0.9 Retrospective

This post has been edited as an earlier version of it did not allow multiple options on the poll.

Hi everyone. And thank you for joining me for this week's public post.

Firstly, a quick PSA, for those who may not have seen, Missy has now been updated to 0.9.4 which gets rid of a host of bugs, including the Avenging Angel start failure, the problem with the underwear in Jan Winters and the weird scenario where you could "win" against Madeline after deciding to "lose" to her.

You can download it here.

Meanwhile, the School Council poll to decide the headline quest of 0.10 is entering its final stages. It looks as though Jessica's Relationship Quest and Chapter Seven are going to be joined in the final round by the surprise entry of It's Just a Phase, a story in which Missy will work her magic on a straight(ish) girl. We'll have a winner soon so more on that when we do. If you want to have your say, have a look at the School Council tier!

For now though, the traditional outro and satisfaction survey on the quest that was. As those of you that have been here before will know, I talk a little about the quest, saying things that I now can because you've played it. So if you haven't played it, stop reading right now unless you want spoilers!

Slave to Love is an idea that I've had kicking around in my head for some time. Role-reversal is very popular and it keeps things fresh to have a slave turn the tables on her mistress rather than have Missy meet just another dominant girl at school.

As this was a side-quest, it also gave me far more freedom to give the player choices. While this didn't mean that I could offer domme players their own story where they're on top the whole time, it did open up a revenge arc option. In all, there are 4 ways this quest can end, and I'm interested to see how many people picked the ones other than stay as Madeline's cash cow!

There were parts of this quest that I had to rush more than I wanted to owing to the constraints of time as my real life has been consistently insane since about summer last year. I may well go back later and flesh those out a bit, such as by adding more girls for Missy to sell herself to in the Red Light District and putting in new home events with Madeline. In an ideal world, this quest would have been twice as long as it was and featured an even deeper descent into servitude. But hey, got to save something for later. If you chose to enslave or turn in Madeline, Chloe flees, while in the other endings she's still around anyway. This is unlikely to be the last we see of her...

From a technical standpoint, this one was a bit of a nightmare to implement and has thrown up bugs through the playtesting, supporter and even public release stages. Major modifications had to be made to the house and an imperfect system for governing Madeline's location created. But now the bones are in place for you to have a servant/mistress at home if you chose to keep her!

I hope you enjoyed this quest, it was a lot of fun bringing it to life. As always, please take a moment to fill in the poll below, and as always comments and criticisms are very welcome. I'll be back next week!

Trinian