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Coming Soon to TBaK
It feels like there aren't enough MILFs in To Be A King. That will begin to be rectified soon. In addition to all the awesome younger ladies, of course.
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I'd love to tell you it was a productive week, especially with the holiday weekend for me. I would LOVE to tell you that. Sadly fireworks from neighboring houses keeping me up very late, the busiest week at my day job in close to a year (multiple 12 hour work days), and some fun medication adjustments meant that not a lot got done. Not nothing, mind you, but only a couple of scenes, where I hoped to be done with about 5 additional scenes by now.
Things were so busy that even the YouTube channel didn't get much. Mercifully, I try to keep videos queued up, and so those got posted this week. The Create Your Own VN series will have a new video by the weekend, if not later today.
As far as next week, it does not look much better for productivity. We have someone out on vacation at work, so I imagine it will be another busy week there. The joys of doing all this stuff with a full time job.
With the NHL playoffs over, I hope my sleep schedule returns to normal now, though my sleep has always been erratic. Look for some more fun renders from me next week, if nothing else. Enjoy another Chapter 6 preview at the top of this post.
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Another card to help you keep up with who is who. Here's a bit of a flashback that we will be seeing some of in Chapter 6.
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As I suspected, this week at my day job was ROUGH. I survived, but the days were stressful and long. I'm hopeful that next week is better. Monday is likely to be more of the same, but the rest of the week may not be so bad. I am definitely ready for a bit easier days so I can enjoy renders. It doesn't help that renders keep getting added (darn render gremlins).
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for the special patron only renders for the rest of July, and Aelinia continues to come out on top. She has some competition this time though, as Flora is right there. There will be some fun renders coming for several ladies. And there is still time to place your vote!YouTube work continues also. No time to devote to some longer pieces, but there will still be some fun ones coming out. When I have some time, I want to do some scene setup from start to finish videos.
Not much else to report. Despite the slow week in render progress, we still have more scenes knocked out. Other than a computer reboot overnight during renders, nothing weird to report either. Enjoy the preview! I'll be back next week with another dev update (and some fun posts in between).
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What a week. Not as busy as last week, but my day job still is keeping me busy during the week. Good news is that I have been making good progress on renders, despite having family events a few nights this past week (and tonight and tomorrow night too…). Got one of my larger scenes done, and several smaller ones. Things are moving along, not at the torrid pace I would love to deliver the next release of To Be A King into your hands super fast, but still at a good steady pace. It doesn't help that I keep adding renders to scenes.
We are getting into spoiler territory with these scenes for awhile, so the previews won't be so numerous. I still owe everyone some fun special renders, and those will come once things slow down a bit for me. For now, I want to make sure that YouTube videos still happen with regularity and that To Be A King continues to have steady daily progress most days.
It's that fun time of development where I just don't have much to report. The mountain of 1600+ renders is being climbed, day-by-day. And I definitely think these are some of the best renders I've ever done. As I do with every release, I'm challenging myself to try a few different things. I think you'll be very pleased with those results. One of those things is diving deep with dForce settings and weight maps. I've gotten some really nice results, and I plan to continue improving there. I learn something new about lighting each time too, so you'll see some adventures there.
I'm going to start taking a day off each week from render work starting this weekend. From here on out, my plan is to take a break on Saturdays. It seems like a weird day to do it, since I don't do this full time. However, this will give me an entire day to just relax my mind a bit - no render work, no YouTube video work, and no day job commitments. I'll likely be active on Discord on Saturdays, unless I have other commitments.
Final note from me. Below is a new progress graphic I put together in Photoshop. I'll update this once a week with my dev update, but I plan to throw it on the main Patreon page. That way everyone can keep an eye on progress for the next To Be A King Release. A few notes on the progress tracker. Renders, by far, are the most time consuming part of development, followed by the script. Coding isn't a long endeavor for me, and testing is usually a few days once everything else is done. The scene count progress is there to provide a total scene count. Scene breaks are arbitrary, so you might see something like 3 scenes remaining, but 20% of the renders left. Just means that those remaining scenes have a large amount of renders. Since this is a side project for me, you'll see the progress bars jump up some weeks and others not have a lot of movement. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. LOL
Until next time, have a great weekend! Enjoy the preview.
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I was really optimistic about a August update lmao
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What a week. Not as busy as last week, but my day job still is keeping me busy during the week. Good news is that I have been making good progress on renders, despite having family events a few nights this past week (and tonight and tomorrow night too…). Got one of my larger scenes done, and several smaller ones. Things are moving along, not at the torrid pace I would love to deliver the next release of To Be A King into your hands super fast, but still at a good steady pace. It doesn't help that I keep adding renders to scenes.
We are getting into spoiler territory with these scenes for awhile, so the previews won't be so numerous. I still owe everyone some fun special renders, and those will come once things slow down a bit for me. For now, I want to make sure that YouTube videos still happen with regularity and that To Be A King continues to have steady daily progress most days.
It's that fun time of development where I just don't have much to report. The mountain of 1600+ renders is being climbed, day-by-day. And I definitely think these are some of the best renders I've ever done. As I do with every release, I'm challenging myself to try a few different things. I think you'll be very pleased with those results. One of those things is diving deep with dForce settings and weight maps. I've gotten some really nice results, and I plan to continue improving there. I learn something new about lighting each time too, so you'll see some adventures there.
I'm going to start taking a day off each week from render work starting this weekend. From here on out, my plan is to take a break on Saturdays. It seems like a weird day to do it, since I don't do this full time. However, this will give me an entire day to just relax my mind a bit - no render work, no YouTube video work, and no day job commitments. I'll likely be active on Discord on Saturdays, unless I have other commitments.
Final note from me. Below is a new progress graphic I put together in Photoshop. I'll update this once a week with my dev update, but I plan to throw it on the main Patreon page. That way everyone can keep an eye on progress for the next To Be A King Release. A few notes on the progress tracker. Renders, by far, are the most time consuming part of development, followed by the script. Coding isn't a long endeavor for me, and testing is usually a few days once everything else is done. The scene count progress is there to provide a total scene count. Scene breaks are arbitrary, so you might see something like 3 scenes remaining, but 20% of the renders left. Just means that those remaining scenes have a large amount of renders. Since this is a side project for me, you'll see the progress bars jump up some weeks and others not have a lot of movement. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. LOL
Until next time, have a great weekend! Enjoy the preview.
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I don't mind an October update. Last time it took me a week to finish. Never happens with VNs. But then I was playing for the first time.
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The moment I saw the option, and closed Valentinas path, was one of the happiest moments in my life 