9/1 Status Update

Sorry for the late update, I'm on the road right now and the first stop was a family reunion. Well the Internet was a lot less existent than I thought it was going to be so I couldn't post this. I'll be away from home for a few weeks, but Naked Ambition is mostly text files that are easy to edit on my laptop so things still should get done while I'm on the road. I'm visiting family on the East coast of the US, then family in France, then friends elsewhere in Europe. But who cares about that stuff, what matters is sexy video games!

This week I put out the first Subscribestar/Patreon preview build in a long time. For people who have stuck around on the higher tiers anyway, thank you. Netoria Tactics doesn't lend itself towards preview builds, because of Steam, the publisher, and other development stuff like me often working on the functionality and levels last, but Naked Ambition works great for it! So $10 supporters can already play .83 with most big changes in there, although a good amount of writing and polish is missing. A $5 test build will come in a few weeks, and then the public release! This update only took two years, so pretty fast I'd say.

I think the reworking and edits leave a strong foundation for finally moving the timeline forward. .9 might take a bit, I ideally want it done late October, but I'm not sure if that's going to realistically happen, we'll see. Right now I'm mostly going through various content and editing it. Adding to scenes, changing various tests to use the new dominance/submission stats, and overall just tweaking things. For example, Normand doesn't care about Faith anymore, those tests are now dominance ones. But the most changes have been to the tutors. Before every tutor ran on the pattern of do an action three times, do a stat test, do a new action three times, repeat. There's more variety now, only a few of them do that. For some tutors the activation of them is now based on just acquiring them. Enrique, for example, needs you to reject two other tutors first and has a clear path to reject him as well. So his content with the Princess just goes forward automatically, there's no need to have some kind of check in his lessons as well. The same with Cecily, you need to let her into the country, ditch the Vizier, and then get on one of her three variants. That's enough already.. One of the routes will use the new combined magic stat, but otherwise once you're on them you're good.

So that's what I'm up to for now, just going through the game and giving it a tune up now that I have the power of hindsight. I'm also working with the pixel artist to get more things done in this lull where I don't need any Netoria Tactics stuff. This week I sent on order for the first chunk of ending art. These ones are for the Princess-Player endings and I'll show the art for them as they come in. There's six of them, an enthroned and disinherited variation for the Reliant, Confident, and Balanced versions of their relationship. Since corruption no longer exists and activating the routes is based on the love stat, the previous Love route is now based on having confidence and reliance balanced.

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