Update 25th May '25
Added 2025-05-25 12:45:00 +0000 UTCThis was pretty much a week of two halves.
The first half went really well. I think I'm now done with the bulk of the coding for the notebook features. I went back and updated Sapoonis, Asphya, and Bebi. That was fairly straightforward. They now have scoring and replay mode.
Overall, in contrast to the proof-of-concept last year, scoring and replay mode is far more streamlined and easy to implement. Scoring goes off the clues and other notebook aspects, so once those are done for a harlot, the scoring is done as well. Replay mode is pretty much all generic functions and very easy to add for most harlots. I'm pretty pleased with how that's turned out. I think I should be able to add that very quickly to the harlot scenarios.
The notebook clues are slightly fiddlier. That will be a couple of hours per harlot as I need to go through the scenario to work out what the major clues are for the player to uncover, write the 500 words or so for the notebook section, then add and test the various clues. I'll just methodically work through the existing harlots until I've caught up.
I was in the middle of updating Friesya and Nicolette when some IRL stuff knocked me off track, so I wasn't able to get much done for the second half of the week.
The good news is that the major coding work for the new features is pretty much done and I can just work through the individual harlot scenarios. My plan now for May's release is to put out my harlot tester so players can try out the notebook functionality for each harlot as they're updated.
After that I should be able to get back on track and push on with the last 2 remaining round 5 mini-bosses.
Thank you for your patience and continued support.
- manyeyedhydra
