Incubus Update #11

Hey. It's been a while. Life got increasingly busy, as it often does. It's not just a time thing - certain types of work sucks my energy, and my desire to sit at a computer any longer than I have to. For months it keeps looking like it'll turn a corner and suddenly I'll have a lot of time and energy to spare, but it hasn't happened yet. It's just gotten worse. A barrage of small inconveniences adding up over time. I'll survive, but it's annoying. 

Anyway, I'm simplifying my goals. Until I've cleared the board of a few ongoing IRL issues, I can't significantly focus on these projects. That said, I'm not putting things in stasis either - in fact if you put a project on hold entirely, the chances you'll return to it diminish. So my goal for now, and for every month going forward, will be baseline to get at least 1 scenario done per month. It's not huge, but it's baseline enough that I can do it and it's easier to scale up from that. I'm still planning on setting monthly goals beyond that, but I won't get too annoyed with myself if I can't reach them all, so long as I've added some decent content to the game.

What I've Done Recently

I've started working on a scenario that I've ID'd 'pregmywife'. You befriend a man and, over time, learn that he and his wife want to have kids, but due to complications I won't get into, he can't get her pregnant himself. In fact, he's wondering if you can help him... thing is, his wife has no knowledge of these complications and, and he wants to get her pregnant without her knowing it's not his child. How's that going to happen?

I've also made some... I'm not sure what to call them. Animations? I just did them because I had an urge to, no specific use. But they are on theme for Incubus-related projects. Might even use them in IC. If I decide I won't use them I'll post them here on this blog.

I also started working on content for a part of the game I haven't remotely even hinted at: 'bed intruder' events. One of the ways you will be able to earn a living in the game is burglary, and during these outings you might find a 'sleeping beauty' and - unlike in the first game - there's a risk of waking these and getting yourself into trouble. I've created a templated scenario that features 20 encounters with different girls, and hopefully has enough variance that it won't feel rote and repeditive. I haven't finished all 20 in terms of writing, but I have images organized for all of them (though a few will probably end up being replaced as I find better/more suitable images). 

Goals for May

- II - Fix some outstanding bugs in II and release an update (I don't think I've had the time to touch half them, hence no update to the release I put out).
- II - Finish 'pregmywife' scenario.
- IC - Two existing image mods have received updates, and I've been slow to implement. I feel like a dink for letting them sit so long, but I'll get them in this month.
- IC - I've been given a document detailing an expansion for one of the game's existing senarios by a fan. I don't know if I'll be able to get it in the game this month, but I'll start it and if there's no gaps in content I'll likely be able to.

Also

I'm changing this 'regular' 'feature' to "Incubus Update" since I've been putting IC stuff in here as well.