Harem c8m4 released Sep 6 2019

[ker]

Thanks, Ker! All my best girls at the table! Are Samantha and Cecilia on the wide screen on the wall? Or is that a painting? I vote for a live performance...

Looks like Samantha and Cecilia are having their own (private / public) celebration, I approve!

At any family celebration, isn't there always the odd cousin who brings his new girlfriend and you find them in the basement before dinner?

Cecilia's definitely an odd cousin

[theredfear]

Nope, you can't capture Eleanor (the white haired chick) in Celee. You can have a confrontation with her in the Castra if you see her in all 5 locations, but then she goes back to Corsix.

What five locations? And have I locked myself out of getting her now that I went on ahead to Corsix?

I kept a pre-corsix save as a backup just in case.

From the mechanical guide in /walkthrough
4m4 Eleanor - See her run in Eleen, Eowen, Lesser Corsix, Westlands Camp then Shenetore and you'll find her in your quarters in Castra Corson. Those are sequential.

And no, whether or not you confront her pre-Corsix won't change her availability later on. There's some flavor text in future interactions dependent on it, but she's a chapter 6-7 character most likely.

Something seems to be wrong in the sequence. Immediately after seeing her rooftop routine in Eowen I went immediately to Lesser Corsix and saw nothing. Entered every building and still nothing. I then went to Westlands Camp, thinking maybe I just didn't notice her back in lesser corsix and still nothing. Finally, Shenetore. And still nothing.

[theredfear]

Ignore my last post. I repeated the sequence again, just in case I was somehow missing something and while Corsix and Westlands still appeared blank, she did finally appear in Shenetore and then in my quarters as expected. Shame about not being able to capture her though.

[ker]

Ignore my last post. I repeated the sequence again, just in case I was somehow missing something and while Corsix and Westlands still appeared blank, she did finally appear in Shenetore and then in my quarters as expected. Shame about not being able to capture her though.

Anticipation can make the final victory that much sweeter!

[ker]

Harem c5m2 preliminary patch notes

We're nearly finished adding content to the next release and hopefully will start testing it in the next few days. With the holidays on us, it will probably be a bit slower than usual. I hope to release it before the 10th, but it might be closer to the 10th than usual. As usual, when c5m2 comes out to my patrons, I will update the public version to c5m1.

c5m2
-6 new slave Quests to gain votes in Corsix. Donna, Sarah, Cecilia, Phoebe, Cindy and Fenja now have their quests available.
-All quests will have a solution that doesn't involve your harem fucking other people. But if you enjoy it, every quest does
have a solution that involves your harem fucking other people!
-4 additional night events. Even under house arrest, 'Ralph' gets plenty of action!
-Nicole will be captured even if you declined on night 4
-Expanded Eleanor interactions to put a name to the face.
-~300 pages of new text in the game
-~350 new images in the game
-12 new in game scenes added, 2 bonus non-canon scenes added

Bug Fixes/Adjustments
-Adjusted Fenja and Sarah's tour stop. Sarah stops at the Sharpsword Inn, Fenja next door (east)

[ker]

The reboot of Harem is one year old today! I'm going to mark December 3rd as the official restart of of Harem as it's when this Patreon campaign started. Without it, I wouldn't be able to devote nearly as much time as I can to Harem. And also a thank you for every person who took the time to give me feedback either on the blog and forums! When you take the time to do that, it gives me a bump in motivation and it's definitely appreciated! The fact there's never enough of it makes me appreciate what I get even more!

Unfortunately I have to give you all an IOU on the anniversary gift, with it being crunch time and all. I've finished writing/imaging/coding everything but 50% of Terra's NC/Bonus scene and doing a lot of testing. Hopefully release will be closer to the 5th, not the 10th, for Patrons. As soon as that happens, I will upgrade the public version to 5m1.

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[ker]

We're entering the final rounds of testing, hopefully 5m2 will be out in a few days for you all to enjoy! And another teaser from Terra's bonus scene! When 5m2 comes out for my $5+ Patrons, I will update the public version to 5m1!



c5m2

-6 new slave Quests to gain votes in Corsix. Donna, Sarah, Cecilia, Phoebe, Cindy and Fenja now have their quests available.
-All quests will have a solution that doesn't involve your harem fucking other people. But if you enjoy it, every quest does have a solution that involves your harem fucking other people!
-4 additional night events. Even under house arrest, 'Ralph' gets plenty of action!
-Nicole will be captured even if you declined on night 4
-Expanded Eleanor interactions to put a name to the face.
-~300 pages of new text in the game
-316 new images in the game
-13 new in game scenes added, 2 bonus non-canon scenes added

Bug Fixes/Adjustments
-Adjusted Fenja and Sarah's tour stop. Sarah stops at the Sharpsword Inn, Fenja next door (east)
-Various map size fixes
-In Replay Scenes, pressing PgDn will end the current scene

[ker]

I just released Harem c5m2 to my $5+ Patrons, bringing us just up to the end of chapter 5. 6 more slaves get their quests and 4 more events happen while you're under house arrest. 'Ralph' sure gets plenty of action even when he can't leave the house! If you wish to play the newest content immediately, any pledge $5 or more will get you instant access to it!

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2583450

c5m2 content additions:
-6 new slave Quests to gain votes in Corsix. Donna, Sarah, Cecilia, Phoebe, Cindy and Fenja now have their quests available.
-All quests will have a solution that doesn't involve your harem fucking other people. But if you enjoy it, every quest does have a solution that involves your harem fucking other people!
-4 additional night events. Even under house arrest, 'Ralph' gets plenty of action!
-Nicole will be captured even if you declined on night 4
-Expanded Eleanor interactions to put a name to the face.
-~300 pages of new text in the game
-316 new images in the game
-13 new in game scenes added, 2 bonus non-canon scenes added

Bug Fixes/Adjustments
-Adjusted Fenja and Sarah's tour stop. Sarah stops at the Sharpsword Inn, Fenja next door (east)
-Various map size fixes
-In Replay Scenes, pressing PgDn will end the current scene


With the new version Harem available to my patrons, the public version also gets incremented to the version that they were playing. The questing gets serious as your slaves manipulate the high and mighty of Corsix to get you free. And you get moved into something more fitting than a jail cell.

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Harem c5m1 Content additions

-5 new slave quests to gain votes in Corsix! Angelica, Naitay, Joan, Rhea and Alena now have their quests available!
-All quests will have a solution that doesn't involve your harem fucking other people. But if you enjoy it, every quest does have a solution that involves your harem fucking other people!
-Additional night events, moving you into a more 'pleasant‘ abode then a stinking cell.
-One new slave available for capture!
-Two future slaves teased!
-279 pages of new text in the game!
-308 new images in the game!
-11 new scenes in game scenes added, 2 bonus non-canon scenes added!

Bug fixes/Adjustments
-Adjusted 300+ faces. Zoomed in to give better detail to faces. Panned down to give better detail of the breasts. Because.
-Donnie's sprite replaced
-Numerous early game tweaks/text corrections.
-Fiona did not leave your harem during the entrance to Corsix event
-Cycle text if you choose Terra or Dianna in Corsix. Fenja if you didn't save her brother in Celee.
-Hopefully resolved all issues with Terra's unique and Chapter 4 flame progression.

[ker]

I released 5m2 to my patrons roughly a week ago, and have yet to receive a serious bug report on it! That's a first for Harem, so a huge thank you to all my testers for their quality work. It also has freed me up to start developing 5m3 fully.

Goals for 5m3:
-Finish the last slave quests, Terra and Fiona. This will also include all the other interactions with Fiona for the rest of the slaves.
-Another encounter with the divines before the trial, with a few more questions answered as to the nature of your power.
-Finish the trial arc. This won't be automatically triggered, players will be able to choose to proceed to the trial or continue to do all the quests for their harem before proceeding.
-Finally capture Jessica and make her into your slave. For good.
-There will be an additional scene, the 'lucky' slave and location for the scene to be chosen by a Patreon poll!

Progress is solid. I have about 50 pages written and 80 images created so far for the new content! Also, the poll for the additional scene is extremely close! If you want to influence the development of Harem, any pledge over $2 gets you access to the poll.

And of course, teasers!

[Zeus Kabob]

This is still getting updates! Exciting!

I'll have to redown this game and play through it. With so much content it'll be quite a long run...

Thanks for the hard work, Ker!

[ker]

Making excellent progress on 5m3! Terra’s quest is all done, setting her up to be the focus on chapter 6’s plot and expose quite a bit more of what’s actually going on. Jessica’s bagged and tagged (finally). The updated trial is completely written and coded (Thank you Hiro for taking care of most of the trial).

T51b is making good progress on Fiona’s quest and I have to do a full intro tour of your temporary base and give a bit of face time to the last of the Corsix characters. The Patron poll is still too close to call, but I’ve plotted out all the likely scenarios already. And we’ll have 4 bonus scenes this month as all the commissioners have sent in their requests.

And then of course… I must get it all working.

If you haven’t downloaded the short Holiday special, please grab it at
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=7490

If you haven’t voted for the patron scene this month, you can find the polls here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/december-poll-cg-7389954
(requires a $2+ pledge to support the ongoing development of Harem)

Of course, a teaser before I go.

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[ker]

I hope you all had a great time during the holidays, I know I did. But we got a few days before New Years so the crew and I are back to work!

5m3 is still coming along very well. Have to finish up a few odds and ends, but we're mostly done. With the holidays hitting we're likely to be a few days past the 5th before we're ready to release, but it should be before the 10th. 5m3 is going to be a very deep but narrow content add. Terra, Jessica, Fiona and the trial itself are all 40+ pages of text (and images) on their own. There's a bit of chatter around town after the trial, but the vast majority of the post-trial Corsix will be in 5m4. I wanted to take the time with the big things happening in 5m3 to do them right.

I'm also going to be changing the way I do teasers a bit. Patreon teasers will remain fairly similar, focusing on the next content patch I'm working on. But the blog and forums will be getting teasers of the content that the patrons are currently playing, as that's the content available to any free player who decides to pledge their support for Harem development!

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[ker]

5m3 has entered testing! We still have a bit of content left to add, but all the coding elements are done so the beta for 5m3 has started! No eta on release yet. And some teasers from the upcoming content!

c5m3
-Final two slave quests complete, Fiona and Terra. Both are quite lengthy.
-One more visitor at night before the trial!
-Trial sequence finished, find out if your slaves were able to get you freed!
-Jessica is finally added to the Harem. After some paperwork is taken care of...
-Additional scenes for Donna from the Patreon Poll!
-10 or 11 new scenes added in base game
-5 new bonus scenes, 2 available to all, 3 only for $25+ Patrons
-~350 images added to game
-~300 pages of next text to finish up the primary plot of chapter 5!

Bug Fixes/Adjustments
-Fixed an issue where a dead Ralph entering a brothel = game over -Fixed an issue with the beach quest and collecting 6+ wine casks.
-Terra has no quest guidance in Corsix
-Alice's face and sprite updated. No additional interactions added.
-If you cross into Corsix with Rhea/Alena and your dark/light, they will be removed from your harem. You will have the chance to recapture them later.
-Moved Cecilia's commissioned series into it's own entry in Replay Scenes

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[ker]

All the content for 5m3 has been written and coded, just need to do a few last runs to make sure there's no kinks left. Well, no kinks but the sexy kind!

Hopefully 5m3 will be released by the 7th, and the public version will get updated to 5m2 when 5m3 is released to my patrons!

And of course, a 5m3 teaser!

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[ker]

I just released Harem c5m3 to my $5+ Patrons, which completes the main plot of chapter 5. All of your slaves have had their chance to 'argue' for your innocence and the trial will happen! After the trial is finished, you finally get to add Jessica to your harem and deal with a few other results of the trial. If you wish to play the newest content immediately, any pledge of $5 or more will get you instant access to it!

Patreon link:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2583450

c5m3 content additions:
-Final two slave quests complete, Fiona and Terra. Both are quite lengthy.
-One more visitor at night before the trial!
-Trial sequence finished, find out if your slaves were able to get you freed!
-Jessica is finally added to the Harem. After some paperwork is taken care of...
-Additional scenes for Donna from the Patreon Poll!
-10 new scenes added in base game
-5 new bonus scenes, 2 available to all, 3 only for $25+ Patrons
-327 images added to game
-278 pages of next text to finish up the primary plot of chapter 5!
-16 new flavor NPCs in Corsix

Bug Fixes/Adjustments
-Removed Ethos # from save screen. Blue screen = light. Red screen = dark
-Added weather affects to all coastal areas.
-Fixed an issue where a dead Ralph entering a brothel = game over
-Fixed an issue with the beach quest and collecting 6+ wine casks.
-Terra has no quest guidance in Corsix
-Alice's face and sprite updated. No additional interactions added.
-If you cross into Corsix with Rhea/Alena and your dark/light, they will be removed from your harem. You will have the chance to recapture them later.
-Moved Cecilia's commissioned series into it's own entry in Replay Scenes

With the new version of Harem available to my patrons, the public version gets incremented to the version they were playing. c5m2 brings you up to just before the trial, with only Terra and Fiona's quest unavailable. 6 more slaves get their quests, and 'Ralph' gets 4 more events even while under house arrest.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuK ... TIzUTdrQUE

c5m2 content additions:
-6 new slave Quests to gain votes in Corsix. Donna, Sarah, Cecilia, Phoebe, Cindy and Fenja now have their quests available.
-All quests will have a solution that doesn't involve your harem f%#^ing other people. But if you enjoy it, every quest does have a solution that involves your harem f@#$ing other people!
-4 additional night events. Even under house arrest, 'Ralph' gets plenty of action!
-Nicole will be captured even if you declined on night 4
-Expanded Eleanor interactions to put a name to the face.
-~300 pages of new text in the game
-316 new images in the game
-13 new in game scenes added, 2 bonus non-canon scenes added

Bug Fixes/Adjustments
-Adjusted Fenja and Sarah's tour stop. Sarah stops at the Sharpsword Inn, Fenja next door (east)
-Various map size fixes
-In Replay Scenes, pressing PgDn will end the current scene

[ker]

For December and January I had been polling my patrons to see what they wanted after the trial was over. Do we immediately plunge deeper into Rata or take a month to get the main character out into the streets of Corsix, finishing up some of the quests that your slaves started before and maybe adding another woman or two to your harem? The answer was overwhelmingly to stay in Corsix for another release (84% of the vote) so February’s release will be c5m4, a sidequest release in Corsix and the areas immediately surrounding it.

While the player won’t be able to go back into Celee at this point, there’s a lot to do in Corsix. The area around Corsix was never explored in v1. So, you’ll have a few local sidequests to complete inside of town, but I really want the player to get out and doing things again. A few of the loose ends from the slave quests easily transform into a few dungeon quests, so there will be a chance to slay some monsters, get some loot as well as getting some more booty!

I don’t know yet if I’ll be able to complete all the post-trial content in a month. Hiro is dealing with some personal difficulties and won’t be able to write this month, so it’s just T51b and I writing. He’ll be working on Fiona, both as a slave and free, and possibly Noemi/Sarah, leaving the rest for me. My first guess is that March will be split between finishing up the quests and then jumping into the tram, but I’ll give you more updates and a patreon poll when we get further along.

[ker]

Had worked on a playthrough over the last few days and found a large number of small bugs, and a few fairly significant ones. Enough fixes that I want to get these out to the public immediately, rather than having them wait for a month for the Patron version to rotate down. Patrons get early access to content, but I want everyone to be playing a bug-free game!

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c5m2.1
Bug fixes/adjustments
-Fixed an issue where Fenja could get stuck by trying to serve Laviticus while looking away.
-Fixed an issue where Fiona had to be captured to do Fenja's quest
-Fixed an issue with the demon's first visit
-More map size fixes
-fixed a progression issue w/ Vercin
-Fixed a progression issue w/ Naitay
-Fixed multiple weather issues
-Fixed an issue that new items weren't added to Fiona's shop after you enslaved her. Click on the items on the table to add them to the shop.
-Slid the availability of the unique quests one step back in the story progression. Doable just before the passage is clear instead of just after.
-Added weather affects to all coastal areas.
-Fixed an issue where a dead Ralph entering a brothel = game over
-Fixed an issue with the beach quest and collecting 6+ wine casks.
-Alice's face and sprite updated. No additional interactions added.
-If you cross into Corsix with Rhea/Alena and your dark/light, they will be removed from your harem. You will have the chance to recapture them later.
-16 new flavor NPCs in Corsix

[ker]

There was an issue with c5m2.1. The link has been updated to 2.2 which should fix all the problem.

[ker]

A status update: It looks like we've found most of the bugs in the game and gotten them fixed. The only report I couldn't find and fix is a possible issue where Noemi leaves your party. But I can't narrow where it happens down and replicate the issue. If you've had the bug, please let me know.

We're moving on to c5m4 content. It's going to be a sideqeust release, letting you investigate and resolve some of the issues created/leftover by their independent quests. Angelica is 100% written, Donna is 95%, Fenja about 66%, everyone else is at least started. About 75 pages written, 20 images created. I'm guessing that c5m5 will merge into chapter 6. c6m0 will finish up what's left of the local content in Corsix, get you onto the tram, and hopefully a few steps into Denai!

And of course, some teasers from c5m3 which my patrons are currently enjoying!

[ker]

Just an update for everyone on how 5m4 development is going:

Almost certain to be part of 5m4:
Donna, Angelica, and Cindy have already been fully written and just need a few more images or code. Joan/Beta, Fenja/Yvone, Noemi and Phoebe are fully plotted out and somewhat written. And of course, there’s a scene for Fiona coming as that’s what the patrons voted for!
On the bubble:
Kathleen, Jessica, Sarah all have concepts for content. But I can’t be sure if there will be enough time to get them done before I release 5m4.

Which is most of the follow up that needs to be done for Corsix. Sam, Terra, Cecilia and Rhea/Alena don’t have relevant content in town. Heather, Fiona and Naitay will likely be finished up in the following content patch and I’ll get as far into chapter 6 content then as time allows!

I hope to get 5m4 out to my patrons in Early February. They’ve been enjoying the 5m3 content for a few weeks now, and when 5m4 is ready for them, 5m3 will become the public version! And of course, teasers!

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