Update 30th Mar '25

First some art news. The latest batch came in from Marwmellow. This means all of the written Faction 3 harlots now have pinup art. I have art for 73 harlots now, which is about 3/4s of them.

I sent off the commission for the next batch, which is the faction 4 harlots. This includes Boobella and Zuripai, which will please people who were eager to see them.

On the code hacking, this week was a little... stodgy.

I tried a few different things with the clue system. Some were wrong turns, but I think it's coming together.

It's one of those awkward areas where it's not just about getting it to work. I need the code to be fairly sleek and organised so I can apply it to a 100 harlots without it looking like a tangled mess and taking 10x longer to implement per harlot.

I did try out some nested clue or multi-clue objects to handle the 2-step clues where the player first has to figure out what is causing the Bad End and then can identify what the safe value is. Twine isn't really a friendly language for those type of object-oriented tricks and the resulting code was a mess. I think having them as separate clues with the second one inactive until the first is solved might be the most sensible way to implement it.

To help with this I created a proper test harlot to try the clue system out on. That's a more stable working environment than going harlot by harlot, and then having to constantly backtrack and test every time something needed to change. I have a relatively stable test framework now, so that should help with creating all the notebook hints.

The end of the month is looming and I'm still code hacking. I ask people for a bit more patience on this. I'm having to stuff in quite a lot of new features, but once they're in and stable, it should make updating all the existing harlot scenarios a lot easier.

I'll keep throwing out new HoHH1.5 demos as soon as they're ready. My plan is to continue with the big push to get HoHH1.5 ready for a proper public demo release.

Apologies to people waiting for the slime smother nun. I haven't forgotten about her!

Thanks for the support.
- manyeyedhydra