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Liora's Price of Dignity 0.5.0-prerelease-3

It's not a Liora week, so only a small prerelease on this front. I have integrated Allure's last batch of VA work bringing the Edgar Date up to snuff on sound quality with the other events + Edgar Date 2 is now also voiced.

Then, most of the progress is coming from out assistant devloper Trihan. He has continued to improve on the Frame Job quest and implemented and also on a quality of life feature:

Meet Backlog 2.0! Using our technology for supporting list items with variable height, Trihan was able to rework the backlog from a simple text display into a proper list which means it's navigateable and clickable. This in return allowed us to map the voice effects to each line, so if you want to hear Allure's voice acting from a previous line, you can just go into the backlog and select the corresponding line to play the voice line.

And then there is steam.

I had submitted the demo build last week, but since then it has failed review twice. The first time because the reviewers wanted to better be able to reproduce the sexual content, so I made them custom saves for everything and then after they reviewed that they decided the fade-to-black SFW version was still too mature in content and I had to mark the game as adult only. An SFW adult only game didn't make sense to me, so I decided to turn off the censoring and resubmit the full demo build.

So now the steam adult game lottery is running and I have no idea if Liora will be banned or not. Will the steam reviewers perhaps punish me for trying to first submit an SFW version? If the demo build does get banned, does that mean the main game will also be banned on Steam? Who knows. Everything is just completely intransparent.

Liora shouldn't be crossing any flags on Steam but with anime characters, we never know and it's all just one big gamble. So I can't help but feel anxious... The whole Steam demo has taken up significantly more time this month than I thought. Sadly the whole work I put into the SFW version last week has been pretty much for nothing... Welp.

Anyways, that's it for this week (and with that this month's dev cycle). We will be returning to a Liora focused month starting with the next week. Regarding art updates, Deniis has sent me the first batch of sketches for the Tier 2 Banditwear H-CG variations, but I don't think there is a lot that's shareable there yet as production is still ongoing.

Changelog 0.5.0-prerelease-3 (27.03.2026)

Added Edgar Date 2 VA work
Frame Job: Added +1 Credibility when winning against a witness
Frame Job: Maded Prestige damage to Edgar Credibility dependent (Half damage if Credibility is less than 5)
Frame Job: Added bet prior to trial
Frame Job: Gave information to the player what happens if Rean is found guilty prior to trial
Frame Job: Replaced double qutotation marks with single marks for consistency
Frame Job: Only mentioned presenting evidence as an option when first evidence is unlocked and hide option until then
Reworked backlog into dynamic list with line count property
Streamlined backlog navigation
Added icon and playback for voiced lines in backlog

Balancing

Reduced extra level for stage 2 areas from +2 back to +1

Bugfixes

Frame Job: Fixed case of triggering detainment when giving sexual service to Edgar
Frame Job: Fixed Edgar loss negotiation scene looping infinitely if there are no viable clauses to offer
Fixed Seductive Dance training not triggering Ariadne Training
Fixed typo in instant trigger check on negotiation check
Added migrator for removing incorrect instant clauses from contract
Fixed Highwarden Keep teleport to Brightwood causing softlock
Fixed Rean in detainment not appearing correctly
Fixed Edgar portrait being on wrong side if backing out of Fair Trade negotiation and re-entering it
Fixed typos
Fixed Edgar AI thinking advantage always means a critical even if the item cannot crit

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auragamedev

Mar 27, 2026 11:10 pm

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Star Knightess Aura Release 1.4.0-prerelease-2

After a long, long time, the saga of Hermann finally continues!! Paulian fans too will have something big to look forward to today (and in the upcoming weeks for the CG production of today's events.)

This week, I have begun work on Hermann's new exclusive quest "True Love's Business". The quest is a bit unlike others in that it's not really something where you do a lot and more a quest that happens passively in the background as Aura progresses to the game and achieves new feats --- which Hermann piggy-backs on to brag about it's all thanks to him. Hermann doing Hermann things. Let's talk about the quest and my future plans for it in detail:

What is it about?

(Sorry flow chart picture may be a bit small :'D) Note that these not just the current plans I detailed out this week, they may change as I go forward!

Hermann has a new business idea: To produce imitations of the ring that worked so well on Aura, True Love's Blessing and to challenge the Church's monopoly on marriages. In order to do so, Hermann must gather (1) influence, (2) investors, (3) a workshop to make those rings and (4) obtain a reverse engineered blueprint to create those imitations.

(4) will be a vice action for Aura in the future and will be done last. (3) will finally connect Hermann's ongoing rivalry with Hermann with a concrete plot line, as Hermann will aim to take over Edwin's workshop. Every time you have chosen to slander Edwin will no longer be just a narrative decision but will have a minor impact on this point as Hermann will need less influence to achieve his goals.

For this week, I have mostly focused my work on the points (1) and (2). To model Hermann's influence, our ambitious merchant is getting his own "Standing" variable, similar to what Edwin already has (basically a Prestige variable, for those who are more familiar with Liora).

It starts with just 5, but depending on choices such as how much Aura supported Hermann at the election, it will grow quite fast. In particularly, whenever Aura achieves feats such as liberating Draknor Fortress or Mountainreach, or becoming an Expert Adventurer, Hermann will as mentioned above, brag about it and passively increase his Standing.

This way the further progression of this quest is gated a bit further behind progressing the game and you don't run out of content too soon.

The bragging will happen retroactively and for past scenes such as the Councillor Election scene, the game will assume that you supported Hermann in your current run so you won't have lost out on any Standing increases.

To trigger the new quest you will have to:

Max out True Love's Blessing
Have sex with Hermann at least twice
Increase Hermann's Standing to at least 20 (He will tell you about this condition once the above two are fulfilled)
Trigger a sex with Hermann after fulfilling the above conditions

To complete the quest, you will need to achieve a total of 30 Standing for Hermann, which is currently not possible. However, once you reach 20 Standing and trigger the quest, Hermann will begin looking for new investors!

In particular, influential, rich people who have issues in matters of love. The three future investors here are: Rosemond, Claude and Viktor. This will enable us to have some extra scenes with the girls Aura sold out in their post-corruption state.

Rosemond and Viktor will be for the next update, this week I focused on Claude. Help him train Paulina and Hermann (btw I keep accidentally writing Edgar x_X) will the opportunity of the good will Aura gained with this to further his business plans! The next time you talk to Hermann, he will propose a business meeting with Claude that will lead to a double sex date with him and Paulina, and Hermann and Aura.

Paulina and both Aura have a bimbofication and stupification theme so that x2 ends with a lot of namecalling for them being dumb/ditzy/stupid or doing so themselves x_X

Anyways, that's the new scene. I wrote a bit more in detail about it instead of just going "watch it yourself" since the trigger conditions require a bit of work and I wanted to embed this week's work into the larger quest context.

This also concludes this month's work on SKA. I was a bit slowed down sadly by some issues regarding Liora and Steam but more on that on the next prerelease post for Liora. As for SKA, the H-CG for this scene will enter production once the artist CGs are done and then in May we will continue right where we stopped and create the double sex date scenes for Charlotte+Victor and Rosemond+Nadia.

Changelog 1.4.0-prerelease-2 (27.03.2026)

Added lewd scene Hermann Investor: Claude 1
Added lewd scene Hermann Investor: Claude 2
Implemented Hermann Standing Variable
Implemented quest stub Hermann For Vice-President
Implemented Hermann Standing increases from bragging about Aura quest completions
True Love's Business: Implemented Help Edwin Objective
True Love's Business: Implemented required Standing reduction when slandering Edwin
True Love's Business: Implemented Objective Raise Hermann's Standing
Ture Love's Business: Added quest analyze choice stubs for James, Verdeaux Workshop and Artifact Club Member
Implemented maid dress option for Hermann Investor Claude 1-2

Balancing

None

Bugfixes

Replaced Offensive Stance II activation when Shadow has no minions with a non-martial alternative

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auragamedev

Mar 21, 2026 02:19 am

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Liora's Price of Dignity 0.5.0-prerelease-2

Alright, this week we have a Liora focused week. A bit late on the release side as I was playtesting the biggest contribution of this week by our assistant developer Trihan, the new side quest Frame Job.

Frame Job

It's an Ace Attorney style trial quest similar to Nothing but the Truth from SKA but quite a bit shorter. If you have feedback for this one, best to direct it to Trihan in the Discord. I think it works quite well up to Witness 3 where it needs some more iteration.

Besides solving the crime, you can also convince Edgar to drop the charges through negotiation - and there is no shame in failing to solve it. Rean will be punished with community service, making him unable to be in the party, and higher treatment costs, providing an additional way to advance the corruption process.

Steam Demo Release

Then, what kept me busy for the first half of the week, was the Steam Demo release. The main work here has been on implemented support for the Adult Content check on all h-scenes. Compared to SKA, Liora h-scenes are way more complicated (due to pleasure generation affecting gameplay) so I had to come up with a better approach than just checking for the flag. Luckily, the implementation for the HIdden Alicia mode in SKA provided me with the solution. Instead of weird jumping and checking for flags and creating spaghetti, having adult content turned off will simulate the game similarly to Hidden Alicia without creating visual output.

Besides supporting the non-adult content option for the steam release, I also did the whole setup of my uploading pipeline for it. Apparantly my processes aren't quite there to just exchange the app IDs... Also setting up the demo page in steam is so terribly annoying. For some reason it doesn't copy by default everything from the parent page but you have to set it up from scratch. Tags, descriptions, etc etc.... Anyways.

I have submitted the demo version and the demo shop page and I hope it will pass the test... It will also reveal whether steam will allow the base game with the adult content censoring or if I will have to submit with adult content (but then risk them perma rejecting it because of the adult content steam roulette check...) We will see!

New Assets

The new costume polls are all finally through and I have integrated the costume assets into the Deluxe Console. Keep in mind: It's currently just the standing image art! If you choose one of the new costumes and trigger a lewd scene, it will break.

For the order we technically have the Escortwear in the lead, but when I discussed it with Deniis, the Banditwear was ahead soooo, Banditwear Tier 2 has currently been commissioned for the H-CGs and then we will do Escortwear and finally Dollwear. Will have to see how long all this takes, Deniis has vowed to improve his delivery speed and finish the first batch within the next 1-2 weeks.

Besides visual assets, we also have new sound assets. Allure has submitted new VA work for the Masturbation event which is now fully voiced. Last batch for the month will be re-recording the Edgar Date event with some couple extra modules.

Experimental Change on Full Negotiations

Finally, we have an experimental change on the logic of how negotiations work when Liora approaches Edgar. Instead of using the rotating 3 proposal logic, I am trying out a logic where the player can choose any available clause using the clause selection dialogue Trihan implemented some time ago.

This increases player agency and reduces the need to daily check on his proposals. On the other hand, it causes a lot of increase of complexity as the number of available Edgar proposals is a lot larger than 3. Additionally, you still have to check for new clauses, in case new ones have been unlocked, so the benefit of not needing to check daily is still kind of there...

I have been playtesting with it yesterday and I haven't been convinced as you may see from this last paragraph, but I still wanted to put it out for discussion. Currently, I am likely to roll it back. Please tell me what you think!

Finally-finally, Emubi has returned from his vacation. We have also discussed his next commission for bringing some more art to the artist scenes in SKA. We have also discussed a roadmap on how we want to tackle the topic of animation experiments. For now, we will be taking the Lorraine and Roland sex scene (which is fairly recent and thus up to date with Emubi's latest art skills and it's also not costume heavy - combining variations like costumes and animations is a topic for later) as our first experiment and Emubi will be prepping it in an animation friendly way. Emubi has worked with some animation projects, mostly making vtuber avatars, so he has experience with how the layering has to work. After that, the plan is for him to try out spine2D and give animating a try. From there we will then see if he can do it or if I need to hire a separate animator and we will be able to use his work as a reference point to compare potential animators in terms of cost / time / quality.

Aaaand that's it for the week! Next week, back to SKA, and we are now done with the backlog of transition items and ready to go back into content production starting with new content for Hermann.

Changelog 0.5.0-prerelease-2 (20.03.2026)

Added VA work for Masturbation Event
Added Tier 2 costumes in Deluxe Console
Implemented trial stub
Implemented first witness
Implemented second witness
Implemented third witness
Implemented failure from credibility loss
Implemented trial success
Implemented credibility to extra windows
Implemented adult content check in Edgar Date Event
Implemented adult content check in Rean Date Event
Implemented adult content check in Sexual Service Event
Implemented adult content check in Ariadne Training Event
Implemented adult content check in Masturbation Event
Implemented adult content check in Sex Event
Implemented adult content check support for nsfw VA work
Implemented adult content check in Kiss Event
Implemented experimental change using all available proposals for full negotiations
Implemented automatically setting language using steam language if possible
Darklake level 10: Implement Maelstrome skill for Kraken
Integrated pixel animation plugin from SKA
Added additional interaction spots to clinic map and give better feedback

Balancing

None

Bugfixes

Fixed quick negotiation using willpower instead of effective willpower in leave check
Fixed unranked skills showing incorrect names in clauses
Fixed Creampie Addiction triggering when not learned yet
Fixed projects not giving Edgar extra income

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auragamedev

Mar 13, 2026 08:14 pm

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Liora's Price of Dignity 0.5.0-prerelease-1

Besides SKA, we also have some progress on the Liora side. I have integrated Allure's latest batch of voice acting work and Trihan has begung work on implementing the new Frame Job quest. Although we decided to disable the quest for this prerelease since the only way to currently complete it is through a negotiation option.

Then we have another batch of bugfixes - I had to largely rework the application logic for hair changes post-negotiation to hopefully deal with all those weird hair glitches that had been popping up, and also deal with the weirdness of Liora applying a hair dye mid-date :'D

We also have one larger balancing change: Edgar now has an active income (as before, whenever he executes a Work action) and a passive income. The passive income is gained on every day and is 25% of the active income. This way Edgar will continue gaining money even when the player is constantly interacting with him though negotiations and dates. In exchange, I have reduced his income from town prosperity so the amount of money he makes if you were to never interact with him should stay roughly the same overall (It's a bit more, but I don't think that's problematic). But if you go down the corruption route, his business won't bleed dry because he's spending too much time on Liora :'D

Changelog 0.5.0-prerelease-1 (13.03.2026)

Added VA Day 1 Story Events
Implemented quest stub "Frame Job"
Added Rean detainment scene
Implemented bailing Rean out of detainment
Added negotiation for dropping charges against Rean
Implemented other skill ranks in clauses that prohibit or use skills
Applied hair changes on day end when obtaining them during date negotiation
Moved Frame Job activation to a later day and added foreshadowing event
Temporarily disabled Frame Job so that it will be made available in a complete state

Balancing

Split Edgar income into passive and active work income

Bugfixes

Fixed receiving extra costume in inventory when making contract while costume is equipped
Fixed incorrect variable for showing best defeat score
Fixed hair contracts appearing when already configured via deluxe console
Fixed hair changes not applying when kiss clause triggers simulatenously
Fixed incorrect Rean relationship adjustment in Edgar Sex 1
Fixed incorrect translations in shop buy window
Fixed Conjure Illusions having wrong skill type

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