Course of Temptation June Update Early Access (v0.6.6)

It's time for early access to the June update!

It's been a little while! I was on vacation for the last couple of weeks. I'd had vague plans to add some June update stuff in my downtime, but I ended up not really having downtime, and on top of that, I've been sick the past few days! As a general rule, I like my progress reports to be about things I've done rather than things I didn't manage to get done, but sometimes stuff happens. Anyway all I really want to say is I'm not done with this update yet, and I'll be adding some more of the things I had planned on the way to public release in a week, so this changelog will expand. I'll also be back to regular dev diary updates next week.

Noteworthy feature additions:

Writing books: One of those suggestions that's been moderately popular for a long time, but never with so much clamor that it was easy to prioritize. Well, its time has come! You can now write and self-publish ebooks and earn a little passive income. In addition, if you're using the non-legacy save system, then books your characters publish will be available to other characters in your other saves! This is part of ticking off the "creating things" item from the last content priority poll, and I hope to do some more in this vein.

NPC count slider: You can now increase the number of NPCs in your game up to four times the usual count, if you're using the non-legacy save system. That's about two thousand NPCs! Note that boosting this slider up all the way will create noticeable slowdown points even on the fastest devices (like a desktop PC!) so if you're not using a very capable device, take care with this setting.

Be a mascot: The college has gained a mascot through the efforts of Noonycurt and Hee Ho. This is essentially a new "sport" attached to football, with an all new set of events.

Please find your link to early access just below these release notes. And as always, thank you for your support!

Release notes

• You can now increase the number of NPCs generated for your world through a new slider in world generation options. This is only available if you have IndexedDB (the non-legacy save system) active. Be careful on slower devices, as it will affect performance as well as bloat save file size

• Sexual preferences for NPCs now have proper proportional sliders in world generation options, allowing for greater control

• You can now write books, with their quality dependent on your Writing skill

• You can publish books in order to generate some daily passive income from sales. The better the book, the more sales you will get, naturally

• Also, published books become available on a new in-game website, Alakaz.on. Why would you buy your own book, you ask? You probably wouldn’t — but your books can be purchased by your other characters played in different saves! (Note that this cross-save data storage is only available if you have IndexedDB enabled)

• Added a new Mascot “sport” which, like cheerleading, is attached to football (contributed by Noonycurt with assistance from Hee Ho)

• New options and bugfixes for clothing, tattoo, hair, and various dorm items (contributed by Hee Ho)

• Many fixes and tweaks (seriously, quite a few bugfixes in this one)

Download or play here!