This means I can also update the public version of HoHH [text] on the houseofhellishharlots website to v0.057. The initial intent was to have the public version lag 2 releases behind the paywalled version. That was originally 2 months when HoHH was getting updated monthly, but - for various reasons - it's a bit longer at the moment. You can play that by clicking the "public" button on this page.
v0.057 was the version that added the 3rd elite, The Trapperess. She has the player run through a gauntlet of sexy traps to test them out.
As for the long gaps between the text-only releases. There are a couple of reasons.
The first is that the Round 5 elites are much larger scenarios than the regular harlots. They are going to be the only harlots encountered on Round 5, so I felt I needed to add more variety to their scenarios to increase playability. The way I did this was to make them "5-scenarios-in-1", which does give them more variety, but also requires a higher word count. After seeing how long it took me to write them, I've toned this back for the Round 9 elites. They are "3-scenarios-in-1" and I've already made a good start on them with 2 of the 5 rough drafts already written.
The second reason is I've been putting in a lot of work on the art version of HoHH. That is starting to look really nice - not far off a regular indie game. The demo for that is still paywalled, but now that the last of the Round 5 elites is done, I will be pushing ahead to make a proper demo covering the first 5 round and ending in the elites. I need to port over the elites for that, and there's still a fair bit of tidying up to be done on it.
As for now, the text-only version of HoHH is moving again. And as I've already written 2 of the next round of elites, the next update hopefully shouldn't take as long!
