Overview:
Welcome to our first game set in the town of Horton Bay!
Our main character, Jake (or nickname of your choosing) Rogers, finds himself at the end of his final school year and ready to head off to his local university along with his long term girlfriend and best mate.
That is until everything gets turned on it’s head and forces him to change his plans!
Now with seemingly few options, he decides to travel to the other side of the country to the coastal town of Horton Bay, where he can start fresh and try to rebuild a new life for himself!
He’ll explore the town and meet interesting new people. Get himself a job and an education. Even find himself getting caught up in the middle of a ruthless crime war!
But most importantly, he gets to start the first chapter of the Horton Bay Stories!
Thank you for your interest and we hope you’ll like it enough to stick around for more!
Thread Updated: 2024-11-06
Release Date: 2024-10-12
Developer: Lumphorn Games Buy Me A Coffee – Discord – Subscribestar – Patreon
Censored: No
Version: 0.4.8.2
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac
Language: English
Genre:
Installation:
Changelog:
Fixed: Abigail correctly appears on the map at 21:00 outside BurgerBaps on weekends.
Fixed: Time now correctly passes 1 hour after playing guitar with Claire at her house.
Fixed: If returning Claire’s stolen guitar, can no longer jam with her before actually giving it back to her.
Fixed: Claire no longer mentions coming over for a jam while her guitar is missing.
Fixed: Band Practice can now be started by walking into the music classroom on Fridays at 14:00 as well as using the Club UI button.
Fixed: Background music no longer stops during band practice after the first visit.
Fixed: During morning sex with Adel, after cumming inside of her, the final two lines of dialogue no longer repeat.
Fixed: Removed Christine’s speech button when talking to her in her room in the mornings.
Fixed: Edited Amber’s NPC guide for clarity when trying to continue Bethany’s arc.
Fixed: Edited Gemma’s NPC guide for clarity when waiting to meet her outside of Music Class.
Fixed: When having sex with Lana in your backyard, her creampie count now correctly updates.
Added: Drama Club – Tuesdays at 14:00.
Added: Visit Molly in her bedroom at night (or very early morning) – Options vary depending on if you’ve had sex with her yet or not. Also requires that the Randall’s House location has been unlocked.
Added: New Adel/Thomas NTR event 23:00 – Your bedroom (Requires Adel dating Thomas, evening dishes not washed and at least 20 Adel corruption points).
v0.4.7.1
).Fixed: With NTR OFF, you’ll no longer jump to an NTR event when cleaning up the Gym at 18:00.
Fixed: Gaining Uni class attendance score outside of uni will no longer count towards your weekly attendance score if accrued on the weekend (Rhea/Stacey/Claire).
Changed: Martin/Shelley NTR scene is now available in dreams menu (need to play event again to unlock if already seen).
Changed: Tramp/Alicia desk fuck event is now repeatable after discovering Tramp’s identity (Objective triggers on Mondays while in the Uni Art wing hallway, but can be completed on any day during uni hours).
Changed: Can now can sleep til the next day in your bed at any time.
Changed: The Dream menu can now be toggled on or off from the wardrobe in your bedroom instead of prompting every time you sleep.
Changed: The ‘Go to Class’ button that appears in the mornings is now available from 06:00. If used before 09:00, you will automatically get showered and ready to leave, and time will jump to 09:00 before asking if you’d like to walk to Uni with anyone.
Added: Guitar practice with Claire (Requires offered to teach her during music class). This event will also make up for music class attendance if you missed it that day.
Added: Band Practice – Fridays 14:00 at Uni (Requires Grade 3 Music or higher).
Added: New dreams (Chase Taylor NTR).
Added: Corruption tracker for Maxine.
Added: New event with Rhea at the Library (requires Steve’s Art club painting of Rhea complete plus one other event to be unlocked).
Added: Rhea and Joan event (Rhea’s flatmate).
v0.4.6.2
Fixed: Several typos.
Fixed: Christine blowjob count now changes after Lucas invites you to join in in the livingroom at 22:00.
Fixed: Map and Location screens now automatically close when starting Amber’s first event in her bedroom.
Fixed: Can no longer speak with Didi or Marie before the first day of University.
Fixed: The Bowling Arcade will now become available on the map by entering the building (previously only unlockable during Mika’s arc).
Fixed: Speaking to Rhea at the library from the reception desk no longer breaks the event.
Fixed: The objective to accompany Adel on her first day of work can now ONLY be started from the Dining Room in the AFTERNOON, as intended.
Fixed: After completing your first day at Uni, you no longer have the option to remain in free roam before beginning the following event. (This was left over from an early update where the two events were separated by a month of development time, but should have been played back to back.)
Fixed: After saving Crystal outside the Nightclub, there is now a UI alert informing the player of updated Objectives.
Fixed: If you’ve already unlocked the Cock and Ball Pub location before the first weekend party event, you’ll no longer be informed that you’ve unlocked the location a second time during it.
Fixed: During the first party, if you end up with both twins at the end of the night, the blowjob sequence no longer skips to the wrong stage when cumming.
Fixed: Can no longer speak with Crystal at the pub before you’ve been introduced.
Fixed: After visiting Christine’s room during the morning while Lucas is also in bed with her, Christine’s events should no longer be broken for the rest of that day.
Fixed: If used the video of Gemma in the shower as part of the price of Adel’s toy, you can no longer resell that video again to Justin afterward.
Fixed: (?) If you progress Adel’s personal arc too far before she begins working at the bank, the objective should still now be completable.
Changed: New character model for Sophie.
Changed: On Saturday mornings, you can now visit Christine’s bedroom at any time and choose to skip to noon to take her on a beach date (after already taking her at least once).
Added: 8 new photos to sell to Justin.
Added: 1 new video to sell to Justin.
Added: 3 new characters to the phone. Arabella, Lionel and Mikayla.
Added: New Head Mistress and ‘Tramp’ event (available 7 days after completion of first event – for existing saves, the 7 day timer begins on load).
Added: New interior location – The Boardwalk Cafe (Complete first 4 weeks of Art Club with Amy and Rhea to unlock)
Added: Repeatable Regan event at the cafe 14:00 (available after unlocking via Art Club).
Added: NTR option for Regan cafe event.
Added: First phase of Art Club events (weeks 1-4 with Amy and Rhea).
Added: Alternate Art Club event (Polly – Week 4+).
Added: NTR Art Club event (Polly – Week 4+).
Added: New dream – Lionel (NTR).
Added: New dream – Steve (NTR).
v0.4.5.3
Changed: All PURCHASED books will now grant intelligence up to 30 (max one point per day). The ‘read random magazine’ option in you bedroom bookcase is still capped at 20 intelligence.
Added: Completed Leia’s bookshop events – 2 paths, vanilla or NTR (both can be played out, however, only one of the two endings can be played).
Added: Dream scene (Justin – NTR)
Added: Dream scene (Leia)
Added: Ask Shelley about after class activies schedule.
Added: Chess Club available at 14:00 on Wednesdays in the Maths class room (requires maths grade 3 or higher).
Added: UI button to jump straight to a Uni club activity at 14:00 (replaces the ‘Begin Classes’ button) – Changes depending on day and only available while at Uni.
Added: Next main story event.
Note: While you can complete this event after reaching the basic requirements asked for on the objectives screen (Asking Tania to dance at the NightClub), advancing her relationship further than that before continuing the main story will show different scenes in this event depending on progression. There are also subtle differences with NTR turned on/off.
Added: Wake Christine up for sex (requires at least 20 Attraction points).
Added: Alternate version of Christine’s night sex event – After getting rid of Lucas, have cheat mode active and Lucas toggled back on.
This event belongs to an arc that likely won’t be completed for a little while, but is included now (dependent on cheats) for those of you who want it.
v0.4.4.2
Changed: Shelley’s NPC guide updated
Added: Speak to Shelley at the university reception desk.
Added: Shelley can now be found in the university girl’s changing rooms at 17:00 after work.
– Multiple stages.
Added: Meet Shelley for drinks at Salty’s Beach Bar – 18:00
– Multiple stages.
Added: New character to phone – Joan.
Added: Sex with Gemma in the Utility Room at 17:00 weekdays (Chat with her) – Requires Met Gemma’s parents.
Old Changelogs: Here
Developer Notes:
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.
This month’s update patch will ONLY update your game from v0.3.10.3 or above.
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Extras: Promo Video – Official Walkthrough – Italian TL* – Spanish TL* – French TL* – Portuguese TL*
*This unofficial port/version is not released by developer, download at your own risk.
