9/13 Status Update

I'm still in away from home, but I'll be headed back home pretty soon. Yesterday I put out the $5 test build for Naked Ambition .83. It should be pretty close to the final, minus some bugs people hopefully find. I added a few new things this week, the biggest being a bunch of unique lines of dialogue for the Princess to say in her lessons instead of the same one every time. The idea is that at the start she'll comment on how she's not very good at it, but by the end she'll talk about how she's now a master of the subject. This was actually something that was in very early versions of the game, but I removed it because it was kind of a lot of work and hard to think of what to write for 10+ stages on every skill.

So I took this as an opportunity to finally add it back in. It's not a huge feature, but hopefully it adds a little bit of extra oomph to those lessons you see over and over. Pretty much everything I had on my list for .83 is done, what's left is to make sure everything works right. There's a lot of widespread changes that could cause bugs all over the place, so there's more quality control need than normal this update.

That's all I really have to say about what happened this past week, so let's talk a bit about the future.

How's that for a preview image? It's still rough, but this is the art for the Princess+Player ending, enthroned, high confidence variation. Yes, that's three different variables there, all of which impact what ending and art you get. It adds up to six different endings for just Princess+Player, so you can see how this can add up to a LOT of endings. In this particular once, the Princess has becomes queen! And as queen, she can do what she wants. And if that want is to have her peasant lesbian lover dressed in a bikini at her feet while she sits on the throne, then that's what she gets!

A fundamental promise that Naked Ambition makes to the player is that all these stats, different characters to romance, winning the throne, etc. actually matter and mean something. That you're guiding the Princess to some end. Well the above is one of those ends. And even just with the Player, what happens to the Princess is wide and varied. They can run off and live a happy life together in poverty. They can move to a foreign court with the Player and the Princess's aide and secret lover. The Player can become the power behind the throne, ruling the kingdom with the Princess as a puppet. They can move into a brothel with the Player pimping out the Princess as an exotic whore for money. And more!

The problem of course is all these endings are going to take a long time to write and get art for. That's why the final version is a pretty long ways off. But we'll get there eventually. I'm pretty committed to releasing new batches of endings periodically while Netoria Tactics 2 switches to the main focus. Sorry for such a long hiatus, but I plan to keep this thing rolling until it's finally finished.

That's all for this week. As always, thank you for your continued support.