Development update - Alpha0.0.13 Feedback (Patreon)

Hello, wonderful Seekers! 🌞

We would like to start this post by THANKING YOU! For your patience patience and all the constructive feedback! 🥰🥰🥰

As it turns out, the last build had some bugs we did not catch during internal testing 🙈🙈🙈

However, worry not!—we are working on them. In today's update, we want to let you know what we are fixing at the moment and what changes will be implemented in the future!

THE QUICK FIXES 🔧

• Many Seekers didn't get to Moruga's spicy scene. We didn't find it in our internal testing, and it turned out that in some paths, it didn't work as expected. On top of that, some scenarios on the way didn't appear at all. Luckily, we've spotted the bugs, and we are patching things up to make sure everyone gets it with the next update! ✨

• Replayable scenes are not that replayable (ay ay ay!)—This bug was a weird one, hard to pinpoint because it worked all right in the development editor but not in the build. Yet, despite that, we found the solution, and we will double-check if every scene is being added to the gallery! 🖼

• Repeating scenarios or being stuck in the infinite 'go wait for something to happen' loop - that relates to our first and biggest issue - some scenarios not playing. It shouldn't happen anymore! 🧭

• Library puzzle - we added some extra hints (if you still can't pass it, read the books Seekers!). Still, we will also implement cursor change when hovering over an actionable item. That should make things more straightforward! 🔎

• We simplified some stuff for the Tarot and Gears minigames since we've received reports that they're unnecessarily hard! 🧙‍♂️

• We are currently waiting for a voiceover for Nova's scene that will have fixes on its own. It currently has only basic animations, but more will be implemented—similar to Tutoria's scene step-by-step improvement! 🎵

• On top of that, we are patching lots of minor things like including spaces in the save files, fixing missing portraits in the gallery, patching weird black screens when you click where you shouldn't and probably lots of other things we've got reported that the developers know about and I'm not comprehending (Polly here!🙈👋)

THE UPCOMING CHANGES 🎢

We are going through all the F12 reports, comments, private messages, and feedback on our Discord channel—ALL OF THEM—and we are treating your suggestions and comments very seriously! We are still having internal discussions on handling some topics, but I can highlight a few that we will work on!

• Designing a system to start at later stages—sharing the save file didn't exactly work as expected. Not only this, but we recognize that starting the game from the beginning every time we want to test it is a bit tiresome. We will include a backdoor in patreon build deliveries that will allow you to start from, for example, the second or third batch, letting you keep/change your name, unlocking gallery items, and letting you make all the meaningful choices! 🔮

• Minigames—We are still brainstorming how to make some of them optional, but we will definitely not require completing all of them for the story to progress! But if you do finish all the levels, who knows what will happen? 🏆

• We will no longer self-impose delivery deadlines based on eyeballed estimates - we do keep the internal ones to make sure the development is moving on swiftly. Still, we will start announcing the next batch release when we are confident that we can avoid continuity errors and missing scenarios like it happened this time.  🔍

• We are improving the sex minigame mechanics, and after getting your initial feedback on the 'automode', we are trying one more approach to it - I hope you will like this one better! 🏹

• We are also improving the sound logic in the sex minigames so we get less talking but more moans so that you don't have to hear Tutoria's instructions all the time! 🎤

• With your F12 reports, we will now gather better feedback about the game, which should help us troubleshoot easier, but if we can kindly ask you to include your email or Patreon or Discord name, that would be great! We have trouble reproducing some bugs, or sometimes we are not sure if our fix worked for 100% and then it would be great if we can reach out to you to double check everything is working now! ✨

Thanks to deliveries in parts we are catching a lot of bugs and writing flaws and already working on improving those! We don't want to spam you with too many versions to play before it's ready, but for sure we will drop and update to the current build (with the bugfixes) before moving on.

And, some Seekers asked about it: the final art will unfortunately come later than the playable story. There are two main reasons for this:

1. We are looking first for feedback for writing and game flow so that we can use it as a benchmark for the rest of the game because writing comes before anything else and

2. We have to accommodate the whole team with the current budget (Which is still in the negative numbers), and we can only do a limited amount of things at once! Shall Soulgasm's Patreon grow, the production will be MUCH quicker! 🚀

With all this said, I'm wishing you a lovely week! Will catch you with the next update! ✨

Sending all the hugs💌
--Polly