[Early Access] Update 0.3.1! (Patreon)

It is time once again...

- Added a new main quest

- Added 17 new scenes, listed below:

Train random event scene

Beach hunk scene

Feet enthusiast scene

Alchemist scene

Guard training scene

Isao scene

Momo scene

Aphrodisiacs scene

Brothel Fem. variant (1 scene)

Brothel F+ variant (3 scenes)

Brothel Special variants (Kagura x other side characters) (4 scenes)

Home scene (toy variant)

- Added Sayo as a party member

- Added several Combat H CGs for Sayo

- Female and F+ Citizens can now be encountered in town and as Brothel customers

- Side characters can now be encountered in the Brothel if their corruption is high enough

- Added an Arena minigame, where you can fight enemies once a day for rewards

- Kagura can choose up to 3 side characters to aid her in the Arena

- Added a new Fishing minigame, accesible by obtaining a fishing rod from an NPC at the Beach

- Added fishing spots at the Beach, Ishikura Town and Namori

- Added an NPC in the beach area with a special shop

- Changed the method for unlocking the following outfits:

Witchcraft Adept added as a reward for unlocking Momo's third scene

Swimsuit and Alt. Bikini added to the new Merchant NPC at the Beach

Battle Princess added as a reward for unlocking the Arena

- Added a train platform area past the Western District

- Added a new Beach area

- Attempt at fixing enemy pathing to stop them from getting stuck inside a wall

- Reworked Kagura's battle portraits

- Robber scenes now properly affect stats

- Reworked several systems to allow for toggling certain content on/off

- Added buttons to the gallery for toggling F+ and Feet content

- Expanded the Gallery map, added the new scenes, and updated the description and event logic of many older ones

- Reworked the item popup plugin in an attempt to fix visibility issues

- Added a new plugin to handle Gallery related stuff more easily

- Added new assets for the new minigames and some existing enemies

- Sprites in the Gallery will now be greyed out if their scene hasn't been unlocked

- Fixed Isao and Suzu having their Corruption gains set based on Kagura's purity

- Fixed some of Suzu's H actions not pointing to the right stat counters

- Fixed some portrait expressions not being reset in a few events

- Fixed one of Isao's scenes not hiding Kagura's portrait properly

- Fixed two Gallery scenes triggering H stat changes

- Fixed the save compatibility system unlocking the strip poker quest regardless of Kagura's corruption level

- Fixed a few tile issues in Inner Tenshima

- Fixed the Robber NPC spawning before Kagura meets the requirements for his scene

- Fixed Namori scenes playing based on Purity level instead of Corruption level

Known issues:

- Some scenes may have sound issues as well as not affecting the right stats. If you find anything like that, please let me know.

- Foot fetish-related H stats, abilities and perks are not yet implemented

(Assets were made but some system changes are needed to align with the new fetish toggling functionality)

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And this time there's a lot to talk about regarding stuff outside of the game.

First of all, I now have a website for the game and all my future plans and projects:

https://kagurarpg.wiki/There's not much to see there for now, but I will be adding a couple of fun things in the future, one of them being a wiki for the game.

The site also has a link to a new launcher application, which I will be using moving forward to distribute the game. It has a bunch of cool features, the most important one being the ability to do partial updates to the game, so that I can deploy fixes faster and not worry about having to wait a day or two to compile bug reports, as well as forcing you to download a new build day after day in case hotfixes are needed.

A few things I want to bring up about the new launcher:

- It won't require you to be online to play the game (once you download it)

- It is not required to launch the game (all the original game files will be downloaded to the launcher's directory unchanged)

- It has a Patreon account link feature to automatically detect your membership tier and sort out which version to download

- If you downgrade your membership, you still get to keep your local version no matter what

I wanted it to explicitly be a useful tool to serve and install updates automatically, so I did my best to avoid any form of DRM-ish behavior. That said, if you have any concerns, suggestions or complaints about it, please let me know.

I will also be including GDrive links in this post, just in case any issues arise.

All of the above is handled through a Google Cloud environment that me and a hired freelancer have been working on. It took a LOT of effort, learning and stumbling around but I'm really happy with how everything turned out, and I learned a lot in the process!

We had to set up cloud apps, buckets, a CDN for distribution, load balancers, backend servers, so many little things that come together just to make the website and my little launcher work. I really hope it survives the initial release, so I can be proud of all that work x_x

Finally, some of you also noticed I'm no longer on Twitter. This is because I will now be at:https://bsky.app/profile/kagurarpg.wiki/

I could go on about it for a while, but in short I don't like Twitter and never really have. The constant spam in my DMs, people at war with eachother every day and awful policies became a bit too much for me.

I wanted to move for a while but was concerned about Bluesky not having the same amount of reach, which affects my ability to promote the game, but at this point I don't really mind.

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Finally, I'm sorry for making you guys wait a lot more than usual...

As I mentioned on Discord, all the infrastructure work took longer than expected to set up, which caused some delays in the update (even though it did give me extra time to work on new scenes).

The rest of the wait was due to me being blindsided by personal matters I would rather not go into detail, which ended up in a mix between me having to travel and temd to things, as well as needing a few extra days to mentally heal once I came back.

I did spend a good amount of this downtime working on new scenes and finishing up some new features earlier than planned, I hope that justifies the wait at least a little.

But that's enough from me, I hope you enjoy the update! Please be sure to report any bugs if you find any, and let me know if there's any issues using the launcher.

Links: Windows | Mac | Android

Launcher Donwload: Click me.

Also, be sure to check the Patreon channel on Discord a bit after this post comes out for a bunch of extra 4k goodies I've prepared alongside the update.