Castle of Vice – Development Diary #18 (Annelise's EroSkills and new EroTrait)

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a nice weekend.

After a lot of work, Castle of Vice 0.11 is almost ready. This update focuses on expanding combats and traps in a way that I’m very excited to share with you. If I had to summarize it in just a few words, Annelise will now be able to use skills to engage in or trigger erotic sequences.

This image shows the HJ skill, and there will also be a second skill for paizuri in this update. More skills for other actions will be added in future updates.

To unlock these two skills, you must be in the Indecisive ero-attitude and have 14 experiences performing these actions. After performing one of them one more time, Annelise will have a short internal dialogue, after which the corresponding skill will be unlocked.

Another requirement for the paizuri skill is to have the HJ skill unlocked first, so please keep this condition in mind when trying to unlock it.

You will be able to use these skills in three different situations. The first is during an erotic sequence. The second is during trap sequences, giving you the option to try to defeat one or more enemies using these skills before escaping. Finally, you can use them during normal combat. If you target an enemy with one of these skills while outside an erotic sequence, it will trigger a new special erotic sequence in which Annelise willingly kneels to…bring pleasure to her enemies.

These skills consume 1 energy point. During an erotic sequence started by Annelise, energy points regenerate like in normal combat. However, during trap sequences and sequences started by an enemy, energy points are gained the usual way: by pressing the escape bubbles.

To help you get the most out of these skills in any situation without worrying too much about energy, this update also adds a new exploration event that rewards you with a new EroTrait. The trait is this one:

Basically, this trait helps you quickly set yourself up to chain ero skills together. Even so, depending on the number of enemies and their traits, you will still need to use the energy points you gain wisely.

Another addition is a change to how exploration events are selected. You will now have a higher chance of encountering an exploration event that rewards an EroTrait, provided one is available. This should help speed up progression during corruption playthroughs.

That is essentially everything new in this update.

Looking back at what I wrote, I feel it doesn’t quite do justice to how significant this update is, since having the protagonist actively engage in erotic situations is a major part of corruption games.

There are also a few additional changes, though they are mostly bug fixes and new icons.

To start, the EroTraits Female Pheromones and Allure of the Flesh now have unique icons. I’ll leave how they look as a surprise for when the update releases.

As for bug fixes, there are quite a few:

• Fixed: Chill charge counter disappearing after winning a combat while in an erotic sequence.

• Fixed: Reroll button occasionally becomes unresponsive during exploration event rewards.

• Fixed: Some enemies' energy points resetting during erotic sequences after Annelise was hit by an attack.

• Fixed: Screen flashes not displaying correctly during ero actions.

• Fixed: Level Points not decreasing correctly when buying a potion or piece of equipment in either the safe room or the field shop.

• Fixed: Some stat changes from equipment are carried over incorrectly after loading a save file.

I wish I could have included these fixes in the current version, 0.10, but I made a mistake with my backup of that version and couldn't simply revert the work I had already completed for 0.11.

That’s all for version 0.11. It will be released next Friday, July 3rd.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post, and enjoy the rest of your day or night.