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Hotfix v13.2! Mac Emulator? Progress Report with Big Reveals, Poll Results, New Character & More!

Added 2025-02-01 02:12:12 +0000 UTC

Thanks again to all our supporters for making this game possible! I'm very excited to show you what we've been working on. 💙

Also, I usually read every comment, and really appreciate ideas and feedback. So I made 💡around things im particularly interested in yalls opinions about.

We released 0.13 earlier this month, and we've got a list of tweaks, optimizations and bug fixes for ya.

Also, for our lovely rare Mac users, we've included instructions on how to run Wine emulation for the game! 💡 Would love your feedback on how performant it is, and if it's stable for you.

Download Life in Woodchester v13.2 here!

🔥New Hotfixes for v13.2!

Optimized Texture Sheets
- Spooning CGs were misplaced in default texture sheet
- Several CGs that were in many location texture groups, now pushed to CG only groups, which should result in less texture swaps
Texture Flush is now forced on for certain locations to ensure your vram is squeaky clean.
- Main Menu, Gallery, Sandbox, MyRoom, Hallway
Dynamic Game Speed FPS
- Admittedly haven't tested this enough, but if your FPS falls below half, it should force skip drawing frames, in order to keep the FPS in a playable state.
- Now usually this means there’s something slow, incompatible or wrong happening, but it should make the game at least able to be played on slow/bad/incompatible hardware.
Bug Fixes
- If girls are in sleep pose, should always be sleeping on bed
- You can no longer accidentally trigger spooning sex scenes early (they each have various thresholds of when you can sleep in their room with them.
- Somehow missed Lily Missionary scene fix from last time.
- Misc Grammar & Dialogue fixes
- Fixed a mismatch with money earned not being accurate & increased high Intelligence income

🎊v13.2 is a Free Release for Everyone!

Turns out, we haven't updated the Itch.io in a long time... Well today is a big day for all our followers who have been watching, not quite able to support, or just peeping in from the sidelines. Today we're releasing a massive, up to date version of the game, v13.2 for completely free on our itch.io!

Part of the reasoning, is that we've had some outstanding bugs/instability from older releases that are annoying to address. This build should help get new players into stable builds, as well as get them into some more modern, core content that the game has to offer. Ideally, converting them into new supportive members of the project! 😁

Of course, this wont be the normal release schedule moving forward, and believe me, without your paid support, we wouldnt be able to make this possible! 💙

If you like what you see, consider becoming a patreon member today! Enjoy! 💙

🎉Patron Voting Poll Top 5 Results!

#1 Doggy Style in all Rooms – 357 Votes + Voting Tier Power
#2 Tara Face Fuck – 344 Votes + Voting Tier Power
#3 Lily Laundry Booty – 272 Votes + Voting Tier Power
#4 Chloe Anal – 269 Votes + Voting Tier Power
#5 Lucy the Yoga Teacher – 259 Votes + Voting Tier Power

We're already hard at work on these new scenes! Thanks everyone for voting! It can be tough to make the cut-off's on potential material, but as we get more and more into the development, we'll be able to make more polls in the future!

"Yeah? *Hic* Why don't you make me?"

💙As usual, you can find work in progress on these and everything else here in our Discord if you're a VIP or higher patron! Commenting and Critiquing for Creator Tier +!

🎯The Focus for our Next Update

I'll be sharing A LOT of new things in this post, but I want to make sure you all know what we're ultimate focused on in the next release. Essentially, we'll be:

Expanding on Lily, Tara, Janice
Repeatables for Cass and Molly
Kicking off the stories of both Chloe and Pixie.

"Is... Is this really happening!?"

🧘‍♀️Introducing a New Character, Lucy the Yoga Teacher! (WIP)

"That's it for our class! No-Mustard!"

"Uh... Did she mean to say Namaste?"

You voted and we delivered. Lucy is very, shall we say, "challenged" by her top half. Not just her massive chest, but also the going-on's in her head... Or lack there of. The type to wear "I wish these were brains" on her T-Shirt. She confuses the words Yogurt and Yoga, seems to think "Doggy Style" is a yoga pose, and that all the new men attending yoga class are actually there to find inner peace...

💡I'm interested in what you guys think, should she ditch yoga and pick up "content creation"? After asking you to post on your social media, she ends up going viral! Could be a chance to get close to her... and a lucrative one at that!

💙 Nudes for Lucy also available on Discord for VIP+!

💦Dynamic Cumshot Concept (WIP)

Paint the town-er... White!

I was developing a dual particle system that is dynamic for cumshots. Its pretty neat! And this is all without any type of character breathing, blinking, reactive movement, dialogue, etc.

Also the particles themselves are not final, just tests. Despite that , I'm pretty happy with the physics and how it's turning out! It's a bit of a shotgun spread in the gif, but we can tweak the parameters later.

💡Since it's dynamic, we can have users control the "spray" so to speak. So let me know if that's something you guys would like. Also, we can have MC consume some products, so he can repeatabley spray, as long as he wants, and/or larger amounts, if that's something you guys would want.

👊Platform Fighter Mini Game

It's gonna take a lot to impress Pixie. She's top 100 in the world at 'Bare Brawler 4', the all popular platform fighter. Lately, it's ALL she seems to care about. She won't even listen to you, or even her mom Ellen. The only way to get her attention, it seems, is to rank up!

It might seem like we've put a ton of effort into the engine, but in actuality, we're using one of the single greatest game templates I've personally ever seen, simply titled "platform-fighter-engine" for Game Maker Studio 2.

It already has an entire combat system, over 13 stages, items, rollback netcode (wait wtf) and more. It's almost a crime we're only using it as a mini game within the main game.

Worried about your gaming skills? Don't worry though! We'll make sure you don't have to be the reincarnation of Pros in Smash Bros to be able to beat the campaign and rank up to "top 100", worthy of Pixie's attention.

It's my opinion that people probably won't really want to play vs other real people. Things like Rivals of Aether and other competitors exist out there, if you want something way more substantial. But, it should be a nice nod to the platform fighters out there, with this "stripped down" version of a platform fighter. (Yes the pun is intentional)

It's also stripped down due to art limitations as well, we lost contact with the pixel artist, and to be honest they were one of the best, and rarer still, willing to do NSFW work. However, we have enough material though to do basic platform fighting, and some celebratory spicy scenes as well!

💡For accessibility reasons, and for those that just aren't interested in playing a platform fighter for story progression, we'll make sure we have ways around it. (Such as X money + X intelligence means you can pay for training/account boost.)

🃏Monster Girl Card Game! (WIP)

A few months ago we showed off some concepts for a monster girl part of the game. While still a WIP, I wanted to try something that could be pushed out and enjoyed a bit sooner.

The nice thing about a card game, is it's fairly straightforward and fun when you have a clean modular engine. These cards are designed with that modularity in mind, so we can't wait to share with you over 400 different cards! Feel free to DM me on Discord, if you'd like to help in pre-balancing the game, which is, taking a look at values and determining what might be a little too strong.

Of course we don't mind strong epic cards, but I do enjoy a good, fairly balanced game, with powers that truly reflect the characters.

Likely, at the start, you'll be able to play against 'other players' (CPUs) on MC's PC in his room. You'll be able to rip open packs, and I think it'd be fun to have codes players can share on say Discord, to collect all of the monster girls!

So how does the game work?

It's pretty similar to other TCGs, but with a few unique fun twists! (IMO) Lets explain the cards first.

They have a mana cost, HP, Damage and Speed, and sometimes Armor. You'll pay the mana cost to summon and during battle your cards will automatically fight, the target in front in order of highest speed. Ties will simply attack at the same time. Cards are shifted to the left if any spots are available. If no cards are found, you'll be hitting the player's life points instead!

If you've paid attention to the cards, you might be wondering what the breeding part is all about? This is the first main twist/gimmick of the game. Each round, before you summon, you may 'breed' with one of your monster girls, no matter the mana cost.

There, you can feed them your 'male essence' to lower their mana cost by -1! Not only that, but every card has a breeding effect as well. This can make your cards even stronger! Here are some interesting combos:

Breed with Berena, making her a super tank! That scales when you hit her!
Breed with Shibara to launch a devastating bite attack!
Breed with Salma to pressure your enemy with constant damage!

Cards in the breeding pool return to your hand at the end of a round.

As the rounds advance, you'll be able to add even more cards!

Round 1 - 1 Card in Breeding Pen
Round 3 - 2 Cards in Breeding Pen
Round 5 - 3 Cards in Breeding Pen

Oh, and it's not just feeding them your male essence that you can do. You have multiple 'breeding' options!

#1 Swallowing Essence
- Effect: -1 Mana Cost
- Description: She draws your climax into her mouth, swallowing, converting it into raw arcane energy.
#2 Rough & Rowdy
- Effect: +1 Attack
- Description: A heated, physically intense sex that seems to channel raw power.
#3 Fortifying Backdoor
- Effect: +1 Health
- Description: : She offers her tightest passage, forging a surge of resilience that boosts her vitality.

🍦Flavor Text: You're re-aligning chakras hidden deep inside of the monster girls! Nice work!

These effects are in addition to whatever effects the card already states when breeding. Who knew breeding could be so important! 😏

We'll have CGs and sound for all of the options when played, so It should be interesting to see what strategies you come up with! Will you rush your opponent with Swallowing Essence? Scale up a fighter with Rough & Rowdy and Fortifying Backdoor? Or maybe you'll just choose your favorite actions over and over, with no regard for gameplay. 😛

I've still been tweaking monster girls behind the scenes. In fact, this arachni-taur has been one of the more fun (and cute) additions. Otherwise, we're more or less finalizing the designs.

Oh, and patrons who filled out a monster girl, you havent been forgotten! We have about 30 of you. When we go to submit the sheet with data, as well as art, i'll let everyone know in a new post, so you can DM me details or changes. Some of you made unique stuff, and others filled out generic goblin girls, or characters I already have. So what I'll likely do is help guide some of the creations to be more unique.

We'll probably close the monster girl submissions for now, but stay tuned for future submissions!

💡As we develop it, It would be fun to have a card shop in the world and you fight other players including your buddies Kaleb & Joe. Maybe even a new storyline with a new character?

💙 Phew! That was quite the post! But I hope you all had fun seeing the new stuff. Excited for this new year and new potential!

Best,

Dirty Sock