Damn, I wonder how long would that took if not for the Stable-diffusion AI. Really, by how much was it helped to reduce the workload?
It's more that it enabled a much larger scope for the project. It's an amazing tool for solo developers!
The small scene with Cleo, Climatica, and Tysus couldn't exist without it, and since it takes me two days to draw a character, that would have added an additional week to development alone, and that simple difference already pushes the game's release back past Christmas.
It's also awesome to be able to type in "horde of monsters," "explosion," or "meteor" and get the awesome shots. a lot of which would have otherwise only been implied by a white flash on the screen or by creative, simple imagery like I had to do for the Friendship with Benefits finale.
Having 15+ backgrounds that slowly show time passing or a certain state of damage in an area made the scenes a lot more compelling, and that's definitely not something I'd be able to do alone.
Are you planning on rolling out postgame content in waves, or are you going to wait until ALL of your planned content is done and release it all at once?
It'll be in waves of three sex scenes, I think.
My next one will consist of:
1) The Shores of Easy, where I want to wrap up the area and its lore. The characters will be given additional dialogue for both pre-postgame and postgame. I'll add Chloe's pregnancy and give Polly another sex scene. Additionally, I want to comb through the area's monsters and equipment to see if there are any improvements that could be made. I think it's a big missed opportunity that the Shores of Easy shops don't have any thunder element equipment to encourage the player to experiment with elements, and to do that I should also make the enemies a little more elementally obvious. The Chrad may be weak to lightning but his design doesn't indicate that at all, so I might make him blue, lmao.
2) A hangout quest with Yulia and Hestia usually just involving some slice of life with a fun premise. This will help to wrap up the character's story while also providing them with another sex scene.I'll be doing a lot of threesomes too.
3) Colosseum content is back! I'm going to add area conquest for each location, new ladder tournament matches, and a new normal tournament.
After that I'll move onto Misty Woods, and a hangout quest for Eris or Swiftstroke.
They'll hopefully come fast though, maybe one a week? After Christmas, though, I'm taking a mini-vacation starting tomorrow.