Fleshcult news & patch notes

Next week I'll be increasing the price of Fleshcult to $5 on both Steam and Itch. I've added a lot of stuff since 2020, and I think I've added enough to the experience that I can justify this new price. And of course, I too am getting screwed by inflation.

New Stuff

• Fleshcult now has audio! Sound effects and 9 tracks of original music. Hear the gasps and groans of your partners!
• Construct extra flesh looms to transform minions in parallel.
• New character: The Bruiser.
• Improved seduction text. 5 times more variations and 12 times the word count.
• All characters now have character-specific flourishes in their lair description.
• Your protagonist can now have they/them pronouns.
• Added more concubine transformations: masculine chests and volume 3 assets.
• Modders can now add custom voice packs and background music.

Bug Fixes

• Improved the look of various UI elements.
• Fixed tooltip being cut off by Lab sidebar.
• Removed some annoying random events: premonitions of the baron's fall and concubines leaving.

Original soundtrack album out now on Bandcamp

The v1.16 update adds the first half of The Pit, a dilapidated industrial zone where squatters, outlaws, and revolutionaries hang out. New Content:

• 3 new characters to seduce: the Hacker, the Smuggler, and the Biker
• 8 new scenes that show you the aftermath of the Baron's fall and kick off new storylines.
• New electrostim equipment. New sissy options.
• Rebalanced some transformations. Now you can make a build with multiple chances to tease.
• Vibes can be removed once inserted.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed developer mode crashing on start unless you had a log directory.
• Fixed pronoun errors when playing with trans men.
• Fixed the vanishing exe problem by replacing PyInstaller.

For the last few months I've been focused on producing Patreon content: new tomes, new characters, and new plot arcs. These are the ingredients for a new location: The Pit, a dilapidated industrial zone where squatters, outlaws, and revolutionaries hang out. But what about people not in the Patreon? I plan to ship all the new content to the base game with a delay, and for the last few months I've been giving the Patreon a head start. In February I want to update the base game with a chunk of the new location, with the rest to come later. Base game updates won't happen as often as Patreon rewards - I'm shooting for quarterly - but rest assured, new content is on the way.

The Fleshcult revival is entering a new phase: I'm starting a Patreon to fund new content! This will go alongside my continuing work on finishing off mod support. I'm aiming to make the game longer and continue the story after the Baron's demise. If this sounds good, please consider contributing! If you back the game, every month you'll get one of the following:

• A preview of new content
• A prototype of some new mechanic I'm experimenting with
• Or a little adult game I've made as a side project

You can find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/fleshcult

I'm running a poll to find out which rewards people might want from a Fleshcult Patreon, and also what to spend that patreon money on. Click here to vote! Edit: The Patreon is now up. Check it out here

Fleshcult v1.08 is now available and allows you to create and install mods that can:

• Add graphics
• Improve the UI
• Add sounds

This is the first phase of mod support. I'll be continuing to work on enabling mods for:

• Adding characters, transformations, and locations
• New mechanics and other code alterations

On the Steam beta branch you can now download v1.08, which lets you upload and download mods from Steam Workshop. This is an opportunity for modders to test workshop integration before it goes live for players in general. Known Issues:

• If you've been using Modding Preview 1, you'll initially see an error about not being able to read user settings, but it should behave correctly after that.
• Secondly, if you've written metadata for your mod into an ini file, it will now need to be named 'metadata.ini'.
• The upload form can't cope with unicode characters yet.

Please let me know if your mods behave any differently after a trip through workshop and I'll look into it. And if you'd like to get into making mods, you can learn more on the wiki.

In the Steam beta branch, you can now download a special v1.07 release of Fleshcult that has the first phase of mod support. Steam Workshop isn’t supported just yet, so it’s not very interesting if you just want to play mods, but if you’re interested in creating them there’s new stuff to tinker with. So far it supports HTML/CSS mods for changing the way the game is presented. The ability to change the gameplay is something I’ll be working on next year. To learn more about creating mods, you can consult the new Fleshcult Wiki which has a modicum of technical documentation. Feel free to add stuff I’ve glossed over. You’re also welcome to add info about playing the base game if you like. Happy holidays!

Bug fixes:

• Fixed saves failing when Windows username contains underscores. For real this time!
• Fixed errors not getting logged if program only runs briefly.
• Errors are now also displayed in a popup box.
• Removed executable compression and added exe metadata, to reduce AV false positives.

Fixed in v1.05:

• Fixed crash at start up when there's non-ASCII characters in the game's install path, or the player's Windows username
• Fixed inability to save game when there are underscores or non-ASCII characters in the player's Windows username
• Better error message logging