I have committed a terrible sin. In developing Shield High I...consulted with a friend on how to make save files worked, and referred to some guides online. What would've been a two-to-three day job has turned into an hour job. I'd say if I'd known this sooner it would've made it into the current version, but that is a lie. The current version barely got finished on time due to a day of sickness right near the end.
Otherwise development has been a tad on the slow side, which is to be expected for the first week since a release. I tend to be a bit aimless for the first few days before finding my footing on what to make. What I'm making right now is a set of storylines for if you submit to Karen. Ideally, I want to make it highly re-playable, so much like being enslaved, it will pick a random storyline from the available set, and run that, instead of being a completely set in stone set of events. The dream is to make about half of Shield High function like that. No clue if I'll reach that lofty goal, but for the moment I'm working on having four stories work. In practice, expect something more akin to two, maybe three, since writing ideas for this is rough.
Anyway, that's all for my weekly update this week, thank you for all the feedback so far, it's been helpful!
Pudding Earl
Sunday 30 October 2016
Friday 21 October 2016
Shield High 0.68 is out!
Yup, that's right, I'm finally back with another release. For those of you hoping for new content there's...some good news and some bad news. It's just the first week, again. However, it's a completely newly written first week. Some old bits were copied because I simply couldn't improve on my old writing. (Which was, of course, perfection), but all the sex scenes are new.
You can download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/jbzxzld8jgj9xfa/Shield_High_JS_0.68.7z
A few things to note, 1. This only works on the challenge Karen route. Submitting to her doesn't even have a scene yet. It really should, but I spent a few days faffing about with a feature that didn't make it into this version. It'll be in the next version maybe. So long as you challenge her, the game will run smoothly forward.
2. Interface elements are, at times, a bit fucky. Dialogue buttons are positioned poorly in some cases, and combat bars don't work entirley right/aren't placed right. I'm gonna get to this, if I'd had another day I would've done it, but I felt disgusting last night, so I had to finish up writing tonight instead, and so the time that would've been spent fixing interface was spent realizing half my events didn't work and patching them up.
3. Combat balance is almost none. I actually want feedback on this, let me know if it's too frustrating, let me know what you think can be done to make it run smoother. I'm expecting to alter my numbers every update for the next five or six months until it settles into something that's fun.
And now some things about the future. First off, I intend to be releasing to a monthly schedule. So that means I will be putting out 0.681 in exactly a months time. However, that will only be out in a month's time to any patrons I pick up on my patreon. Which presently doesn't exist, but will tomorrow, and I'll edit in a link there. For everyone else, you'll have a one to two week delay before I kick things into gear.
[UPDATE: THE PATREON IS NOW UP. YOU CAN FIND IT HERE: https://www.patreon.com/PuddingGames]
And speaking of my Patreon, I wanted to make some quick points about that. I understand that trusting in me after all this time away is a massive ask. So if you have any doubts about my staying power this time around, I strongly encourage you to hold off on becoming a patron for a few months. I'll be posting here on a weekly basis to keep everyone updated with how things are going forward and what I'm working on, so you can hopefully see that things are indeed happening. That having been said, if you are one of those people who intends to start donating after a few months, please do leave a comment saying so. I'm far too easily demoralized, and so having a vague idea of how many people are holding off but do intend to sign up will help a lot.
Finally, and once again this is me asking for feedback, I need opinions on what I should focus on content-wise going forward. Should I rush out the main plot? Or should I try and build up the content around it? Would you like more character development and just generally hanging out with people? Or do you just want as much sex and fighting as possible. Let me know, and I'll see what I can do.
Anyway, sorry for the long-ass post and the longer-ass disappearance. I hope you all enjoy the limited amount of content I've added.
Pudding Earl.
You can download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/jbzxzld8jgj9xfa/Shield_High_JS_0.68.7z
A few things to note, 1. This only works on the challenge Karen route. Submitting to her doesn't even have a scene yet. It really should, but I spent a few days faffing about with a feature that didn't make it into this version. It'll be in the next version maybe. So long as you challenge her, the game will run smoothly forward.
2. Interface elements are, at times, a bit fucky. Dialogue buttons are positioned poorly in some cases, and combat bars don't work entirley right/aren't placed right. I'm gonna get to this, if I'd had another day I would've done it, but I felt disgusting last night, so I had to finish up writing tonight instead, and so the time that would've been spent fixing interface was spent realizing half my events didn't work and patching them up.
3. Combat balance is almost none. I actually want feedback on this, let me know if it's too frustrating, let me know what you think can be done to make it run smoother. I'm expecting to alter my numbers every update for the next five or six months until it settles into something that's fun.
And now some things about the future. First off, I intend to be releasing to a monthly schedule. So that means I will be putting out 0.681 in exactly a months time. However, that will only be out in a month's time to any patrons I pick up on my patreon. Which presently doesn't exist, but will tomorrow, and I'll edit in a link there. For everyone else, you'll have a one to two week delay before I kick things into gear.
[UPDATE: THE PATREON IS NOW UP. YOU CAN FIND IT HERE: https://www.patreon.com/PuddingGames]
And speaking of my Patreon, I wanted to make some quick points about that. I understand that trusting in me after all this time away is a massive ask. So if you have any doubts about my staying power this time around, I strongly encourage you to hold off on becoming a patron for a few months. I'll be posting here on a weekly basis to keep everyone updated with how things are going forward and what I'm working on, so you can hopefully see that things are indeed happening. That having been said, if you are one of those people who intends to start donating after a few months, please do leave a comment saying so. I'm far too easily demoralized, and so having a vague idea of how many people are holding off but do intend to sign up will help a lot.
Finally, and once again this is me asking for feedback, I need opinions on what I should focus on content-wise going forward. Should I rush out the main plot? Or should I try and build up the content around it? Would you like more character development and just generally hanging out with people? Or do you just want as much sex and fighting as possible. Let me know, and I'll see what I can do.
Anyway, sorry for the long-ass post and the longer-ass disappearance. I hope you all enjoy the limited amount of content I've added.
Pudding Earl.
Friday 7 October 2016
More Shield High news and a little more of that book stuff.
Hey everyone!
This month I have some much better news for you regarding Shield High. Which is I'm at the point of adding content for the first week. The combat works, but it needs some balance tweaking. I'm not going to bother with that just yet, but instead release it for everyone to try it out and give feedback. I'll probably make some huge changes with every update after that to get everyone's opinion on what works best, and then work from there.
So, how long until it's ready? I'd guess two weeks. That's a guess though, I provide no guarantees that it'll be ready then. And it'll be missing a few key features. Mostly saving and logs. Maybe not logs, I might find time to sort them out. But almost certainly saving. I need to spend some time really thinking that one over, and when it's just a week of content, it's not worth sorting out. And I kinda need to make some sizeable changes to check if saving will work out. I have some vague ideas for how saving will work, but they're just that, ideas. Also vague.
Anyway, on to that bit of book stuff I mentioned. Book 2 is coming out tomorrow, it's been published and is being reviewed right now. But in the meantime, Book 1 is free for the next 5 days. Once again, you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQ5W5G4
Look, look how free it is. Grab a copy, read it, leave me a glowing review so I might actually make some money off this thing. It's not going to stop me from working on Shield High, so don't worry about that.
I'll comment with the link to Book 2, just in case people want it.
More to come.
Pudding Earl
This month I have some much better news for you regarding Shield High. Which is I'm at the point of adding content for the first week. The combat works, but it needs some balance tweaking. I'm not going to bother with that just yet, but instead release it for everyone to try it out and give feedback. I'll probably make some huge changes with every update after that to get everyone's opinion on what works best, and then work from there.
So, how long until it's ready? I'd guess two weeks. That's a guess though, I provide no guarantees that it'll be ready then. And it'll be missing a few key features. Mostly saving and logs. Maybe not logs, I might find time to sort them out. But almost certainly saving. I need to spend some time really thinking that one over, and when it's just a week of content, it's not worth sorting out. And I kinda need to make some sizeable changes to check if saving will work out. I have some vague ideas for how saving will work, but they're just that, ideas. Also vague.
Anyway, on to that bit of book stuff I mentioned. Book 2 is coming out tomorrow, it's been published and is being reviewed right now. But in the meantime, Book 1 is free for the next 5 days. Once again, you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQ5W5G4
Look, look how free it is. Grab a copy, read it, leave me a glowing review so I might actually make some money off this thing. It's not going to stop me from working on Shield High, so don't worry about that.
I'll comment with the link to Book 2, just in case people want it.
More to come.
Pudding Earl
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