September SS Reward #2 - Ample Chests 0.2!
Hey all, this is the big one - the thing we've been spending all our skill, computing power and sanity working on for the last month! Ample Chests 0.2!
Download Links: PC | Mac | Android
This update is significant - it's not another tack on to the story, it is in a very real sense a new game, and if AC had more to it than the single chapter it we'd likely be releasing it solo like we did with Bountiful Harvest.
For anyone who isn't sure how to proceed - just select "Start" then "Chapter 2" to begin the new content.
I can say without doubt this is the most complicated game we've ever made. Lady Grove took the heat on this one - while I was making pretty pictures, she was figuring out how to code a claw game, a dynamic inventory and armoury and crew page and general shop and cartography shop and hiring agency... the list goes on, so my massive thanks to her - without her this would simply not exist.
All that being said we hope you enjoy it! It's our first rougelite / management style game, with powerups and dangers and money, but I think it's a bit of horny fun, which is really why we're here.
An that being said - we get to the end of the month, and I would like to give a massive thanks to everyone who supported us during this explorative gaming trial.
It has been such an interesting adventure and we've got so much complicated code in our short term memory that we're going to do something we've not done before - in October we are going to do another month back to back of improving Ample Chests. Not that the game is incomplete, but because we've spent so much time making this game dynamic and expandable I want to see what new things we can add in.
Especially since the "skeleton" of the game is made, now we're adding fun meat like:
More crew to grow
More conversations
Different events during travel
More minigames
Recruitable pirates
The next story after the temple of alteration
And better still, since we're going to working on this in real time - we want your feedback. What do you want from the next update? Which fetishes do you want the crew to tackle? Do you want people bigger? Is there a system loop that bugs you? We'll ask throughout the money with polls and fix it as we go along.
October will be a test of game development with ongoing community feedback, and given your past amazing contributions I think version 0.3 is going to be a kracker. We'll catch you then.
Comments (63)
Getting a lot of error codes on the current android build. Some I can select to ignore and it sends me back an option but others require me to shut the app down.
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Thanks, Flash. Those are some incredibly kind words and know that you made my day 😊
Thanks for your reply. Know that I know that the games don’t work on my IPad, I don’t feel so stupid.
I apologize for my ignorance, but I can’t get the game to work. I am using an IPad 16 and can’t even find Start or Chapter 2 in the download. Any help for this poor soul would be appreciated. BTW, with the exception of the games, which is my fault, your content is phenomenal…!
Alas it is Apple thwarting your attempts at joining in the shenanigans as our games don't work on ios 😔 thank you for all your support even if the game isn't working on the iPad.
Dear Mrs Grove, dear Mr Grove, first of all, thank you for this amazing game, your hard work and dedication you have for your community. You never cease to find the right balance between fun, sexiness and the right portion of kinkiness. =) Usually, I do not comment because I am a quiet watcher and just appreciate your work in a quieter manner. But after playing this game for a bit, some ideas came to my mind which could be fun to integrate (if possible); and sorry if they were mentioned before. XD Of course, there is the possibility to add more crew members with different types of expansion/abilities (muscle growth, weight gain, ass expansion alone, perhaps even furry if the interest is there, etc.) which I am a fan of like all the other commentors. Another twist to that could be a second artifact which can be hold to trigger other effects (for example, Simone could grow in height like Kally instead of breast expansion and vice versa) or it could be hold together with the first artifact to trigger these other effects in addition to the original ones. Or it could trigger some whole new ones, which no one had before and can only be achieved by holding both artifacts together. The possibilities are endless.^^ Another point is the expansion (pun intended) of capacity against the “Kracken”-status to go beyond the current limits (with more growth for the girls, of course). To add to this there could be some treasures which give a kind of resilience to the “Kracken” so the girls can hold the artifact(s) longer than usual; or these treasures can trigger other abilities (like other growth forms) when the person would go over their limit. Or these treasures can let the girls keep their growth development (without being kracked), even if they pass the growth artifact(s) to another one, and start a new ability, kind of like progressing through one stage, then progressing through the next stage and so on. These are just my thoughts; it is up to you how you like it, and sorry for the flood of words. XD Again, thank you for all the fun you bring to us in these difficult times, and keep up the good work *waves the virtual hat*! =)
Thank you for taking the time to reply, we always appreciate hearing from patrons especially when some of your ideas are also things we've talked about at BE Grove HQ. I take no credit for finding that balance, that's all the genius of BE Grove (can you tell I'm the proud wife?)
There's some decent framework here! Here's just some streaming thoughts out my head: - The animations repeating over and over again can get tiresome when you just want to grind. It's fun for the first few times but it happening over and over again and having to skip the dialogue over and over again got tiring quickly - I'm not sure if this is something that can be fixed but the switching idols can be clunky. Especially early game when it's just one or two girls - It's been forever since you've done something like blueberry or full body - I felt like "Cave of Tripping" was going to give me a bonus for Fayde, so maybe individual islands can give bonuses depending on who you send? There is a good game in here for sure! Even if it's much lighter on the actual expansion/body change content of its predecessor for now but the potential is, like a good bust, limitless.
I'm glad you see potential and thanks for the feedback. Fayde having a special connection to the Cave of Tripping makes a lot of sense, can't believe I didn't see it before this.
Any chance to make it run on Windows below 10, say like 8.1?
With the current Ren'Py version we aren't able to do a build that's compatible with older versions of Windows.
Awesome game, thank you, game worked well for me. Love to see bigger sizes in next update BE, Giantess and AE. No such thing as too big 😀
The biggest limitation to size is trying to get everyone on screen and still visible - I spent the better part of a day trying to layout the crew page so that you could see them in all their expanded glory 😊
Tiny bit of a spelling error when Kally’s size reaches the fifth stage, where Ruby says, “It hapepns all the time”. Continuously great work though. I love the new update.
Thanks JacobWSX, we definitely need to another proofread but thank you for spotting that for us.
You've really outdone yourselves this time! Excellent game mechanics to support hours of play! Not to mention the animations 👌. For suggestions, we definitely need events to damage the ship. Maybe uncontrolled growth to break mast ceiling/deck. Got through the game without using a single plank. As for more crew... It's October...please, use Adara, Jade, Sylvia etc. from Change Deck
Thank you Jeff, that's a lovely thing to say. I honestly hadn't thought about a crossover with Change Deck like that, love the out there ideas!
Seen a few comments about crashing so thought I'd throw my hat into the ring too. Trying on latest android on Pixel 6 pro and won't even load after install, crashes on the renpy loading screen. Had no issues on your other games but just changed from pixel 6 to pixel 6 pro but should be the same android version 😣 tried reinstalling to no avail, any help would be appreciated!
Thanks for the report! I've got a Pixel 7a where it works. A couple of things you can try: -Fully uninstall the game and reinstall (sometimes cache from other Ren’Py games conflicts). -Make sure you’re downloading the full file size — if it cuts off, Android installs but crashes on startup. The file is about 1GB. If none of that helps, could you let me know your exact Android version? That’ll help me narrow down if it’s an Android 14 issue.
Why not work on my android?
I've DM'd you so we can get to the bottom of it for you, it works on our Android devices which is always a good start.
Chello! Played through the game yesterday and it was a very fun time. I can't wait to see what yall add to it in the future. In terms for the fetish stuff, bigger sizes are always welcome (duh), lactation would be nice and while it's not everyone's thing something with futa is always appreciated by me hehe he. Keep up the good work and I look forward to the future. Huzzah!
That's great to hear you had fun playing it and thanks for the feedback.
Great job, I’d love to see more giantess content.
Glad you liked it and thanks for the feedback 😊
Been playing for a couple hours. Loving the new addition! Excited to hear that you're going to continue improving it next month too, I've come up with some improvements/additions for consideration for the next instalment (or not, It's you guys' game, I'm just happy to be along for the ride 😁) More Crew, More fetishes Love that each member of the crew seems to be effected by the idol in their own way (breast expansion, height growth, butt expansion). Some other effects or fetishes I think would be great to see as more crewmates are added: - 💪 Muscle growth - For the muscle mommy lovers. - 🍔 Weight Gain - Something I don't think we've really seen from the Grove before apart from the occasional belly growth, but something I think would be appreciated by the feederism community. - ⚧️ Gender Bender - Something you've done before, take a dude, make him more and more feminine with each Idol stage. - 🍼 Got Milk? - BE with a twist. Maybe Simone has this already when she gets big enough. I haven't got that far yet haha - 🍆 Penis Growth - Pulling at straws now but I know you've done this one before too. I'm aware there are only so many effects or fetishes you can incorporate 😅. More uses for the Planks I myself being a skilled swordsman have yet to take damage to my ship. So i have a stack of planks just sitting there collecting dust. More uses for these or maybe just the ability to sell them for a bit of extra booty (get it hehe) would be good. For real tho I think this is a fantastic addition to the game and really can't wait to see how it grows in the future. You all have done amazing work here!
We're delighted to have you on the ride with us 🥰 thanks for the feedback and suggestions, there is a lot of potential here.
The new update looks great. I am little turned around when it comes to swash buckling on mobile.
Glad you like how its looking. I'll DM you about the swashbuckling.
Hey guys, great work. The game is a lot of fun and the art is exceptional as always. I ended up writing more feedback than I thought I would below, but I don't mean any of it to be critical or demanding, I just found myself surprisingly invested. A couple things I noticed (on Android if any of these are platform dependent): - I could have missed it, but I haven't found a way to access the menu during gameplay unless I'm in a dialogue scene. - I haven't figured out exactly why (maybe when all crew are kracked upon landing in port?) but sometimes when leaving port you have to set the holder of the idol and other times it retains the last holder On the gameplay side, I'm a little more than halfway through buying the maps so my opinions could change, but: - I wasn't taking a lot of ship damage, but I found the repair planks pretty often. It's be nice if there was more I could do with them. Maybe they could be sold? Or used as a currency to expand the port or build a base? Or even just adding a little more pressure to the player by adding some random damage events to make it feel good to have a few on hand - I don't know how hard this would be in Ren’Py, but would it be feasible to auto save? Maybe before you depart for your next island? Thanks again for putting all the work into this and I look forward to 0.3
I'll take "surprisingly invested" as a compliment. Will add those things onto our list to look into thanks for sharing
Love the update to the game. Not sure if you want the bug reports here or somewhere else, but I did run into a glitch where I had Kally hold on to the idol when she had 5 ticks and on her last one instead of giving me the option to change it it just stayed with her she skipped to her 6th phase and then she had on her name where it said unavailable and it never asked me to give someone else the idol and I was able to basically circle the islands over and over without having Simone need to take the idol. It still gave the the same dialogue as if she was in her 6th phase every day but she never appeared on the screen again after the first time she was in phase 6 or in the crew page
Bugs here or on the Discord chat are both good, we check both places when we're fixing things. Will look into that one.
i definitely chewed through this game right away, it's a huge improvement, well done! the mini games were a lot of fun and i liked the strategy of trying to stay out longer and collect as much loot as possible! if you're looking for suggestions, more growth! my favorite level in 0.1 was Big Lady, Little Problems. I loved how big Camilla got and I am hoping the next iteration has more of that lovely giantess growth you are all so talented at creating. the bigger the better! i also think some sort of mega growth for Ruby the Red would be fun, she is the captain after all :D
Makes me so happy to hear people are enjoying the minigames! Thanks for the feedback
I really like this new update, I'm having a lot of fun with it and you did an excellent job, I would really like a character or an existing one in the game that has belly inflation
That is so kind of you, glad you're having fun (I know I did, kept getting in trouble off BE Grove for not testing it properly just playing).
It was a great result! In the future, I'd like to see crew members who can inflate their stomachs and chests like balloons and float in the air. Also, if possible, I'd like them to review the number of pirate attacks or the rewards for defeating them.
Thank you glad you had fun and can see it working for other scenarios.
This turned out amazing. You all did a great job with it and man that must have been some coding, great work there too! Of course bigger sizes for the crew is always wanted. Maybe crew with different expansion focuses, like an ass only one and a futa one would be nice to add in the future.
Thanks Sonicshadow! It was a crazy amount of code to wrangle but what an epic feeling when it worked 😎
First of all, what a great update the game has received; you've done a great job. I wish something could happen to the captain, or that he could have sex with a crew member or something like that when the expansion is fully released.
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the update, thank you. Appreciate the feedback too, lots of potential in the game now that we've built the foundations.
Love these games and love the animations even more. My only wish with the games is actually seeing the women have sex or be able to control those choices. Even being able to see the women more after the expansion. Love the fat asses and can't even see them.😪
Being able to see the crew in all their expansion glory was a key reason why we built the crew page. We definitely pushed the boundaries of what Ren'Py can do to make that page happen and we're pretty proud of it. Its not perfect but it is definitely a nice part of the game to visit 😉
I may have been tackling some challenging code but this was your brain child and I am happy to play my part in bringing this together. It is epic what you envisioned for this game and I cannot believe we made it happen. Excited for what we can do now that the skeleton is in place. Also, the pictures you made are very pretty 😉
Its saying there was a problem parsing the pakage on android
I know that I can get that error sometimes when something goes astray with the download 🙃 sorry to be a pain but could you try redownloading it to see if that fixes it.
I'm def down for some even bigger transformations for the current crew and any new members we get on board in future update. Also the some cool mtf transformations for the pirates like they did for Trevor
I'm a big fan of Trevor 😎 thanks for sharing, that will really help.
Downloaded for android. While playing, you can really see the time and effort that is put into it. Greatly enjoying it so far. Erotic humor with very decent gameplay. Can't wait to see/play more!
Thanks Meghas, that's so lovely of you to say. So much effort went into it and despite the amount of swearing in the office we loved doing it.
Hats off to Lady Grove for enduring all that coding. I'm sure she did a stellar job. I can't wait to try this out and give feedback. Now let's see what shenanigans happen that lead to the growths.
That is very kind of you. I am not a coder but I am very determined to do my best to help bring these things to life. I have so much coding jargon in my head I found myself using the phrase "we'll need to check that variable" in real life today.
Hoping as always for a bit of helium wherever helium can go
The Ruby Diamond is no stranger to floating away 😉
I really appreciate your willingness to expand (heh) your horizons and try new things. It's great that Patreon rewards aren't limited to just one safe medium.
I agree! We really appreciate that our patrons make it possible for us to try lots of things.
Holy shit
Is that a good holy shit? I really hope so
Awesome! I'll definitely be trying it out later!
Excellent! Happy playing.