Harem 8m6 update!

 

 

Hey everyone, hoping that you’re enjoying the new content! Development for Harem c8m6 is coming along nicely. We’re up to 141 pages of writing done already which is ahead of schedule, even have a touch of coding and imaging done. In terms of new content, I’m doing a bit of both progressing the main plot along and finishing up some old plots. 

 

Both the Westlands and Castra plots are getting another step in, those are essentially done, as are Angelica and Donna’s reward scenes from their time with Livia. Speaking of our favorite Magni, you’ll also get to know her better in 8m6, although her capture is a long way off. I’m also hoping to get Leona’s capture done this month (mostly done already) as well as Rhea’s quickie. If I have much space left in the 200 page budget I’m going to try for either another off camera scene for the legates and/or another bit for the adversary plot. If the off-camera scene gets done, it would bump Sam and Terra dark to public. 

 

And as always, when 8m6 goes to my patrons, 8m5 will become available to everyone! But if you don’t want to wait, hey I’d love your support and a $5 pledge will get you instant access to the new content, as well as the chance to vote in the 2 polls running.  Maybe a few teasers to motivate you!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/harem-c8m5-1-29039605

 

I’ve been keeping an eye on the polls and so far, it’s looking like Chinua is getting her turn in the brothel next and that the Eldari need more attention. Which means that the Fiona/Mary plot needs to get done so we can make the Solis Diamond. The brothel poll is set to end on the 25th and the focus plot on the 30th, so remember to vote if you haven’t already.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/development-poll-8347674

Harem c8m5 released to patrons, public version updated to c8m4!

After entirely too long, I’m happy to announce that Harem c8m5 is ready for my patrons!

In what was supposed to be a leave of only a few weeks, you have been without your healer for many months now.  Well, finish the next few Aries’s quests and her time helping Livia recover is at an end.  And she’ll have quite a few stories to tell you from her time in Mercalius’s mansion.  Speaking of missing women, Joan has been gone since you sent her back to the Westlands.  With the Ratans in Celee, you should check in on her.  Speaking of people and places you should also be checking in on, Hanno in Eowen would like to see his daughter again and your brothel has been closed for far too long.  Something vague about the ‘plot’ as well.  Oh… and Yvone.  Yup, Yvone.  And a huge number of bug fixes by TG22 and new code for both Ralph and Vanessa.

c8m5 https://www.patreon.com/posts/28996333

Content additions

-The plot quickens!

-You've done as Mercalius requested by helping Aries.  Time to recover your healer and start on a plan to betray Aries.

-With gaining entry to Eowen, you should check on your friend Hanno the governor.  Make sure to bring his daughter along!

-Westlands opened.  It's been too long since you've visited your assets in there.

-You've met many new women... time to reopen your brothel and get them working!

-Bonus scene with Yvone involving her, you, and Donnie or Tomas.  A small conversation if you sent them packing.

-6 new scenes, 202 pages of new text in game, 205 new images

Bug fixes/combat adjustments

-Fixed a memory leak that was causing crashes.

-Ralph has a new passive aura, Vanessa has a new TP mode.  Various other character fixes.

-Brand new brothel UI! https://harem-db.lewdbit.studio/wiki/Eowen_Brothel

-Fixed an issue where you could get back to Celee without Adeline.  Talk to Mercalius to have her added to your party if she was not after her questline completed.

-Retconned Shenetore Elders to have names, Kyruth and Safio

-Improved item UI and many moderate to minor bug fixes/combat improvements.

And again, thank you to all my patrons who continued their support during my long illness and recovery.  And with the patron release, the public version gets updated to Harem c8m4.  Livia was injured in Booker’s attack and Mercalius will want your help in healing her back to help, and maybe a bit of stress release for himself.  Eowen is opened to you, offering chances to meet both new and old friends.  With benefits, of course.  This is also the start of the combat revamp, many characters received significant upgrades.

c8m4.1 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FhYmNGX1Z0U0Zpemc

Content additions

-Livia’s healing is going slower than you’d like.  After meeting Aries in your Castra, you can assign a healer to help her recovery and possibly her husband’s needs.

-Eowen is now opened to explore and talk to the citizens after meeting Valarie in the Cheli village and speaking to the chieftain.  Hanno is slated for 8m5, the

brothel in the near future.

-Your ally has sent one of her most trusted lieutenants to set up a new portal for you in Eowen, but she may need help for it to be finished.

-While you got most of the women in you wanted in Celee before, a few got away.  Baylie’s, the waitress in Eowen, wouldn’t sell her until the way to Corsix was opened. 

Well you opened it, time to get her!

-Phase 1 of the combat improvement completed!  We went through and tried to improve a few of the less useful or interesting character’s design and skills.  Sarah, Rhea,

Jessica, and Naitay have all received significant changes.  Vanessa, Terra, Angelica, and Donna have received tweaks as well.

-6 new scenes added to the game

-196 new pages of text, 218 new images

Other adjustments:

-All characters had to be unequipped for the new designs.  Make sure to equip them again.

-Large shields have been buffed by 33% but made exclusive to Ralph and Vanessa

-Many more skills will crit now, many monsters, skills, item, and animations fixed.

-Note: Because Mercalius doesn't return Donna until 8m5 and she's required for a few of Baylie's events, the game "forgets" Donna shouldn't be in the base.  She won't

be in combat, but she will be in your Denai base.  This "bug" will be fixed in 8m5.  Please don't report it.

-Added a combat glossary to help explain the mechanics.

I live!

Hey everyone, sorry for the extended absence but both I and Harem is back.  Had some severe health issues that knocked me out for a few months there but it looks like I have turned a corner on it, enough to get back to work at least.  There’s a few more details on my patreon about what happened, but I am a private person by nature so not a great deal more.

We’re way too far into July to hope for a release this month still but reviewing what was done before my illness and there was a decent amount of content already fairly well set up.  Enough where getting a solid update together in August should be quite doable.  And when 8m5 comes out, 8m4 will go public.

I’ll stop by in a few days to do the usual teaser content for the new content, today I just wanted to stop by and say that neither I nor Harem is dead.  It may have come close a few times back there, but there are more updates, scenes, and quests to come!

8m5 first teasers!

 

 

I hope everyone’s had fun with the new content released last month! For the patrons playing 8m4, I’d still love more feedback on the combat pass. So far it’s been positive, but the more we hear back the 

better we can make it. So all opinions, critical or positive, are appreciated. 

 

Onto 8m5! So, there’s three big things we’re working on for 8m5. Altan has been making a questline to get us back into the Westlands for the last month, so we’ll be finding out what Joan and the Cheli have been up to. Not sure how far into it we’ll get, but there is another character planned in the Westlands. Hiro has been working more on Eowen. Hanno, Angelica’s father, may or may not know she’s joined your harem. That’s something which needs to be resolved. TG22 has moved onto redoing the Brothel code, so hopefully can get a smooth interface for that so we can stop using the mess of code I stitched together back in chapter 4 for it. So lots of new events for you. 

 

As to what I am working on for 8m5? Well, I’m going to talk more about that next post, but I will say that my first priority is getting Angie or Donna back from Mercalius. Gotta save something for the next post!

Harem c8m4 released to patrons, public version upgraded to c8m3!

Harem c8m4 is ready for my wonderful patrons! As we push further into Celee, the gates of Eowen is finally open to you. While Hanno and your brothel will be opened later, there are two huge things to do there. First, you’ll be able to extend your portal network into Celee after helping one of your allies’ lieutenants. But considering they’re both beautiful women, that’s hardly work! Second, you had met a beautiful waitress, the slave Baylie, in Eowen before. Her owner wasn’t willing to sell her until he could travel to Eowen to purchase a replacement, but that passage is open now. Although you remember she was a bit odd…

But the Empire is still full of women for you to find. Livia, Mercalius’s wife, was injured in Booker’s attack. She’s not taking male visitors while she recuperates, but you have healers that could help her. And a woman in the inside would be useful, if only temporarily.

And we’ve completed the first stage of our combat upgrade. There were quite a few characters that were either ineffective or boring to use. Vanessa’s tanking ability is improved. Rhea, Naitay, and Sarah’s characters have new fundamental mechanics. Jessica, Terra, and Angelica have gotten tweaks as well and many enemy/gear/item fixes.

c8m4  https://www.patreon.com/posts/24886685

Content additions
-Livia’s healing is going slower than you’d like. After meeting Aries in your Castra, you can assign a healer to help her recovery and possibly her husband’s needs.
-Eowen is now opened to explore and talk to the citizens after meeting Valarie in the Cheli village and speaking to the chieftain. Hanno is slated for 8m5, the brothel in the near future.
-Your ally has sent one of her most trusted lieutenants to set up a new portal for you in Eowen, but she may need help for it to be finished.
-While you got most of the women in you wanted in Celee before, a few got away. Baylie’s, the waitress in Eowen, wouldn’t sell her until the way to Corsix was opened.  Well you opened it, time to get her!
-Phase 1 of the combat improvement completed! We went through and tried to improve a few of the less useful or interesting character’s design and skills. Sarah, Rhea, Jessica, and Naitay have all received significant changes. Vanessa, Terra, Angelica, and Donna have received tweaks as well.
-6 new scenes added to the game
-~190 new pages of text, `~190 new images

Other adjustments:
-All characters had to be unequipped for the new designs. Make sure to equip them again.
-Large shields have been buffed by 33% but made exclusive to Ralph and Vanessa
-Many more skills will crit now, many monsters, skills, item, and animations fixed.
-Note: Because Mercalius doesn't return Donna until 8m5 and she's required for a few of Baylie's events, the game "forgets" Donna shouldn't be in the base. She won't be in combat, but she will be in your Denai base. This "bug" will be fixed in 8m5. Please don't report it.
-Added a combat glossary to help explain the mechanics.

And with c8m4 out to patrons, c8m3 becomes free to the public! This is a bit of a shorter release due to the holidays, but still had some quality content.. and by that I mean scenes, scenes, and more scenes! Valerie gets a taste of you for the first time, Noemi and Phoebe get their 789th (est) turn. Rhea gets introduced to your harem in the dark route, and reintroduces herself to the people of Eowen. And Cecilia gets her turn in front of the assessor!

c8m3 - Holiday shortened, scene focused! https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuKjSbH2FhYmNGX1Z0U0Zpemc

Content additions:
-Valerie blueballed you pretty hard last night, but not an issue to a man with a Harem. Noemi and Phoebe are waiting for you in Phoebe's house in the Cheli village
-Speaking of Valerie, time to move beyond first base with her. She has another quest and scene for you
-Of all the women you took in Celee, only Cecilia refused to be assesssed. She has submitted, time to bring her back to the assessor.
-Rhea has a new light and dark scene. Light is in Lesser Corsix, Dark (group) is back in base.
-7 new scenes (2 group, 1 Rhea, 3 Cecilia, 1 Valerie)
-101 pages of new text, 146 new images
-Many minor bug fixes

8m4 update!

Thank you all for the combat/code feedback. TG22 and I have ben looking at it and seeing what we can do to improve the way that combat and quests feel. While I don’t want to make any promises, I think we’ve made a lot of progress and I’d love to hear your feedback when 8m4 comes out!
Now onto content. I’m trying something different this month: Rather than try to push push push and only go into beta when I think there’s enough done, I’m going to try to do a more consistent thing. Where the writers and I create content near continuously, but once I get ~200 pages into the new release I start the beta and hopefully build up a bit of a buffer zone between development and release so releases become more consistent. Particularly with TG22 also helping on the code development side, I think it’s a reasonable goal that we should be able to hit fairly consistently.

So what’s definitely going to be 8m4:
-Eowen will be re-opened, with every NPC getting new dialogue to reflect what’s happened.
-Baylie, the bunny girl from ch3, is now purchasable. Her arc isn’t immensely complex, but it will have a few events in it. 8m4 will go up to her first scene.
-The start of Livia’s recovery, starting with Mercalius renting one of your healers. Definitely to help Livia maybe to help his frustrated libido as well, that part is up to you.
-A quest to start to earn Aries’s trust, at least enough to let you betray him properly. At least 1 ‘dungeon’ in 8m4
-The next in Arden’s Legate series

What might get in, this is where the 200 pages/month comes in. If the first 5 gets me to 200 pages, this get pushed back another month regardless of how close they are to being finished.
-Opening a portal in Eowen. I wanted to do something more than just pushing a button and it’s kinda getting away from me, looking to be about 5 scenes in the process.
-Vanessa’s TKP scene

What definitely won’t be in 8m4
-Getting to see Hanno, Angelica’s father, in Eowen
-Re-opening the brothel
-Entering the Westlands.


And just as a final note: If we start hitting the 200 page/month goal and exceeding it I’m going to let a bit of a buffer develop so even if things go bad during a month the buffer absorbs it and you all get content. If the buffer gets overly large, I’ll be increasing the content/month. 

And of course, when Harem c8m4 is released to my patrons, 8m3 will become free to play for the everyone!  If you don't want to wait that long, you can always get early access to the newest content and support the ongoing development of Harem!

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2583450&u