Greetings!
Though there's still 2.5 hours of Friday left for me, it's clear that I won't be done by then. I'm thinking I'll be done tomorrow, but it could be as late as Sunday morning.
I posted this info in a comment to the previous thread, but I figured it was important enough for a separate post, so here it is: 0.6 will basically be released in two parts; the first part, which will hopef...
2018-08-11 04:38:50 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
Having my workspace back has been good for me and my productivity, and I've gotten a lot done this week. I'm now confident enough to announce a release date: 0.6 will be out this coming Friday, August 10th. It's been a long time coming - mostly due to unforeseen personal issues over the last month - but hopefully it'll be worth the wait. To recap what's in it, here's my first hack at ...
2018-08-04 19:40:25 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I moved into the new place Wednesday, spent all day yesterday unpacking, and now I'm settled in, finally. This past month has been really weird, but the weirdness is now over, thank God. This means that I'll be able to work on the game much more effectively, and it also means I'll be much more responsive - so you can expect more regular updates, comment responses, et cetera.
So,...
2018-07-28 02:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I’m sorry I haven’t posted an update for a bit - my move isn't settled yet, and unfortunately I'm still living out of hotels right now, but I'm continuing to get work done on the game. Not as much as I'd like, but a good bit nonetheless. It's kinda funny; I used to think occasionally about doing the 'digital nomad' thing, traveling around to different places with a laptop and suit...
2018-07-14 02:13:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings!
I'm in the middle of a cross-country move right now, so I haven't made as much progress as I'd wanted, but I still got quite a bit done. I managed to get all the renders done before I had to break down my monstrosity of a desktop, and I've been feverishly attacking the postwork in the evenings in my hotel (I'm currently writing from the middle of nowhere in Wyoming. I guess that...
2018-06-30 16:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
Progress continues on 0.6! I'm about 2/3 of the way done with the H-scenes, and I've had an opportunity to work on a lot of other stuff as well.
The recollection room is now up and running. My intent was to do an overhaul of the H-scene progression system at the same time I implemented the recollection room - since they kinda go together - but I decided to leave it for 0.7...
2018-06-20 12:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
Development for 0.6 has been proceeding apace. Since my last check-in, I've written the summaries for the H-scenes, planned out all the shots, and completed about a third of renders. Mind you, this doesn't include postwork, which is considerably more involved than it used to be, but setting up the renders themselves is still the hardest and most time consuming part by far. 2018-06-13 02:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings!
At long last, here's the pic of Val I promised! You may not believe it, but I actually spent quite a long time working on her and her dress. I haven't spent this long designing a character since I did the PC's female form. I was originally using this as an opportunity to kinda reimagine the game's female designs, and I ended up with something that looked a bit different than the PC's ...
2018-06-03 18:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I'm currently working on Val's design - I'd been reading and watching stuff lately about color theory and character design, and I learned a few things that I hope will help make my work more interesting. I'll get out an omake pic with her as soon as I'm done with the design - I'd hoped that would be today, but it probably won't, since I've come to the conclusion I'm going to have to r...
2018-05-29 18:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
My goal since I finished up my experiments with new rendering and postwork techniques was to finish up the boss battle. I diligently got to work on it, figuring I'd start out with implementing the threat plugin I'd referred to a 2018-05-21 21:18:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings!
There is no new content - this is mostly a bugfix release!
As usual, I like to try to get out a 'definitive' version of each major release, purged of all the bugs I'm aware of (hopefully without introducing any new ones!), and that's what 0.5.2 is.
Actually, that's a bit of a lie - I'm aware of one bug I didn't fix having to do with H-scene progression, but I figure I'll t...
2018-05-19 00:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings!
I thought you might appreciate something nice for hump day!
Over the past week or so, I've been investigating more advanced rendering and postwork techniques, and the picture you see above is a result of that. It may not look super different from my usual stuff, but the process used to create it was quite unlike the one I normally use. This newer process allows me much ...
2018-05-16 16:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
Just to be clear:
There is no new content in this release! This version is intended to test a solution to a problem that only affects some people. Please only play this version if you're interested in testing out the feature!
TL;DR: This version tests out something that may help people who started experiencing brief freeze...
2018-05-11 00:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I expected recollection room to win the new feature poll - and it did - but I was really surprised how well the 'view avatar' feature did! A recollection room will definitely be in 0.6, and I'll be sure to put the 'view avatar' feature in 0.7.
The picture pack is almost ready! I ended up redoing and tweaking a number of 0.5's renders in subtle ways because I wasn't really happy ...
2018-05-06 21:26:26 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I hope everyone had a good weekend, and I hope everyone enjoyed 0.5! It doesn’t look as though 0.5.1 has any horrible bugs, so I’m getting to work on 0.6. The dungeon is going to be the big event of 0.6, but I’m thinking about how I can gradually integrate new features I’ve been thinking about. I don’t have a huge preference for which one I’m going to implement first, so I...
2018-04-29 18:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
This hotfix is intended to address a game-crashing bug that occurs during one of the optional quests.
Sorry for any trouble, and I hope you enjoy the update!
Hopefully there aren't any more really bad ones... but please let me know if there are!
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Greetings!
Since 0.5 was just released for patrons, 0.4.2 is now free to the public!
I hope you enjoy it!
Changelog 0.4:
Greetings!
At long last 0.5 is here!
It took quite a long time to get out, but it is a pretty large update. It took me over 2 hours to get through all the new content in my playtest, but much of the content is optional and/or hidden, so your playtime may be less. I'd still expect it to be well over an hour, though!
There were some under-the-hood changes, but it doesn't l...
2018-04-26 01:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostI am currently working on 0.5's last event/scene. It is both the last one in the update and the last one I need to finish. 0.5 won't be done tonight, but it will be very soon.
I ended up adding a bit of stuff to 0.5 since my last update, and I think the additions definitely help. I haven't played through the whole thing yet, but 0.5's new content should be a decent bit longer than 0.4's was (muc...
2018-04-16 21:13:27 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
The release is taking me far longer than I'd thought. I'm really sorry, everyone. I'm not actually trying to tease, I'm just apparently extraordinarily bad at estimating how long things will take. (As an aside, it's probably a good thing I don't work in project management.) I should probably go back to that policy I'd talked about but never quite did of never putting out release dates...
2018-04-08 14:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings!
I wanted to let everyone know that I will likely not have 0.5 out on Saturday, contra my earlier assertion that I would have it out by the end of the month.
It will be out within the next few days; large swaths of it are done. This update is very writing-heavy, and this is something I didn't fully appreciate when I was figuring out how long it would take. This bit of wr...
2018-03-31 04:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I've been writing stuff this past week, but most of the game work I've done has been on renders. Once again, I planned out a large number of them - so good news if you like 'em! I've also been playing around with the cloth simulation engine they recently put into Daz, and it's pretty neat! One of my favorite pics is the shot with Ana's dong poking out from under her skirt in the schoo...
2018-03-25 17:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
Earlier this week I'd put out a poll comparing a slightly revised version of the male elf model with the original one. Though the poll hasn't yet ended, it seems there's a fairly clear preference for the newer one, so that's the one I'll end up using. Or something very close to it.
My plan is still to release 0.5 before the end of the month, so I'm hard at work on H-scenes right...
2018-03-18 21:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
There were a number of critiques of the original model for Tal'thelas, so I went back and made a large number of subtle changes to come up with an alternate one.
Now, this is an elf, so I want him to look somewhat feminine. As I said in the last update, I may create some characters with exaggerated masculine features in the future, but elves will not be among them. At t...
2018-03-15 18:41:06 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
It's been a busy week! I'm currently at work on the boss battle prototype; It looks like I'll be able to make my original concept for it work, and I hope to be done with the prototype today.
I released a pic earlier this week showing the model I'd developed for Tal'thelas (the elf you had to rescue Ana from), and it seems that folks didn't like it too much! I'll take anoth...
2018-03-11 16:42:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings!
As I mentioned before, I am working on developing a look for male humans/elves, and this is my first effort. This one depicts an elf, so he looks a bit more fey than I plan on having humans look, but still, it gives you an idea of where I'm headed with it.
I'm interested to know what you guys think about it!
2018-03-07 20:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I wrote a bit last time about the threat plugin I was planning to make, but I've since found out that someone already wrote something pretty close to what I was looking for. I haven't tested it out yet, but it looks like it will fit the bill pretty well, so that's one less big task for me to do! I then decided to work on the other big task - developing a male human/elf look - and I've...
2018-03-04 18:14:26 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
As promised, here is version 0.4.2! This version is mostly a bugfix update to 0.4.1; there are a few lines of dialogue I wrote, but literally only about 30 seconds worth (if you're wondering, it's when you avoid the 'inspection' scene). Anyway, here's the changelog!
Changelog:
Greetings!
I wanted to announce that I should be done with Picture Pack 0.4 tomorrow, which means I can release 0.4.2 then, too! My poor computer has been rendering all week, but it's almost done. Just to be clear, 0.4.2 won't have any new content, it's just a bugfix/tidying update.
In addition to postworking images and fixing bugs, I've also been planning out 0.5. I expect I'll finish the...
2018-02-25 16:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
I'm currently doing brainstorming and planning for 0.5, and as I said in my last update, my PC is rendering away on the high-resolution pictures for the picture pack. There don't seem to be many bugs to bother with (other than the first one!), so I'm getting right to work on 0.5. Related to that, I'd like to know how important the volume (i.e., the total number) of renders is to you g...
2018-02-18 14:48:30 +0000 UTC View Post