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

[Dr.TSoni]

Actually he told on Discord that some time skips are planned in the future.

Let me guess the crew splits up for two years so they can get stronger and continue on their journey?

 

[BobTheDuck]

The only thing we'll see in chapter 2. If he's able to go back to a more reasonable render per episode release. He still refuses to compromise when he has everything to gain from a 2.5-3k render release. Chapters come faster, people are happy, and he can even take some time off.

No clue why he drowns himself with so much work. He's working on two games, alone. You can't have it all.

I kinda get it. He's reached stockholm syndrome with his work load. The further he moves from Sweden, the safer we are?

Let me guess the crew splits up for two years so they can get stronger and continue on their journey?

I'd actually think he's going to skip a lot of the term, no split up necessary. Day to day can't sustain that level of intenstity and focus. Most people have more groundhog ratio to their daily existenstial angst. Gotta speed dial through the mundane, make it action packed.

 

[Vitez]

I'm concerned. Ocean sounds like he's headed to a burnout, and yet he's no closer to realistically completing the game. He shouldn't have to justify himself why he's taking some time off. He needs a balanced, sustainable schedule. At the same time, it sounds great but why exactly should we care that he's producing 4-5x faster than before if the size of his updates also increase by the same amount? The story is not getting any faster to completion, and the issue is that there are just way too many chapters left at this pace. He has to make a conscious fight against scope creep and reduce the size of his updates if we are to see a timeline acceleration.

How couldn't he be with two projects (both are remaked for some reason), it needs to be PERFECT mentality, and I'll do everything myself (from coding to making a whole gas station which was used for like 20 renders only) ... He's his only enemy.

 

[UncleFappy]

Map of Wollust, eh?

The lake theorists are gonna have a handful with that.

 

[sorco2003]

I'd actually think he's going to skip a lot of the term, no split up necessary. Day to day can't sustain that level of intenstity and focus. Most people have more groundhog ratio to their daily existenstial angst. Gotta speed dial through the mundane, make it action packed.

One Piece... you need to know the reference Bob!

 

[BadassDolphin]

9,000+ renders is nuts

 

[burbero]

Ocean should pack up and send what he has. It's neither healthy nor logical to exhaust yourself producing 7,000 renders. We all prefer reasonable but regular updates instead of getting 7K rendered updates in one go.

 

[Joan6969]

9,000+ renders is nuts

That's what I thought too and yet I see people say 7k 8k back to 9k.
In the end we wait and wait.........

 

[Crashbullet]

And so we live, from dev log to dev log... And it's "summer" soon.

 

[RNasc4444]

...more cute Eva is now on my SG bingo list.

I've recognized the potential ever since she was introduced. I pretty much like all variants of that particular model.

All she needs is to get force-fed some burgers, pizza and soda for a little while and someone to wipe the resting bitch face look off her permanently. She'd make top 6 for me easy

 

[BobTheDuck]

I've recognized the potential ever since she was introduced. I pretty much like all variants of that particular model.

All she needs is to get force-fed some burgers, pizza and soda for a little while and someone to wipe the resting bitch face look off her permanently. She'd make top 6 for me easy

...force feed, but stop short of being super puft!

Having emotional depth rather than just pissed off in every scene means to me she'll play a bigger role than I thought, not just a comic foil.

 

[Joan6969]

...force feed, but stop short of being super puft!

Having emotional depth rather than just pissed off in every scene means to me she'll play a bigger role than I thought, not just a comic foil.

I wasn't sure after getting in the car with her if I should trigger her or not.
I saw a possible inter-action with her later in the game when the lewd stuff happens{I hope}
So I saved it and went with both.....

 

[SToyS]

I've recognized the potential ever since she was introduced. I pretty much like all variants of that particular model.

All she needs is to get force-fed some burgers, pizza and soda for a little while and someone to wipe the resting bitch face look off her permanently. She'd make top 6 for me easy

Then we will get Mila version 2.0

 

[Maccabbee]

"Beanie"!!!!

 

[soprano31]

"Beanie"!!!!

 

[Maccabbee]

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I did an actual spit-take while reading that update. Ocean's gonna kill me one day.

 

[yossa999]

"Beanie"!!!!

Beanie Hill

 

[wizardcock]

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Hello,

So, the past two weeks were mostly spent on background work again. I’m currently dealing with Steam & GOG, coding, polishing, as well as preparing for my move.

I’ve also met up with friends in the past days as I won’t be able to see them anymore soon.

It’s kinda sad now that I think about it. I always worked and always brushed them off with “Soon Bro.”

I guess knowing that I will leave Berlin for good in less than a month affects me more than I thought it would. I think it’s more melancholy than nostalgia.

But it’s for the good of the games.

I’ve done about 3 to 4 hours of dedicated SG rendering on the days that I could. I created about 317 renders. Part of them new ones, part of them replacing the scene where I changed the environment.

I will get back to the usual counting of the renders (Total + added) as soon as I’m done with what’s going on.

However, I keep coming back to two of the renders I recently made. I think they’re absolutely beautiful. The emotion and mood they carry. They have the potential to be my favorite renders of the update.

They’re really special… The person with whom they are… Probably just as special. (I’m not going to preview them. You’ll have to wait.)

They have a certain stillness about them, yet that silence portrays so much emotion.

More clothies.
I’ve used the new simulations in four or five animations I’ve done recently.

But yesterday I found another nemesis.

In one of my animations the clothes kept desyncing from the character… As if the clothes were worn by a ghost, they just left.

It took me 14 hours to find out why. And the fix isn’t great, so I have to keep in mind that certain types of animations in Daz3D won’t really work with it.

I was so frustrated that at some point I just wanted to go to the gym a second time to let off steam.

But with that figured out. It takes less than 10minutes to apply the cloth sim to an animation and export it back.

I also only use it for animations or VERY special still renders. I still mostly use Zbrush.

World Map
In my free time (I don’t have free time) I started drawing a world map of Wollust.

It’s currently just a draft but as soon as I have it done, I will get in contact with a 2D artist to turn it into something beautiful.

It will be cute to have.

Weird.
Since I did the post work for 9000 renders (All projects combined) I feel a bit ‘drained’.

It’s better now that I upped my cardio & gym regiment to 6 days a week, but over the past two weeks, my vision would randomly blur, and I felt extremely mentally drained.

But that’s just what Post work does to me. It’s always been like that. It’s never been this bad, but technically I did 4 ½ updates worth of post work at once.

I can’t keep doing it like this in the future. I need to do like 2 to 3 hours of post work every Sunday.

I’ve not been this close to the sun, since SG’s Chapter 3 was released.

This is a good time to look back on the past year.

It’s pretty much exactly one year since the current updates went into development.

And in June 2024 SG S2 CH1 went into development.

In the span of almost a year, I’ve created more than 10.000 still renders and who knows how many animation frames. (All projects combined.)

If it wasn’t for the damn Steam/GOG preparations, it would probably already be close to 12.000 renders.

I need to be more mindful of this.

I can’t treat the current update the same as I treated the previous ones. It’s four times as big as Chapter 5, and Chapter 5 took a year to make.

From May 2024 to May 2025, in render count, I created Chapter 5 – five times.

The update you’re getting this year would’ve taken four years to make by last year’s standards.

I get DMs of people asking me to be faster. And if I get a few DMs of it, it means even more think that in silence.

As I told them, cancel the sub until the update is out.

The last thing I want is for someone to build a grudge against the game they like and support because it takes too long.

If you find yourself in the position where you start getting mad, cancel your subscription and think about resubscribing after Chapter 1 is out.

Two previews today
I thought Beany looked cute here.
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The way the evenings feel in the summer.
View attachment 4861000

Every few days that pass, I’ll be able to dedicate more and more time to SG, until we’re at 40-70 images a work-day again.

I will soon have to forcefully take a day or two off, as I will have to paint and fix the apartment before I move out.

I have a few more things that I’d like to talk about… Like the reason why I will soon get a mini-greenscreen. About the size of two monitors.

I will talk about it in the next Log.

- Ocean

I suddenly thought about it... why doesn't the mс have hair on his arms? This is weird.
Has anyone else thought about this?

 

[yossa999]

I suddenly thought about it... why doesn't the mс have hair on his arms? This is weird.
Has anyone else thought about this?

Dude, wtf?
Until you told me, I didn't even notice them. Damn.
It must be puberty, like hair growth and all that...

 

[Bloker997]

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Hello,

So, the past two weeks were mostly spent on background work again. I’m currently dealing with Steam & GOG, coding, polishing, as well as preparing for my move.

I’ve also met up with friends in the past days as I won’t be able to see them anymore soon.

It’s kinda sad now that I think about it. I always worked and always brushed them off with “Soon Bro.”

I guess knowing that I will leave Berlin for good in less than a month affects me more than I thought it would. I think it’s more melancholy than nostalgia.

But it’s for the good of the games.

I’ve done about 3 to 4 hours of dedicated SG rendering on the days that I could. I created about 317 renders. Part of them new ones, part of them replacing the scene where I changed the environment.

I will get back to the usual counting of the renders (Total + added) as soon as I’m done with what’s going on.

However, I keep coming back to two of the renders I recently made. I think they’re absolutely beautiful. The emotion and mood they carry. They have the potential to be my favorite renders of the update.

They’re really special… The person with whom they are… Probably just as special. (I’m not going to preview them. You’ll have to wait.)

They have a certain stillness about them, yet that silence portrays so much emotion.

More clothies.
I’ve used the new simulations in four or five animations I’ve done recently.

But yesterday I found another nemesis.

In one of my animations the clothes kept desyncing from the character… As if the clothes were worn by a ghost, they just left.

It took me 14 hours to find out why. And the fix isn’t great, so I have to keep in mind that certain types of animations in Daz3D won’t really work with it.

I was so frustrated that at some point I just wanted to go to the gym a second time to let off steam.

But with that figured out. It takes less than 10minutes to apply the cloth sim to an animation and export it back.

I also only use it for animations or VERY special still renders. I still mostly use Zbrush.

World Map
In my free time (I don’t have free time) I started drawing a world map of Wollust.

It’s currently just a draft but as soon as I have it done, I will get in contact with a 2D artist to turn it into something beautiful.

It will be cute to have.

Weird.
Since I did the post work for 9000 renders (All projects combined) I feel a bit ‘drained’.

It’s better now that I upped my cardio & gym regiment to 6 days a week, but over the past two weeks, my vision would randomly blur, and I felt extremely mentally drained.

But that’s just what Post work does to me. It’s always been like that. It’s never been this bad, but technically I did 4 ½ updates worth of post work at once.

I can’t keep doing it like this in the future. I need to do like 2 to 3 hours of post work every Sunday.

I’ve not been this close to the sun, since SG’s Chapter 3 was released.

This is a good time to look back on the past year.

It’s pretty much exactly one year since the current updates went into development.

And in June 2024 SG S2 CH1 went into development.

In the span of almost a year, I’ve created more than 10.000 still renders and who knows how many animation frames. (All projects combined.)

If it wasn’t for the damn Steam/GOG preparations, it would probably already be close to 12.000 renders.

I need to be more mindful of this.

I can’t treat the current update the same as I treated the previous ones. It’s four times as big as Chapter 5, and Chapter 5 took a year to make.

From May 2024 to May 2025, in render count, I created Chapter 5 – five times.

The update you’re getting this year would’ve taken four years to make by last year’s standards.

I get DMs of people asking me to be faster. And if I get a few DMs of it, it means even more think that in silence.

As I told them, cancel the sub until the update is out.

The last thing I want is for someone to build a grudge against the game they like and support because it takes too long.

If you find yourself in the position where you start getting mad, cancel your subscription and think about resubscribing after Chapter 1 is out.

Two previews today
I thought Beany looked cute here.
View attachment 4861001
The way the evenings feel in the summer.
View attachment 4861000

Every few days that pass, I’ll be able to dedicate more and more time to SG, until we’re at 40-70 images a work-day again.

I will soon have to forcefully take a day or two off, as I will have to paint and fix the apartment before I move out.

I have a few more things that I’d like to talk about… Like the reason why I will soon get a mini-greenscreen. About the size of two monitors.

I will talk about it in the next Log.

- Ocean

Beanpole