I decided to move Quid Pro Quo a couple more decades into the future (and into a bigger city). I think it makes for a more interesting universe overall, and opens up more opportunities to play the malevolent god-capitalist that you all came to know and love in Stationmaster.
The majority of the corporations advertised on the billboards out...
2020-03-15 01:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
It's been a bit busy with two game projects running, but I have some updates on Quid Pro Quo that I wanted to share.
First off, you might notice that characters look a bit different. Quid Pro Quo will be using an entirely new character engine that I'm building from scratch around Daz assets. It's a bit more ...
2020-03-08 20:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
You all know the drill. This patch has major improvements to the sex animation engine, including fixes for your favorite bugs like "penises don't bend that way" and "Why do furanari characters make everything explode?"
I've also added some new environment content (for example, visited asteroids and stations are now modeled o...
2020-02-29 01:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
There are a few patches left, but only one more that's going to have a vote: the Final Stretch Goal. This is the last one, so, I'm going to leave this vote up for a bit to give people time to think it over.
Because we're relatively close to release, I've eliminated the ones that are likely to cause serious b...
2020-02-25 22:45:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been doing a lot of thinking about what comes after Stationmaster.
After a gauntlet of ideas, a couple design documents, and one abandoned prototype, I've finally settled on the game that will actually get developed. I've made some good progress already, and hope to have the first public release done at the same time as Stationm...
2020-02-22 18:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of this patch is focused on fixing bugs in the... ahem... animation engine, but I'm also doing some new environments for existing events.
The goal is for most events that take place outside your suite to show something else in the background. I don't know how achievable that will be (as you can probably tell, it's pretty time-consumin...
2020-02-15 21:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostI feel weird calling this a part of the "All Tied Up" 0.27a update because bondage gear is barely changed (I guess it was mostly stable). Instead, I worked on fixes for everything else (along with adding a new fetish interview for the start of the game). So, without further ado:
0.27 is currently building. It would normally be time to put the direction of 0.28 to a vote, but there's only one content update left in the plan. Before I get into the design, I want to touch on what that means for the future.
As strange as it is to write this, after two years of development (and despite all of my efforts to introduce bu...
2020-02-01 21:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostThere's nothing really graphically interesting about this patch, but here's the part of the changelog I'm most excited about: The Rules Assistant works again, after a long time spent fixing bugs that should never have made it into the build.
I hope to God I was drunk when I wrote it, because there is no other excuse. Thanks all for your pa...
2020-01-28 01:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is a doozy. In addition to the new clothing, I ended up running through about 60% of the bugs and community improvements on my list. The rules assistant got the most love, with some long-overdue new features and stability improvements, but there are a ton of little improvements (like the ability to rename planets) scattered across the g...
2020-01-14 01:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostHolidays or no, a patch went out yesterday, so it's time to post the new design. I'm pretty excited about this one, since it closes a pretty big hole in the content: Bondage Clothing.
I'd also like to extend a special thanks to the incomparable ZaZ, who is doing the 3D artwork for this patch.
Preliminary Design
Happy holidays! I took a bit of a light patch due to other obligations, but filled out the promised 16 furniture items per category and fixed the highest-priority bugs. Without further ado:
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2019-12-23 20:15:03 +0000 UTC
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This patch went pretty smoothly, so I ended up combining it with a bunch of polish features and bug fixes that had been stuck on my list for a while. I also switched file hosts, so please let me know in the comments how the download goes. Enjoy!
Update: I switched back to MEGA because this file host has a pretty punishing ...
2019-11-24 00:10:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The club is getting some love this patch as well. This version will add a DJ assignment, as well as dance floors for both your residents and your slaves. It also adds slot machines and keeps the old bar furniture, so you can control exactly what kinds of entertainment are available. &nb...
2019-11-21 01:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post
These pictures show off some of the things you can do with the new decoration system. It's designed to let you customize your station for whatever mood you want to set, wherever you want to set it.
You can now cover your station in billboards, build gardens, or just make the entrance to your suite that much grander. All decorations can als...
2019-11-16 20:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat was a bit of a marathon, but I'm glad it's dealt with now. I'm sure there will be more tweaks to the animation engine in the future, but this will be the last major rewrite (and if it never happens again, it will be too soon).
This patch takes the animation work from the last patch and takes it a bit further. It adds several new posit...
2019-11-03 22:30:09 +0000 UTC View Post0.25 is uploading as I write this, so it's time to start work on 0.26 (after a day or two of some wholesome wall-staring).
The idea for this patch is to give you more customization options for your station. It will add a new category of furniture called Decorations. You will be able to place decorations anywhere on your station, and ...
2019-11-03 03:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm planning to publish 0.25 in the next week or two, which means that it's time to vote on 0.26! 0.25 is a huge pain, so the options for the next patch are a little restricted to give me time to breathe.
On the plus side, this poll is open to everyone.
As of Catalina, Apple requires that all applications (and all new versions of applications) be sent to them for approval. The process requires Apple hardware, a developer subscription, and, most importantly, a bunch of annoying bureaucracy.
I'm not doing that.
MacOS builds will continue to be available for those of you who are savvy ...
2019-10-15 19:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis has been the longest patch to work on so far, but I think it's worth it. The new animation engine adds a lot of realism to sex scenes, and that was one of the biggest issues before now.
It's taken a couple trips back to the drawing board, but I managed to get this thing working more generally. Thanks to a new dynamic raycasting system, it no longer fails with certain character sliders. I've also got the player loaded in properly now, so he no longer looks like a bacon beast. Finally, I'm cleaning up the motion captured animatio...
2019-09-29 21:22:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I bit the bullet and bought a motion capture setup! Calibrating the new IK system for each pose is insanely tedious, and I'd rather not repeat the work after the inevitable animation overhaul.
That means that, if all goes according to plan, I'll be adding several new positions in this patch (as well as replacing the animations for the old ...
2019-09-19 01:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I underestimated the amount of fine-tuning needed to make this system work smoothly. This patch is going to take another couple weeks. Procedural animations are a lot more fiddly than I expected, and the closer I look, the more stuff shows up.
On the plus side, these issues are all side effects of what will be a much more natural-loo...
2019-09-14 21:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It doesn't look like a win on the surface, but the math is working! There's quite a bit left to do (including replacing the strange meat suit with the player's actual skin), but the "top" animation now plays correctly, and lines up with the bottom with the full range of character sizes.
That means that, as of now, the research phase is ov...
This is pretty much what it says on the tin. It's a full patch because the variation in player/slave height means that the animations have to be proceduralized, and I don't know how to do that yet.
Player character will show in sex scenes
I'm trying this new thing where I forget to launch the vote before publishing the patch, then start it late and pretend it was on purpose. Probably shouldn't have said that out loud.
At any rate, here are the options for 0.25. I'm running low on important patch ideas, and am not sure if that means that final release is approaching, or I ha...
2019-08-24 15:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis patch is almost entirely tweaks and bugfixes over 0.24a, but does add the ability to purchase planets.
This update adds the new factions with event chains, expands the main quest, fixes a problem that was hiding most of the events for the old factions, and makes some improvements to slave graphics. I also fixed a ton of bugs, as usual.
I'm done with the new "outside" ships, so here's a little beauty shot. Harmony (the golden temple on the left), Flotsam (the trading ship on the right), and Brimstone (the red station in the center) will periodically dock around your station if you allow it. Each will provide a unique bonus while docked, ranging from Brimstone's tourism bonus to...
2019-07-30 01:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis patch fixes a ton of bugs and adds a ton of smallish features, like influence minimums to access higher-tier slave markets and optimization for higher zoom levels.