Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.32.0

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Note that the public release will be in 2 weeks. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura on itch.

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

And another month comes to an end. This month focused mostly on the addition of the new dungeon region Winterfall, but of course we also have progress on the other fronts as well.

In numbers, we have 1 new H-CG, 1 new costume, 12 new corruption scenes (4 own them being lewd scenes), 2 new major curses, the first iteration of the winterfall dungeon, 1 new side quest, and more!

As usual, for the details, I refer to the weekly devlog posts. Here, we will be looking at a summary of the new content.

On the dungeon crawling side, the for the new Winterfall area I have managed to setup the key level design. What remains to do are the demonic sub-areas, curse traps have yet to be integrated, the a bunch of rescuable prisoners need to be added, and finally then the boss area of the region. So still quite a bit of work cut out here, but otherwise it's already playable. In particular you can already get the area curses Tongue of Envy and Stomach of Gluttony.

Staying in Roya, this week I added the first Roland quest - written by our assisstant writer Absurdity - into the game. It might not be too surprising that there are various reasons pushing Aura into enrolling into the Magic Academy in this quest from Roland. :'D If you play the quest, there will be a point where you can ask various people for help, and there are a couple of variations depending on who you ask.

Moving finally into the mental and the real world, there we also have lots of progress in the George and Aura relationship destruction, as well as building up the Aura and Richard relationship. Alicia is finally capable of corrupting Aura's sexual experiences with George and ultimately ruining her First Sex With George memory. And on the Richard side, I have furthered the Tutored By Richard storyline into a storyline leading to the first lewd scene with Richard.

Other than that, on the asset side, we have a new costume for the prostitution scenes, the Roland scenes 4 and 5 new have H-CGs, and higher level lewd scenes now use a different soundtrack (although I still would like to have one dedicated to more corrupt penetration sex scenes).

Then, our assisstant developer Trihan has improved the battle flow by removing various delays between animations, making battles about ~25% faster.

Aaand that covers most of it. There are various other smaller additions, fixes and improvements, but for those I refer to either the previous devlog posts or the changelog below.

Changelog 0.32.0 (30.06.2023)

• Added Roland 4 + 5 H-CGs
• Added mental change "Reduce Sexual Compatibility George 1"
• Added mental change "Reduce Sexual Compatibility George 2"
• Added mental change "Corrupt First Sex With George Memory"
• Added scene "Tutored By Richard 2"
• Added scene "Tutored By Richard 3"
• Added scene "Attending Classes 4"
• Added scene "Wearing Richards Ring 1"
• Added scene "Wearing Richard's Ring 2"
• Added scene "Wearing Richard's Ring 3"
• Added scene "Wearing Richard's Ring 4"
• Added scene "Unsexy Times With George 1"
• Added scene "Unsexy Times With George 2"
• Added scene "Unsexy Times With George 3"
• Added scene Night Club 4
• Added scene "Aura Streaming 2"
• Added quest Rampaging Golem
• Added quest stub "City of Envy and Gluttony"
• Added map Winterfall City
• Added map Winterfall Caves
• Added map Winterfall Church Interior
• Added map Winterfall Congregation Interior
• Added map Winterfall Inn
• Added boss Demonic Knightess of Envy
• Added boss Gluttony Contractor
• Added boss Rogue Golem Mage encounter
• Added curse Stomach of Gluttony
• Improved battle flow
• Applied skill list skin from the Skills menu to the NG+ skill selection menu
• Removed animation wait delay in AoE attacks
• Added Loveley Degredation lewd soundtrack
• Added Prostitute costume
• Added winterfall caves encounters and loot
• Changed prostitute hairstyle to Open hair style
• Added sample prisoners to save
• Implemented option to poison demon worshipper food
• Added curse Tongue of Envy
• Appied improvements to Roland belt position in CGs
• Further wildlife improvements
• Upgraded RPGMaker MZ 1.7.0
• Increase max killed bosses to 94
• Increased max mental changes to 125

Balancing

• Give POISON ability to negate 50% healing
• Increased HP of Dragon Firestorm to 10000
• Increased POISON duration for Poison Coating to 4
• Increased POISON duration for Blessed Poison Coating to 6
• Increased gold loot for Winterfall corpses
• Changed Blessed Water to increase in Value instead of Price

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed Rose character sprite in scenes not changing to gyaru sprite
• Fixed missing adult options read in Unsexy Times With George
• Fixed corpse glitch
• Fixed wrongful chase trigger in Winterfall
• Fixed George standing image glitch in Night Club 4
• Fixed missplaced lower rope event
• Fixed resists not working against states of the same category
• Fixed water passability in Winterfall caves
• Fixed crash when using multi attacks
• Fixed Night Club 4 not getting unlocked in Recollection Room
• Fixed George standing image not disappearing after he goes home in Unsexy Times with George 2
• Fixed damage popups sometimes not appearing
• Fixed remaining standing images in Winterfall
• Fixed crash in route check for sending prisoners to docks
• Fixed winterfall prisoner glitches
• Fixed missing attack elements on fragments
• Fixed Headache not counting down for Slime
• Fixed drain popup not staggering properly

EDIT: 

• Fixed learning Academy Spell promise overlapping with Rampaging Golem quest promise and thus triggering incorrect events

Stats

• Estimated play time: 28-35h
• Word Count: 527k
• Lewd Scenes: 84
• Real World Scenes: 225
• CGs: 35 (+1 Bonus CG)