Public Release: Devious World a66 + Bonus

Alright, so! Quite a month this month. Way, way better than the last few months have been for content, that's for sure. Quite a lot of great new foundations but also just a bunch of really good meat on the bones. Aaaand a big development, but I'll get to that after the update list and the file links for those that actually want to read.

• Main: Jamie can now ask his catgirl maidified mom to hm-hm-hm
• Main: Instead of peeking, Jamie can now listen to the noises he hears when passing Tanya's room.
• Main: Blessed Buddy can suggest he, Laura, and Ayako go out.
• Main: Marei can now look into a hookup.
• Main: Amanda can buy the Castle Fantasy playset for her brother.
• Main: Marei can note that Ken has made a big mess due to his 'Fapluenza'.
• Main: Jamie can now buy a 'Virtual Dimension Rig' from Nile.
• Main: After hypnotizing the girls at the Hitasuneko, Austin can tell them he can go where he wants.

File is here or here.

Known Bugs: For some reason the further encounters with Amooya is inaccessible from the main DW file but works fine from the other html file. I'm pretty much at a loss to figure out why this is and for now it will just have to remain. There's also probably a way of going into debt to grow oysterberries that I'll have to fix later.

Now, you may notice there's an extra HTML file in there this update. And that's because that's the new "easy quickplay" version of one of the new Jamie things.

So lemme 'splain. I recently played a game called "Succubus Connect" and got The Ideas™ from it, and decided to start working on a vaguely similar storyline for Amanda. But it seemed a shame to limit the storyline by sending it off in an entirely different direction every time, so I thought, y'know what, I'm gonna put a little bit of coding into this, make it fun, actually have that slow transformation into a succubus go on. And here's the kind of freaky part of starting to code that stuff...

... I actually started to sort of enjoy it. Sort of.

(Random feels aside: I went through a really low patch in the last half of the month and was really feeling like crap. I'm fine now, thankya, but I think the coding sort of helped. Unlike writing, figuring out code is objective... it either works or it's borked, so it helped to be sort of objectively right about something I'd done rather than needing to doubt myself on the writing.)

So I got the idea for doing some VR programs for Jamie, specifically one involving a lot of base development and growing out a cast by working for it. It's pretty threadbare right now, since I've only been working on it... week and a half? Two weeks?... but I'm having fun with it so far.

Let's talk about Farmster Girl World a bit!

Now I've always said that I don't want people having to rely on grinding and random chance to experience content, and that's still... almost entirely true. Now, Farmster Girl World will have a little bit of both, but it's never going to get out of hand... currently the lowest random chance for getting some scenes is 33%. And all the "grinding" are just various ways to get money, which I'm going to provide different methods for and none of them should be particularly arduous.

Right now there are a couple of different ways of earning currency, or FD. (Farm Dollars or Fuck Dollars? The world may never know.) One is growing oysterberries in your farm plot and selling them. Another is finding the Abandoned Dragon Grotto and knocking down gold pieces. And another is encounters with the pucker plants to earn some monster milk. (Which will be your main form of currency-worthy item in the game, gained from most encounters with monster girls.) Right now the stuff to spend it on is also a bit limited, but that'll be growing fast. Enjoy the DVR!

There's not a lot of monster girls right now, basically just your personal assistant and the shopkeep. (I'm ambivalent on the personal assistant's name. It seemed funny when I came up with it, before I realized just how much time you're going to be spending with this character for her name to be a bit of a meta-joke. Feel free to share your thoughts.) But there are plans for plenty more! And yeah, monster guys too.

Acquiring/encountering new monster girls shouldn't be difficult... either just standard encounters or acquiring the right things for your farm should lead you to meeting them. Put the right set of variables together, and you'll likely be able to waifu them! And don't worry, again I don't intend for these variables to be painfully difficult to meet, and as I go along I'll be adding a walkthrough guide telling you how to get each as she's added in.

Now, as you may have noticed on the order of the updates, I have no intention of abandoning the other Devious games entirely for this minigame. But I am enjoying the new challenge of working on a, well, an actual game instead of a slightly interactive story, and it's been fun, so I may focus on this for a good while. 

Anyway, all that said, the nature of this means that there's going to be bugs, especially if you use the "back" button since that's likely to mess with variables and flags. I've tried to give opt-out options so that the back button shouldn't be necessary in most places, but it is in a few. I've tried to playtest fairly thoroughly but it's already effectively impossible to do everything in every order in a timely manner. If you find a bug, let me know here, or better yet on the discord server where there's now a dedicated bug report channel. The more exactly you can describe where it is and how it happened the better I'll be able to squash it.