Posted this on my patreon a couple days ago, here it is for the rest of us too:

I'm about to start production on my new, big project, so here's a little post with the first bits of info. I'll be making more posts going into more detail as the project progresses. In the picture you can see preliminary concept sketches of the first two characters players will meet in the game.

general

The working name for the project is "Sultan's Treasure". The player character is a human thief, hired to break into the mighty sultan's private quarters to steal a priceless treasure. After an accident, the player character finds themself in the sultan's harem complex, unable to get out. The harem houses not only the sultans wives and concubines, but all female members of his grand household, from servant to queen.

gameplay

There will be actual gameplay in the game, through which the sexual content is unlocked. It will be a fairly straightforward stealth/puzzle affair where the player needs to avoid the attention of guards to get through single screen stages. The characters the player meets can be asked to follow them around, and will be helpful in getting through the stages.

The first time a character is encountered, they need to be escorted to their bed which unlocks the first set of sex interactions with them. More interactions and different outfits can be unlocked by clearing further levels. I'm intending to keep these stages quite short and the focus of the game on the sexual content.

sexual content

This will naturally be presented through the animation system that you already know. There are a couple of ways I'm planning to expand the system: There'll be more ways to touch and tease the girls, which will often be required before you can do anything else. New sex acts will also be available, such as oral sex and titfucking. There'll also be a "dialogue system" for lack of a better term, the girls can make comments during the act, displayed in speech bubbles. Together these should improve the sense of interactivity.

schedule and scope

I've learned by now to promise nothing, but I have few commitments this month and will be spending a lot of time on getting the project started. There is a chance - a very slim one - that Roxy game won't see another update and patreon content for the month of july will instead be a sex scene preview of the new project. Don't count on it though.

The first "proper" release of the game will have the first girl's full progression, and the stages the player will need to clear to unlock it, as well as a tutorial. I'm deliberately structuring the game in such a way that new content can be added potentially indefinitely - my "dream" for the project is to generate enough financial support that I can comfortably commission guest artists for character designs and art every month. But that's far in the future at best.

Anyways, if I'm to make it happen, I need to get serious. So I hope I'm able to share good news by the end of the month! -Joni

I this project looks like something you'd like to help make happen, you can do so on my patreon page. I appreciate all support!

I posted all this to a forum elsewhere, figured I'd post it for the OG's on here too (in case anyone reads these lol)

So after a whole lot of work I'm finally nearing a playable demo for my lewd anthro SRPG, tentatively titled "Return of Man". This demo will set up the story and first couple of characters, it will contain a tutorial battle and an animated sex scene.

As of now, the demo is coming along quite well - I have the combat system and tutorial dungeon finished, as well as a visual novel-style dialogue system. The biggest thing still missing is the sex scene, and other than that it's just small adjustments and polish. Maybe it's a bit late to be making a dev thread, but I wanted to be at a point where I can be certain I'll actually be finishing and putting out that demo

Gameplay-wise the game will be a turn-based dungeon crawling SRPG, featuring procedurally generated dungeons with xp, loots, and sexy outfits to be gained for your characters. Characters will each have a class, and they'll learn various special moves as they level up. There'll be several (5<x<10 probs) party members to form your party of four from.

Lewd-wise, all the content will be hmofa (human male on female anthro). Eventual tags will include harem, pregnancy, and group sex, along with the usual ones. The game will use an in-engine mesh deformation animation system ("'Live2d'"). This'll make animation variants easy for me to create and lightweight, along with an overall reduction in file size. My current plan is for each party member to have at least one special scene unique to them, but other than that all party members will be available in an interactive "intimacy system" - here you'll be able to select from a few positions, alter the speed and force of thrusting, as well as "touch" and dress/undress the characters and see, hear and read how they react - I plan to have voice acting for moans and such, while the comments they make will be in text. With the help of the in-engine animation system, you'll be able to dress the characters up in sexy outfits for the scenes, and pregnant versions will be available as well. Another advantage is that group sex scenes will be trivial to make, and make work with any choice of characters, compared to having pre-rendered animations, and I have several planned.

I'll leave you with a link to my twitter, a screenshot of a mostly finished combat system, and an invitation to ask any questions you might have on your mind in this thread. The first demo will hopefully release in a few weeks. I'll be setting up a patreon once that happens, but until then, I'll make any longer updates to this thread, and shorter updates on twitter.

Thanks!

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Finished the dialogue system, for dumping a bunch of text on the player. Honestly the game won't be very wordy at all, but I still need this system for cutscenes such as the intro. Besides that, I plan to have "campfire conversations" where every time your party rests, there'll be a bit of back and forth between the party. I hope it'll be a nice way to get the player to know their party members, without big exposition dumps.

The character in this screenshot is Morgaine, a sorceress responsible for bringing the player character into furryland. She's presented as the antagonist of the story, and the first sex scene will also be with her, a handjob (as is tradition).

Other than that I've been working on the music side of things, (mostly) finishing the two tracks that'll be in the demo, and also writing a manager that lets me fade the tracks in, out, or into each other, and match the changes in music with the dialogue or gameplay events.

So now all that's left is some small additions to the script (Had to read through it multiple times while testing the dialogue system, and started seeing room for improvement lol), and the sex scene, on which I've done some preliminary work. Then it's just a matter of wrapping it all up into a complete demo where one thing follows the other as it should. I don't know whether I'll run into difficulties while animating, but right now the demo feels on track to release in a week or so.

It's been a whole lot of work but a demo of my game project is finally nearing a finished state.

It's going to be a turn based tactical rpg, with dungeons to clear and anthro girls to lewd!

There's still important things to do and the release is a bit of a ways off still, but should be in a few weeks at the latest.

I made a twitter for the occassion, where you can follow development. nothing on there yet, but I don't think I'll be posting too many more screenshots and such here on NG https://twitter.com/TheJoni2k

edit: seems like NG butchered the resolution, I'll upload the screenshot to twitter shortly