VN Ren'Py Summer's Gone [S1 Steam + DLC] [Oceanlab]

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Sorry for the Log being a day late, but I really wanted to show some specific Bellchen previews and had to wait for the queue to finish.

Regarding the person I was learning Blender with (My friend's real-life GF), that's off the table.

For the eighth time in almost a year, she asked me, "How long it's probably going to take?" I told her for the eighth time that quality is priority number 1 and that it might take her years to learn how to model exceptional environments and assets; I had a serious talk with her about whether that's really what she wants to do.

It's a sacrifice.

After a few days, she said the time investment would not be worth it, and we parted ways.

That's what I meant when I said she doesn't share the same passion. She was primarily concerned about potential earnings, not the craft behind it.

And with that mindset, you'll never reach exceptional quality.

It doesn't change anything. Learning specific parts of Blender together was mostly just an interesting idea, but it was never really needed. It started as a favor as she fled Russia and didn't know what to do now. (She had a background in game design.) but it felt like I was talking to a wall.

There are tons of Blender modeling guys out there, and when the time comes, the quality will reach new levels.

Even tho this reads as bad news, it's not. It's great. I hated managing her and trying to get her to do stuff. (Ffs girl, finish the damn course I bought you before you complain about how much time you supposedly invest.)

So I'm happy that this is history.

More great news.
Late Kids will renew the licenses for Season 2. They will also send me some new, unreleased tracks to listen to, and if I like a song, I'll license it, too.

They also mentioned and thanked you guys for all the great comments you left under their music. I checked the comments afterward, and they were really sweet. Thanks guys! <3

More languages for Season 1:
Soon, S1 will get a German & Spanish translation.

Afterward, a French, Russian, and Portuguese translation will follow.

Season 2
I finally finished the still images for the Cheetos intro scene. There are only a few animations left.

I guess I'm closing in on the 50% mark. Keep in mind that the development only really started in late May.

Before that, 99% of the resources were focused on the 2.2k new renders for Season 1 - Chapter 2.

Now I'm back to the college scenes. I always need to take a breather after creating them, as they are by far the most challenging scenes to do.

There are so many people at all times, but at least I get to work with many different main girls.

Previews (4K attached.)
There haven't been any real Bellchen previews, except the one with her little tongue out.

So... Today we've got some Bellchen.

Checking for any signs of life.

Doctor Games

Me and my tax office just finished the taxes for 2022, which were delayed due to my old, shitty tax office.

I was surprised by the invoice they sent me, but hey, at least I can deduct it as a business expense, right? (Hide the pain.)

What I want to say is that I'm almost done with all the bureaucracy and chaos caused by my old tax office, and this will free up a lot of my mind and time.

This means there will be some new treats soon. I will also continue the "Who wore it better" Treats.

SG has never had one before, but it's two girls wearing the same outfit, and you can vote on who wore it better.

The winner gets a few extra images with the outfit.

I'll do one for the next Dev Log.

I'll see you in two weeks.

Ocean

im very excited for season 2, im sure Ocean's will do a quality job

 

[wizardcock]

Haha not gonna lie, ocean sounds like a kinda shitty employer and he should keep all this stuff out of the devlogs

How can he expect her to be as passionate as he is himself when its about his avn? And beware, she intends to earn money with her time investment

Fits the crazy blessed artist stereotype

I think he should look for girls named Veronica. You know, Nika ~ Veronica. So there's gonna be passion in the development

 

[Mr. Robo]

im very excited for season 2, im sure Ocean's will do a quality job

Same

 

[Ali ibn Hassan]

I think he should look for girls named Veronica. You know, Nika ~ Veronica. So there's gonna be passion in the development

Better then with his own Significant Other.
May lead to a sudden break, though.

 

[Adhdclassic]

Also, I require far more Claire content, lol. View attachment 3863227

Technically she is the only one who has handled his dick.

 

[John Ness]

she said the time investment would not be worth it
She was primarily concerned about potential earnings, not the craft behind it.
And with that mindset, you'll never reach exceptional quality.
It started as a favor as she fled Russia

Typical:
Ocean was looking for an excellent specialist for little-to-no money.
A girl from Russia was looking for a high salary for little-to-no work.
I wonder why it didn't work

 

[wizardcock]

The sad thing about this devlog is that only 50% of the work is done. I was sure he was working on both the rework 2ep S1 and season 2 ep1, but it turns out he wasn't.

 

[HarryDubois420]

The sad thing about this devlog is that only 50% of the work is done. I was sure he was working on both the rework 2ep S1 and season 2 ep1, but it turns out he wasn't.

So considering his production rate, s2 will be released like November-ish if we're lucky?

 

[BobTheDuck]

The sad thing about this devlog is that only 50% of the work is done. I was sure he was working on both the rework 2ep S1 and season 2 ep1, but it turns out he wasn't.

So consider 50% of a minimum of 5000 renders up to 8000. If the total is 6000, and Ocean is more than half way through, he is going faster than he ever has - when has he ever produced 3000 renders in this time frame? If we go by when the earliest S2 renders were done in Nov (he had 225 static renders for S2Ch1 already done Nov 1 devlog) that's still faster than he's ever produced renders, while dealing with the release dramas.

 

[rudy007]

So considering his production rate, s2 will be released like November-ish if we're lucky?

Probably this year, November or December. He said it would be 5000-8000 new renders, that's a really huge update.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Probably this year, November or December. He said it would be 5000-8000 new renders, that's a really huge update.

I also expect that the only way to see all the renders is to have different saves from S1 ready for import to do different paths. A single path playthough will likely miss out seeing what alternative choices will bring.

 

[rudy007]

I also expect that the only way to see all the renders is to have different saves from S1 ready for import to do different paths. A single path playthough will likely miss out seeing what alternative choices will bring.

Agree, I hope that too. There are many other games where old saves weren't good or even compatible with old routes. The worst is when you load a old save and then after 10-15 minutes game just display an error. I hope Ocean will make transition to new season painless...

 

[Don Sucio]

More languages for Season 1:
Soon, S1 will get a German & Spanish translation.

Afterward, a French, Russian, and Portuguese translation will follow.

I hope the translations are good, usually this games have Google translations and are quite bad, at least in my language, games lose many "intensity". I don´t know how is he going to make them but if the translations are good then this is going to be the first game that i´m going to play in my language, please be good!

 

[LHDLLB]

I also expect that the only way to see all the renders is to have different saves from S1 ready for import to do different paths. A single path playthough will likely miss out seeing what alternative choices will bring.

We know that there is 3 intros, one for the Mila Path, one for the Cheeto and one if you are not in neither.I am really hoping that there is not much of those though, SG needs to pick up the pace a litlle and if we are doing two days in this update, I am expecting the plot to move, get some anwsers from Auya that raises new questions and stuff like that. I really like Ocean character work and is wonderful that he is aiming at given each girl a litlle time, I just would prefer if this update was more plot heavy

 

[BobTheDuck]

We know that there is 3 intros, one for the Mila Path, one for the Cheeto and one if you are not in neither.I am really hoping that there is not much of those though, SG needs to pick up the pace a litlle and if we are doing two days in this update, I am expecting the plot to move, get some anwsers from Auya that raises new questions and stuff like that. I really like Ocean character work and is wonderful that he is aiming at given each girl a litlle time, I just would prefer if this update was more plot heavy

I would imagine scenes for different LI's might not be all huge, I'd imagine a full regular update sized main path, with excursions. 3000 renders for the main path is bigger than any update we've seen, would allow up to 350 renders per love interest (there's 14 or something?) for exclusive path material if Ocean reaches 8000 renders. That's probably more than any one character will get. I'd say we'll get a longer main story line with plenty of optional side events. But if they do ger 300 or so renders for their own paths each, that'll really help build the characters in new ways.

My math could be all over the place, but yeah...

 

[alanrock]

A non-Bella route cannot be run on my Windows 10 PC.

 

[RNasc4444]

Oh shiiiiiiiieeeeet! Taxes update AND Blender saga update in the devlog!?!?! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!

There's the pick-me-up I needed!

 

[alanrock]

Oh shiiiiiiiieeeeet! Taxes update AND Blender saga update in the devlog!?!?! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!

There's the pick-me-up I needed!

Yeah ... The only thing lacking is details regarding the SG German Steam release.

 

[wizardcock]

Oh shiiiiiiiieeeeet! Taxes update AND Blender saga update in the devlog!?!?! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!

There's the pick-me-up I needed!

I'll be honest, most of my desire to read a devlog has to do with taxes, bike lanes, blender details, some personal moments. Devlogs always have their share of whining, drama, funny moments, some life compromises, financial literacy lessons, and more.
I can get a rough idea of the status of the update from people's posts here, since I'm reading anyway.
Teasers for the update? 90% is Bella, I like her, but right now I'm aiming for Sonya or Amber, and there's rarely anything with them.

Sometimes I think devlogs are like a spinoff to SG.

 

[crabsinthekitchen]

I think he should look for girls named Veronica. You know, Nika ~ Veronica. So there's gonna be passion in the development

Wouldn't recommend. I almost got killed one time I tried to use these names interchangeably with a girl I met a few years ago and we weren't even fucking yet