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the time has finally come... the afterparty dlc has released on itch.io! with 75,000 words and 2-3 hours of gameplay, it's time to spend one last lovely night with your favorite moth ♪

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alongside the release of the dlc, i've pushed cryptid coffeehouse v3.2 onto itch to accompany it. when you purchase the dlc, please make sure you download the new version of the main game for maximum compatibility!

the afterparty dlc contains:

since i'll be adding this paid dlc to steam, i'm going to offset that cost by making the main game free on steam as well! so from whenever this dlc is cleared to release on steam, the base game will be free to download on all desktop platforms. hopefully this will make it a little easier for you guys to play the game! i don't ever want to make it hard for y'all to experience the work i'm sharing.

OKAY so you guys said you wanted to see some of these afterparty dlc cgs... [places these gently at your feet] there are 4 cgs in the dlc, all with many, many, MANY toggles and alternates hehehe 😋 pretty much all i need to do now is fully render everything and code it all into the script! the goal is to finish all that within the week ^_^

but anyways my saucier cg sketches are under the cut if u careeee 👀😁 i'm realizing that artemis lowkey looks different every time i draw them but it's okay we can ignore that LOL

so at this point, now that the writing is all complete, the dlc is officially 50% coded. i've coded the entire prologue (aside from a few things... i'll get to that in a minute), and now all that's left is the nsfw scenes 😁🖤 finishing all the coding is actually taking much longer than i thought because i, for some reason, didn't realize how long a 75,000 word game expansion actually is (LOL) but now i'm really feeling it. that being said, we're making pretty good progress despite this! the release date is getting shifted back a little bit due to how long it's taking me, but it shouldn't be so much that it's absurd. i'll definitely be releasing this dlc before the end of the winter season!

so what's left to do, you ask? great question ^_^ here's my current itemized list of tasks that i'll be completing over the next couple of weeks:

create sprites for the new dlc characters

retrieve one more background asset

make a list of the amount of cgs needed for the nsfw section (because i'll be relying almost completely on cgs rather than spritework)

illustrate said cgs, hahaha

make a character initialization screen for when the dlc begins where body parts and (a limited selection of) skin tones can be chosen

add an indicator somewhere in the game's first couple of menus that tells you that the dlc is installed correctly

and if i'm not feeling burnt out by the end of this, do some extra spritework with the existing characters... but we'll see how i feel once everything else is done!

for now, i've been thinking about designs for the new characters, armelian (fairy) and jj (cyborg). they're waitstaff at the diner you and the gang visit after the big concert at mallette's! here are some sketches i did of them the other day if anyone is curious. oh and also here's a drawing of artemis i did a bit ago that i think is cute hehehe

but yes! that's where we're at currently. i hope to give you guys some more good news in the next couple of weeks. so thanks so much for your patience!! i'm really excited to bring this to you all, so i appreciate everyone waiting for me so kindly <3 it means a lot!!!

i am very pleased to announce... that after weeks of effort... the entire prologue of the dlc is complete!! the section that i was working on all of these weeks was the final scene of the prologue, the one where everyone goes back to the artehouse and gets wasted (or not, depending on what choices you pick) and you and artemis have a fun time trying not to fondle each other while all your friends are sitting there in the living room with you (or not... depending on what choices you pick.... lmfao).

after checking the word count, we're clocking in at about 39k words, give or take. crazy! it's super big. i can estimate that the actual bulk of the dlc (the sex HAHAHA) will be about that size if i'm thinking of including everything that i want to include. i think we might be looking at a total size of maybe 60-70k... but we'll see.

and now for my favorite part! the script snippets! since i've kept yall waiting for so long, i'll throw in some more than usual :-)

i am like… so thrilled to be done with the prologue like WAAAH!! it’s been a long time coming, and now we can finally get into what this dlc is actually for!!! it’s been fun to write just pages and pages of romantic and sexual tension though, hahaha, it really sets the mood not only for artemis & the player but also for me lmfao.

anyways, here’s what the completed prologue script looks like so far. it’s a monster!!!! i’m not sure how i’m going to fit all the stuff in for the next part of the dlc but alas. we will make it work :P

i have a couple of things to go back and edit, as i’ve realized that i forgot to wrap up some minor conversation topics & plot points, but in the meantime i’m preparing to get down to business and deciding what’s going to be included in the actual intimate scenes with artemis.

on that note, i want to let everyone know that i’ll be leaving the afterparty dlc form open for the next couple of days (probably until this time next week, sept 18th) before closing it as i start writing the next part of the dlc! so if you have something to request, please do so before then :-) thank you to everyone who has sent things in so far! all your feedback as been super helpful. here is the link to the form!!

q: when is the afterparty dlc releasing? a: it's been a really busy couple of months for me, so things are going pretty slow. the prologue of the dlc (which i finished a couple weeks ago) was some of the more difficult things to write and was holding me back quite a bit. now that it's complete, there's a lot less to slog through. i've gone through the afterparty dlc request form and there's actually a pretty concise set of requests in there as a lot of people are looking for the same thing, so i don't anticipate that i'm going to write like 10 different sex scenes or anything.

afterwards, i'll need to code everything, draw some new artwork, commission maybe one or two new songs for the ost, and then run through a quick playtesting phase. with that in mind, i hope to finish by the end of the year... if not then, then by the second or third week of january. the writing is genuinely what takes the most time, which is soooo annoying sometimes, but at least everyone will have at least one or two hours of stuff to play once i'm all done!

writing often takes up at least 60-70% of my game dev process, so we're very close to wrapping everything up here, which is incredibly exciting. lowkey i want to cry lol i'm so excited to bring this dlc to y'all... it's gonna be really fun and good 🥹🥹

here's what the game's branches look like now that everything is all finished! it's very cluttered due to how many moving parts there are, especially in the rightmost section there, which is where all the sex is happening lol

currently, without pulling any of my coding statements or character dialogue tags out, the dlc is sitting at an incredibly comfortable 85,900 words... which is... massive. the number will definitely go down once i code everything, but let's just keep in mind that the entirety of cryptid coffeehouse is about 152,000 words!!! i'm not sure how this thing got to be so big, but... here we are o_o

anyways, feel free to ask me any questions about the dlc— i would be more than happy to answer any!!! in the meantime, if you would like to read any script snippets or would like to drop into a developer stream where i code for 4 hours straight hahaha, you're more than welcome to join my discord server!! i'm going to be incredibly active in the coming weeks as i try to finish this up.