May Devlog - Lust Potions on Steam + Catgirl Minigames

Hello everyone, welcome to the May devlog. I wanted to get this post up earlier but I wanted to wait until everything was finalized for my first announcement. I was very busy with commissions this month, but I did still find time for some cool stuff to show off. Let's dive into it:

Lust Potions is Coming to Steam!

Here's the link (wishlist now!):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3002800/Lust_Potions/

The game is currently planned to release on the 10th assuming no surprises. This took a surprising amount of effort including a small patch that adds on-screen keyboards for controller support. To be honest, I was a bit worried that Valve might reject the game but everything has been reviewed and approved so please support this release by adding it to your wishlist!

Catgirl Care Chibi Updates

Now that commissions have slowed down for the end of the month, Catgirl Care Chibi is getting some well-needed attention. I've mainly been focused on polishing the new minigames (I showed off the dice minigame last time) and new music. The new music is a bit difficult to show off in a text post, but the minigames just got some new visuals so let's show of those.

The first minigame I'd like to share is the disc game. In this minigame, you toss a disc to your catgirl to help raise their sports stat.

Originally, you would need to grab and toss the disc like a pokeball, but I found that mechanic to be unreliable for a mouse-focused game. I could spend time improving that mechanic and making it feel more responsive, but I ended up changing course and going with this aim-based system which is more reliable and easier to understand.

I just did the visuals for this minigame! I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Unlike the rest of Catgirl Care Chibi, this minigame is in 3D. That said, the background is mostly 2D (the catgirl, grid, foreground trees, and frisbee are the only 3D elements) which helps it fit in, I feel.

The second new minigame is the chalk game. For this minigame, the catgirl will draw a picture and you'll guess what it is she's trying to draw.

All of the minigames in the upcoming demo are for the park location to train a specific stat. The dice game and disc game fill their respective niches well (smarts and sports) but I struggled a bit before coming up with a drawing minigame for the cuteness stat.

Surprisingly, this was harder to develop than the disc minigame. Godot doesn't have native support for raster drawing over a path. Instead, each brush texture needs to be placed by hand during a draw call. With the additional lack of SVG support, the drawings are instead converted to points (using PathToPoints) that are then drawn in sequence.

What's Next?

My current goal for Catgirl Care Chibi is to get the next playable demo out this upcoming month, but that may be delayed depending on my commission schedule again. It'll also be nice to take a break and get some more work done on Rockin' Resort once the demo is out. No matter what happens, I think the game is turning out really cute and is definitely helping me solidify the foundation for Catgirl Care proper (I've been debating going with Catgirl Care 3D as a title?).

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Anyhow, as always, thanks for the support! Your support here on Patreon is what makes all of this possible in the first place. I never expected to see any of my lewd games end up on Steam, so this month has been a huge step for me, so, again, thank you!