Download game Horton Bay Stories – Jake [v0.5.9.4] [Lumphorn Games]

v0.5.9.4

Fixed: During Bethany’s arc, once it’s time for her ‘birthday celebration’, her NPC guide will now correctly show the next step to take, but also, the scene will automatically start in your room when available (Sunday, midday).

Fixed: All of the missing phone bio screens have been restored.

Fixed: Several typos.

Fixed: You are now notified that you have met Jasper during your first meeting with him at Adel’s job interview, instead of later during the objective to bring her phone to work.

Fixed: Tilly will no longer be using the bathroom on weekend mornings at 09:00 if she is not currently living at the house.

Fixed: Brett’s occupation is now correctly labelled as ‘Construction Worker’ in his bio.

Fixed: Bug where giving tips to Jenny at the nightclub, credited Suki instead.

Fixed: Starting an after-school club event with a menu open, no longer breaks the UI.

Fixed: When using the bath or shower at 23:00, only one hour now passes instead of two.

Changed: After visiting Roy’s room more than once after skating lessons, a little more excess repeated dialogue has been trimmed.

Changed: Removed the Morality check for allowing Marcy to sleep on your sofa after allowing her to clean herself up at your house.

Changed: Removed the ‘Adel Virgin’ toggle from phone settings (it was only meant to be for testing purposes and is now redundant).

Changed: When walking into your house mate’s bedrooms without knocking, you will now only be able to lose 1 point of morality (for each room) per hour in game (to limit spamming for negative moral score).

Changed: Bear will now gain friendship points as you complete objectives with/for him. These currently inlcude, but will not be limited to, Retrieving Claire’s Guitar, Dealing with Lucas and Taking Delivery Jobs. Some points will be retroactively awarded for players who have already completed these objectives in their current saves, however only one point will be given for Delivery Jobs already completed, regardless of how many have actually been taken (literally impossible to calculate, new variable now added to track this stat).

Changed: Removed redundant dev note from the beach volley ball event before having gained any friendship points with the girls.

Changed: At 16:00, Amber and Marley’s dialogue can now be started from any beach sub-location.

Changed: At 11:00, Maddy’s dialogue can now be started from any beach sub-location.

Changed: Player will now be warned on the final day before contraceptive pills expire and morning after pill grace period expires.

Changed: After the 23:00 event in Adel’s room and you decide to spend the night in her room, you can now wake her again for more sex (sleep event).

Changed: Relaxing for 1 hour in your bed will now refresh your stamina (does not count when skipping to next time period).

Changed: When carrying more than £10,000 in your wallet, you will be prompted once a day to deposit your cash safely into the bank.

Changed: Fitness gains are no longer based solely on an activity, but rather your progression within the Gym. No gym membership/no gym job caps total stamina at 30. A membership/job will aloow a cap of 45 stamina. Future gym progression (personal trainer job) will increase max stamina to a cap of 60 in a later update.

Changed: After finding Marcy a place to live, her bio card will update to reflect her new situation.

Added: Can now interact with Jack and Jill at the Gym (sauna). NTR and non-NTR events included, however can still play out the non-NTR version when prompted if NTR is enabled.

Added: Lillie and Roy sharing event (NTR on). Requires going home with Roy and Lillie after skate lessons (skate park 14:00) and choosing to wait for Roy. The event will advance depending on both yours and Roy’s relationship score with Lillie.

Added: NPC Hints toggle in phone settings menu. This function enables or disables the NPC Guide section of the phone bio screen (very old saves may never have had this enabled).

Added: Climb into bed with Adel at night for sex (not currently available on ‘dark’ path).

Added: Mika comes to visit you at night (Requires that you’ve had sex with her on YOUR bed – currently this is only triggered during the DnD costume event. If you missed that, there will be another opportunity to enable it within the next few updates).

Added: New character – Digby.

Added: Stat bar to the UI. While active, this remains on screen until disabled. Can be toggled on or off using the in-game phone settings screen.
If any Energy Drinks are in your inventory, you can use them on the fly with this new feature. As well as keep on top of your main relevant stats without having to navigate through the phone to see them.
Turning the Stat Bar Toggle to OFF, will reset the UI back to how it was before, and can be toggled back on at any time while using the phone menu.
There is also a ‘temporary’ off switch located on the UI itself. This is intended to be used if you prefer having the bar enabled, but would rather it went away for ‘certain’ scenes. After using this button, the menu will re-appear automatically after changing locations in-game (which also typically happens automatically after most scenes end).

Added: Dora and Clementine can be found in the girl’s change room at Uni – 14:00 (requires at least one game of football played in the Uni Sports Hall at 14:00).

Added: Football event in the Uni Sports Hall, 14:00 weekdays.

Note: Currently, not all events will affect your stamina, and those that do, all use the same base line amount. In the future, more and more events will require and use up stamina points based on the activity. They are easily replenished via energy drinks, napping and sleeping through the night.
The same is true for Hygiene. Stamina and Hygiene loss can be toggled on or off using the Stat Decay Toggle on the phone settings screen.

v0.5.8.1

v0.5.5.4

Fixed: Frank should no longer appear at the gym on the town map if he’s been fired.

Fixed: Should no longer see objectives to ‘Check up on Frank’ after he’s been fired.

Changed: Photostudio can now be unlocked on the map after either speaking with Lola, when you meet her for the first time during dinner at Roy’s house, or Amber when she tells you how she lost her virginity during the contest between you and her stream fan (NTR on).

Changed: Fast travel side buttons on the town map have been redesigned and updated to include all latest new locations. Also, hovering over the side buttons will now highlight the relevant map marker location dot.

Changed: When fucking Lucy in her bath tub, new dialogue for letting Lucas know what you’re doing after you’ve seen the video of him and Melissa.

Changed: After the period between unsafe sex and the 7 day window to supply a girl with a morning after pill, you will now be notified if the girl has become pregnant, or not (33% chance for any pregnancy to take).

Changed: After unlocking all of Lucy’s content from the Yoga Class, you now have the option to skip to whichever part of the class you’d like when first entering the room (if you decide to skip the entire class, you’ll only gain Polly Friendship points and Fitness points).

Added: Go riding with Tilly (09:00) – NTR event (Requires Tilly/Liam Nightclub sex event unlocked).

Added: Go riding with Tilly blow job event.

Added: Go riding with Tilly sex event (Requires had vaginal sex with Tilly at least once).

Added: Homeless Camp location.

Added: Billboard Sign location.

Added: New Dream (Tilly).

Added: Tilly comes to you at night (Tilly advancement event – requires completed bike ride with Tilly at 09:00 and 14 attraction points).

Added: Can now fuck Tilly at the Night Club (requires already had vaginal sex with Tilly at least once).

Added: Tilly leaves the house (optional, one time event – will have implications later on (mainly NTR related), depending on choices).

Added: Tilly cleaning the livingroom event extended (requires had vaginal sex with Tilly at least once).

Added: Sex with Tilly in the swimming pool (requires had vaginal sex with Tilly at least once).

Added: Go and speak to your mother, now she’s had time to sober up – Main Story (different events depending on NTR availability and how far things have progressed with Lucas, if at all).

Added: Sex with Tilly at night (after waking her for a BJ, requires vaginal sex with Tilly at least once).

Added: New Dream (Lucas NTR).

Added: Mary (Tilly’s mother) comes looking for her daughter (currently only if you have rejected Tilly – alternative path coming later).

2022-04-01
Apologies for the unfinished event this month. The scenes with Carly took an insane amount of time to render out, leaving me with very little time to complete the rest of what I had planned.
If you have been focussing on Gemma’s or Adel’s arc, or you haven’t been working on any of your house mates’ relationships, you can still complete Episode 2 as intended. However if you’re focussing on Christine, you will need to wait for next month’s update to view her scene.
The final scene for each of the girls does not affect their general progression however. So you can still play out which ever scene you like to continue the game as usual.
Next update we’ll be tieing off as many loose ends as we can fit in from previous content in preparation for starting Episode 3.

Thanks again for your interest in our first game!
Lumphorn Games is a Husband/Wife team and we’ve been working on the idea of Horton Bay for a few years at this point, and it’s been through several iterations, however this is our first public release.
We’ve built the actual town ourselves from scratch and also composed and produced all of the music you’ll find in game.
There are a few scenes where we’ve used assets from the Daz store, such as the locations in the intro, the characters themselves and maybe a third of the props in the game. But it’s mostly our own work.
The town is about 40% complete at the time of writing this, which is enough for the purposes of this game. However we’ll be continuing to exand it throughout the course of Jake, and all of the stories to follow – of which I hope to be many. We already have outlines for several more games that we’ll focus on, as this one comes to an end.

The first release of Jake contains not only the prologue, but also the entire first episode! We’ve done this for a few reasons:
Firstly, we wanted to actually give you guys something to play! For me, there’s nothing worse than finding a game that you’re interested in and have it stop after 30 minutes of playtime.
Secondly, we wanted to prove that we’re serious about the scope that we’re promising. This is no small feat and we realise that. At the time of me writing this there are currently 57 locations and over 100 NPC’s in the game! That’s a lot of story to cover! And that brings us to the third point . . .
We wanted to prove to OURSELVES that we could do it. The amount of work has been insane and we’ve done it with very little acknowledgment or reward. And after it all, we still want to carry on!

For the first few releases, you’ll notice that the streets and various locations are a little . . . empty. But that will change as we move forward. Shops will open, people will be going about their lives and the town will generally feel more ‘lived in’.
The goal is to have a wide range of activities for any given hour of any day, but that takes time.
This is especially apparent during the weekends. For now, there isn’t a lot going on during Saturday and Sunday while in free roam. The main reason for that is because the first weekend is taken up entirely by the events of episode 1 and by the time you reach the second weekend you’ll likely have already played out most of the content from the first release. There are some events that can only be seen after a few weeks in game, but not many yet. But filling up the weekends is definitely near the top of our priority list!

I’d also like to quickly mention a couple of things:

NTR – Is it avoidable? Yep. Not only that, but you can also turn it off so you won’t even see it by accident. However, I will say this – Turning off NTR won’t just stop everyone else in the game from having sex. If you decide that you want to make another guy’s girlfriend your love interest, that’s fine . . . but he’s still going to fuck his girl!
For the most part, we’ve tried to keep the NTR elements as consequences of the choices you make. Or at least the true cuckolding side of it. I don’t particularly like using the term ‘NTR’ as a blanket description as it has a wide scale of meanings and implications, but there are already one or two discussions on here about that subject!

Sandbox – Why? Well, why not? I know a lot of people dislike sandbox games and that’s fine. So we’ve made concessions for that, the same as we have for NTR.
If you don’t like the sandbox elements of the game, you can simply not play them, at least for the most part.
We’ve made this game a hybrid of sorts, where the main story plays out just like any other VN. Linear-ish story with choices that influence the outcomes.
However, there’s also all of the side stories! And that’s where the sandbox comes into play. You don’t have to play them if you don’t want to.
Personally, I enjoy both Sandbox and NTR in games. I like the freedom to play my own way and to have consequences for the choices I make. But I also get it that a lot of people don’t. So we’ve given you, the player, a choice.

Does this mean we have to wait for months on end to get new content? – No. Granted, each episode will certainly take more than a month to make. But we’ll try our best to put out at least one update a month (barring disaster) and if we can’t, we’ll also do our best to let you know why and when you might expect one.
Even if an entire episode is incomplete, you’ll still get to see whatever progress we’re making as time goes by. Plus you’ll still have any new free roam content regardless of the completion of any givn main story episode.