VN Ren'Py Summer Heat [v0.6.1] [Naughty Fox Games]

[JJ1960]

Oh and yeah, it's the soccer kind of football.

Ah, a game where nobody scores.

Just like our MC in this one.

 

[Draim]

Ah, a game where nobody scores.

Just like our MC in this one.

Such jokes should be banned, as well as jokes about the toaster, bro.

 

[Ferlucio]

Could probably use some newer screenshots

 

[\\_Tremolo_//]

Such jokes should be banned, as well as jokes about the toaster, bro.

Don't listen to him, he just doesn't like toasts

 

[flarigand]

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Status Update #58


Hello everyone!

This week we don't have that many interesting topics or notes to talk about. We made a new batch of renders, post-processed another, fiddled with animation frames, did many lines of SFX and a lot of other coding related tasks. The usual.

We've been trying to sync the SFX better in the outdoor scenes. There's a scene in particular with some football, and it's been a challenge to time the kick sfx in a way that sounds natural. But it's getting there. We tried music as well, but it felt like a bit much for the moment. Maybe if we'd had some elevator tune playing throughout the game, these wouldn't feel so weird now. Oh and yeah, it's the soccer kind of football. Sorry Americans.

A bunch of zoom and panning effects were broken again on the Android version. The fixes are easy at least, but some always manage to slip by despite us going over it so many times. An example of this can still be found in the beginning of the Summer Heat 0.6.2 PC version. Some of the camera pans hadn't been fixed yet and that results in a funny hyper zoom kind of effect instead. And what's worse, the zoom is rarely on the characters but on the corners of the screen instead.

Non-yap version of this week:

25+ new renders

Post-processing renders & frames

Frames to animation

Polishing

Extras

Music/SFX/Loop syncs

Code edits

Android version editing

Eve art


We made some more laptop pictures, but this one might go in the trash bin instead since it's a bit too similar to the ones from last week,
and others. What do you think?

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We also made the October specials, with a little bit of inspiration from Duke Nukem and Selene from Underworld. The process was fun and the artsy vibe is quite different when compared to the game renders. Always fun to try new things. You can find Eve in Selene's outfit below!

Halloween Specials - Eve

https://f95zone.to/threads/summer-heat-v0-6-1-naughty-fox-games.107102/post-18514068

The next preview for 0.7 has also been decided.


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Cheers,

Robison & Npx

If you're a Patron and you continue to donate every month without saying a word, you deserve this and more.

 

[Draim]

8000 renders

Of slut in Ember(Instagram) app in the game.

 

[Cpt_Crunch]

A whole 25 renders added in a single week? Now, that's what I call progress.

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[shanksyou]

If you're a Patron and you continue to donate every month without saying a word, you deserve this and more.

I'm not a patron and I've never donated and am always saying words, I don't deserve this at all.

 

[hsaIV]

A whole 25 renders added in a single week? Now, that's what I call progress.

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[Draim]

I'm not a patron and I've never donated and am always saying words, I don't deserve this at all.

No, bro, YOU DESERVE. Now, live with it.

 

[xert13]

Such jokes should be banned, as well as jokes about the toaster, bro.

Yeah, we do not want any attempted humor on these forums.

 

[\\_Tremolo_//]

I'm not a patron and I've never donated and am always saying words, I don't deserve this at all.

Hoist the colours mfs!

 

[Don Sucio]

Hoist the colours mfs!
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[Draim]

PART OF THE SHIP PART OF THE CREW

 

[laraislove]

I thought this game was on the verge of being labelled as abondoned

 

[Falconer1523]

I thought this game was on the verge of being labelled as abondoned

Nah, there are frequent progress updates posted. Although at this point there is no way the coming update can live up to the year+ of hype and expectations. Devs appear to have shot themselves in the foot, but people keep funding their patreon so hey ho.

 

[DatGuy20]

A whole 25 renders added in a single week? Now, that's what I call progress.

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I remember when this guy took a break on developing the game to learn blender as it was supposed to help with Rendering and years later he's still not even able to do 100 renders in a week

 

[Surfup64]

Nah, there are frequent progress updates posted. Although at this point there is no way the coming update can live up to the year+ of hype and expectations. Devs appear to have shot themselves in the foot, but people keep funding their patreon so hey ho.

Especially if all of their recent updates are simply "oh we polish this and that" and "added a scene but the lighting was a bit off".
Their logs are quite vague too compared to other games I know.

 

[housekinokuni1974]

The suffering goes on haha

 

[flarigand]

I remember when this guy took a break on developing the game to learn blender as it was supposed to help with Rendering and years later he's still not even able to do 100 renders in a week

Are the developers of "Summer Heat" doing some of their rendering in Blender?

That reminds me of others developers who migrated from Daz to Unreal and Blender, thinking they could do something better, and ended up in oblivion, Daz is a very easy-to-use tool compared to the ones I already mentioned; the learning curve is very steep, and that's just the beginning.