Hey hey all,

Sorry for the delayed update this week, I thought I'd set it to auto release but evidently I had not XD.

The public release has been great, and looking at the polls hasn't made any major shift up in the results I talked about before so seems everyone's on the same page! I'm so happy to see how many people are enjoying the game and giving feedback, and we've even had the first instances of some of the more hidden secrets being found which is so fun to see!

As for the update, I've been working hard on it as usual and we're going to see some very fun content for a fair few of the routes start cropping up. I think Charlotte and Lady Redmane fans will enjoy this update for sure so far. As well as this I've been wanting to add more to the world with side quests and general lore and the living feeling of it. With this you can expect to find some extra cheeky bits of lore or information that might give hints for certain routes and what might be going on. Along side this, I've been working on making the spa actually worth spending money on (at least for more then seeing the character in a towel). This will be able to be expanded on in future versions as well to include some more spicier encounters there.

Irellia fans will also be happy with her making her reappearance in this next update, along with putting much more pressure on our main couple while offering some devil (or should I say demon) deals to each in order to try and... Well, I'll let you find out for yourselves what she might be cooking.

That's all for now, as I'm going straight back to working on more content. Thank you all so much for the support, and have an amazing week!

-BaconSoap

Hey hey!

Here we are, Branded's first update in all it's glory, now available to the public! Normally this shouldn't drop to publicly till the end of the month, but as I said in my recent posts, I really wanted to thank everyone for the support so here it is! I really went all out in all I could with this update and put my money where my mouth is with the amount of art and extras. As such I want to make it very clear, this update is a big boy and with the current funding I can in no way support this amount of art and extra's each update. But I really wanted this first one to go as hard as I could let it.

There is a possibility old saves will have issues with the new questlog, and some side missions, but the main content should be fine.

I've included several new saves at the end of 0.1. Save 1 is with both Cam and El having chosen all corrupt options in the prologue. Save 2 is Cam corrupt, El pure. And Save 3 is Cam Pure, El corrupt. If you want a both pure save, you can jsut start a newgame and chose the skip prologue option and it should load you at the end of 0.1.

Here's the extensive changelog:

Changelog

- 16 NEW CG's (Including 4 with animation)

- Duke Raymond, Alice, Jade, Tristan and ??? sprites added to the game.

- New expressions for Elora, Cam and Leandros added

- Prologue completed and free roam unlocked

- Fast travel points added

- Recollection Room added

- Questlog added

- Ability to load game from the in game menu added

- A large new forest map for exploration outside of town.

- So many new town maps added I lost count.

- Cam Mana System Added

- Cam main quest progression

- Elora main quest progression.

- Jen story progression

- Leandros story progression

- Lady Redmane story progression

- Clothing store modelling introduction and events added

- Waitress job content added (Including two other routes involved with working there)

- Charlotte story progression

- Jade introduction and events added

- Alice introduction and events added

- Seren story progression

- Rose story progression

- Duke Raymond introduction and events added

- Many new interactions in and around the world leading to a variety of scenes and outcomes.

- Multiple secrets and new items

- Jen HHJ Animation Added

- Jen HJ Animation Added

- Leandros HJ Animation Added

- Seren Butt Tease and Grinding Animation Added

- Jade Thief CG Added

- Playboy Drinking CG Added

- Charlotte Dinner CG Added

- Charlotte Guess who CG Added

- Rose Changing CG Added

- Rose Healing CG Variant Added

- Dukes Dinner CG Added

- Lady Redmane Flirt CG Added

- Clothing Store Elven Dress CG Added

- Alice Begging CG Added

- Alice Thugs CG Added

- Elora sleeping CG Added

So here it is, Branded 0.2! I can only hope you all enjoy playing as much as I enjoyed making it! If you find any bugs or issues please report them here or the discord. 

Here is also a link to the poll where you can vote on which characters you played and which routes you're looking forward too the most. Any votes would be appreciated so I can get a more accurate view of how everyone plays and who people like.

https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1990472 

https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1999946 

Thank you all so much for the incredible support over the last few months. I can't thank you all enough, it give's me so much happiness and motivation to see every comment on the game. I genuinely could not be more grateful for you all. And I hope you have an amazing week.

-BaconSoap

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Hey hey all!

A few things I want to run over for this week so lets start with the actual progress update part of it all. I've been working away at the next update on various scenes and mechanics. We've got another few sprites added in for some characters important to the story which have been very fun to see implemented. You can see some of the sketches for two of these in the image for this update. Along with this I've been mostly focussed on some main story content and progressing Charlotte and Lady Redmanes content this week, which is shaping up very nicely. Both of these will be seeing some jumps in the spice levels of what's going on and it's been really fun to write. Along side this I've been working on getting the spa and bar job up and running as regular events you can do. For this I've decided to use some randomised variables to alter who will be in both of them when visit/work there to allow for a nice mix up in repeating them without it feeling like you're just skipping through the same content again and again. These events will also have larger progressions going based on the players choices and how many times they've worked there (this will be with all customers, not just the likes of Tristan and Playboy in the bar.).

Now onto what I've been dying to talk about, which is the polls from last week. First off, thank you all so much to those who voted, it's been insanely fun to watch how the results have evolved over the week and see how people play and which routes they're excited for. Starting with the poll asking who you play as or prefer playing, I was very unsurprised to see most people prefer playing Elora. But what did shock me was seeing that just under a third of players only play one of the main characters. These results will in no way alter how I'm focusing future content, Cam and Elora will both be receiving content in every update, some updates may end up more skewed towards one then another but that's just the nature of the dev and art pipeline.

As for the routes people are most looking forward too/interested in, it is very unsurprising to see that Jen stormed to the top and kept a significant lead the whole time, especially given she is easily the character I most see people saying they love. Now granted, she did get a significant amount of content in the last update which could skew things, but I genuinely think she would have won regardless. That muscle mummy energy is clearly just too strong to resist. In the next 3 spots, Charlotte, Seren and Lady Redmane were pretty even for most of the week until Seren shot ahead towards the end. I'm sure the little gremlin would overjoyed to see so many people want to see more of her. But the one that really surprised me, is Irellia taking the 5th most votes, despite getting no new content in the last update and only being in one scene in the first. I clearly greatly underestimated the power of the dommy demon goth mummy! You'll be happy to hear she was already slated for some very fun content in this next update, so you won't be waiting long to get to see much more of her. Now, looking at these results there's one thing that's very clear, the top 5 are all women, and also very flirty or more dominant women in their roles. This makes sense, people like women and it's a corruption game so the more dominant or flirty characters being more popular makes a lot of sense. It's also worth taking into account that nearly a quarter of the voters only play as Elora, and despite this a fair few Cam route characters got A LOT of votes comparatively. Another result which was very interesting to see was how many votes the "Very Pale Woman" got, despite being basically a hidden sprited character in this release. I'm going to be very intrigued to see how these votes change when this version goes public, which brings me to the last thing I want to talk about this week, the public release.

So the public release would normally drop a month after the BLT and higher tiers release, however, as a thank you for the overwhelming amount of support I've been receiving from everyone, I want to release this first update earlier as a thank you to everyone. It will only be this release that gets this treatment, but I just want to give back and say thanks for everything so far. I'll be dropping a poll for BLT tiers and higher to get an idea of how early people would be comfortable with me dropping it, as I don't want those who have paid to feel ripped off by it dropping early to the public either.

P.S. If anyone has found the hidden game over in the latest update, please let me know in the discord as I'm very curious if anyone has.

That's all for this week. As always, thank you so much for the support, and have a great week!

-BaconSoap

Here's the second poll, I decided to combine the second and third polls to minimise notification spam and instead just allow multiple choices in this one. Here I simply want to know what routes in the game you're looking forward too the most as I'm really intrigued to see which are the most popular.

-BaconSoap