Project Update
(the real one)
I meant it when I said WOW before... this is the energizer bunny of threads. I am not a professional writer. I don't even consider myself an amateur writer. As stated before I wanted to write a story for myself and so I sat down with a known story arc and basic character motivations and started writing. I simply tried to put myself in the shoes of each character and write from their mindset when they spoke or acted. What I crapped out turned out better than I hoped. I wish I could say I meticulously planned out every detail discussed here, but the fact is the nuanced events and dialogs that are talked about here mostly happened organically. Just evolving into what it is over time as I wrote, added, rewrote and evolved the script into what it is today. I never set out specifically to add X here so that Y happens there. It wasn't until seeing you guys starting to analyze it that I started to appreciate my own creation. Maybe that comes off as conceited and I'm sure some would argue I write worse than a retarded monkey, but what I mean to say is - thank you. Thank you for making me feel good about my story. Thank you for making me feel good about my dark and depressing story that is going to get much worse.
Chapter vs Release vs Version
For now I will try to stick to calling these by version number (0.2,0.4,etc). I haven't decided if I will publish as a stand alone game, in which case I'll call them chapters, or as a complete (to date) game. The only thing stopping me from releasing a stand alone update is that every broken up game I've ever seen here is a confusing mess of naming conventions, groupings hidden under spoiler tags, and other nonsensical formatting. I would like to think calling them Chaper 1, Chapter 2, along with an in game title page stating 'hey this is chapter 2, go download chapter 1 if you haven't' would work... but I'm not so sure. I'm all about eye candy and I really... really... don't want to compress my game. v0.2 has over 600MB just in animations. That could be 2GB by then end of the game, plus 20k renders, and trying to compress than into 10GB or maybe even 5gb file? Anyway, still thinking about the best solution.
Version 0.4
It's on track for a mid to late May release as originally planned. I've got 2k renders done with probably about another 1k to go, not including the sexy scenes which still need animating. Compared to v0.2, it looks like total play time will be less than the first one. v0.2 had 6 games days but only 5 with significant content and 5k of images. v0.4 is 6 and 4 with 3k(probably) images. I could include more game days to match the size of v0.2 but this will end at a natural break point. As mentioned this is a Vivian heavy update with the next one(v0.6) picking up with a lot more Hutch content right from the start. v0.4 will answer some questions and develop the story, but v0.6 is where the pain begins.
Porn Logic
I had a really long rant about this but I scratched it and I'll simply say this: It's a story. All stories are unrealistic to a degree but that's what makes it entertaining. I feel my 'leaps of faith' are easier to swallow than most Hollywood movies. 'Pitch meeting' and 'The Critical Thinker' on YT show just how shitty Hollywood is. But they entertain nonetheless.
Just to speak to this for a moment - YES. That is the short answer to your questions. It's up to you to see WHAT he does then decide for yourself WHY he did it. This thread is a couple hundred pages of people answering that. But to expand on this just a little, despite her screen time, I do not consider Vivian to be the main character. Hutch does not get an inner monologue on purpose. I think v0.6 is a much more interesting part of the story and I think is what most of you really want. We'll get there in time. The good news is that about of quarter of that is already done and being Hutch focused, it's easier to render. The bad news is, after this update, I will need to slow down a little. I'm rushing to get this one done to sort of 'cement' the story, and, as a non initial release, get more attention from people holding off. I almost never download initial releases as they typically have little content and often quickly abandoned. I suspect there are plenty others like me.
Again, thank you to everyone.
No sneak peaks but I'll include just some old eye candy renders I've done in the past.
This one I'm particularly proud of. I know most of you don't use Daz but I made this without any post work. It was one render from Daz using mirrors. It was inspired but the music video Late Night Feelins by Mark Ronson.
