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in reverse order you might be right.
2021-05-27 News
I know it's been a hot minute since we dropped some news. So let me take some time now to bring you up to speed.
It's been a busy couple of weeks to be certain. And the work I've been doing wasn't really anything streamable. What have I been working on? Well I'm glad you asked.
Asset Pipeline
I've been putting in quite a bit of time these last few weeks ironing out all the kinks in the asset development process. There has been quite a bit of trial and error still, but now things seems to be worked out. I was doing a lot of testing across software platforms and it was easier to just have all the software up and bounce back and forth between them to see how changes reflected. So because I was running three different pieces of software at once and two were generally rendering at the same time, streaming was infeasible.
But now that I've got a tentative processes flowing I can stream some of this work going forward since I shouldn't need to run everything simultaneously as I now have an idea of what to expect when moving between them.
Story Structure
It was past time I started looking at the whole story and where we were going. To this point I've been writing the story a chapter at a time with a general idea of where we're going. However, now that we've picked up the pace and I'm writing multiple scenes week it was time to iron everything out flat.
It took a few days, but I finally have the rest of the game generally mapped out. To ease development process this required a little bit of restructuring of the story. Now don't worry, we didn't lose anything. But some of the previous chapters are being broken up into smaller chapters and within those smaller chapters some scenes are getting added content.
To keep the story flowing smoothly and avoid having to write too many alternate scenes and branching paths, I've begun to minimize some of the cross over story arcs and prune up a few of the over hanging branches. This will reduce redundancy and also free up the players to skip some characters entirely if they choose. As it was previously laid out, there were some scenes that needed to fire off in sequence and had to be completed to open up other characters stories.
This is no longer the case as I want players to be able to freely pick and choose which characters they want to engage with. This required a bit more compartmentalization of each character's story and free me up from trying to track and develop ways to get information to the character that may be buried in a scene they'll never play because they don't want to interact with a specific love interest.
Characters will of course show up in each other's stories and complications will ensue. It's just that the individual plots no longer require you to play a different character's chapter before you can advance in your current love interest's story.
Chapter Map
I've also completely laid out the story lines for each love interest in rough draft. Once more for ease and speed of development, I've decided to break up the story for each love interest into a traditional three act story. Each act will consist of five or six chapters while each chapter will consist of five or six scenes with a minimum of 2,500 words.
For a long time I've been saying, I know where the story is going but am still working out how it gets there. Well, that's done. I've now worked out how we get there. That does mean the chapters will be smaller. But they'll also be faster to write and faster to render.
And so each love interest in the game will get around 75 total scenes in the game from start to finish.
I also plan to add additional Doctor Amana chapters between the Acts for each character.
Oh yeah, speaking of characters...
Final Casting Complete
I have finally hit the limit on possible love interests in the game. Not that we can't always use more, it's just that I have covered a lot of ground with the characters I have and the sheer diversity is enough to keep me satisfied.
In total it looks like we're going to have 13 Possible Love Interests. None are exclusive and many of them are connected or have internal relationships of their own. So while the individual plots of these characters have been separated, there is still a lot of cross over happening to pull all the stories together.
With a lot of that worked out now I plan to continue with the streaming either tomorrow or Monday, time permitting. I've got another play test ready in the hopper and it's just waiting on music and a final code sweep and it should be ready for upload. So tomorrow may end up going into that. We'll see.
In any case, we'll talk soon.
Salute!
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13 love interests. I guess we can safely say Lola is one of them now. 
Also so much child support...
Also so much child support...
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Lol i was wondering what happened to this game, glad to see you working on it a lot. even better to see someone that has the whole thing mapped out and is not just making it up as we go along. always makes a better story in the end.
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I expected this sentence to end with „my computer burned down, I lost all progress and the next update will be delayed until 2023“. Glad my expectations weren’t met!
We have a whole second and third act to explore all this and more.
The problem I've having with Android is that my game has a number of custom gui's I've built that don't scale well to mobile by default. So for each custom GUI I've made I need to make an alternate version of it for mobile. It's not an impossible task, I've just been devoting most of my time to developing the core game at the moment.
And given the amount of work that goes into redesigning parts of the gui I can't ask anyone to do that for free.
Lola, Lita and Sarah (the red head) are all romanceable characters with three act stories.
Including four other characters that haven't even appeared in the game yet.
I'm working Dr. Amana between each character act. So we'll have around 26 - 30 Amana Scenes with a possible sex scene depending on how the character plays.
Fully romanceable and at the moment only one chapter. But she'll be getting a lot more before it's over.
That is unfortunate.
Yes, fully romanceable with a planned 25 Chapters total.
Thank you! Be sure to let me know what you think.
Yes, she is one of them. And no, she won't lead to any child support.13 love interests. I guess we can safely say Lola is one of them now.
Also so much child support...
Doesn't she count? SarahAnd yet, I don't see a single actual redhead...?
The journey has been a struggle but my enthusiasm for this game has never wavered. Each road block has been either a chance for me to learn something new, or an opportunity to rethink what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. From there I devise a new tact or road map to overcome the obstacles.
With all the thought and love I've put into this story and these characters the idea of ever leaving this game unfinished is anathema to me!
No. That did happen once a few years ago and lessons were learned. I now have several redundancies in place at this point. Thanks to Patron contributions a second computer has been built. Right now I'm running a pair of RTX2070's but should something happen to those, I have a pair of GTX1070's that will shoulder the work long enough for the RTX's to be replaced.
I also have all my game files backed up on portable hard drives and a second copy in rented online storage space. So should something catastrophic happen, it would appear as nothing but a small hiccup while the redundancies are activated and everything brought back into production.
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hmmm. should we now go to some fem-mc game thread and say "i hate games with a female mc/protagonist"
on the side note - losing such great&sharp player is a tremendous loss for this game, and i urge to the dev to reconsider the mc's gender, and change it to the fem-mc, till it is not too late...or at least to change him to futa.
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HELL YES, SHE COUNTS!!!!!!!
I like the daughter (of my neighbor LOL) and of course Amanda very much
But Sarah is BEST girl
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It is a long-standing tradition. You should see (then again, maybe not) how many incest fans want incest added to WVM (they get multiple requests/questions per day despite clear messages in the OP). Or NTR fans wanting it added to non-NTR games (and visa versa, the NTR-adverse rending their garments and clutching their pearls at the hint of sharing/swinging).hmmm. should we now go to some fem-mc game thread and say "i hate games with a female mc/protagonist"
on the side note - losing such great&sharp player is a tremendous loss for this game, and i urge to the dev to reconsider the mc's gender, and change it to the fem-mc, till it is not too late...or at least to change him to futa.
Why move on to a game that meets your kinks when you can complain on forums about games that don't?
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Yeah, but the two you mentioned (incest and NTR) are the only ones I knew so far (not talking about "late additions" when suddenly a game includes bestiality with no previous hint or similar). Using such a basic staple as the "protagonist" tag seems a bit like joining the discussion forum of Skyrim and complaining that it's not a car racing game.
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Considering that the game has the tags "male domination" & "male protagonist", it makes me chuckle as well as scratching my head a bit with why one would hang around the game thread in the first place lol.hmmm. should we now go to some fem-mc game thread and say "i hate games with a female mc/protagonist"
on the side note - losing such great&sharp player is a tremendous loss for this game, and i urge to the dev to reconsider the mc's gender, and change it to the fem-mc, till it is not too late...or at least to change him to futa.
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I can't help but hear the line from All About That Bass.
"So, if that's what you're into, then go ahead and move along."
It's addressing the same mentality--people complaining that "X" is not to their liking when their time and energy would be better spent with "Y."
"So, if that's what you're into, then go ahead and move along."
It's addressing the same mentality--people complaining that "X" is not to their liking when their time and energy would be better spent with "Y."
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If I had $1 for every person dropping into a thread month after month "this game/dev/renders/writing is still shit, total waste of time" ...
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Or the armchair devs who think you just need one week to write, another to code and bugfix and a third to render or comission art.
My favorite is when I get told I 'waste' too much time on trying to improve the quality of renders because I'm 'just making a porn game'.Or the armchair devs who think you just need one week to write, another to code and bugfix and a third to render or comission art.
I was shocked to learn that "Porn Game" and "Quality" are apparently mutually exclusive and since I'm making a porn game I should just focus on slamming out sub-par work.
