Back in 0.09p, I threw a poll at everyone. The answers there gave me a general grasp of the player's feelings about the game. Here are some interesting results:

From the main heroines, Kasumi was the most liked of them, followed by Ayase in second place, and Chitose in third place.

From the side heroines, Kaori was the most liked of them, followed by Aoi in second place, and Yuri in third place.

It has been a while since then, the game has quite a bit of more content and I like to believe HR got a few more players. So while I continue adding content for the next update, I made another poll to see which heroines got more fans, and also to see what kind of content you'd like to see in future patches.

So, if you have time, please fill the poll. It's anonymous and should take less than 10 minutes.

Cheers~

HAREM RESIDENCE POLL (0.12B)

Game Update (0.12b) Complete

Hey guys, the latest update for Harem Residence, 0.12b, has been completed, and I'll begin the distribution of it immediately, however, I'm making some changes to how the updates are released.

Until now, as soon as the update was ready, I just released it to everyone and started working on the next update. But that was before to, due to personal circumstances I've talked about before, my fully dependency on your generous support.

For weeks, I've been pondering about possible "rewards" I could give those throwing cookie-funds my way. I got some ideas for different tiers, and that includes the so dreaded "Early Access". This will probably look greedy from my part, but I hope you understand.

So, from now on, the Diamond tier will get access to the game builds as soon as they are available. Then, Platinum a week after, and so on...

Here's the release schedule for version 0.12b:

Diamond: June 19
Platinum: June 26
Gold: July 3
Silver and Bronze: July 10
Public: July 17

I'll be sending you links through this site, and the Discord server will be updated to facilitate things as well.

With that out of the way, what's new in this version?

When it comes to new content, 0.12b introduces...

New "Sunday" and "Other Perspective" events~

New content for: Fumiko, Kaori, Kasumi, Nagisa, Sakura and Tsubaki.

Extra characters, like Rick, or the Aurora Massage Parlor, have gotten content as well.

Added "Interactions" to: Ayase.

Added "Night Bath" to: Ayase.

Added "Night Visit" to: Ayase, Hibiki and Otome.

A new collectible in form of a gacha, "Waifu Collector". Buy card packs from the store, get random cards to collect. In this version, you have 61 different cards to get from the packs, and 2 unique ones to find somewhere in the game.

When it comes to changes and fixes, 0.12b introduces...

A lot of fixes to event conditions have been made. Some events triggering when they should not, bugs in the hints. Stuff like that. The Changelog in the Discord server will have a list, if you're interested.

The textbox has been changed, made smaller so you have a better view of what's happening on the screen.

Increased the total amount of save/load pages to 99, it was 15 before.

Increased the money cap to 99,999, it was 9,999 before.

Increased the general speed of transitions. The fade-to-blacks, dissolves, and so on, were sped up a bit. Making the general feeling of going through the game a bit smoother.

Remade most of the Achievement renders, and added some missing ones as well.

Remade several of the early renders.

Rewritten/tweaked all the lewd scenes of the game. All of them. Added dialogues and narration to them, and reducing significantly the absurd amount of the girls just moaning.

The whole "Retained by Fumiko" questline was remade. Players should no longer get stuck in there with no idea on how to get free.

The general story of the game has been revised, fixing some small inconsistency issues here and there.

Most of the game's scenes and menus have been remade from scratch. For example, the new map shows a small portrait of where the girls are, instead of a generic icon. The achievements screen only show obtainable ones, the game now tells you when a new Other Perspective event is available, and so on.

Some other stuff as well, if you're interested in reading more about the changes, just check the changelog in the Discord server.

And that'd be it for now.

A lot of work have been put in this update, many changes, fixes, and some new content. While you can just continue from where you left normally, I highly recommend you guys to start a new run if you really want to have a full perspective of the changes.

As always, thank you a lot for your support. I really appreciate it.

Cheers, and be safe~

A bit of yapping~

Let's talk about the game. I'll put all the changes and new content (since 0.12) in this post, for those that haven't read the previous one.

First, a clarification about me splitting Harem Residence. Looks like I didn't explain myself properly and caused some confusion. No, I'm not grabbing what's currently in the game and split it in two. The game will continue being developed the way it is, and when the story reaches a certain point, it'll stop. And you'll have to download Part 2 to continue. The original idea was to have everything in just one game, but like I explained before, it's getting too large and harder to maintain.

Now, what's running under the hood, I've done a lot of clean up to the game's code. A lot of rewritten functions, revised stuff here and there, getting rid of bad practices and spaghetti code. Like I've said, I'm not really a programmer. So I'm constantly learning and fixing my mistakes.

A lot of scenes (Achievements, Other Perspective, Memories) have been rewritten entirely, and new ones have been added (Inventory, Card Album, Logger) have been added.

When it comes to the story, I've revised a bit of it, fixing consistency issues and so on. Nothing crazy, and worth going deep into, but yeah.

When it comes to older content, some of the older stuff have been reworked a bit. New renders replacing old ones, and such. Granted, only new players or people doing a new run will be able to see these, but like I said, first impressions are important and some of these renders are pretty ugly. There's some stuff I want to fix, but that'll be for the future.

Of course, the next update will come with new content as well. You can head to the Discord server to see some sneak peeks (I try to avoid throwing spicy images in here).

Anyway, I'm going to wrap it here. I've sent a current build to some friends, to make sure saves and such load just fine (a lot of code was rewritten, after all) and seems like everything's okay. A lot of the planned stuff is ready to be packed and released, but I'm adding a bit more of content so it's a bit more complete.

Expect a release soon~

As always, thank you very much for your continued support. Cheers, and stay safe out there.