Version 6.0.2, Terror & Terroir
Dev Notes
- Act VII fast approaches! I’ll make a separate post about that soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this chunky monthly update.
- Exo Spectra’s expansion of our soundtrack continues. Most of it is prepped for Act VII, but some more of it can be enjoyed now.
- MVPs of this build were our visual lead Amon Ra, who has created oodles of new and updated art with Ratatooey - and Tosk, who managed to get the new proteans script loaded when I dropped it on his desk at the last possible moment. Thanks guys!
Act V-VI Features
- Dynamic: The proteans can now be visited in Act V (collab with DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Plunging into Mother's abyss (collab with DoItToJulia and Mattrex).
- Art: Art for Naho’s “Extinction Burst” scene (two variants, 14 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
- Art: Retouched splash art for the Incomplete ending (collab with Anon).
- Art: Variant background art for the royal bedchamber during the eclipse.
- Art: Variant background art for the farms during the eclipse.
- Art: Retouched background art for the palace bailey (two variants).
- Art: Retouched background art for the palace kitchens.
- Art: Retouched background art for the palace stables.
- Art: Retouched background art for the unveiled throneroom.
- Art: Retouched background art for the hinterlands exterior.
- Art: Retouched background art for the hinterlands interior.
- Animation: A new animated background for the royal bedchamber during the eclipse (Amon Ra).
- Music: An expanded suite for the Paling adventure (2 tracks, Exo Spectra).
- Voice: Zizeryx’s lines during its “Desiring Machine” scene (Jezebeth, edited by Mokkel).
- Gallery: Naho’s “Extinction Burst” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Achievement: The “Mother Knows Best” achievement has been added (Tosk).
Act I-IV Features
- Art: Finalised art for Maelys’s “Seed On Barren Ground” scene (5 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
- Art: Finalised art for Malice’s “Past And Future” scene (two variants, 10 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
- Art: Retouched art for Chanwe’s “Revelation” scene (5 images).
- Art: Retouched background art for the farms.
- Art: Retouched background art for the infernal altar.
- Art: Retouched background art for the inferno.
- Art: Retouched background art for the protean depths (two variants).
- Animation: A new animated background for the royal bedchamber (Amon Ra).
- Music: A revamped and expanded suite for Malagar (6 tracks, Exo Spectra).
- Voice: Naho’s part in her “Dracogenesis” warlock fate followup (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
- Voice: Naho’s part in the strange cheese dream (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
- UI: A "Goofiness” indicator has been added, with screen reader support, and a toggle in the Preferences menu (HereToHelp).
- UI: Descriptions of touch controls have been added to the Controls screen, for those on touch devices (HereToHelp).
- Gallery: Heloise’s “Leisure” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Modding: The image override feature has been expanded to support the replacement of all media types (Katzenwiese).
- Modding: Instructions for the override feature have been updated, and added to the /media_overrides/ folder (HereToHelp).
Enhancements
- Chanwe’s “Revelation” scene has had its visual and audio direction improved.
- The dragon’s voice lines, where they repeat, have been more evenly distributed across the code.
- Eburon’s Paling sequence in ActVI will use its new expanded suite.
- Interactions with killtoy Maelys will use her new Severance suite.
- Malagar’s escalation sequence in Act VI will make full use of his expanded music suite.
- Grading on the art for Marie-Anne’s “Down On The Farm” scene has been improved.
- Marie-Anne and Mina’s “Sharing Is Caring” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
- Mina’s “Stand and Deliver” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
- Mina’s “Looted Goods” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
- Mina’s “Sweetened Deal” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
- Mina’s “Forcible Renegotiation” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Grey
- scale).
- Mina’s “Liquid Assets” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).Mina’s “Bed of Riches” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
- Mina’s “Back Alley Deal” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
- Mother’s interactions are gated behind first finding out their name.
- Act VI can now be accessed whilst playing in Streamer Mode (HereToHelp).
- The Preferences menu has been improved for all devices. No more needless scrolling! (HereToHelp)
- Alt text describing the UI change for screen readers has been added to the Goofy dream (HereToHelp).
- Our code for handling messy character animations has been improved (Katzenwiese).
- Side portraits now automatically crop away any transparent pixels (Katzenwiese).
- Scene names have been updated for extra clarity and character.
- The display order of scenes in the Gallery has been made more intuitive.
- Guidance hints for scenes in the Gallery have been made clearer.
- Game credits have been updated.
Fixes
- You cannot ask harem members to become your queen if you are already betrothed to someone else.
- Adeline cannot be asked about the health of her child if she is not pregnant.
- The art in Chia’s “Maid To Be Broken” scene will not have sprites drawn on top of it.
- Chia’s “Maid To Order” scene will not offer multiple seemingly-identical commands to undress.
- If Enid was never retained, she does not appear in the hatchery after Marie-Anne’s visit.
- Killing your kobolds for allowing Heloïse to escape requires Gore to be enabled.
- Heloise will not discuss Adeline’s free status if the princess is a selkie.
- Issa will recognise being named after Grokkan or Kralak if you capitalise their names.
- Repeatedly visiting Issa during Act VI will not result in the palace theme playing over his own.
- If Maelys is serving as your knight or killtoy, she will have a cameo outside your chamber if you subsequently promote Naho.
- Fixed a rare circumstance where Malice would not derive a disposition from her upbringing if you had an unusual choice of consort.
- The art in Marie-Anne's “Free Cowgirl” scene has been retouched.
- Mina’s voice lines at the end of her “Liquid Assets” scene will play for all routes through the scene.
- Many instances of Mina’s nonverbal sound effects will now play correctly; they were previously silent.
- Visiting Mina in Breaker’s chamber repeatedly on the same day will not cause her to be ejected from the HR process.
- Promoting Naho during Act VI will not subsequently play the confrontation scene as though she was promoted during Act V.
- Naho’s Act VI scenes will use her pregnant art, where applicable.
- If you sent them immediately to Breaker, Sabetha and Inej will not have their initial standard interaction afterwards.
- Sabetha and Inej's lines during their Act V pregnancy talk will appear with speakers’ names.
- Sabetha and Inej's offspring will not appear during visits to the hatchery if they have been laid, but not yet hatched.
- Valzira will not appear with a bump during her “Payback” scene if she has not been established as the naga’s carrier.
- If a naga was not born, Valzira will not talk about them whilst in the palace dungeons.
- If your first visit to the hatchery is in Act VI, you will not be told that your clutch has grown since your last visit.
- The Act VI Reconquest will not softlock or crash if every territory has been assigned and you still have surplus forces left.
- The cataclysm ambience will not keep playing after the end of the Act VI Paling adventure.
- The Act VI Breeding Tax crowd ambience will not keep playing after the scene has ended.
- The "On Second Thought" achievement can be earned in all cases where one pregnant elf dies, but another pregnant elf lives.
- …and everything found during playtesting. Thank you, playtesters!




