Sapphire Safari (Early Access)
Creature Book v009
Hello explorers! Welcome to patch day, version 009 is ready to go and it is our first step into organizing our main gameplay loop. Let’s begin!
Submit your Photos!
The Monpedia and the Research Level are the first implementations of our progression and gameplay mechanics for Sapphire Safari. The use is simple, take photos during your expedition and once you’re ready to return you’ll be prompted to submit pictures for the creature catalog known as the Monpedia. Your top 10 photos will also be scored and added to the Research Level.
Monpedia now tracks photos, we currently have a very basic selection of pictures to gather for each species. Try to get them all! Each photo will fill up the familiarity score of a species as well, currently, this does nothing but it will in the future!
You can replace old pictures with better ones if you happen to get a nicer shot.
The top 10 pictures taken will be scored for the Research Level, currently scoring is not functional, be sure to read our Sapphire Documents Issue 005 for more information on how that works. Research Level is how players will unlock new islands and new “critical” tech for exploration purposes.
These two loops are here to reinforce a lot of gameplay elements, however, they all have other components needed to really make them shine! Part of this is the monster girl AI, the quest system, scoring systems, etc.
Moana Tropic Wading Pools
Our team has been busy expanding the Island with a new Tide Pools area. The first pass of this region should add a lot of interesting backdrops for your photography!
Intimacy UI/UX upgrade
The constant changes to this mode should not surprise anyone, the new elements however drastically bring us closer to the initial pitch and vision. Loading into the doll system for the first time will now randomly auto-populate the field, along with randomizing the pose of all participants. They will automatically begin humping each other if you have all the required actors.
On top of the auto-population, you can edit the actors to a bigger degree. Hitting Tab now expands the menu (automatically hidden by default) and each followed NPC along with the player will have options made available. Including choosing and removing them from scenes. Human participants in a future patch will also from this menu have clothing options, so you can remove everything but the boots if you wanted.
Eventually, we will expand the positions offered and build the gangbang mode to work with random monsters walking by. Exciting stuff!
NOTE: There currently is an issue with Male X Futa and Futa X Futa position swapping which can cause camera bugs and model breaks. Please be aware of this as you explore the new tools.
Changelog v009
- Added Gallery filter system.
- Added Expedition statistic systems for tracking steps, photos, etc.
- Added Retirement system for post-expedition scoring.
- Overhauled Monpedia system for photo submission and tracking.
- Added Familiarity foundation system.
- Added Research point foundation system.
- Added Moana Tropic Wading Pools map area.
- Added Landscape texture painting system.
- Overhauled Moana Tropic textures.
- Overhauled Moana Tropic assets.
- Fixed deep river issues.
- Fixed Moana Tropic boundaries.
- Overhauled Monster Spawn system.
- Overhauled Moana Tropic spawners.
- Overhauled Doll System UI.
- Overhauled Doll System UX.
- Added Doll System auto-population.
Conclusion
Hopefully, you can all now see the direction we are moving into! In the next patch, we hope to get back to more consumable content, themed for a particular holiday coming up. Ho ho ho!
Comments
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I can't play when I enter the game there is a black screen and the error lowlevelfatalerror and then the game closes or the window hangs then I have to close it through the task manager
and when the home screen loads and I click to enter the game it crashes and gives the same error and then it crashes, what do I do?
I already tried using the two tips from the text document that comes with the game and it didn't work
sorry for bad english i'm using translator
Did you run the .bat files? Do you have a dedicated graphics card?
if the .bat files you are talking about are Dx12 and vulkan yes I opened them
and what kind of video card do i have to have?
It is an issue of vram in the cards. The more you have the better the game performs currently. I would say any reasonable low to mid tier card from 2015 would be fine. I run it fine on a 1080ti.
my video card is a hd graphics 4000 runs skyrim at 60 fps on medium settings
does this video card work?
We have not optimized the game at all as we are focused on development right now. If neither of the .bat files give you any fixes be sure you're running the latest version and update your driver's.
Game look good so far but this recent update release I'm having a hard time even playing as I'm getting almost constant hitching/stuttering anytime I move at all and no changing the graphics settings did nothing. The last release I had no such trouble. If you can mind looking into this?
What parts of the game are the stutters happening?
Ok well it was happening on the beach right when you arrive looking into the foliage but I just went into the game to make sure and now everything seems fine so I guess messing with the visual settings might have helped after all not sure. If it happens again I'll let you know. Thanks for the reply and sorry for any bother.
Looking good. Always like to see how the actual game will work alongside the sexy stuff.
Cheers! We are still working on it all. Nothing is final but it's close.
I'm all excited that you got an update but can you stop emailing me through the titles of your other works? If you update Sapphire Safari, I should only get an email about Sapphire Safari. I SHOULD NOT be getting an email saying its about Wet Nightmares and its just another venue for you to shill the Safari update.
With that out of the way, great update. I've been enjoying diggin into what's been added and I looked forward to seeing the island, our tools, and our adventure expand more in the coming updates.
Hey there thank you for supporting our games, we try to keep the emails down to important releases only. As for the other stuff, glad you're enjoying what we are making for Sapphire!
I love how this project Is going, LETS GOOOO!!
We are pumped you're enjoying it!
Looks good I can't wait to try it out, also impressed the team has 2 updates planned during the holiday season!
We always try to release on the 1st of each month a new patch unless we have some holiday date release. If that happens it's less dev time but we focus on a theme or something.
Be sure to not overwork yourselves and enjoy the holidays, but also thank you and the team for all your work.
It's okay we work on a sprint model of work. No one is overworked or working weekends. Work for Christmas will end on the 20th of the month, so nothing will stop our crew enjoying a nice holiday!