HanakoXVN

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While working on some completely unrelated thing, I went ahead and made signatures.
They are not the best, but I couldn't keep bothering Shelly and had to learn how to make them sooner or later.

We got the cute roommates...
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...two girls staring daggers into each other...
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...or simply confuse the fuck out of other forum dwellers by repping the best catto!
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SexyShelly

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While working on some completely unrelated thing, I went ahead and made signatures.
They are not the best, but I couldn't keep bothering Shelly and had to learn how to make them sooner or later.

We got the cute roommates...
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...two girls staring daggers into each other...
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...or simply confuse the fuck out of other forum dwellers by repping the best catto!
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but I couldn't keep bothering Shelly
I am more than happy to help whenever you want it, I honestly don't mind

But

:love: They all look fantastic :love: the catto one is so adorable :love:
 

Osider

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What cool be really cool it's a SFW wallpaper (I love the game but for my wallpaper prefer something less ... ya know people don't react well to porn wallpaper xD)

What could be funny it's to see that the cat himself is in a mega corp of cat (reference to the meeting he had and wanted access to the window)
 
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BenHatira

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New development cycle, so the first devlog is public! It's also going to be on the longer side, so grab something to drink.

First of all, I hope you enjoyed Chapter 3. In less than a week it was downloaded almost twice as much as Chapter 2 on Itch (the only real metric I got), so I'd say it was a success!

Now, I wanna take the time to set expectations for chapter 4, when it'll be released and maybe give a bit of insight behind my decisions.

Chapter 4 is going to be a bit more chill than the previous one and a bit more "personal".
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We got the arrival of Stella, the big date with Sarah, the "competition" between Alex and Emily, Jessica beginning to realize her feelings and whatever the fuck is going on with the Fujikawa sisters.

Not a lot of things, but definitely a lot of paths and variations. Let's take, for example, the prologue. It's got:

- 2 variations based on the Corpo path;

- 2 variations based on if you're on Stella's path;

- 2 variations for Stella's path (you can still back out of it);

- 2 variations for Stella's adult fun time scene (she will have the opposite alignment of MC in regards to bottom/top stuff).

- 2 variations for Arisu's path, if eligible.

...this will amount to over 160 renders, of which any single playthrough will see 50 to 80. And that's BEFORE the title screen drops.

So yeah, shit gets big fast. And there's a lot of multiple path that require scene variations.

Can I do it? Of course. But I want to do it well, and this takes time.

I aim to release Chapter 4 at the end of June/beginning of July(just in time for Pride Month), with the option open for a .5 release for supporters only in case real life gets in the way.

Because, real talk here, the only reason I was able to release 3 chapters in 3 and a half months is because I'm currently in-between jobs. Don't worry, I landed on my feet, but if/when I find a new job I'll have less time to do this.

(This is also a great time to thank all of the supporters. The money I got from this, while might not seem a lot, really made these past few months less stressful.)

....


...I don't have a good segue, but I did stuff this week!
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If you're on Discord you have probably seen that I made a new main menu! It was completely unnecessary and it took way more time than I thought it would!

It's essentially a video behind an overlay, but I like it! All the renders I used for it will be available later in the month for Roommates and above to download in FullHD (I tried making them in 4k, my PC almost died).

I also wrote the prologue and started rendering it, the adult scenes between MC and Stella are definitely on the kinkier side (as always you'll have the option to avoid unwanted content, like spanking and feet stuff) and are completely different between the bottom and top paths. c4prt67_ISpeed Lights Light Camera_i.jpg

Speaking of, it has come to my attention that some people might have missed this: the replay gallery is programmed so that when you start playing a scene it'll give you a prompt to choose to see the bottom or top variant. Just so you don't have to keep too many save files to see all the content.
I think that's everything. Remember to stay hydrated and if you celebrate Mother's Day this Sunday give a hug to your mother.


ayy i'am a pirate Arrrrrrr
 

Turdbergler1

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anyone know what the 4th scene in the gallery is? I've played through twice now once dom and once sub and haven't gotten it.
 

gregers

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anyone know what the 4th scene in the gallery is? I've played through twice now once dom and once sub and haven't gotten it.
A brief masturbation sequence for those who are not with Sarah in the afternoon.
Python:
label day2afternoon:    
    if sexwithsarah == True:
        jump day2afternoonsarah    
    else:
        jump day2afternoonsolo
 
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BenHatira

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This has been a busy week IRL. Things happened that took me away from the PC, but I still managed to do some stuff!

For one, the Mega-Bundle I've been a part of for the past few weeks has reached one of it's goals and I had to do a bunch of renders as a reward. I'll keep you posted on when/where you'll be able to find them!
For two, I made this masterpiece that I will never stop posting everywhere. This has been a busy week IRL. Things happened that took me away from the PC, but I still managed to do some stuff!

For one, the Mega-Bundle I've been a part of for the past few weeks has reached one of it's goals and I had to do a bunch of renders as a reward. I'll keep you posted on when/where you'll be able to find them!

For two, I made this masterpiece that I will never stop posting everywhere.
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If you get it, you get it.

And finally, the actual game!
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(flashback scene. Background posters provided by some other dev friends.)

I don't wanna spoil too much, but Chapter 4 will ship with the first of the 9 planned endings. This is an early ending, so it's going to be quite short, but it still required new models and assets so that alone took away a full day to write and render.
As for the more general progress, we got about 250 renders out of the planned 700 (which might end up being 800+ at this pace). All the variations of the prologue have been done, I have 3 out of 4 variations of the long talk with Arisu and I'm starting to work on the flashback 'cause I'm tired of seeing the same couch all day.

This was a shorter one, but that's what happens when life gets in the way of making cute girls doing cute stuff. I'll see you next week with another devlog and the download of the FullHD version of the renders used for the new intro video!
 

BenHatira

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For those who got better stuff to do than read my rants: I'm halfway there with rendering, technical difficulties slowed me down, 17 special renders for Roommates and above on Sunday.

With that out of the way, hi! How's it going? Are you keeping yourself healthy?

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The rendering process is progressing slowly, I'll get to why later.
Render count is now at 403 of the projected 800, projection that might need to be adjusted AGAIN 'cause there's a threesome that is getting close to 100 renders by itself and it's still missing the top variant.
People will be reading the amount of render in the changelog, then play the game and be like "where the hell are all these new renders?" 'cause they are getting spread out through all possible paths.

Now, the other good news: supporter rewards! This sunday I'll be uploading the promised pack with all the new 1080p renders used to make the new main menu, plus one unused one, plus a very cute and wholesome scene, plus 2 phone wallpaper renders of MC and Emi in both SFW and NSFW version, to a total of 17 items!
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So, earlier I mentioned problems and slowdowns. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I'm kinda fucked.

This past week ol' reliable mini-pc has slowed down considerably, it freezes and crashes at random and is generally being a pain in the ass to work with. My rendering output has been cut by a third on average (and in some days even more) and I'm trying to squeeze any render time I can from my daily schedule.
Hopefully it'll chug along until at least the end of the chapter, but if the worst happens (and I'm bracing for it) I just want you to be aware that I will let you all know immediately, stop all payments and release whatever I have managed to make, before putting everything on hiatus. I have no way of replacing it for the foreseeable future, so it'll be game over.

I seriously hope it won't come to that, but life has a way to kick you while you're down, so I honestly won't be surprised to see the thing that has given me more pride and joy in the past 10 years being yanked away from me. But at least we can be sure that the game will have AN ending, 'cause the early one has already been rendered.
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hat's about it, send your thoughts and prayers to this little fucker below (or any booze you can find to me) and I'll see you this Sunday for the cutest pics you'll see all weeks!
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SpatulaPie

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HanakoXVN there are a couple of reasons computers can have those symptoms. the 2 biggest are overheating and memory issues. You mention having it for 10 years IIRC? uhm when was the last time you shut it off and cleaned it? Dust can build up inside the cooling portions (fans and radiator fins). When this occurs, it can prevent the machine from cooling correctly and when pushed; like graphical rendering; it can overheat and just shut down as a measure of preservation.

As for memory issues: You may need to get a computer program like CC Cleaner and have it scan your system. I use it once a week. It removes temporary files which can clog things up and if to many old pieces of info are run it can freeze up more machine. I hope this may help you. Loving your AVN.
 

HanakoXVN

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HanakoXVN there are a couple of reasons computers can have those symptoms. the 2 biggest are overheating and memory issues. You mention having it for 10 years IIRC? uhm when was the last time you shut it off and cleaned it? Dust can build up inside the cooling portions (fans and radiator fins). When this occurs, it can prevent the machine from cooling correctly and when pushed; like graphical rendering; it can overheat and just shut down as a measure of preservation.

As for memory issues: You may need to get a computer program like CC Cleaner and have it scan your system. I use it once a week. It removes temporary files which can clog things up and if to many old pieces of info are run it can freeze up more machine. I hope this may help you. Loving your AVN.
It's neither of those. Temperatures are stable within the 60-65°C range while rendering, both SSDs have over 300gb of empty space and use CCleaner regularily.
 
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