Welcome to my habit of creation walls of text for recreational purposes… I hope you have already found the time to play through V0.9, which was the biggest update yet as well as an update, that forced a new save...

Preview

We have a total of about 3900 lines of pure text in V0.10 with a total of 1459 LI lines, which is roughly in line V0.6 and V0.8.

It is clear this time, that I did not try to create an equal distribution at all. Instead I made my first “focused” update, where I pick a few LIs and focus on developing their stories. This time around, the honor falls to Lin, Sarlé and Saefia, while the others are more or less background noise... Therefore, it should be easy to guess who is going to have the honor of a sex scene… coincidentally it’s the same group as in V0.7…

Furthermore, this focused approach allows me to have longer events with 500 to 800 lines in one event. I’m not sure, if shifting to longer events is a good thing, but personally, I think my best moments in the game are precisely these large events – Rachel’s birthday, Sarlé’s ice scating + dinner date, the boarding attack and Sabrina’s backstory and of course the final battle on the Ark Station.

Also, these longer events in combination with the expectation of 1 sex scene per beta, mean I have chop up the long main story and stretch it out over all 3 preview betas… I have so much main story, that sex starts to suffer...

Also, I’m putting Sara on hold. Sara is story-wise a main character but sex-wise, she’s a side-character. I also have the feeling, that Sara’s prolonged presence in the main story drains possible development from the other (fuckable) main characters. For example, in the upcoming update, Sara has 206 lines thus easily overshadowing every LI other than the chosen ones. Therefore, I will let Sara leave the ship in V0.10. Of course, she will periodically return and we will again have “dreams” about what she is up to in the meanwhile – pretty much like before V0.7...

Also, I must admit, that I’m very behind in terms of renders, animations and so on… - meaning I barely started. Also, I have much to do otherwise, so the former 3-month cycle won’t be restored that easily… Sighs… I’m already seeing myself sacrificing another Christmas break to the AVN gods...

And finally, I feel the need to apologize for giving little Rachel the smallest share in my history… Additionally, I have to admit I’m running a bit low on ideas for Rachel...

Cerser’s Moan

I’ve been dangling the finale of this quest line in front of you for quite some time and it will finally happen in V0.11, for which I am currently writing the texts. Therefore, I wanted to ask you, what you want to see in this literal cluster fuck, when the ship is flooded with Horny Gas: You can go crazy – ignore any inhibitions and previous sexual preferences, which includes Sabrina’s disdain for her leg...

But I have a few conditions:

• No more than 4 characters per animation/scene (I wanna finish this whole thing at some point…)
• No penetrative sex with the virgins (Rachel, Ladira, Sarlé) or those with whom the first sex will have a major emotional significance/story implications (Sabrina, Annica) – meaning Pirlia, Lin, Zoela and Saefia are fair game – in both entrances…
• For (mostly) continuity/story reasons, Sarlé, Sara, Adrian, Judy, Minerva and other side characters do not take part in this cluster fuck.
• We choose to ignore the tentacle monster in the basement…

Apart from that, you can go crazy…

Side Characters

Alright, time to pick apart the question of the day:

I guess it was pretty obvious, that Sara would win this one. She has way more lines than the other 4 on this list combined. Furthermore, I guess the incest aspect is also taking a part in this.

Also, it was easy to expect, that Admiral Lesdom will make the bottom of the list. In her present incarnation, she isn’t very appealing and she basically only has a seemingly random sex scene with shaky/incomplete lore justification.

In previous polls and their analysis we already figured out, that endorsement of a character is pretty directly influenced by recent sex scenes. Therefore I guessed, KesRi would be also very low in the ranking, since she only briefly appeared all the way back in V0.4 and never again – but don’t worry, I have a plan to bring her back…

In contrast, I expected Judy to be way higher on this list. According to the last-sex-scene logic, the curvy woman fucking your brains out last update, should be higher on this list. I rationalize this difference with the theory, that Judy is somehow the most normal/boring woman on this list…

And now coming to the second place: Lisaeria has many thing going for her: First she is an Illab, which for some reason means, she’s always high in most-loved and most-hated polls. Second, she is also a huge wildcard regarding sex and fetishes. She seems knowledgeable and experienced in every fetish and can supply you with any kind of sex toy. And lastly there is also the long “fashion” show with Annica and this update…

But speaking of Lisaeria: Should I keep her as an “enabler” side character like at the moment or should I make her a sexual side character, with whom the MC directly has his fun? If I was to do so, I could go very wild, since Lisaeria offers every possibility in terms of fetishes. I could also place her anywhere on the D/s spectrum – in her interactions with Annica she is mostly displayed as dominant, but a cute little Illab, that’s (secretly) vicious/sexually dominant would be too much overlap with Zoela.

At the moment there isn’t planed much for Lisaeria – just a few instances where the MC or a LI need a specialized sex toy or clothing, which will result in an 20-ish lines event. Also maybe a second round with Annica, where all pretext is dropped about this being a “normal” photo-shot... If you want to see more of Lisaeria beyond that, let me know...

Special Feature

As I have mentioned in most other dev-logs, I always want to add a special feature each update/give myself a programming challenge outside the usual visual novel pipe line. For the upcoming update, there is no urgent mater, that would force my hand. Therefore I want to ask you, if there is any new feature you would like to see in the game.

If there’s nothing coming form your side, I’m planning to expand the space combat mini game. Once you reach Funkelregen’s full capability i.e. after you picked up Sara at the end of V0.7/the start of V0.8, Merax becomes a hotspot on the galaxy map. At the murder-squid’s homeworld you’ll encounter an optional/repeatable fight against a random composition of Meran capital and escort ships.

Speaking of space combat… I want to ask again about the second combat i.e. the one, where you pick up Sara: Is it “playable” by now? I want to invoke the feelings of “I can’t win” and “I shouldn’t be here (yet)”, but I maybe still overshoot on that front…

And lastly let’s talk about the choice rewrite: If you used my provided save with its “walkthrough” choices you basically didn’t have to use this system at all. But to the others: Did you encounter any bugs using this feature? It introduces like 200 new variables which warranted the safe incompatibility. I mean there has to be a bug in there somewhere… Also, how sufficient were the 4 or rather 5 rewrites I granted you from the start?

Showers

Maybe (or maybe not) you have realized, that this update features no expansion of the shower system. This update I have more or less decided to discontinue the feature. The showers were mend as a “soft”-gallery and now the real gallery is here and I can’t come up with an upside the small showers could have over the actual fleshed out gallery scenes (within justifiable workload). Also, I have no idea how to transcribe Zoela’s latest scene into the shower framework…

When I asked the question about the shower last time, the two most numerous answers were “There are showers?!” and “Never used them…” - granted, I made a bad job showcasing this feature in game… Also most damping, it turns out, there was a bug in the shower system: The event-condition for Rachel’s sex scene was missing, so you could see this scene from day 1 among the shower rotation. This bug was kicking since V0.8 Beta 2 (start of this year) and only got discovered/reported last week... do I need to say more…?

Pacing

This section/question is for all the new people and for those, who chose to restart instead of using a provided save:

Due to the nature of game developing, I necessarily have to think/work update by update and run risk to lose the bigger picture. Therefore I wanted to ask if you encountered any wired pacing in the story lines, any annoying bottle necks in the main story (Rachel’s “Sleepy Trouble” could be a candidate for this…), continuity errors or something like that… The bug has already been reported, which allows Annica to appear in the event with Rachel’s cat, even if she isn’t on the ship. It has also been mentioned already, that there are two instances, in which Sarlé is shocked after learning about the MC’s divined demise…

Also, I’m pleasantly surprised, that nobody came to me with a bug caused by loading an old save...

Keywords

Congratulations! You made it through my wall of text. It’s likely you have already forgotten the start, so here are the most important keywords, on which I’d like to have your feedback – of course you can also comment on everything else…

• Ideas for the end of Cerser’s Moan
• Thoughts on Lisaeria
• Ideas for a special feature for the next update
• Is the second space battle “playable”?
• Thoughts on the choice-rewrite system?
• Requiem for the showers
• Wired pacing / bottle necks / continuity mistakes?

And lastly, how did you like my recent Halloween Artwork Event?