Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.41.0 (Patreon)

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https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

Aaaand that marks the end of lewd month! With this update we are finally in a good spot in all the Roya content, only missing one more scene in the Underground and the Charlotte content. Other remaining lewd content is all in the Earth corruption scenes.

What this means exactly, let's take a look in the short summary in numbers for this month! We have 2 new H-CGs, 2 new mental changes, 10 new lewd scene (2 of them Corruption Scenes), 3 Corruption scenes, 1 new quest, 1 new area, and a bunch of new items and skills!

As usual, in the following I will give an overview over these new changes. For more detailed updates, check out the devlog posts.

Let's start with the lewd content! Lord Trademond, the final piece of the maid storyline was added this month. Get the last item you need from him in order to enter Richard's Domain without having to use the collar --- for a hefty price of course! Or... work as a maid and see the fruits of Aura's maid trainings with two major scene variations between high and low obedience.

The other Roya area with lewd content is the Brothel which had its last customers added in this update. Meet an old business partner on Arwin who takes full advantage of finding the killer of his business source in a brothel, and re-meet Francois who has two majorly different reactions to finding Aura in the brothel.

And then it's back into the real world. There we have only a few new corruption scenes this week where we revisit the progress of Rose's corruption as well as the cumulation event of Aura becoming less and less capable of dealing with her lust without going to Richard.

Finally, we also have a bunch of new H-CGs. The Maid Academy is now fully completed with the Paulina Training scenes having recieved their CG set and on Earth, the Cheerleading Game 3 scene has now been illustrated. Oh right, and the Masturbating At Home scene also received some minor variations.

Then, let's stick a bit around in Roya and look at the non-lewd content we have there. There are two major contributions to report on. For one, our assistant developer Trihan has implemented a new Intermediate Adenturer Quest Poison Swamps with the full set of a new dungeon, a boss monster with custom mechanics, a Vice choice, and useful rewards, especially if you listen to Desmond's proposal...

The second major addition, are a bunch of new skills and items. Rank III Martials and Spells, new items at the workshop, companions learning and being able to teach Rank II skills and so on. I won't be giving a detailed list here and instead just reference the changelog or devlog posts.

What I have been working on this week, is something I usually don't report on too much in the update posts. About half a year ago, we started to generalize, refactor, and extract the base functionaliy of SKA into a separate project in order to make it easier to start new projects in the future that share or use a set of the SKA features. E.g. menu overhaul, bestiary, NG+, etc.

The result of this week's work (which was supposed to only be a couple days and then the rest vacation time, but I needed pretty much the entire week to finish it... :'D) is the release of the 1.0.0 version of the AuraMZ Template Game, containing a bunch of the features developed for SKA and setup in a template project.

https://aura-dev.itch.io/auramz

It's free to use for non-commercial and commercial projects, only the UI assets requiring to buy a license for commercial purposes. Not very relevant for the players here but hopefully interesting to other developers. I hope the refactorings didn't break anything... :'D

Aaaand that's it for the update! Yesterday I discussed the next H-CG with our artist Emubi, which will be the Lord Trademond H-CG so we can completely close out this event line next month. Next month, I will be transitioning into the development of Chapter 3-B which means our focus will return next month at the Earth Corruption scenes and stay there until we reach the Corruption Ending!

Changelog 0.41.0 (29.03.2024)

• Added Paulina Training 1-4 H-CGs

• Added Cheerleading Game 3 H-CGs

• Added Aura Masturbating At Home 8 H-CGs

• Added mental change Corrupt Temperance Orb 2

• Added mental change Insert Hedonism Orb 2

• Added lewd scene Lord Trademond 1 (Low Obedience)

• Added lewd scene Lord Trademond 1 (High Obedience)

• Added lewd scene Lord Trademond 2 (Low Obedience)

• Added lewd scene Lord Trademond 2 (High Obedience)

• Added lewd scene Full Service Job 3

• Added lewd scene Full Service Job 4

• Added lewd scene Full Service Job 5

• Added lewd scene Full Service Job 6

• Added lewd scene Aura Masturbating At Home 8

• Added lewd scene Rose Infiltrating Cheerleaders 5

• Added scene Rose Seduced By Richard 10

• Added quest "Poison Swamp"

• Added area "Poison Swamp"

• Added vice choice Poison Swamp Alchemist apprentice

• Added Lord Trademond maps

• Added Lord Trademond Work Contract

• Added item "Humilitas Rune"

• Added item "Poison Coating+"

• Added item "Demonbane Coating"

• Added item "Anti-Dark Coating"

• Added boss "Mutated Serpent"

• Added passive Rising Heat III

• Added skills Assassinate II/III and teacher for I/II/III at Nephlune Underground Pub

• Added skill Coating Proficiency II to Desmond at level 8 and ability to teach it at 9

• Added skill Rampage III and option to learn it from Francis

• Added skill Pierce II to Paul and give option to learn it

• Added skill Pierce III and option to learn it from Lorraine after freeing or enslaving her

• Added skill Protect II to John and add option to learn it

• Added missing level 13 skills to Slime morphs

• Implemented Auto-Corrupt for Indecency Hate 1

• Implemented Auto-Corrupts for Selflessness and Temperance Value Orbs

• Added curriculum poster in Magic Academy base floor

• Added dialogue to mental world relationship dolls for other value thresholds

• Implemented Magic Academy option to sell knowledge on Lightning Sword and Rock Armor

• Implemented Magic Mastery Club and rank III versions of Fire, Storm, Splash and Thunderbolt

• Refactored compendium code

• Minor refactoring on battle logic into reusable plugins

• Minor reusability refactorings for Skill Selection, Compendium and Character Make plugins

• Refactored various plugins to be more general and reusable in AuraMZ

• Increased max mental changes to 146

• Increased max killed bosses to 113

Balancing

• Added turn-dependent ATK requirement to breaking bondage fibers

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos

• Fixed undefined references in plugin parameters

• Fixed black screen issue with backlog

• Fixed onEraseState tags executing if a battler is resistant to the state

• Fixed Lightning Sword increasing physical damage taken instead of physical damage dealt

• Fixed Infiltrating Cheerleaders not properly checking adult content setting

• Fixed redundant day variable setting from menu plugin

• Fixed incorrect Paulina dialogue

• Fixed wrong variable being tripled in influential trademond lewd check

• Fixed maid score window remaining when returning to Trademond with Paulina after ending patronage

• Fixed lightning-earth slime morph trade condition failing if slime is already in thunder form

• Fixed weakness hate drain text mismatch on output circle

• Fixed Womb of Lust not being reset from Earth scenes

• Fixed vice increases in some earth scenes being doubled and increasing when viewing in recollection room

• Fixed Poisoned Elixirs being marked as failed when handing in Something is Fishy on pure path

• Fixed books with stat requirements crashing the game when loading a save at the read choice point

• Fixed Official Master countdown not going down and fine not checking for it

Stats

• Estimated play time: 32-44h

• Word Count: 704k

• Lewd Scenes: 110

• Real World Scenes: 260

• CGs: 43 (+1 Bonus CG)