She's hot, she's not boring, and the sex is dynamite. That's good enough for me. Would never date or marry someone like her in real life (at least not without a lot of growing up first), but for me, AVNs aren't about self-inserting anyway.
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Law School Episode 4 - Progress update #15
Morning everyone, this is going to be a big one.
TL;DR:
- Finished DAY 4, the biggest one of this episode (1k+ renders). Super happy with how it turned out.
- Doing a quick pass on an older scene that felt incomplete before moving on to DAY 5, the final day of the episode.
- Current stats: 2,617 renders, 46 animations, 42 scenes (33,625 words).
- One rendering PC’s PSU is dying, and my queue is huge (606 renders), so progress is slower than I’d like.
- December 4th release might not happen, but I’m still aiming for December.
- Post work starts end of November if all goes well.
- Season 2 will bring UI upgrades, code rework, and visual polish (thanks to new Lightroom skills).
Full update:
Last week's update left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth. I really don’t like showing up to you all with weak progress reports, so I decided to lock in last week and push hard. It worked. My goal was to finish DAY 4 before moving on to the last day of the game, and I did exactly that.
DAY 4 is by far the biggest of this episode, with just over 1,000 renders. I might go back to add an animation later, but otherwise, it’s complete. There’s a lot of character progress in this one, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I’ve spent more than a month on this day, and because of the path system, there are so many variations in dialogue and scenes that it felt like I was stuck in there forever. So finally being able to call it done feels amazing.
Before I move on to DAY 5, the final day of this episode, I’m going to revisit another scene that felt, well, a bit incomplete. I made that one back in August, and even then, I knew it should have gone in a different direction. I just couldn’t figure out how at the time. Now I know, so I’ll be adding more content to make it feel right. Once that’s done, I’ll dive straight into DAY 5.
Here are the numbers:
- Static renders: 2,617
- Animations: 46
- Story content: 42 scenes written (33,625 words)
Now, about renders. Having a large queue sounds great on paper, but it’s been a bit of a headache. I currently have 606 renders waiting to go, which looks impressive, but my PCs are really feeling the pressure. Rendering times are longer than I’d like, and I had to tweak some settings because I was worried about missing my release window. I’m really looking forward to moving into my own place since having to turn off the PCs at night costs me hours of rendering time. Based on the number of renders and animations left, this queue is starting to look a little scary.
To make matters worse, one of my rendering PCs has a dying power supply. It keeps restarting, so I’ll need to order a new one soon. That machine has been with me since July 2021, when I was working on The Entrepreneur and decided to build a rendering rig, so the PSU has served me well. I’m just glad it’s not a GPU or CPU issue. Still, the slowdown is frustrating.
Now, my goal was to release this episode on December 4th, just like LS Demo and LS Episode 2, which also happens to be my birthday. I wanted to keep that tradition alive, but this year it’s not looking likely. If I stuck to my original goal for the renders count of this episode which was 2.k renders max, it would have been easy. But as you can see, it's going to be much more, and the current bottleneck makes it tough. I’m still aiming for a December release, though.
Here’s the rough timeline: I plan to spend the next three weeks finishing all the renders for this episode, then take another week for animations and any extra renders that feel missing. After that, I’ll move into post work. If everything goes right, post work should start in the last week of November.
It’s an ambitious goal, but I believe I can make it. If I do, a December release is still on the table.
Since this episode kicks off Season 2, I’m planning a lot of UI changes, which means I’ll need to redo quite a bit of the Season 1 code. It’s going to be a big task. I also want to improve parts of the phone system and give the menus a fresh look. On top of that, my friend Batman_Sid (the dev of
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) taught me some new tricks in Lightroom, so I’ll be spending more time polishing each image than before. The post work phase won’t be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.Anyway, that’s enough rambling from me. I just wanted to share where things stand right now. I’m really excited about how this episode is shaping up. Time to get back to work, but I hope you all have a great week ahead.
– MisterMaya
Chillout1984
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I'm very much in between. I consider myself very forgiving, as long as the person did something to redeem herself. This is of course depending on the actions of the person. What Aurora has done can't be waved away with a simple "I'm sorry" imo. Her coming clean at the end of season 1 is a great start and she's about halfway there, but I haven't completely forgiven her yet.
Don't get me wrong, I have no issue fucking her in my playthroughs (sex with her is fire), but to me she's not relationship material yet.
Meiri
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I guess I am just a sucker for redemption stories, I like her but her redemption story is only halfway at this point.
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Well, I can't talk for everyone here, but I think this is exactly why she's so popular.
We all know there's something there in the deep, we've been shown just a little taste of it, but that's how character development works, and some of us lust for the mistery.
Honestly, I would be very disappointed if she becomes all romantic and stuff all of a sudden, and all her arch resolves in a "deus ex machina" in the next update, I want that redemption arch, and I want it slowly delivered, just like everything else in this great VN.
Also, she's a very redhead redhead...Non biased btw.
Can someone answer me a question? How does the LI works in this game? Like, can I get into multiple paths, fool around a bit before I have to choose one later or do I need to get into a single path early on and stick with it?
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As of right now, you can pursue whoever, and as many as you want. I expect Season 2 to be the one that will start making you choose which path you're going for and blocking you from others.
But for now, happy fucking.
Awesome. Thank you.As of right now, you can pursue whoever, and as many as you want. I expect Season 2 to be the one that will start making you choose which path you're going for and blocking you from others.
But for now, happy fucking.
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I'm glad to see that mistermaya is a developer who is truly committed to his work and usually meets deadlines, but at the same time, it saddens me that despite this, he doesn't receive more support, especially when it's such a great game with characters that have a depth rarely seen in other games.
Chillout1984
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In season 1 you can get the paths for every girl that has a path, no matter what your personality is. It's pretty much confirmed however that your personality will determine which paths remain season 2 onwards.
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...and her redemption arc began with her getting all beat up before going to testify for MC ? BTW, was it Andrea who beat her? must be right?...
Chillout1984
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Yeah, it's pretty much confirmed for me that during the talk with Andrea, Aurora asked her to mess her up.
Meiri
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Well, I count her redemption arc starting back when the whole group were doing that party with no alcohol and she stepped in to help stop some guys that were about to break the rules.
That being said, we are still early in her whole redemption arc, there's still a lot she has to do in S2.
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which I found totally unnecessary TBH. She did not need to appear beatten up, she just needed to say that MC was acting in self defense and she saw the other guy hit him first. But that is her character, totally over the top.
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If she just did that, it could have and probably would have just remained a "he said-she said" situation, and kept the whole thing dragging out. Her turning up beaten like she did, and claiming what she did. Really just destroyed any chance of her being called out as a liar, and also put the whole thing to bed instantly. It also served as a good note of showing how far she's willing to go for the MC. If that isn't ride or die potential, then I don't know what is. My GOAT.
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well to be honest I don't how the american legal system works, but in my side of the pond if you have two persons against one- given the credibiity of the actors being in a dissimilar stand - like in that case, I don't think her beat up face should have had any relevance. Her relationship to the other guy being also exposed by herself and the motive, has a lot of merit for her character nevertheless (that is not under discussion).If she just did that, it could have and probably would have just remained a "he said-she said" situation, and kept the whole thing dragging out. Her turning up beaten like she did, and claiming what she did. Really just destroyed any chance of her being called out as a liar, and also put the whole thing to bed instantly. It also served as a good note of showing how far she's willing to go for the MC. If that isn't ride or die potential, then I don't know what is. My GOAT.
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Yes, as I said. they MIGHT have won with her just being a witness, eventually. But it wouldn't have been a 100% guarantee would it? The other guy could have still argued in some way and tried to place some blame on the MC to get him punished at least in some way. Or he might have even managed to get a lighter punishment for himself.
BUT, her turning up beaten and claiming she was involved, not just a witness. And that it was the other guy that beat her when she intervened. Really made it a bit more of an open and shut case in this regard, seeing as she has VISIBLE injuries to play with. It was essentially, her overkill way of making sure that the MC won. And it worked pretty much perfectly.
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Where was this as a study material whilst I was in Law School?
As for the game it has grown upon me as I continue through. However the MC and some of the other characters feel overly emotional and share way to much information with each other. Secrets dont exist in this friend group. I get its a game and all that so not expecting it to be realistic but MC was calling a girl a bitch 5 minutes in because she hurt his feelings.
Either way really enjoyed it thus far especially the full on ninja kicks to the door. Thanks dev for something to make me laugh about a few years that did not go the same way.
As for the game it has grown upon me as I continue through. However the MC and some of the other characters feel overly emotional and share way to much information with each other. Secrets dont exist in this friend group. I get its a game and all that so not expecting it to be realistic but MC was calling a girl a bitch 5 minutes in because she hurt his feelings.
Either way really enjoyed it thus far especially the full on ninja kicks to the door. Thanks dev for something to make me laugh about a few years that did not go the same way.