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Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.44.0

Added 2024-06-28 16:52:12 +0000 UTC

Note that the public release will be in 3 weeks. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura on itch.

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Big tiddy month comes to an end! Like last month, my quest to continue pushing towards the Corruption ending has progressed quite a bit over this month. One last batch of work next month and then we are off to the Corruption ending in the month after it!

But before we get ahead of ourselves for the future, let's take a look at the present of the progress of this month. As usual, for the details I refer to the detailed weekly devlog posts and will instead only look at a summary of what is new this month.

Starting with the numerical review! We have: 11 new Corruption Scenes, 5 new Lewd Scenes, 2 new Mental Changes, 4 new passives, 5 CG variations, and tons of other things like progress on the Demon-crazy quest, new pixel art assets and many other little things!

The first important batch of changes is on Earth / the mental change. Two new Identity Questions can now be answered to trigger a bunch of new scenes and gain new passives. Among the new scenes, the probably most dominant sequence is the continued competition between Rose and Aura over Richard. A bunch of lewd scenes deal with these events where to gain Richard's attention the two girls compete by bringing George towards the brink of despair.

On the lewd department, we have a new threesome with Rose, Aura and Richard, a group sex scene involving Elizabeth, Laura and their boys, as well as another threesome but with Aura, Richard and Alicia - her lack of appearance in lewd scenes finally being broken!

Visually, we also have a bunch of new art assets! Although no new base CGs we have a lot of variations of other CGs this month. The slutty bikini outfit from last month is now represented in the Richard sex scenes. Lewd Streaming 7 is now illustrated with CG variations of the George lewd events - except with George replaced by Richard and Aura's character design updated to the current corruption level. And then we also have the upgrade of Rose's chest area who has undergone breast enhancement surgery to raise her chances to win back Richard.

I will also show the detailed results of the current poll next Monday, but it looks like Tan variations is winning which is why I went ahead on Wednesday and discussed them with our artist Emubi. I was hoping I could already start adding them today and wrote the mental change and scene for it, but there were some issues in the organization of the assets, making them not work with all the costumes. It's not a big issue, but big enough to postpone the addition of the tan mental change to next update.

Finally, besides new corruption scenes we also have a bunch of minor visual improvements. It's always a bit strange to see certain assets cycled after staying with us for so long but such is the cycle of life. The discprepancy in the pixel art chars and their 2D portraits always bugged me and for Laura, Rose and Aura this has now been finally resolved. What's more, the Library Club always felt a little bit too stylish for some girls. Thanks to our pixel artist Amysaurus, our Library Club now fully looks the part!

And what's more, their appearance now also progress. Starting with the scene where Aura blackmails everyone to "take better care of themselves" the Library Club members will start dying their hair and in the second stage also swap out their clothes (doing an opposite order from Aura for some changeup). Well, mos of them progress, except for one girl for whom I decided to leave the appearance the same as she is the side character who receives the most bullying (after Laura) so I figured her not visually progressing to be related.

On the Roya side we have two points of progression. One is the Lady Charlotte event chain which contains one new lewd event that is very, very long x_X and gets Charlotte into bed. Her chest development can also be progressed to the last stage - hence combined with Rose's breast enhancement story Big Tiddy Month ;D

The second point is the progress on the side of our assistant developer Trihan who has continued to implement the Demon-crazy quest which last month only had a very basic stub to get it started. Recruit members to infiltrate the cult and engineer the election so Liliana can guide it to a better future --- or sell out the girls and turn them into agents of the chauvinist Shadow.

Before closing out, there are two one balance changes I would like to highlight. For one, that the Underground Pub Job no longer gives Lewdness. You still gain Lewdness from Customer Service and Uniform Upgrades as usual but the job itself no longer does so. It's a bit problematic, because it was the generic way to increase Aura's Lewdness to 15 in case it was lagging behind and the player couldn't find any lewd events. But I believe at the current stage of the game, that benefit is no longer as important. O

On the other hand, ino longer giving Lewdness also means no longer giving Corruption. I always found that the job gave too much corruption for too little reward but increasing the reward wasn't really an option as it would muddle its identity compared to the Brothel Job. So yeah, you can no longer raise your Lewdness up with the job, but you can now also work it on higher lewd levels without worrying about Soul-Break. I believe investing a day end into the job for its smaller rewards instead of, say, learning a skill or investing into an enhancement, is already enough payment.

The second balancing change affects the Knowledge Room. Here the process of pumping out Knoweldge no longer requires 2 actions. Since the first pump action never triggered an event, I didn't find it too interesting. So with the goal of shortening the journey to Chapter 3 just a little bit, I decided to cut it out. Note that if you are currently in the pumping process and need to smash the Orb, it will happen automatically if you interact with it without giving you an option. This way backward compatibility with this state is preserved.

Aaaaand that's it for the month! There are various other small changes you can read up in the Changelog if you are interested. For example, some coming from this week's polishing work. Especially in all scenes involving a TV and the Interestes Room containing one, you can see now some funny little animations. And that's about it. Have fun with the update, let's hope we won't need a hotfix and otherwise see you until Monday for the next month's Project Plan.

EDIT: Android and Google are fucking garbage and I hate them. I'm doing a fixed version build. Nothing should change. I shouldn't have my build broken because of some deprecated libraries. Android build wasn't deployed when I first made this post. Updated the dependencies and retriggered the deploy job so the android build should be there BUT WHO KNOWS IF THERE ARE ANY CONSEQUENCES TO UPGRADING THE DEPENDENCIES.

Changelog 0.44.0 (28.06.2024)

Added Lewd Streaming 7 Part 2 H-CGs
Added Lewd Streaming 7 Part 1 H-CGs
Added Tutored By Richard Slutty Bikini H-CG variations
Added Sex With Richard Slutty Bikini H-CG variations
Added Rose Breast Enlargement Character Artwork
Added pixel art uniform for Aura and Rose walking chars
Added pixel art Luciela Walking Char
Added mental change Ideal Partner Question
Added mental change Question Submission
Added lewd scene Cheerleading Game 4
Added scene Lunchbreak 10
Added scene Patricia Rebelling 1
Added scene George and Veronica 7
Added scene Fighting Over Richard 1
Added scene Fighting Over Richard 2
Added scene Fighting Over Richard 3
Added scene Fighting Over Richard 4
Added lewd scene Fighting Over Richard 5
Added lewd scene Fighting Over Richard 6
Added lewd scene Fighting Over Richard 7
Added lewd scene Lady Charlotte 2
Demon-cracy: Implemented recruiting Black Priestess
Demon-cracy: Implemented recruiting adventurer twins
Demon-cracy: Implemented recruiting slave trader merchant
Demon-cracy: Implemented recruiting Fleura
Demon-cracy: Implemented recruiting Courtesan Queen
Demon-cracy: Added tracking variable for number of recruited cultists
Demon-cracy: Implemented electioneering event Opening a Path
Demon-cracy: Implemented electioneering event Helping the Accused
Demon-cracy: Implemented electioneering event Special Waitressing
Demon-cracy: Implemented James event
Demon-cracy: Implemented Shadow contact
Demon-cracy: Implemented Black Priestess corruption mission
Demon-cracy: Implemented merchant corruption mission
Demon-cracy: Implemented Courtesan Queen corruption mission
Demon-cracy: Removed hard references to player being intermediate rank
Demon-cracy: Implement Fleura corruption mission
Added interaction stub to Liliana
Modified Demon-cracy courier scene and quest description
Improved courier event in demon-crazy
Activated Demon-cracy after defeating Beelzebub in Winterfall
Added extra line to courier dialogue if player sold Blue Sugar+ formula to underground drug dealer
Add visual and sound effects to Demon-cracy scenes
Clarified Liliana support updates
Improved positioning of shadow minion and Aura in cutscene when entering Nephlune from the Roya map
Added clarity to missed support increase messages
Removed Nothing But The Truth evidence from players who have completed the quest
Implemented separate item categories for evidence and recruitment prospects
Added passive True Nature: Submissive Hero
Added passive Consuming Desire
Added passive Chest Bloom II
Added passive Sexual Frustration
Implemented on-the-fly thumbnail rendering of Locations
Updated George walking char clothing color
Replaced static Library Club members with dynamically progressing chars
Changed George for Richard in compatibility flame
Updated Richard rating tag for Chapter 3
Registered brothel job in Masturbating Is Not Enough menu
Added animated pixel tv shows for TV
Improved chaining of leadup dialogue into actual lewd check in Trademond guards
Chained reporting bounty hunt to Julian to asking about demon worshippers
Decrease max mental changes to 151

Balancing

Removed corruption gain from Underground Pub Job
Merged Knowlegde Drain Mental Changes from 2 actions into 1 action

Bugfixes

Fixed typos
Fixed Rose appearing in Lunchbreak 10
Fixed using recruitment prospect for black priestess not doing anything
Fixed Aura portrait not appearing during Fighting Over Richard line
Demon-cracy: Fixed Aura portrait not disappearing after hiring Alexis with gold
Fixed Fleura not being recruitable under some circumstances
Fixed slave trader merchant options all being locked when out of willpower
Fixed slaver trader merchant appearing in underground city before recruiting her
Demon-cracy: Fix slave merchant not calling onViceAction
Fixed visual glitches
Fixed incorrect Aura battler
Fixed Belphegor summoning any fragments on NG+
Fixed negative person quantifiers affecting checks of books and similar by adding a self tag to related checks
Fixed missing brackets in Aura thoughts
Demon-cracy: Fixed lingering standing images
Fixed Fleura not giving recruitment option if player has not learned Pierce I
Fixed Demon-cracy NPCs erroneously being present in John celebration event
Fixed recruiting Alexis with Seductive Stance calling wrong common event for recruitment check
Fixed broken thumbnail positions of locations
Fixed bunny ears remaining visible when using SK on obstacles
Fixed Black Priestess giving the wrong increase value for Blessed Water on Nightmare
Fixed Being Lazy 1 incorrectly activating crystal for event 2