Sapphire Safari (Early Access)
Pink Moon Haunt v022d
Photographers, I hope you’re ready for a spooooooky Sapphire Safari patch! v022d is our LONG awaited update, offering new mechanics around familiarity, exploration, polish, sounds, and fixes! Buckle up!
Spooky Time
First, let's chat about the new seasonal content we have added to Sapphire Safari! The Pink Moon Haunt is the first “global event” in the game. Events are a new mechanic based on the time system. Normally, events are “localized” to a particular region, but “global” events occur all over the Island. The Pink Moon happens every full moon (every 14 in-game days).
When a full moon appears in the sky, the landscape fills with toxic aphrodisiac spores, driving all the native species wild with lust. Predators, Prey, Humans, it does not matter, the only thing that does is ejaculating. The Pink Moon global event is a fantastic opportunity to photograph the natives under this new effect called “spored” since otherwise, it is a rare occurrence. Just be careful as the natives are very very eager to taste you.
To make the Halloween event feel good we have included a special button on top of the Campsite which will speed up time and force the Pink Moon event to spawn, regardless of the lunar state. So enjoy being swept away! This button will only be here for this patch. You can also summon the Pink Moon by using the beds at Camp to skip forward in time.
Familiarity and Monsutra
Oh yes, it is finally here. The long-awaited system and mechanics for player progression and sex. These two new systems work hand in hand to give players an engaging system to reward their photography skills. Here is how it all works.
- As you photograph the island natives and submit them to Monpedia, the species' Familiarity score increases. The amount depends on the quality of the photo.
- Grow the Familiarity score enough that the species levels up from Feral to Curious, Curious to Friendly. With each tier, the species will react differently to the Photographer if they are spotted.
- Instead of fleeing, they will now pose for photographs, and if you’ve managed to become Friendly they will even allow for several interactions. Headpats and any discovered Sex Acts on the island.
The discovery tool Monsutra is a collection of sex acts the Photographer has managed to photograph on their adventure. Unlocking a sex act in the Monsutra allows that act to be recreated with Friendly species, you can even choose what role you wish to take during the animations, top, bottom, or somewhere in the middle. It depends on what tools your character has (hehe penis) and what the creature you’ve approached has.
Combining the two new systems we have a unique and special way to interact with the wildlife on Sapphire Island. The crazy part about this is just how much more content we can add to the game, we are launching this with a modest amount of animations, but we already have plans to expand the number of animations as more builds are added. This system is very robust and is a perfect complement to our small team's art pipeline. Thank you all very much for helping us get to this point, we experimented with a lot of styles and systems over the past 3 years, and this one is just right for us.
Tools for Feedback and Reporting
In the previous builds, we had some very interesting crash reports that we were unable to reproduce with our test hardware. To help with future crashes that come up we have built a brand new EXE file that produces crash reports if the game does crash. So now we can quickly and efficiently see the cause of major problems going forward. I ask that if you do experience a crash, no matter how small. Please report it to us so we can work on fixing all issues. You can find the crash logs on your PC here: "C:\Users\{userName}\AppData\Local\SapphireSafari\Saved\Logs" and I would urge you to email them to dave@kinkyfridays.com or join our Discord community and submit them there.
Given how rushed the last part of this patch was so we could hit the Halloween deadline we expect there are a couple of things we need to polish up in a hotfix following this launch. So if you find anything please let us know!
Changelog v022d
- Pink Haunt global event added Added temp Pink Moon Event spawn button above camp
- Familiarity system now tracks Monpedia photo scores per species
- Familiarity tier system added, changes to species AI per tier
- Familiarity interaction menu added for Monsutra panel and Headpats
- Monsutra functionality added, tracking Sex SO discovery
- Monsutra interaction panel added
- Added autofellatio masturbation animations
- Added grass flattening to masturbation animations
- Added tiny classification Female and Male animations for Hunting and Spored purposes
- Added Photographer jumping locomotions and systems
- Added Cliff jumping system, running against cliffs is safe, and jumping from cliffs allows falling
- Photographer Audio added for key prompts, sex, and idles
- Species Sex Audio added for Bunnets, Rudier, Lecho, Hoereno, Sweedee Caiadaly, Kokai, Furloin, Malous
- Spore plant added spawning rates and radius of spores need tweaking
- Spored species state added
- Hunting and Spored states now appear on photographs
- Monpedia Mating Tab categories changed, Sex Sleep removed for Hunting Acts
- Removed watch Radial Menu
- Removed gallery filters
- Removed favorite filters
- Removed delete from gallery
- Modified photo storage icon
- Added Guidebook UI icon and shortcut
- Added Map UI icon and shortcut
- Added Blue UI bounding box to Temp Photo Storage Icon
- Swapped Photo Submission to “Hold”, be safe before you attempt to submit Added Camera Options menu with tap “X” to view temp and saved photo galleries Added notification popup for submission attempt outside of beacon range
- Trap Plant SFX added
- Auto Save splash added
- Adult Content splash added
- Auto Save icon added
- Added additional tutorial prompts for new and upcoming features
- Added background blur to tutorial prompts
- Fixed camp tools tutorial prompt
- Penis size increased
- Added Campsite safe zone
- Map fixes for SO spawns
- Map fixes for SO optimizations
- Map fixes for food optimization
- Added new SO points for food
- Map fixes for bridge and walking paths
- New game fixes for Lunar Position
- Save fixes for time of day
- Modified Malous data entry
- Crash Log creation added to base EXE functionality
- Added EXE icon
- Fixed ADS softlock during capture bug
- Fixed player freeze softlock after using the option menu during gameplay
- Fixed camera handling issue post-capture
- Fixed camp under map post sex spawn Fixed options menu default reset button
- Removed hide player body option
- Corrected option texts for clarity
And so concludes the v022 aka the “sex patches” for Sapphire Safari! I originally expected them to be “micro-patches” which turns out was very foolish. Our attention will now turn to the launch on Steam, and the content needed there. This will be mostly focused on presentation, and the introduction sequence to the game.
I hope you all have an amazing Halloween! Stay safe!
Comments
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are all of the entries to the monsutra currently obtainable in game? i've so far not seen any of the positions where 3 participants are active and curious if those positions are even in this version of the game currently
Yes they are all in the game but they are not showing up as much as we'd like. The ai basically has to start them organically so we are tweaking it and should have it fixed in a few days along with some other issues.
Groovy, one step closer to healthy bonding time with the fluffy (and scaly) island denizens, and healthy sexual experiences with them too.
Happy belated spoopy day! You guys and gals rock as usual.
Thanks my dood!
Hi! I don't know if this is an amateur question but would having the .exe file allow for automatic updates or is that not possible from itch. io? Loving the game mechanics so far and each update is exciting!
Also me and my friend are having issues where scanning or submitting photos of species won't update the monpedia or the monstrua. I have one creature in there but I have no idea how it unlocked since I can't unlock anything else. I'm not sure if we're doing things wrong or if this is a glitch! Anything helps, thank you!!
Not sure I follow. Are you saying you cannot upload images to the Monpedia? Are you outside of beacon range? Perhaps try rereading the tutorials on the pause menu.
We can upload images just fine and I got it working but my friend did not. Sorry i'm terrible at explaining but we were having issues where taking pictures of Mons would not register them to the monpedia and poses won't register to the monstrua. It won't allow my friend to upload images to specific Mon pages and the familiarity meter isn't there (Because it doesn't unlock in the monpedia). Mine started working out of the blue one night but I have no idea how to help my friend out
Hey so you'll need to keep an eye open here for patches and download them as they come out. The game will not self update.
That's okay! I was just wondering if it was plausible anytime. Thank you :)
When taking photos of the different stones all over the map and transferring the last one, the game crashes, then I restart the game but after a few seconds it freezes again with an error message
Can you zip up your crash log and email to dave@kinkyfridays.com
you can find the logs here C:\Users\ {userName}\AppData\Local\SapphireSafari\Saved\Logs
Also please make sure your drivers are up to date.
sent
Thank you. Did you update the graphics drivers?
Has anyone reported any crashing yet? Cause to my shock at least in my very short test after re-downloading the latest version, the crashing at taking a picture every now and then hasn't happened yet.
I'm afraid to get my hopes up though.
We did a bunch of optimizing with systems in the build but if you do crash please zip up your crash logs and email em to me. It will help a great deal!
Damn the patch notes are popping off.
Tis the season for girthy patch notes