*Journal

Quick update to let you know that Avast anti-virus should no longer treat Common Grounds like it’s a virus by their next update.

They took a look at it (indeed), and gave us the good news. Hopefully that will be that, and we really appreciate you bringing things like this to our attention 🙂

Hi! How’s it going?! Good, good. Us? ho ho ho…

We’re finishing up writing House of Tail’s story. It’s… pretty long. Let’s not take this long again, okay? Okay!

The next character preview will contain the ‘main 4’ and I’ll post it once we’re happy with the main character’s costume. It’s been tricky, as we’ve been ‘cheating’ a lot by not even bothering with costumes for most characters.

Until then, take a peek at this: secret preview image to show we really are doing something with that list of games you helped us with a while ago.

Can sort it, filter results by gender, completion, a host of things. Can click the images to show/hide info. It moves around like some fancy iPhone app. Can’t wait to show you.

What remains is to go through each game and fill out the details. The tags will be very fluid and up-for-change, and I’m sure we might miss some, or could better word it. Looking forward to your input when it goes live~

Barmaid Ex-Fighter JacquelynMysterious Servant Nabie

Librarian Healer SalvineGym Trainer Basio

Story character sketches — Batch 2 of 3, one more to go~

Jacquelyn – Former soldier who ended her career early to work at the town’s pub. She’s had enough of the adventurer’s life. Unless, perchance something were to happen that might convince her to team up with you one last time.

Nabie – Why am I showing you her?! It’s a secret! Forget she’s here. She doesn’t even live in the kingdom. They’d probably mistake her for a monster.

Salvine – Works at the library and hospital, and is the town’s local healer. He’s in a relationship with Basio, and Wiseluck despises him for it. Wouldn’t it be funny if Wise needed his help and had to recruit him? Cause he just might.

Basio – Trains your characters at the gym. Is up for adventure if asked.

What does it all mean? We’re crazy, for starters. And we’re working in some variety to the game’s setup. It will be an adventure, for sure. Has been one already in making it~ ha ha… ha ._.

Princess SeraphinaPrince Noriel

Royal Bodyguard BartlemanMaster Wizard Wiseluck

What would a fantasy rpg kind of game be without some royalty?

Here we have the prince and the princess, rulers of Branchland. Sort of. It’s slightly complicated. You see, there was a war their kingdom lost and their parents died in it. Don’t feel too bad, it all happened before they could even walk.

And what would royalty be without some servants to do their bidding? Bartleman is the personal guard of the prince, who seems to need it more than the princess. The royal wizard Wiseluck acts as the princess’s advisor, who handles the affairs of the crown more than her younger brother.

Wiseluck is also your starting boss. And he gets his own chapter later on. You even get to help him with the mess that is his personal love life.

Future Updates Plan

The story is in draft mode, meaning we’re making sure it all fits together and nothing stands out as ‘out of nowhere’ or breaks the tone/narrative. Because of this, the beginning will likely receive the most changes and reworks to line up with all the plot points later on.

Even so, we know you’ve been waiting for another update and we’d like to try to give you the tutorial and first chapter next. After that, it would hopefully be the entire story mode, complete with actual sound and music. Then comes a finished casual mode and extras, like an image gallery. And somewhere in there a chance to commission your own characters into the game.

Whew. Typing all of that makes it seem like a long ways away, but we’re definitely getting there. This is going to happen!! No brakes on the game making train~

Just found out our contact form hasn’t been forwarding some emails since March 🙁

It should be fixed now. Just in case, I’ve changed the wording: if you don’t receive a reply, please email us at “support@fupoco.com” directly.

I’ll be going through the ones we missed. It’s one of the things I enjoy about fupoco and want us to get right. We know it’s not fun when you email someone and never get a reply.

Again, very sorry about this. Will keep an eye on it.

Busy busy busy

Hi! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Here’s what we’ve been up to:

House of Tail

Been working on this pretty much everyday…

Our focus has been implementing the story mode. There are a lot of characters and scenes, much more than Common Grounds.

Sometimes it feels like this is going way overboard, but it should make for a much better experience and elevate the genre into something more than naughty pictures. We can only hope…

I’ve picked up some new coding tricks in the way of shaders, which should give the game that clean modern look that makes newer 2d games seem… well, modern. Because of this and time constraints, we’re not worrying with the online version of the game currently. We’d rather focus on making one good-looking version than juggling two. We might come back to it when things are finished. Was cool to see it was possible at least, right?

Game List

We’re working on a game list page for all those furry porn games mentioned in the forums. The code is in place, can filter/sort things, just need to put in the actual entries. Can already tell what tags to use will be tricky. And things like, should we put a date of release? Would be hard to gather that info.

We’d like to help promote and give these kind of games more attention. Maybe have some fun with silly reviews of them too. But our priority is to finish House of Tail.

Lack of Updates

We would love to update more. It’s just a tricky thing. We don’t plan to make HoT one of those games that gets all these updates where we work on it for the next ten years. We also do not want to bore you with all the silly things that don’t translate into good screenshots or don’t spoil the story.

All of that is lame excuses, I know. Next up, let’s begin introducing the main characters of HoT!!

Work on House of Tail continues…

Early story scene example
(looks like Sebastion’s penis is doing the talking…)

We have the story fleshed out and are still slaving away putting it all in. Thought I’d take a break to show you some examples!

Above you can see cutscenes will be able to fit many characters, and they’re all skippable– (a lack of which always drives us nuts when playing games, we hope you appreciate this effort.) Ideally we’ll be able to work in some kind of backdrop behind the characters so you won’t see the game maps during them.

There will be choices

Something we wanted to improve upon from our last game was to include more cutscene choices. It’s tricky because we like to design our games where you make important choices in the core gameplay, but we can’t deny text choices are a lot of fun.

While they might offer slight branches in plots, (this isn’t a visual novel guys,) they’ll mostly be for amusement, how you want to define your relationship with characters, and getting easy stat boosts game-wise. Like, choosing between a response that boosts your charm verse teasing someone to boost your sex stat.

And thanks for hanging in with us, this is happening! We’re doing it!!

Pics or it didn’t happen? OKAY

We had a blast, much was learned and experienced, and almost all of our magnet patch things were given away! Many thanks to our secret friend for letting us use table space, and thanks to everyone brave enough to grab one with the display hidden in the back corner. It’s hard to read, but all it says on that silly 8bit tree house is “Secret Fan Club”.

What’s next? House of Tail completed, we hope 🙂

(Please give us a day or so to get through your emails and messages, working on it!)

Cool vintage cut homemade patch magnets to be given away at FWA

FWA ’14

We’ll be away at the FWA convention in Georgia. Apologies in advance to anyone expecting a quick reply from our contact page. We will resume normal operations Wednesday 26th.

Thanks to Whry and his embroidery skills, we will have some official fupoco patch magnets to give away. I know it’s a short notice, but we weren’t sure if we’d have the time (or if it was even feasible) to make some until this week. Talk about last minute! ha ha…

Funny side note: the stitching break in the “o” in “.com” was at the top for some of them, which made it look like “.cum”. Totally unintentional and not classy. I tried my best to fix them. I’m sure they could be collectible mistakes people can make fun of us with. We don’t mind, it’s all good and our goof.

The title menu has been in need of an overhaul for a while. We’re not quite finished, but you can see that the characters have been moved to the corners and will move in circles instead of up and down, (hiding the cut-offs.)

And the chapter screens will have a lot more info, like star icons noting what you were able to do, to give the game some replayability, (and maybe requirements for a best ending~)

When you complete a goal, you’ll receive a message and possible rewards to choose from. The game should feel a lot more fleshed out next update~

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And special thanks to everyone helping flesh out the list of furry porn (or just sexualized/mature) games over on the forums (topic/furry-porn-game-master-list/).

It’s getting to be a decent size, and we hope to do some fun things with it ^^