Odds and Ends

Okay, first things first- in order to help the Harem Collector Wiki get off it's feet, I'm doing a special offer where top wiki contributors will receive a code for a unique item in the October release. Which is on October 16^th for backers and October 23^rd for the public, btw. So get contributing- don't matter if it's strategy, lore, or even delicious slices of trivia. Go for it!

Next up: I'm cutting some features from Harem Collector. It's nothing that anyone will shed tears over. First of all, I'm isolating the code for the party chat function and not mentioning it elsewhere in the game, so it might be back, at some point, maybe. That would have been a great feature for a game with a smaller, more intimate cast, but I think it's not worth the work it would take to implement at this point.

The second thing getting cut are the secondary weapons. They were a poorly thought-out addition to begin with, and are getting the axe without regrets.

Next up: I realize now that making incest with Meline was a very bold move that doesn't sit well with many fans of the game. Considering that enslaving Meline will be required for the ending, I'm currently planning a no-incest mode, activated during the black screen beginning segment, which will change some of the game's dialogue so that the Hero was adopted by Meline's family as a child, as well as changing the Hero's sprite and faces so as to imply he's not directly related to Meline. The canon version of the game, however, will have the incest.

Finally, enjoy some fanart courtesy of Boinky, who also contributed the new game title screen you'll see in the next update!

Harem Collector September 2013 Public Release!

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What's New in this Version: 

-Penelope's love quest is now available.

-There is now a randomly generated quest that refreshes daily.

-There is a whole pile of additional CGs. Happy hunting!

-The entire relationship system has been overhauled.

-The various flower gift items have been consolidated under a single item. Two new gift items take the place of Moondrops and Pink Cat.

-The Flower Girl now sells two new reagent-type items in place of the eliminated flowers.

-The Northmarket toy store now has useful things for you to buy.

-There is now awesome boss music.

-Favoured gifts now grant +3 relationship point instead of +2.

-The “random” sex scenes that occur after some quests now include a relationship bonus for all participants.

-Doll's “Defender of Life” skill now utilizes threat rating rather than a cover mechanic. In a similar vein, Martyrdom's threat increase has been greatly reduced in order to promote granularity.

-General clothing now decreases threat by an additional 5%.

-Demon Dice now have a damage bonus dependent on the user's luck stat.

-The ledger detailing your investments in the manor study can now sort your investments alphabetically, by dividend or by investment.

-Doll has a new sprite and face

-Larelle's eye colour has been corrected in all her pics.

-Penelope's face sprites should look a little less like they were resized by a thirteen year old.

-Double doors in the game should now look like proper double doors.

-The very beginning of the game now has two extra randomly-generated names and an extra hidden bonus name.

New Stuff Even If you Are a Backer:

-Improved encourage now heals a number of status ailments instead of raising the dead.

-Florine's new art has been implemented.

We have a Wiki!

Harem Collector now has a wiki!

So please contribute to it!

Oh The Things That You'll See

One of the privileges of making Harem Collector has been the sheer amount of new stuff I've been exposed to. I mean, I know this is the internet, everything ever is on the internet for our collective enjoyment, but you'd be amazed at the stuff I A) never thought about trying, or B) would never have tried without prodding.

Firmly in category A is the whole mind control fetish thing. I value Harem Collector's fans from the mind control community, and it has been really awesome to sample the games put out by MC fans that are in that sweet spot where their fetish rubs up against my dominance/slavery fetish.

...That ended up sounding really unintentionally sexual.

Anyway, if that sounds like your boat, Hypnopics has a sizable RAGS community, RAGS being an engine for making point and click puzzle games.

Relatedly is the Overlord series of games. I started Harem Collector partly because I thought Cypress_Z wasn't making Overwhored anymore, and since his game is pretty awesome I recently picked up Overlord II on a lark. It's a very enjoyable game, although it feels really rushed and cut short. Still, I got a foursome with all potential dark mistresses. And after trying to play a domination Overlord, well, with the female victim's voice clips it's no wonder that game is popular in the MC community.

Another unexpected joy that's come my way has been Oreimo. Although Meline started out as a joke character, writing for her has put siscon and incest on mine and my wife's collective radar, which eventually lead us to an anime called Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, or Oreimo for short. It's a very cute romcom anime series about a guy finding out his little sister is into dating sims and eroge, and is currently on our watch list.


But, yeah, in general making Harem Collector has been an exciting, weird trip. If you want to share anything you've discovered because you caught a reference to it in Harem Collector or any other h-game, don't be shy to share it below or in the forum threads.

Edit: Speaking of which, I just got Magic DotP 2013 for free off Xbox Gold, and if any of you guys wants to play a game or two and meet me and generally hang out and have good feels, drop me an email.

(Note: This is not the controversial post that I postponed last week. I don't know if I want to post something that comments on certain issues in the gamer mediaverse, or even if anyone would particularly care to hear my thoughts. The completed document sits on my desktop, unpublished, for now.)

Let's Talk

First of all, I'd like to welcome longtime fan Daishi to the Harem Collector team. Daishi is one of potentially two people who will contributing writing to the game, increasing the quality of the game for you  and freeing up more of my time to make more awesome game stuff.

Anyway, I was going to write about something completely different today, and I had actually wrote the entire blog post out in advance (a first for me). But after hearing Nekochan's comments on it, I want to make sure it gets reviewed by a couple more friends of mine before releasing it into the wilds of the interwebs. It might come out next week.

But this leaves me without a topic for this week's post. Mental Note: prepare a blog post to keep saved in case I have to do this again.

So, this week isn't about me, it's about you.

So in the comments below, tell me which of the Harem Collector girls is your favourite and why, let me know who like and why you like them, and what kind of sex scenes you'd like to see them in. Do you have a couple girls you'd like to see paired together? Is there a fetish you have that you'd like to see a girl used to explore?

I'll be paying extra close attention to the comments this week, making notes for possible future game content and just reading with interest what you guys think.

Game Reviews

Just a quick update- Kargan3033 reviewed both Dungeon Assault and Harem Collector the other day. He's putting together a review blog for free to play H-games and related projects, and has also reviewed Overwhored.

In case you're interested:

 Harem Collector Review

Dungeon Assault Review

There will be a more normal blog post on Wednesday, so I'll see you then.

New Release: Dungeon Assault

Link to Dungeon Assault

What is Dungeon Assault?
Dungeon Assault was made by No Moshing back in May of 2013. During one fevered night where, after too much coffee and Ancient Domains of Mystery, No Moshing attempted to use the RPG Maker VX Ace engine to replicate a roguelike experience. It was a mixed success, however.

In the game, you take control of a party of four adventurers who then delve into an ancient tomb in order to defeat the evil Succubus on the bottom floor. The order of floors, treasures, monsters, and special encounters are all entirely randomized, and getting to the bottom can become a real challenge if the Random Number God is especially cruel.

Ever since, Dungeon Assault has been a special bonus extra released in secret to financial backers of Harem Collector. Now that I'm working on something else to send them, Dungeon Assault is getting released to the public.

Why is Dungeon Assault getting released now?
 Occasionally I take on side projects to test some aspect of game development that I later use in Harem Collector's development. I've started a new one of those, and as such, it will be an exclusive bonus to financial backers of Harem Collector. So I've decided to release Dungeon Assault to the public, for the enjoyment of all.

What's New in Version 1.1
-At least .1 better than the other versions.
-The party has been changed to something a little more familiar.
-You now have the option to save your game between floors

Do you want us to give you bug reports for Dungeon Assault?
Not really. If it's a complete and utter game breaker, sure. But otherwise, I don't care all that much.

Please enjoy the game and happy dungeon crawling!