New designs + 2 semi drastic decisions...

I found that I need most of new Gen 9 designs before fully working on Spankfolio, mainly for aesthetic reasons. Mr. Godinez will have to invest the savings and do the accountabily of many chars in Spankytown. Ms. Appleby, Queen Harl's, Ms. Schumann, and many more. There will be a screen with the investment profile of each char Godinez handles savings of accountant. And it would be better if it has an image and not just a name. I need at least another 5 and then begin all the programming of Spankfolio. Also, I had to finish the girls... and I'm very happy with the results. Above is Violet. Different hair and brows turned her from the girl next door to the "girl out of your league". Skin and makeup may change. I've tried a lot and most look amazing. Gen 9 is definitely a super Daz's improvement!

Greta. It took me almost a day, but it worth it because I'm completely satisfied with her. This one is far better to the previous one. If you can't see it that way, I need you to trust me, because this new look totally nails it with the story. There's a detail that might be too much for some of you, and if most of patrons don't like it, I can remove it. This nose-ring provides a good detail for her development, but it's something I can tweek a bit. Greta's tattoos and now the nose-ring, are not because she's fond of it, or she likes them. It's because it's a great way to piss off her classy-too-conservative-holy mom.

 ... the skirt gives the emo touch, and now she's like an Scottish punk.

 Nadya Slipchenko,

Is she a witch or just an ambitious woman who's playing the villain? The only thing I don't know is the color of the dress...

...and here's her Spankfolio's Invesment Profile. Marco will suffer with her, but for Mr. Godinez she will be a benign client.

Ms. Schumann

Her previous outfit rocked, so I didn't change anything except the high heels. She looks now more gorgeous, and I wished I had a teacher like her....

She looks fitter than the previous model. It's because she's also the wrestling trainer, and her role will become much more than just the favorite teacher. Her storyline is one of my favorites....

Drastic decision #1: Spankolyte

I was so excited about this project, to make a spanking parody of my favorite movies ever. I also invested around $100 in purchasing outfits, scenarios and chars. It was going to start: "Long time ago, in a Spankingverse far, far away..." However, in the last weeks, my motivation to do it has dropped significantly. As a hardcore fan, I've been very disappointed of the new show's quality (I wrote a small critic 2 posts ago), feel a bit sad and I eventually lost all interest in future shows and films. Anyway, I thought that my personal feelings should be put aside, and I was willing to do it. However, something pushed me to delay it indefinitely, and probably forever: the corporation of the mouse. They have been using their power to de-monetize the most popular youtube channels just for analyzing the show and "destroying" it, with no misogyny or any ----phobia... just harsh but very based critics that stick mostly about the poor writing, directing and acting. There's some whining and mockery from youtubers, as always, but the response from the showrunners and their friendly media, victimizing themselves and whining much harder than youtube critcs, makes them worse. Even though it would be fair use, as parody is allowed legally, this game would probably be more exposed than the previous ones and could be a potential super hit. But, if any from the corporation gets aware, I would be crushed immediately. Perhaps I'm exaggerating, but I don't want to put my small business in danger because of a powerful corp that's worse than 100 pirates publishing my full games on F95. The vibes around this project turned dangerous and dark, just like a the wise saying of a famous char from this beloved saga: "I have a bad feeling about this". I hope you understand.

Drastic decision #2. BRAVE KNIGHT 2.0.

Now, this means I will go fully into the Brave Knight version 2.0 after Spankfolio. I wanted to move to the traditional devs' business model (releasing the game by little parts) for Melvin super game. But with the decision to move all chars to Gen9, I can start since now. I will split Brave Knight 2.0 into 4-6 parts, one level at a time. Here are the pros and cons:

Pros:

1. You won't have to wait 6-8 months to get the game.

2. You will get content more frequently. My goal would be one patch per month, sometimes once every 2 months (depends on ammount of work).

3. All issues and bugs will be corrected for the next patch.

4. Feedback and improving. This one is probably the best, as I would be able to improve the game with all your feedback between patches.

4. (This is for me) I might get far more patrons, as this is how most people seems to prefer: spend little money per month, even the game in the end gets more expensive. The patch's releases will be scheduled by tier, as it's done everywhere. Siths and Master Jedis will get it immediately, Jedis one week later, Padawans, 2 weeks. Lower tiers will have to wait a month or two (depending on tier) to get the latest patch.

5. (This is for me too) Lessing the damage of piracy. I won't publish the first part on itch until you got at least the second. After finishing the first part, there will be a code. Without this code, nobody will be able to play the second part. If I get pirated the first part, then people would need to pay to get the second part as it won't be published anywhere but Patreon and Subscribestar.

Cons:

1. I know.... you won't get a finished product.

2. There may be a mess with the saved games between patches. I don't know if it will work and can't know until it's done. In any case, I will add a starting point with each new patch, so that nobody has to begin from scratch.

3. It might be boring to go through the same story for a second time... and this leads to #4

4. (This is for me) I will have to rethink the story so that going through for the same plot and events you already know, doesn't become boring. Also at the end of every patch there must be a small climax/cliffhanger.

And of course, there will be

Renders slowed down

I haven't said nothing about it, but I've not been able to use my rendering desktop because of some remodeling going on at the house I have my studio. Fortunately, it hadn't slowed my work as I haven't gone through massive rendering yet. I use next week to fix an issue wit my desktop: it's full and need to get a secondary SSD, which is to hard to do as I opened it and met a maze of cables and closed boxes with no visible connections for a new drive. Anyways, next week I'll focus on programming Spankfolio's gameplay.

Now, to end this post. Even though she won't appear in the game, this known lady will be Mr. Godinez BIGGEST NIGHTMARE. Making a fortune in the stock market and balancing her numbers ASAP will be like mission impossible. No progress in the game.... but a very hard OTKs, for sure.

She will come back in the mid of Brave Knight 2.0. Now she changed her looks to Lady Gaga in the new Joker's film. Will Marco meet her like this, or perhaps in her PINK SIDE?

Next week will show more designs and details about Spankfolio's gameplay.