First off, the Lab Rats Art Book has been updated to add a new image! I've also added a note to each image listing the artist, so you can track them down and check out what else they've done. If you're a $10 patron, you can find the art book link here.
Now, onto other things. Now that v0.10.0 is out,it's time to look forward a little bit and figure out what's next for Lab Rats.
0.10.1 - The next major thing is...
2017-08-17 09:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats v0.10.0 is available to $5 patrons for testing right now, and will be released to everyone in a weeks time. Nothing's gone critically wrong with the update (yet), so I'm taking the week in between to tidy up some stuff with Lab Rats 1, and move the prototype for Lab Rats 2 forward some more. Here are my goals for the week:
1. Make some quality of life changes to LR1. In particular, I want to add at least two other paths to get the lab door code (one for Stephanie, one for Nora). I'm a...
2017-08-15 05:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostGet it here: Lab Rats v0.10.0
This update adds the "Cumslut" tag, letting you train a girl to love all things cum-y. It includes 5 new training scenes, one for each girl, along with modifications to nearly every single other scene in the game. These modifications add different dialogue, trigger different actions, or unlock choices earlier than a girls raw influence level would s...
2017-08-13 10:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostI've been making solid progress over the last few days, and it looks like the update will be ready a couple of days ahead of schedule! It will be released late tomorrow night, and will include a new training scene for each of the girls, along with new dialogue in all of their other scenes when they've been trained to have the "Cumslut" tag.
Now I've got a few last things to finish up, so I better get back to work!
2017-08-12 07:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostWork has been quietly chugging along with v0.10 over the last week, with a lot of good progress being made towards the release. All of the training scenes are now completely written and imaged. I've gone through half of all of the other scenes and added new sections of dialogue or options, adjusted some of the existing options to account for the new tag, and otherwise added funs stuff. As long as nothing goes horribly wrong, I should be done everything and have it ready for patron testing within...
2017-08-09 04:22:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been making up the image sets for the new cumslut training scenes tonight, and was able to finish them all up. Now I'll be turning my attention to adding new content to the existing scenes throughout the game wherever I can. This was an image of Lily that I thought turned out particularly well, I hope you like it.
2017-08-04 08:38:37 +0000 UTC View PostI'm hard at work on v0.10, the "Cumslut" update, right now. I've had a couple of very productive nights and have all five of the new training scenes written up. Next I'll be moving on to imaging them, then I will begin reviewing all of the major and minor scenes that are already written and adding new content for the "cumslut" tag wherever I can.
That's all for now, I should have a few images to share with patrons in a few days as I chew through that chunk of work.
2017-08-01 08:16:52 +0000 UTC View Postv0.9.1 is out in the wild, and seems to be playing nicely with everyone. That means it's time to put down Lab Rats 2 for a little bit, and get back to work on writing more content for Lab Rats 1. This update will add the "Cumslut" tag to the game, and a number of new scenes and additions related to it.
This update should be relatively short, and hopefully take less time to create than the beach update did. The plan is to have:
Lab Rats v0.9.1 is out and available to the public! You can download it here: Lab Rats v0.9.1
And if you're looking for the android version, you can find it here: Lab Rats v0.9.1-android
The update adds a new beach location, along with 5 new major scenes and...
2017-07-28 05:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I promised I'd go into more detail on the clothing system for Lab Rats 2, so here we go! First, a disclaimer: LR 2 is still very early on in development, and almost no time has been put into UI or art at this point. What you're seeing are bare bones UI elements so I can test the underlying code to make sure it all works as intended.
Now, lets talk about that clothing system. Clothing in LR 2 is built up one piece at a time, letting you select things like underwear, pants, shirts, socks, and sh...
2017-07-27 09:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostI'm devoting this week between the patron and public release of Lab Rats 1 to do a little work on it's sequel, before returning to work on v0.10, the "Cum Slut" update. Today, I'd like to give an overview of the general gameplay. I'd like to stress that this is still very early in the development cycle, and everything here is subject to change.
First, the setting. Lab Rats 2 will be set a couple of years after the events of the first game. You play as the same character after you've finished y...
2017-07-25 08:25:59 +0000 UTC View Postv0.9.0 is out in the wild for testing over the next week, which means I have some time to work on the prototype for Lab Rats 2. For this week I have two major goals:
1) Finish the character creation and clothing system. This includes generating girls with random body types, hair styles, and colours, and setting various outfits for them.
2) Implement the basics of the gameplay loop. For now, this will be the time system, map movement system, and the start of the job system.
I'll be ...
2017-07-23 08:09:54 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats v0.9.0 is ready for release to $5 patrons! You can download it here: Lab Rats v0.9.0
When I started working on this update, I was planning on making it a nice small content addition to the game. As time went on, it became apparent that a bunch of girls in tiny swimsuits was too much fun to pass up. This update adds 35 000 new words of dialogue, 160 new images, 5 new maj...
2017-07-21 09:36:21 +0000 UTC View Postv0.9.0 is just about done, with only a few short sections to write up and then some testing to do. The update will be pushed out on the night of July 20th - this Thursday - for testing by patrons. v0.9.1 will be released to the public a week later. I hope you're all excited for it, I know I've had a great time making it!
2017-07-18 03:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I was working on v0.9 (which is coming along very nicely, just a few more things to tidy up) when I had the inspiration to make up a slutty schoolgirl outfit. Alexia may be an actual schoolgirl, but Nora seemed much more fitting. Maybe I'll find a place to squeeze this in in the next update, a little roleplay between you and your boss, perhaps. Hope you like it, let me know what you think!
2017-07-17 07:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostA large portion of the traffic for Lab Rats comes through Reddit, and I do my best to be fairly active over there. One of the most common things I saw were posts of the nature "What are some good games?", and Lab Rats is one of the common replies. If it's not provided I like to leave a link pointing here, so people can download the game from the official source rather than one of the sketchy re-hosts google might point you towards. After doing this a few times, I realized it's a pretty simple, r...
2017-07-15 09:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I've posted pictures of the girls in their two different swimsuits before, but I thought it would be a good idea to combined them all into a single image so you can see how they look compared to each other. Hope you like them!
2017-07-13 08:37:56 +0000 UTC View Postv0.9 is coming along nicely, with most of the new scenes written at this point and a few of them imaged. I wanted to give a quick rundown of how the new content is presented.
First, you can now invite any of the girls to the beach. This Is enabled part way through the game, when the beach is opened up for the summer. You need a small amount of influence with a girl before you can invite them. The beach is only open on Saturday, when you can take a direct bus there. You can either talk to a gir...
2017-07-10 07:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostI've been hard at work on v0.9, the Wet 'n Wild update! This update will let you invite the girls to the beach, with a number of new scenes set there.
So far I've implemented the ability to invite the girls to the beach, written the travel intro's for each of them, taken their generic swimsuit images, and written three minor scenes (one for Lily, Mom, and Alexia). I'm hoping to get plenty of work done over the next few days and finish up most of the new scenes so I can move on to imaging them....
2017-07-05 07:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the issues I brought up with Lab Rats 1 was the fact that I have to write every single word of content that goes into the game, and that content usually only comes up in a single scene. A single minor scene may have 4 or 5 different levels, each accompanied by anywhere from 200 to 600 words. Major scenes tend to have more than that, and the hub scenes are roughly 10 000 words each. These scenes are also mostly linear, with a few branching points along the way.
For Lab Rats 2, I wanted t...
2017-07-01 05:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostNow that another public release is finished I thought I should detail what my plans look like for the future.
v0.9 - The Wet 'n Wild Update: This update will add new content, specifically giving me an excuse to get all of the girls into swimsuits at the beach.
v0.10 - The Cum Slut Update: A "Tag" update. This will add the "Cum Slut" tag to the game and add new scenes where the girls just can't get enough semen in their lives.
v0.11 - The Anal Update: Another "Tag" update, adding co...
2017-06-29 07:46:56 +0000 UTC View PostGet v0.8.1 here: Lab Rats v0.8.1
Get the android version here: Lab Rats v0.8.1-android
v0.8.1 is ready for public release! It adds the first of several new "tags" to the game; special training you can give to a girl to enable certain scenes and endings. This...
2017-06-28 03:32:49 +0000 UTC View Postv0.8.0 of Lab Rats is out, and so far everything seems to be nice and solid. That's given me a week between it's patron and public release to do some work on the prototype for the sequel. Lab Rats 1 has plenty of work left to finish on it, but it's nice to take a break and look towards the future. Over the next few weeks I plan on doing a series of posts about my design thoughts and decisions going into the sequel. To start off I'm going to be talking about why I picked Ren'py for Lab Rats 1 and...
2017-06-25 07:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostGet it here: Lab Rats v0.8.0
v0.8.0 adds the ability to train any of the five girls to be a public slut. This has a number of affects, including unlocking content earlier, or unlocking content that cannot be accessed without the training. Girls are now more private by default, mostly limiting their sluttiness to you unless you train them otherwise.
As always, here's the ch...
2017-06-21 10:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a quick bonus image from what I'm working on tonight. A large chunk of time was spent pulling open some game files and making a stretched out version of Lily's panties so she could fit a vibrator inside. I probably could have cheated and done a lot of editing in photoshop, but it was another good learning experience and it feels good to have it done right.
2017-06-19 08:14:41 +0000 UTC View PostI've finished all of the writing for v0.8.0, and I'm starting in on the imaging and the little bit of coding that needs to be done for it. I'm close enough to having everything finished that I'm ready to announce the release date to $5 patrons for bug testing as Tuesday June 20, just two days from now!
That's all from me for now, hope everyone is excited for the update!
2017-06-19 04:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always thought the default fishnet stockings in Honey Select were too tight knit. For Mom's slutty office outfit (which is now used in a scene that will be added in v0.8) I wanted to make sure she got a proper slutty set of stockings, so I made a copy of the piece of clothing and did it myself.
Besides getting some practice in playing around with the guts of Honey Select I made solid progress on writing up some scenes. I've now got all the scenes expect for Stephanie's written, so all I h...
2017-06-16 08:26:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnother quick update letting you know how things are going on v0.8. All of the major and minor scenes have been edited now to either include a few lines of new dialogue, provide shortcuts to content if the girl has the public tag, or lock content away unless the girl has the public tag. That means Lily will never go out banging other guys unless you train her to do that first.
Because that locks away some content, I want to make sure there's new content going into the game the replace...
2017-06-15 08:06:49 +0000 UTC View PostI've got a quick update on the progress of v0.8 tonight.
All of the training scenes have been written up so far, and all of the code for training is in place. I've also added a section in the UI for the tags to be listed when you bring up a girls notebook page.
I've gone through all of the major scenes and added small sections of new dialog or short new branches if the girl has the public tag. Some major scenes that focused heavily on public sex already have had their top level sce...
2017-06-12 04:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post
During the training scene for Alexia's "public" tag the need for a new outfit came up: a skimpy version of what she normally wears. This is her with just the dress shirt she wears under her sweater and her skirt rolled up at the waist to make it extra short. Panties and bra not needed.
Putting together this outfit proved to be interesting, and gave me a chance to practice some of my modding skills to modify pieces of clothing that already exist within honey select. In particular, I wanted to m...
2017-06-10 08:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post