Hey guys, it has been a while since the last post. Today, I've prepared this to show you what has been added to the game. Let's start with a few Quality of Life changes.

A "hint have changed" indicator has been added to the character profiles:

Has it occurred to you that, you've been focused on a character and out of nowhere, the progress stops and her hints tell you to focus on someone else for the moment? You get to it and start doing other things in the game, while checking the first girl's profile again and again, to check if her hints have changed?

Well, I took a bit of time and added this function to, hopefully, make having to check for new hints, less tedious.

Now, when the hints of a character change, it'll show a small "!" on her profile picture. When you click on her face, it'll go away. And it'll return again when her hints change. So, whenever you hit a sudden "focus on someone else" (or similar) stop, you can confidently focus on reading other hints and only go back to this girl when a "!" appears. Saving you a few clicks of constant checking.

I've also replaced the "no more content" heart to match the "hints changed" icon. In my opinion, this one is cuter too.

A new Extra Hints Menu has been added to MC's character screen:

Harem Residence has some events I like to call "Extra". For example, Café Platinum or Aurora Massage Parlor. These events are skippable. They are there for you to enjoy if you want, and are useful to farm money, stats, and eventually an achievement (which permanently increases the passive weekly income).

These events are intended to be surprise ones. You suddenly find them by chance, or hear from them from another player. However, I've had many requests of adding hints for these. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to add them as optional. The intended way is to play the game without them, but if you really want them, you can ask the Mysterious Heroine Vi to enable them.

In previous updates, I reworked some older events of the game. For example, running into a naked Chitose in the bathroom (prologue). Kasumi's first lewd event. Meeting Fumiko for the first time. MC, Ayase and Kasumi watching TV, and so on...

This time, I reworked the very first Sunday event. When MC and Ayase enter Kasumi's room to wake her up.

I've also reworked earlier lewd events, specifically Ayase and Kasumi's (individually). If you want to check the lewd events without having to restart, you can always use the Memories' function of each girl.

The next update will feature two new Extra events for you to find and enjoy, each featuring a new romanceable character.

The first is Anna. An attractive, yet mysterious woman whose story revolves around the Waifu Collector gacha mini-game. Her purpose is to give players, who have been collecting the cards, another method of obtaining them. Since I plan to keep adding more cards to obtain with each update, trying to pull all of them in the gacha mini-game can (and will) turn annoying. With Anna, you'll be able to purchase directly the cards you're missing. It'll be pricey compared to purchasing a pack in the store, but like I said, it's just another method.

Completing Anna's route will award players unique cards, an achievement, and a boost to the weekly passive income.

Yes, in the next update, collecting cards will grant a passive bonus to your weekly income. And clearing Anna will boost said bonus. Also, next update adds more cards in the gacha, with the girls doing cosplay and similar.

The second girl has a sightly different purpose than other Extra characters. To progress with her, you'll have to revisit locations you have been before. You'll have to find her first to see what I mean~

Chitose got her "Interactions" menu added.

Mako got new content~

Aoi also got new content, and through it, you'll meet a new character~

And the focus of the next update, the Suzuki women~

In the next update, you'll be able to continue the Suzuki storyline. Being able to spend time individually with each one of them. Learning a bit more of their lives, and their past. And taking big steps towards fixing the relationship between Maya, Miya and Meiya. It's a rather large event that'll take you several in-game weeks to complete~

The next update will also introduce some fixes here and there. Tweaked hints. Quite a bit of proofreading. More content. And more~

The update isn't quite ready yet. I'd say I'm around 75~80% of completion. I keep working in the game every day, so please have a bit of patience.

And that'll be all for today's post. Take care during these holidays. Spend it in peace with your loved ones, and friends~

That's it for the game, you can stop reading now if you want. The following is about myself.

As some of you probably know already, I'm not a very healthy person. I have been struggling with quite a bit for the past decade or so. A couple of weeks ago, my health decided to troll me a bit and I had to be taken in an ambulance to a hospital. I'm more stable now, but that incident forced me to stay away from my computer for a while. It's frustrating, because I find entertainment working in the game and I hate making people wait more than they should.

Facing all of this alone can be scary, but your kind words and support keep me going. I want to thank you guys one more time, from my heart. All of this is possible thanks to you.

As always, cheers and be safe~

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.