Greetings explorers! One more developer blog to help tide you over until the next patch! As mentioned in our previous blog Sapphire Documents Issue 016 we have been hard at work focused on the new doll system overhaul, along with a slew of other important features for visibility and interaction!

How to Doll
This is becoming a meme at this point, considering how much we reworked this system over the development time the game has had. However, our new Doll iteration is all about delivering really good-looking sex animations, minus the jank, minus the hardships.

Currently, the doll system uses another tool called NPC Needs, which determines the speed, intensity, and length that an NPC stays inside a sex animation. This, naturally, is an overly complicated system that is both impressive and unnecessary. To focus on what is important - the presentation of sex - we have instead opted for a hand-crafted animation system.

What does all this mean? In the next patch, you’ll be able to wander around the island, and you’ll come across monsters taking each other to pound town, mons will be able to watch the group do their thing. This means that the lust bomb won’t be needed and monsters won’t simply join in as they pass by, it will feel way more natural and the player will have a lot of “discovered” moments. The animations are roughly 1 - 2 minutes long and they have multiple phases along the way to ejaculation.

Landscaping
To make way for more natural-looking sex, we have had to alter how the game world reacts to characters walking around. Now if you move through grass, it will bend and leave a trail. If mons engage in sex animations the grass around them will flatten allowing for more clean photography to happen. After a while, the grass will reset but it should add a lot more function to capturing clean sexual photographs.

Money Shots and Face Paints
Lastly, the big new feature being added to the next patch is our cum and fluids system. I am not sure who among you will understand when I say, fluid simulation is not for the faint of heart. Unreal Engine has fluid sims built into its engine for all developers to use, however, cum is not an intended use case for it. In fact, fluids sticking to character meshes is not what the system is for.

The basic issue is the fluid can react to bones and meshes of a character, momentum however makes the fluid not work as we need it. It is a difficult issue to fix as our use case requires fluids to stick, slide around, drip down and out of holes, pool on the ground. We are working on it, so it might require a couple of iterations to get perfect.

Anyway, that is it, for now, we are still working hard on getting it all together. More information to come very soon!

Hello explorers welcome to a micro patch for Sapphire Safari! As mentioned in our last Documents Issue 016 we are breaking down the MASSIVE v022 sex patch into five smaller patches that can be enjoyed faster. Today we have the first patch, focused entirely on patching in the final three island natives.

Air, Water, and Mist
Three new beauties can now be found on Sapphire Island, each one has unique locomotion, features, and mechanics compared to the others, hence why it took us so long to bring them to the Island.

Caiadaly - Crocodile
This new small classification predator can be found around the waterways of Sapphire Island. Adding her was quite difficult due to her main locomotion being swimming, we needed to build that from scratch to make it all work. It is a little janky still but we will refine it as we go along.

Sweedee - Bumble Bee
A tiny classification of prey can be found anywhere there are plants or flowers. We had to create a brand new flight locomotion for her, how she flees, how she moves, and how she interacts with existing smart objects. We will likely add more unique animations for her as we go, and we are still considering what to do with her wings when they are not in use.

Malous - Ghostly Wolf
The first special spawn of Sapphire Safari! This unique presence on the Island can only be found by completing an environment puzzle that will take you all over the plains biome! After unlocking her, she will still be quite difficult to spot so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for her!

Island Changes
To better house our new island natives Sapphire Island has dramatically changed. The primary focus was to create waterways that feel more alive. The tiny rivers are now grand and deep streams, the tiny swamp is now a giant biome of its own, and the island now houses unique puzzle elements you will need to discover for yourselves!

Main Menu and Intro
Finally, we have removed our old Main Menu level in favor of something more dynamic, instead of the (now underused) Boat intro we have a focus on the Plains campsite. The time of day reflects the last save, and the weather is randomized every load in. This sweeping change also pushed us to fix the temporary introduction cinematic as well. It is still a placeholder but it is nicer than it was before.

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Changelog v022a

That's it for now! We hope you enjoy the new patch! Be sure to check out the Sapphire Documents Issue 016 for more information on what we are building next!

Hello explorers! Hope you all are enjoying the latest patch for Sapphire Safari. I know we have had a lot of really positive comments about the scoring and weather tech added to the game! But today we are talking about a bit of ye’old in n’ out. The hokie pokie. The wham-bam-thank you-mam. The “you get the joke now so I’ll stop”. We talkin, sex.

Over on our community Discord, we held a meeting to discuss our plans for the very anticipated v022 Intamacy Update for the game, we also addressed a lot of questions you all had so be sure to join our Discord for the next time we do it. In the meeting we broke down our plans for the patch and how we will release it.

The short version is that v022 will be broken up into five milestones, each one a micro-patch that we can release quickly as it is completed. Let me go into better detail on what you can all expect.

v022a
This patch is focused on patching the model issues we have had up until now, basically aligning the model legs, renaming bones, and fixing face shapes for every model. They have been broken for quite some time now and getting this done first means we can push out new animations without backtracking. On top of the fixes, we will be adding the final three species that will be found in the Plains region.

The Crocodile Predator called Caicadaly - Our first “small” classification predator in the game. She can be found around the rivers and bodies of water on the island, hunting those silly enough to loiter around the water.

The Bee Prey called Sweedee - Sapphire Safari’s first “tiny” classification species. She will have a job pollinating the island flora and enjoys being used as a sex toy. You can find her buzzing mostly everywhere but her Hive can be found closer to the mountains.

The Undead Wolf Special called Malous - The first special spawn species you can find on Sapphire Island she will have to be “unlocked” before she can be spawned, the hows and whys are up to the player to discover. Even if you manage to get her spawning, finding her will be quite difficult.

v022b
Now that our models have a better foundation the next task is overhauling the current sex system called Doll. This means replacing all the prototype sex animations and adding in a larger pool of animations along with speed variations, cuming scenes, and post-sex animations. This also will come with an IK fix, so all those misplaced hands, dongs, and sex collisions will be fixed with this.

Adding to this we will be putting in our first variation on a cum fluid system, we want facials and bukkake to be a possibility in this game, so expect to see some bunnies covered in cum very soon.

Finally, for this patch, we will be adding our vine flora trap creature. This is a stationary plant that will grab unwilling creatures (including the player) and use their vines and plant tongues on them. This will include a spawning tool that can interact with Sweedee as she pollinates them.

v022c
The big boi patch, the predator system. What can I say about this that you wouldn’t already know? Our three predator classification species - Kokai (snake), Furloin (fox), and Caiadaly (crocodile) will get a brand new AI system that enables them to hunt, stalk, and sexually use any species they deem tasty enough. This also doubles for the player, if they are spotted by an active predator they will become the target, being attacked, filled, and dragged off to their nest.

We will also be adding things like torn clothing and dripping fluids after the player makes their escape, this all coming off the game's first “failure state” aka being caught is bad.

Lastly for this patch, we will be adding the “Mating Tab” of the Monpedia accessible, so you can start scoring photos for sex acts.

v022d
The other aggressive plant will be added in this patch, the Spore Plant which will start a new system. The spores shot out will turn normal prey into sexually aggressive creatures, who will pounce the closest species they can find (player included) and do what they like. If the player is spored they will be woozy and drunken-like, and moving will be harder to control.

With the spore effects in place, we can then add in the “Pink Moon” event. On every full moon in the game, the island natives will go sex crazy, and be fucking each other for the entire night. The player if caught during this time won’t be able to escape until the next morning. So if you want to capture the event as a photographer be sure to not be seen.

v022e
The final micro patch for the intimacy update, this time we are focused on turning on the familiarity system and adding in a bunch of rewards here. Meaning the more familiar a species is with you the closer you can get where you can eventually walk up and interact with them, engaging in some sexywexy. We will also have 3 unlockable reward scenes with each species, which will include very unique animations making the best use of their anatomy.

So that wraps up our plans. I know you all have been waiting a very long time for this, and we thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for how you’re enabling us to spend time polishing and making the best game we can.

Thank you!