Explaining some "technicalities"

I am frequently asked something like "How is the game's development  going?", and I understand that the only real interest is for me to give a  release date. Even though it's not the real interest of the person  asking the question, I want to share the achievements made during  development, and having the mini-game in hand makes it easier to explain  the results of the work. Therefore, in this post, I intend to give the  most correct answer to the question, which does not mean to be the most  satisfactory answer.

The idea of creating the mini-game is to put into use several resources that will be used in the main game. This is not a deviation from S4H development, but a more controlled way of finding flaws and refining mechanics.

What's different about this mini-game is that it only uses procedural animations, which means that every movement made by the characters is calculated during the game.

The first challenge was simply getting the animations to work properly. It is not common in games for characters to touch each other in real-time, because this requires control over the order in which the movements occur. To achieve this control I had to create all the systems and unify the order in which the commands are updated.

This allows for random movements, as you can see in the direction of the gaze and the constant exchange of expressions. It also allows the player to interact with the animations.

For this interaction, I created the "Reaction System", which "reacts" to mouse movement. The big challenge is converting 2D movements into a 3D environment. The system you already tried in S4H simply captured the mouse and converted it into arbitrary movements, it was difficult to configure and that's why I used it very little in the game.

The new system projects the cursor within a "reaction zone" and this allows you to copy real mouse movements. The zone detection itself allows you to trigger all kinds of events, such as camera changes or activating the character's hand to hold the girl's horn during the blowjob.

But the main function of the zone is to activate the "reactors". I created several reactors like the "Gropper" and the "Slapper" that are self-explanatory and work in the player's hand on Penny's butt. I can connect the reactions, making Penny react to the slap and also trigger other game functions, such as making her nose light up.

But the most complex reactor is the "Banger", which allows free control. During the development of the mini-game, I was able to improve this tool a lot. The best idea was to transform the area into a capsule, allowing diagonal movements. You can compare the difference with the making-off video.

And even the cum works on a new procedural system, different from what it was before, just an animated object over the character constantly glitching. I confess that the design wasn't the best for this first experience, but there's a complex code behind this cumshots that makes me quite proud.

I tried not to go on too long and simplify as much as possible, and I hope my text hasn't lost its meaning. There are more things I would like to talk about, mainly the corrections I made to the mini-game based on the feedback left by Archy_TaxiWhy, especially the possibility of holding the button to not leave the zone, which greatly improves control. But it's better to leave this topic for the next time.

I intend to re-release the mini-game with these fixes and more content, and I also intend to make some excerpts from S4H available as mini-games, so you will have some content to test while the game is not ready.

Thank you all very much and especially to Archy for the tips. See you!