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A quick update showing the new and improved character info layout.

The old one is very, as we say ‘placeholder’ or ‘programmer graphics’. There probably will be other spots we can touch up after the release, but the goal is to release. And then do minor touch-ups and add more characters, maps, and things afterward, with an ear to what you’d like to see most.

The past few days have been wild, but I have been able to make some progress with the level-up screen and will hopefully have something to show next week~

Did we mention there will be leveling up characters? In the context of this game, it’s a character’s reputation or “Rep”, which in the current design heavily influences a character’s general ability.

A quick run-down of the basic stats:

• Charm – sometimes customers will pay a lot more for more charming characters, and it affects how well they can interact with others
• Sex – should be self explanatory~
• Hustle – affects most every job a little bit, sometimes more
• Smarts – affects stat growth and how effective items are
• Toughness – a general strength stat, how able a character is in combat and building things
• Obedience – determines if a character will do an assigned task, important to house workers

The stats on the right are special skills that vary greatly between characters. You can gain and increase them when you level up. Basic stats on the left increase at random depending on how you use the character.

Hi!

Just letting everyone know we addressed some text glitches some users were experiencing. And if you’re missing a XINPUT1_3 dll, the game should supply it so you don’t have to update DirectX.

This soft update has been uploaded, so you just need to download it again if either of those issues have bugged you.

And now that this is finished (we hope), expect much House of Tail progress reports and an impending release…

Common Grounds has been updated to version 1.4!

If you’ve purchased the game, you should have received an email from us, (if not, please let us know!) We hope this will be the last version and everything works for everyone forever. Thanks for your support 🙂

Side note:
We have to manually reactivate download links and send emails, so it might take some time for us to send them.

If you don’t receive download links in a timely fashion, (like in a day or so, no more than a week,) please let us know and we’ll try again!

Updating Common Grounds to version 1.4 (Read More…)

Finally got around to designing HoT’s logo…

The aim was something simple, classy, and ‘screams porno game’.

I know the easy-out would have been to do something with the “Tail”, like drawing an actual tail underlining the logo, but it’s too expected, right? I think this works better, playing on expectations, being subtle and leaving the graphic details to, well… the graphics.

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Screenshot of the title and main menu, (what I’m working on this week.)

The background and character columns scroll, and buttons float into position, all making it rather lively. I hope you will appreciate the little touches, have been putting my hands all over the code~ In a completely professional way, I assure you.

Updated the fan art page for Common Grounds, mostly with lots of pictures from Len Grey (many thanks!!)

Also added some reviews from the forums.

In other news, we’re still working on House of Tail. Or more specifically, it’s waiting on me to finish up my parts ;_; I will try to keep you updated and it shouldn’t take much longer (in theory). Will post some screenshots of where we’re at later~

Added two new sections to Common Grounds: Fan Art and Reviews.

Thanks to everyone who sent us something! If you’re interested in adding more, please let us know 😀

Wonderful Common Grounds fanart by Len Grey~

Hope you had a great year, and can’t wait to show you everything we have planned for the next one!

Two more pony characters added to House of Tail! I couldn’t stop. Still think the game needs more females, so am always open to ideas and/or parodies.

Currently finishing up the last bits of code, and fine-tuning the math. Will need to draw the map backgrounds, items, and a few story characters. And code the main menu / game select screen. Then onto beta-testing and release!

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Concerning offers to help…

You guys and gals are the best! We appreciate the offers to help and don’t want to discourage anyone, but we’re kind of in an odd position because we’re doing this professionally.

Upon spending a lot of time responding to these offers in the past couple of months, and discussing this topic with the team, we’ve decided it’s way past time to write some kind of official page to explain things. We’ll probably put it in the About Us page somewhere.

We do want to grow the team and talk about game ideas, but there are issues involved! Policy forthcoming…

Common Grounds FAQ Update

Updated Common Grounds’ troubleshooting faq about a “file is not opened for reading” error when you start the game, thanks to someone’s very helpful feedback.

Forum Anti-spam Countermeasures in place…

Finally got around to putting in a dozen or so traps and tricks to handle spam.

It will take some time to adjust things, so please, please let us know if you are unable to register or comment in the forums by using the contact us form.

Hiya! How’s it going?!

The user interface is drawn, most every character is in, basic functions are in place like dragging and dropping icons and viewing stats.

What you’re seeing here is the main house map, where you can assign characters to rooms, have them build new ones, and be maids or the master/mistress of the house. We’ll start with 3 maps, and will add more as we go along, with an ear to what you’d like to see.

We’re very happy to have the game running as smooth as lube in a web browser format. It’s very graphical and animated and audible. We’re hoping it will make it very accessible and easy to get into. I think our best innovation is the character icon and slot system.

There are quite a few games in this genre that I’d like to show you in a review format, and they’re very amusing and fun, but they also tend to be confusing and difficult to get into, (the porn helps.)

I hope the lack of constant explicit sex and extreme kinks everywhere won’t hurt House of Tail, would rather it feel more implied and play open-ended. Meaning: you get to use your imagination about sexual details and the game will try to stay out of the way and let it happen! XD

Well… back to work!