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9/4 Status Update

Alright people, buckle in, because this status update is unfortunately about production issues. I've been hard at work at Naked Ambition and frankly, I haven't even made a dent. What's needed for .5 is frankly just too much, if I kept going at the pace I'm going it won't be out until something like late October.

The issue is that the art just takes too much time. Particularity all the animations. To give you an example, here's the animation I've been working on all week:

2020-09-04 21:05:46 +0000 UTC View Post

The Intern 1.10

This update contains some quality of life improvements and bug fixes for The Intern. 

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Added day and corruption tracker to the sidebar

The ending screen now shows what ending you haven't seen yet 

Fixed some typos and missing speech closing tags

Increased time for choice selections slightly

Fixed reloading the pag...

TF Card Battle 1.01

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Fixed some dual/VW classes that gain Magical Girl not changing over to the proper image pack

Fixed winning on ascension 9 not giving you ascension 10

Changed the transformation select UI to make it harder to miss the "dual transformation" option

Fixed choosing a random character sometimes failing to select one

Fixed C...

8/28 Status Update

After almost two years, TF Card Battle is in beta. That doesn't mean I get to stop working on it, but it does mean that the 386 cards currently in the game will be all the cards I make for the near future. I'm fairly happy with where it's ended up, besides a few issues that still bother me.

This month has been pretty frantic, I've released a new game, a TF Card Battle update, started work on Naked Ambition .5, planned a new project, and hired a new artist. It's been a bit much and I wou...

TF Card Battle 1.0

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Changelog:

Gameplay Changes:
Added the fifth story round with ten variants of the new Veiled Woman TF
Added 10 new cards, one for each VW transformation
Removed the double TF enemy trait from the game

UI Changes:<...

8/21 Status Update

TF Card Battle 1.0 comes out tomorrow, so that's mostly what I've been working on. WIth it's release, TF Card Battle will finally be in beta, or at least my definition of beta. That means that all planned features and content will be in place. So if new TFs and theme packs are mostly done for now, what's next?

Step 1: The big balance update. I'll spend a lot of time adjusting cards and numbers to make everything more equal in power level. You've probably noticed that the game isn't real...

The Intern

In the Intern you play as Megan, an ambitious young woman climbing the corporate ladder until one day a mysterious intern shows up and everything changes... Guide Megan to seeing through the corruption in her office or let her succumb and become a sex crazed slut like her co-workers. 

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2020-08-15 18:47:09 +0000 UTC View Post

8/14 Status Update

It's still 8/14 for me for about half an hour, so this isn't technically late, right? Tomorrow is the release of my new side game, The Intern. That means TF Card Battle 1.0 finally comes out next week. It's been quite a road, but here we are. Play the last round, find out exactly what's up with the Veiled Woman, enjoy lots of new gifs and more. After 1.0 the next step will be actually balancing this pile of 386 cards. So TF Card Battle work goes on, but it will be feature complete.

I've...

The Intern Test Build

This is a test build of my latest side project, The Intern. It's a small HTML short story about an office corruption from the perspective of one of the corruptees. Don't expect too much from this one, it's just a fun side project I worked on during weekends and such. This version is mostly finished aside from some unfinished writing here and there. If you do find any bugs, please report them.

2020-08-11 04:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Naked Ambition .42

Nothing super exciting here. This should be the last path before work starts on .5, unless something big comes up.

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Added some Player-Princess conversations that were missing

Fixed crash when talking to Evette during the ball

Fixed bug in the random event with the fortune teller

Fixed the trigger at the summer festival that sets Gales affection to ...

8/7 Status Update

This week I put out the TF Card Battle 1.0 test build, did some bug fixes and minor writing on Naked Ambition, as well as got The Intern almost to completion. The Intern? What's that? That's the side project that I've almost finished. So here's the release schedule for August. 

8/8: Naked Ambition .42. bug fixes and some writing that wasn't finished in the .4 release (like some PC-Princess conversations).

8/15: The Intern. A complete HTML short story cyoa about an office corr...

Next Side Project

In general, the way I tend to work on these games is to have a main project or two, but also to do some small stuff on the side. This is something like Submansion or Spooktacular Hospital which is stuff I make for fun in my spare time. I've almost finished my current side project which should be released this month. So the question is what the new one should be.

I've been thinking it would be fun to add some new content to Calibration Error, since I finished that game about a year ago n...

TF Card Battle 1.0 Test Build

This build contains the new round five content, including the ability to actually, you, know, play round five. Sorry this update is taking so long, but we're in the home stretch now.

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Changelog:

Added the fifth story round with ten variants of the new Veiled Woman TF

Added new gif location in middle of play field. Is enabled...

8/1 Status Report

Another month come and gone. I hope you all enjoyed what I put out in July and thanks for your continued support. Since I just put out a major update to Naked Ambition, this post will be more of an outline as to what's coming next rather than just comments about what I worked on this week.

First off, let's start with TF Card Battle. 1.0 is almost finished, there's just a few finishing touches of the design to implement than I'll release a test build, and a week or two after that the ful...

Naked Ambition .41

Edit: Sorry, forget to actually include the link.

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Changelog:

Gameplay changes:

Added the ability to change the font in the preferences menu

The card removal screen now shows you how many of each color are in your deck

If you get the low affection scene in the council member meeting, the stat check is 10 points easier.

Bug fi...

Naked Ambition .4

Here it is, after a lot of work, Naked Ambition .4 is ready to go. Download it here. 

 Changelog:

Advanced timeline 7 weeks this includes:

New meeting with all the council members except Peyton the Merchant

New random events for autumn

7 new scenes for the Vizier with 2 new actions

15 new scenes for Cecily with 4 new actions

7/24 Status Update

A few days ago I released the last Naked Ambition .4 test build. Thanks to those who have reported bugs. The final version will be out before the end of the month, probably early next week. The last thing I'm working on  is finishing the art for the Evette trainer route, making cumshots for the animations, and some last bits of writing. In finishing the Evette art, I also went back and improved some of the original art that was a bit butterfacy, like this one.

2020-07-25 04:31:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Naked Ambition .4 Test Build 2

This should be the final test build. It contains most of everything except for a few things that aren't written and some unfinished art. Also the new progression tab doesn't work yet. 

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 .4 Changelog:

Advanced timeline 7 weeks this includes:

New meeting with all the council members except Peyton the Merchant

New random events for a...

7/17 Status Update

Yesterday I put out a TF Card Battle test build which contained a playable version of the new round five for 6/10 transformations. The rest will come soon, but my focus is still largely on getting out Naked Ambition .4. 

And for Naked Ambition, this week was very productive. A got a lot more writing done than I expected and I think a release this month is almost assured now. What I would like to happen is to get a final test build out next weekend, spend the rest of the week after ...

TF Card Battle Veiled Woman Round Test Build

This build contains playable rounds for Bimbo, Schoolgirl, Sissy, Maid, Witch, and Clubgirl. It's only available in Classic mode and Sandbox mode in this build.

To play it, choose one of the above transformations in Classic or Sandbox mode, and then on the new TF select screen, pick dual transformation. The Veiled Woman mode will be available next to the normal dual-TFs.

This round is very different from the usual ones, so design feedback as well as bug reports is appreciated.&nbs...

Naked Ambition .4 Test Build 1

This is the first of two planned test builds for .4. This build contains the new council member visits, the new fall random events, and the card combiner system along with the now possible dual color personality checks. 

What's missing is all the new trainer content, the Peyton the Merchant visit, and one possible planned random event. But since this update is only seven weeks along, the absence of those last few isn't notable until several playthroughs.

The next test build w...

7/10 Status Update

Random events for Naked Ambition .4 are almost done, I should have a test build out for the new council member meetings and the random events out this weekend. That leaves just the new trainer scenes. I say "just" but there's a lot of work packed in there. I have a good amount of the art done already though, so my guess is it will be a two week process. 

For TF Card Battle, the 1.0 design I talked about a few days ago is getting plugged in. My primary goal right now is to get Naked...

TF Card Battle: The Final Story Mode Round

After a lot of attempts, I think I've finally made a design I'm happy with for story mode round 5, which is the last component missing from 1.0. You unlock this round on Ascencion level 10, and it's your final challenge before beating the game. Essentially, in this round you pick up the second dual TF option you skipped in round four, leading to a triple TF round.

However this introduced a lot of problems. With so many class cards, the glue of neutral cards that held the game together s...

Naked Ambition .4 Council Member Visit Preview

This build contains the new council member visits, minus the one for Peyton the Merchant and a few small things, like a couple post-visit conversations with between he Princess and the PC. Sorry I wasn't able to get this out before the month ticked over.

The next build will have the new random events for fall, which are currently just placeholder text in this version.

Download it here&nb...

7/3 Status Update

This week was mostly spent on writing. A lot of work goes into the council member scenes, especially now that we're further in the game and they have to have different scenes for how many affection points you have with them. But I've got them almost all finished, except for Peyton the Merchant's scene. That one wasn't working and I'm going to have to rewrite it. But I should be able to get that $10 build I was talking about out tonight. Next I'll work on the new random events and once that is...

6/26 Status Update

This week a lot of progress was made on the art for the new council member visits. Let's take a look at some of that!

Poor General Normand, looks like he didn't like the contents of that letter. This is what the art looks like before shading is done. From here it will be polished to give it the same feel as the art currently in the game.

This time around, all the council member visits hav...

TF Card Battle .99c

Pretty minor bug fixes, nothing really new in terms of gameplay

Changelog:

Fixed Get Fucked Up not being added properly to the club girl card list 

Fixed the upgraded version of Cock Tease not working properly in boss fights

The raising of the enemies TF min/max damage is now calculated after the turns damage calculation to prevent the indicator being wrong

Fixed Take It Deep not getting to theme bonus cost discount

TF Damage does 2 times damage to bos...

6/19 Status Update

I pretty much spent the whole week grinding on Naked Ambition. Man there's a lot of stuff to get done for .4. If you want to see more details about what I'm working on and where I am in developing the update, you can check out my new Trello board. I've spent most of my time so far blocking out scenes and getting the rough versions of the art down. There's a lot of art in this update, it'll basically double th...

Naked Ambition .36

Changelog:

Added the rest of the chibi animations for the Princes's lessons

Added 2 new popins for the Festival of Flowers

Improved some of the UI graphics

Improved the calendar graphics

Adelin's name is now displayed on the people screen. Just in case you forget

The dominant and submissive cards added on Evette's route have been changed from being unique to dual color cards from the system being introduced in .4

2020-06-13 18:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post

6/11 Status Update

TF Card Battle .99 is out and 1.0 is still underway, but with no planned release date as of now. Essentially, it will be out shortly after I finish the design problems it has. The next release will be version .36 of Naked Ambition in just a few days. 

This update will contain mostly new art such as more chibi animations and Ui updates. .36 will be the last update before .4 as the rest of .4's components all involve the weeks after the current end of game date.

So the release ...