Harmony Girls v0.5 Development Update #10

We're in the final stretch now, with almost everything completed. The writing is all finished now, though I still have one final scene left to render stills for. After that, I need to create a couple of minigame end scenes and possibly a few small things I've missed. Then I'll be onto testing, bugfixing, and proofreading. And finally, I'll create the dream scene for this update and everything should be wrapped up after that. My todo list looks promising for a release next week, so keep your eyes out for it!

This week, I wanted to talk a little bit about the kink settings feature in the game and how I'm going to test a new twist on it with this update. When users first boot the game, all of the kink settings are set to enabled and they have to manually disable anything they don't want to see. A problem may arise if they don't disable something before encountering a scene featuring that kink. With Katie's latest scene, I've added a new extreme insertions kink setting and a menu message that will pop up before encountering the part of the scene featuring the kink so users can either disable that part of the scene or watch it in full. These menu messages will only pop up the first time the kink is encountered. I hadn't done this in the past because anytime a player encountered a new kink, it required the action to be used in the minigame. As I retroactively add scenes featuring any kinks to the early game, I'll be adding the same menu to those scenes so players don't accidentally watch a scene with a kink they're not interested in.

Now that I've got the new kink setting created, I've had to return to some previous dialogue with Katie and change any references to the kink for those who have it disabled. If you all were wondering how it's been managed in the past, I've created separate dialogue for events that reference or feature any kink a user has disabled. Sometimes, it's a minor difference, but others will have entire blocks of dialogue altered so that a scene is still engaging for those who have that kink disabled. In this scene, I'll be creating still renders that only exist for the disabled kink players for the first time.

Well, that's about all I have for you all today. This will be the last development update for this version, and I'm looking forward to having this version out soon!