Update 27th Aug '23

And it was the last week of frenzied code-hacking.

I think it needed to be as well.  I've been extremely focused on getting the core of House of Hellish Harlots 1.5 done over the past month or so, and it was just starting to get to me last week.  I spotted I was starting to fuss and fudge, and decided I had to put the demo out on Thursday.  It didn't have everything I'd have liked (I really wanted a proper title screen), but I felt self-imposed deadline panic was starting to creep in, and I'd be better off getting what I had out, and then go back to looking into title screens and other features when I'd had a chance to take a breather.

I did put out the playable demo with graphics.  The details are in a previous post, but the link is here if you missed it:
https://houseofhellishharlots.com/experimental/ 

The response has been a little quiet, which is... scary.  I think that might be because there's technically nothing new here.  People have read the scenarios before, have seen the harlot art commissions and even seen the demos and screenshots with all the new background art.  It's important to me, because it's the first time I've put everything together in one demo, but maybe not so important to players, who want to read new sexy harlot scenarios!

(I think I could also really do with a proper title screen, at least as a focal point.)

Hopefully, I'll get some excitement building again once I've ported all the old harlots across and start to take this version past round 5.

In the meantime I'd love to hear feedback to give me some reassurance this is heading down the right track (and also to get any problems fixed on mobile, so mobile users don't feel like they're getting left behind).

Next week will be busy.  I'd like to put out the second half of the mid-2023 roadmap on Tuesday, so people can read my plans for art and other assets for HoHH.  Then Thursday is the end of the month, so there will be the regular HoHH release with the squidgy slime girl twins.  I'll still be releasing new harlots to plain text first for the next couple of months, at least until I've caught up bringing the others across.

I'm finally looking into getting a discord server set up like I said before getting sidetracked by a month or so of frenzied code hacking.  Setting up seems easy enough.  Getting the right security in place so I don't accidentally dox myself or get the space overrun by a troll mob/bots is something I want to make sure I get right.  Am boomer, please understand. :D

In slightly more exciting news, I'm in negotiations to source more harlot art.  Early days there, but hopeful.

With all that going on, I suspect next week won't quite be getting back to normal.  My goal will be to try and get everything sorted by the end of August so I can free up September to get back to writing harlot scenarios, maybe even Temptacia (finally!)

Thanks for the continued interest, support, and patience!
- manyeyedhydra