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Ren'Py Southern Nights [Development Thread]
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for folks already on patreon:
- redid some things with the code - need to get to a point where it's settled but I'm trying to make sure it doesn't cause any issues.
- working on a masturbation scene atm (work has me bogged down and I'm not getting much done tbh). Hopefully it will slow down at work and I can get back to cranking them out.
- Reduced the areas and actions of Sarah (don't need a lot of them they're just dead ends BUT this still means I can add things later with ease).
- ready for a beer
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- redid some things with the code - need to get to a point where it's settled but I'm trying to make sure it doesn't cause any issues.
- working on a masturbation scene atm (work has me bogged down and I'm not getting much done tbh). Hopefully it will slow down at work and I can get back to cranking them out.
- Reduced the areas and actions of Sarah (don't need a lot of them they're just dead ends BUT this still means I can add things later with ease).
- ready for a beer
I now also follow you on Patreon. i hope a new versio n comes out that mounth.
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All good. I sent them a generic one with no frills and they published the page.
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Finishing up this week - may squeeze in some time tomorrow to do some work.
- game is at 3.56 GBs - 2731 files in images folder - some are renders and others are icons, etc. but mostly renders.
- small renders have been added to a few places and some places have been tied up to increase Sarah affection.
- small code changes
- Aunt intro male MC scene will defer from female's side so play both sides. Didn't feel like the script worked with both and wanted to open up a few things later on with this. Aunt intro male MC scene is about 40% complete.
Didn't get a lot of done this week because of work. Next week will probably be worse so I'll be around but may not be able to respond or do much for the game unfortunately.
Still shooting for about a month from now when I think the game will be ready. We'll see. If I can, I want to sneak in a few things before I release it that were not planned but here's hoping I can and you guys love it.
- game is at 3.56 GBs - 2731 files in images folder - some are renders and others are icons, etc. but mostly renders.
- small renders have been added to a few places and some places have been tied up to increase Sarah affection.
- small code changes
- Aunt intro male MC scene will defer from female's side so play both sides. Didn't feel like the script worked with both and wanted to open up a few things later on with this. Aunt intro male MC scene is about 40% complete.
Didn't get a lot of done this week because of work. Next week will probably be worse so I'll be around but may not be able to respond or do much for the game unfortunately.
Still shooting for about a month from now when I think the game will be ready. We'll see. If I can, I want to sneak in a few things before I release it that were not planned but here's hoping I can and you guys love it.
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It definitely needs compression instead of PNG use "webg" for images, I think I spelled it wrong but you will get the idea.
Btw I am hyped for your game, urination is my fetish especially if I am the one giving the showers and drinks.
I prefer the male protagonist, although it doesn't matter I guess cause the pole has been closed, there are already tons of female protagonist games with humiliation as there main theme which also includes urination.
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Totals:
Animations: 112 (this includes non-naughty ones) - around 80 or so naughty ones
Stills: 300+
Gallery: 15 with maybe 3 more to add (as mentioned before, some are scenes that have not been broken up so multiple animations)
I'll be working on the basement scenes and then wrapping up the game (testing and cleaning stuff up).
Available scenes:
- 2 HJ
- 1 BJ
- 1 cunnilingus
- 3 masturbation
- 3 wettings so far
- 1 vanilla sex
- 1 lesbian sex
- 1 fingering
- 2 Pee voyeur
- 2 female squirt
- 2 Male cum
- multiple peed on perspective scenes so far
- probably a couple more things I can't remember at the moment
Some of the afore mentioned scenes have multiple angles and some do NOT. Some scenes have music or sounds and some do not.
I'm honestly hung up on this part: I have 2 scenes to write and render that are a part of the story line that's left. I'm planning on at least getting lower tiered escalation scenes in at this point so that path is there but I can wait and release what I have and will work on them in 0.9 BETA. I think the scenes would add some additional fun for the player but these scenes will have Sarah in them so no sex just yet for her just some watersports and foreplay fun. The only eager girls in the game at this point are the other characters (yes including the aunt).
One other thing, I redid the story line in the intro for the MCs. I wanted the aunt to be a little sweeter and in the intro scene for her, she's a good bit naughtier (even for the stuff we like). I kind of get the feeling that you guys don't know what I'm up to sometimes so it has me wondering (worried) if this is even going to be a good game. I've tried my damnedest to make the game kinky, the minigames controllable (intended outcomes), and the renders to be on par with top level adult VNs.
A part of the end of the game that I had mentioned a while back is a sweet thing I did to wrap it up. It's small but with the music and what I did, it meant a lot to me to end this version this way (because if the game doesn't do good then it will remain this way). Again, I wanted this game to be sweet, fun, funny, and exceptionally kinky. I just felt it needed it.
Animations: 112 (this includes non-naughty ones) - around 80 or so naughty ones
Stills: 300+
Gallery: 15 with maybe 3 more to add (as mentioned before, some are scenes that have not been broken up so multiple animations)
I'll be working on the basement scenes and then wrapping up the game (testing and cleaning stuff up).
Available scenes:
- 2 HJ
- 1 BJ
- 1 cunnilingus
- 3 masturbation
- 3 wettings so far
- 1 vanilla sex
- 1 lesbian sex
- 1 fingering
- 2 Pee voyeur
- 2 female squirt
- 2 Male cum
- multiple peed on perspective scenes so far
- probably a couple more things I can't remember at the moment
Some of the afore mentioned scenes have multiple angles and some do NOT. Some scenes have music or sounds and some do not.
I'm honestly hung up on this part: I have 2 scenes to write and render that are a part of the story line that's left. I'm planning on at least getting lower tiered escalation scenes in at this point so that path is there but I can wait and release what I have and will work on them in 0.9 BETA. I think the scenes would add some additional fun for the player but these scenes will have Sarah in them so no sex just yet for her just some watersports and foreplay fun. The only eager girls in the game at this point are the other characters (yes including the aunt).
One other thing, I redid the story line in the intro for the MCs. I wanted the aunt to be a little sweeter and in the intro scene for her, she's a good bit naughtier (even for the stuff we like). I kind of get the feeling that you guys don't know what I'm up to sometimes so it has me wondering (worried) if this is even going to be a good game. I've tried my damnedest to make the game kinky, the minigames controllable (intended outcomes), and the renders to be on par with top level adult VNs.
A part of the end of the game that I had mentioned a while back is a sweet thing I did to wrap it up. It's small but with the music and what I did, it meant a lot to me to end this version this way (because if the game doesn't do good then it will remain this way). Again, I wanted this game to be sweet, fun, funny, and exceptionally kinky. I just felt it needed it.
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After I release the next version, if there is a compressor who wants to compress the game, that'd be nice. I don't want to do it since I haven't before so I have no experience good enough to do it right. I also don't want to because it would/should lose image quality.
Anyway, I went back to the dreamscape scene and added 4-120 frame animations. I thought it needed these as an option or extra. It took a total of about 12+ hours to render these images. Game is at 5GBs now and I still need to do a few things more. Not sure if I'm in the right section here or not (lmao) but I hope you guys like animated watersports.
Anyway, I went back to the dreamscape scene and added 4-120 frame animations. I thought it needed these as an option or extra. It took a total of about 12+ hours to render these images. Game is at 5GBs now and I still need to do a few things more. Not sure if I'm in the right section here or not (lmao) but I hope you guys like animated watersports.
120 frames animations? I hope you're not talking about frames-per-second, lol.
By the way, I'm no expert but from my experience, I think 5GB for a first release might be a sign of poor optimization.
For example, use the webp/jpg format for images, not png. Don't use 4k resolution or higher, as they would benefit only from very big monitors (which 90% of the players don't have). Etc...
If you feel like the game can't be optimized anymore than that, it's fine. There is a request thread here to ask others to create a compressed version.
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120 frames in one animation - they're at like 20-30 FPS when they run though. It is poor optimization because all the images are in PNG but it's not on purpose. A lot of them have to be in PNG for transparency (including animations). I think webp supports transparency but transparency doesn't work with JPG. They're mostly 1920x1080 images or higher (including animations). When I get to that point I'll check it out and in the meantime, see if I can do some optimizing myself. Again I don't want to lose image quality and I know there's some trickery to webp to get it to work and look fine, I just don't have experience doing it. The game runs fine for me - just have to wait for some animations to load in some scenes. The last I tried to optimize into webp it (some software I had) said it was going to lose image quality so I stopped playing with it. I had test images from that software and it said it only took a small chunk out of the image size so it didn't appear to be worth it at the time. My PCs are good machines but they're old. Hopefully this game won't be too bad on a player's PC.
I understand your concerns, it's not easy to achieve a good balance between compression and loss of quality, but it is doable. Luckily there are good compressors here, hopefully they will manage to make a good job with your game as well.
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Current plan:
- I am working on wrapping up scenes (2/3s of one complete and one whole scene still waiting for scripts and renders - this got bumped because I added more to the dreamscape scene)
- Next week is internal game testing - this may also mean content may need to be changed and code changes
- Southern Nights is still on schedule for release
May 10 2024 (Next Friday)
- Game will be released here under this Game Development Thread (uncompressed)
- Game will be released to Subscribestar and Patreon folks via the same link (uncompressed)
- I will put in a request to have the game compressed here (thanks darlic )
- If a compressed link is available, its link will be updated on this OP
- Beta testers here will give feedback on Southern Nights 0.8 BETA
- I may take a break for a little bit and return after release of game but should be back the next week
- Bugs and appropriate changes will be made to the game the following week
- Game will be considered for full release and moved to Games section on this site if appropriate
- I will hopefully get my Game Developer tag
- I will take a small break again
- Further development will be considered depending on the game's response
- I am working on wrapping up scenes (2/3s of one complete and one whole scene still waiting for scripts and renders - this got bumped because I added more to the dreamscape scene)
- Next week is internal game testing - this may also mean content may need to be changed and code changes
- Southern Nights is still on schedule for release
May 10 2024 (Next Friday)
- Game will be released here under this Game Development Thread (uncompressed)
- Game will be released to Subscribestar and Patreon folks via the same link (uncompressed)
- I will put in a request to have the game compressed here (thanks darlic )
- If a compressed link is available, its link will be updated on this OP
- Beta testers here will give feedback on Southern Nights 0.8 BETA
- I may take a break for a little bit and return after release of game but should be back the next week
- Bugs and appropriate changes will be made to the game the following week
- Game will be considered for full release and moved to Games section on this site if appropriate
- I will hopefully get my Game Developer tag
- I will take a small break again
- Further development will be considered depending on the game's response
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I still haven't started testing. The last scene is running long. If I don't make the release date for tomorrow, I promise, it will be soon and well worth it. I was going to do something just naughty for the last scene but I'm ending up writing something I felt the game needed. I hope you guys can hang out for a few more days if I don't wrap it up tomorrow. I'm trying my damnedest to get it done.
Your amazing for doing all of this work already. There is no need to rush the product. I am sure we are all dying to play it but if your not ready to release it then it is better to have quality content than to have rushed content.
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Yep confirmed. Release for Southern Nights 0.8 BETA probably tomorrow at the earliest.
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I have the male side to finish up his scene. The female scene was started but I need the rest of the renders. The game was going to be late anyway so yesterday I added a few animations to each side to spice it up. After that I'm going through the game for testing and someone I know IRL is going to play through the game as well. Tomorrow or Monday. I had some stuff pop up today and haven't had time to mess with it and it's already late so I'm just relaxing this evening and will be back on it tomorrow. Just wanted to give an update instead of leaving you guys hanging.
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