Course of Temptation 0.4 Patron Preview: "Sextracurricular Activities"

Hello friends! Your early access to 0.4 is here and you probably want to get straight to it. The download link is at the bottom of this post!

I have been playtesting this release for hours upon hours, and so have a handful of others, hammering down every issue we come across. That said, there are about to be a lot more eyes on this update than ever before, so it's likely more issues will be uncovered. If you do find a bug, please let me know here (you can DM me) or use the bug reports channel on the Discord. Thank you!

If there's a vital patch released, I'll update this post. Otherwise I'll plan on an update to coincide with the public release next Friday.

Dev diary

There's not much to say in terms of the usual Friday dev diary stuff! I've been playtesting, fixing, and polishing like mad, and I imagine I'll be doing still more of that into next week. I'll also try to add a few little extras I didn't quite get to if I'm able.

The week after, I expect I'll discuss possibilities for the next updates, both minor and major, and maybe a poll or two will go up. But we'll see! At this moment I'm just focused on getting this update out.

Release notes for Course of Temptation 0.4: "Sextracurricular Activities"

Features:

• Sports signups open up the second week of classes! You can choose football, cheerleading, swimming, or esports. Each sport has its own unique set of events, including regular practices, games, and character events.
• Spectate games happening on campus for a relaxation boost.
• Talk with and tease your professors, either after class or during their office hours! Build favor with them by being a good student or, you know, other ways. Spend your favor to boost a poor grade or to get extra credit.
• Sometimes just being in your professor’s good graces isn’t enough to justify special treatment. You may get assigned special tasks around campus and suddenly find yourself a volunteer at the clinic, an art model, or the subject of a psychology experiment.
• Story Hints button added, giving you an idea of what to do to advance certain storylines or character relationships. This system directly tracks various game variables and will update as conditions change.
• The encounter system now supports multiple partners and there are several threesomes among the new events.

Mechanics:

• Integrated majou’s SugarCube mod, including its improved save system and a whole bunch of performance improvements. (Huge thanks to majou for helping out with this)
• Restart button moved to Options dialog.
• Fast travel is now the default and you can click anywhere on the map to go straight there, unless you’re streaking or noticeably messy.
• Base event chance slightly increased.
• Certain events can now become overdue, increasing their chances of firing day by day. For example, you should no longer go too long without seeing the Classroom Harasser.
• New event sets for four sports, including practice events, game events, and storyline events for each.
• New interactions with professors, both during and after class and during office hours on weekdays.
• New event set for helping out your professor around their office or classroom.
• Various thematic events like jocks causing trouble around campus and the rivalry trophy exchange.
• New Bully inclination and related events and event variations.
• New Free Use inclination.
• New Chaste inclination. Mostly just makes some NPCs really hard nuts to crack, but the player can get it too if they’re abstaining for some reason.
• New Squirter inclination, unlocked through a certain event.
• Build Favor and Lust to change how your professor reacts to you.
• Spend Favor to boost a bad homework or exam grade, or gain extra credit. Extra credit can boost a class’s grade to A++, increasing your overall GPA and maybe making up for a class you’re not doing so well in.
• Three new event sets for special tasks around campus. Your professor may give you a special task as a condition of special treatment.
• New NPCs added to fill out sports teams and act as upperclassmen outside of the player’s usual cohort.
• Rival sports team (The Falcons) added and NPCs generated for it.
• Each professor now teaches just one course, doubling the number of professors.
• Added uniforms for each sport.
• Added the ability to buy sets of clothes, replacing only what you’re missing.
• Added a bunch of new clothes (with contributions from CadiaCreations, Falc,and MCMic).
• Added new styles for the player character and NPCs: hipster, scene, and conservative.
• You can now relieve yourself in the pool, you filthy animal. (Contributed by Z)
• Full implementation of watersports inclinations with new sex acts. (Contributed by Z)
• You can play video games in your dorm if you have a computer. (Contributed by Z)
• New, more diverse hairstyles added. (Contributed by Falc)
• Storage system added, keeping track of whether you can carry your laptop, your textbooks, or even just your phone. Free backpack provided to every student. (Contributed by MCMic)
• More flexible clothing layers, allowing you to do strange and exotic things like wear leggings under a skirt. (Contributed by MCMic)
• New variation on quad party bathroom scene. (Contributed by Meat Glacier)
• Additional reduction in weekly loan amounts if you’re successful at sports.
• Streaming end time extended to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
• More indicators on the map and the fast travel screen, helping players find the quad party, planned dates, and more.
• Your roommate will now be up to different things in your room. (Contributed by Z)
• Your roommate will (usually) notice when you’re undressed and generate an exhibitionism memory.
• Trans and nonbinary characters will discuss their gender with you as you become closer, instead of only revealing it in an encounter.
• New possible events when retrieving your laundry.
• You can now choose to throw a lounge bet video game.
• During worldgen, the game will detect and correct if too few NPCs will be attracted to the player.
• People dialog now has a tab for special characters.

As you can see, contributors added a lot to this update, and I want to give a massive thanks for their hard work!

Download 0.4

Here's your patron-exclusive download link:

https://mega.nz/file/1S0TwTQJ#J2paAxQ91nt5dnPsyrGo9SZm9gjpgZSuI0pAt6p_CnI 

Public release will happen via the usual means in about a week.

If you want to migrate a save (for example, between itch.io and a local download) then click Save in the left panel in your ongoing game, then Save to Disk. Then open the html file locally, click Save there, then choose Load From Disk and import the downloaded save.

Thank you for your support and I hope you enjoy the update!