Ya she's a little suspicious for sure. Definitely got some weird vibes from her, and rejected her right off the bat anyway - first meeting for like 5-10 mins and she wants to blow you in a public restroom...kick that street-trash to the curb where it belongs.
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Hello everyone!
The last two weeks have not been as productive as I would like. Easter, one of my family member’s birthday party and my day job meant I didn't have much time to work on Race of Life. Despite this, I managed to make a few dozens of renders and create one new environment. For this reason, I thought this development update would be a bit different than the others. I think you deserve full transparency when it comes to RoL development and for that reason I would like to explain to you why development may seem to have slowed down recently.
- I've mentioned this many times before, but I’ll repeat it again - Episode 2 is really big. Considering I'm the only 3D artist in our two-person team, it's really time consuming to make thousands of images and dozens of animations in a reasonable amount of time. And the art itself is not the end of the work. You have to take care of the code, test it, take care of the SFX, etc. All this translates into hundreds if not thousands of hours of work.
- I work on Race of Life in my free time. I have a day job which often requires me to work irregular hours and therefore there are situations where I have very little free time. I sincerely hope that someday I will be able to take up Race of Life as a full-time job, but for now it must be as it is. All we can do is make sure that Episode 3 will be smaller and easier to create.
- At first I didn't want to talk about it, but looking at how much time I've wasted on this and how much time I'm likely to lose in the future, I thought you should know about it. In January this year I was diagnosed with sinus cancer. Fortunately, it is not a malignant tumor, but it still requires surgery. Since January I’ve spent many days looking for a hospital to take care of me and I found it only a few days ago. It's very possible I'll be operated on in a month or two and then I'll have to take a break from work until I recover. The doctor said I shouldn't push myself too hard the next couple of weeks after the surgery and I'll be fully recoverd at least 2 months after. As soon as I get the exact date of the surgery, I will let you know!
Stay healthy and I'll see you in the next development update!
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Hope things go well with the surgery. Hoping for the best, health always comes first.
Ya, best wishes to the Dev. Looking forward to buying the game on Steam when it releases there down the road.
Sending positive vibes to Jachu! Hope it all works out well and a speedy recovery!
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Hello everyone!
First of all, I wanted to thank you all for the enormous support I got since the last development update regarding my health situation. It’s an amazing feeling when people all across the world, people I’ll probably never meet, care about my health and my problems. It's amazing how a bond has formed between us. I am not able to express in words my gratitude for your support and heartwarming words.
In addition, today we’ve crossed the 200 Patrons mark! Because of that Alexa, Veronica and Jasmine started their celebration. Would you like to join them?
I have question for UndergroundStudio , is there Steam version for this game? Reason why is honestly i deleted my patreon account and i don't want to bother creating new account again and i've noticed that some devs are using Steam to deliver their games. For me at least Steam is much easier.
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There will steam version but after episode 3
Ya let us know once the Steam store page is up - I will make sure I wishlist it to support the algorithm.
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Upscale tipsy honey tenders ...
Down to earth pretty eye candy.
Choose your poison and start racing for the game ...
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Race of Life Wallpaper - April 2023 - Jasmine
In other news ... hazard on the road....
What, wear a seatbelt? Why? You're not. Guess it hinders your one hand wheelies.
Pick up! Pick up! Put your seatbelt on!
It sits right above your shoulder. It would, if not for the fancy wide oister seats, that is.
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Dom, you already lost Letty and your wife and daughter left your cheating ass ... how long are you gonna wait?
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Hello everyone!
I have good news! Recently, I’ve received a call with a surgery date and it will not take place as soon as the doctors had previously assured me. My current surgery date is set on 22nd of October this year. It's much later than I hoped for but the positive thing about it is that it won't affect the release of Episode 2 for sure and I can focus fully on working on it.
I still have some medical examinations, tests etc. to do before October, but they will not affect the pace of work on Race of Life. Unfortunately, the timing of the surgery will rather affect the pace of Episode 3's work, because during its development time I’ll be in the hospital and then recovering for a few weeks. I'll keep you all updated about it and we'll see where Episode 3 will be at the end of October, it’s pretty hard to predict right now.Getting back to Episode 2, I've already exceeded the number of 2500 renders, corrected some earlier animations that turned out to have some hair/clothing clipping or lighting issues that came out only after rendering, and I even managed to make a few more. The number is growing all the time and I am very happy about it.
I waited with the development update until I got the final information from the hospital, so I'm only now informing you about everything. Thank you all for your kind words and wonderful support! You are the best supporters I could ever dream of! Now I can work in peace, because, to be honest, when I was waiting for news from the hospital, I couldn’t really focus on work and I tried to spend as much time with my family as possible. But since I got the surgery date I feel much more calm!And as always, here are a few words from Joshua:
Firstly, I have to thank the patrons. Usually I talk about this at the end, but the last month has been incredible. Underground Studios cracked 200 patrons, and the amount of people on patreon, discord and other channels that have expressed their best wishes to Jachu has been really encouraging. It's a great reminder about how a community is what you make it, and there are some genuinely fantastic people in this one, so thanks for that.
For myself, I've been spending some time the last couple of weeks working out some plot knots in later episodes. With a normal story, you tell it from beginning to end, and that's been done for the main plot, but then you have to add in the various ways the love interests interact with that main plot, the side plots, what changes are made based on your relationship status with them and so on. I don't want to write on the fly or write myself into a corner, so having these smoothed out now makes it a lot easier to write dialogue later when I don't have to make huge changes. I don't want the story to turn into some sort of overly-complex soap opera where everyone is someone's long-lost relation or childhood best friend's neighbor or something, so I'm not trying to be too cute, just give our players a story that they can remember between episodes rather than trying to keep track of a few dozen plot lines (trust me, it's hard to do, even when you're the one writing them all).
Aside from that, there's been the usual tweaks to the current episode, and some work on the dialogue for the next one. As the relationships unfold, I'm sure everyone will have their favorite, but just keep in mind that the episodes have to have content for each girl, and a relationship isn't always flowers and sunshine—not that I'll go out of my way to bum you out, but choices have consequences, y'know?
Anyway, thanks again to the whole community that has been so understanding. It's greatly appreciated. As always, if you guys have any questions, send them in here or on discord, and I'll do my best to answer them, provided it won't spoil anything.
Oh, and if you have a favorite kink, drop it in the comments. If it gets a lot of likes, I may work it into ep 3, if I can do it justice and it isn't one of the ones we're avoiding (scat, NTR, CNC, etc.)
Thanks again everyone!