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

[Julius Kingsley]

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Hello,

With this Dev Log, we return to the old Bi-weekly Wednesday Dev log schedule.

So... after the last log, some complained that I didn't give as much info regarding the render count, etc.

I heard ya and from now on I will ban everyone who asks me that.

Of course, I'm just kidding and will, from now on, provide a bi-weekly render count + a total.

The reason why I stopped doing it is because a lot of expectations come with them.

The irony is, no matter how many renders I add, it's always too little.

People go ham with the conspiracy theories if there's a discrepancy between two weeks.

I could post a render count every week with the same amount of images added, and people would still find a way to uncover "the truth".

It's exhausting.

However, I like to be transparent, and a render total is a part of it.

The last total render count was mentioned on the 19th of December, just short of Christmas. I took it easier over Christmas and created all the Christmas Treats.

~3750 renders -> ~4790 (+ a hundred in the queue)

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12 days ago, I said I'd count how many renders I do between Dev Logs to see how much the Workstation improves productivity.

I won't count two of these days because the first day was already over, and I took one day to care for some personal relationships.

Previously, I'd do and render around 20-40 daily renders and zero animations. (Animations would lock down the PC for the entire day.)

So, in 10 days of work with the new Workstation, I created AND rendered out:
641 still renders
7 animations.
It went from:
~300 to 671 images
0 to 7 animations.

I didn't completely reach my goal of 70 renders a day. (Average of 64).

However, new environments and giant scenes make this impossible if you want to maintain quality. Sometimes, I can only set up 20-40 images, while other times, I reach 80-100.

From now on, I aim for 70 renders a day, but I won't beat myself up if it's "only" 40-50. I still have my quality to maintain and improve.

The workstation peaked at 78 images a night the other day, and with that, it outperforms me, which is fantastic.

My old Workstation will render animations until they're all done.

Keep in mind that not all renders are exclusively for SG.

Preview - 4K attached.
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With the new Season, I'll introduce collectibles.
I'll do the layered renders for them at the end, but let me show you what kind of image might be behind them.
4K attached.
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These images will thematically fit the scene in which they were found. You won't find a sudden nude Sasha in there, but you will find pleasant surprises.
There's another thingy I will introduce, and I'll talk about it in the next log.

Back to work.

• Ocean

I just came to check after months, and bro is introducing new characters . I need to update my timeline to completion from 23 years to 27 now.

 

[Capt_Kirk]

Brother...do you not have eyes?!?!
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Ocean just introduced a solid 4 to a world of 7's, 8's, 9's and 10's. Are you ok?

as soon as i saw that ........... this came to mind !

 

[Miranha157]

The last total render count was mentioned on the 19th of December, just short of Christmas. I took it easier over Christmas and created all the Christmas Treats.

~3750 renders -> ~4790 (+ a hundred in the queue)

Let me see if I understand correctly, he has a total of 4890 SG renders taking into account the 100 in the queue, correct?

 

[BobTheDuck]

Let me see if I understand correctly, he has a total of 4890 SG renders taking into account the 100 in the queue, correct?

Well, the queue is unrendered. Once they're done, he'll have 4890 done of the 6000-7000 renders anticipated. But he can now do animations on his old computer while setting up and rendering, so there's a whole lot of performanc gains.

Based on 60 renders per night for both games (give or take), that queue will be done in ~ three days. To reach 7000, there's another 2100 renders, at the same rate, another 70 days beyond that. So I'd guess Ocean's aiming for May, and based on current numbers, that's plausible. If he gets more renders set up, he might get 35 a night per game.

 

[Monty10]

It doesn't have any sex scenes at all. But honestly? I'm not even looking forward to them. If we take WIAB as an example, Ocean is quite bad at making sex scenes. WIAB has a couple but they are quite boring and short. The animation is pretty bad too.

Glad you told me before download it
I'm wondering why this game got high rated with no sex scenes ?!
even if it has a good story, in the end we are in porn games forum

 

[Penfold Mole]

Porn games forum?

 

[Miranha157]

Well, the queue is unrendered. Once they're done, he'll have 4890 done of the 6000-7000 renders anticipated. But he can now do animations on his old computer while setting up and rendering, so there's a whole lot of performanc gains.

Thanks for confirming.

Ocean has been developing S2 since late 2023. In 2024, there was no real update, just a mediocre rework and a disappointing chapter 5. WiAB had less than 3k renders when chapter 3 was released in early 2024.

Considering that WiAB has a little less than 4k renders and SG less than 5k, I come back to my old question: Did Ocean spend 2024 doing anything? From the data, it seems he only complained about taxes and his PC, because he didn't start with the animations and I believe he hasn't gotten to the codes yet. I wonder if the writing has already been finished (I don't remember if he mentioned it in any dev log).

Some people think that this new PC will speed up the next updates. Don't be fooled, the more Ocean has, the more he delays.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Thanks for confirming.

Ocean has been developing S2 since late 2023. In 2024, there was no real update, just a mediocre rework and a disappointing chapter 5. WiAB had less than 3k renders when chapter 3 was released in early 2024.

Considering that WiAB has a little less than 4k renders and SG less than 5k, I come back to my old question: Did Ocean spend 2024 doing anything? From the data, it seems he only complained about taxes and his PC, because he didn't start with the animations and I believe he hasn't gotten to the codes yet. I wonder if the writing has already been finished (I don't remember if he mentioned it in any dev log).

Some people think that this new PC will speed up the next updates. Don't be fooled, the more Ocean has, the more he delays.

If you consider ch5 disappointing, there's not really much point extrapolating from numbers for you is there? I mean, a lot of people enjoyed Ch5. I'm not going to argue about the rework, because that's been done to death, and everyone's made their own mind up about it. Suggesting it wasn't work that took time is just a way to say, "why isn't Ocean creating the content I want, sooner?" You're effectively saying that only the content you want to see matters. Well, S2 Ch1 is supposed to have content for all the LI's, even the ones you're not on the path for. Either you like the game and it's potential enough to wait for the update or ....you don't.

Pretending that nothing happened in development is just ridiculous. Ocean dis spend 2024 doing things. That's when the rework was completed. Again, whether or not you like the rework, Ocean did it, that is actual dev time.

Regarding WiaB, well, the WiaB log is interesting. We'll see how soon Ocean renders that last scene, seeing he's anticipating being on postwork by the next devlog: 1 scene and animations left. But since he's gotten the work station he's been able to do animations while setting up other scenes. Also, old Wiab was around ~4500 renders before Ocean restarted. So Ch4 nearly has the same amount of renders as the whole original game. I can see the value in the rework of that.

Both of these updates will be the biggest updates Ocean has done in any of his work. If you can't wait to see if there's any content you'll stick around for that's completely up to you.

 

[SDDA]

Thanks for confirming.

Ocean has been developing S2 since late 2023. In 2024, there was no real update, just a mediocre rework and a disappointing chapter 5. WiAB had less than 3k renders when chapter 3 was released in early 2024.

Considering that WiAB has a little less than 4k renders and SG less than 5k, I come back to my old question: Did Ocean spend 2024 doing anything? From the data, it seems he only complained about taxes and his PC, because he didn't start with the animations and I believe he hasn't gotten to the codes yet. I wonder if the writing has already been finished (I don't remember if he mentioned it in any dev log).

Some people think that this new PC will speed up the next updates. Don't be fooled, the more Ocean has, the more he delays.

Does it even matter? PPl have no expectations towards this dev at all. PPL in this thread jack off to a random zoomed in Bella render and make up more stories in their free time with the characters than the dev did in 6 year of development.
6 year of development and 7k render count coming up in 2-3 months and the main protagonist still can't get his dck hard.
With the steam release he ripped off his own patreons and toke more money from these clever individuals. While you can't even call his other "game" a game too,other devs with half a year work progress a story more than him in 6 years on 2 games. Again no expectations... fans are happy with a pretty render and fantasize about it till the next dev update.

 

[Maviarab]

Does it even matter? PPl have no expectations towards this dev at all. PPL in this thread jack off to a random zoomed in Bella render and make up more stories in their free time with the characters than the dev did in 6 year of development.
6 year of development and 7k render count coming up in 2-3 months and the main protagonist still can't get his dck hard.
With the steam release he ripped off his own patreons and toke more money from these clever individuals. While you can't even call his other "game" a game too,other devs with half a year work progress a story more than him in 6 years on 2 games. Again no expectations... fans are happy with a pretty render and fantasize about it till the next dev update.

And yet you're still here like many others instead of just moving on with your life to things you actually enjoy

 

[soprano31]

Does it even matter? PPl have no expectations towards this dev at all. PPL in this thread jack off to a random zoomed in Bella render and make up more stories in their free time with the characters than the dev did in 6 year of development.
6 year of development and 7k render count coming up in 2-3 months and the main protagonist still can't get his dck hard.
With the steam release he ripped off his own patreons and toke more money from these clever individuals. While you can't even call his other "game" a game too,other devs with half a year work progress a story more than him in 6 years on 2 games. Again no expectations... fans are happy with a pretty render and fantasize about it till the next dev update.

 

[Cabin Fever]

If you consider ch5 disappointing, there's not really much point extrapolating from numbers for you is there? I mean, a lot of people enjoyed Ch5. I'm not going to argue about the rework, because that's been done to death, and everyone's made their own mind up about it. Suggesting it wasn't work that took time is just a way to say, "why isn't Ocean creating the content I want, sooner?" You're effectively saying that only the content you want to see matters. Well, S2 Ch1 is supposed to have content for all the LI's, even the ones you're not on the path for. Either you like the game and it's potential enough to wait for the update or ....you don't.

Pretending that nothing happened in development is just ridiculous. Ocean dis spend 2024 doing things. That's when the rework was completed. Again, whether or not you like the rework, Ocean did it, that is actual dev time.

Regarding WiaB, well, the WiaB log is interesting. We'll see how soon Ocean renders that last scene, seeing he's anticipating being on postwork by the next devlog: 1 scene and animations left. But since he's gotten the work station he's been able to do animations while setting up other scenes. Also, old Wiab was around ~4500 renders before Ocean restarted. So Ch4 nearly has the same amount of renders as the whole original game. I can see the value in the rework of that.

Both of these updates will be the biggest updates Ocean has done in any of his work. If you can't wait to see if there's any content you'll stick around for that's completely up to you.

Agreed. One can argue whether all that extra non-story-progress work is worth it or not. But one can't argue that it was work.

 

[StrawberryCheese83]

After jerking off to a Sock Puppet with Bellas Face on it.....!



I don t give a furry craps behind for doing so. Its worth it...



If you don t like Oceans work....there s a simple solution : DONT PLAY IT!!!

 

[mruggeri2]

Glad you told me before download it
I'm wondering why this game got high rated with no sex scenes ?!
even if it has a good story, in the end we are in porn games forum

Don't get me wrong, it doesn't have sex scenes but it's definitely worth it playing. You get so invested in the characters that you don't even miss the sex scenes.

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Can you tell what AVN is this?

 

[MaviusJones]

Don't get me wrong, it doesn't have sex scenes but it's definitely worth it playing. You get so invested in the characters that you don't even miss the sex scenes.


Can you tell what AVN is this?

Summer Heat

 

[Ray_D]

I've got the feeling that this game has mini sex scenes just like WIAB

 

[LHDLLB]

It doesn't have any sex scenes at all. But honestly? I'm not even looking forward to them. If we take WIAB as an example, Ocean is quite bad at making sex scenes. WIAB has a couple but they are quite boring and short. The animation is pretty bad too.

I talked about it once, Ocean does know how to write sex scenes, but those so far in WiaB are routine sex, exception the gym scene, is natural they are a bit boring.

Well, the queue is unrendered. Once they're done, he'll have 4890 done of the 6000-7000 renders anticipated. But he can now do animations on his old computer while setting up and rendering, so there's a whole lot of performanc gains.

Based on 60 renders per night for both games (give or take), that queue will be done in ~ three days. To reach 7000, there's another 2100 renders, at the same rate, another 70 days beyond that. So I'd guess Ocean's aiming for May, and based on current numbers, that's plausible. If he gets more renders set up, he might get 35 a night per game.

One can hope that when WiaB finish rendering it will also speed up SG development as all the renders can be SG, so we go from 30 renders at night to 60. Plus animations and post work, I still am thinking June is the more safe bet.

 

[Monty10]

Don't get me wrong, it doesn't have sex scenes but it's definitely worth it playing. You get so invested in the characters that you don't even miss the sex scenes.

Sorry I'm too horny to play games with only story
Maybe i give a try and play it after i satisfied

 

[Old Man Al]

Ah, it is this time again.

 

[Penfold Mole]

Ah, it is this time again.

I blame the full moon. All nutjobs supposedly crawl out to the full moon to go full nuts.



I know it's actually waning already, but I consider it as an aftermath. They've already ran around during the full moon and are now gathering to lick their wounds and... other places.