11/1/25 - Devlog (Patreon)

Howdy all! Sephra here first off, meant to get this up yesterday but was scrabbling to put a thing together to show you that would show off a thing I've been working on without giving away too much, BUT at the same time will give you a good idea the sort of thing it is:

Now that is an attempt at a maid outfit, hopefully the various fills show that off, and it's currently composed of the headpiece, the wrist bands, that thigh band, the main dress, the tights (or pantyhose if you fancy), the underwear and the shoes are all separate parts of the outfit; and as you can also see, there's going to be states of damage to them too, which is also the case with the tights but as it happens you can't really show that off properly without a pair of legs in them and I'd rather be horribly obtuse about it still than show you the character who inhabits this outfit; not to say this will be the only one of course, I'm just trying to subtly intone to you there's going to be various slots that can be mixed and matched and... anyway, all that aside I know we tend to get excitable about stuff we're trying out and then you end up with radio silence on it and it looks kind of dumb on our part so I've been trying to just keep this quiet as possible until I knew I'd be getting something out for you in regard to it; and if nothing else I'm happy to say I'm confident enough in getting this out for people to play a bit of soon that I want to start teasing it in this long winded way!

With that though I will turn over to Tib and their adventures in the code, watch this space etc. I'm very excited about putting out this thing and seeing what everyone thinks of it!

-S

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Hey everyone, it me, Tib!

First of all, I’m sorry for the slow progress on my part. I’ve been struggling with financial stuff and had to look for something on the side, but that didn’t work out, so now I’m back on Predation full swing!

Lately, I’ve been getting the AI into a more finished state since, more or less, that’s the last piece of the puzzle now. Once I have all that figured out, we just need to put the maps back together and add extra detail, the fun bits! I’ve also been experimenting with Sephra on more complex transportation systems in maps, such as large cargo lifts, and soon the teleport room will be usable as well, some of you might’ve already seen it in the underground section!

Of course, I’ve been learning a bit more when it comes to C#, trying to get better at coding overall. Turns out making games is both really taxing and difficult, even when you’re making a relatively simple 2D game. I’m starting to accept that not every part of the game needs to be perfect, it just needs to work so there’s a playable, hopefully fun game on the other side for everyone to enjoy.

But, as I said, I’m back on Predation now full force, and I’ve set a personal deadline of the 12th of next month (November) for when I’ll push a new update for the game! I can’t quite tell what the update will contain, but I’ll do my best to add some new things and fix some of the bugs that others have reported.

One last thing! We’ve decided to disable the community features on our Itch page completely until Itch gives us proper tools to moderate bots spamming our page with malicious links.

Once again, thank you all for your support, and don’t forget, if you have any questions or issues, feel free to reach out to us on our Discord server ( https://discord.gg/hornedlizardstudios )!

Thank you <3