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Home of the adult visual novel, Friends in Need!
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Friends in Need: Season One v0.85c: Available to the public! This contains the newly revised and remastered Chapters 1-10, as well as mini-sides like Blue Valentine and A Slave to Desire. The rest of the chapters comprising Season One are in the process of being integrated.
Friends in Need Legacy Version: Available to the public! This contains the original version of Chapters 1-10, and is no longer supported.
Mini-Sodes: Mini-games, showing different angles of the world.
Blue Valentine:Alone on Valentine’s Day, a lonely young man seeks solace with Spicy Sapphire, a camgirl whose tough exterior hides a dark secret.
A Slave to Desire:A young man’s wish for an obedient lover backfires when he summons a succubus, and learns a pricey lesson in the bargain.
Short Stories: Short stories featuring text and art, providing background details on some of the characters.
Viola's Song: Between a sleazy landlord and a nightmare coworker, Viola’s only escape is the song she’s desperate to write.
Picture Imperfect: When the modeling world shatters Ashe’s spirit, she discovers that broken things can still be beautiful.
A Little Mad Part 1: Long before Madison, there was Maddie -- rough-edged, untamed, and a little mad.
Glitter and Grit: Caught between her daughter's dreams and reality’s demands, Isabella strives to find the balance between stripper and working mom.
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Hey, folks! Hope your week's off to a great start! Let's get into it!
Over the past few days I managed to cross two things off my to-do list. The first is that I finished the renders I needed for the end of Season 1, where each love interest gets a small number of renders, which show where they're at, based on the choices you've made. Nothing crazy, it just gives everyone a little visual recap.Viola's hair/work shirt interaction: the bane of my existence.The other thing I managed to get done, was the system to migrate saved variables from S1 to S2. Basically, once you complete the last chapter of S1, you'll be asked if you'd like to save your data to a slot. When you open S2, it'll detect the presence of this saved data, and you can choose to load it or to begin a new game, using a set of generic, default values. You can override the slots as many times as you need, to then load your new game in Season 2. I made two little game files to test it, and had my Discord community check it out. So far, it seems to be working well. If you'd like to try it, you can download the files here.
On the subject of weird little mini-games, I unlocked The Inheritance for all tiers. I don't want to spoil too much, but I built this to play around with stuff like persistent variables, tray icons, etc. which will hopefully benefit Friends in Need. But, it's also a bit of an experiment for me, doing something tonally outside my wheelhouse. Opinions were pretty split on it, but maybe give it a look and see what you think. Next week I may repost a whole big spiel that I posted for the $5 tier, explaining my motivations behind writing and rendering it, some months ago.
Should I give Nicki a milk mustache here..?
With the variable migration from Season 1 to Season 2 figured out, I'll be looking to put out the complete and reconstituted Season 1 as soon as possible. Once that's done, my focus will swing back to getting a new demo for the next chapter available for my high-tier supporters, so they can actually test migrating their saves.
My plan, such as it is, is to have Season 1 released by month's end, alongside the demo for the new chapter, containing Gabby's love path and all the other alternate endings. Gabby's alternate routes will follow shortly thereafter. That feels pretty achievable at the moment.
Until next time: take care of yourselves, and thank you for your support!
Hey, folks! Hope you're all doing well this week! I sprained my dominant forearm and have basically no grip strength in my right hand.. So, that's new and challenging. But, it's slowly getting better, and it hasn't affected my work toooo much.
Speaking of which, the work continues, but I'm not as far along as I'd like to be. I took a little time to work on Season 1 stuff this week, and re-integrated one of two remaining chapters. Need to do the last one yet, and then test to make sure all the variables port over. I also did some art for the season's epilogue, some of which you can see here. I'm still got a little of that left to do, but it's getting there.
I keep ping-ponging back and forth between Season 1 and Season 2, and it's kinda been playing Hell with my workflow. So, I'm going to commit to getting S1 wrapped up over the next few days, release it, and then pivot back to finishing the last scene for the new chapter. I've got 70~ renders done for said scene already, so I've got a good jump on it. But, there's still more to do. Plus, some of my supporters over on ye olde Discord did ask me to add an additional dozen or so renders to one scene, so I had to do that. I'm nothing if not a people-pleaser.In general miscellany, I released a little proof-of-concept mini-game called The Inheritance, for the $5 tier. This is a little project I cooked up back in June, when I had an afternoon free. It's only 20 images in total, so I wouldn't recommend upgrading your subscription just for that.. But, if you're already subbed at that level, go check it out. Reception's been warmer than expected, given it's a pretty big departure from the more grounded work I'm known for.
I also did a 19 image photoset based around Gabby and Brittani, for the most recent Wanton Weekends. People seemed to dig that one.All in all, not much to report today. I'm focusing on getting S1 out ASAP, with the goal being Friday. Then my full attention will go to getting the new chapter out this month, and I'll finally feel like I can catch my breath a bit.
Until then, take care of yourselves -- and thank you for your support!
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