Sketches are coming in. Prepping for the next update.
Added 2023-04-17 04:17:27 +0000 UTCThe Landlord tier sketches are out previewing action at the arcade and the pool table. I'm focusing more on multipart scenes now. I really like having some progression to a scene. The less sexy scenes will likely still just be a single image.
So what is next? Well I've committed to the sewer and the more I work on it the more I like it. There are a lot of scenes I can put in the sewers that just don't fit anywhere else: chud hot springs, chud tennis court, the chudmall, and some other ruins I'll be building. If I come across some other ideas that would really add to the sewers then I might add more spots. It'll get Catherine into a different outfit and will have a bit of a progression to explore. This will give another side thing for the player to do when not working the bar.
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Got it, that makes a lot of sense.
Andy
2023-04-25 14:56:12 +0000 UTCMy idea is most of the locations that unlock as the game goes on will have minimum corruption requirements to go there. So the sewer involves a sexier outfit. Catherine might not be okay with that at first. Same for the waitress job and the lounge. That means I can start the action off higher up than I would at the bar or the pool table.
Lime Juice
2023-04-17 20:03:29 +0000 UTCI read that. At the time I hadn't considered that this was the standard trope for games. Three scenes at the train, three at the massage parlor and so on. I'm not really approaching it like that. I mostly approach these scenes with what makes sense. If I can only think up 2 good scenes at the arcade then that's all it'll get. If I think of 7 then it'll get 7.
Lime Juice
2023-04-17 20:01:36 +0000 UTCThis post kind of reminds me a post by another developer Remtairy about his translation of Kiara where he went on to praise how the game explored corruption. One thing that really pointed out to me is how often in these types of games corruption scenes tend to end up in 1-3 scenes rather than a progression over many (basically exposure - acceptance - fall) where Kiara had something like 6+ scenes for each bit of content where she would gradually get more and more into it.
Aqua regia
2023-04-17 17:47:11 +0000 UTCI have a question about your vision for the game and the focus on slow corruption. With the introduction of the sewer and possible scenes there, are we going to see things start off fairly tame and progress in a similar slow manner to the bar scenes, or is it assumed Catherine is fairly corrupted already so all sewer scenes with monsters/beasts/chuds there start further along in her corruption progression?
Andy
2023-04-17 16:35:58 +0000 UTC
