the last long stream I did, I'll slowly be going crazy around the 9 hour mark, so if that's all your interested in, tune in then. Also, remember that the stream is limited to 50 viewers, and I hit that cap within two hours last time, so get in early to guarantee a seat.

As a personal favor to me, if you step away from watching the stream for an extended period of time, please let someone else take your spot. And if you have a question, but can't view the stream (and therefore can't hear me), please let me know so that I can answer your question properly.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Update 1/10

It wasn't long, but key updates!

Major Updates
- New item: chastity belt. This under-underwear item can be worn and removed when you're naked. Wearing it overnight will reduce your arousal by 10, and have the following effects: Slut -1 (if slut is not unlocked). If Slut = 0, Exhibitionist -1 (if exhibitionist is not unlocked). If Slut and Exhibitionist = 0, Proper +1. There is also an additional effect, but it's not currently in the game yet.

Minor Updates
- Transformations have been redone. They now work properly. In addition, if you progress along one transformation and then another becomes dominant, the newly dominant TF will override all your previous body changes. So you can't grow a cow tail and then progress along the cat TF with that cow tail: it'll eventually be overridden.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed the bug with the overcoat at the beach preventing the proper removal and wearing of clothing and swimsuits.
- Underwear should now be properly worn when using the Get Dressed command on the locker.
- Amazingly, no other (actual) bugs reported. Some typos, but eh.

So...about that late stream...

Stream will start later than usual today. I've got a guy coming by to fix my dishwasher, and I don't want to be streaming pseudo-porn when that happens. He was supposed to show in the morning...oh well...


Today's stream might be shorter than usual as a result, but since the 12 hour stream is happening on Thursday, I'm not too worried about that.


I was all ready to stream, but then the guy fixing my dishwasher showed up late (not his fault, I don't blame him), and then he can't fix the dishwasher right now, but he'll be back to do it later...but he doesn't know when.

I can't really stream under these conditions!

I'm going to stream for an hour or two tonight. Sorry about the problems. Again, because the long stream is happening Thursday, I'm not going to lose any actual time, but I was hoping to get more done.

Oh well, life gets in the way of itself all the time, I suppose.

Sorry again.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Update 1/6

Dunno why I decided to do this today, but I did.

Bug Fixes:
- Udder growth option didn't show up if the player has increased the Cow TF too quickly.
--> Changed transformation options completely: whatever transformation is dominant will cause all changes at or below the current level. So if you're 40% cat, and then get to 50% cow, you'll see all the changes that get you up to 50% cow. This will prevent mix-and-matching parts, but since that's not really a long term goal anyway, it's not a big deal. This may cause problems, please inform me of any bugs.
- Udder growth option will no longer show up every morning.
- Get Dressed at the locker at the Strip Club fixed. This was actually a bug with the Strip Naked command, but I won't bore you with details.
- The sweatsuit can no longer be put on over the waitress uniform.
- Futa growth was unable to progress beyond juvenile. Fixed.
- Tampons are no longer a permanent fix; you'll need a new one every day of your period.
- Choosing "Maria" as your name in the intro now sets your name to "Kim" as the text indicates it should.
- Random Growth Spurts event will now set your natural height to 7', or should, anyway. Thought I could elegant my way out of that, ended up having to brute force through it.
- Platform shoes and boots should be fixed to properly add to height now.
- The "Sex for Money" random event now changes your sexuality (pushes you towards heterosexuality).
- Strappy heels now add to your heels skill (+2) and your reformed feet trait (+1), putting them on par with the medium heels.

Reported Bugs
If you can provide more details on this, or a save game, please do.
- Sometimes the game doesn't count the sweatsuit as being worn when exercising. Couldn't reproduce.
- Mixed reports on medical treatments. Some people are seeing them fine, some aren't. Worked fine in this version. Couldn't reproduce.
- Maternity outfits sometimes go on before underwear. Couldn't reproduce.
- Typos. I am not too concerned about fixing these right now.
- Non Natural Charisma is buggy. I know it is, this is due to the Get Dressed/Strip Naked revamp, but it's an involved fix. I'll do it in the near future.
- Couple of problems with one-night stands. Didn't have the energy to go wading into that fun morass right now.
- One-piece swimsuit sometimes goes into the closet but still has the (worn) tag. Couldn't reproduce.
- Pregnancy/Parenting skill can't be raised to 100. I haven't included one of the options (Lamaze class) yet, because it'll take some additional time to work it in.

Notes:
- After the first talk with Brittany, there are no other interactions with her. That's as far as that mission goes so far.
- Inhibitions can be reduced by various actions including theft. If you steal anything other than what is required from the lab mission, you will lose 5 points of inhibitions for each item taken.

Plans:
For Tuesday, I have some minor story events that I want to put into the game, and then I want to start work on a couple of new semi-major events: the mermaid and the church. The church is half planned, and the mermaid is 90%, so hopefully I'll be able to make some headway there.

For Thursday, I'll be streaming for 12 hours, and the plan is to work on the Robot Girl transformation, along with some other minor stuff, like finishing pregnancy once and for all, and working on a couple of more major story points, like the second mission.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Update 1/5

Insert not-at-all-witty comment here.

Major Updates
- Baby interactions. They are completely optional right now (in that they don't affect anything), and reference items that are not in the game yet (crib). Once the endings are added in, your decisions on interacting with your baby will affect the baby's ending.

Minor Updates
- The "random growth spurts" event has been tweaked slightly to increase your maximum natural height to 7' after the fifth or sixth event. This is permanent. Because platform shoes and boots can still increase your height, the new maximum for height is 7'6".
- The "Special Outfit" can now be used for the secretary job and the hooker job, as long as it is in an appropriate shape (max fem and min inhibition for hooker, med inhibition or higher for secretary).
- Appropriate clothes for the secretary job have been updated to include some maternity clothes (i.e. not the flirty or sexy maternity clothes), as well as the purple belted dress.
- During the Cow transformation, you will now have the option to touch either your breasts or your stomach at a certain point. Touching your breasts proceeds as normal. Touching your stomach results in an udder growing. This is purely cosmetic, currently, but will have effects on things such as clothing and milking (there's a small variation in milking already, but it's descriptive only).

Bug Fixes
- Futa growth will no longer result in bad end unless you really are overdosing in a single day.
- You can no longer get trapped in the Laboratory lobby during the 1st mission heist.
- The doctor's office offers special treatment options again.
- A weird bug that allowed you to put on underwear after putting on clothes has been fixed.
- The problem during the intro where the Femme Fatale could show up twice has been fixed.
- The special outfit should now be properly stripped off by the Strip command, and should be worn by the Get Dressed command.
- Maybe some others? I don't honestly remember.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Update 1/3

First update of the year!

Major Updates
- New Event: random growth spurts. This was a request. Basically, to activate, you have to hit maximum height (6'10"), and then keep trying to get taller (use the growth serum). First two extra doses don't do anything. Third dose locks in your height (you cannot get shorter anymore. Ever.), and then the following doses do different things when you go for a walk or jogging with high arousal (90%, 75%, 50%). This includes a bad end that, as always, you can avoid.

Minor Updates
- Tampons now have to be used manually; there's a command on the box in the bathroom to do so. I'm seriously freaking hoping this stops the stupid period bugs. These bugs are going to kill me, I swear.

Bug Fixes
- Stripping at the strip club will now put your underwear into your locker, as it should.
- Getting dressed for work while already dressed (again, at the stripper locker) will properly remove your current clothes, rather than putting on all your clothes on top of each other.
- Giving birth should now only happen once, as opposed to once a day (whoops!).
- Getting dressed for work will now properly put on your shoes, as opposed to ALL of the available shoes. Note that this might result in oddities, like not wearing the right shoes. Let me know if this happens.

Notes
- If you are seeing problems in the opening sequence with the three girls, please let me know what commands you're using. I tried the sequence a dozen times in the stream and couldn't produce any errors.
- The RAGS Engine has been updates to 2.3.0.0, finally. Hopefully this will reduce bizarre bugs. Link for the engine is on the right, as always.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Beer! I mean, Year!

A new year, sweet.

2011 was kind of crazy for me. Lots of stuff happened. Ah, but you don't care about that. What you care about is Cursed, and I can understand that.

The game went from something in my head and not even close to half-finished to something quite massive and, evidently, enjoyable. And it still not done. The goal for this year is to finish it, and I think I'm on track for that. Maybe sometime around September. We'll see.

You'll notice the donation goal on the right has been reset to what it used to be. No more crazy donation goals, at least not for now. Just a pretty simple $100 a week. As before, you can request new stuff to be added to the game (if you want, you can just donate to support as well), and when I reach the goal of $100, that means that the following week, I'll continue posting new versions. If I don't reach the goal for a week, the following week will have no new versions posted.

A stream is planned for the regular time on Tuesday. As for the 12 hour streams, I'm coordinating with Fenoxo, but right now, I'm planning for the 12th of January and the 19th of January for the 2 twelves. Should be fun.

With pregnancy stuff more or less implemented (it's about 80%), I have a backlog of requests that I want to get into the game. Then it's back to the Genevieve relationship and jobs. Probably jobs. They've been stagnant for a good long while now.

Here's to the new year. Hope it's a good one for all.

NOTE: the Requested Features page has been updated. I'm pretty sure I got everything in there, but if you requested something and you don't see it there, contact me. I don't want to miss anything.