February 27th 2023: Progress Report and Announcements

Hello everyone, a dizzy Rem here with this week's Progress Report!

Oh god, it's almost 4AM and my head is literally spinning the room right now.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS for this week! But forgive me because I think I need to eat or something because I'm getting light headed so I'm going to copy and paste from the Steam Announcement I just wrote, which is also available at https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1619750/view/3663152658900813300

First up, the store page for our first DLC is now up!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2276690/Karryns_Prison__Stray_Pubes/

Yes, this isn't the Gym DLC I mentioned last year, however since that is currently still being internally reviewed for possible gameplay changes, we decided to work on something else in meantime, and that something else was the Stray Pubes DLC! Please take a look at the store page above for more details for what exactly it will contain!!

The plan is to release the Stray Pubes DLC on March 15th 2023, and the price in American dollars will be $1 USD. That's right, you can't even buy a six piece chicken nugget for that price. It's a cosmetic DLC containing exactly what the store page says it will contain, so if any of it interests you, please add the DLC to your wishlist!

Now for a second announcement, Karryn's Prison has now been updated to v1.2 with the following changes!!

* Implemented Lovense Integration! * Added new CG variants for Karryn's Vaginal Sex skill. * Implemented more optimizations for lower ended PCs. Credits to madtisa#8743 * for the code and ideas. * Fixed various CGs. * Fixed various minor bugs.

For people with low/underspecced PCs, I hope the optimizations that we worked on for v1.2 will help you out!!

Now, some people might have just read the above changelog and wondered themselves, what the heck is a Lovense Integration? Essentially, Lovense is a company that makes sex toys and we just partnered up with Lovense to provide the ability for people to connect their Lovense toys to Karryn's Prison and sync up the toys with the action that is happening ingame!

This was one of the major thing I've been working on in the past few months, which was not only to add Lovense Integration, but to do it in a way no one has ever done before for an eroge.

Please check out the Karryn's Prison page on the Lovense website for a moment and watch the video!

https://www.lovense.com/game/karryns-prison

Essentially, not only will your Lovense toy react when something happens to Karryn, with the RAID system that I designed, you can customize your toys specifically to only react to certain sex acts if you wish. In addition, unlike all Lovense Integrations for eroge up until now, Karryn's Prison features completely uniquely designed toy patterns specific to not only each sexual act that Karryn is experiencing, but it's also based on Karryn's sexual experience! So the way a Lovense toy reacts when Karryn is getting her nipples pulled is different from when Karryn is getting pounded in the butt, and it also reacts differently when Karryn is a huge slut!

Don't just take my word for it, here are some of the feedback from our beta testers!

If you're interested and in the position to own a sex toy, Lovense is currently running a 60% sale for Karryn's Prison players here:

https://www.lovense.com/p/KarrynsPrison

You can find the Lovense settings in the ingame Settings menu. And if this is your first sex toy, please remember to practice safety and good hygiene!!!

Now I know most people don't have the means to get a Lovense toy, whether it is financially or you're in a living arrangement where you can't own a sex toy. But I still wanted to design and implemented the Lovense Integration because I felt that the way other eroges have done their Lovense Integration to be very lacking and not using the full potential of connecting sex toys to an eroge. Doing something that no one else has ever done AND advancing the field of eroge to new heights is something I would gladly take the opportunity to do even if only ten people could currently afford to try it out. It was fun to wreck my brain on how to come up and design the RAID system, and hearing the feedback from the beta testers made it all worthwhile.

Anyway, to celebrate the release of v1.2, the Stray Pubes DLC announcement and release date, and our partnership with Lovense, Karryn's Prison will be 15% off with the next six days!

So yeah, big stuff.

AND ALSO, there's actually a third announcement that I didn't talk about on Steam. And it's about the Karryn figurine. Sachinama will be posting some factory photos of the current work-in-progress mold of the figurine in today/tomorrow's Ci-en post (And our Ci-en page is at https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/2068 for those who didn't know). So work on that end has been continuing to progress!

EDIT: The photos are now up at: https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/2068/article/811099

I think I really need to eat or drink something or I might faint, so I'm going to end this week's post here. Please don't be like me, and take care of your body and stay warm and hydrated!