Spankers, Spankees and Switches of All Ages,

I’ve finished writing all the events for the first level of the dungeon (of two). Yay! Originally I had two other events planned, that I was going to write after releasing this level, one at Sofia’s clinic, and one at a Taironan church. But they don’t really contribute anything to the plot, and are probably better off being incorporated into an episode where they play a bigger role.

Furthermore, the first floor of the dungeon is designed and implemented. The things left on my to-do list:

1. Finish the spanking combat text for any enemies whose text hasn’t been written.
2. Balance the game.
3. Toss it at my beta testers
4. Debug the catfight code, and finish writing any in-combat spanking text for said catfight.

In the interest of getting something out, I’ll probably skip step 4 for now. Basically, in the location where a catfight can occur, you’ll just be given the choices to instantly win or lose, instead of instantly win, lose, or actually fight the catfight.

Note to self: Next time, build the dungeon with just encounters, write the enemies with placeholder spanking content, and throw it at my beta testers so that we can start balancing the game before I finish writing the text.

Spankers, Spankees and Switches of All Ages (18 and above),

A small fix, and a minor enhancement to saving:

1. Fixed the bug pointed out as a comment in the previous post, where the flag telling the game whether to allow in-combat spankings wasn’t saving properly.

2. Added a bit of code to sort file names based on name in the save and load menus. Before I was printing the files in whatever order the OS gave them to me.

3. Cleaned up some of the code to load games, making it easier to add data to the save files in a backwards-compatible manner.

Get ’em at the downloads section.

Fixed the latest round of bugs pointed out by SSM, including the one where Carol wasn’t paying you for the swag you sold her. Also, I fixed a few other bugs I stumbled across in the shop interface, and a bug where Ildri’s spanking-for-indecency wasn’t displaying the right outfit for the player.

Fixed a bug where the game crashes if you try to load a save from the end of the game’s content. Note that now you cannot save after the first act of episode 2. Once I add the next act, you’ll have to load a save file from before you agree to help Ildri repair the guild.

Spankers and Spankees,

New version, 2.04, posted to the downloads section. I’ve made two changes:

1. First, I fixed a bug pointed out in an e-mail  from a player that caused the game to crash if the player attempted to inflict multiple statuses on enemies.

2. Second, I’ve made it so that the player can’t spank an already-humiliated enemy. Previously, spankings could be used to keep an opponent in grapple-lock indefinitely. While that doesn’t matter now, when there is only one PC, once you get a party that could become very overpowered.

Spankers and Spankees,

Welcome to the fancy-shmancy new home of Pandemonium Cycle: The Potion Wars! It is very fancy. And shmancy. Anyway, the blogspot blog is still going to be there, polluting the internet, but all new updates will show up here. Feel free to explore, and let me know if anything broke in the move.

I’ll post a longer post later this weekend. I have a screenshot of the new automap, and a few thoughts on the future of first-person vs. third-person, and thoughts on how to overhaul the combat mechanics in future episodes.

In case you haven’t seen it:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/27/technology/google-porn-blogger/

Still gonna shift to a WordPress site, though. If only because

a) I don’t trust Google not to pull this shit again at some point, and
b) a WordPress site will give me a bit more flexibility, since WordPress is geared towards generic sites, while blogger is geared to (surprise surprise!) blogs.

So I just got an e-mail from Blogger, informing me of changes to their content policy. Apparently, they are no longer allowing publicly available blogs to contain “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video.”  Because their “content policies play an important role in maintaining a positive experience for you, the users.” And since America has a royally fucked up culture where brutal violence is OK, but men and women enjoying sex is not, “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video” don’t contribute to a positive experience.

The new policy will go into affect March 23.

Now, this doesn’t affect me, yet because I don’t have any sexually explicit images. However, what this means is that if some artist toddles along, really likes my work, and offers to draw a few pictures (like titlecards for my episodes) for me, and those titlecards contain any nudity,  I can’t post them on this blog. Also, since my game would contain those images, I’m not sure I’d be allowed to post a link to my game, either.

Furthermore, I went digging a bit more deeply into their current content policies, and found this gem:

“Adult Content: Do not distribute sexually explicit content or graphic depictions of nudity. Do not drive traffic to commercial pornography sites.”

Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking my “content” is pretty sexually explicit. Which basically means that I’m at best skating on thin ice, at worst I’m already in violation of their content policy. So, since I a) don’t want to support a service that supports the “sex is bad” bullshit, b) don’t like violating contracts that I sign, and c) don’t want to wake up one day only to discover that my blog has been locked down because some prude stumbled upon and flagged it as being in violation of Blogger’s terms of service, I’m going to be moving to a different service.

I’ll probably shift over to a WordPress driven site, since  their terms of service don’t seem to make any mention of prohibiting pornographic content. Basically, they just don’t want any hate-spewing blogs or websites loaded with viruses. I’m going to try to see if I can get it set up this weekend, and I’ll make an announcement here when I do. It’ll be pretty bare at first, but I do plan on shifting the content currently here to that site (copy-paste is my friend!). And I will be posting all new content there.

Sorry about the inconvenience. I’m probably making a mountain out of a molehill, but I’ve heard too many stories about websites taken down randomly and without notice by people trying to score points with the “Think of the Children!” crowd to risk it.

Spankers and Spankees,

Etrian Odyssey Episode 3: Rage is posted.

Having successfully mapped the first floor, the party make their first foray into the second floor, and come face to face with murderous herbivores. Will they survive? Or will a certain Siren’s recklessness get everyone killed?

Also, getting some fun bugs from my beta testers (apparently there’s something wonky going on with the new level up mechanics. Joy.). So progress is happening on the Potion Wars front.