{"id":4831,"date":"2025-07-04T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:43:03","slug":"summer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/summer-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ah Summer! Once it used to be such a good season. Now… not so much, at least here in Italy \/ Europe. You’ve probably heard about the insane heatwave, which sadly now seems to have become the “norm” and not anymore an exceptional event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, thank God I chose to live in a small village near high mountains, and I have a cooling system inside my house (floor cooling) so it’s not too bad, in the end. I’m still rather worn out and I can’t work as fast as I’d like but… it’s Summer! (sadly lol).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First an announcement: as usual my games are on sale on Steam and itchio, so if you want to support me, here are the links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steam Summer Sale<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Itchio Sale<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thieves of Dingirra’s progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite the weather, I’ve managed to make good progress on the game. I’ve already posted on Kickstarter this custom outfits update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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but that’s not all: Labwa’s outfit was meant for the female MC, and since I screwed up myself (misunderstood the backer but they were pretty clear lol) I decided to add that outfit too. Will use it in Labwa’s personal quest probably \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, a backer paid for a custom character in the Traveler’s Delight one-night stand option and a new … “interesting” outfit for Halima. First, the character, a dark elf called Shalheira. There’ll be her sprite, not a CG since that would have been too expensive (and time consuming, there’s already a lot of art in this game to finish). But I managed to add a nice backstory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this is Halima’s outfit… kind of borderline for my requests of “something they could wear in public” \ud83d\ude00 but fear not, I’ll find a way to make her wear that in the story that makes some sense lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last but not least, I also added two custom landmarks and NPCs from backers. They both pledged for both rewards, so I decided not only to add them in the game, but each one will have a backstory as well. It’s nothing particularly long but add some depth to the characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are Mr. Toes, and elf from Grandtree who runs a gemshop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Carissa Nevrine, who runs a sort of enchanted flower shop (really cool idea):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Had a lot of fun to write their backstories, and they have real in-game shops where you can buy stuff so they’re also involved with the gameplay with relative achievements if you play their whole backstory (will be revealed in 3 steps as you visit them from time to time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plans for beta and next Kickstarter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite all the progresses, this game is HUGE. Really big. Basically each story mission has a custom boss fight!! So they take more time to test and design. I wonder why I decided to do that lol, anyway I’m about halfway with that. Designing a single boss fight takes me a full day (finding the right sprite, deciding on a design, then a boss gimmick or skill or goal, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s really a big variety, from boss battles where you only need to kill the boss to win (but won’t be easy), to others where you need to kill enemies before X turns, or survive for X turns, or … did I mention that there’s a big variety?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also tweaking constantly the town management and guild part. For example lowered the NPC hiring and salary costs since they were too high later in the game. I also tweaked the big buildings (Library, Brothel, Temple and Hammam) so that you can do maintenance and reduce the upkeep or increase the income of each individual building:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All small details but that in the long run can make a big difference in the game’s economy. It’s the first time I attempt this kind of game and so far I must admit I’m having fun adding features and tweaking it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I definitely pushed the estimate for beta from end of July to end of August, since I am also missing several more CGs. By the way, this game will be tamer than my most recent ones because I don’t want it to go in adult only. The plan is to have a clean base game and then an optional adult DLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example in the base game, this Di’aab romance will show only this close-up, and not the full body since you could see… Dwyn’s butt lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, even if I’ll do some censorship for the base game, there will still be some very hot scenes in the final version with DLC… for example I had to cut the lower part of this Yasemin CG because it’s still too hot to post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So fear not… there’ll be this kind of content in the full game if you’re into that \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s all for now, I hope you’re having a good Summer (and maybe that’s not too hot where you live)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah Summer! Once it used to be such a good season. Now… not so much, at least here in Italy \/ Europe. You’ve probably heard about the insane heatwave, which sadly now seems to have become the “norm” and not anymore an exceptional event. Anyway, thank God I chose to live in a small village […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}