Status update (also new CG mechanic poll) (Patreon)
Published:
2018-04-02 15:09:32
Imported:
2026-06
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Hey everybody! Gonna keep this one Patron-only for a few days so only patrons get to influence the poll. Sorry it's been a while since I posted anything, things have been pretty busy around here - I was going to post this yesterday, but with it being April 1st and all I didn't want anybody to think I was joking >_>;
Right now I'm in the middle of updating the rest of our menus. Thanks to Flynn we have some slightly updated UI visuals, as well as visuals for a real Options menu instead of the beta-y old one, which means this next update should hopefully have some nice, long-awaited QoL features - like being able to change window size in the menu, alter volume levels, etc. It's something I've been wanting to do for a long time but it would've required an overhaul of the old menus, and since we had these new menus coming soon.. yeah.
Orex has been hard at work finishing up Alicia's basic animations, which should hopefully be done this update. We might not get to a new melee animation for her yet, but I believe everything else will be done in time.
Aside from all that, I've been working on the H-system overhaul, which is mostly complete now - once it's done, it will function a lot like the gallery, where you have full control over the scene as it plays, including ending the scene early if you want to. To enter a scene, you just have to go up near an enemy and masturbate, which will signal them to come initiate an H-scene with you.
That leads me to the possible CG mechanic changes I wanted to talk about today. If any of you $10 patrons are in our Discord server you've probably already seen this, but I wanted to bring it up with everybody and gather your thoughts on it through this poll. As you know, right now CG sequences are available exclusively through game overs - eventually I wanted to implement an in-game gallery that allows you to view them easily, but the only way to get them naturally is by losing, a mechanic which I'm not very fond of. I had an idea the other day to replace this mechanic - what if you met up with a scientist who was interested in researching the creatures of the planet, and through them you would be able to capture specimens of each enemy (including bosses), and once they're captured you would have the option of viewing the CG sequences as a way to, shall we say, learn about them first hand? For Science, essentially.
Obviously if this happened some of the scenes would have to change a bit more than originally planned, since they wouldn't be game over sequences anymore, but personally I'm REALLY excited about the new idea - it would be a great way to make those scenes canon in-universe, rather than acting as a "bad end" of sorts, and it would provide me an excellent way to delve into the lore of each creature and the universe of CPE as a whole. Let me know what you think of the idea, and if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask in the comments!
Anyway, that's enough outta me for today. Hope you're all doing well, and thank you so much for your continued support! It means everything to me <3
-A42
Right now I'm in the middle of updating the rest of our menus. Thanks to Flynn we have some slightly updated UI visuals, as well as visuals for a real Options menu instead of the beta-y old one, which means this next update should hopefully have some nice, long-awaited QoL features - like being able to change window size in the menu, alter volume levels, etc. It's something I've been wanting to do for a long time but it would've required an overhaul of the old menus, and since we had these new menus coming soon.. yeah.
Orex has been hard at work finishing up Alicia's basic animations, which should hopefully be done this update. We might not get to a new melee animation for her yet, but I believe everything else will be done in time.
Aside from all that, I've been working on the H-system overhaul, which is mostly complete now - once it's done, it will function a lot like the gallery, where you have full control over the scene as it plays, including ending the scene early if you want to. To enter a scene, you just have to go up near an enemy and masturbate, which will signal them to come initiate an H-scene with you.
That leads me to the possible CG mechanic changes I wanted to talk about today. If any of you $10 patrons are in our Discord server you've probably already seen this, but I wanted to bring it up with everybody and gather your thoughts on it through this poll. As you know, right now CG sequences are available exclusively through game overs - eventually I wanted to implement an in-game gallery that allows you to view them easily, but the only way to get them naturally is by losing, a mechanic which I'm not very fond of. I had an idea the other day to replace this mechanic - what if you met up with a scientist who was interested in researching the creatures of the planet, and through them you would be able to capture specimens of each enemy (including bosses), and once they're captured you would have the option of viewing the CG sequences as a way to, shall we say, learn about them first hand? For Science, essentially.
Obviously if this happened some of the scenes would have to change a bit more than originally planned, since they wouldn't be game over sequences anymore, but personally I'm REALLY excited about the new idea - it would be a great way to make those scenes canon in-universe, rather than acting as a "bad end" of sorts, and it would provide me an excellent way to delve into the lore of each creature and the universe of CPE as a whole. Let me know what you think of the idea, and if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask in the comments!
Anyway, that's enough outta me for today. Hope you're all doing well, and thank you so much for your continued support! It means everything to me <3
-A42