MoBy28

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Have I ever told you how much I hate the 'Derek is a misunderstood genius' narrative in the game? The dude does some of the dumbest things imaginable for 90% of the novel, but somehow the game still wants you to entertain the idea that he is very smart, he just 'doesn't apply himself' beacuse he is lazy, or too distracted by Maya's problems(yeah, right, outside of last ep he never seems too pressed about that either)

Thats not how storytelling works, if you constantly portray him as drooling moron, having tertiary characters tell you he is actually smart means squat.

TBF there are A LOT of "book smart geniuses" nowadays that have no common sense or really know how to interact with others. So while he could be a genius when it comes to book learning he can still be a complete and total moron when it comes to people or trying to apply his genius to life situations.
 
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MoBy28

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The dude fucked Wendy. There ain't no coming back from that. :eek:

He dumb! (n)
He took one for the team there and depending on other choices during hell week he took alot more for the team, I will say though he has no shame when it comes to becoming a DIK.
 

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It's been an interesting week. I started by creating and rendering all environments for the episode's biggest free-roam event. I still have some variations of the environments to do later, but the base work in this area is complete, which will speed up the art creation process later.

I post-processed all the environments, made buttons, coded their functionality, placed special renders, and created Pack Quest. I have ensured that the free-roam event is playable, and even though it lacks scenes, I can walk around and interact with things and people in it.

After that, I started writing the dialogue and scenes while continuously updating the plan for the free-roam event. Most of the week was spent writing dialogue, and I had a good flow.

I needed a small break from writing a few days ago and wanted to create a new avatar for fun. But the result was too good. I now know I unintentionally created the art assets for the Steam/GOG store pages for Season 3.

Once I realized this, I spent some extra time on it and designed a fitting logotype, too. I created all the store assets in a day and a half, and they came out fantastic. I'm so pleased with the result.

I can't show you these yet, but I can reveal that Sage will be the banner girl for Season 3. Now that this work is done, I've saved myself from that stress and work down the road.

I'm now back to writing again. I've written approximately half of the free-roam event dialogue. I estimate I'd need 600-800 static renders for what's written this week. I plan to continue to write until it's done, then jump on creating the art for it.

There are no static renders, but 37 animation files are in the render queue.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake
All this emphasis on the big ass free roam event every single week is frightening me a little bit ngl.
If he pulls another EP9 type of gameplay with this shit, I don't know if I can handle it.
On a positive note though, if he does, it might be the one that finally breaks my camel's back and makes me quit this game for good until and if it is finished. At least I hope so because fuck EP9's style of free roam with a fat wooden log.
 

Darkwen

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All this emphasis on the big ass free roam event every single week is frightening me a little bit ngl.
If he pulls another EP9 type of gameplay with this shit, I don't know if I can handle it.
On a positive note though, if he does, it might be the one that finally breaks my camel's back and makes me quit this game for good until and if it is finished. At least I hope so because fuck EP9's style of free roam with a fat wooden log.
Hopefully it will be more like the thanksgiving party we don't need another free roam ep though my fear is that what spring break could be
 

godkingxerxes

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Hopefully it will be more like the thanksgiving party we don't need another free roam ep though my fear is that what spring break could be
Spring break as a singular episode makes sense because it's over multiple days.

So it's not a single free roam party but multiple days with new areas each day.

Spring break done right is probably even a two episode event, I don't think he can deliver a good spring break, maybe it best if he ends the story randomly in February.

We won't even get a Valentine's date with our girl.
 

Darkwen

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Spring break as a singular episode makes sense because it's over multiple days.

So it's not a single free roam party but multiple days with new areas each day.

Spring break done right is probably even a two episode event, I don't think he can deliver a good spring break, maybe it best if he ends the story randomly in February.

We won't even get a Valentine's date with our girl.
not getting a valentine's date would be a big miss, DPC can do a good spring break it would be massive let down if he didn't
 

Edhelharn

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Spring break as a singular episode makes sense because it's over multiple days.

So it's not a single free roam party but multiple days with new areas each day.

Spring break done right is probably even a two episode event, I don't think he can deliver a good spring break, maybe it best if he ends the story randomly in February.

We won't even get a Valentine's date with our girl.
There will be Spring Break, MC talks about it with Jill during camping when they're by the lake. She says that will show him how good winter can be and he says that he'll show her about spring break.

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not getting a valentine's date would be a big miss, DPC can do a good spring break it would be massive let down if he didn't
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!!! That's it! Valentine's day is anal with Jill!!! How haven't I thought about it before?!?
 

jd8097619

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This free roam event will be huge, DPC mentioned that he written half of the event dialogue and that should need 600-800 statics, which means the full event will have 1200-1600 statics, which should be over one fifth of the update.
This is why I'm still optimistic about the time frame for release. If you collage together all the updates so far it feels very "everything but the core free-roam" has been effectively finished at this point. The fact all the misc stuff that usually only gets done towards the end (and makes it feel like a slog) was done first instead gives development a feeling of "downhill from here".
 

Darkwen

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There will be Spring Break, MC talks about it with Jill during camping when they're by the lake. She says that will show him how good winter can be and he says that he'll show her about spring break.

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DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!!! That's it! Valentine's day is anal with Jill!!! How haven't I thought about it before?!?
because it like 3 years away
 

valbitterb

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Sales about to go to the moon with Sage on the cover after the lesbians got beaten by Freshwoman:sick:, objectively the #1 most overrated piece of trash in the genre. :cautious: :Kappa:


Fresh Women MC looks like discount slasher Jim Carrey or a hyped up Jim Carrey on meth next to the dashing Tremolo.

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Darkwen

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This is why I'm still optimistic about the time frame for release. If you collage together all the updates so far it feels very "everything but the core free-roam" has been effectively finished at this point. The fact all the misc stuff that usually only gets done towards the end (and makes it feel like a slog) was done first instead gives development a feeling of "downhill from here".
would be nice if that was the case but it sure feel like spring 2025
 

jd8097619

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Dont forget about the 37 animations in the queue rn and the ~100 left to pose and that should take around 5 months to render (non stop), but that will probably take longer since DPC still has to pose (not much of a issue) and render over 2K static that while won't take much time, will increase the animation render time even further.
I think there’s a translation error there though. Remember that the 220 animations so far was AFTER merging an unknown amount of files. So it may be quicker to render the 100 pre-merge count left.
 

Better Cock Spock

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I needed a small break from writing a few days ago and wanted to create a new avatar for fun. But the result was too good. I now know I unintentionally created the art assets for the Steam/GOG store pages for Season 3.

Once I realized this, I spent some extra time on it and designed a fitting logotype, too. I created all the store assets in a day and a half, and they came out fantastic. I'm so pleased with the result.

I can't show you these yet, but I can reveal that Sage will be the banner girl for Season 3. Now that this work is done, I've saved myself from that stress and work down the road.
I'm really curious about this, because while I like the Season 2 one I think it doesn't really give a good impression about what the game is even about.
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