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

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D9074 said:
yeah im very confused, does anyone have a link or the post where he says all this? ive only ever seen that he is doing chapter 1 again and i always thought it was with chapter 5. im sure i read that on the game start up at one point but i either read it wrong or it changed. Maybe the chapter 5 part comes from another game and im getting the 2 confused but i definitely never heard that he was doing the whole game again.
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Think it was in one of the dev logs - don't have a link for you, but my recollection is that he's basically re-mastering the earlier chapters because the renders are just honestly trash compared to the later chapters and Ocean wants them to be similar in quality by Ch5 because he's going to release on Steam at that point.

I tend to go back to the earlier Amber renders as an example. You look at the renders of Amber the first time MC goes to Bella's house after school and then look at the renders of her in the green dress in like Ch3 or whatever it was - I mean holy fuck it's like a different person and universe altogether. And the environments in the earlier chapter were very simple, etc. so he just wants to get the quality evened out across the story - I don't think he's changing anything beyond that. Maybe chapter 1 might get a little more layout in terms of story detail, but I'm not aware of anything major changing.
 
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D9074 said:
Oh ok, thats good that its with this one, not sure why i thought it was 5. I thought he was only reworking chapter 1 though i didnt know he was doing the whole game.

I thought it was just WIAB getting the full rework.
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It was originally meant to have the Ch1 steam rework ready by Chapter 5. As I am only working on the rework/polishing for a 2-3 weeks time window after a release.

But I was faster than I expected and now it will already be finished after the Chapter 4 Beta release and be released with Chapter 4.

Chapter 2 only gets some visual tweaks in the College area/basketball. And that's it. (This will then be done by Chapter 5.)

Chapter 3 won't be touched and I won't be looking back besides adding music over the course of the game.

So calling it a rework is wrong, as the art of Ch1 and Ch2 is being polished for the Steam release. (You can expect dialogue changes and a few more events/scenes in Chapter 1 to increase immersion.)
 
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Razrback16 said:
Think it was in one of the dev logs - don't have a link for you, but my recollection is that he's basically re-mastering the earlier chapters because the renders are just honestly trash compared to the later chapters and Ocean wants them to be similar in quality by Ch5 because he's going to release on Steam at that point.

I tend to go back to the earlier Amber renders as an example. You look at the renders of Amber the first time MC goes to Bella's house after school and then look at the renders of her in the green dress in like Ch3 or whatever it was - I mean holy fuck it's like a different person and universe altogether. And the environments in the earlier chapter were very simple, etc. so he just wants to get the quality evened out across the story - I don't think he's changing anything beyond that. Maybe chapter 1 might get a little more layout in terms of story detail, but I'm not aware of anything major changing.
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now that makes sense in why i had 5 in mind, maybe it said by 5 and i remember it as with 5. I do remember differences with her in earlier chapters and later ones so it makes sense that he wants to do that. hopefully it will shut people up on why it took a while to get the update out too.
 
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It was originally meant to have the Ch1 steam rework ready by Chapter 5. As I am only working on the rework/polishing for a 2-3 weeks time window after a release.

But I was faster than I expected and now it will already be finished after the Chapter 4 Beta release and be released with Chapter 4.

Chapter 2 only gets some visual tweaks in the College area/basketball. And that's it. (This will then be done by Chapter 5.)

Chapter 3 won't be touched and I won't be looking back besides adding music over the course of the game.

So calling it a rework is wrong, as the art of Ch1 and Ch2 is being polished for the Steam release. (You can expect dialogue changes and a few more events/scenes in Chapter 1 to increase immersion.)
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thanks for clearing it up, it was very confusing. cant wait to see it all!
 
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kioryu52 said:
...Hey wait a second. Did the dev even confirm if this new chapter will have a sex scene? ANY kind of sex? If not, brother, will people get pissed by the blue-balls. My God, we were so worried if we COULD have chapter 4 we never stopped to think if we SHOULD!
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Dude, this site has so many games that include sexual content. You want sex scenes? pick one of those. This one focuses on storytelling with adult elements. No mindless porn logic. It´s gonna happen when it´s appropriate. just let it happen naturally.
 
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kioryu52 said:
...Hey wait a second. Did the dev even confirm if this new chapter will have a sex scene? ANY kind of sex? If not, brother, will people get pissed by the blue-balls. My God, we were so worried if we COULD have chapter 4 we never stopped to think if we SHOULD!
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it literally tells players this
" This isn't a porn game! This is a story-focused game with adult elements.
If you just want to fap, this is certainly the wrong game for you. "

and has a big ass sign at the start of the game saying that there is no sex scenes yet.

if people then get this new update and get pissed the only thing they should be pissed at is their own stupidity for not being able to read.
 
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Hello,

So, welcome to a new Bibi Log.

As the name suggests, it's a Bibi (Baby) log and it will be pretty small and to the point.

I'm currently 600/2250 images into Postwork.
But I must also admit that I wasn't focused on Postwork yet... As I'm currently handling the end cinematic.
And the End cinematic is quite heavy on the Vram.
And Lightroom is some sort of Drama Queen that tends to slurp up as much Vram as it can.
So I can't really do postwork while rendering without risking a CPU fallback in Daz. (When the Vram runs out and it drops back to CPU.)
Even though I have two 3090s in the Workstation, a 120 frame animation takes up to 14 hours... So there's still a lot of room for speed improvements.

The End Cinematic is almost finished. It's around 85% done and 1:07min long.
So an average length.
After the end cinematic I only need to finish a cinematic from earlier in the Update. It's also already 80% done and I'll just need to add the last 20%. It's also much easier on the Vram.


In other news...
As many know, with the Steam release, I will remove a lot of music from the game... I'm currently still in the clear but as soon as certain content is added, I will have to remove the music.
This means that multiple cinematics will pretty much be "useless"... As they're all tailored to the music... This includes all the cinematics in Chapter 4.

Why am I still doing them even though I will have to remove them?
It's about more than just a nice video... I've been envisioning some cinematics for a few years now...
I've been looking forward to them since early 2020... Listening to the songs over and over again, playing the cinematics out in my head... I couldn't wait until we got into the later Chapters and I could finally do them.
Now that many of them will sadly stay nothing but a vision, I will still finish those that I legally can before the nuke.
It makes me unbelievably sad but at least that way I will gain some inner satisfaction by releasing them... Still better than never being able to express my inner vision.
Sadly, some visions will stay unsatisfied but maybe if I become more relevant in the future, I can convince them to go the extra step of contacting the artist for me, and ask them if they have moral concerns.
Maybe some cinematics will be resurrected.

But for some good news now.
I am about to close a deal on some music with a band from the US. Until now everything looks like it'll work out and as soon as the deal is made, I will give you guys some details on the pricing and the music. (Genre: Indie/Rock)
And the second I heard their first song, a nice cinematic started to form in my head...

Some might be gone, some will be gone soon, but new ones will always follow.

And with that, I'm out.
By the way, I'm aiming for a release this month.

"Booty-calling MC"
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