June 2, 2025

Weekly update!

Damm, feels like I'm in headless chicken mode sometimes. Anyway, progress update! The house map is pretty much done, the others won't be, so we'll be using my placeholders for them at the moment for the release. I'll also be getting some sprites done for the NPCs, have some pretty fun ideas of doing what we did for Nano-control and we can have some of the Patrons / Subscribers be NPCs for the game, without sex scenes and all that, just NPCs that say random stuff, give out quests maybe, or maybe give out free items every once in a while. Think it might be a fun little thing for the community XD

Generally the UI and stuff will be pretty rough for now, so do keep that in mind that this is not the final product, mostly a proof of concept thingy. I'm also looking into finding a VA (for Maya for now,) to see if y'all are into it or not, but less "overly flirty and sensual" and more of like "normal person talking tone", except for the sexy scenes I mean, there we get sensual, though I would probably have the VA go the more grounded angle instead of the voice acting equivalent of "boobs bigger than head sexualised". It's all still in the works, the budget seem to allow for that, but I'm being cautiously optimistic.

Right now my main dilemma is "where to stop the game", while I would like to allow players to free roam, the game is still pretty barren and I'm concerned that it would affect perception of the game, kinda like how a "in the middle of cooking" nugget is pretty nasty looking despite the end product and all that. I mean if we have to draw a comparison, think of it kinda like "Harvest moon" / "Story of Seasons" or even the new one more people might know, "Stardew Valley" without the farming and more sexy stuff. So yeah, it's kinda weird, on one hand, if I stop the game after the sexy stuff and mini-game, it's pretty hard to get the vibe of the game. On the other, if we allow free roam, things would be pretty empty, like imagine going around exploring and finding no activities there. So yeah haha. Maybe let me know what y'all think?

Season of Foxfire Beta (ETA: 7th June for Patron, KIV for Public atm)

  • Characters intro

  • 1-2 Minigames

  • Scene with the first girl

  • Character screen UI

  • Quest log

  • Doggo figuring out how to get DLC working

Jikage Rising planned stuff for v2.24 (ETA: v2.24 for Patrons 21st June, v2.23 for Public on 7th June):

  • Beach event (maybe)

  • Adding new woohoo scene

  • Adding some sprites as prep work

  • More animations to be added

Comments (2)

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Aldrin Ignacio · June 7, 2025

2.23 public version?

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Aiman Zahin · June 7, 2025

Jikage rising public version?