Coffee Story [v20241023v1] [unnie]

20240624v3

-Fixed Classic Portrait Crash when interacting with text based objects.

-Interactables were disabled after sleepover until you left the house.

-Hid “green line” in second nightmare.

-Fixed Banshees breaking animation when they trigger it facing left.

-Typos

-Added a title menu

-Free Play and Preload Textures options remove the need for a config.ini

-There’s now a “meta” save file that maintains and remembers controls and the preload option. Other settings, like framerate caps, are still per save file.

Story update.

Sleepover event has been added. Screenshots for reference.

This was originally designed for the “still male” route, so it has slightly more content that wouldn’t make sense in the gender swapped variant.

Happens after talking to Kari and Nanami(optionally Yuri) about it and then going to bed.

For your convenience, you can immediately trigger it in this release by pressing F1 (male variant) F2 (gender swap variant) and goign to bed.

Saves

Redone the save system again.

Saves now display the time and date of when a save was created.

There are now 3 autosaves that alternate every location change.

Amount of manual saves reduced to 3. Realistically you can make backups of files if you absolutely need more. Or even replace manual saves with autosaves by renaming them.

Sadly the previous version’s saves won’t work due to these changes. Hopefully the last time.

Some minor change

Post event Kari will start making breakfast for the PC in the morning, Monday-Friday. You can tell her not to or ask her to start again in the usual conversation tree. There are currently no negatives in stopping her. No new conversations for this at the moment

Needle doesn’t drain all Will now.

Scenes decrease Dissonance by 1 instead of 2.

2 versions are available:

Coffee Story VM 20240617 will produce the usual crashes due to performance for the usual people, but this is what every other versions has been like.

Coffee Story YYC 20240617 version is optimized, but I’ve been told it triggers Windows Defender. I can’t do anything about it, or recreate it on my machine.

20240505v12

Added freeplay mode. Change story=1 to story=0 in the config.ini. Used Coffee Story Extra MC’s appearance as default.

Added disclaimer messages on first time playing. Doesn’t trigger if you already have an autosave.

Fixed a crash on overwriting sleepware outfits.

Skip text key is now the cancel action, default X and Ctrl. As such automatically selecting negative responses with these keys are no longer applicable.

20240505v11

Fixed slugs and batteries capitalization. Shouldn’t cause issues now.

20240505v10

Removed ponytail hair. It’s not finished and shouldn’t pop up after hair grows long enough.

Removed a hidden Lv4 card. I left it in for quick debugging. Forgot to delete.

Fixed bug that prevented the slug variation of the tube nightmare from appearing. Now has a 50% chance.

Fixed typos and incorrect portraits for Yuri’s post story conversations. Fixed some inconsistencies in the dialog.

Bought batteries to work in dreams. They really weren’t supposed to but I guess this doesn’t harm much.

Items brought to dreams now disappear upon waking up. Probably is too exploitable otherwise. Will likely change later.

Added standard stat effects to mannequin scenes.

Fixed bug that prevented 2×1 mannequins animation from happening.

Pill in the bathroom now work.

Fixed bunny suit visual glitch in portraits.

Cancel and confirm keys have been restricted to Ctrl and Enter during name creation. This is to enable users to have a name with ‘x’ and ‘z’ characters if you’re using the default control scheme.

20240505v7

Elevator softlock fix.

20240505v6

Various sequences fixed that were cause by the new save system

20240505v5

Added a more robust save system. I expect this one to survive updates. Game auto saves every new room.

Manual saves can be done at the desk. Can’t do it in the morning to prevent sequence breaking.

Fixed crash when taking off clothes in the intro area.

Fixed book silhouette crash in mansion

(reverted back due to potential softlocks)Fixed mouse click movement overriding some event triggered stop instruction.

Fixed will check crashes with Rin

Fixed squidrabbit crash

This is mostly a mechanics and story focused update.

The boardgame is close to an update as well.

Various changes and details in no particular order:

-Some of these changes were already in the Coffee Story Extra notes, but in case you don’t follow that, this has most of it.

-Story: added day 3 and “day 4”. “Day 4” sequence will be locked behind progression requirements later on, but at the moment might as well showcase it. Requirements will be: PC is still male, talked about Nanami with Yuri. Might change later. Follow-up not yet added.

-Some changes and rewrites in the intro and a bit throughout the story altogether. Mostly for consistency and pacing.

-Added a new way to how facial expressions function in dialog. Previously the most common method used was setting up a timers. So in example an NPC gets “frog eyes” for 10 seconds, then it reverts back to normal. Of course the problem with this is that in 10 seconds you could read 1 message or 20, which usually ruins the intended emotion.

-Added middle mouse click as “interact action” (equivalent to Enter) and right click to perform “cancel action”(equivalent to ctrl or x by default), holding right click for 0.5 second will bring up the inventory menu instead. Mouse wheel can scroll through dialog. “Cancel action” can automatically select dialog option “Back”, “Leave”, “Exit”, “Never mind” should those be available. And of course left mouse click now move the Player. Eventually, I would like to optimize controls for mouse-only play.

-I’ve changed my approach to the narrative. The Player Character will be slightly more proactive in dialog. So far the change isn’t massive, but a far cry from a mostly silent protagonist with superficial choices. I’m sorry if this disappoints anyone but both the fetish thematic and complexity of the story have made it impractical.

-Added option for the player portrait to appear where the default NPC portrait is, rather than on the right side. Basically the standard jrpg conversation format. Portrait changes only happen after a new conversation starts.

-Skip dialog is now added to the main game. Key F4 for now. Newer dialog is designed with fastforward in mind. Older dialog technically works, but may break certain conversation with other things going on (i.e walking). I’ve tried to foolproof as much as possible, but use with caution.

-Added a few new clothes options: more cleavage for tops, shorter bottom for bra, when combined this makes a bikini of sorts I guess.

-Added a new pose: isometric back view, supports all clothes, breast bounce and body shapes. No current scene uses it but it appears here and there amongst NPCs

-You can now cycle poses by pressing “p”. Only poses that have full clothes support are set up, mostly for consistency. I don’t know why I made this. To RP maybe?

All stats are measured on a 100 point scale. Most stat changes have been re-evaluated. Will likely have another pass later on.

  Currently hidden. This will affect… shall we say ending for now?

  Restores all Stamina, drains 50 Body, drains all Will, resets cohesion and dissonance counters, resets any physical changes from that dream. Unlimited use.

These function somewhat like scp-173.

Have generic 1×1 and 2×1 animations when touched.

-Physical appearance changes mechanics rework.

There is now a config.ini file in the game folder. Its only use is to set a value for texture preloading.

  0 – preloads nothing. Maximum stuttering. Miserable experience. If you’re getting crashes see if the game runs on this.

  1 – preloads essential human texture pages, still plenty of stuttering when exploring new areas.

  2 – preloads almost everything, ~ 5-6 GB of vram (currently default)

As always, I don’t record bug fixes, typos and minor cosmetic changes. Sorry, it’s too much work.

I haven’t made any changes. Hopefully nothing broke, but it’s very difficult to playtest everything on my own.

Still in development. Turns out it’s pretty hard to make an area without walls to guide the player.

Update soon™

20230403v5

20230403v4

tl;dr

Story and mechanics update.

No new monster or scenes.

Next dream area isn’t done yet. Probably need another month to cook.

Story

The story was always meant to have feminization and genderswap for its basis. If it wasn’t apparent before, it will be now.

Pregnancy is not yet implemented for story purposes. I haven’t removed anything since the demo(s) nor made it foolproof, so if you try hard enough you can probably break the game. This principle applies to almost everything though – if you try enough you can most likely break it.

If you’ve seen the previous story update, most of it has been restructured, reordered and rewritten.

Story now goes up to day 4, without any gaps. After that the story transitions into the loop from the last update + non dream interactions. There is still some story interactions after visiting the manor and lab for the first time, as well as finding Yuri and Kari, but this will not progress the plot further.

Either way, you can go out of the house, and are required to do so, in order to cycle the day. Unfortunately there’s nothing substantial to do yet, so it’s largely a framework filler. Probably top priority to work on now. Hopefully, this describes the intended gameplay loop and why dream areas are built the way they are.

Day 2 has a decision that will either cause a complete gender swap or start off with crossdressing. This will slightly change what happens on day 3 and which nightmare occurs.

Why crossdress?

I thought it would be more interesting for the swap to happen “naturally” through one of the encounters, if you so choose.

Secondly, MC will always remain feminine, simply because secondary male characteristics don’t interest me enough for the sheer volume of sprite variations that would need to be made. Sorry if you were expecting otherwise, but a trap MC is as close as it will get. The core content happens with female characteristics in mind anyway.

Currently there are 4 ways (Squidrabbit, mirror, default nightmare if still male, Venus). In the future, the story won’t progress until PC is female.

I also absolutely want to make a purist story branch eventually. This is the first step towards it. That said, I have little interest in drawing male physiology.

Mechanics

Time management

As a reminder, this is set up as follows: each day period has 5 time units. There are 6 periods (Dawn, Morning, Day, Dusk, Evening, Night) + unaffected dream period. When all 5 time units are used up, or an activity triggers the next period, the period advances and time units are restored. Interactables can be used once per day, or per period, or reset at certain period, or only during certain periods, or aren’t affected by time passage at all. i.e the shower can be used one, after which it resets at dawn and in the evening.

I myself had to rediscover what the hell was going on, as it’s been a while since I’ve touched this mechanic. Why is the system so contrived? I wanted to simulate time passage based on action and restrict the players on what they can do at what time periods and where they can go.

I.e in the morning, you will run out of things to do before you run out of the time units, forcing you to leave the house, to progress the day. At least in theory, as I haven’t set up much to do yet. Of course you can advance the period by interacting with the bed, when appropriate.

At night anything that would tip the period over will set stamina to 1 instead, which in turn will prevent interacting with anything that would do so.

There is a counter that keeps track whether it’s a weekend, as well as how many days have passed altogether. I’ve decided on 2 weekends in a week system. Probably not very accurate for the setting, but will be preferable for the sake of variety.

Stats

“Body” and “Mind” are now utilized. “Will” is still mostly a filler, with a few interactions that do a check. To be blunt, I’m not sure I’ve made it possible to even access those checks at the moment, but as I said before, if you aim to break something you can probably do it. Stamina has also been reworked a bit. More in depth on stats in a bit.

Food system

There is now a hunger and thirst stat. These are measured in 4 phases: grey, yellow, orange, red

Currently both advance every other period.

If a period passes while either is in red, Body decreases by 10 point for each.

Eating or drinking different types of food/liquids restores different stats.

You cannot eat/drink if the bar is grey.

What this means is you need to eat a minimum of 2 times a day to avoid stat penalties, and a maximum of 3.

You can cook by interacting with the stove or the kitchen counter. Ingredients need to be in the inventory.

The fridge is now functional storage.

As a side effect, I’ve added general storage to the living room.

As another side effect, I think I’ve ironed out the crashes and bugs of the wardrobe, which is now functional clothes storage again, after Day 3.

At the moment there is enough food to last a several cycles. Visits to the store are available, but I’m not confident that it’s bug free.

Stamina

Stamina is now utilized in some interactables. If there isn’t enough, you can’t interact. This is in order to prevent potentially sequence  This will likely change in the future once everything is more stable. In dreams this restriction does not apply to waking up from dreams, where Stamina functions as per previous updates.

Body

Body degrades 30 points every time you go to bed.

There should be enough mundane elements to keep this topped up relatively easily(i.e taking showers, eating, toilet)

Some dream encounters will hurt. There is also a story related item that takes off 50 health for restoring sanity. But I’ll have Rin explain that.

Finally, when Body reaches 0, next dream will bring you to a unique area. First time is just for the narrative. Future “visits” will require going through a precision maze. Once more story content is ready, sequential visits will remove events from the game. I don’t like “bad ends” so this is as close to a fail state as it will get.

Anyway, once out, body and mind is set to 50, will is set to 0

Mind

As with body, some interactables will restore it. Some dream encounter may also either restore or hurt it.

Unlike Body, this degrades 10 x nightmare counter every time you go to bed. Every time you do the counter goes up by 1, up to 5.

Most dream encounters will decrease it. If Mind goes to 0, the next dream is a “nightmare”. So I guess the concept here is to choose between encounters and nightmares.

Now I understand given the nature of the game, both might be desirable, which is counterintuitive treating it as punishment. But this is a much general issue with adult games that I don’t know how to solve. I guess overindulgence will degrade Body fast, which will be less desirable. And if you intend to… ugh, roleplay? Well, it’s probably impossible to avoid both completely.

Finally, I do also intend to implement a purist route as mentioned before.

Nightmare event types depend on the location where mind dropped to 0. In the lab it’s either of the 2 tube scene, in the manor it’s the spider hugger scene for now.

The first nightmare scene is scripted and is automatically triggered at the ends of day 2, depending on your choice.

If the character is still male, this is the default nightmare regardless, however without Yuri present.

Various changes.

“Haircut” area has changed.

A few puzzles were altered. Some may be more difficult to solve now.  There will be more changes like this as the game is transitioning from a showcase state to continuous play.

Green Ghost was placed in the mansion’s back garden(affects are mostly unused). Venus will take it’s place. Altered what effect Venus has from the original demo, but you won’t know that until pregnancy story line is implemented.

Certain things, activities and scenes that were previously only affecting stamina now affect body, mind or will as well. It will take some time to find a proper balance and will likely be changed as new interactions are added.

Added a couple new interactables

Can now visit the store

Dream intro is now skipable

I generally tried to keep dream areas intact to avoid further bugs. But this also means they haven’t been thoroughly tested.

As always, I will be testing and making hotfixes for anything I run into in throughout week. If you want to accelerate the process message me or post any bugs you find. Without doubt it’s a huge mess. A reminder the game saves between transitioning from a dream area.

Roadmap 20230403

20210712v1 Birth Framework

20210602v4 X-ray part 2 + hotfixes

20210519v2 X-ray hotfixes

20210519v1 X-ray part 1

20210504v1 Release