Liora's Price of Dignity 0.5.0-prerelease-2
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Alright, this week we have a Liora focused week. A bit late on the release side as I was playtesting the biggest contribution of this week by our assistant developer Trihan, the new side quest Frame Job.
Frame Job
It's an Ace Attorney style trial quest similar to Nothing but the Truth from SKA but quite a bit shorter. If you have feedback for this one, best to direct it to Trihan in the Discord. I think it works quite well up to Witness 3 where it needs some more iteration.
Besides solving the crime, you can also convince Edgar to drop the charges through negotiation - and there is no shame in failing to solve it. Rean will be punished with community service, making him unable to be in the party, and higher treatment costs, providing an additional way to advance the corruption process.
Steam Demo Release
Then, what kept me busy for the first half of the week, was the Steam Demo release. The main work here has been on implemented support for the Adult Content check on all h-scenes. Compared to SKA, Liora h-scenes are way more complicated (due to pleasure generation affecting gameplay) so I had to come up with a better approach than just checking for the flag. Luckily, the implementation for the HIdden Alicia mode in SKA provided me with the solution. Instead of weird jumping and checking for flags and creating spaghetti, having adult content turned off will simulate the game similarly to Hidden Alicia without creating visual output.
Besides supporting the non-adult content option for the steam release, I also did the whole setup of my uploading pipeline for it. Apparantly my processes aren't quite there to just exchange the app IDs... Also setting up the demo page in steam is so terribly annoying. For some reason it doesn't copy by default everything from the parent page but you have to set it up from scratch. Tags, descriptions, etc etc.... Anyways.
I have submitted the demo version and the demo shop page and I hope it will pass the test... It will also reveal whether steam will allow the base game with the adult content censoring or if I will have to submit with adult content (but then risk them perma rejecting it because of the adult content steam roulette check...) We will see!
New Assets
The new costume polls are all finally through and I have integrated the costume assets into the Deluxe Console. Keep in mind: It's currently just the standing image art! If you choose one of the new costumes and trigger a lewd scene, it will break.
For the order we technically have the Escortwear in the lead, but when I discussed it with Deniis, the Banditwear was ahead soooo, Banditwear Tier 2 has currently been commissioned for the H-CGs and then we will do Escortwear and finally Dollwear. Will have to see how long all this takes, Deniis has vowed to improve his delivery speed and finish the first batch within the next 1-2 weeks.
Besides visual assets, we also have new sound assets. Allure has submitted new VA work for the Masturbation event which is now fully voiced. Last batch for the month will be re-recording the Edgar Date event with some couple extra modules.
Experimental Change on Full Negotiations
Finally, we have an experimental change on the logic of how negotiations work when Liora approaches Edgar. Instead of using the rotating 3 proposal logic, I am trying out a logic where the player can choose any available clause using the clause selection dialogue Trihan implemented some time ago.
This increases player agency and reduces the need to daily check on his proposals. On the other hand, it causes a lot of increase of complexity as the number of available Edgar proposals is a lot larger than 3. Additionally, you still have to check for new clauses, in case new ones have been unlocked, so the benefit of not needing to check daily is still kind of there...
I have been playtesting with it yesterday and I haven't been convinced as you may see from this last paragraph, but I still wanted to put it out for discussion. Currently, I am likely to roll it back. Please tell me what you think!
Finally-finally, Emubi has returned from his vacation. We have also discussed his next commission for bringing some more art to the artist scenes in SKA. We have also discussed a roadmap on how we want to tackle the topic of animation experiments. For now, we will be taking the Lorraine and Roland sex scene (which is fairly recent and thus up to date with Emubi's latest art skills and it's also not costume heavy - combining variations like costumes and animations is a topic for later) as our first experiment and Emubi will be prepping it in an animation friendly way. Emubi has worked with some animation projects, mostly making vtuber avatars, so he has experience with how the layering has to work. After that, the plan is for him to try out spine2D and give animating a try. From there we will then see if he can do it or if I need to hire a separate animator and we will be able to use his work as a reference point to compare potential animators in terms of cost / time / quality.
Aaaand that's it for the week! Next week, back to SKA, and we are now done with the backlog of transition items and ready to go back into content production starting with new content for Hermann.
Changelog 0.5.0-prerelease-2 (20.03.2026)
Added VA work for Masturbation Event
Added Tier 2 costumes in Deluxe Console
Implemented trial stub
Implemented first witness
Implemented second witness
Implemented third witness
Implemented failure from credibility loss
Implemented trial success
Implemented credibility to extra windows
Implemented adult content check in Edgar Date Event
Implemented adult content check in Rean Date Event
Implemented adult content check in Sexual Service Event
Implemented adult content check in Ariadne Training Event
Implemented adult content check in Masturbation Event
Implemented adult content check in Sex Event
Implemented adult content check support for nsfw VA work
Implemented adult content check in Kiss Event
Implemented experimental change using all available proposals for full negotiations
Implemented automatically setting language using steam language if possible
Darklake level 10: Implement Maelstrome skill for Kraken
Integrated pixel animation plugin from SKA
Added additional interaction spots to clinic map and give better feedback
Balancing
None
Bugfixes
Fixed quick negotiation using willpower instead of effective willpower in leave check
Fixed unranked skills showing incorrect names in clauses
Fixed Creampie Addiction triggering when not learned yet
Fixed projects not giving Edgar extra income
Comments (14)
Just an idea 💡. As Rean's penis size gets smaller, it would be nice to see it reflected in the artwork during the Rean dates.
Question about the Frame Job questline. I might have missed something.. :p But when on the first witness, i cannot progress, even asking the same questions multiple times.. i have no evidence to provide, and cant end the looping conversation of questions.. :/ thinking i either missed something before the trial started, or it wont allow me to progress for some reason. Had to reload to get out of it.
You need to press for more information for some of the statements. This will result in evidence and allow you to proceed.
The repeat offers dont exsist in the new update when talking to edger so its just a blank list. Im assuming this is not intended
Also, i think we are "missing" some opportunities here... The villain "owns" the town. As he gets more "projects" he might as well add other entertainment places like a casino or a upscale strip club. And the player might lobby with the citizens to stop those from happening or be an agent of the mayor and convince people it is for the greater good.
I don't know if there are plans for the other town where the date happens, but taking part in the small town direction might be interesting.. There could afternoon jobs and tasks with their own consequences too, like learning to cook to Edgar's taste might gain favours, but also could also harm other relationship and such. Many possibilities that I can think of.
It makes no sense thematically being the player the "initiator" choosing from a list. Maybe have the villain give her two random broad options example "looks" and "actions" and then once selected, give the 3 randoms choices as before. This give more leeway to the player but does not give a giant list of options which spoil much of what is to happen next in terms of corruption.
I think it would be a good option for NG+, for cost of 3 score or something like that.
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Maybe just an idea, but there could be some unique dialogue between Edgar and Liora for when Liora approaches Edgar for sexual service during contract negotiation. It would make sense thematically.
I agree that the negotiation is not good in the way that it lists all the options, you can see too much of what is coming which reduces the mystery. Guessing what Edgar's ideas and plans are makes it more interesting when it is unknown. Instead, when going to negotiate with Edgar how about starting with what Liora is interested in and getting counter-contract from Edgar?
One thing that might help with player agency: doing quests for other town people to learn Edgar's secrets, which might actually lead to further corruption?
On the 2nd or third hour of Anal masturbation the game gives an error message saying Moan3 can't be accessed channel 3 is in use.
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