Just a quick update as I've mostly been away this Fri and Sat (although I will have most of Sunday to catch up).
This week I finished all the dialogue for The Portly Gentleman (aka NPC Money), implemented it and tested it. The NPCs have been slightly awkward to implement because of my...
2019-11-30 23:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostLast week I got the first big demo of "House of Hellish Harlots" out. I hope you've been enjoying playing that.
After that I had a brief pause to get my head back together and also do mundane necessities such as file my taxes for the year. Now I'm back working on the next chunk of the...
2019-11-22 20:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostStill fighting winter lurgy, but I've managed to get a new demo of "House of Hellish Harlots" ready.
The first release demonstrated a skeleton of the main game loop as proof-of-concept. The second added the first harlot to give an indication of what the scenarios would be like.
Slower progress than I would have liked this week. A few winter bugs floating around, so I've been under the weather.
The spider girl harlot, who I can now reveal is called Arana Solfugis, has been implemented and tested. She's in and a lot of you will likely meet your ends in ...
End of the week, also the start of a new month. It's time for another update.
Most of this week was spent working on The Elegant Woman. She's the "Gossip" NPC. Her role is to impart hints and information on all the harlots (for a price). While getting sexily Bad Ende...
2019-11-01 21:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn keeping with my desire to keep to vaguely regular updates, here's where I am at the moment. As I said last time, I want to release harlot scenarios in clumps rather than one-at-a-time to avoid them getting solved too quickly and ending up as "dead weight" in later versions.
As a re...
2019-10-26 16:20:44 +0000 UTC View PostOddly, this is one aspect of the game I haven't nailed down yet.
Player stats in HoHH work differently than in the previous CYOA scenarios I've posted. They can influence a harlot encounter, but the outcomes aren't stated directly to a player. Because there will be so many hidde...
2019-10-23 16:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostNo demo release this week. Normally I don't like doing updates without releases, but given my unfortunate habit of sometimes fading out of existence, I thought I'd try to put out more regular posts to keep people up to date of where I'm at, especially as I'm still fired up on this. (I...
2019-10-18 13:49:10 +0000 UTC View PostWork on "House of Hellish Harlots" is still going quite well. Last time I showed off a rough prototype of the main game loop.
Now it's time to introduce the first harlot - Sapoonismenos Nerei.
I created and added her scenario. This should give you a better idea of where th...
2019-10-09 18:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Enthusiasm time" has been... quite productive.
I liked the idea I had for "House of Hellish Harlots", but wasn't sure if I could sling it together in Twine. It isn't just a typical branching story with the odd stats check, so I knew I needed to dig into objects, arrays, and various b...
2019-10-03 19:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs I said in a previous post, bit of a weird month. At the start I thought I was doing a standalone CYOA scenario (to include in future "House of Hellish Harlots"), then it turned into working on some half-finished short stories (resulting in the 1st draft of one being completed), and final...
2019-09-30 20:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostI mentioned it at the end of the last post, so here's a bit more on how the "House of Hellish Harlots" brainstorming is going.
The original idea has changed a few times. I plotted out the intro thinking it would be the start to a gamebook along similar lines to Fighting Fan...
2019-09-25 01:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I launch into more fiction analysis and (hopefully good) writing tips, I thought I'd let people know I also do updates on my blog and twitter. I'm sure most of you probably know this already, but I thought I'd throw this out just in case some of you didn't.
The blog: www.manyey...
2019-09-20 20:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostTime for another succubus dissection as I do the author's commentary thing for the last short story I put out – "The Good, The Bad, and the Monstrous Beauty". Although in this case, it wasn't exactly a "short" story, in that it clocked in at over 11K words! As always, there will be ...
2019-09-15 20:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we got there! Just before the end of the month.
Yep, still took a little longer than I'd like, but it's over freaking 11,000 words. I really should learn to rein my succubi in.
*glances over at succubi*
N-n-no. That's fine. You can have your fun.
Okay, yes, I got it wrong again. I thought I was nearly done with "The Good, the Bad, and the Monstrous Beauty," but then I ended up with another succubus that really liked to play with her food. I may have gotten carried away again.
I've just finished typing it up and it comes ...
2019-08-29 23:20:39 +0000 UTC View PostStill working on "The Good, the Bad, and the Monstrous Beauty". As with most things these days, hit a slight block near the end of the story. Only a temporary one, I'm far enough along with the story that I'll jump it over that last hurdle fairly soon. Rather than be an idiot an...
2019-08-19 14:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostNot the greatest month.
Sorry for looking like I might have gone AWOL. Stuff came up and it turned out trying to bash some old H-space monster girl bestiary short stories into better shape was harder than it looked. They're still not ready. I'll start throwing them out as...
Seems like summer has finally arrived to the UK, as in it's hot and the pollen count is so high I feel like I have a miniature slime-drooling alien stuffed up each nostril. The Glastonbury music festival was just last weekend and wasn't the traditional soggy mud bath. I wasn't there. ...
2019-07-01 17:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a bit of background and worldbuilding on the Pauxillum Constupros, the 'goblins' of the "The Banquet of the Queen of the Goblins". It's not the first time I've used them. They cropped up in the orgy scene in an earlier short story, "Trent the Traitor", as goblins with little po...
2019-06-23 11:16:49 +0000 UTC View PostTime for some background notes on "The Banquet of the Queen of the Goblins". I won't be going into quite as much detail this time! Obviously, there will be spoilers, so you might want to read the story first – it can be found a couple of posts back.
(I should probably figure o...
2019-06-09 11:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostEver have the feeling you've forgotten something…
Yup. I was about to do a behind-scenes piece for "The Banquet of the Queen of the Goblins", when I remembered I hadn't finished doing the one for the story before that. In my defence, I've been bunged up pretty badly for the pa...
2019-06-02 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAnd it's here.
Yup, a little (lot) later than planned. I should probably not write so many words on these things, but it is fun to get carried away.
This is the carnivorous plant girl story I started a while back. The monster girl was inspired by a monster girl in "Dominat...
2019-05-18 19:43:38 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, not going to lie. This ended up being a right royal pain to write up. When I offered up protagonist naming rights back in, ugh, that far, I had the first draft mostly done. Typing up the second draft is usually the straightforward part for me. And then, for this one,...
2019-05-14 16:31:41 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly, apologies for another lengthy period of quietness. I ran into a fairly severe productivity slump on the second draft of the carnivorous plant girl story and had to change things up for a while rather than plowing on at measly couple-of-hundred words a day (it is still being worked ...
2019-04-22 13:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostAnd part 2 of the author's commentary on my recent boobie monster girl story, "Joey Farrell Walks Into An Obvious Booby Trap." There will likely be spoilers, so make sure to read the story first.
First part was designing the monster. The second part is how to fit characters and ...
2019-03-11 14:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, it's that time again.
I have another short story on the way and it's time to throw out protagonist-naming privileges to patrons.
If you don't mind a bit of vore, and you like your man-eaters to be, well... actual man-eaters, put a name forward in the comments below (or just sen...
Here's part 1 of the director's (author's?) commentary for the boobie monster girl story, "Joey Farrell Walks Into An Obvious Booby Trap" I put out last month. If you haven't read it yet, do that first as this piece will likely contain spoilers for the story.
Like most of my stories, ...
2019-02-27 14:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostAnd that boobie monster girl short story I've been hinting at for a while is finally done. This is a temporary exclusive for Patreon. I won't be putting it on Literotica, but it will appear in my next short story collection (which I'm still in the process of writing).
Right, after a chaotic (very) couple of months at chez Hydra, I have finally typed up that boob monster girl story. It's currently lying at 8,000 words. What I normally do at this point is leave the story on the side for around a week while I carry on working on other stuff. The...
2019-01-20 18:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post