Hey there, everyone!
At long last, the latest version of In Her Own Hands (version 0.6.0) is now available to the public!
Any necessary bugfixes will be incorporated in the next release (0.6.1 ), expected to be completed within the next two weeks. The official Walkthrough and Scene Guide for the updated game will be finished and released to Patrons at $9 and above in the next few days. Become a patron or upgrade today to be the first to get the Walkthrough and Scene Guide when it’s available!
Public download (v. 0.6.0): Mega.nz – or Play Online Now!
This update continues our development of “Devilish Dad” and introduces an entirely new, S&D exclusive game feature: the Kink List, Modeled after real-life communication tools within the BDSM community, this interactive tool allows players to customize sexual activities and other aspects of kink within In Her Own Hands in a personalized Kink Diary. By prompting our female protagonist to flesh out what she’s REALLY into (pun intended) and define her physical boundaries, we aim to create an interactive experience where you, as the player, enjoy gameplay that is grounded in the best of sex, physical intimacy, consent, and your preferred kinds of kinky fun between sexual partners.
In addition, version 0.6.0 focuses on the Jasmynn path, adding a large multi-part sequence involving a number of characters in the game and a significant development in our protagonist’s involvement in this space. As the path continues, this will have implications for her job, financial commitments, relationships, and more.
Inspired by your patron poll results, this update also includes a lot of “quality of life” additions, focused on interactions with the roommates in various conditions. This includes two scenes with Bobby, one of which has three variations and three different options within those variations. We continue to add media around the apartment to reflect different wardrobe choices and, though there is still work to be done in this area, we have made significant progress.
We are also continuing to review and revise how statistics are calculated and integrated into the gameplay, and this update has two relatively significant changes in that regard. And finally we have continued to make minor aesthetic changes and fix bugs as we are made aware of them. The changelog below records all of the notable updates.
Just as a reminder, if you are a returning player and would like to load a saved game from a previous version, don’t forget to use the “Update Save” option in the sidebar menu. The ideal way to play is from the beginning, but the “Update” option should work.
As always, if you find any errors or bugs that managed to sneak past us, please post them in the #Bug-Reporting board on Discord, message us directly here on Patreon, or email us at bugs@surprisedelightme.com. A description and/or screenshot, as well as the save game file of the game in which the error occurred, will help us locate and fix the error. Thanks!
Enjoy!
Surprise & Delight
Changelog, v. 0.6 (spoiler-free)
- Series of events for the first “real” date for Jasmynn.
- The next date with Mr. Jones (“Devilish Dad”), including the introduction of a significant new function for customizing this path (Kink Diary).
- Scenes for visiting Bobby in his room reflecting certain wardrobe choices.
- New items added to the Wardrobe.
- Purchasable items added to the Liquor Store.
- Added ability to be rehired by jobs that had been previously quit (with some strings attached).
- New way to avoid scheduling conflicts across different paths, so that two events are not scheduled at the same time.
- Removed some “special” links for Abby events, so that they will now trigger in appropriate locations when expected.
- Added interaction with Abby to introduce Dive Bar.
- Added ability to invite Abby to hang out at Dive Bar via text message at any time after it is introduced, with three new variant scenes.
- Added ability for Abby to invite protagonist to Dive Bar at random times after it is introduced.
- Added Dive Bar as a functional location where protagonist can drink alone after it is introduced, with two variant scenes.
- Added new variant scenes for protagonist peeking on Shaun.
- Added new porn and literotica options on laptop.
- Added two extended sample erotica ebooks, in partnership with (real) erotica authors The Secret Submissive and Alexa Sommers.
- Various new wardrobe-responsive images around apartment.
- Modified calculation of “Romance potential” for characters to also reflect protagonist’s Romance statistic.
- Modified Cassidy’s invitation to occur automatically when prerequisite statistics have been met, rather than randomly after prereqs met.
- Limited impact of various activities on Inhibition and Corruption statistics.
- Fixed error where Bobby would try to collect rent after midnight, so that he will now only try to collect rent after 6:00am.
- Fixed error where you could visit James for booty call if Naked (which allowed you to be outside naked).
- Fixed error where the day of Cassidy’s date would repeat if protagonist spent the night.
- Fixed numerous minor bugs and typos.
