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It is strange...I'm guessing the snake/leaf logo's are not of his design and something he found perhaps? Not royalty free perhaps? Who knows...the inconsistency is weird though, like you say, almost like he just gave up heh.
Will look forward to seeing them back in as they should be
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There are other examples of blur or re-renders I didn't mention. For example some of the cars (the Holgersons' car or Katie's car) were evidently based on Audi cars. He re-rendered the Holgerson's, but again for Katie's, he just blurred some of its features so it's no longer recognisable as an Audi. I decided the keep the re-rendering for the Holgersons', it's a minor change and has no consequence. The blurs however on Katie'sIt is strange...I'm guessing the snake/leaf logo's are not of his design and something he found perhaps? Not royalty free perhaps? Who knows...the inconsistency is weird though, like you say, almost like he just gave up heh.
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He really didnd't want to take any chances did he lol.There are other examples of blur or re-renders I didn't mention. For example some of the cars (the Holgersons' car or Katie's car) were evidently based on Audi cars. He re-rendered the Holgerson's, but again for Katie's, he just blurred some of its features so it's no longer recognisable as an Audi. I decided the keep the re-rendering for the Holgersons', it's a minor change and has no consequence. The blurs however on Katie's
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And that particular one is dumb, given everything else at that distance hasn't 'lost focus'.....*shakes head*
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Two weeks later, will the DevLog be released today?Season 2 - Chapter 1 - Dev Log #6
Just now
Hello,
So... The first Dev Log of Season 2 with Season 1 behind us... It feels good.
I have just added the Android version to the pinned release post of Season 1 and released the two soundtrack packs on Steam.
50% of the revenue will go to the music artist. From my various talks with different artists, I know how little (if anything) most of them make.
I wish I could've done the same for Vesky, but he's with Musicbed, so that's not going to happen.
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The Intangible has been with me for a very long time, and I'd consider "You must be registered to see the links" as much "SG" as most of the Vesky songs.
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I only found him recently, but he was a pleasure to talk to. His enthusiasm and the fact that we're both living in Berlin only added to it. And I really liked "Flüsternde Schatten."
Sadly, I still used the old contract for Late Kids. I find them criminally underrated, and I will soon contact them to re-license the music for Season 2 and use my new contract. If they accept, I will do the same for them when S2 releases on Steam.
GOG and EPIC
Season 1 will be released on GOG on the 17th, and Epic Games on the... Yeah... Umm... They found my Steam page and are forcing me to add achievements to Epic.
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It's a pain in the ass to add the achievements to Epic. But hopefully, I'll finish that before the 17th.
(Both pages should be available in Germany.)
I will ask them for an exception if I can't get it to work. (I saw several posts of Devs who didn't have to do it.)
Season 1's pricing and the Serene Tier.
Let me also address the new Tier. I've mentioned through 2023, that Season 1 will match the pricing of the digital storefronts.
GOG, for example, checks my other stores and matches the pricing. I can't put the pricing there myself, so I had to adjust it.
Season 2 - Chapter 1 will, of course, be available for the Summer tier. ($5) Nothing will change to the Season 2 access until it is released on the storefronts.
SG's release on Steam was nice, but the greatest thing is that no more reworks are left. I can't even describe how "light" I feel.
By far, my personal highlight.
I, of course, still stand behind the reworks. Doing it was the right choice and now that it's done, it actually feels like I finished an update for once.
Previously, I finished, for example, Chapter 4, and I knew that another 2k renders were waiting for me with the rework... And by the time that was done, I was already under some pressure to release the next update.
It slurped me mentally. But the slurping is over.
Summer's Gone - Constellations
Season 2 - Chapter 1
Season 2 gets a fancy name and a fancy new UI.
Previews
My favorite camgirl.
"Must protect."
Besides the new main menu UI, the whole dialogue display has been upgraded. (Of course, Messe created it.)
This is how it would look in Season 2.
It's centralized now, and the choice menu also looks really nice. (I'll preview it in the next log.)
Quite a huge portion of S2-Chapter 1 is under non-disclosure. Previews will be limited for a while.
But in the next log, I will show some Bellchen previews.
I think next week, I've recharged my social batteries and will start contacting a few new music artists and the ones I want to take into Season 2.
This doesn't include Grace Mesa, etc.
Due to Season 2's adult nature, we won't be hearing them again—at least until I have enough "weight" to get custom deals with the big music companies.
I'll see you in two weeks!
We anticipate a SG dev log today.
There are times when Ocean gets caught up in creating and time gets away from him - some of those moments also give us renders in the next dev log.
I am hoping for the second, whether the dev log is today or later this week.
Cheers!!
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Always save your work. Always. Any program, any project, any circumstances.
Started a Daz scene to play with how to do something. Didn't save, just playing. Kept adding and figuring out stuff. Not important stuff, just stuff. Kept adding. Kept adding. Started making renders for an animation to see how it would look. Got about a third of the way through the renders. "critical failure 469". Daz disappears from the screen. Screaming. Gunfire. Explosions. Bodies in the street. Usual stuff. Three hours down the drain. Opened Daz back up, looked at the screen and closed it. Fuck it. I learned what I wanted to know for the most part but didn't get to try and convert it to video so no one gets to see it. Fuck it. Maybe I'll turn Daz back on in a few months or so. Understand Devs disappearing better now. Good thing I only use my Daz powers for evil.
Started a Daz scene to play with how to do something. Didn't save, just playing. Kept adding and figuring out stuff. Not important stuff, just stuff. Kept adding. Kept adding. Started making renders for an animation to see how it would look. Got about a third of the way through the renders. "critical failure 469". Daz disappears from the screen. Screaming. Gunfire. Explosions. Bodies in the street. Usual stuff. Three hours down the drain. Opened Daz back up, looked at the screen and closed it. Fuck it. I learned what I wanted to know for the most part but didn't get to try and convert it to video so no one gets to see it. Fuck it. Maybe I'll turn Daz back on in a few months or so. Understand Devs disappearing better now. Good thing I only use my Daz powers for evil.
Hello,
GOG now gave me the next potential release date (June 5th). Let's hope it works.
And regarding Epic, I have been getting ghosted for over a week now, and well, there is nothing I can do there until they answer.
I have also been approached by a company named Stove (Smilegate), which translates games into Korean and is similar to Steam. Just in the Korean/Asian market.
I'm still verifying some essential things before I can say more.
As always, work is being done consistently and with a newfound energy. I've not been mentioning any render counts or percentages for the same reason as why I won't be giving out any estimates that aren't set in stone.
It's peaceful.
In the last log, I previewed the new dialogue style, etc.
Messe and I have made some adjustments to it.
He reduced the size of the speaker's name and also adjusted the dialogue size.
These are just example images.
The new dialogue style won't be added to Season 1.
It looks especially cinematic when nobody speaks, and instead, it's just a general scene description.
Of course, we might still make some adjustments with the release of S2-Chapter 1.
When we test it, we must check how it looks and feels. It can't be too small, or it will tire your eyes out, etc.
I've also mentioned the new choice style.
Orange choices advance the conversation.
Blue choices allow you to ask for more info about a certain topic.
(Messe is asleep; otherwise, I would ask him to change the description of the choices in the image to what I said above. But I have an ungodly sleep schedule. Totally my fault.)
Now that the MC is slooooowly healing, you can find out more about people.
Previews - 4k attached
I did mention that I'd be showing some Bellchen previews today, but scratch that. The scene is too cute, and I don't want to spoil it. Sorry.
But don't you worry... I have the next best thing...
Marla!
Amber's therapy is paying off.
Ayua
Sonya sparring with Ayua before the MC. Sorry, MC, Sonya is her new fav.
Vic's ready to join if necessary.
And at last...
"Stop laughing, Robin!"
Ever since my PC bluescreened an hour before I first uploaded to Steam, and I found my SSD hanging from the ceiling of my PC case, the PC has been acting weird.
Regarding the workstation:
I had planned to buy the workstation directly after Steam, but I had to recalculate due to some unfortunate events.
SG's Steam release helped me, but the German gov will be very interested in the Steam/Epic/GOG release and will adjust my pre-tax for 2025 accordingly.
Always happy to finance bike lanes in Peru, Germany.
I will wait 2-3 months until I know what I have to pay every quarter in pre-tax, and then I'll get the new Workstation.
For transparency's sake, I was already hit with a big boy bill a few days ago because Germany thinks the pre-tax I paid for 2023 wasn't enough and now wants a little more. And it will be adjusted again due to Steam, etc.
The annoying part is that many of the things I buy for the games can't just be declared as a business expense for the year I bought them; instead, they need to be written off over 3-10 years.
Simply put, I pay taxes on money I've already reinvested in the game, which is annoying.
Thankfully, I have a competent tax office that ensures I have room to breathe.
By waiting with the workstation, I'm just being careful... Because every German knows, you don't fuck with taxes or play the song from Gigi D'Agostino, L'amour toujours.
On the bright side, I already have the A6000 ADAs I wanted, and the workstation will be cheaper than I initially anticipated.
I'll see you in two weeks.
GOG now gave me the next potential release date (June 5th). Let's hope it works.
And regarding Epic, I have been getting ghosted for over a week now, and well, there is nothing I can do there until they answer.
I have also been approached by a company named Stove (Smilegate), which translates games into Korean and is similar to Steam. Just in the Korean/Asian market.
I'm still verifying some essential things before I can say more.
As always, work is being done consistently and with a newfound energy. I've not been mentioning any render counts or percentages for the same reason as why I won't be giving out any estimates that aren't set in stone.
It's peaceful.
In the last log, I previewed the new dialogue style, etc.
Messe and I have made some adjustments to it.
He reduced the size of the speaker's name and also adjusted the dialogue size.
These are just example images.
The new dialogue style won't be added to Season 1.
It looks especially cinematic when nobody speaks, and instead, it's just a general scene description.
Of course, we might still make some adjustments with the release of S2-Chapter 1.
When we test it, we must check how it looks and feels. It can't be too small, or it will tire your eyes out, etc.
I've also mentioned the new choice style.
Orange choices advance the conversation.
Blue choices allow you to ask for more info about a certain topic.
(Messe is asleep; otherwise, I would ask him to change the description of the choices in the image to what I said above. But I have an ungodly sleep schedule. Totally my fault.)
Now that the MC is slooooowly healing, you can find out more about people.
Previews - 4k attached
I did mention that I'd be showing some Bellchen previews today, but scratch that. The scene is too cute, and I don't want to spoil it. Sorry.
But don't you worry... I have the next best thing...
Marla!
Amber's therapy is paying off.
Ayua
Sonya sparring with Ayua before the MC. Sorry, MC, Sonya is her new fav.
Vic's ready to join if necessary.
And at last...
"Stop laughing, Robin!"
Ever since my PC bluescreened an hour before I first uploaded to Steam, and I found my SSD hanging from the ceiling of my PC case, the PC has been acting weird.
Regarding the workstation:
I had planned to buy the workstation directly after Steam, but I had to recalculate due to some unfortunate events.
SG's Steam release helped me, but the German gov will be very interested in the Steam/Epic/GOG release and will adjust my pre-tax for 2025 accordingly.
Always happy to finance bike lanes in Peru, Germany.
I will wait 2-3 months until I know what I have to pay every quarter in pre-tax, and then I'll get the new Workstation.
For transparency's sake, I was already hit with a big boy bill a few days ago because Germany thinks the pre-tax I paid for 2023 wasn't enough and now wants a little more. And it will be adjusted again due to Steam, etc.
The annoying part is that many of the things I buy for the games can't just be declared as a business expense for the year I bought them; instead, they need to be written off over 3-10 years.
Simply put, I pay taxes on money I've already reinvested in the game, which is annoying.
Thankfully, I have a competent tax office that ensures I have room to breathe.
By waiting with the workstation, I'm just being careful... Because every German knows, you don't fuck with taxes or play the song from Gigi D'Agostino, L'amour toujours.
On the bright side, I already have the A6000 ADAs I wanted, and the workstation will be cheaper than I initially anticipated.
I'll see you in two weeks.
- Ocean
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looking like there will be DnD in the next update from the looks of the preview with that robot maybe it will be spicy DnD and Nika's dick will work there lol. That way the DnD wont feel as boring
maybe it will be spicy DnD and Nika's dick will work there lol. That way the DnD wont feel as boring
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I'm looking forward to the second season, I hope it's released by SeptemberHello,
GOG now gave me the next potential release date (June 5th). Let's hope it works.
And regarding Epic, I have been getting ghosted for over a week now, and well, there is nothing I can do there until they answer.
I have also been approached by a company named Stove (Smilegate), which translates games into Korean and is similar to Steam. Just in the Korean/Asian market.
I'm still verifying some essential things before I can say more.
As always, work is being done consistently and with a newfound energy. I've not been mentioning any render counts or percentages for the same reason as why I won't be giving out any estimates that aren't set in stone.
It's peaceful.
In the last log, I previewed the new dialogue style, etc.
Messe and I have made some adjustments to it.
He reduced the size of the speaker's name and also adjusted the dialogue size.
These are just example images.
The new dialogue style won't be added to Season 1.
It looks especially cinematic when nobody speaks, and instead, it's just a general scene description.
Of course, we might still make some adjustments with the release of S2-Chapter 1.
When we test it, we must check how it looks and feels. It can't be too small, or it will tire your eyes out, etc.
I've also mentioned the new choice style.
Orange choices advance the conversation.
Blue choices allow you to ask for more info about a certain topic.
(Messe is asleep; otherwise, I would ask him to change the description of the choices in the image to what I said above. But I have an ungodly sleep schedule. Totally my fault.)
Now that the MC is slooooowly healing, you can find out more about people.
Previews - 4k attached
I did mention that I'd be showing some Bellchen previews today, but scratch that. The scene is too cute, and I don't want to spoil it. Sorry.
But don't you worry... I have the next best thing...
Marla!
Amber's therapy is paying off.
Ayua
Sonya sparring with Ayua before the MC. Sorry, MC, Sonya is her new fav.
Vic's ready to join if necessary.
And at last...
"Stop laughing, Robin!"
Ever since my PC bluescreened an hour before I first uploaded to Steam, and I found my SSD hanging from the ceiling of my PC case, the PC has been acting weird.
Regarding the workstation:
I had planned to buy the workstation directly after Steam, but I had to recalculate due to some unfortunate events.
SG's Steam release helped me, but the German gov will be very interested in the Steam/Epic/GOG release and will adjust my pre-tax for 2025 accordingly.
Always happy to finance bike lanes in Peru, Germany.
I will wait 2-3 months until I know what I have to pay every quarter in pre-tax, and then I'll get the new Workstation.
For transparency's sake, I was already hit with a big boy bill a few days ago because Germany thinks the pre-tax I paid for 2023 wasn't enough and now wants a little more. And it will be adjusted again due to Steam, etc.
The annoying part is that many of the things I buy for the games can't just be declared as a business expense for the year I bought them; instead, they need to be written off over 3-10 years.
Simply put, I pay taxes on money I've already reinvested in the game, which is annoying.
Thankfully, I have a competent tax office that ensures I have room to breathe.
By waiting with the workstation, I'm just being careful... Because every German knows, you don't fuck with taxes or play the song from Gigi D'Agostino, L'amour toujours.
On the bright side, I already have the A6000 ADAs I wanted, and the workstation will be cheaper than I initially anticipated.
I'll see you in two weeks.
- Ocean
Is that Bella leaning on Nikas shoulder? it looks so fucking adorable lmao.
the choices changes are very weird. i prefer how it is on S1 than what he is presenting. Hope the blue choices its only questions and dont affect nothing to the girls and the orange ones are the choices that affect the girls. The dialogue only in the center and very small arent very good.
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Therobot is from season 1. He used it to illustrate the new dialogue design. The real preview of season two is afterlooking like there will be DnD in the next update from the looks of the preview with that robot
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She was getting sexier and sexier in the first season, now in the second she's just waiting for the MC to get back on her feet
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The thing is, I looked through it and didn’t find what you’re talking about. In what paragraph is this indicated?
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Well I was gonna say something along the lines of "at least none of the character models look too fucked up this time around" and then I zoomed in on Sonya's face...goddamnit!
I hope the blue choice dialogue thingy is used sparingly. That sounds like way too much trouble for such a small gain.
Not sure wtf happened to Miss Marla. She looks like she would run over people for fun now...
Ayua looks good again (praise Jesus!)
I'd happily chop off Karen's hand to see more
I hope the blue choice dialogue thingy is used sparingly. That sounds like way too much trouble for such a small gain.
Not sure wtf happened to Miss Marla. She looks like she would run over people for fun now...
Ayua looks good again (praise Jesus!)
I'd happily chop off Karen's hand to see more
Like the dialog choices but if a multi line dialog is all centered I'm gonna commit a hate crime.