We've just shipped version 1.0 of High School Hobby Harlots!

This has been a journey, I gotta say. I actually started work on this project three years ago with a different Dev friend of mine (the maker of High School of Succubus, which I've edited for quite a while.) We were originally building it Godot, but real-life issues and the war in Ukraine got in the way, and she was unable to continue the project. I re-launched in July 2023, switched to Ren'Py, went through a couple of other Devs that had similar R/L issues, and then finally found the redoubtable AnerisX, to whom I am so grateful for having brought this thing to life.

The original goal for 1.0 was to deliver a "minimum viable product": releasing a fairly bare-bones, playable game, so that we could start getting feedback. That meant:

• Delivering basic game functionality, such as being able to move around school and town, Save/Load, managing stats, etc.
• Getting our heroine Amara shipped off to school, moved in, and through a tutorial for her first week of classes
• Having her meet her five besties at school (Aliya, Alissa, Faith, Missy & Slim), and some of her enemies (Remy and Brigitte)
• Getting Amara using iFap (camming), so she could start earning money
• Delivering deep back-story content via her repeatable masturbation event
• Setting up Amara's monthly study requirements, and getting her through her first semester at school
• Delivering about 800 pieces of game art (much of it sexy), and over 500 avatar/emotes for the core group of Girls.

Well, we did all that. But as things went along, AnerisX was cranking out functionality so quickly that in order to keep him busy, we went ahead and implemented basically all the game's core systems: inventory and inventory items (including the rather tricky sorting and filtering in the shoe closet); item trading; iFap (camming); iFuq (escorting); cosmetics, Amara's Diary, Achievements, Stats page, etc. All of that is done now.

Not only that, but the events for the next three releases or so are already either completed, or well underway. So the roadmap now looks like:

Version 1.1

• Introducing six important new characters (Aya, Gia, Harleigh, Liza, Samara, and Sindee)
• Getting Amara escorting on iFuq app, and her five besties camming on iFap.
• Delivering new erotic content for them as well
• Moving the storyline ahead

Version 1.2

• Getting all six Slattern's Girls on iFuq, and the next six on iFap
• More story events

Version 1.3

• All twelve Girls will now be escorting on iFuq.
• Moving back-story plots ahead for some of the other Girls, including Gia and Aliya

Anyway, some teasers for things you'll see in 1.0:

Having a little fun on the train ride up to school...

And, well, okay: having a little more fun on that same train ride...

Meeting your best bestie, Aliya...

The phone tutorial...

Amara's masturbation sequence is actually a mini-game in itself: 54 separate vignettes that deliver a lot of her back-story:

And for those who wondered how one tries keeping track of the plot of a multi-threaded plotline, my master storyboard kinda looks like this:

Other features that I'm fond of in the paid version of the game include the Diary, where you can easily repeat past story events:

In-game Achievements...

And the Statistics page. Because what self-respecting slut doesn't like knowing how many guys she's shagged?

Anyway, hope this is interesting. We'll see you in 1.1!