Monetka_

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I really can’t wait for June... seriously. There’s so much going on with my firefighter job, lots of incidents lately, and on top of that, my wedding is in three weeks. There are still many things left to do (I just ordered my suit, yikes), and our wedding dance still needs some work.

But things are moving in the right direction, and I hope I can take a breather soon and fully return to working on the game. Nothing is lost though - while I’m busy, my team keeps working. I can confidently say we’re halfway through update 4.2. Half of the scenes are fully finished, and the other half has scripts done - we’re now working on renders and animations for those.

I think the update will be ready in the second half of June and it will be one of the smaller ones. But we’ll do our best to release update 5.0 much faster and make it bigger with more content. That’s it for now - I’m going back to dealing with life and leaving you with a few cool renders.

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He's a fireman. He's getting married. And he's making a game. It's impossible without a team. You can't create that much time. I hope the team is good. Anyway, it is impossible for this game to come out of the hands of 1 person. It's a big game and I think it's probably a teamwork of at least 20-40 people, including the cook and the driver.
 
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frodoneo

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Dev should use AI to speed up development
I think lot of people are not getting the potential of AI. So we immediately see negativity. Mostly due to the slop that people post thinking its good. Currently AI is at that phase where its neither good nor bad. But things are improving rapidly. With proper training (aka LoRA), we could make a really nice model that can render the MC quite clearly. Thats easily achievable within the next year if not already. That can speed up lot of render that doesnt involve multiple persons. Down the line, we can train for all the characters in the game and renders will be outputted instantly just based on the prompts. But of course what I'm more interested is with in the next few years, we would be able to make quality videos 30 seconds long and that will be game changing (literally)! So dont dismiss AI, its the future.
 

Dessolos

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I think lot of people are not getting the potential of AI. So we immediately see negativity. Mostly due to the slop that people post thinking its good. Currently AI is at that phase where its neither good nor bad. But things are improving rapidly. With proper training (aka LoRA), we could make a really nice model that can render the MC quite clearly. Thats easily achievable within the next year if not already. That can speed up lot of render that doesnt involve multiple persons. Down the line, we can train for all the characters in the game and renders will be outputted instantly just based on the prompts. But of course what I'm more interested is with in the next few years, we would be able to make quality videos 30 seconds long and that will be game changing (literally)! So dont dismiss AI, its the future.
For me it's not that I see the potential I just don't like a project switching to AI in the middle. I rather they use it from the start or not at all
 

wildride69

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Jan 5, 2023
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I think lot of people are not getting the potential of AI. So we immediately see negativity. Mostly due to the slop that people post thinking its good. Currently AI is at that phase where its neither good nor bad. But things are improving rapidly. With proper training (aka LoRA), we could make a really nice model that can render the MC quite clearly. Thats easily achievable within the next year if not already. That can speed up lot of render that doesnt involve multiple persons. Down the line, we can train for all the characters in the game and renders will be outputted instantly just based on the prompts. But of course what I'm more interested is with in the next few years, we would be able to make quality videos 30 seconds long and that will be game changing (literally)! So dont dismiss AI, its the future.
I 100% hope AI art dies a horrendous copyright death, a choice lazy devs make but not good ones. It may have functions to assist in the future but 99% of current AI art is crap.
 

Dodzh

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I think lot of people are not getting the potential of AI. So we immediately see negativity. Mostly due to the slop that people post thinking its good. Currently AI is at that phase where its neither good nor bad. But things are improving rapidly. With proper training (aka LoRA), we could make a really nice model that can render the MC quite clearly. Thats easily achievable within the next year if not already. That can speed up lot of render that doesnt involve multiple persons. Down the line, we can train for all the characters in the game and renders will be outputted instantly just based on the prompts. But of course what I'm more interested is with in the next few years, we would be able to make quality videos 30 seconds long and that will be game changing (literally)! So dont dismiss AI, its the future.
For me it's not that I see the potential I just don't like a project switching to AI in the middle. I rather they use it from the start or not at all
I 100% hope AI art dies a horrendous copyright death, a choice lazy devs make but not good ones. It may have functions to assist in the future but 99% of current AI art is crap.
I don't think people really understand that AI will actually slow things down. Yes, one single image can be ok, but when it comes to consistency, having the same character exactly with the same clothing and things like that can be challenging. there are tools that can help, such as LORA's and paint-over to replace clothing but even using those things can be a pain in the ass to get them perfect. is actually faster to use DAZ to do render once you have your character set than to use AI
 
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Kiki_Broadchester

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The artwork for this game is the stand out in my opinion and they should continue with their current way of producing it. Reading that the Dev is still working on scripts tells me that this story wasn't really that well thought out from the start, which makes more sense now. For me, it's what lets this whole game down. I know that I'm different to a lot of people in that regard, but I just wish the story was so much better.
 
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BiberonSZeta

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I think lot of people are not getting the potential of AI. So we immediately see negativity. Mostly due to the slop that people post thinking its good. Currently AI is at that phase where its neither good nor bad. But things are improving rapidly. With proper training (aka LoRA), we could make a really nice model that can render the MC quite clearly. Thats easily achievable within the next year if not already. That can speed up lot of render that doesnt involve multiple persons. Down the line, we can train for all the characters in the game and renders will be outputted instantly just based on the prompts. But of course what I'm more interested is with in the next few years, we would be able to make quality videos 30 seconds long and that will be game changing (literally)! So dont dismiss AI, its the future.
I get the potential of AI, I use it daily for work to speed up IT stuff. But it's no where near able to actually and properly maintain the context of the Dev as he envisions it. Honestly, stay away of AI if you don't want to loose your creativity not to mention dampen your knowhow!
 
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KingsRaiden

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Jan 4, 2017
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I don't think people really understand that AI will actually slow things down. Yes, one single image can be ok, but when it comes to consistency, having the same character exactly with the same clothing and things like that can be challenging. there are tools that can help, such as LORA's and paint-over to replace clothing but even using those things can be a pain in the ass to get them perfect. is actually faster to use DAZ to do render once you have your character set than to use AI
Very true, and AI pictures need editing after they are done, so many issues with poses, fingers, and toes it's not like you give it some description and it comes out with exactly what you want. I've seen a few AI picture games that are well done, but knowing that they have to make up to a hundred versions to get the right one, yeah it can slow down an image heavy game a lot.
 
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I really can’t wait for June... seriously. There’s so much going on with my firefighter job, lots of incidents lately, and on top of that, my wedding is in three weeks. There are still many things left to do (I just ordered my suit, yikes), and our wedding dance still needs some work.

But things are moving in the right direction, and I hope I can take a breather soon and fully return to working on the game. Nothing is lost though - while I’m busy, my team keeps working. I can confidently say we’re halfway through update 4.2. Half of the scenes are fully finished, and the other half has scripts done - we’re now working on renders and animations for those.

I think the update will be ready in the second half of June and it will be one of the smaller ones. But we’ll do our best to release update 5.0 much faster and make it bigger with more content. That’s it for now - I’m going back to dealing with life and leaving you with a few cool renders.

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The burning question is: Does his bride know he creates smutty stories?
 

Zara Scarlet

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Some of the money Riley earns is not being added to her account. After the stream where she wears her maid's outfit for the first time, Elijah tells her she's earned over 200 dollars, and he'll transfer it later. But he never does. Is this a bug? If it isn't, why have Elijah say it at all, and that he'll transfer it over?

And why have Riley continuously worry about making the 200 dollars for Wyatt, when it surely should be obvious to her after a week or two, that she can make it easily (with hundreds of dollars to spare each week)?

Even without extras from streaming with Elijah, and additional tips, she can comfortably make 400 dollars a week, just serving in the Bar and cleaning for Richard, 4 days a week. So why would she ever need to worry?
 
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