Author: Skye

Chapter 7 is coming along well.  I ended up rewriting a lot of the minor details for the chapter 7~9 outlines, which is pretty typical for every time I’m in the early phases of a new chapter.  I think it comes out a little better each time, becoming a progressively more cohesive story that flows better chapter-to-chapter.  No changes to overall chapter topics though!

The first release of Chapter 7 will cover the events that happen before you get into the aquarium — you may recall some unusual/milky behavior from Krista, which the first part of Chapter 7 goes into details on (and lets you decide her fate!). You will also make a contact at Baosheng, who is the one to give you the aquarium mission.

Also in the next build will be proper tracking for the Faction Points system as well as a place to check your current alliances.

I’ll be closing out the discord chat vote in a few days after the Patreon pledges have gone through so new patrons have a chance to weigh in.

The usual notes about the patron cycle follow — if you’re a new patron, please take note:

It’s the first of the month, which means Patreon processing has begun and will continue updating automatically over the next few days. New backers should ensure their Patreon accounts are linked on the researcher intranet. Note even if Patreon’s website indicates a charge to you, it can still take a couple days for their website to update the data they display to me. In prior months, most people’s access is usually granted on the second of the month, with others spread out on the other days of the first week of the month.

If you’re planning to unpledge on Patreon, I recommend waiting a few days for the reconciliation process to complete before you unpledge. This is because once you unpledge, the Patreon API no longer sends any data about your purchases.

Thanks for your support!

Would you like to see a voice chat on the discord server added?  Active subscribers can vote for/against it via the researcher intranet.

As you may have heard, a lot of NSFW Patreon creators are currently being suspended.  Fortunately, we haven’t been affected so far, but I’ve updated the subscription options page to encourage new subscribers to use BMT Micro instead going forward.

Current/New Patreon Subscribers – You don’t need to take any specific action or move your subscription.  Assuming nothing happens to us, Patreon will still be fully supported.

I’m also evaluating how to handle posting project updates on Patreon.  Many creators are getting banned for making those, or even linking to their own websites, so I will either be making abbreviated posts on Patreon or will skip posts there.  As always, you can grab the RSS feed from this blog directly and read it with your favorite feed reader, or join our discord channel which has a dedicated announcements room.

Also, it’s the first of the month, which means Patreon processing has begun and will continue updating automatically over the next few days.  New backers should ensure their Patreon accounts are linked on the researcher intranet.  Note even if Patreon’s website indicates a charge to you, it can still take a couple days for their website to update the data they display to me.  In prior months, most people’s access is usually granted on the second of the month, with others spread out on the other days of the first week of the month.

If you’re planning to unpledge on Patreon, I recommend waiting a few days for the reconciliation process to complete before you unpledge.  This is because once you unpledge, the Patreon API no longer sends any data about your purchases.

Thanks for your support!

Researchers with private build access can head to the researcher intranet to download r31, which adds a number of new features.

Shark TF – Kicking off the beginnings of the aquatic themed chapter, you can now transform into an anthro shark.  Look for the Shark Tooth Pendant in the debug rooms, due west of the Debug Monster Arena.  Anthro sharks are powerful creatures that have great mobility both in and out of water, thanks to their large shark tail.  However, this tail isn’t hideable under disguises, so you won’t be able to traverse Mulberry as a shark.

Octomaid – This half-octopus woman will ensnare those who cross her with her eight lavender tentacles.  Her scenes are about 2,600 words long, with most of that in the player defeat scene.  She has a penchant for teasing her prey and knows exactly how to best use those tentacles.  😉

Tease system – NPCs can now tease you about your form, which is particularly fun when you have a low acceptance level of your current body.  So far, this is only implemented in the octomaid, but will likely show up in more NPC dialogue in future.  Here’s an example of a dragon queen getting teased by her:

Each transformation has different things an NPC may wish to tease you about, or little pet names they might decide to give you :3  These tease interactions will raise your acceptance level of your form as they force you to come to terms with your new body.

Teasing does not yet work with custom transformation mods, but will probably add support for that soon (especially if modders request it).

However, modders can use this in enemy mods today by trying the new text variables.

Text Variables – In addition to new text variables for teasing, there’s also new ones for describing the player’s movement type (currently limited to walking or swimming) and for describing the player’s butt.  Eventually player’s butt size will be calculated separately, but for now it just matches whatever player breast size is.  Finally, there is also a variable for the species the player is more than any other species.

BMT Subscribers can now get Discord chat roles, just like Patreon subscribers have been able to.  Simply head to the new Discord options page in the researcher intranet to link your Discord account.  This should now put both subscription methods at the same level of features (except BMT being instant).

First, check out this cool new logo that Neb and I made:

Also, the next build is coming up soon and will include Anthro Shark TF and an accompanying Shark Tooth Necklace.  It’s the very first bit of content for what will eventually be Chapter 7, an aquatic-themed mission that takes place at the city aquarium.  Based on previous chapters, you can probably make a good guess as to what happens when you visit the aquarium 😉

Patreon processing has begun and will continue updating automatically over the next few days.  New backers should ensure their Patreon accounts are linked on the researcher intranet.  Note even if Patreon’s website indicates a charge to you, it can still take a couple days for their website to update the data they display to me.  In prior months, most people’s access is usually granted on the second of the month, with others spread out on the other days of the first week of the month.

If you’re planning to unpledge on Patreon, I recommend waiting a few days for the reconciliation process to complete before you unpledge.  This is because once you unpledge, the Patreon API no longer sends any data about your purchases.

Thanks for your support!

A new public demo build is now available!  This new build includes:

• Tattoos & Piercings system – Get one to force yourself to always be lusty, or prevent your breasts from ever decreasing in size.  You could even get one to get rid of those pesky attack options so you have to always submit to your opponents…
• Choose initial acceptance level – There are now three options during character creation to decide your initial acceptance rate and how you treat others. Each option has its own little intro story to go with it, along with an explanation of the acceptance system.
• Better organization of inventory UI.
• More reliable keyboard shortcuts.
• Numerous other small improvements and fixes.
• If you’re a project backer and haven’t played recently, there’s also tons of other new stuff since the last public build, including heavy modding support (you can now mod in your own transformations, clothing, items, maps, etc), Giraffe TF, Wolf TF, Spider Dungeon, and community created content as well!  Backers also have exclusive access to additional story chapters and other content, too.

Public build players can download it via the Materials Download page.

• Modders can now create all-fours / quadrupedal / non-bipedal transformations (like the spider or frog TFs)
  • See the getIsBipedal function to do this (and optionally these functions as well for additional/custom flavoring: checkPlayerMobile, tickMovement, getHeightDescription, getPostureDescription)
• Modders can now create transformations with useless hands (like in the cow chapter)
  • See the hasUselessHands function to do this
• The Wolf TF / Wolf Collar mod gives an example of both of these, transforming the player into a wolf form that has paws instead of hands
• Dragon Disciples & Dragon Servants now only disappear in the temple (modders can use them in mod maps and they won’t disappear)
• Minimum height via TF potion is lower when in all fours / non-bipedal mode
• Prevent keyboard shortcuts being removed after clicking a button with mouse
• Improved the LUA interpreter to support LUA functions calling into AS3/Game functions that then call back into LUA functions (and so on)
• An age gate is now shown the first time you play
• Game text now recognizes [[EYES DESCRIPTION]]

Also, have you seen Saint’s Potent Dragon Servant and Bolstered Dragon Disciple?  If you’re looking for some more Dragon Queen content, definitely try those two mods.  Saint was also a little nervous about sharing them, so if you like them, maybe say something nice to them on Discord 🙂

Update – r30.01 is now released that addresses an issue in r30 that prevented loading some save games from r29.

Update – r30.02 is now released which fixes the bug where the Naga Queen doesn’t recognize you in frog form.

Update – r30.03 is now released which fixes a load issue that occurred sometimes when a piercing gets destroyed.

Patreon processing has begun and will continue updating automatically over the next few days.  New backers should ensure their Patreon accounts are linked on the researcher intranet.  Note even if Patreon’s website indicates a charge to you, it can still take a couple days for their website to update the data they display to me.  Last month, most people’s access was granted on the second of the month, with others spread out on the other days of the first week of the month.

If you’re planning to unpledge on Patreon, I recommend waiting a few days for the reconciliation process to complete before you unpledge.  This is because once you unpledge, the Patreon API no longer sends any data about your purchases.

Thanks for your support!