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Status update & Luna stuff!
🕑 Added 2024-08-10 20:09:56 +0000 UTCHello! I want to talk about some Luna things!
First off, the responses I got for the audio seems to be this:
Voice clips during dialogue isn't well liked but moaning voices during scenes are!
So that's how I will do it. Of course the voices during H scenes can be turned off if they are not to your liking.
I will try to work a lot with proximity sounds. I like the idea of being able to hear H events from far away but only have a visual hint (like a heart emote at the door) show up when you are right next to it.
I bought quite a lot of audio assets and should be able to make lots of scenes with unique voices and sounds.
Multiple girl roaming!?
Lots of people have asked if other girls like Pudding and Jam will also have roaming events. It's a great idea but I am not sure how to implement it.
I've been thinking of an item that lets you switch between the different images of the girls, looking like this:
However, I think this will worsen the 'Door Problem' a lot. Instead of spamming doors the player now has to navigate a menu to check up on all the girls every time. That can't be good!
Maybe the side image should be reserved for only Luna to keep exploring simple.
That way, the other girls will roam around and H events would randomly occur but you have to find it without the help of an image.
Let's meet a new girl!
Sometimes people approach me with characters or ideas and I end up liking them a lot. Someone gave me an idea for a bear girl!
Meet Bea, the aspiring fisher. Her tail is small...
For some reason, every RPG seems to have fishing.
And sometimes people actually spend their time fishing instead of playing the game! Can you believe it?
Bea doesn't care much for the actual game, she went with the Assassin class but she is still level 1 because all she does is fish in town.
However, fishing in the starter town can only get you so far. Maybe with your help she can make it to fishing spots in higher level areas!
But higher level areas have dangerous monsters... and her armor has an unfortunate opening at the sides, for some reason.
Oh no, it's the Fief of Censorship. She's saying this image is too lewd to fully show. As if she's one to talk!
Luna's release!
We will try to have it ready for the end of the month. That's a rough ETA so please don't take out the pitchforks if we end up needing a little longer.
It will be the first town to establish the story, meet villains and see Luna exploring with multiple H events.
In Sana's game the dungeon bosses didn't get much attention. For Luna I would like to give them more meaning so it's more work than just a defeat scene.
I would like to add the first dungeon with another update afterwards or it will be too much for the artist and the release will take too long.
I'm also not entirely happy with the way combat controls right now. It's giving me a headache, let's worry about it after the first release!
Important!
I'm very grateful for all subscribers sticking with us in this 'in-between' phase with currently no updates to Sana.
For the sake of fairness, I already created an itch.io page for Luna, but it's currently empty:
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https://empe3.itch.io/project-gao
PW: HowlingAtTheMoon
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If you do not plan on staying subscribed you should still have access to Luna's first release.
It would be unfair if we release the game just as someone's subscription has expired! That idea really bothers me so please bookmark it for later.
Thank you for helping us develop H games!
Comments
headpat
Some sort of friendslist popup is a great idea! I'll experiment with it.
DonLUSH
Fair point thou in that case I suppose the easiest way would indeed be a switch so how about a friend list then? nowdays in MMO you mostly see if your friends are online/inactive but how about a notification or text color change that to Anon just means "Busy" but to the player means an event is happening (normal or H). This way the player only has to check if the text is different and Luna can stay on screen most of the time
headpat
I would like it if the other girls roaming was a more constant thing, across all towns! Not just during one chapter while Luna can't play.
DonLUSH
I love and connect with Bea on a spiritual level as an old lvl30 pc farming materials at lvl 80maps, not enough bear girls too. Keeping the focus on Luna instead of switching seems like a better idea to me but as a form of experimentation why not capitalize on the IRL/in-game aspect of the project? Say at chapter 3/4 Luna gets sick and cant play for a couple days so Anon is forced to play that chapter along other girls. Option 2 randomly if h-events IRL progress to some degree Luna is "busy" and cant login so you spend a session with other girls.
TTM
Oh and Bea is super cute
TTM
Looking forward to Luna! I do like the idea of the other girls having roaming scenes, but I feel like the standing image should be dedicated to Luna. She is the object of our desire afterall. I feel it might lessen the impact of the ntr if we get muddied up thinking about harems. I did kinda like the thought of the other girls in Sana being sort of a 'bad influence' on her.
