4m3 patch notes and bonus teasers!

I finished the very last of writing and coding for v2c4m3 today and my testers (big thanks to both Fiktion and Omnibomb) have done numerous runthroughs catching a tonne of bugs and mistakes.  We're getting very close to release.  They'll keep poking around and since I'm done with content creation I can make a few passes myself.  4m3 Patreon release should be on the 5th, Public on the 26th of August!

Before I give you the patch notes for it, lemme show you some of the teasers for the bonus scenes!

 

v2c4m3
Content Additions
-The end of Kathleen's sequence may have resolved her past, but it was a bit of a cliff-hanger for the rest of Celee.  You'll have to work with the Celeean Swords to address this new threat and change your relationship with them fundamentally in the process.
-You control both of the human groups in the Westlands, but the peace between them is shaky at best.  You'll need to unify your followers before going further into this new land.
-With a member of the Celeean Swords now part of your Harem, Heather will have additional quests for you.

-Terra, Sarah and Donna all have quests to explore their characters and get sweet unique gear for them as well!
-Added a new shop in Eowen next to Fiona's, Amazing Mechanics, selling off-hand items for those who can't use a shield or duel-wield.
-New Brothel scenes for Donna, Samantha (dark route only), Sarah, Heather and Kathleen

-8 new in game scenes, 5 brothel scenes and two bonus scenes added!

-167 new images, 210 pages of new text!

Bug Fixes/Modifications
-Significant buff to Noemi, giving her new skills and reducing the cost of existing ones.

-Kathleen's Frozen Collar was supposed to be removed at the end of her questline and the stat buffs it gave her transferred to her directly.  There was a few scenarios in 4m2 that wouldn't remove the collar, those have now been resolved retroactively.

 

v2c4m2 Public release!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FhcE83OTIzUTdrQUE

v2c4m2
Content Additions
-There is yet another barrier blocking your path to Corsix and you must remove it. You'll have to find a way to strengthen Terra to get past the barrier!
-In doing so, you will capture another slave, one with a mysterious past that she has had taken from her. Unlocking it will grant her great power, but at great risk.
-A new questline from the Celeean Swords and a new slave to add to your harem.
-Fiona will have another quest for you, and her arrogance and greed could make her vulnerable to ones whose pockets are deep enough.
-The repairs on your brothel have finally been completed, letting you open it for business. Some slaves may require 'convincing' in order to serve there.
-Scenes for Phoebe/Noemi, Terra, Kathleen, Fiona and Cindy, plus a handful of brothel scenes.
-More than 270 images and 290 pages of text added
-19 new scenes added to main game. 5 brothel scenes in addition. 2 new NC scenes, one open to all!

Bug Fixes/Modifications
-Quite a few modifications to characters behind the scenes for future content. This does require a full character reset (does not reset progress/captures!)
-Brothel sequence cannot be started until after you've captured Angelica
-Allowing for a 12 character name for the main character. This may cause text clip issues, go beyond 6 with caution.  You must use the main character rename option in system menu to enable this.
-Hearthstone will only show you places you've already visited
-Character Bios added
-Significantly more hints toward where quests are

More 4m3 teasers!

Because I know you all love 'em!

7/23

It's my birthday!  Woot!  Going to have some fun tonight, but the day is for work.  Too much to do before 4m3 to take an entire day off.  But I do come bearing a pair of gifts!

First I've seen that Kimochi has been reborn through Nutaku.  I've always loved the Kimochi concept, trying to make a steam for adult games.  A one stop shop for x-rated games!  They weren't able to make a business model out of it but now they're working with Nutaku and I'm hoping that the project takes off!  I'd advise you to check it out!
https://kimochi.co/

Second, more teasers from 4m3!

The one negative piece of news today is that I didn't get the 10 forum user reviews to bump up the 4m2 public release date, so it will stay at the normal last Friday weekend (29th this time around).  I'll continue to try to think of ways to encourage forum participation with incentives!

7 of 10.

If you all want to get a public release today, get the word out!

Ah well, calling this a failure.  I'll have a few more 4m3 teasers tomorrow and try to think of something else next month.

4m3 teasers!

Terra had won the Patreon vote to get a bonus scene in the 4m3 content and I just imaged it today.  Another one of your harem decided to help out her 'going away party', although you'll have to wait for release to see who it was!

The importance of forums. A Challenge. And a Reward!

So I've talked about forums a few times, but I think it's critically important to the further growth of Harem.  While I'm absolutely astounded at the support I get through Patreon and the player response to the blog, but one thing I always want more of is player forum participation.  When someone looks at my blog or Patreon page, they're already a player and it's like I'm preaching to the converted.  But a forum post, more importantly a player recommendation, can get a new player.  And that's crucial if I want to turn Harem into a sustainable project.

So I'm putting out a challenge.  I want to see 10 'reviews' of Harem in forums.  While I don't want to create a form letter for this, I'd like to see people talking about what they like about Harem.  About how they think it could be improved.  About what they'd like to see developed further.  About what they think separates Harem from the other indie developed adult RPG games out there.  I'm active in a few different locations, here's the threads I'm active in.
Hongfire
Fenoxo
Ulmf
Legend of Krystal
Hypnopics-collective
Loverslab

Also, if you create or point me to a thread on a board that I'm not on would definitely count as long as you leave feedback about Harem on it and link it to me here in comments.

And there would be a reward for your work!  If I get the 10 reviews, I'll bump the public release of 4m2 up a week.  From  7/29 to 7/22.  So if you've been wanting to support the ongoing development of Harem for a while but can't do so financially, here's a great chance for you to both help me promote Harem and get earlier access to the new 4m2 content as well!  I just ask that you take the time to write out something meaningful.  Something that someone whose never played Harem would read, pause and take the time to download and try the game!

If this does generate more conversations and interest in the forums, I'd definitely be interested in making this a recurring challenge with the same reward ongoing.  Although I will admit that I might raise the bar over time ;)

(one post per person please)

Status update, 4m3 rough change log, polls changing

So a bit of personal info.  During the end of the 4m2 dev cycle I put in a string of 14+ hour days trying to get everything working right and an early July release.  Unfortunately I got myself sick in the process and had to take a light week afterwards to recuperate.  My own contribution to 4m3 will be a bit smaller as a result, but Hunter769 has decided to join the quest writing team and his ideas a pretty cool!  Between him and Hiro's work 4m3 should still be a decent sized update.
 

This is a preliminary change log, please don't view these as locked yet!

-The end of Kathleen's sequence may have resolved her past, but it was a bit of a cliff-hanger for the rest of Celee.  You'll have to work with the Celeean Swords to address this new threat and change your relationship with them fundamentally in the process.

-You control both of the human groups in the Westlands, but the peace between them is shaky at best.  You'll need to unify your followers before going further into this new land.

-Hiro is further expanding Heather, and she'll function as a quest hub inside of your Castra for those who have taken the time to capture her.

-Hunter769 is working on creating unique items for every character in the game gained through a quest series.  Because Terra and Donna won the poll (I'm calling it a tie) they'll be the first two to get quests for their unique gear.

-As Terra actually won the poll, she'll be getting a set of scenes in 4m3.

-Sarah will also be getting a unique item.  If we can get the scripts working right you'll be able to upgrade the unique items to keep them always relevant to the characters.  If not I can do it through events, but it would be far clunkier.

-Additional Brothel content.

I'm closing the 4m3 additional content poll as of now and creating the September development poll.  Is it time for you to go deeper into Rata and progress the main plot or would you all like to spend more time in Celee.  4m3 will wrap up most of the macro events going on in Celee, 4m4 would expand on the unique item idea to hopefully every Celeean-born slave.  I'd probably try to sneak in some additional Vanessa and maybe Jessica content as well if we stick around for longer.

As usual, to participate in the poll you must be a supporter of Harem at the $2+ level at least, but you're free to comment here if you wish!

Patreon and Paypal

A fyi to everyone!  Patreon and Paypal (Braintree) have worked out a deal allowing Paypal being used to support and donate development of adult content.  So if you've ever wanted to support Harem's development but wanted to use Paypal, swing on over to the Harem Patreon page and there should be options to do so.  I don't personally know how it works, but one of the reasons why I love working with Patreon is their ability to simplify the income side of indy development.

So if you've been following this blog for a long time you've known that I have issues in paypal in the past and their attitude toward adult games.  But with a middleman I guess I'll go along with it ;)

4m3 development and Patreon poll!

Alright, the 4m2 launch is going better than expected!  Thank you for the support and I hope thep patrons are enjoying it!  And now I can start working on 4m3.

What's planned so far:  Nothing definite, don't take these as guarantees for August please!

1.  A questline involving the Westlands heavily involving Joan and Naitay.
2.  A questline continuing the end of Kathleen's questline from 4m2 and dealing with what happened in the mountain pass.
3.  Hiro is continuing the Heather questline and her integration into your harem
4.  Hunter is working on some unique/defining gear for your slaves.
5.  Another handful of brothel scenes.  Sarah and Samantha, maybe more.

I think I might be able to squeeze in one more small questline but don't have any focused ideas so I thought 'what do my patrons want?'  And then realized that it'd make more sense to simply ask rather than guess.  So I'm going to run a short week long poll and you vote for who you want to see get some attention in 4m3!

To vote you must be a $2+ Patron.  To play the 4m2 content currently you must be a $5+ Patron.  With pay on pledge you can do that immediately!

This won't be anything huge or earth-shattering, figure a quest or two and a scene.  If you have any ideas on what you'd like to see feel free to comment this post or send a email to haremrpg@gmail.com!

v2c4m2 Patron release!

Just released v2c4m2 to my $5+ Patrons today!  Let me know what you think of it, I think it's very cool!  Definitely the largest and most complex minor release I've ever done.  Nearly 300 pages of new text and images with some of the most intricate coding that I've done to date. 

And just a reminder to everyone.  I'm one of the content creators testing the new pay at pledge option.  So if it sounds interesting, go to https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2583450 and you can choose to pledge and as soon as your payment goes through, look at my other posts today for the download links!

v2c4m2
Content Additions
-There is yet another barrier blocking your path to Corsix and you must remove it. You'll have to find a way to strengthen Terra to get past the barrier!
-In doing so, you will capture another slave, one with a mysterious past that she has had taken from her. Unlocking it will grant her great power, but at great risk.
-A new questline from the Celeean Swords and a new slave to add to your harem.
-Fiona will have another quest for you, and her arrogance and greed could make her vulnerable to ones whose pockets are deep enough.
-The repairs on your brothel have finally been completed, letting you open it for business. Some slaves may require 'convincing' in order to serve there.
-Scenes for Phoebe/Noemi, Terra, Kathleen, Fiona and Cindy, plus a handful of brothel scenes.
-More than 270 images and 290 pages of text added
-19 new scenes added to main game. 5 brothel scenes in addition. 2 new NC scenes, one open to all!

Bug Fixes/Modifications
-Quite a few modifications to characters behind the scenes for future content. This does require a full character reset.
-Brothel sequence cannot be started until after you've captured Angelica
-Allowing for a 12 character name for the main character. This may cause text clip issues, go beyond 6 with caution.  You must use the main character rename option in system menu to enable this.
-Hearthstone will only show you places you've already visited
-Character Bios added
-Significantly more hints toward where quests are