Harem in Another World Devlog #58 A long playthrough

HIAW v0.9 Current Status :

Writing: 40%

Coding: 55%

Art: 75%

Animation: 25%

Current release date estimate: August 31st

This week I did a full playthrough of the game from the start to the end of v0.9 . I'm always replaying and playtesting different parts, but I don't often do full run throughs like this because it takes quite a long time. And boy did this end up creating a lot of work for me. I took notes throughout of fixes and bits I wanted to change or tune up whilst going through. I've ended up with 14 full pages of notes! I've reached page 8 now so cranking through them at a reasonable pace.

Most of it is small QoL improvements, like better quest objective descriptions or giving the player an option to fast travel back to a place at the end of a quest. But there are some larger re-works as part of it aswell:

I want to revamp the Arena questline, It was one of the first pieces I built for the game (and it shows) I think as it currently stands its a bit too open ended and it's not clear what your next goal should be. I might change it so it's a more linear path you take, defeat one then defeat the next instead of being able to go and find the way to beat the 3rd character but still having to fight the first and second before it. I've also going to get some better battle images for it, as the current ones are basic.

I've removed the option to be able to equip things to the girls. You couldn't actually put anything on them anyway, but the menu still existed because that's how the engine functions. But I've found a way to get rid of that so the equipping is smoother.

I'm hosting a Q/A in the discord server later today. Drop in if you have any questions to ask me, or if you just want to chat :). https://discord.gg/6M2C7Pupvz

Catch you in the next update!
Love
Jong