Course of Temptation Dev Diary #78

Hello friends! I just had to double check the day, this week flew for some reason.

This week I've been working on the May update, which will be coming into early access at the end of the month. For this update, at least, I'm sticking to the priorities established in the last poll and continuing to work down that list.

First of all, many players have been enjoying the new underwear collection mechanic, but asked to have some memory of who you've collected underwear from. Fair enough! Starting in the next update, it'll keep track of this, showing that you've collected somebody's underwear as a voyeur memory...

...as well as a breakdown when you check your collection in dorm inventory.

I'm going to give this stuff a further revision later today, based on some suggestions from Noonycurt, but you get the idea.

I've also been tackling another item from the poll, which is also a fairly common request: anonymous streaming. This is basically going to come in two forms.

The first way to be anonymous is to wear a mask. This is most suited to X-rated streaming, but you can do it on the PG streams too. Viewers will comment on this, and some may ask for a face reveal... and if you're on the X-rated platform, they'll even offer money for this... but whether you do so is up to you. A face reveal will generate a large amount of interest for that stream, but, of course, it's the kind of thing you can only do once.

The second method, available only on the PG platform, is VTubing.

Clearly these are the most important options! There are others, but they're a screenful, so I'll let you see for yourself.

Streaming as a VTuber is mostly pretty similar, though some streams that don't really make sense to do as an animated avatar are excluded, like workout and hot tub streams. There will be comments on it, some positive, some trolling, which of course is all part of streaming. Getting started with VTubing requires a computer (meaning not just your phone) and a camera, as well as a new VTubing software bundle.

Whichever way you choose, anonymity makes things a bit different — notably blocking off The Parasocial Fan storyline, as of course, they won't be able to recognize you.

Besides these things, I'm aiming to polish and extend some existing stuff, and I have a bunch of little things on my list for this month. For example, someone on the Discord pointed out that you can insult somebody when you're talking to them in person, but you can't compliment them! So that's added now. Also, if you're sufficiently uninhibited and there's an appropriate location nearby, you can ask them for a quickie on the spot, which is another really common request.

Also on my list: all the new colors are nice, but rather dangerous in the hands of NPCs, it turns out! Not that their color coordination was great before... so either way, it's time to address this. Noonycurt has presented a solution to this in the form of outfit color palettes, which I plan to extend (unless they do it first) and add into this update, which will make their outfits a bit less mad. Also BangCoffee (the new coffee shop on Bancroft Lane) is getting some extending with the help of HeeHo, making it a proper nightlife location with employees and a dress code and its own hangout/date activity. I know a lot of people would like to be able to have their character work here too... that won't be in this update, but it's pretty likely it'll happen in the future.

Okay, that's all I have to talk about for now. The last day of the month is next Wednesday, so unless I get struck by a meteor you'll hear from me then with early access. So until then, and as always, thanks so much for your generous support, this wouldn't be possible without you!