Re-boner Ocelot

Merry Christmas

I don't know if this is a good picture for greetings, but I really like it in terms of art, so I'll add a second, more straight one as well. ;)

It's interesting that it's not just the Christmas holidays for me now, but also about a year since I started developing the game. I'm well aware that it doesn't look like it's been in development for a year, but it is, back then I just didn't have time at all, while I started experimenting with all of the game aspects.

I can't say that it ...

Christmas event

In fact, there's still quite a long way to go before the real scenes with these beautiful girls in the storyline, moreover, you'll need to build up this relationship gradually. However, I can make some exceptions just to spice things up a bit, because now is the time for magic and presents. So I decided to give you a little Christmas present.

I won't even try to explain what is going on in the picture, you'll find out for yourself in the update I'll be releasing at the end of the month....

The book of tentacles 1.4.0

Changelog:

-Added walkthrough, you will find it in the main game folder. (I wrote it myself, so it's pretty accurate)

-New imperial recruit scene with the protagonist. (at the beginning of the game)

-New Patricia sprites.

-Patricia arc is now fully completed.

-New quest of searching the imperial hidden values. In fact, you'll find something way better. (quest is available on the bulletin board after completing Anna quest)

-Many misc changes...

Alice

A little late with the poll, but it is relatively important as it determines the appearance of the new and final member of the party, Alice.

Three sentences about her:

She is a scientist, a very obscure and unemotional one. Her past is shrouded in mystery and she won't tell you much about it right away. Her costume may seem quite skimpy, but it's magically effective, so she doesn't care.<...

Patricia picture (2/2)

I finally decided to download some new brushes. And all I can say is that it's no longer a picture, it's a painting. I really love this piece and also, it's hardly noticeable here, but yes, in this scene protagonist does have a dick.

The only problem is that it would take me too long to animate this, if I could animate this at all. So I'm afraid I won't be able to release the update before the end of the month, but I'll do it early next month.

Patricia picture (1/2)

If I could, I would mark this picture as a spoiler, but anyway, the picture is good, but without context it's just a picture, so in the game, with some text and atmosphere, it would be even better.

And as you might have guessed from the title, there will also be a continuation of the action.

I would also like to say that I will give up the idea of making a specific development plan for the upcoming update. Most of the time I always have a definite plan in my head, but since the ga...

Practicing something new

I just opened up my old sketches and decided to paint them using some new technique. And I really liked it, as I was able to do it very quickly and the contrast between the bright warm and cool colors creates a very nice effect, so maybe I will try to paint skin like that. 

Also I redrew Patricia since I'm going to finish her arc in the next update. Not that I was very happy with the result, but since I'm still learning how to draw sprites better (I honestly hate drawing them) it's...

The future of the project

This is a pretty important poll. After the last update I was completely lost and feel that I made the game a lot worse, because I received so many comments about the main character not participating in sex scenes. I thought a lot about what I should do and how to develop the game further and came to the idea that I could make one last very hard adjustment that would put the game on the right track.

I'm developing my skills in terms of scene description, I've learned how to animate scene...

Scenes progress scale

This scale appears on top of the scene and shows you what stage you are at, that is, you can use it to determine when the scene will end. You will be able to turn it on/off in the game settings.

Why I'm creating a poll for adding this feature: It's because if I decide to add it, I'll have to manually place the marks for each scene, which means I have to do extra work, and I will have a little l...

Development plan on 1.4

First of all, I have fixed some critical bugs in this version, so this link is now available for version 1.3.1. But since bugs still occur, from now on the first 10 days after the release will be marked as days of improvement, after which the stable version without bugs should appear. 

Also, starting from the second tier you will have access to the new version immediately after the release. No, it doesn't mean that I will release an unfinished untested version of the game, but just...

Full resolution game art

Most of the art from the game is collected here in full resolution, including scenes and character sprites. The old scenes are 1600x900 simply because that's the resolution I drew in back then, so that's a full resolution for them. 

Also here are some ancient scenes that weren't in the 1.0 release and that you won't see anywhere else at all.

The book of tentacles 1.3

Phew, I was finally able to figure out all the bugs and balance. The update came out a month later than planned, but in fact with all the changes, animated and new scenes, I did twice as much work than on the previous update, so everything is going according to plan. I hope you enjoy it.

Changelog:

-A major reworking of scenes. Added animated scenes. Added a lot of text (more than 5 thousand words of sex dialogues).

-A major overhaul of the magic system. Add...

Forest nymph

After all, the nymph won the vote, but I'm kind of glad about that because I was able to come up with a logical ending for the legendary item she's holding in her hand.

Bobs

Working on breast physics is really fun.

Also, this is actually the 4th redraw of the imperial recruit. Now it's going to be a long scene with several pictures and she also has a boyfriend now.

The release will most likely be at the end of the month, since I've had too much to do lately. There also will be a couple of pictures, which I had to finish in the next days.

New picture for my favorite girl

I feel like I drew her breasts bigger than ever before, but lets just say this is canon now...

Didn't really draw many pictures this month, as I was more focused on the new gameplay features. And I have no regrets at all because I'm done with creating a system of different schools of magic. Which is to say, for each individual character, there is a set of several magic schools that they can learn. And as you use the spells of that school, you gain experience, your skill grows, and with ...

Animation preview

I decided to show you what I was talking about earlier. I had to spend a lot of time making it all work. And it will take me even longer to learn how to animate properly, but I'm sure it's a big step forward because one animated scene is worth 10 static ones.

As for the performance, so far I have not found any problems at all, because this system does not display pictures or video, but directly shows the live2d model in the game itself, so the animation is stable and incredibly smooth (...

State of development

It's time for me to post something and tell you what I'm doing now. And right now I'm thinking about how to make the game more interesting and sexy. In the pictures, I've introduced a new kind of enemies, which I've already thought out how to weave into the lore and will actively develop because I like them. They are seductively soulless and tall. Really tall.

I'd also want to tell you about a little change in the development plans. Since a lot of people haven't played the game yet, I d...

1.3 main characters

Bonus event

Small event, that will take place in the next update.

What do you think about POV?

The voting day has come, so the first thing I would like to know your opinion is scenes from the male point of view.

I sketched some scenes so you can roughly understand how POV scenes would look like in the game.

Big changes. But for the brither future.

Honestly, I've been in a really bad mood lately. And there are many reasons for that, which I will not talk about here, but I can definitely say that I sometimes get lost and do not understand what I want myself and what exactly should my game be.

I definitely want to tell a story. I want to create an interesting world, but as far as the erotic aspect is concerned, I had some kind of limitation in my mind. I thought the game should make all the porn scenes soft and more "vanilla" so the...

1.3 characters lineart: done

There may be some minor tweaks, but I think that they are good already.

Development plan (for 1.3)

Five-Year Plan:

-The game will combine both extensive character development and the management and development of your own settlement.

-In the game, there will be choices that will affect further events, and which will eventually lead to different endings.

-The game will have a world that is open to exploration.

-There will be several romance options.

-There will be memes and references.

-The game will balance between serious storytelling a...

The book of tentacles 1.2 (patreon build)

Thank you all for waiting, here it is, my first Patreon release.

And I just want to say that if you have a wish, any ideas or suggestions, don't hesitate to talk about it, because I'm making the game not for me, but for others. If there is no feedback from the players, I just won't understand what people like and what they don't.

Soon I will send everyone an invitation to the discord server, where you can write about bugs, give your ideas or...(honestly, I don't know what people d...

New community features and more

So, I'm already in the last stage of testing, which means version 1.2 will be out in a few days (28-30 approximately).

First of all, I want to thank you all for your support, you made me realize that someone is really interested in my game. Secondly, I want to let you know that I will update not only the game but also the page itself since the community also needs development.

From next month onwards, new features will be introduced:

-discord server (honestly do not know wha...

Diedrich and Avis scene

The last one for the update.

Anna's sprites

I'm happy to tell you that I finished the sprites for Anna, so there are 9 in total: 3 for dialogue, 3 in fighting stance and 3 for attack animation. Some of them I attached above +  quick test of the animation I made in a few minutes, but it looks quite good.

As for the 2 existing characters, I'm afraid that I just do not have time to draw their sprites for fighting and skills animation. I'd rather leave it for the next update to completely revise their appearance than do a quick ...

Persuasion

In general, I noticed the problem long enough that all encounters in the game follow the same scenario: you try to behave appropriately - you are considered a monster - battle - you win - sex. And if all encounters until the end of the game were the same way, it would be incredibly boring, so quite by accident I came up with a new mechanic that should diversify the gameplay and solve some problems - persuasion.

In fact, with persuasion, you can avoid encounters that could be fatal for y...

Imperial archer scene picture

I wish I could tell you why she's doing that, but...you'll see it yourself. As I said before, updates will be released approximately every 2 months, so version 1.2 is scheduled for the end of this month. And by the way, I already finished writing all the dialogues and created all the maps, so soon I'll get right down to development.

Another unnamed couple

I'll be posting a little less frequently from now on because it's time to start writing a detailed scenario of the levels and dialogues, rather than just keeping it all in my head. Maybe I'll even come up with a name or rank for these guys.