Development Update: Animated Scenes

Hi everyone, this is LactoQuest.

Development and final adjustments for Stigma of Corruption are still ongoing, so I’d like to give you a quick update on the current situation.

I’m also working on new animated scenes for the game.

To be honest, this part takes a lot of time and energy.
The technical side is mostly under control now, but actually putting everything together still requires a lot of work, stamina, and production cost.

Since there is still a lot that needs to be finished before release, I’ll be adding a few sets of animated scenes to the full version first.
The number may not be huge at the beginning, but I still want them to help show the event direction, character movement, and overall atmosphere of the game more clearly.

Some things are difficult to convey through text alone, so I think these animated scenes will make the presentation much easier to understand at a glance.

Video: https://x.com/LactoQuest/status/2071647429469085968?s=20

Finally, I’d like to talk about the DLC character poll.

At the moment, I am not planning to start DLC production right away.
However, there is still a reason why I decided to open the character poll this early.

Depending on which characters may appear in future content, I can make small adjustments to certain parts of the main game while it is still in development.
For example, this may affect how some characters are introduced, how certain hints are placed, or how a few smaller scenes are arranged.

In other words, this poll is not meant to decide “which DLC will be made immediately.”
It is mainly a way for me to understand which characters players are most interested in ahead of time.

Since the main game is still being built and adjusted, I want to prepare future expansion possibilities in a way that feels natural, rather than forcing them in later.

Of course, the top priority right now is still completing the main game.
DLC-related content will only be considered properly after the main game is stable.

There is still a lot left to organize, including the product page, animated scenes, in-game events, multilingual text, and testing adjustments.

The workload has become larger than I originally expected, but I will keep polishing and strengthening the game as much as I can until the end.

Vote link: https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/24720/article/1867099

Lastly, I’d like to share a small personal note.

Recently, I played through the completed content from beginning to end myself.
This time, I chose the merchant route.

Maybe it was because I had finished the pure-love route first.
Or maybe I simply put too much of my own emotion into the story while making it.

But after finishing the route, I couldn’t calm down for quite a while.

There was this heavy feeling left in my chest, almost like I couldn’t breathe properly.
It wasn’t just “sad” or “painful.”
It was closer to that sick-to-your-stomach NTR aftertaste — the kind of emotional gut-punch that stays with you even after the scene is over.

To be honest, there was even a moment where I wondered if I had gone a little too far.

Still, if even I, as the creator, felt that weight so strongly while playing it, then I hope that the players will also be able to feel what I wanted to express through this route.

As for what that feeling is really like, I’ll leave it for you to experience for yourselves when the time comes.

Thank you very much for your continued support.