Hello everyone, September has been a super busy month for us. Today I was about to talk about the implementation of the message system, side characters on the hot springs resort, and the progress we have made in the past half month but it seems they are too much to be included in one update so I will leave the side characters to the weekend.
Message System.
The framework of the message system is done. The rest will be setting up proper triggers and filling in those prepared contents. We have written around 30+ conversations for Chiho and 10-20 conversations with Shota so far, covering from the beginning to Chiho’s home. However, we wrote these at a relatively early stage so some of the later game scenes might have not been covered. We might write some more for those ones if we have time later.
As shown above, there would be daily conversations(it means you can send these message to them any time) and event conversations(special ones that need to be triggered). Daily conversations are relatively boring and repetitive and event conversations are more what we are designing for this game.
To Chiho: Once enter the conversation, you can send messages to Chiho and wait for her reply. Sometimes if she is not too happy with you then there might be no reply or a relatively slow reply. The more corrupted Chiho is the more sex-related contents will be talking about. You could even ask her for audios for masturbating or pictures of her body if certain corruption is up to.
To Shota: You can send implicit messages describing the scenes that you have sex with his wife! Not only texts, but also some partial images or images with mosaic of which you take during having sex with Chiho. Successful attempt will greatly raise up Shota’s cuckold level. Hmm, but if you cause too much suspicion from him then there is a chance that you might be caught.
-Progress Update:
Before everything: From the current progress it is a bit hard to tell if we can release at the end of October. I am trying my best, but I am hoping to deliver a game that is up to my expectation. We are trying best to catch the due date but anyway the latest wont be later than early-mid November(I am not very sure how long Dlsite takes for reviewing but I will try to submit one in mid October). More information about the release date will be disclosed in early October.
1.3 more decent pixel art animations have been drawn. Hot spring hotel pixel animiations: 6/9.
2. 3 more live2d added. 6/9
3. Review and edit the scripts for the hot spring hotel stories again and add in some more contexts. Currently Maria is working on the recording and will due before October.
4.Recording for Lilith is WIP. We will have a voice demo for Lilith very soon. (Only covering the sex-related scenes.)
4.5 Some more side-characters in the hot spring hotel has been drawn. (Because it does not make sense there are only 3 people in the whole hotel.)
5.New drawing for main characters in kimino.
6. Programming for Chiho’s home in progress. A lot of mental energy and effort are spent on decision-making and debugging so this has been delayed a little bit. Will get it done in this week.
-. Koikatsu.
During my break, I have requested a Koikatsu character card for Chiho in Pixiv. The model-maker, JMC, has provided me the character card and some extra scene previews. I would like to share some of them with you. I am happy to share the character card data after we release.
Chinese:(Thank Chan for his translation).
1.大家好，经过讨论，我们很遗憾地宣布，九月份将是内测的最后一个月，这是因为…我们要准备在DLsite上发售了！我们在上周已经通过了DLsite的预告申请，计划发售时间是十月下旬。 https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/announce/=/product_id/RJ384983.html
无论最终是否选择购买，如果条件允许的话我们都希望大家可以帮忙转发一下,因为目前的收藏数量实在是太惨淡了(头疼)…我们希望Ntraholic能被更多的观众所了解和接受。为了给大家更多的动力，我们决定，如果收藏数量超过10000的话我们将在故事结尾额外增加一段后日谈（增加2-3张CG）。
2.关于之前的投票结果已经统计出来了，一共有500份左右投票，其中故事与小游戏的比例是9：1，看起来主线故事获得了压倒性的胜利，因此后面我们会尽可能不增加复杂的小游戏，把主要的功夫放在推进故事上。
English:
1.Good day, we have a sad news for everyone. September will be the last month for alpha. The reason for this is... we are actually planning to release in DLsite in late October!
This is the link to our preview page in DListe. https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/announce/=/product_id/RJ384983.html
No matter whether you will eventually purchase this game on DLsite or not, we hope you can help us to retweet. The favoriate number so far has been a bit frustrating...(sigh). We hope Ntraholic can be known by a broader field of audience. To give more incentives for our followers, we have decided that, if the "favourite" in DLsite exceeds 10000 we will add in some "after stories" in this game, coming with 2-3 extra CGs.
2.Regarding the voting on Mini-game VS Storyline, we have collected 500ish response. The ratio of Storyline & Mini-game is 9:1, which clearly shows that most players prefer main stories. Therefore, we will try avoiding unneccessary complex mini-games in the future and focus on the main stories.
3.Update of Progress over the last half month.
Summary：Chiho's home progress->50%，hot spring hotel->25%
-.We have added one more CG for the exhibitionism.
-.6 CGs in hot spring hotel+ 3 CGs with Lilith are added(except for some minor changes). Corresponding Live2ds have been postponed and they will mostly finish before end of September. (A example of Lilith Live2d in the followers section)
-.Background of the hot spring hotel are done!(I really like the animation of the Shishi-odoshi !)
-.12 animations in Chiho's home are added, including some special ones:)（Hot spring hotel animations exlcusive becasue they are done in another way.）
-.We have received some complains on the pixel animation so we change a way to draw them in the hot spring hotel.(There will be more frames than before).
-.Programming: the neglecting is basically done. We are thinking about some interesting triggers here(which wont make players frustrated). Besides, we are planning to add in a few more very short dramas here.
Besides, message and incall during sex are work in progress(I am sorry that the messages have been delayed for soooooo long qwq)
