An update on the situation and my absence and stuff

A dear fan of mine pointed out that I should actually make a post explaining the situation right now, so I'm doing so here. Game is currently on stall because I don't have the brain-space to work on it. My book is almost ready to send to the first literary agent, and so after I do that I'll be working to edit up the parts they aren't seeing just yet to get it all up to standard. Then I'll either be going through the publishing process, or sending it around to other people. Both of which will be time consuming. I've also got a holiday coming up next month, during which time I won't be working. And finally, I've been in a depression phase of my creative cycle, so even if I wasn't busy with anything, my output on Shield High would be trash.

So, that's why there's been no work on it. That's why there won't be work on it for some time. Will there be more work on it when this is all done? Ideally. Depends on the outcome of the book. If it publishes and makes fuck all money, I'll likely be back to working on something else. If it publishes and makes a sizeable amount of money I might be in a position to set aside time for Shield High. Proper news will just have to wait.

Sorry for not getting around to this sooner.

Pudding Earl

MOAR EXCUSES!

So, I ended up falling sick. Not like, cripplingly sick or anything, but certainly looking at code and deciding "No, watching all of Jurassic Park is a better idea" sick. So for that reason I haven't gotten everything done as fast I'd like. It's happening, slowly but surely, and you should have nicer sized pictures on the usual release time next week. And then hopefully my nose will stop being dumb, and I can go back to working on this and my book at night instead of watching movies forever.

I am become Jessica, it seems.

Pudding Earl

Easter Happened

So I'm giving myself another day or two to get this all sorted out and make sure I do it right. Sorry for more delays, I promise you I'm not abandoning you again I'm just a bit busy these weeks I'll be back on top of things soon.

Pudding Earl

Update on the lack of an update

It feels like I'm making a habit of this, but this week I have a legit excuse. I went to see family, as I sometimes do, and as such have not had the time nor motivation to look at the interface and tweak numbers over and over and over. So yeah, no update this week. On the plus side, you don't get subjected to the pure horror that was the April Fool's update I had in mind. Count yourselves lucky.

Update next week fo sho.

Pudding Earl

Shield High 0.632 released.

Yes, it's now here! A little less content than I wanted but...I didn't want to rush out feats in the last two days, and prior to that I'd been playing with all dat customization. So, what IS new? Well, fonts being changed is a thing now. It isn't finished, I started playing with it. I think it looks stupid right now. I'm going to add more options in the next update, or the one after, regarding font sizes and fix them up. There was two things I wanted to do and so I did half of them. The second big thing is the customization. Stats have been dropped from 12s to 8s, which gives you a -1 in combat. You also have 24 points to spend on stat upgrades. That can get you to the vanilla all 12s, or let you specialize. I suggest making sure Int is 10 at least. Seriously.

ALSO, experience and levelling up. That's a thing too! Coming next week or week after depending on if I fix up text: Feats! Feats will give bonuses to certain actions. So you might get a +2 while your opponent is on the ground, or something.

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/eeebw6k7ktbeini/Shield_High_JS_0.632.zip

I hope you all enjoy, sorry for no release last week!

Pudding Earl

No update this week!

I spent a lot of time thinking on how to go about the next update, and in doing so I didn't actually write much of it. I'm now at the stage of starting to code it, but the content that will be added is so tiny it doesn't feel worth throwing up this week. As such, no update this week so I have a bit more time to make sure it all works out. It'll be bringing some changes to combat, and possibly also the AI iuno. The AI currently is trash. It needs to be made smarter.

Anyway, yeah, just keeping you posted so I don't go and do that thing I do again.

Pudding Earl~

Shield High 0.631

It doesn't work on 800x600! Possibly some other resolutions! But that's okay because all I did this week was play around with some interface stuff and fix up the saving glitch. I also had a look at the Andriana fight situation, and claims that it didn't work with making bets. It...did work. You just have to hit confirm a grand total of four times. I am going to look at fixing this up a little. Primarily in terms of re-arranging it, so you pick what you want first, and can then offer things. Also going to set it up so if you, as the player, pick to offer all your slaves, you may throw yourself into the offer, so it's possible to win Andriana. That or I will remove Andriana from the list of options. We'll see. I'll look at fixing up the other glitch this week, in between doing more interface stuff.

So, what DID I do with the interface, I bet you're wondering. What marvels did the Pudding Earl add? Well, I added an options screen. Which...isn't huge, until you realize the implications of it. It's got 4 buttons you can click right now, Save, Load, Logs, Stats. What does Stats do? I hear you ask. Well, right now all it does is show you your 6 combat stats. But what it will do soon, is allow you to level up. Right after I do some combat tweaking. Well, before that, but then after it. But yes, I'm planning to finally add in the ability to customize your Jessica a bit. Other buttons that are written into the game but not yet turned on(there's a glitch to see em so I may as well just tell you) are Characters, which will give you a list of characters in the game, and let you look up some stuff about 'em, a map button, which I may just remove because I hate everyone who plays my game (I kid, I kid, I just hate making maps we'll see), and finally a button I believe is still labelled "Wardrobe" but I want to change to "Inventory". This one will tie in with the shops, to let you buy a whole bunch of new options for Jessica's underwear, and probably also things like cat ears or something. Iuno, I'll decide down the track.

Download link here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/17dab1j1t89sx7q/Shield_High_JS_0.631.zip

Oh yeah, if you're wondering why it doesn't work on 800x600 it's because text collides. I'm gonna look into a smaller font size for next week. I almost did it this week but I had two days and I didn't want to fuck about with ALL THE CODE that would need changing for a smaller font size. It's a shockingly large amount. Mostly in text-wrap services.

Anyway, take all this stuff with a grain of salt etc because I am the Peter Molyneux of indie porn games so I could be full of shit. Who knows? I clearly don't. Also I'm now taking this as fact until someone tells me otherwise.

Enjoy

Pudding Earl

Shield High 0.6301.

It doesn't deserve a full fourth number honestly. It's just some dialogue for Catriona. That's all I did this week. But it felt good to do it, let me tell you. I'd have done more but I'm brushing up the first chapter of my book to send to a publisher so, y'know, that took priority some nights. Not tonight. Tonight is Skyrim after I finish this post.

Anyway, I didn't quite right all the dialogue I wanted, one entry isn't finished because I was tired and couldn't think good. There's also two sex scenes instead of one because I couldn't decide who should fuck who so I let you do it instead. Be warned though, it currently breaks, so uh, yeah. I'll fix that next week. Next week will be the week of bug fixing and feature adding while I write up some Stacy fight stuff. Hopefully Andriana will be playing nice by then, and you'll have a proper options screen. Very important for some features I have in mind. Which I won't talk about too much lest I turn into the Peter Molyneux of indie porn games. Which I probably already have.

Anyway, download here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/b2db9g9mcnbl4ik/Shield_High_0.6301.7z

Enjoy!

Pudding Earl

I'd update today but I did it on friday

The title basically says it all. I want to get back on a schedule of posting updates tuesday night-ish, however since I updated half a week ago I, obviously, will not be updating this week. Also I feel sick. That does help in the making sure I don't work on things category. That having been said, I've got a portion of the Catriona dialogue sorted. I will likely take a day to toy with the code as well and see if I can fix a bug or two, and then call it a week on that. Baby steps and all that. Also, writing lots of content when most content is small snippets is super hard. Another reason it's not getting done quickly.

Update next week,

Pudding Earl

The realism post

So, as you all know like, a month ago I said I'd be ready in a week or two. And I wasn't ready in that week or two, obviously. I have a bunch of excuses but that's what they are really. Excuses. I was distracted writing my book(which I've now finished), my ex showed up(for a whole day), I'm developing a late night social life(which I could still balance with writing Shield High) etc. The point is there's a lot of reasons it doesn't get done, but those aren't good reasons and I should probably front up to that. So, I'm being realistic here. A lot of my passion for Shield High just...isn't there anymore. I don't get excited to write about it like I used to, and programming it is more a chore than ever. Which is why I'm saying it's entirely possible I will do the thing I never wanted to do and abandon the game before it's finished.

All that having been said, I'm not abandoning the game today. I am, in fact, releasing 0.63 which has forbidden rooms, some of which work. I don't know why it lists ones that aren't forbidden and I can't be bothered to fix it. The number in the top left corner will indicate if you're in one or not. Also adding in a thing that makes the girls go to class. I will be trying to spend every night for the next week on Shield High. What will I be doing? Whatever the fuck takes my fancy right now, writing dialogue for characters probably. I know it's a pretty shitty thing to do but the first priority for this project is getting my heart back in it and to do that I need to fall in love again. And Catriona is pretty. I wanna do Catriona stuff.

Anyway, link is here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/0fz2ladfbzjundo/Shield_High_JS_0.63.zip

I know it's not enough to justify the wait and those of you who have kept posting comments and stuff, I really appreciate it. I do see them even if I don't respond most of the time. Mostly out of guilt, since I'm being realistic. I hate coming back to tell you guys that all I've done is fuck up. Which should hopefully motivate me to not fuck up iuno. Don't get your hopes up. Do pester me with polite e-mails. By polite I mean...honestly anything other than asking for an update schedule. Make some girls in Kisekae for me to want to steal. Write a fan fiction or something iuno. Hell, just post me something I wrote for that one I probably won't notice at this stage. I'm rambling at this point so I'm going to stop.

Sorry and enjoy,

Pudding Earl

P.S. Not dead.

INFORMATION AND STUFF YO

Wow, I haven't posted in like two months. I'm seriously kind of sorry about that. Not super sorry but a bit. Anyway, long story short, with Christmas and all things got busy, and I had no idea how to solve the problems I'm encountering, so I keep putting off looking at them however I am going to *try* to get back to it. I'm sure once I get the two things I want to get working, y'know, working, that I will be in a position to pick up the pace and be back on top of things.

Release...eventually? I'm gonna try and have it by the end of the month no promises though.

Pudding Earl