Hey everyone!

It's been a while! Let's get down to it, where is the end of the Lilith Device?

Firstly, it's still on its way. Development's slow because well, life gets in the way sometimes. You run into a difficult to resolve issue, get distracted with life, come back and just find you don't have the energy to work on that issue. I won't make excuses beyond that. 

So yeah, the last chapter of TLD is still in progress. I know that's hard to trust since there's been so little posted so here's some more info to tide you over. I'll go over the basic structure of the final chapter and point out some major moments or mechanics. I'll also give you a progress report to set expectations. 

If you just want a teaser and progress report without getting spoiled you can check out my Trello which is where I track what I'm working on.

Lilith Device Final Chapter Progress Report

Hey everyone! 

After hemming and hawing on the best way to deliver updates for a while I ultimately decided just to dust off this old blog. 

I'm looking to have the next chapter done within a few months. I've been privately testing the game with a few colleagues and have been working on mostly iteration on puzzles and story developments. As you can probably understand, after everyone has been waiting for so long there's a lot of pressure to deliver on the finale, so I've been doing a lot of rewrites on some developments, fleshing out some characters, that sort of thing.

What I've been working on lately is the addition of new slaves. As the player character has transitioned from enslaving randos one at a time to taking over entire areas of the city at once, there are less individual enslavement scenes which I know will disappoint some people. 

To make up for this, I've been adding a few secret enslavements as well as hidden codes to change your existing slaves into templates you wouldn't normally be able to access (like women that only exist during certain scenes and such.)

There's also a lot more endings and game over sequences than in past chapters, in fact there might be more in this chapter than in the rest of the game combined.

I've also been working on putting in a larger variety of endings. Most people play the game in different ways, whether they make every slave a clone of a single template, min-max the hell out of their slaves, choose whatever mutation they think is hottest, what have you.  I've also received fanmail from people that just enjoy it as a story of a mind controller who gets in over her head, and their canon end to the game is the player character just becomes a Mitsuko girl.

Trying to please everyone is obviously a fool's errand, but a good variety of endings will allow more players to find something they really enjoy. Not everyone is going to want the ending where the player converts everyone in the planet into a clone of herself but some people are going to really dig it.

Anyway, I hope this manages to alleviate some of the pain of such a long wait. I know you're all really excited and I don't want to disappoint you. As always, feel free to PM me questions either through Hypnopics or TFgamessite.

Here are a few more images to tide you over.
-Cap

Chapter 4 is Complete!

The next chapter of The Lilith Device is finished!  You can download it right here!  In order to play it you'll need to download the beta version of RAGS.  You can download that right here!

The update is mostly about a more magical group of enemies than you've messed with before.  In order to start all the new content you need to finish Mitsuko's quests.  If you'd like to see the sidequest involving lawyers, you just need to finish the mansion and then sleep until you get the random event. 

Have fun everyone!

How about another preview?

So it's been a while so I thought I'd make another preview post.

Let's talk about the folks you'll be working with in the next chapter!

It's a cult of women whose goals will be explained in game (mostly) but I don't want to spoil things too badly so instead I'll just talk about their organizational structure for a bit.  Basically they're a bunch of classist jerks. 

The Grand Witness:

That sounds like the sort of title that will make more sense once you're in-game, doesn't it?  The Grand Witness is the leader of the cult.  She handles the overarching structure.  She leads her fellow cultists in prayer to [redacted].

Scribe:

A very important role, secondary only to the GW.  The scribe is there to make sure there is always a record of what happens in the cult.  There is only one scribe at any time.

Witness:

There's that word again.  The Witnesses make up most of the active members.  They're witches who pray to [Redacted].  Each one has their own role in the cult and all new members have to find a role that is currently unfilled in the cult.  Otherwise...

Drudge/Chattel:

Otherwise the new member simply becomes a drudge.  Sometimes referred to as chattel, or sometimes cheval.  Through a surprisingly simple but long ritual, a witness takes the drudge-to-be and completely removes her personality, willpower, and generally everything that makes her who she is.

The Lilith Device Chapter 4 Preview:

I figured I'd take a bit to talk about what's coming in the next update of TLD.  So if you've been paying attention to the thread you know this is the chapter "Witches on Lake Innsmouth".  It's a bit different than the previous chapters in a couple of ways. 

First of all, it shouldn't take as long because there are finally no major mechanics coming in this chapter.  The biochamber cloning took most of the development cycle of version 2.00 and it's crazy complicated.

This chapter will be all story.  So that's a load off my back.  

This update is also a bit different in that it has more of a horror feel to it!  All the witches are sexy but they're still messing with some pretty funky stuff (the name of the lake should tip you off).  I'm not saying the game is going to suddenly have a bunch of jump scares and little girls with bleeding eyes, I'm just saying it's going to get creepy.  Sexy creepy.

And then there's my favorite part about this chapter, awesome environments.  I've found some really cool images to use for areas. Here are a couple of my favorites.

And if you don't care about environments then whatever!  Here's a player image to tide you over until then.

See you later!