*Journal

Fan Art page updated – 3 new pics from Kit Hawking!

Fan art page updated! – Big thanks to our buddies Len and Kit 😀

Common Grounds has been out and about for one whole year.

Wow…

It has been a fun adventure. We are forever grateful to all of you for the support. It is something we never want to take for granted, and I’m always at a loss for words to properly express how we feel about it.

I’ve recently figured out how best to go about expressing it, and that’s a growing excitement about beginning work on Common Grounds 2.

We have taken many notes about your thoughts and what you’d like to see, and are looking forward to making the next one something we can be even more proud of. I can’t wait!

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House of Tail Update

But first we have to finish House of Tail.

Have just about finished the level-up menu and related features. Want to let you know we’re still on top of it and this is going to happen!

(And for the rest of the team not to kill me for taking so long… one whole year without another game! We can’t let this happen again!! Totally my fault though ^^;)

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Oh, and I suppose since it’s been a year, it’s now okay for us to write a post-mortem on making Common Grounds. Just something like “5 things that went right / 5 things that didn’t”. No idea if or when this will happen, but it’s something we’d like to do.

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.

(click to view full sized image)

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.

It’s an interesting time for small studio furry gaming. We’ve recently been told about several projects trying the crowd-funded angle and thought we’d pass it along.

Just a note, but none of these are adult-oriented. None! Not a single one ;_;

“Inherit the Earth 2” — “*un*Lukcy 7” — “Beasts Fury”

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!