Goooood evening everyone. I'm back with another update about what's going on behind the scenes in game development world.

So first things first, I will be out of town from the end of January until part way through February so you're all getting a new subscriber only version before I leave! I'm planning on having it out around January 24th or 25th. Unfortunately, that means I won't be around to release any patches for bugs so I'll do my best to make sure that there is nothing game breaking in the update.

Now, onto what is getting worked on.

On Ari's side, I have her working on 3 new scenes for this update and the art for the skill tree menu!
Ari is working on a new scene featuring Julina, a scene featuring Floyd and his slave and a scene with solo Lilly!
For the skill tree menu she's starting by making icon borders for the skills (an unlocked and a locked state) making the art for the Touch of Lust skill which is currently the only one in the game, the background for the passives tree and the background for the skill unlock and more information screen.

This update was also supposed to include two new characters made into Live2D but one of the people I contacted turned out to be a scammer and the other was a combination of too difficult to work with and did not produce the quality I was looking for, so, unfortunately, we will be getting no new Live2D sprites and I may have to put it on hold until I can find a reliable artist for the task. If anyone has suggestions on an artist for Live2D, please reach out to me! Side note: I am planning on putting Ari back on making Lilly's sprite into Live2D with the same level of detail as she did Wistala's. I will have her work on this during one of the times I am working on a big main story content update that is less art and more text!

So, speaking of main story content, after this update there will only be 3 more scenes before Act 1 Chapter 1 is finished. Act 1 Chapter 2 will start with a mission similar to the mission in the mountains to fight the wolves but will feature a whole host of new additions. The mission will vary slightly depending on what faction you are working for, you will have the opportunity to build your team (you, Oliver, and Lilly are required on each mission but you will be able to take up to 2 other characters with you in your party), the combat system will be implemented and a tutorial created, and there will be custom interactions between you and your party depending on who you have taken with you. There should be more skills added at this point as well. For the time being, don't set your expectations too high for the art on the combat system. The very first iteration is likely to be a lot of placeholders but so long as it functions we will continue to improve it. The goal is to have animated pixel sprites for the combat f a slightly higher quality than what you'd see in an rpgm game.
But Wistala, I hear you say, I don't want combat in my story based VN! Well, you're in luck because I will be adding an auto-win button so if you're just here for the story you can have it! But combat will have some spicy benefits! During combat, combatants can be downed and then captured for a spicy twist (You can capture enemies and enemies can capture you or your teammates.) I will also be adding in an option to disable having enemies do spicy time with your teammates if that's not your thing since it goes along with that NTR theme depending on who gets captured.
But WISTALAAAA, I hear you saying again, isn't all of that an insane amount of work? Yes, unfortunately it is. I will be hiring someone to do the programming on the inventory system and the combat system so my amateur ass will only have to fill in the details once the base of it is made. I will also be hiring a new artist for the pixel sprites! As for the story part of the missions, the different variants based on faction and party composition make the amount of text required for the mission daunting to say the least. The plan for this will likely be that each main story update will take 2-3 months and will only contain one or two new CG's from Ari so I can focus on the story itself and making and balancing combat encounters.
The actual details for how combat will play out will be explained later. I have most of it prepared but I don't want to promise something here that winds up getting cut so I'll lay most of it out closer to it's release.

Phew, I think that's about it for now. The last several updates have been slow and kind of small and I apologize for that. I also realize it doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in my ability to manage all of the things I just talked about but I am very close to being done with the remodel that has consumed my life over the last months. I am much healthier than I have been in a long time, both physically and mentally and I can't wait to return my entire attention back to this project!

Here's to a wonderfully degenerate 2025!

Well, here we are time for another wonderful update! I would ask you read this one before you start playing.

Unfortunately, this update is not as wonderful as I would have liked it to be. As many of you may know, the previous months we have been working on integrating Live2D into the game to give life to the sprites and scenes. While Live2D is amazing, we did miscalculate just how long it would take to learn and apply, meaning that Ari has spent 2.5 of the last 3 months working on just Wistalas sprites. They are now fully done and look absolutely incredible but that also means that for a 3 month long update, there are only two new scenes.

So obviously, this is not an acceptable rate of development. Even if Ari improved her animating speed by 200 percent it would take far too long to get all of the sprites done. But, all hope is not lost! I am putting Ari back on making new content full time for the next update!

So is Live2D just done then?

Also no! I am digging deep into my financials and will be hiring an animator who will have the exclusive job of animating the existing sprites in Live2D. It will still be a slow process since I can only afford to pay them for one or two sprites a month but it will get done over time.

I was hoping to fill in this lack of new art content with some random events and lore expansion but unfortunately I have been very busy doing a home remodel for my family and had very little time. Things are calming down with that though and I hope to get the content flowing like water soon.

So what is new this update? Well, you can play and find out for yourself, or read the change log posted underneath the download link! I do suggest starting a new game this time around simply to see the new Live2D Wistala in action! We're very very proud of how it turned out despite how much time it took.

Download link: https://mega.nz/folder/oP1TACYC#tLdHS10t8gV8pAhmRjhiAg








 Change log (0.4.1): 

-Added Live2D integration for all of Wistalas sprites
-Added new scene: Dominant player and Submissive Lilly in Lillys apartment

-Added new scene: Debt repayment with Floyd (NTR enabled only)

Added new sprite: Lillys "cyber slut" outfit available on the NTR debt route
Added addition to start of open world area: skill tree explanation.
Added new passive skill: Touch of Lust
Changed Peachs and Junipers scene starts from being based on their corruption to having the new passive ability.


V0.4.2 Changes:

Known issues:
The debt route with Floyd can currently be triggered even if you have NTR turned off. When this bug is fixed it will require you to start a new game to fix.

It's been a while since I have done one of these and the reason for that is there hasn't been a lot to update you all on. So why am I doing one now that it is less than two weeks before the next update? Well, I wanted to get this out to help taper expectations a little bit. Ari and I have miscalculated on the Live2D pretty severely. She is, as of this moment, only just finishing up on Wistala's sprite. I think, at best, the most art content we will have done for this next update is the Wistala sprite fully animated, a new outfit for Lilly and one scene with Lilly in the new outfit (which is NTR centered so won't even be for everyone). I'd first like to apologize for the snails pace we have been going at lately and talk about what we will be doing to fix it.

Obviously having Ari working on Live2D isn't going to be sustainable even if she could improve the speed of her animations by 100 or 200% so I am pulling her from animating and putting her back on new content full time. We will continue to maintain the 2 month update cycle with her making new content again. This does not mean I am abandoning Live2D. I will be trying out hiring a separate animator for sprites starting next month, however this is quite expensive and will be a slow process to get all of them updated. Converting the actual scenes to Live2D is being put on hold for the foreseeable future until I can afford it or all of the sprites and icons are animated.

In the meantime, I have been working on several new systems that will not be ready to ship with this next update so it is going to feel quite small but I hope to have most of them finished by the *next* update which will bring some very big changes.

I'd like to apologize once more for our slow pace as of late and thank you all for your patience with me while we work through the experiment that has been Live2D. I look forward to getting back to our normal 5-6 scenes per update going forward!