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Suggestions for House of Hellish Harlots Website
🕑 Added 2024-07-18 10:10:18 +0000 UTCYesterday I put out an early look at the HoHH 1.5 demo (the version with art) for $5 and higher tiers. This is a very rough early look, so rough I've not got around to updating the intro or the Barman notes mentioning how many rounds it is (it's 4 not 5). I'll be correcting that and other things over this week and next. It does have all 36 harlots that can show up Round 1-4 and full pinup and portrait art for 26 of them. I'll also open it up to the $1 tiers next week.
This is all part of the push to get a proper fancy public demo ready showcasing the first 3rd of the game.
As part of that push I think I need to give the houseofhellishharlots website a revamp, so I'm throwing it open for suggestions. This is also a good time to let me know about anything that doesn't display correctly on whatever device you're using.
The Welcome section will broadly remain the same. I'm not intending to fully sunset the text-only version until I have all the Round 5 mini-bosses written and implemented. And even after that, I'll keep it available so people can still play with the Tier 2 and 3 harlots that haven't yet been ported over to the 1.5 version.
I need to rewrite the intro to the Experimental section. That will stay where it is for the moment until I'm happy I have a stable public demo version of HoHH1.5, then I'll move that over to the Welcome tab. As with the text version, there will likely be a public demo and a password-protected patron/subscribestar demo.
This might be the only way to distribute the advanced version to patrons at the moment. I will look into creating a download to local device option.
Now I have the harlot profiles I'm thinking of splitting the Harlots tab. One will show the harlot profiles to give a teaser of the harlots in the House. The other will feature other art other patrons have commissioned (with their permission, of course). If you have art of harlots or other NPCs in the game you'd like to see displayed there, let me know.
I might merge Links with Books to give a generic "About M.E. Hydra" tab.
Not sure what to with Contact.
Those are my thoughts. If you have any suggestions or feedback about anything not displaying correctly, drop them below. Especially if you have web dev experience and spot any obvious pitfalls.
My web dev skills are extremely basic, so I'm fairly limited in what can be done. But if it can be spruced up to make the the game more enticing, it's worth doing!
I still need to get a proper title page for the game created...
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Many-Eyed Hydra
I'd like to use icons to show ailments and charms on the player's character sheet. I've been meaning to knock up some AI placeholders and try things out when I get a chance. HoHH isn't really complex under the hood like a full RPG. The status effects are more hidden tags to change how subsequent visits to other harlots play out. It's part of the central mechanic of the game being all about finding information on each harlot to determine if she's "safe" for the current character. The ailment system is there to throw in a few "pleasant" surprises.
anon1337
Do you have plans to add a status effect icon on the game interface?
