Star Knightess Aura 0.42.0-prerelease-2

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Choo choo choo. Today's stop: Suffering town. For both George and Rose. A bit more for George maybe. Also I think the break's on George's suffering train kind of broke today. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, yeah.

We don't have a lot of new corruption scenes, a total of 6 new ones, but pretty much all of them are packed with content! 2 of them are lewd scenes, one of them pretty big with 4k words and complex involving both a blowjob and sex. I don't to spoil too much about the scenes, I will just drop some cryptic things.

George sees Richard and Aura "dating"...

Richard chooses Aura over Rose...

George is offered a deal, but to get what he wants he needs to play along with Veronica...

A certain someone realizes the truth about everything...

Overall, we have progress on two storylines. One is Rose's story which has now entered the last section and the other one is George's story, which I changed up quite a bit from planned during this week's conceptualization process. And here I do want to just talk about it a bit more.

Meet maid femGeorge. Which is apparantly now a thing. I originally just wanted to focus on humiliation related content but I realized that this course was a bit more time efficient for the story as it focuses more on larger events (including lewd events) with heavier impact than what I had in mind before. And that in return overall fits better into the Chapter 3 structure as it's currently working out. There is still plenty of humiliaiton content though, both in the lewd scenes and also for example in a latest scene where George meets Aura and Richard after they become a "couple". The down side is that I need 1 additional character costume asset and also 1 more H-CG than planned when we are already behind on art schedule x_X But while I always do my best to prevent project scope creep I feel like this investment is worth it to build an overall satisfying Chapter 3 and Corruption Ending.

Don't be surprised if events play a bit out of line if you already watched everything from last week. A couple of George events would in a clean save trigger before the later Pretend Dating events.

I was hoping I could just one more event in the George and Veronica event line and had planned to work through the last weekend to finish the Rose lewd event but after doing accounting work and some interviews for the pixel artist position, I was pretty unable to write anything. For a moment I was worried I had some creativity block but came Monday, I was able to write and script the entire 4k event in a matter of 1,5 days. Nearly as if the entire thing about doing rests isn't just a luxury thing but a part of the process itself huh x_X

 Then on the side of our assistant developer Trihan, we have some further UI enhancements. The concrete UI still looks a bit messy to me so I will definitely get back to our UI artist to work out some fitting skinning, but you can now in principle name your saves. (Doesn't work on Android) Besides that, a small little thing is characters of the selected file now doing a move animation.

On the gameplay side, the Poison Swamp got another little increase in difficulty through a series of minor enemy buffs. And Nothing But The Truth now causes a day end at the recess. The reason for this is that you can now pick up the trial at a later point when you have enough Vice to commit to the Vice path.

Aaaaaand that's all for today. Release a couple minutes early because I once again forgot about the clocks having been moved by an hour. :'D Next week, we take a break from the corruption scenes in favor of Roya and the next Charlotte quest. As usual, all changes from the prerelease and the patch combined below. Have fun!

Changelog 0.42.0-prerelease-2 (12.04.2024)

• Added scene George and Veronica 3

• Added lewd scene George and Veronica 4

• Added scene George and Veronica 5

• Added scene Cheating on George 5

• Added lewd scene Infiltrating Cheerleaders 6

• Added scene Infiltrating Cheerleaders 7

• Implemented save name customization

• Implemented walking character for selected save file

• Added critters into Poison Swamp map

• Reworked Recess in Nothing But The Truth to cause a day end and let the player resume when they can pass the Vice check to commit to a route

• Replaced Alicia cloning code in reverse summoning ritual with JsonEx.makeDeepCopy

Balancing

• Add autoskill Flight to Scorpion Bees

• Gave Mantraps adds

• Added Cycle of Life and Gluttonous trait to Mantraps

• Increased Scorpion Bee HP

• Increased Swamp Constrictor def

• Gave Swamp Constrictors skill Wrap

• Replaced Prime Fangs and just have a double attack for Mantraps/Serpent

• Increased Mantrap HP

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos

• Fixed self-acknowledgement happiness machine locking out mental change when progressing to inner chamber

• Fixed Richard standing image

• Fixed using books not always targeting the correct actor

• Fixed poison effect in swamp not ending when minibosses are dead

• Fixed choice option for Assassinate rank III overwriting the rank II requirement