I'm ludicrously busy at the moment and unfortunately there's unlikely to be much time for working on trap quest for the rest of March and most of April. I hope to soon release another bugfix version for the current release I've made but I'm afraid you may have to wait a while for a release with much new content. Sorry guys!
I'd also like to point out that if you donate and ask a question but don't leave contact details in the accompanying message or email me separately I have no way of contacting you!
EDIT: I have been trying as much as possible to not give out details of my personal life but you guys and gals deserve an explanation. Over the last summer when I started asking for donations, that was because I needed to fund my final year of university (Computer Science) and was going to have to find full time work otherwise and have little time for coding. In the end I was able to get by and save some with part time work which gave me more time to work on the game.
In my final year, I've been busy but have still been finding time to work on the game. Also the continued donations (generally small but they add up, thanks guys!) have prevented me from having to work part time in order to pay the bills during my studies. There was a drop in productivity for a few weeks around my January exams, but hopefully you'll be pleased to hear they went well. I now have a month to complete my dissertation which counts towards over 20% of my overall qualification and then a few weeks for final exams, then I'll be done with academia forever. Assuming everything doesn't go tits up, I've got excellent grades from one of the top universities in the UK, and will in all likelihood walk into a comfy graduate role in the technology industry within a few months, and meanwhile will be living with family.
So yes there are not going to be many updates for a little while now while I secure my future, but after that it's unlikely that I'll ever have "busy periods" quite like this, and also it's highly unlikely that I'll be relying on your donations to live!
Love from Aika
What is the donation for, exactly? What his this helping you to do? I appreciate your work very much, and I love your game, but it's sorta weird to put that out there if you don't have the time to spend on it. I'd hope donations would alleviate the stress on time you have.
ReplyDeleteI believe that it was to do with someone who already did that, rather than asking for donations.
DeleteMaybe it's time to open source this project? Two months is a long time, and we all have to let our babies grow up at some point. Think about what trap quest could grow into if you let the community build on top of your amazing foundation! And thanks for all you've done so far; amazing experience!
ReplyDeleteThe most major problem with this is that the code is not modular enough. It would be impossible for two people to work on a similar area without breaking each other's code, never mind tens of people. I could spend time modifying the code and make it more modular and then this might be feasible, but I really think it would take months to do that and then fix all the bugs I accidentally caused whilst doing it.
DeleteWhat you have accomplished is pretty remarkable though, and has fueled my own dreams of the text adventure epics I always wanted to make as a kid. Back in the Days of the 1990's and Qbasic some very mean text adventures were created from scratch! With a master program, I am suddenly motivated again to look into creating some interactive fiction of my own malicious devising. If you would trust me, I would love to take a look at your source and see if I can figure it all out. I am really interested in the basics of what you've achieved: maps, pictures on the side, etc. Any works created would be completely original, and you would be credited with development regardless. If you can help me with your source, and/or point me to your favorite learning reference for learning to program these, you can contact me at americanpegasus at yahoo dot com. Thanks for your time!
DeleteSTILL think out-sourcing these mini-projects like modular code structures would be a worthwhile venture if you happen to find a coder willing to make it and bugtest it while you're too busy with work or perhaps event writing to do any major work on the game. Wildcard being the presence of a magical coder willing to do free work.
Delete"Two months" is really not that long of a time. Physiologically, time appears to move slower the younger you are and faster the older you are (you will DEFINITELY realize this about your mid-late-20s). This is Aika's project. Let it be a repository for his creativity.
DeleteYeah... don't botch your grade for us cause the better your grade the better the position you have for a job and wage.
ReplyDeleteSo what you're saying is that my faps come second to your entire life?
ReplyDeleteWell that's just selfish.
+1
DeleteI really can't believe the ARROGANCE and GALL of Aika to put his meager dreams ahead of my splooge. News flash: this cock is not going to wank itself!
^LIKE
DeleteCan you update the donation requests list, please?
ReplyDelete>rest on bed
ReplyDeleteYou get onto the bed to have a rest. You instantly feel fully healed! Magic! But you do feel a bit more bimbo-like...
You are now standing.
You look at your cursed plain diaper (cleverly stolen - please report bug) and you feel even more nervous about who might be watching you in this awkward situation.
Will you at least give us a sneak peek of the tattoo machine placing it at the hotel entrance before opening the whole level in a future update?
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the hard work Aika!
ReplyDeleteThis game is awesome and will be much more once finished (even though the story can be written to never end??)
Good luck with life and hope it all works for th ebest :D
I do also like the "open-source" idea, but I really dont mind waiting for you to add a little at a time.
I wish I had the money to request baby thoughts while wearing a diaper. (i.e turning "Uh-oh, I had a little accident!" to "Uh-oh, I ha' a wittle accdent!")
ReplyDeleteNot trying to bash your suggestion, but I really like it when I don't have to read through text 3 times to figure out what it's supposed to mean.
DeleteThis is probably because I don't have English as my first language. A lot of people (on the internet) know English mostly by writing. It's kind of hard to guess how a baby sounds when trying to speak a foreign language.
Good point. Didn't think that through enough.
Deletei also encountered the cursed diaper stolen bug. basically the cursed nightie adds a diaper and it registers as being cleverly stolen. using gargoyle on windows 7
ReplyDeleteIt's not always "cleverly stolen" the diaper that warps on the player is taken from the shop is all.
Deletehmm. interesting thought, im gonna go check the shop and then wear the cursed nighty and see if that is the case. its not that i dont believe you, i just wanna see it myself.
DeleteAnother interesting bug: female, wearing a cursed chastity belt, but stuck on a dildo pole - a guard fucked my vagina.
ReplyDeleteThats one stuffed pussy.
DeletePain and pleasure. Yep, you are a masochist.
DeleteBest of luck with the final semester/year. Looking forward to the updates once you've got the time. Are you planning on posting updates every couple of weeks or even once a month to let us know how you're going?
ReplyDeleteThis may be a selfish request, but I was wondering if the scrunchies could be found in chests/crates/sacks. I have no idea how to get to the forest area and I always end up being raped by the Minotaur.
ReplyDeleteGet to forest by finding the stairs. Avoid Minotaur by not pulling lever.
DeleteI don't think they're asking 'how' so much as 'can this happen?'. Scrunchies, tiara, cow ears and maid headdress are all curse-spawn only and probably for good reason. If you could find/buy them you'd just pick the powerful costumes to use; buy/find the tiara to be the princess and have an army of guards, or the cheerleader to shrink breasts and avoid soreness from guards.
DeleteOne combo I've yet to try is full cow-girl with blessed latex dress and corset. Between those two you'd get a massive boost to strength (with sufficient milk) and dexterity/heel skill.
No it was a how. I can never manage to get outside. And truth be told, I don't even know the way to get the scrunchies to spawn.
DeleteHead to the stairs and type "up"
Deletemannequins give a scrunchy but in addition to needing long hair and provably a bit of make-up, you'll provably be farming for it awhile.
"I don't think they're asking 'how' so much as 'can this happen?'. Scrunchies, tiara, cow ears and maid headdress are all curse-spawn only and probably for good reason. If you could find/buy them you'd just pick the powerful costumes to use; buy/find the tiara to be the princess and have an army of guards, or the cheerleader to shrink breasts and avoid soreness from guards.
DeleteOne combo I've yet to try is full cow-girl with blessed latex dress and corset. Between those two you'd get a massive boost to strength (with sufficient milk) and dexterity/heel skill."
Thank you for the combo Idea's. I have yet to try some of this.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.4chan.org/flash?file=dsfargeg.swf&title=dsfargeg
also its the flash archive so don't worry about it 404'ing
anyway cuddling enemys when?
actual fat when?
When will the debug be back?
ReplyDeleteIt never dissappeared iirc? Aika plans to remove debug features like "undo" once R6 is stable enough, but I don't think it was removed already.
DeleteIf you're talking about stuff like "showme", yes, that's already gone in the latest releases, I think.
Now that Flexible Survival has gone the way it has with the "Pay for Release" scheme, and is deleting any negative comments, you and COC are really the only good games out there working.
ReplyDeleteI hope things are going well, and you can continue quality work here when you have some free time.
this, take a goddamn moment to stop wanking and praise your based coder aika for giving us free vidya and not demanding 300 grand in kick starter money or putting up a paywall for an unfinished game
Deletetruely in these dark times of vidya development when we look to a fetish game developer and see them as a shining example we know how fucked we are
I'd like to say that this post is being a bit dramatic, but I have to agree. Used to be everything had paid DLC once the game was released, now we're paying for games before they're even finished.
Delete"Used to be" no DLC at all. You bought a game at the store, and you had the entire experience fully paid for at your fingertips.
DeleteYes, but the era of 'expansion packs' for games as opposed to DLC drew to an end about 15 years ago (unless you're Blizzard). I don't even really mind DLC when it's done right (e.g. Mass Effect or Bioshock DLC non-arena missions, L4D2 campaigns which also added in the L4D1 campaigns, etc.), I object to DLC when it's paying $5-10 for a single new character or cosmetic changes, or when you can buy DLC to get an advantage over other plays in a multiplayer game.
DeleteThe only paid early-access/beta I did not object to was Minecraft, and I think that was one of the first to actually do it. Sadly, I think Minecraft's commercial success in beta is responsible for the early-access problem we have now.