I decided to move Quid Pro Quo a couple more decades into the future (and into a bigger city). I think it makes for a more interesting universe overall, and opens up more opportunities to play the malevolent god-capitalist that you all came to kno...
2020-03-15 01:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
It's been a bit busy with two game projects running, but I have some updates on Quid Pro Quo that I wanted to share.
First off, you might notice that characters look a bit different. Quid Pro Quo will be using an entir...
2020-03-08 20:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
You all know the drill. This patch has major improvements to the sex animation engine, including fixes for your favorite bugs like "penises don't bend that way" and "Why do furanari characters make everything explode?"
I've al...
2020-02-29 01:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
There are a few patches left, but only one more that's going to have a vote: the Final Stretch Goal. This is the last one, so, I'm going to leave this vote up for a bit to give people time to think it over.
Be...
2020-02-25 22:45:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been doing a lot of thinking about what comes after Stationmaster.
After a gauntlet of ideas, a couple design documents, and one abandoned prototype, I've finally settled on the game that will actually get developed. I've made som...
2020-02-22 18:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of this patch is focused on fixing bugs in the... ahem... animation engine, but I'm also doing some new environments for existing events.
The goal is for most events that take place outside your suite to show something else in the backg...
2020-02-15 21:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostI feel weird calling this a part of the "All Tied Up" 0.27a update because bondage gear is barely changed (I guess it was mostly stable). Instead, I worked on fixes for everything else (along with adding a new fetish interview for the start of the...
2020-02-02 00:55:04 +0000 UTC View Post0.27 is currently building. It would normally be time to put the direction of 0.28 to a vote, but there's only one content update left in the plan. Before I get into the design, I want to touch on what that means for the future.
As strange a...
2020-02-01 21:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostThere's nothing really graphically interesting about this patch, but here's the part of the changelog I'm most excited about: The Rules Assistant works again, after a long time spent fixing bugs that should never have made it into the build.
This one is a doozy. In addition to the new clothing, I ended up running through about 60% of the bugs and community improvements on my list. The rules assistant got the most love, with some long-overdue new features and stability improvements, bu...
2020-01-14 01:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostHolidays or no, a patch went out yesterday, so it's time to post the new design. I'm pretty excited about this one, since it closes a pretty big hole in the content: Bondage Clothing.
I'd also like to extend a special thanks to the incompara...
2019-12-25 07:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostHappy holidays! I took a bit of a light patch due to other obligations, but filled out the promised 16 furniture items per category and fixed the highest-priority bugs. Without further ado:
2019-12-23 20:15:03 +0000 UTC
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This patch went pretty smoothly, so I ended up combining it with a bunch of polish features and bug fixes that had been stuck on my list for a while. I also switched file hosts, so please let me know in the comments how the download goes 2019-11-24 00:10:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The club is getting some love this patch as well. This version will add a DJ assignment, as well as dance floors for both your residents and your slaves. It also adds slot machines and keeps the old bar furniture, so you can control exactly what k...
2019-11-21 01:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post
These pictures show off some of the things you can do with the new decoration system. It's designed to let you customize your station for whatever mood you want to set, wherever you want to set it.
You can now cover your station in billboard...
2019-11-16 20:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat was a bit of a marathon, but I'm glad it's dealt with now. I'm sure there will be more tweaks to the animation engine in the future, but this will be the last major rewrite (and if it never happens again, it will be too soon).
This patc...
2019-11-03 22:30:09 +0000 UTC View Post0.25 is uploading as I write this, so it's time to start work on 0.26 (after a day or two of some wholesome wall-staring).
The idea for this patch is to give you more customization options for your station. It will add a new category o...
2019-11-03 03:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm planning to publish 0.25 in the next week or two, which means that it's time to vote on 0.26! 0.25 is a huge pain, so the options for the next patch are a little restricted to give me time to breathe.
On the plus side, this poll is ope...
As of Catalina, Apple requires that all applications (and all new versions of applications) be sent to them for approval. The process requires Apple hardware, a developer subscription, and, most importantly, a bunch of annoying bureaucracy.
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2019-10-15 19:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis has been the longest patch to work on so far, but I think it's worth it. The new animation engine adds a lot of realism to sex scenes, and that was one of the biggest issues before now.
It's taken a couple trips back to the drawing board, but I managed to get this thing working more generally. Thanks to a new dynamic raycasting system, it no longer fails with certain character sliders. I've also got the player loaded in properly ...
2019-09-29 21:22:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I bit the bullet and bought a motion capture setup! Calibrating the new IK system for each pose is insanely tedious, and I'd rather not repeat the work after the inevitable animation overhaul.
That means that, if all goes according to plan, ...
2019-09-19 01:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I underestimated the amount of fine-tuning needed to make this system work smoothly. This patch is going to take another couple weeks. Procedural animations are a lot more fiddly than I expected, and the closer I look, the more stuff shows up.&nbs...
2019-09-14 21:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It doesn't look like a win on the surface, but the math is working! There's quite a bit left to do (including replacing the strange meat suit with the player's actual skin), but the "top" animation now plays correctly, and lines up with the bottom...
2019-09-05 05:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis is pretty much what it says on the tin. It's a full patch because the variation in player/slave height means that the animations have to be proceduralized, and I don't know how to do that yet.
Player ...
2019-08-26 16:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostI'm trying this new thing where I forget to launch the vote before publishing the patch, then start it late and pretend it was on purpose. Probably shouldn't have said that out loud.
At any rate, here are the options for 0.25. I'm running lo...
2019-08-24 15:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis patch is almost entirely tweaks and bugfixes over 0.24a, but does add the ability to purchase planets.
This update adds the new factions with event chains, expands the main quest, fixes a problem that was hiding most of the events for the old factions, and makes some improvements to slave graphics. I also fixed a ton of bugs, as usual.
I'm done with the new "outside" ships, so here's a little beauty shot. Harmony (the golden temple on the left), Flotsam (the trading ship on the right), and Brimstone (the red station in the center) will periodically dock around your station if yo...
2019-07-30 01:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis patch fixes a ton of bugs and adds a ton of smallish features, like influence minimums to access higher-tier slave markets and optimization for higher zoom levels.