Back to work!!!
Lots of imp girl work the last few days. I polished her grapple animations, added audio to them, and started adding visual effects. Then I did the "melee" animation (shown in the gif for this post). This will be her close range attack and I think is going to have a bunch of glowy magical stuff going on.
There's also the imp girl tail! The 2nd image above showing the almost snake like mouth. This is the heart shaped tip of her tail. I have it rigged and it's ready to go for animations. So expect some tail drains in the future! Once this gets polished up and I get some extra time I'll start updating the rest of the demonic characters' tails to have similar treatments.
Oh and there's the hotfixes! hotfix 1b should fix the player not standing back up after using a bed!
Soundscapes and music. I've been poking around with the UE5 soundscape plugin systems and I think I might try implementing this in one of the near future builds. It's a system to support things like music but also randomizing environmental sounds, triggers, and locations. There's still a few features I need to poke through first but so far my tests are pretty positive and it would be really cool to finally have some ambient music tracks playing during gameplay.
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This is a repost of my Amazon idea. So, I've had this idea for small factions. That is to say, factions who are cohesive but lack the strength to "Win" Feign. These may be factions that exist only within a single city or exist only outside any cities. They have some triumphs, but at most they affect the main plot in minor ways. One such faction would be the scientist's guild that I wrote about in an earlier post (https://www.patreon.com/posts/140780968), another would be the Amazons. Behold, my envisionment for the Amazons! Whereas the scientist guild would be city stuck, the Amazons live out in the wild country. They are much too unruly for city living, and city slickers are much too timid for their liking. The main difference between the inhabitants of the werewolf village that I wrote about in a different earlier post(https://www.patreon.com/posts/138065439) is that the Amazons are indifferent to nature, don't particularly care for fighting with honor, and are very sex hungry without any corruption. Nature is a resource to be harvested for survival and nothing more. When amazons fight it's always with a fury and to win. Most amazons love the rush of fighting, and train relentlessly to minimize the chance of losing. All amazons are sex hungry, and this is because of both nature and nurture. You see, amazons have a lot of energy in them and need ways of exerting themselves to exhaust themselves. Their culture teaches them that fighting, training, and sex are the three best ways of do just that. Such lessons are passed down from mother to daughter since the first amazon. Now, there are two types of amazons is this world: those who're born into it and those are transformed into one. *Amazons who're born into it age and develop like normal children until they hit second puberty. This usually occurs at age 18 or so, but it can happen later, too. When this happens, the woman is question grows in height, musculature, and sex appeal rapidly. This metamorphosis burns massive amount of energy, and so this new amazon will need a lot of food to replenish her burnt energy stores. Not all women survive this transformation, and so those who do can look forward to a celebration concerning their survival and their future. *Amazons from outside the bloodline are transformed into amazons by some force or substance that only amazons have access to. Perhaps the amazons have a god that they worship that instigates the change, perhaps the amazons are privy to certain alchemical understandings that they keep secret. Whatever the case, the amazons can recruit women from outside their clan and transform them into amazons. Who they choose to transform leads me to the amazonian cause... The amazons believe that women are superior to men in the ways that matter, at least from their perspective. Women can be smarter, faster, and stronger with the right training and changes. So, the amazons find it unjust and insulting that many women live under the thumb of men everywhere and venture out to "liberate" them. This often means slaying the man of the house, so to speak, and sometimes they're right to do so. Every society has bad apples in it, and the amazons are only capable in responding to such abuse in the way they know how. An important note here is that I'm assuming that women don't really have rights in your setting, since women's rights wasn't really even an idea until the 1840's. The amazon "liberator" brings this woman back to a private location and offers the woman the opportunity to become an amazon. Some women say no to this, but the amazon has a good argument on their side: strength to live as you choose and how else are you going to survive?
Part 2 of my Amazons repost. The amazons have two great secrets - berserkers and numbers. Berserkers - some of those who accept the amazon's offer to become one of them transform wrong. Unlike those amazons who grew up knowing that they're an amazon, these berserkers have had no guidance and have lived much of their lives without agency or initiative. All of a sudden, now they do, and it goes to their heads, or their minds break from the pressure of freedom. As a result, these wild women are either timid or unrestrained, and both usually end up becoming demonic amazons because of how exploitable they are. The amazons have no homeland to call their own, and so no containment system for these berserkers. So, they let them go. Sometimes amazon children get separated from their parents and grow up without their guidance and supervision. These children either grow up into wild or get adopted: both scenarios usually end up with the child growing into a berserker. There are exceptions, mostly in culture that prize self-control. These children who grow up with enough self-control without amazonian guidance are called "Lost Sisters", because they don't follow the Amazonian cause. Numbers - The amazons don't have more than 300 members active. This is because they have no homeland to populate and are also sometimes very foolhardy. Remember, they always fight to win, sometimes even if it means death. Thus, the amazons are a nomadic people that quest for the cause and for food. When asked, an amazon will be silent and stone-faced about why there aren't more of them. Aesthetically speaking, I envision amazons to be at least 6 foot tall, built like a brickhouse, and hot as hell. An amazon's garb should speak to how accomplished they are: a novice should have rough tunics or leather, while an experienced amazon could have ornate metal armor. There should be a part three that I've posted. This is kind of an experiment to see which part of my post caused it to get nuked. Edit: I just tried to load the third post on my phone, and I can't. My initial post probably got nuked because of those links.
I hope there's futa npcs or an option to make all female npcs futa. Or maybe an indication if a female is futa like a gender icon if you hover over them. Also a strap on/pegging option would be nice. The surrender and victory sex positions can be kinda confusing with topping and bottoming positions, it'd be easier if there was a way to set your preference if you're top, bottom, or versatile. for example, victory can have power bottom positions, losing sub bottom positions. versatile has the top and bottom variations for losing / winning a fight. really like the game so far!
There will be more anatomy options for the NPCs in the future! The biggest hurdle is the time sink in creating all the new animations to support them. There's also currently the transformation potions that if the player reverse pickpockets onto a human NPC that NPC will then use that potion themselves. Topping and bottoming and position selections can be a bit touchy. I've had people want both, all, none, etc for these options. I'm slowly going to be switching most NPCs away from the current system and more into the more narrative scenes like the imp boys' scene when he defeats the player. Thanks for the feedback it's appreciated!