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DreamTeamStudio I read on twitter that you use AI for art and story writing.
No problems with it (of course), but just curious. How long have you been using it for? Do you manually fix the hands / etc?
No problems with it (of course), but just curious. How long have you been using it for? Do you manually fix the hands / etc?
I said I don't want to do it. Also, it's more complicated than that.
This is a 1-dev team and one person (me) handles everything except the base art, but I still have to heavily polish it for internal consistency and convert it for use in the visual novel.
I heavily use AI for my own personal, private use, but no writing in the VN is from an AI, and no art in the VN except the deliberately fucked-looking backgrounds in the dream and doujin covers in Zach's bedside drawer were made with AI. I had to heavily polish up things manually.
He is waiting on sprites, which have been paid for and are being worked on. He has a written outline for much of his route but writing without his sprites present is a terrible idea and would require me to go back and fix the writing to account for them.
Gotta admit its a pretty solid game. The protag and his reactions to his scenario are in my opinion what make the game and its taken refreshingly seriously. Gotta admit that earned it a lot of easy points just because of how often that is just immediately overlooked in a TG game.
The alt history does make me giggle though, a Japanese occupation of select bits of North America? I must admit I laughed pretty hard at the mere notion of that dying gasp of an Empire of even attempting a landing in North America beyond a scouting venture. Still its an interesting enough premise and the art is solid, the writing is decent and the alt history while probably not the intent is actually hilarious.
The alt history does make me giggle though, a Japanese occupation of select bits of North America? I must admit I laughed pretty hard at the mere notion of that dying gasp of an Empire of even attempting a landing in North America beyond a scouting venture. Still its an interesting enough premise and the art is solid, the writing is decent and the alt history while probably not the intent is actually hilarious.
Gotcha, I misunderstood.
I've tried out the AI writing tools but wasn't a huge fan of them yet. Maybe someday but for now I'm sticking to my own writing.
As for art, like you mentioned I also have to heavily polish things up manually. Thanks for responding incredibly quickly.
Laura2022
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Zacharoey is very disappointed in you for not utilizing AI image generation.
Also an obligatory Kurihime transformation for Zach:
Also an obligatory Kurihime transformation for Zach:
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Laura2022
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The story would be 11/10 if it turned out that Zach transformed into a catgirl because there was a cat hair on him or something... Like Hermione transforming into the cat in HP. Or maybe the cat WAS Zach's mom? Tun-tun-tuuuuuun.
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hmm story is nice to play. CHEATS seems to have 2 personalities from lower to higher with more or few lines that depends on it. Though some scenario doesn't change depending on the line we choose such as being rude to the partner we choose like keisuke route where despite I choose upset to not forgiving after the force sex when caught masturbating and refuse again in the bathroom but got coerced at the end in offscreen then they're still friends despite that
Keisuke's route is in the middle of revisions waiting on art, but think long and hard about why Zach is so forgiving to Keisuke.
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is there any reason why the arcade game quicksaves automatically?
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To allow easier retries, and to prevent breaking in odd cases. You have multiple quick save slots, so this should not cause any adverse issues for readers.
He didn't at first during that phone call and still doesn't even really know who she is? He explicitly has no idea Zach even got a girlfriend, and Zach had to explain who she was, but then after Zach explained how he had fixed up her car his dad had an idea of who Britney was even though his wife had only briefly mentioned Britney to him a single time.
Maybe I am misreading this question, but over the first third of the only phone call Zach has with his dad so far is Zach talking about Britney to him. Maybe you meant the call with his mom?
Samantha (Zach's mom) is almost supernatural cognizant due to her staggeringly high intellect, deductive reasoning skills, and ability to read people. She pieces together Zach is talking about Britney when he explains that he got a girlfriend he knew in high school before he even finished his sentence. The clues were fairly obvious to her (Zach was clearly simping for her in high school, Zach kept bringing her up to his mom, Zach reduced how much he was studying to help her with theater club as a tech member, they hung out most days at lunch, many times after school for theater club, and a few times during the summer), and Samantha has a compulsive need to flex how smart she is on people.
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Ah okay I meant here in the current version:
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Okay, there was a slight variable and pathing oversight.
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It's been fixed, and thanks for pointing it out!
Re-Dreamer [v0.14.1] Compressed With UAGC 2.4.8 Fixed
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re:/Dreamer (0.15.0) just released for the public. It's the proper start of The Mom Route™ with the introduction of new writing and the sprites for Samantha Taylor, Zach's overbearing and mentally ill hyper-intelligent yandere housewife tiger mom.
Since y'all at F95zone are nasty, I need to clarify that there is not going to be any incest.
Previews:
Changelog:
Since y'all at F95zone are nasty, I need to clarify that there is not going to be any incest.
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Changelog:
- Samantha Taylor, Zach's mom (and a genius mentally ill demisexual yandere disaster housewife), now has sprites! While she's admittedly a minor character in every route except hers (more on that later), she has had a major effect on the life of her child that cannot be ignored or overlooked as she has spent more time with Zach than anyone else in his life, was pretty much his only parental figure for most of his life, and depending on how you look at it, his best friend (or at least, the person he is closest to).
- Her sprites were done by
You must be registered to see the links(and very heavily edited by me for strict consistency), and while he is the same artist who did Zoey's sprites and the CGs in the game that aren't placeholders, his art style has drifted enough over the past 2 years where it almost seems like it's a different artist mimicking Zoey's sprites. At least her breast size is consistent...
- She has 3.5 poses (distinct 2 head angles, but she has arm variant on her second pose and each head angle has a unique clipboard pose for her Thanksgiving outfit), 7 outfits (with many sub-variants like colors and outfit parts not selectable in the sprite viewer), many held objects in her hand for her third pose, 4-ish hairstyles (some are minor variants), 3 types of glasses, a headband, a Santa hat, and a ton of expressions.
- Samantha has 20 expressions for each head angle, and every single facial expression part is unique. This means that she has 16,000 possible unique expressions of eyes, eyebrows, and mouths she could make, which shoots up to 18,400 unique expressions because I gave her extra mouths from Zoey and Britney's sprites that feel more natural for talking. If you then factor in her 6 blush strengths, her 3 gloom levels (including the base without gloom), 3 possible facial emotes (a sweat drop, tears, and a single tear), and 2 different types of yandere eyes, she has a total of 5,299,200 unique faces she could make, not even counting that I can dynamically adjust the strength of her yandere eyes. This is an outright dizzying amount of combinations at my fingertips, but that massive range gives her a ton of subtlety with her expressions in a way that Zoey can't quite match as many of her daughter's base facial expressions have duplicate parts.
- Honestly, it's crazy that while Samantha doesn't have her daughter's outfit versatility, she has what are in my opinion the significantly better sprites. I'm down bad for her and she turns me into a useless pining lesbian.
- Her sprites were done by
- But enough about the sprites! Fulfilling a Sustainer request from Sandra and my own promise to expand the blursed "Mom Route" as soon as Samantha's sprites were finished, her writing has resumed.
- The start of the route has been completely overhauled to be a canon route and a few minor details have been adjusted, but her writing still isn't finished this update as editing her sprites simply took too long (seriously, I wasn't expecting the image editing + scaling + coding to take almost 70 hours total, and I had to go back and fix her Pose BC's expressions because the outlines were different strengths than Pose A's and that ate up an entire day).
- There's still a ton of new writing here (at least an hour, but Awkwardness makes this length vary a lot), but it stops at a tantalizing cliffhanger. I won't go into spoilers, but there are two major variants to Samantha dropping a bombshell nuke on her son-turned-daughter (later to be expanded to five; I just ran out of gas editing art and need to rest for a few days). If you play with Trans 5 and Trans "therapy" answer (like I know at least 63% (that's the gender bender number!!!) are because of the survey), you might get something many of you have been champing at the bit for a long, long time.
- The conclusion will be in the next update to create a fully-canon route of at least 2 hours, possibly 2 and a half. Remember when I said this was going to be 60 minutes, then 90 minutes?
- The Mom Route has extremely significant differences based on the "therapy" answer Zach gave Ai (and to a lesser extent, the value of the Trans stat). Trans and Cis have the biggest differences between them (of course), but "AGP" can function as a nice middle ground between "trans girl wish fulfillment that melts the heart of any trans girl reading it as it fills with envy and jealously" and "a deep dive into parental and childhood drama and trauma caused by severe mental health issues, and how even a loving mother with the best of intentions might still be a terrible mother." And yes, I know AGP is bunk that has harmed trans women in untold numbers and it turned out I was not the exception to the rule, but Zach incorrectly thinks he is that exception.
- More than any other writing in re:/Dreamer, Samantha's scenes get extended and altered with Awkwardness 4 and Awkwardness 5. Even if 4 or 5 are not your usual Awkwardness values, try her route with them as the many scenes that get altered or unlocked with those stats are heavily worth checking out as I think they show just how much of a dorky goofball Samantha is, especially around Zach.
- I fixed the Android phone text from clipping into the phone, but it came at the cost of having to make the text smaller to match the way it looks on PC. Let me know if it's legible on your own phone screen or not, but based on quick informal polling of Android users, they said it was legible on their screen.
- The NVL mode (full-screen text) now has thicker outlines for backgrounds that aren't its default 80% opacity black overlay, increasing legibility.
- I somehow took out the line that the best friend Zach picks gets a minor wish if they win re:/Dreamer (think of it like Zach's wish being the limitless wish from Fairly Odd Parents vs the friend's wish being like the restricted ones bound by Da Rules). It's been re-added.
- Zach finally has the very important World Information entry on Zach's stuffed animals and their extensive lore. It unlocks in the Mom Route (and later on in the first home visit of the other routes).
- Zoey's sprites have a new medium-length hair option. See if you can find out where it shows up in the game!
- Zoey's sprites have a new maternity bra and underwear set her mom lends her in the Mom Route. I made it myself from the existing Underwear C set (the plain orange one), partly because I needed it and TiltSHIFT was busy, and partly to test the viability of editing Zoey's breast size across her sprites for consistency myself.
- I promise that I have not forgotten about making the writeup about how we could change Zoey's breast size, and not by shrinking them (as they'd only get reduced by half a cup size, if that), but making the size more consistent across her outfits, making them consistent across her poses (they're quite a bit smaller in Pose A than Pose B or Pose C), and making them rounder and perkier (they noticeably flop over her arm in Pose C on most outfits). Recent art priorities have just, well, taken priority.
- To simplify the complicated issues of fixing Zoey's breast size:
- TiltSHIFT's style has drifted a ton in the past 2 years and he can't quite replicate his old style he used in Zoey's sprites (seriously, Samantha's layer structure was largely incompatible with Zoey's); he has forgotten how the folder structure for Zoey's sprites' Clip Studio Paint file was organized and had to be sent flattened versions of Zoey's nude poses for a new outfit he just did as he could not navigate the file; he's got better communication skill than Myumi and is more professional, but that comes at the price of being more expensive; and it is the utmost importance to stay on great terms with him as he wasn't particularly receptive to redrawing sprites and has expressed interest in drawing new CGs instead, and that is honestly what we should be throwing him at to fix some of the lopsided porn/text ratio this game has.
- Myumi is less expensive than TiltSHIFT and can almost perfectly mimic TiltSHIFT's old style, but he is slower, prone to going AWOL, and would like to make new characters and CGs instead of outfits (let alone redrawing outfits) like he has been doing for the past several months; and as he's trying to do more professional art, I'd like to help him create things he can put in a portfolio instead of edited art (and again, the porn/text ratio of this game needs fixing).
- While I lack any drawing skills, I am good enough with Clip Studio Paint that I can edit Zoey's sprites for generally "good enough" results, but it takes forever, slowly drives me insane (seriously, my brain was numb by the time I hit the last stretch of polishing Samantha's sprites for consistency, and I felt something inside of me, likely my soul, break when I realized her Pose BC expressions needed fixing and that took me 10 hours straight of work), editing art is a lost opportunity cost of me writing this visual novel, and while the results are adequate, they aren't as good as TiltSHIFT or Myumi's work.
- Zoey's sprites now have a recolor of the complex compression bra for the routes that aren't Britney's route. It's labeled as "chest binder" (although to be honest, I probably need to swap the usage of "chest binder" and "compression bra" as the more complex device Zach and Britney make in Britney's route has binding features not found on compression bras, but that's a project for another release).
- Zoey's sprites now have a modular Christmas outfit. It consists of a red off-shoulder sweater dress, thick tights (which are internally named "stockings" to keep with the Christmas theme), and a Santa hat. It matches with Samantha's Christmas outfit and they pair well when on the screen together.
- Lots of typo fixes from dedicated readers actually telling me about them. Thanks! This also alerted me to the fact that my Visual Studio Code spelling dictionary was broken, so that's cool...