Development Blog 03 - Reworking the Character Creator

Hey guys back with another progress update!
Character Creator progress has been great, I've made the system more dynamic as to make adding new gender models in much easier when I do get around to doing them! I've also included shiny sliders to body parts so now you can fine tune your character even more! There also will be a few new additions to the character customisation such as new body sliders to more variation on the face!

Screenshot:

I've got 2 new Polls I would love for people to fill out if you can, these really help a lot and gets you guys what you want faster!
Sexual activity you most want to see? http://www.strawpoll.me/10608157
What Fetish interaction do you want in the game? http://www.strawpoll.me/10608291

Extra development notes:
I've been reworking the female body a little bit, lips are a bit thicker, some of the rigging on the body is slightly improved in areas. One of the biggest changes I've done is prepared the feet for high heels, when done heels should be very easy to implement. I'm doing a lot of future proofing on everything I make which is slowing visible development but means more functionality later on.

Most recent thing I've done is been laying out Relationships with other characters, whether they are blood rated, are they their boss or subordinate or what kind of relationship they have between each other such as being lovers or friends. Originally I was going for some basic straight forward system where you could only have one but I found by spending some time I discovered a 3 system which I explain below.

Blood Relation: 
Are they related to a character or not, if they are what kind of relationship do they have (Parent, child, sibling etc)
Relationship:
A simple system that determines a characters current status with another character - Stranger, Friend, Lover, Spouse (This can effect fetishes and vice versa)
Occupation Relation: 
Who does the character work for or who works for this character, while not exactly used yet it'll effect the experiences characters will have on each other like a boss telling its employee to do work or an action. This also includes relations such as a Teacher-Student relationship.

This trio system allows for connection with several areas such as family, work and relations with other characters and have them all work together without having to sacrifice (for example) a friendship with another character because they're in the same job place. I've probably said this a million times now but I am hoping to get this game to a point where it can be universally played by a large variety of people and have that last a long time to come.

Development Blog 02 - Sexual Acts Implementation

Progress!
Been making really good progress, more than I thought I would in such as short time.

Gameplay - You can now switch between first and third person view, there's an interaction system in now! At the moment you can walk up to a few locations and commence a sex scene, for now all sexual acts are listed but I will be soon implement only listing relevant scenes, for example a chair will have only sitting involved scenes. The fetish stats will also come into play but for now functionality first.

AI is getting better, the characters when their needs are low will seek out a location to replenish their needs, at the moment when their hygiene is low they'll shower. They also seek out a 'private' location when they're horny enough, if they can't find a place that's not in use or private location they'll move onto riskier public areas.

Modding - To my own surprise I've created a working system that allows for Custom Fetishes & Custom Sex Scenes (Make your own Animations*). Completely working, I didn't expect to have it done so fast... sure there's plenty of unknown bugs but that's pretty sweet none the less!

Short explanation of how this works, a creator would have to have Unity downloaded, a 3d editing software such as Maya, 3ds Max or Blender etc. They would export an animation out of the scene, set it up in Unity then package it up to a folder. From there you can define in an XML file the name of the scene, description, a thumbnail screenshot and the fetishes it uses and bonuses it gives, then just simply put it into the games Addons Folder. This will be explained properly when its properly ready.

I'll get some screenshots soon I promise! I'll do a dedicated update to it if I don't in the next dev blog.

I'm going to look into alternative donation options, my funds are getting quite low and Patreon while a nice system, doesn't do so well for international Creators.


* All Modding requires prior knowledge of required skills and software, I feel it necessary put this disclaimer in so people don't get confused.

Development Blog 01 - Getting the Basics done

First Development Blog!
I've been hard at work trying to build up a core for the game, I'm trying to get all the fundamentals of the longevity mechanics in place early on. This includes things like being able to load in custom textures (As seen in the Character Creator).

What I've been working on - AI (Artificial Intelligence) - So far when a character gets "horny" they'll find a private location and masturbate. Doesn't sound super exciting but they can navigate the world I've built so far which is a great step forward. This also relates and connects with the behaviour system I'm developing.

Gameplay - Basic thus far however intentionally so, I need to get so much done before I can safely work on something and not have to scrape all that work later. You can move around in Third person and zoom in and out to first person. Not a whole lot of interaction and control yet.

Fetish Stats - One of the core mechanics however is currently underway, the Fetish stat system. This system is a type of progression in the game, the fetish stat system determines what your character and other characters can do, for example if your oral stat is at 10% you can only do certain oral sexual acts, after doing several sex acts the stat increases opening more sexual options up in that fetish. Fetishes will also cross play with other ones, for example if your character performed oral sex in a 'public' place their 'Oral' stat would go up as well as a 'Exposure' stat. With time you may be able to perform oral sex on strangers in public if your stats are high enough. I feel like this could be a really fun system and gives an experience that you slowly build upon giving characters more depth and even developing sexual preferences as you go. Who knows you may even level up some fetishes you've never tried before ;)

Modding - This is the biggest thing I want to talk about! My plan is to add in as much customisation and mod support as feasibly possible. The idea being that a community can contribute content to each other giving the game greater depth while I develop more features in the mean time. It also gives the game longevity if I ever have to stop work on it.

What kind of custom content will people be able to create, foremost custom textures for the characters as seen in the Character Creator. Right now I'm developing the 'Fetish' and 'Sex Act' system, with the right tools and skill set you'll be able to create your own. You can create an XML with the name of your fetish and a description of it, then later content such as animations can be created for that fetish. For example I create the Oral 'Fetish', this stat now appear in the game, I then create a set of 'sex act' animations for this 'Fetish' which then can have fetish requirements to be met. While this is just a brief overview explanation I'll create a Modding Guide page in the future to help explain more.

Future Road Map (Next Version+) - The plan right now is to make a basic open world, I want to have several character slots that you can create and load into your world that interact with each other and have several sex acts in. The world will have several small locations to begin with such as a basic apartment, outside the apartment and maybe a bar across the street. I do have plans to go beyond just a socialising game and maybe even branch into a Job and Business manager. While I've love to go into detail about them I can't promise anything yet.

I'll post development pictures soon!

After Hours Island first release! 0.1.0

First release of After Hours Island 0.1.0 with the Character Creator! Excited to have it out finally and ready for people to try it out. Download mirrors below, early days yet so somethings may be a tad buggy.

Features:
* Character Creator.
* Dozens of adjustable sliders for body scaling and texture manipulation.
* Several textures per clothing option.
* One hair piece.
* Loading and Saving of Characters and Outfits.

Download 0.1.0 (Mirror MediaFire)
Download 0.1.0 (Mirror MEGA.nz)

*Developer Notes
Hair selection doesn't save but its settings do to Outfits.