The Judas Ghost [Ch.2 P1 v1.3.10] [Lockheart]

3DCG, Adventure, Animated, Big ass, Big tits, Dating Sim, Fantasy, Groping, Handjob, Humor, Masturbation, Male Protagonist, Mystery, Oral Sex, Paranormal, Point & Click, Religion, Romance, Sandbox, Teasing

Planned tags

Harem, Footjob, Graphic Violence, Male Domination, Milf, Monster Girl, Pregnancy, Puzzle, Spanking, Sex Toys, Vaginal Sex, Virgin, Voyeurism

On Mac: Delete app

On PC: Delete installation folder

On Android: Make a backup of your save folder, then deinstall the app as detailed in your device manual

Most often, long-tab the app icon and select “Uninstall”

On startup and every 6 minutes, the game checks if an update is available. This might take a bit, depending on your internet connection.

If an update is available, you will find that info and an update button on the right side of the main menu, where the current version number is shown.

On startup of the app, you will be asked if you want to install the latest version of the game. To do so, select “Yes” or skip to the main menu with “No”.

You will find your current app version in the main menu. Check this thread to find out what the latest game version is.

v1.3.10 – Chapter 2 (Part 1)

In this update we have quite a few mechanics. One of them is a dark room scene where a flashlight is used. For some reasons, probably the transformations for highlighting interactibles/collectibles, the solution I currently use tends to flicker every now and then. I will see if I can find or code a different solution or just make the room a bit darker and less saturated instead of completely black.

When Cockadoodle IV and Sun Spark are done:

In my head Sun Spark is always “Sparkle” for some reason… Just wanted to mention it, in case I didn’t get all the typos.

Chapter 2 starts, when each character’s last quest of chapter one is finished. If you already finished with them, just loading the game, will start chapter 2. There will be a chapter update screen and the player will be put directly into Zach’s bedroom, starting a new day. This will automatically start “Mirror Mirror”. (Depending on tester feedback, I may place the character outside, so they can start the event manually or play Vibe Prize first.

Vibe Prize is mechanically the most complex part in this update. It has a “Skip minigame” button in the bottom right of the screen, to skip the “dark room and word puzle part”. Partly, the button is there, in case navigating through the flashlight scene is to much of a hazzle on mobile. Anyway, here’s how to get through this part of the game:

300+ renders, 20 animations

Additional notes and summary:

The release version 1.2 introduces a new scene that should have played after “Gemma — Booty” and before “Gemma — Salacious”. If a player already progressed Gemma’s story up to “Gemma — Salacious” or further, the new scene will be triggered the next time MC visits their room. This might trigger the event immediately if the prerequisites are fullfilled and the player saved in MC’s room.

If the player is able to trigger “Gemma – The right medicine” before playing “Gemma – How to be a good girl”, there might be an issue with above triggers. In that case, please report the issue, so that we can have another look. It should be fixed, but reality is a cruel beast.

Generally, this issue does not break the game, but is inconsitent story telling for those two events, if played in the wrong order.

Now, even though we provide a quest progress tracker and just in case, the player should play until the questlog (“Notebook”) tells the player that there is no new content available. Some events are delayed and are not immediately available after having played the precursing event. Those are rare and the maximum delay should be one in-game night of rest. These “empty time slots” should get less and less, as we add content and repeatable events.

With the release of version 1.2.0 a new mechanic is introduced, that lets players chose the event they want to play, if the location has multiple events available at a given time. The player can also return to freeroam, which might trigger a priority event, that would start automatically otherwise.

Also, with version 1.2.0 another mechanic is introduced to start an event. For those, the player has to initiate a dialogue with Judy in MC’s room and pick the highlighted choice. The notebook should hint at those events by telling the player something along the lines “I should talk to Judy.” or “Judy might know more about this.”

Fixed “Cindy — Melting Ice” not progressing two phase two.

Fixed “Judy — In need of Essence II – Blowjob” causing a “ingorable” grey screen at the end.

Fixed “Gemma — The Right Medicine” to restart after an in-game nights of rest.

Fixed an event description

Fixed some quest and event description

Added skip functionality to textbox.

Added APK update functionality to start-up of game on APK/touch

Added button to activate/deactivate name input in settings screen

Added navigation to in-game settings to access load/save on touch screens.

Updated quest description for “Judy — Judy’s Needs”

Fixed an issue in “Gemma — How To Be A Good Girl”, that used a wrong name variable for MC.

Removed a “debug entry” from the Notebook for “Minerva — Painting”

Added option to rename the character for the gallery.

Added option to rename the character in the in-game settings. This is the settings screen from the icon in the bottom right of the freeroam UI, not the main menu settings.

Changed the tooltip for Judy’s essence generator events.

Updated Ren’Py version from 8.2.1 to 8.2.3

Changed Sienna’s gift box to an outfit doll wearing the correct lingerie.

Reintroduced Cindy’s “Care for MC” level to have better event flow control for Cockadoodle.

Added missing “Gemma — How to be a good girl”

Removed event delay from “Judy — My Space” and reduced it to one day for “Judy — To Taunt And Protect”

Fixed navigation issue on staircase, moving to 2nd floor east hall instead of west hall.

Fixed coin located in 1st floor east hall.

The jewellery box didn’t give the player a coin, even though it should have. If the player loads a save where this event has already played out, the player will be rewarded with the appropriate coin on load.

Removed repeating Cockadoodle events from sleeping in MC’s room.

Added quest progress counter to the “Notebook”.

Added replay labels for a better way to start events from the gallery without unlocking them. This should make the unlock mechanism revertable.

Testing and fixing of in-game updater

Added filters to gallery.

Added unlock function to gallery.

Added base gallery mechanics

Removing some time and “affection” constraints from events.

Added quest “Judy — Judy’s Needs”

Added event “Judy — Leather X”

Added event “Judy — In need of Essence III”

Added quest “Gemma — Freckleback”

Added new mechanic, that requires to actually start a dialogue with Judy to trigger an event.

Added new mechanic, that opens a choice menu, if multiple events are available in a location at a given time.

Added item for Gemma questline

Added quest “Gemma — Goblin”

Added quest “Gemma — Stabilizing”

Added mechanic to replay new events added to already partially or completely finished quests.

Fixed some typos

Fixed an issue where the player character used the speaking textbox instead of using thoughts

Fixed issue where players couldn’t find Cindy’s luggage

Fixed time period override to limit Minerva’s Date Night Dinner to evenings and night time

Fixed several typos

Added prerequisite stage 10 for Cindy — A little attention please!

Added placeholder quest To be continued…

Added placeholder “Story continues in next update.” and “There are more events available.” to quest log

Fixed several typos

Adjusted namebox to use full width of the textbox

Added missing icons for map events that still used placeholders

Added icon to Windows executable and MacOS app

Fixed several typos

Changed label “Zach’s room” to “Your room” on the map

Updated patch routine

Adjusted delay for quest start To Taunt and Protect

Added override for the time period prerequisit for events

Fixed auto-trigger for Minerva’s Date Night setup

Removed 2nd floor available prerequisite for Sienna’s trigger for A Favor — Panties to start

Added prerequisite A Favor — Panties and Judy — My Space completed for A Favor — Chess

v.1.1.1 — combined release with v1.1.2 beta

Recoding of the original release

~4500 lines of code for screens & mechanics

~2500 lines of that as pure Python code/classes

50k words

1000+ stills

20 animations

Cindy

Minerva

Befuddled Part 1 – 3
Cured complete

Painting Part 1 – 3
Datenight complete

Judy

Shop overhaul

Essence Generator overhaul

Sienna

The code development for The Judas Ghost started in Summer 2022. In November 2023 complications ended the development on the original version of The Judas Ghost and a new programmer joined the team.

The decision was made to completely rewrite the code base of the existing game, leaving nothing but the story and art and some minor code snippets that were useful still.

We have set the game on hold. As of writing this, we want to focus on the next Over the Moon release before going forward with The Judas Ghost.

The game is still in early stages after a complete code remaster. One of the next steps is to polish the UI and adapt it for better use on mobile devices. An Android port will follow, ideally as self-downloading app.

A cloud synch functionality to move your saves from one device to another is planned.

As forum contact, please @ RiamMar. Since he is responsible for UI and code, any bugs should also be reported to him. We have a publisher Discord server with a dedicated bug-report channel, too.

Thank you for your interest in our game!

Story & Art: Keys to my Lockheart

UI & Code: RiamMar

Publisher: Heart of the Keyforge

Currently, the game does not use the Ren’Py updater or cloud sync.