CG Focus Post 1.0

Happy new year everyone. I would like to start the new year by talking a bit about our options for the CG production of the 2.0 content. In this post, I will talk about the options I have in mind and then there will be a second post immediately following this one with poll options for the 10€+ tier. I will split the post like this so that everyone can see the options and get also get an idea of the things I have in mind.

Link to the poll post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cg-focus-post-1-119076710

First of all, of course there will be new H-Content which will require new H-CG artwork. I will spoil one part of the upcoming Roadmap Post that the often requested Maid Bad End (including new Mad Job events that will push you towards a lock-in to the ending through the willpower mechanic) will be scheduled for the first 1.1 major release.

However, post 1.0 I would like to shift away from our focus of investing everything into the H-CG production of new content and also invest resources into creating illustrations for existing in order to raise the general game quality. Pre 1.0 we have basically focused everything into either standing images for characters or H-CGs, since they provide the highest value in terms of quality increases - standing images appear all the time and a H-Scene tends to take about 5min+ to read. I did also want to schedule some non-H-CGs for 1.0 but it was not meant to be as our schedule just barely allowed to fit the H-CG content needed for 1.0.

But there are of course a lot of other things that one can focus on and going forth I would like to try to about 50:50 split the production on new H-CGs and extra illustrations for existing content - which may also include H-CG variations for them.

I will just warn you that in the following there will be one popular option that I decided to not include at this point: Variations for Aura's default Roya costume. The large number of CGs that would be affected by this would monopolize the time of our artist to the point where we would need to dedicat 100% of the time to the production. That would mean no Maid Bad Ending in 1.1. Since there are still a lot of high value H-events to add to the game, I would like to avoid options like this that would require our artist to 100% focus on it. That doesn't mean we can't schedule it at some point, but probably it would be something towards the end of 2.0 production.

Finally, as a note to the poll to those who might be new: For me, polls are always something that I take into consideration when planning content, but I don't follow the results religiously.

With all that out of the way, let's jump into it! Here are the options I have in mind and also of some concrete examples (examples are really just examples, not necessarily what I would focus on):

(1) Alternate Earth Costumes

When Alicia picks out standing image alterering mental changes such as clothing, hair styles, and so on, we always have 1 fixed result. Since the number of CGs affected by the CGs is fairly overviewable, it would not be too difficult to add extra costume choices.

They could either happen when Alicia performs the mental change or during the Earth Corruption scene by Aura. Some mental changes are directly tied to some story development so for example I'm not sure if there would be choices when picking the 'blond' hair color, but perhaps there could be for example different blond color variations.

Gameplay-wise there could be a minor condition and cost variations (Although I'm not too sure about cost variations).

Examples:

• For the first costume, already picking a costume with some level of cleavage. This might require passing an Exhibitionism check and cost an extra point of Corruption. Or perhaps the other way around: Cost an extra point of Corruption and also add a point of Exhibitionism to Aura.

• Instead of smashing glasses, Alicia could replace them with ones with thinner frames. Not sure of having to add glasses to all CGs is really something I want to burden our artist with, but since it's just glasses it wouldn't be too crazy.

• When picking a Tan, Alicia could pick a lighter Tan, costing less Corruption but also providing less Submission in the scene.

(2) Selfies and photos

Sending and taking pictures with their phones plays a major role in many scenes. I think this one is fairly self-explanatory. The only issue is that most of these CGs would only appear rather briefly as the actual moment of taking a picture tends to be rather brief. Still I think it would be a nice quality boost.

Examples: 

• Aura posing with the popular basketball player for selfies after receiving gifts.

• Alicia sending Aura a picture of her giving a blowjob.

• Aura seeing Alicia in a magazine wearing her later gyaru costume.

• Photos of Aura's modeling sessions.

(3) Extra H-CGs and variations for existing H-Content

There are various places where we could add in new CGs or CG variations for already existing content. In particular for repeat content. Again, I think pretty self-explanatory.

Examples: 

• Kissing CG for Aura and Richard

• Unique CG for the last stage of Aura and Richard Late Night Sex

• Completed Womb of Lust becoming visible and being added to CGs (would be a lot easier to deal with than armor variations)

• Options to switch into a different costume for repeat sex characters like Hermann. E.g. if you have graduated from the Maid Academy, doing his sex scene with a maid outfit.

• Showing the streamer Aura watches in the corresponding Masturbation scene in a CG popup in a corner.

• CG for "hinted" h-scenes such as Patricia blow-job for Richard.

• Extra facial expressions in H-scenes, but I don't have a concrete scene in mind that would need this but I do recall some feedback on various scenes wishing for more.

(4) Popups

During the scenes, there are many times when the characters talk about objects. I think the most common ones are shoes and dildos. We could show these objects in a popup in the center of the image for example.

Examples:

• As mentioned above, the dildos Aura can pick from when going shopping with Alicia.

• Shoes, clothing that Aura and co look at when shopping. Might also have synergy by showcasing options for (1).

• Instead of objects, sexual harrassment popups, showing something like generic groping in a popup.

(5) More Side Character Standing Images

I believe have illustrated all the important characters, but there are some more tertiary important characters that have enough screentime that they could be considered for having a standing image. Personally, I don't think it's necessary to expand this further, but for completions sake I am adding this to the poll.

Examples:

• Claire, Roland, Dolus, etc

(6) Bonus CGs

Instead of focusing on in-game content we can also add more static CGs that can be unlocked as a bonus in the recollection room. The advantage of these CGs is that they can depict things that would be impossible or unlikely in the game.

Examples: 

• ??? I honestly don't know, I haven't really thought about interesting bonus CGs. Like the above, this is more here for the sake of completion.