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Sorry about the delay this morning. Had to get dinner in the slow cooker. Going to finish the apartment cleaning aspect today, then work on the maid job. Got some important stuff done. I would say that the maid job is about half done, and apartment cleaning is done and confirmed as working. I also tracked down some rather annoying bugs. Health will no longer go wonky right at the beginning of the game, and there was a problem with setting your hair style at the hair style box where your non-natural charisma wasn't being boosted, but then was acting as though it was and lowering by 2 two days later. Whoops! There was another bug that was pointed out, but I honestly don't remember what it was right now.

Need to ask a question of you all. One of the biggest (and ongoing) complaints about the game is the sheer number of actions that need to be repeated, every day. I've been planning to streamline some of it, like the showering and makeup, in the next update. But I just plotted out a way to streamline clothing, so that you can set up to five different outfits (casual, work, exercise, extra 1 and extra 2) and switch between them with one click. The problem is that it'll take a while to implement, so if I want to do it for the next update, I'll need to drop something from the current update, which will likely be the import/export feature update. So the question is, should I do that? Would you prefer that I work on import/export, or streamline the clothing system? Let me know in the comments. Edit : In other news, there won't be a stream tonight for real life personal reasons. I'm still working on the game, though, rest assured. Edit 2 : Added a poll to better gauge resp...

I love productive mornings. So some of the bugs that I reported as fixed from the update yesterday where, in fact, not fixed. I don't know why; the only thing I can think of is that I had a couple of RAGS crashes when I was working on them, and the crashes evidently erased some of the fixes that I had made, which is annoying. Apparently, that six minutes I lost was a very productive six minutes. Notably, you still don't get paid as a personal secretary or office girl, and one of the options when overhearing co-workers is still borked. I'll go back and cross those off the update list. They'll be fixed in the next update. In other news, multibreasts are indeed showing up in the description...incorrectly. Still, it's better than not showing up at all, and I've fixed it. There's also a problem where using the Set Body Shape action to change your breast size gives you multibreasts, whether you got them or not. I've also fixed that. ES jewelry not working som...

This should fix quite a few bugs, and since I won't be releasing a new version for a couple of weeks or so, it means it should be relatively stable. Maybe. Also worth noting, the list of what's going to be in the next version is off to the right. I'm aiming for a release date of 4/5 (first Thursday in April). We'll see how that goes. Minor Changes: - The "Set Body Shape" command can now be used to set your height to 7'. Note that this will flip the giantess switch, which will prevent you from ever being shorter, even with the testing item. - Drinking three doses of Concentrate will lock your height at 4'10", even with the testing item. - The "Set for Next Promotion" command can now be used for business promotions. - The bulletin board at the office will now show the requirements for the Office Girl and the Personal Secretary promotions (note: you must have sex with the VP at least once to see the Office Girl requirements). - Cum Addict t...

Edit: I've posted the next update goals on the right. I might be overly ambitious, but deadlines are always nice. Just for the record, I will be working on getting bugs fixed tonight and/or tomorrow, so there will be a new, lower bug-count version out within the next couple of days (I'm not so naive as to believe that it will be bug-free. Not anymore .) I'm also trying to figure out what will be in the next version. Suffice to say the Maid side job will be a huge chunk of it, considering the number of tweaks and adjustments that will be required to make it work, like apartment cleaning. It's possible that I may just leave it at that, I don't know yet. The goal for future updates is to add enough that there's quite a bit of new content to enjoy, but not so much that it'll take more than a couple of weeks to push out an update. I may post a poll asking for a specific aspect to be added to the next update (like I did with the Maid side job last time), since the...

Yes, it's a new update. Revel and enjoy. Major Updates - Two new business jobs: Office Girl and Personal Secretary, as promotions from the Secretary position. - Britney's content has been expanded. You can now interact with her until you get her phone number, at which point the content ends for now. - Skills are now capped. It's unlikely that you'll notice the cap as it's set pretty high (starts at 150 points, adds three points per day), but eventually, it will be adjusted so that grinding skills eventually stops being useful. Minor Updates - Two new testing item commands: Set Skills and Set Body Shape. Should be pretty self-explanatory. Note that one the (Set One) option for Body Shape, if you choose Dick and don't already have one, you'll get one. If you don't want to be a futa-girl, beware. Bug Fixes - Multibreasts now show up properly once you get them. - The shrinking event from the Concentrate item will now activate properly. Beware the bad end. - ...

So, in an effort to stave off some potential concerns that arose in the last post, here's another one! I would answer in comments, but I'm limited right now. (I also got very little sleep last night, and writing this stuff helps keep me awake) While the apartment cleaning aspect does mean that you'll need to do another action every day, it's actually a good thing. First of all, you'll be able to initiate cleaning in any room in the apartment, and it will affect the whole apartment. So if, as soon as you wake up, you decide you want to clean, you can do so to get it out of the way. The command will be on the room "portrait" button, and will deactivate for the rest of the day after it's used in any room in the apartment. Why is that a good thing, you ask? It's more clicks in a game that's already click-heavy, you say? True...except that, as I mentioned in the post, apartment cleanliness being a factor allows me to streamline the shower and make-...

Time to get started on work. With Business done (except for one thing I forgot to do), the next logical step is the Skill Cap, which hopefully won't take too long, but we'll see what happens. I would love to get it done tonight. Well, it took three hours, but I got the Skill Cap system done. You start with 150 skill points, and get 3 more added each day. I still need to add a testing command to add skill points, but that's not really high on the priority list right now. Only two things left to do for the next update! Some other information about things in the pipeline: The Maid Side Job Side jobs are what I'm calling any job that doesn't have a fixed schedule, or otherwise allows you to have a regular job while still doing it. Every side job will have the option of becoming your permanent job if you advance far enough along it, and the Maid job is no exception. To be a maid, you'll have to buy cleaning supplies. These are available at the mall in one bulk purcha...

Finished Office Girl and Personal Secretary yesterday, so they're done with. Hooray. Now it's time to work on Skill Caps. That might take a while, but there's no actual writing to do, so it's just mechanics, which don't take nearly as long. And then I asked you folks which of the four things on the request list I should work on in the next update (after this one) and the Maid side job won with a pretty decisive 48%. I believe that is what the people call a mandate. I already planned out the basics of how the job will work, so it shouldn't be too bad. I'll get into specifics when I get to that update. It's not the only thing I'll be working on at that point - I'm going to try to do at least 4 things every update - but it'll probably be the biggest, and it'll let me get a couple of things off the request list, which is always a good time. For each update, what I'm going to try to do is have at least two job updates, one story update, on...

Business Job Updates I think I'm about 90% done with the business jobs for this update. Got some interesting mechanics in there, I think. For example, one of the potential random events while you're working as a Personal Secretary is that you overhear some people making...disparaging comments about you. Now, the obvious reactions are there (Ignore it, adds to submissiveness, enjoy it, adds to...something?), but there's also some unexpected reactions (complain to human resources, complain to human resources and make some stuff up to get even, and cold-cock one of the sons-of-bitches). Nothing really too impressive, right? Except that the immediate results of those actions aren't necessarily the only results. If you complain to HR, you get a response stating that they'll look into it, which is fine and dandy and gives you some results (generally Job Performance +1 and some other stuff). But, three days later, you get the results of that investigation . Did you make...

Phew. Finished it. Amazing. As for the endings that a lot of people don't seem to like? Those people are crazy. The end was the best part. The  best part.

Been having trouble sleeping at night, so getting up when I intend to is a little difficult. But I'm only about half an hour behind my usual Thursday start-up time. Working today on more business career stuff until it's done or I can't handle it anymore, and then working on the skill cap, which is not a hat that increases your skill, but rather a limit on how many skill points you can gain in a month, to discourage grinding. Got quite a bit of stuff done today: the Office Girl job is done, and the Personal Secretary is 33% done, so not bad at all. I was also pointed to a bug that I fixed, but I don't remember what it was. Now, I am off, to clean the dishes and the laundry, then do schoolwork, then pass out on the couch because damn, I'm tired. Also cold. Did I ever mention that New England weather is really weird? It was 70 degrees on Monday, and today it's about 60. In between? Fucking 40. Figure that out. As always, I'll be working over the weekend on the ...

I just figured out a way to prevent the game from throwing out your underwear. The basics are that when you buy underwear, the game will log your breast size for the purchase. If your breast size changes, the underwear won't fit anymore, but (crucially) it will still appear in your dresser drawer. You can then go out and buy new underwear for your new size. Then, if your breast size ever goes back to what you were before, your underwear will fit again. So, basically, you'd be buying the same underwear in different sizes. It'll take some work, and won't be in the next update, but once I implement it, it should prevent underwear from being as much of a hassle as it currently is. The only reason I can do this now is because underwear is no longer weight-dependent (i.e. how fat you are no longer factors in to whether or not you can wear it). Just thought you'd like to know.

Today I'll be working on the far too neglected Business career. Hope to get at least one new promotion out of it. The promotions for the Personal Secretary and Office Girl have been added, and I started the Office Girl job. I've decided to change some things. For one, I'm not going to release a new update every time I finish working on something, so don't expect a new version tonight. Instead, I'm going to wait until there's actually something worth playing with, as opposed to a version that just an incremental update. It means that updates will be fewer and farther between, but by setting goals for myself, where I need to have X done before I can get the next update out, it gives people more time to play with the version that's currently available, and also means that when a new version is released, there's a significant amount of new stuff, as opposed to one thing. I've added a "Goal Tracker" on the right for the next update, showing what...

So, over the weekend, there were some very illuminating comments in my last post. I basically took away four things from the multitude of comments. 1) Requests for new content are unlikely when I have a large backlog of content waiting to get into the game. 2) The requests are actually detracting from the game development (to say that this surprised me is true, but it's also true that I should've fucking known this ) 3) While the additional content is great and all, what you people actually want is more development of the core concepts, i.e. jobs and plot. 4) I need to work harder . The fourth one in particular is kind of maddening to me, because it's very accurate. I've been getting so distracted by...well, things, that the thing is falling on the wayside. I will admit that my real life schedule is messing with my priorities right now, but honestly, that's kind of a poor excuse. Last year, I was working about fifteen hours a week on the game. These days, I'm...

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So, for the last month or so, donations have been...well, kind of wonky. No, this isn't going to be that kind of post. I've been trying to figure out if there's a reason why donations have been off. Is it the slow pace of development, or do people just not have requests? Or is money tight this time of year? I used to have a policy of, if I didn't make donations for a given week, the following week would not have any game releases. I stopped doing that because a) it was kind of malicious, and b) I like it when people play my game and give me feedback. I would much rather encourage donations through positive reinforcement instead of negative reinforcement, which is why I stopped doing that (and no, I'm not going to start doing it again, no worries). So I guess the question here is, what can I do to encourage donations? I know the last couple of weeks have been weird, what with being sick and Mass Effect 3 getting in the way, but I do like to know that I'm respondi...

It has been a week of html and CSS joy, as I pull together a new store front and fill it with products.   I still have a few products to add and some testing to do… I will push the site live and allow pre-orders on March 12 th , the sale and pre-orders will run through St. Patrick’s Day March 17. I have about 200 Sturmtruppen and 100 Kriegsmarine on hand, so I will begin shipping some or all of the pre-orders on March 20 th with the rest to be shipped (hopefully) within ten to fifteen days depending on the volume of orders. So much still to do, so it’s back to work for me. All the best! Mark-

Yay, winging it. Major Updates - New item: Concentrate. Available from the drug dealer, this will reduce your height. It costs the same as the growth serum ($150), and also has events similar to the temporary giantess and giantess bad end seen with the growth serum. - You can now call out sick to work, ask for a vacation day, and be penalized for missing work. You get 5 sick days per month, and accrue 2 vacation days per month. If you try to call out sick when you're not sick, then (depending on how not sick you are) there's a chance you will be caught and lose a Job Performance point as a result. If you call out sick more than 5 days in a month, you'll lose a JP point each time beyond 5. If you don't call out at all, you will lose 5 points. - You can now be fired for poor performance . If you get to -10 JP at any non-self-employed job, then you will get a call and lose your job. Maria will show up the next day to berate you (she'll be unhappy about it), and the thr...

There's no stream tonight. Yes, it's Mass Effect 3. This will be the only  normal stream time that I'm taking off for it, though. In the meantime, I've been working on the game off-stream. I've sketched out plans for a more robust health system, so that when you health is low or high, things happen (very low health will keep you in the apartment for at least a day, for example). Also a sick day and vacation day system for jobs, as well as consequences for missing too many days of work (including getting fired). And finally, I've started drawing up a goal system, so that at the beginning of the game, you get to choose a goal to aim for (be successful, be womanly, be manly, get revenge, be angry, etc), and then every month, in addition to the broad goal, you get specific "objectives" to aim for. The only thing I haven't figured out is the reward/penalty system. Hell, maybe I won't have one, who knows (but I probably will). So...apologies for not ...

David Woods over at DWARTIST'S did a speed paint on a Strumtruppen that is better than I can do if given two weeks time. Hats off to you sir!

Here are the finals for the heavy weapons squad, created with feedback by…. Wait for it… YOU. Changes from the originals: Widened stance on one of the leg sets. Ankle armor to better ground the mini. The power weapons are now held with both arms and across the body. Light AT gunner and quad gunner now lean into the recoil for a more dramatic pose. With the exception of the power weapons and the ankle armor, not many changes here, just some tweaks and fine tuning. So the question is, when do I start the Kickstarter? ….. Not quite yet, but soon. I have a surprise for you that I’m working on right now and it (they) will be part of the Kickstarter. I work pretty quick so you should not have long to wait. Until then, enjoy the pics!

Apparently, this "just a cold" has escalated into a "god, just kill me". I got the bug fixes done, but I think I'm going to go lie down or something. Minor Updates - New testing item command: Fix Call List. You can add specific people to the list. Note that adding them prior to getting the phone number normally may break the game. - New testing item command: Add Jewelry to Store. Adds all the new jewelry that's normally unlocked by getting pierced to the jewelry store for purchase. Note that you can't buy it before you get the relevant piercing anyway. Bug Fixes - The doubling of the last paragraph when using the inflatable dildo has been fixed. --> Note: the chance of the sex doll TF is still 100% for this edition, but you will be asked if you want to initiate it - Leaving your apartment will now check to see if you are wearing the fishnet minidress with no underwear or revealing underwear. If you are, it won't let you leave because of the indece...