balls

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

the game has balls now. and different bowls. while i was at it, i switched to something completely unrelated and made mares' bellies start showing through their fluff sooner in the pregnancy instead of just right at the end. then, right after writing this, i fucked around. naturally, that didn't end well for the fluffies.

it started out reasonably hugboxy. i put four fluffies in a room similar to the one above, but with just the heart stuff instead of all of the new items. there were two males and two females, and as fluffies tend to do in this game, they fucked. then, they had babies. as i observed the babies, i thought about what to do with them, because the room was too small for eleven fluffies. then, i got an idea. i built some small, windowless rooms and put the five juvenile foals, including a sixth from the next litter, in solitary confinement, cutting something off every time i fed them.

eventually, i had cut off the foals' tails, cutie marks, and both of their legs. after that, i started giving them meat. first, it was some foals i had mysteriously found dead in the main room. then, it was blind, deaf, pillowed fluffies from the next litter, with only their cutie marks remaining. then, i started spawning random fluffies and killing them in front of my cannibals. after they became cannibals, they were moved into a dirt room next to the hugbox room, and for a while, i just fed them more random fluffies, sometimes pulling foals from the hugbox room as they matured.

for my finale, i created a window that let the hugbox room fluffies see into the cannibal room. from that point onward, hugbox juveniles were dragged into the cannibal room, where the cannibals, who had long since forgotten all about their old families, killed and ate the foals in front of the adults. the hugbox mares' last litter was fed to the cannibals immediately upon birth, and then, when the foals ran out, the original hugbox adults. then, i got bored and closed it. what a shitshow!

after i did that, i went back to working on the game. the inventory system i had created with code borrowed from the building system was already pretty much done, and was basically just a copy of the building menu that controlled an expanded version of the old bowl-placing functionality instead of building.

good shit. all it needed was its own theme, which i would create later, because i'm a lazy fuck. after completely reworking the way poison effects worked, i made another fusion of the building menu and an old functionality and did the most horrible thing i've ever done.

that cowering animation has been in the game since the first release, but i've never used it for anything up until now. i feel like the dialogue here is pretty jarring compared to everything else in the game, which is what i was going for. what do you think?

this post has been almost entirely filler, so to give you something meaningful to read, i decided to take a break from the horrible shit and let the fluffies play with the balls. i replaced the running action in the wandering sequence with a new action where the fluffy tries to seek out a toy and complains about boredom if it can't find one. then, i added some code to the "collide with target" function to cause the fluffy to send a message to the toy. then, in the toy, any function named "play" would be triggered. the ball's play function threw it into the air. let's see that in action!

obviously, there isn't enough force being applied to that ball. after some tweaking...

that's more like it!