Major Announcement: Game Development Project

Hey there! Halftilt here with a pretty major announcement that I'm really pumped about – I’ll start out by saying this:

“I am not going to stop working on Lustiest Lair, I have every intention on seeing LL and this new project to completion.”

So, what’s the deal then?

Well, the deal is I started working on a new NSFW video game with artists ibli51 (artist for the Priestess encounter and Sex Framework) and pzpana. As the lead programmer and writer of this project, I’ll be responsible for coding and writing for the game.

Similar to Lustiest Lair, I plan on releasing this game publicly entirely for free, while supporters will gain access to early releases of both this new game and Lustiest Lair content.

I’m developing the game in Godot and given that Godot is an open-source game-development engine, I’m looking at making the game’s code also open source once we’ve had our first demo release, so if anyone wishes to contribute, or use the artwork or code used in the project it will be publicly available to anyone.

So what is this game anyway?

The game’s current development title is “D69: Deep Six Nine” – a not-so-subtle reference to Deep Space Nine, which the game is loosely inspired by.

The game’s synopsis is as such:

“D69: Deep Six Nine is a SciFi dialogue-driven mystery roleplaying game where you assume the role of Captain of a space colony responsible for breeding with alien species in order to save them from the brink of extinction. You play as Captain Linessa as she travels the galaxy seducing aliens while she uncovers the Federation's mysterious history.”

The game is a tabletop RPG inspired dialogue-driven game. There currently aren’t any plans to add combat – instead its gameplay is heavily inspired by the likes of Disco Elysium, Fallout: New Vegas and tabletops like Scum & Villainy. You solve your problems with your skills, dialogue choices and the actions you take instead of engaging in combat.

Given that your responsibility is helping alien species reproduce, the game will also have a breeding/pregnancy element on top of its RPG elements.

So there will be a few familiar fetishes from Lustiest Lair in this game such as a pregnancy, corruption and integrating the sexy stuff into the gameplay itself.

I’d love to share more about this project here – but that puts this post in danger of becoming way too long.

Which brings me to my next point. If any of what I’ve mentioned sounds interesting to you, you can find out more on our SubStar @Halftilt! I’ll be posting artwork, screenshots and updates there primarily related to this game’s development.

Note: Currently, I've set an ambitious deadline for July 21st (delays pending based upon delivery of artwork); though my latest buffer deadline is a demo release before September.

So, what’s this mean for the Patreon?

All this means is that this Patreon Page will look a little different and going forward since I’ll be posting content related to both Lustiest Lair and D69: Deep Six Nine’s development. So, if you’re a supporter of either project, you’ll be seeing content for both projects – though the Patreon will be much more focused on Lustiest Lair content while SubStar will be only focused on D69: Deep Six Nine.

If you’re interested in just supporting D69: Deep Six Nine’s development, you can find our SubStar @Halftilt and I've also made a separate Discord Server here for the game’s development. So, you’re free to join either as they are solely focused on this new project and there will be much more in-depth content related to the game’s development there as well.

What does this mean for Lustiest Lair?

Not much is going to change. I’ll still be working on finishing the mod and adding new content to it – and it’s actually nice to have another project to turn my attention to as it breaks up the monotony for me; instead of browsing Reddit when I’m not working at my day job or on Lustiest Lair, my attention has been focused on these two projects and it’s been awesome.

Given that Lustiest Lair’s main artist, Hestrir, is facing difficulties receiving payments for the foreseeable future, some new content will be slow to trickle in for Lustiest Lair. Though, as I mentioned previously, I have taken up drawing, but I won’t be finished with my courses for another five months, so any illustrations for Lustiest Lair that I’ll be making myself won’t be seen until at best five months from now – and I’ll be doing my best to mimic Darkest Dungeon’s artstyle more than anything.

In the meantime, I’ll still be finishing up overhauling the DLCs, releasing the custom class that I do have finished artwork for and finishing up the sex framework as well; which is plenty content to keep me busy until I’m ready to start creating art for Lustiest Lair.

That’s all! Thanks for all of the support and I’m looking forward to sharing more cool stuff with you all!