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Milfy Cases .016 In Progress, a few notes

Hey all-

After working for almost a month making Horny Holiday, I recalled why I started animating in the first place. Well done animation is *amazing* and I want more.

So, the next update I'm focusing on adding more animation to the game for the update in progress. There are a few ideas I've been itching to try after breaking new ground with Horny Holiday, and I want to see if I can continue to do so with Milfy Cases for the new update in progress.

It's been a journey, and at least now I have a better idea of what the very best looks like, even if I've yet to hit those higher notes myself, it's my goal.

Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

Horny Holiday Tech demo 90% complete for All Supporters

Hey all, as a way of saying thanks, I'm sharing the tech demo with everybody to get feedback. The final version will be a weekly cascade like Milfy Cases, but for now, as an early Xmas present, I present to you Horny Holiday.

PC / Linux version here.

Mac version here. 

Get the details on what's planned in this post, which I'll update in the next day or so as I get feedback and finalize everything.

Introducing my first ever seasonal game Horny Holiday

Brief description:

Dive into a festive romance this holiday season! Play as Jack in a holiday encounter with the enchanting Joy at a Christmas party. Engage in a unique water, fire, wood challenge to win her heart, all wrapped up with captivating animations and a sound. Charm your way to a date before the lights dim!

What's in the box, Brosef? Coming this season:

• A short story in three parts, with just over two thousand words, in three locations.
• About 120 high definition, beautiful images in full HD.
• More than 60 animations, most with 30FPS or higher, with a few animated loops around 3-5 seconds for each.

Okay, I'm sold, when am I going to be able to unwrap my present?

Soon, my good folks, very soon! I'll have a short demo of the game to Patrons before you know it, with the full launch of the game slated for later this month. Updated, grab the demo on from the links in this post! 

What's this mean for the next Milfy Cases update?

As before, I shared that would be in January, we'll see if I can't make it happen in the early part of the new year, instead of toward the end of that month. I'll be back to work on Milfy Cases in less than a week, based on how things are going with the holiday game.

Thanks for your support, and until next time, Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus

Milfy Cases .015 Edition Release Notes & Download Schedule

It's that time again with the latest edition. If you're into reading the notes from .014 for comparison (that's what I do) they're here in this patreon post. Keep reading for what's in this edition, and then the links to the downloads after the schedule.

What's in the .015 edition?

• 224 images
• 15 plus songs & new audio effects
• About 4,500 or so words of brand new story
• 20 new animations
• Three different animated scenes, two of which vary depending on your choices, so to see both, you'd have to play twice with one of the variables from...much earlier in the game.
• Spelling, grammar, other edits & bug fixes since the last update
• Probably new bugs, new issues, that will be cleaned up over time.
• In total, the game has over 1,450 images, 140 audio + sound files (about as many sound files as Her Heart's Desire), and 29,200+ words of story.
• Updated notes with bug fixes & other changes as of Nov 5th:
• Scratch that, it's 133 audio files (some songs weren't yet in the game)
• Wav converted to ogg since some sounds weren't playing
• Multiple image bug fixes
• French & Spanish language name issues fixed
• Spelling & grammar fixes courtesy a Steam customer & a Steam / Discord supporter (thank you both) with maybe more on the way, once more feedback rolls in.

Schedule for this update:

VIP, Deluxe, Special, Regular, and now Plus supporters today, Nov 19th get the .015 edition download links here.

Next up: Basic on Nov 26th.

Holiday Project Character Preview

Happy Friday! I'm in the home stretch writing the last few scenes for Milfy Cases today, Saturday, and Sunday (well, or earlier, depending on when it's all done) for launch this weekend. 

Also, next month, the Holiday project will be launched for Patrons, which is a brand new project. It's shorter, but packs a powerful punch. There's a story, which is shorter, and the gameplay is focused on a simple minigame concept. It won't be everybody's cup of tea and it's my first non-lengthy narrative game in a long, long time.

Back when I started, I did this to cut my teeth in the category when learning from folks like Sid Meier and others on overall game development. These days, I've been trying to return to my roots, making a few concepts, and indulging in the delight of crafting a novel experience.

Thanks for your support, it's time for this gorilla to get back to writing.

Stay Thirsty, 

Brosef Chungus 

Still working, images, animations done; writing & music pending

Hey folks, I wanted to share a quick update then get back to writing. It's done for images, animations, and pending for writing & music so far.

That means I'll have it ready the 29th, and it's got the largest amount of new animation of any episode - so far - which I'm very happy about. 

Other than Milfy Cases work, I shared on Discord about my struggles with trying to improve as a developer, and lately I've been studying more quality animation. There's a bit gap between the very best and where my current skills are at, so I've been testing, iterating, and learning again. To progress, it's necessary to not only test & try things but to share them.

The best way I can think of to share my animation progress is with ongoing updates to my current game...and, taking time to craft something specifically to showcase, "Here's what Big Chungus animations look like." It should be better than Her Heart's Desire, or my oldest games like Superspy Steve, or Sword of Wonder, etc, that I made years ago - or even the abandoned Magical Restart. 

With that in mind, the small game I'm rendering animations for is called Holiday...something. I'll have it ready for you all *next month* in November. There's already over 50 still images, and 1,400+ animated frames. Excuse me? Yes, there's a lot of animation and that's only three different animated scenes. The short game will have five animated scenes, and probably a hundred or so static images, but the story is very short, probably less than two thousand words or so. 

Over the next three months, I'll have an update almost every month :) It's been slower lately but with time and effort, I can speed up after slowing down lately to get focused, organized, and improve my skills to deliver even better games. 

Thanks again for being on this journey with me, it's been eight years since I started, and over two years since I put on the gorilla suit to continue my climb toward more incredible experiences.

Twelve months back, HHD had less than 67 sound effects, today it has over 130. Milfy Cases has 113 so far, and that's not including new audio needed for the episode .015. Also at launch last November, HHD had only 32 animated scenes, English language only, and a ton of bugs. Today it's in 9 languages beyond English, has 43 animated scenes, and the least bugs of any game I've finished.

I've made progress and with your support, I'll make even more.

Stay Thirsty, 

Brosef Chungus 

MC .015 Oct 29th, or sooner

Hey, hope you're having a good day. A quick update since I've been working a lot today and my hands are a little tired.

All the images are now done, as are the animations, and the writing is over 50% done as well. Audio, both sound effects and music, have been outlined but not really started yet, as that's usually last in my personal process. Other folks I now realize do music & audio earlier, but me, I start with the writing (draft) then all the visuals, then back to the fleshed out story from the draft outline.

Anyway, my aim is earlier than the 29th, but it's safe to say at the latest I'll have the update that day. I'll post another update in a few days once I'm further into the writing to see if there's a chance I can get it all done sooner, and if so, when that sooner date would be.

Thanks for your support, and I hope your world is good, it's a bit nutty out there these days.

Stay thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

MC .015 in less than 3 weeks...

To be fair, that's the end of October, which means this will be a faster update than the previous two. With less translations, bugs, etc, to do, that means (knock on wood) the next update in December after this one will go quickly.

Today, we're animating more content for the update while I keep writing and adding sounds to the story. 

Hope your world is good & thanks for your support.

Stay thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

Good morning, Basic access to Milfy Cases .014 today

Hey there, as of today, Basic supporters can now downloads the .014 edition of Milfy Cases, get the download links from the release notes post here.

Other than that, today I've got to investigate a few render issues that were reported late yesterday, as well as continue progress on the .015 edition, which is ~50% or more done so far.

Thanks for your support,

Cheers,

Brosef Chungus 

Dev update, HHD Translations, MC Progress

Happy Friday. It's been a week of translating, adding localized trailers for the new translations, and rendering / costume design for Milfy Cases for the .015 update. At time of writing, I'm around ~70% done with the renders, and more animations than the .014 update, with more to go. The writing is around 50% done for the episode, give or take. 

Also this week, I've added many new languages to Her Heart's Desire, as well as updated the post to be accessible to all patrons for the download links - sorry about that. 

With ten languages now (nine if you count the two versions of Chinese as a single language), and a video in each, I think I'm going to pause further globalization of Her Heart's Desire for a while to ensure I can do the same with Milfy Cases, and then continue to support the same language list moving forward with each update of Milfy Cases. It'll be extra work, but I believe worth it, especially since yesterday I had more people interested from non-English speaking countries in my games than English speaking ones - by a lot.

I'll be back at gamedev and pushing forward on a lot of content production over the weekend, and post a meaningful update in the next week on progress towards goal, as well as once the new languages in Milfy Cases are available.

Thanks for your support, and have a great Friday.

Cheers,

Brosef Chungus 

Plus supporter access to Milfy Cases .014 today, dev update

Hey there, first, plus level supporters can now download Milfy Cases .014, get the links in this post here on patreon. The release notes are in the post here, with the schedule, and basic level supporters get the update next week. 

This weekend, I've been working on animation, and bringing my games slowly to a larger audience, with Her Heart's Desire now in French and Traditional Chinese. The update had some bugs, which I fixed this morning, and will be shipping to the cloud for Patrons here, and elsewhere shortly. If you were only playing in English, this update won't be of interest.

Last but not least, work continues on Milfy Cases, and I'll be working on writing more story & rendering more. With the work the last few days, I've now produced more animation for the .015 than I created for the .014 edition, and by render count, it's over 50% finished. However, I've got a lot more work to do and am still planning on shipping the update by mid October.

Thanks for your support & Stay Thirsty,

Brosef 

Regular supporter access to Milfy Cases .014 Today

I think I had the weeks wrong on the release notes page, sorry about that. Get the downloads for Milfy Cases .014 in the links in the release notes post here, and I'll have a patch with some bug fixes out later today as well if you want to wait a few hours to get a cleaner version.

Cheers,

Brosef Chungus 

Achievements for positive outcomes only?

I've been working on adding new content for the Milfy Cases .015 update as I shared here and on Discord lately, and for this one, I wanted to see if I could get more feedback in case I'm stepping in something.

The achievements in both Her Heart's Desire and now Milfy Cases follow the same formula: positive rewards. There are zero achievements related to being a jerk, or irritating the other folks, even though there are options (like ripping a fart, etc) which clearly are the negative choice(s) in the games.

Now then, I'm designing a scene which is pretty fun, if I do say so myself, with two different endings. The positive version I'm definitely adding an achievement, but for the negative choice, I was wondering: it's a bad idea to add an achievement for that, right?

It would break the consistency, such as it is, in the narrative, so I think it's a bad idea, but I did want to at least call it out in case I'm thinking about this all wrong.

Any thoughts appreciated, on this, or anything else if you feel like sharing.

Quick update on this: 5 likes...and no comments, feedback, or complaints about the concept of only using the achievements in game for positive outcomes. I'll stick to that paradigm then for Milfy Cases, since it matches the experience as I've designed things from the beginning. Thanks for reading :) 

Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus

Special Supporter access to MC .014, Dev Update

Happy Sunday; for supporters at the Special level & higher, you can download the Milfy Cases .014 edition as of today, get the download links via the release notes post here, along with the schedule for all other supporters, etc.

Currently working on the .015 update, I've got 30 renders & counting as of this morning, and aim to continue working on producing the visual content today as I start adding the story details based on the outline I have.

Hope your world is good.

Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

Fritz Returns in Milfy Cases .015, in progress

Good morning!

I've rendered the beginning of the next episode for Milfy Cases this week, and with the scene well plotted & planned, I anticipate this chunk of work will go smoother than previously, mostly due to less historical bugs in the game (I think?).

If you look closely, this is the first render of the squirrel since I changed my renders settings earlier this year with higher saturation & some other details to make everything pop. The whole of episode .014 was done with these settings, as was most of .013, and even part of .012 (from memory, I could be off a little). Digging through the images I see the visual break, but then I don't know if everybody else does.

I have no plans to re-render the beginning so hopefully this doesn't cause any continuity issues, if it does, I'll re-evaluate that with feedback, but only after making a lot more progress in developing the game, and go back once this title is finished, and only then (similar to Her Heart's Desire) rework anything early toward the end.

25 renders now (and counting) for the new update, so we're about 11% of the way toward the minimum target for static images.

At least that's the plan. Thank you for your support & I hope you're doing well in this crazy world we share.

Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus

.014 Milfy Cases Download Links for all supporters

Hey there, thank you for your support!

PC / Linux download is here. 

Mac version download is here.

Read the release notes for this edition in this post on patreon here.

Milfy Cases .014 Edition Release Notes & Download Schedule

Happy Sunday, I finally made it, a few weeks later than planned, but with the expanded HHD just released less than a month ago, I hope you know why it took extra. Next time, I'll be done in 8 weeks or less for certain :)

Now, on to the release notes, because there's a lot of changes.

• Improvements to the intro, beginning text, and more changes in the first few updates as I scrubbed for poor quality audio, story improvements, and more.
• About four thousand new words of story
• 211 new high quality images
• Eight different animations, one in a kissing scene, and another smaller animation elsewhere
• 34 new sound effects, bringing the total to 113, vs the previous edition total of 79
• Multiple new scenes, solid character development, and story continuity improvements to ensure that the narrative is consistent where there was some issues with the job referring to his losing it before with the various characters.
• The release notes from the .013 edition are here for reference.
• Updated Sept 4th with a minor word change as pointed out I had "forbidding," which should have been "foreboding." If you see any spelling, word choice, etc, or other issues, I'm always happy to fix them. Thank you!
• Edit updated Sept 17th fixed multiple spelling, grammar, and other bugs.
• Edit Sept 24th, I've added French and Traditional Chinese versions.

So what's the release schedule?

New today, Basic, and also Plus, Regular, Special, Deluxe, VIP & higher patrons today, get the download links here. 

Next, the .015 edition will launch this month (October); release notes for the .015 edition are now here.

MC .014 on Sept 3rd confirmed, HHD 1.08 access updated

A little late, sorry, plus supporters can get Her Heart's Desire the Harem Ever After edition here, and read the release notes here.

There are now 105 audio files in the MC .014 edition, and I've got less than 40 renders to add to the game, in addition to one small animation. Then play test, debug, etc, so I'm confident it'll be out the door for VIP + above supporters on Sept 3rd.

Around three thousand words of story so far, more or less, and of course all the improvements from earlier versions.

Thanks for your support;

Stay thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

MC .014 Dev Update

Worked almost all day, and cleaned up a lot, as well as got maybe ~50% of the new images and animations into the WIP. 

Around 1,500 words of text so far, but it'll take another few days at least to write the rest, debug, play test, and etc. 

September 3rd or 4th, since it's a holiday in the USA, I can get more done, if it's not ready on the 3rd, it will be on the 4th.

I'll post between now and then on Discord as usual. 

Stay thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

Ahem, my old brand was Jill Gates games, fyi

Hey all-

So, years back when I was an alcoholic, I had some good ideas, some bad ones, and due to the drinking, no real filter. Please don't make the same mistakes I did and waste a chunk of your life drowning in a bottle.

The biggest, dumbest idea I had was using an alias from my indie books on Amazon and elsewhere for a game developer brand (there isn't any cross over it turns out, the audiences are largely different) from books & games, at least those I was writing.

Since there was some misinformation posted, I wanted to be clear: my old games are owned by a new person, not myself, and I haven't had anything to do with Superspy Steve since I finished it in 2016 (badly), same with Sword of Wonder (finished in 2020 or 2021?) and Romancing the Kingdom. If you ever played & wondered why "Penny," and "Polly," were the two names used in Princess of Persia...that was also the alcohol.

Same person, same dude as back then...only now, I'm wearing a gorilla suit and sober. 

A few of ya'll supported me back then, and now - I can't thank you enough. 

Cheers,

Brosef Chungus

...the artist formerly known as Jill Gates

MC .014 Progress & Dev Update, Image Preview

Happy Sunday; it's unfortunately not release day today since I'm still working to create all the things.

However, since it is delayed, I wanted to share more of what's coming up. The main reason for the delay was the necessary work to improve HHD; however, I think that was the "last last," update for the game.

MC .014 WIP now has:

• 150+ renders, some needing post processing
• 6 animations to be added to the relevant scene, when written 
• 13 audio files to be engineered
• Minimal new text or scenes (pending)

Today is a work day as usual, so I'm going to get back to it.

Thank you for your support,

Brosef Chungus 

Dev Update, HHD bug fix, beta localization & more

Hey all, been working on a list of things as usual. To start, the Her Heart's Desire 1.08 was updated with a beta translation to European Spanish and Simplified Chinese. The schedule is there (along with the release notes from all the other stuff).

Milfy Cases is taking my full attention again, and I've got around 70 images so far, a bit over a half dozen animations, and tons of story ideas to put into the game now that I've been working on a lot of narrative related challenges. I spend time playing other games usually to get a feel for how things are done, and I'm optimistic I'll be able to make things even better.

The .014 update is still in development, odds are it will be another 3 weeks, give or take, and I'll have a better idea over the next week. 

Thanks for your support, and Stay Thirsty;

Brosef Chungus 

Basic supporter access to Milfy Cases .013, Dev Update

Hey all-

First, Basic supporters can get the Milfy Cases .013 edition here today, and if you haven't read the release notes, those are here in this post. 

The .014 is in active development again now that the Harem Ever After edition is finished, which took almost three weeks of my time, so things are a little slower than we'd like for the new Milfy Cases update.

On the positive though I've got time off from my day job to crank through more game development this month and I expect in a few weeks, we'll see the episode come together. Now, I've gotta get some breakfast in me and then start cranking through renders for the next scene.

Milfy Cases new update so far has about 50 images and 6 animations in it, so for the visual production, I'm about 25% of the way there, I expect after today, I should be at least 35% done with the visuals.

Stay Thirsty friends & thanks for your support;

Brosef Chungus 

HHD 1.08 Harem Ever After Download for All Supporters

Hey all-

Download links are here!

PC / linux get the game here. 

Mac get this version.

If you want to read the release notes they are located in this post on Patreon here.

Her Heart's Desire Harem Ever After 1.08 Release Schedule

Hey folks, it's been a more difficult & time consuming process than expected to update, improve, and expand Her Heart's Desire, but I think I'm done now. Almost nine months after the game was finished, I present to you the most recent (maybe final? at least this year, lol) expansion to the game: the Harem Ever After ending.

What's good in the Harem Ever After update?

• Three new fully animated scenes, with more than 26 animations, some with 30, 40, or even 60 frames - yeah, I tried to push things & improve in that area too.
• Twenty plus new renders in my latest visual style, a significant upgrade to the previous styling in the game.
• 43 scenes in the replay feature, now when replaying a scene you can experience every scene the same way as it happened in the game.
• Rewritten introduction, multiple other scenes as well, for clarity and quality.
• Compressed animations to shrink the game footprint from 7.7 gigabytes to just over 5 gigs; this includes the new content as well.
• Added character label & italics to all the lines where the main character was thinking, but it didn't have a label.
• Reworked sounds, the man laughing in particular, as well as others that didn't have the same high quality as the remainder.
• Customization has been simplified, enabling people who don't want to customize all the text to skip many questions in the game & focus on the story. Also, this feature has been improved to lay the foundation for (maybe) eventual localization into other languages...but that's for later, it's still English only for this update.
• Added - bug fix for the scene replay from the latest changes, as well as a beta version of European Spanish and Simplified Chinese.
• New Sept 5th bug fix for the individual endings with Daisy (screen issue missing), Lily (poor design on my part) and I believe Rose as well. Also adjusted the volume of the heartbeat sound effect to make it softer since it was a little too loud.
• New Sept 24th, French language and Traditional Chinese language added via machine translation.
• New Sept 28th fixed multiple bugs and experience issues with the rename feature that ensures you can modify Lily or Rose's names.
• New added translations for Italian, Russian, Turkish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
• New Sept 30th fixed a dialogue issue on day 3 evening, also fixed another personalization bug with the character name & relationship edit feature.

What's the release schedule for Patrons?

All supporters can get this edition with these download links in this post here on Patreon.

What's next after this is more Milfy Cases, read the release notes here from the September 3rd update and see the supporter release schedule.

Cheers,

Brosef Chungus

Plus supporter Milfy Cases .013 download, dev update

First, Plus and higher supporters can now get the Milfy Cases .013 edition, get the download links here. If you haven't read the release notes yet, they're available for all to read (even public) and those are in this post here.

Also thought I'd make this post public since the new, Harem Ever After edition of Her Heart's Desire is coming soon; we'll see if it's later *today* or later this week. There are previews on Discord, and with the bugs I've been fixing, things I've improved, I'm very happy.

A few instances of the customization weren't used properly (even in in the most recent edition) and now those will be all cleaned up...at least, I hope so. Lily's name was hard coded twice, which broke immersion, and there were a few other issues I've sorted already.

The intro has had a more extensive rewrite and the blocks of text with no label have all been updated to include the Main Character, and italics to indicate those are his thoughts, memories, since he is the one telling the story. It should be a lot less confusing now overall, since previously there were those markers with MC, italics, but not on all of them, and without a label, it was very unclear.

With all that said: are there other things in HHD I could fix up? Speak now, or forever hold your peace.

Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus

Daisy with wet hair, animation preview

Thought I'd share one of the stills from the animations I just finished, there are six in this particular series.

There's a second one finished with Daisy, Jen, and the main character in the extra special edition of Her Heart's Desire with the edits I'm working through.

Got requests or suggestions? Feel free to smoke 'em if you got them.

Stay thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

Regular level supporter access to Milfy Cases .013 today

For supporters at the Regular level and higher, get the download links here. The release notes are public, and accessible for all members with the download schedule in this post here, updated today.

I'm working on the continued edits to Her Heart's Desire, and I've shared a few preview images on Discord in the #Basic channel of the Jen, Daisy, and MC threesome.

Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus 

We can't ditch the dance partner we have

Over a year ago, I was sure Her Heart's Desire would be finished...summer, 2022. Skip to November, and it was done; except the big rewrite of Winter, 2023. That solved for a bunch of issues (more than I'd have ever guessed, really) and showed me that the game was not, despite my insistence, really done.

When I started Milfy Cases, the title went through two changes before launch, the beginning was rewritten not once but twice, and the story went through a few different iterations. I bought props from the Daz3d store, and many of those have yet to be placed into a single render. Mistakes were made.

I'm taking up to two weeks - this week, and then if it takes more, another - to go through and pretty up the dance partner (Her Heart's Desire) who's been sitting lonely in the corner for months, crying over their flaws. Poor sound editing & quality in a few spots. Confusing narrative, and the egregious issue of not labeling the narrator vs the main character's thoughts. 

The lack of character labels really bugged me when I played through and in three minutes, I was pretty confused. Despite me being the writer, creator, and sober for years now (since before I started producing games under the Big Chungus Productions brand) - my work wasn't somehow perfectly complete & awesome. Yeah, I am still learning that just like the novels I wrote in the past, visual novels require the same editorial process, care, and revision that longer form fiction goes through.

I've got a bonus scene with Daisy, Jen, and the main character which was hinted at in the game, but never really happened. Personally, I hate seeing a theme, or plot point, hinted at and never acted on in a story.

Are there other things you'd like to see in Her Heart's Desire? Characters joining together in scenes, or story arcs that feel like they should be there, but sadly are missing in the current version? It's possible this is the last, last set of edits & improvements. I considered more, but the simple fact is many aspects of the game are solid. It's just some items which detract from the totality of the pretty picture.

Anyway, back at the writing & edits.

Stay thirsty, 

Brosef Chungus 

Special supporter access to Milfy Cases .013 today

For supporters at the special level and higher, get the download links here. The release notes are public, and accessible for all members with the download schedule in this post here, updated today.

The current plan is for the next .014 edition to be available by August 20th, in about four weeks from now, give or take. It could be a little sooner, we'll see how it goes.

The renders & animations are perhaps 25% done so far, but there's all the other stuff as usual which I need to finish up.

Stay Thirsty,

Brosef Chungus