[Preview] [Syrup Town] - v5 Progress So Far!

Salutations all! Real quick status update to keep you all in the loop. I'm currently working on Syrup Town v5, focusing in on one thing at a time (mostly) has been great for my productivity, and I've been able to focus better overall.

So! What's done so far?

Mary-Lou

Mary-Lou is nearly done. All her images are generated and polished, all the framework and such are already in place, all that's left for me to do for her is the writing.

Structurally she'll go really fast, you'll already be invited to her home and be able to do repeatables by the time you're done with v5, since in order for her to believably pregnant her 4rd encounter is a week long impregnation marathon, which will actually be 4 scenes in one and uses 22 images. Plenty of writing to do!

Helena

I made some progress on Helena already, but there won't be a ton of new stuff for her. Actually, I'm weighing options right now. I could let you resume your tour from before her breaking point, maybe add some new scenes in that in addition to the anal and repeatable scene I already have planned, but maybe instead I should make a new set of tour scenes which accurately reflect her post-friendship character? But what would those scenes be about?

Expressions

The new expression sets for Cayenne and Mary-Lou are fully done. Mary-Lou being pregnant most of the time made things harder, I had to do a full extra set of arousal sprites and her clothes for her non-pregnant expressions. These new style of expression sets are still hard to do, there's no easy way to get all the cropping and cleaning done.

I'm thinking that I'll need to do a poll for the non-furry version. I could release it with v5.5 as planned, but I might need to remove the ability to change clothes and just have them be simpler single expression sets. I'll need to do some testing to know for sure.

The main issue is probably gonna be the hair, the simpler designs of the furry cast means that RemBG gets a lot more of the background removed properly. I'll keep you all updated and get those tests done soon to get an idea of how long that simpler approach will take.

Pocketmanz

The pocketmanz rework is going smoothly. My plan is to separate the cards into some categories, and the weirdest ones will be put in a secondary set unlocked through a "monster-fucker liscence" obtained at the museum. This way pocketmanz like magnemite and weedle won't traumatize my vanilla audience, and all the... Let's say connoisseurs will have a lot to dig into.

Misc.

I take breaks on the weekend and just work on whatever. Usually this is just more Syrup Town but this last weekend I wrote a bunch of documents and generated a bunch of images inspired by Vanillaware titles.

The documents are mostly just math and potential mechanics though. This weekend I plan on exploring stuff and seeing how crazy trying to get a super simplified RTS working in javascript will drive me. GrimGrimoire meets Unicorn Overlord, but with porn. And shortstacks.

It'll be fun designing a game with actual gameplay, though without being on a team I don't think I'll be able to flesh it out into a full game. Maybe I should work up some kind of game adoption program where I generate art, build the engine, and give a design document and give the starting push to other game developers? I think that'd be neat. I get messaged by quite a few creatives interested in starting their own games but don't know where to start.

[Release] [Syrup Town] - Syrup Town v4

Play Syrup Town online here: https://noodlejacuzzi.neocities.org/syrup-town/

Play the mobile version online here: https://noodlejacuzzi.neocities.org/syrup-town/mobile

Syrup Town v4 Version Download (webp version): https://mega.nz/file/XrwWUTTD#l5DFxHuTQ5xENUDpN0BlZgAihwPLdy6K9xA0i6xY_OQ

Upgrade Pack from v3 to v4 (webp version): https://mega.nz/file/uv5xhBTK#QxIjU10dpXbxmqDvXgU98Ll79-EXJISpTLxPn2PVN7w

.apk Version for Android Devices: https://mega.nz/file/iuAQTRyQ#8glPPTHn08cnMBogk3lLY0rjCDm08xpgYtb29yEusGg

Syrup Town v4 Version Download (png version): https://mega.nz/file/GqoQ2SqR#K8V1LB4Evuf4i8u3xIU8nX3JqymOxnvtp4jsYYYWSBw

Upgrade Pack from v3 to v4 (png version): https://mega.nz/file/23Zj0SZT#FkP3kQfnUHd7dyTnBetsGAa7r582KoFrVAnaJP5Z6Vw

As always, I recommend the .webp version of the others, there's no noticable quality drop I can see and it's like 1/3rd the size.

Content:

• New Character: Helena the Hyena
• 6 New scenes for Angelica (with sex variants)
• Wallbutt scene for Madame Sharly

Other changes:

• Overhauled how Angelica's chat system works.
• Overhauled the images for random encounters.
• Overhauled the images for the tarot cards.
• Added alternate tarot card art for if the player has vegetarian mode active.
• Re-did Angelica and Helena's model from scratch to use a new paperdoll system similar to the player's.
• Added more expressions for the player.
• Replaced a number of trophy images that just used the character's standing or nude sprites.
• Added a trophy explaining how to unlock wallbutts.
• Changed the formatting of save titles, new saves now display things like scenecount. (All are still backwards compatible)
• Added a new Tan skintone that looks closer to the old dark skintone.
• Added items to Bluebell's store that let you change your skintone and bodytype.
• Replaced Mary-Lou's magazine to reflect her upcoming design.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where the png and webp versions weren't loading the other formats as backups.
• Fixed an issue where a number of trophies were missing images.
• Fixed a number of clothes that didn't fit on the female model.
• Fixed a large number of mobile styling issues.

• Fixed a number of bad images and typos.

  

  Noodle

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  I was so close to releasing this in May! The update's probably still buggy, but I hope doing some polishing of the mobile version was worth it for a less buggy release.

I mentioned it last time but the expression sets are waaaaay more time consuming than I expected. It could mean that the non-furry version will have to wait a bit longer, or I could not include outfits for its first release. Only Angelica and Helena have new models at the moment, but for v5 I plan on updating Bluebell, Cayenne, Sharly, and Mary-Lou for sure.

I also wanted to add proper tarot readings using all of Sharly's new cards, but that'll have to wait for a future update. Angelica and Helena were both pretty mechanically complex characters.

Angelica's content continues exactly where she left off. Each day her lust will passively increase, and talking to her while it's maxed will lead to a scene. Otherwise, she'll give one of her non-horny chats.

Helena takes you on a tour of the town. You get scenes over time when getting the tour / gathering things with her, but to actually progress you need to tour the forest orchard and get that special scene.

Future Content

Noodle

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Progress progress progress!
Actually, there's enough planned for v5 that maybe I should split it into two smaller updates for more frequent releasing?
Though, new characters are usually a lot more work than adding to an existing character...

In any case there's also the part 2 for even further beyond content:
However there's a few things extra I haven't put on that list yet:

• Making different skintone variants for all the images with disembodied hands/crotch pov
• Adding text to all the game's repeatable scenes
• Rewriting the logbook to be less vague and more accurately reflect the progression of each character
• More jiggies

With those in mind, what kind of stuff should I prioritize? Anything you think I missed? All feedback is welcome, I hope you'll enjoy v4!

[Syrup Town] [Preview] Juuuuust about!

Hey y'all! I was really hoping I'd get a release out every single month, and I got really close!

• Angelica and Helena's new expression sets are done!
• Six new scenes for Angelica, six scenes for Helena handling her intro in one fell swoop
• I added new expressions for the player (31 expressions now, up from 12) for each skintone
• I fixed a bunch of defective images, typos, as like I mentioned in the last post improved the intro, tarot cards, and added the new browner skintone.

The expression sets are waaaaay more time consuming than I had thought. I completely underestimated the amount of manual work I'd need to put into every expression, especially since the jump to illustrious means the errors are more noticeable. I also like adding visual effects like hearts to the aroused expressions, which while more work, I think help each scene's readability.

For Angelica I had to re-do her entire dialogue system while also making sure it wouldn't break for players already partway through her content. There's sex variants as always, though one of the six scenes is completely different if Angelica's got a dick vs a pussy. Her new stuff will continue exactly where she left off.

Helena's got a mechanic where she tours you through town, and while some are short I did have to write in some fluff for every location in the game. Plus, her scenes use more of those player shots I showed off before, which take a fair bit more work than the average image. Future updates will have her invite you into her home! I made sure to have lots of subby carnivore stuff with Angelica especially since not everyone will like playersub content.

Beyond that I re-did Mary-Lou's magazine and logbook for when she's added in the update after the next one, added more Angelica chatting scenes so it wouldn't start repeating itself too early, added Helena's morning crossover events with almost the whole cast, and I re-did the way save data is written so it gives more useful information like how many scenes you've gotten and what mode you're playing for when I add the FeMC route. (It's still all backwards compatible, of course)

With that, I have just four things left on my checklist:

• Gotta update the subscribers list
• Sharly's wallbutt scene,
• I generated new images for the achievements so they aren't just the nude standing sprites, I need to crop out the backgrounds and implement those
• The mobile CSS is all totally out of whack, gotta fix that

That last one is the big one. I could probably take out the other three in a few hours and release, but I've built up a lot of technical debt and things are breaking. Even right now I open the logbook and see things are squashed.

The new content's already up on the public test release server, and a few volunteers are helping by pointing out any bugs I missed. Big thankies to them, and to you all for sticking around! If you have any last minute thoughts or avatar requests, feel free to send them my way here or via discord.

But one more thing!

While the game has character customization, most of the time when the player character is meant to be in the scene, they're just a disembodied hand, penis, or its a crotch pov shot. But one of Helena's scenes focuses directly on the player's backside, so I made variants based on skintone, otherwise it'd feel weird and jarring:

I've always planned on going back through all the images and making variants for different skintones, it just hasn't been a priority yet. Is this something I should focus on for v5? It wasn't on my roadmap but if it's something you'd like to see, I'll see if I can get it done alongside all the other stuff.

[Preview] [Syrup Town] - Progress Progress Progress!

Howdy folks! Quick post today going over the things I've finished in the last week.

I've updated all tarot cards:

All 21 tarot cards, and I added veggie versions of the tarot cards which means no more missing cards for vegetarian players. I redid a number of other shots as well of the random encounters and intro too, though the Pocketmanz cards will have to wait until v5 for their overhaul.

Aside from other things like bugfixes, fixing wonky images, adding some new color palletes, I'll also be adding a new third skintone closer in tone to the original dark skin:

I had a grand ol' time playing around with some shots I'll probably use for the eventual female protag route:

Some shots of Helena:

And a pretty tough sequence I built in pieces on a white background (I'll add a proper background later):

And finally, I think I'm happy with this final look for the new non-furry cast:

I like how they strike a balance between being taller to appeal to the more vanilla crowd, while also fitting in with the Syrup Town artstyle!

noodle

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How do they look? Still too chibi, or just right?
I needed to re-do the expression sets anyways using the new model, and to include a few more expressions per character. Lemme know what you think!

[Release] [Syrup Town] - Syrup Town v3

Play it online here: https://noodlejacuzzi.neocities.org/syrup-town/

Play the mobile version online here: https://noodlejacuzzi.neocities.org/syrup-town/mobile

Syrup Town v3 Version Download (webp version): https://mega.nz/file/Xm52zLoY#gpHMYe9U8dsyt4_n0Y5MKRNT0qhi-u0xiiTDeWh4KXk

Upgrade Pack from v2.5 to v3 (webp version): https://mega.nz/file/rzRgUKjb#vP-eZ9dDpSvbQ8rH8AeXtjmZxWuds2KIhiiunH55erE

.apk Version for Android Devices: https://mega.nz/file/q7QUQABT#RPMKL1GvrDqMWAnsPSkeu9u3IU_RLM0FygpPmetZbSo (^ This includes the v3.1 bugfixes)

Syrup Town v3 Version Download (png version): https://mega.nz/file/av4jlIpD#5NnDsb289FTCclasHPC0VAlv8l7cKcsF_a4AKv4-vkE

Upgrade Pack from v2.5 to v3 (png version): https://mega.nz/file/XiZGlLyZ#tTD3Af9KaQTpTgvyesnRnVEbewWyKQqyZP3XyPZF6Aw

As always, I recommend the .webp version of the others, there's no noticable quality drop I can see and it's like 1/3rd the size.

EDIT: Whoopsie, I missed a number of bugs in v3, including Angelica's wallbutt scene always displaying images with a donger, broken achievement images in veggie mode, the dress upperwear item being duplicated in the wardrobe, and a really, really weird bug where the letters weren't falling on the title screen on the desktop version when using PNG images

The online version has already been updated, and I uploaded a new APK above, but downloaded players can grab a bugfix here to upgrade to Syrup Town v3.1, which should fix all the issues:

Syrup Town v3.1 Bugfix Patch: PNG Version https://mega.nz/file/7yQAGSoK#PKiFKSSpC5ny_8KmwjgF08aoYZNz11QSphNGyInI2yI

Syrup Town v3.1 Bugfix Patch: WEBP Version https://mega.nz/file/eqB1FSqZ#p5Gu6sVCMhH8qkR_2Hrpe3UR7MiLCUFXsYXbI-JXaIo

Content:

• Regenerated 800+ game CGs for each of the main cast using a new model with the Illustrious checkpoint.
• This includes most of the game's jiggies, magazines, and pog coins, but not collectable cards.
• Some scenes and magazines have either had extra images added or were heavily changed (magazines still use the old covers though).
• 7 Total new wallbutt scenes unlocked via Cayenne, with sex variants for Angelica, Cayenne, and Bluebell.

Other changes:

• Completely re-did the player model and all outfits in SDXL.
• Upscaled and polished all location images with SDXL.
• Fleshy version has been disabled and is on haitus in preparation for a complete overhaul.
• Added references to Sharly and Sorbet's mothers in their homes.
• Added a vegan mode gag ending for enabling both Vegetarian and Carnivore modes at the same time.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed yet more style issues on mobile
• Fixed a bug where the encounter text would shift between huge and tiny

• Fixed multiple bugs & typos.
  

  

  Noodle

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  A smaller update to get back into the swing of Syrup Town.
  I've got a lot more still cooking in the oven but I'm determined to get back into the flow of updating every month.
  Maybe I can even get back to my old record of twice per month? We'll have to see!

The last visual overhaul was me putting every image in the game through img2img, but many of the tags I used for characters changed between models, and a lot of easyfluff's weirdness still lingers. So, this time I stripped out every character and outfit keyword from the game's cgs, and regenerated them all totally fresh!

Noodle

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And now they'll match the new content, Yippee! Still, this is only the CGs for the main cast, so the intro, random encounters, tarot cards, and pocketmanz cards still need to be overhauled.

It means the update this time is on the shorter side. But I've been keeping organized soooo:

Future Content

Noodle

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Yes indeedy I have a roadmap!

The expression overhaul is what I expect to take the longest, depending on how the generating goes. Based on feedback I've decided to make Helena a top, so that'll be fun to write! And beyond that I have another roadmap for even further beyond:

As for the non-furry version, I have temporarily disabled it. Clicking the button will now give an overview of why; I'm trying to overhaul that as well so that non-shortstack enjoyers can still enjoy the game.

Lots to do, I hope you enjoy v3, and I hope you're excited for what's to come!