Hey everyone! So happy we have things moving again!
So let me tell you the details!
First of all --for people that haven't followed this thread closely-- it's a given that Suzinak didn't have the time needed to do this. That's the main and foremost issue with the massive delays. Things in his personal life (work, school etc.) have caught up with him and he had limited time to invest in this game. He knew about it and that's the reason he explained and paused the payments on Patreon.
I haven't seen any renders for something less than a year, and today I received more than 100 new renders for a scene in the upcoming Chapter 4. Oh, happy days!
This means that things are moving, and Suzinak is actively rendering again. We have the data!
Now to limit the hype, these new renders are just for Scene 4. We already had finalized Scene 1 and Scene 2 a long time ago. So this means we have (or I have been given the) renders for 3 out of 8 scenes in total for CH4. We still have 5 other scenes to finalize.
You can understand that, like some of you, I'm skeptical and want to continue seeing the renders coming in before I rejoice. I'm also skeptical that this rhythm will continue like that (for following releases) and not have massive delays again. I'm just mentioning it so that you know I'm not forgetting the past, but I'm trying to focus on the future and think positive
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The second important thing is our way of working. I've expanded on this idea before in this
post. And this is one of the major issues.
For Chapter 4, I've created a very detailed script with all scenes outlined. And keep in mind that at that time I wasn't even remotely familiar with 3D rendering with Daz, so I couldn't imagine that some things would be difficult to implement. Well, the thing is that this process didn't work well with Suzinak's workflow and really troubled him creatively. He had trouble implementing the scenes and wasn't happy with the results. He told me that he was rendering the same scenes again and again, but never getting the result that he wanted. He wasn't feeling satisfied. He was trying to follow my script very closely, trying not to diverge from the narrative and that really killed his creativity. And that makes a tough combination with his limited time.
We had discussed in the past that this process wasn't working with him, and we had planned to change it from Chapter 5 and onwards. Well, this issue was much more significant and it needs to change now for Chapter 4. So Suzinak decided to follow the abstract of my script (not closely) and create the scenes as he would like/prefer them. That gave him the creativity boost he needed and now he's satisfied with the end result. So that's one big thing solved!
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So what's next? Now I have about 100+ renders from Suzinak that are relatively close to what I've scripted but not exactly the same. This means that I'll have to ...well... re-write a big chunk of my script to match the renders and try to convey the same subtle messages that I had already scripted.
And Suzinak has to keep creating renders for the rest of the scenes. As I've mentioned, I still need the renders for 5 out of 8 scenes.
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And I have a teaser here. There's a scene that's erotic (You're shocked! I know!) and Suzinak has rendered two alternative themes/kinks (I'm not gonna reveal anything, don't ask). So players that don't like the first thing, they could choose the second and vise versa.
And of course there are animations to be done with these scenes. Suzinak hasn't started on them, but usually these are the last to be done as they take the most time.
