VN Ren'Py The Cabin - Summer Vacation - Development Thread

[CellStudios]

how's the progress bro?

It's still on hold, been working on a comic recently ( while also working on WTHI ) and doing both at the same time it gives me hope that I might actually be able to work on the game while working on WTHI, as long as I stick to around 150-200 renders per-month and don't go crazy with the coding, it might be doable. But I think, either way, I'm going to wait till I get my 2nd computer before actually starting it. I've bought almost everything for the new PC, just need a CPU ( which I hope to get this month ) and a graphics card ( which I hope to get next month ).

 

[Abhai]

It's still on hold, been working on a comic recently ( while also working on WTHI ) and doing both at the same time it gives me hope that I might actually be able to work on the game while working on WTHI, as long as I stick to around 150-200 renders per-month and don't go crazy with the coding, it might be doable. But I think, either way, I'm going to wait till I get my 2nd computer before actually starting it. I've bought almost everything for the new PC, just need a CPU ( which I hope to get this month ) and a graphics card ( which I hope to get next month ).

well, if you need just cpy and gpu, perhaps i could help ya...i have some old intel-pentium and r270, and you will get a nice discount also (i know how expensive it is otherway)

 

[MammaMea]

It's still on hold, been working on a comic recently ( while also working on WTHI ) and doing both at the same time it gives me hope that I might actually be able to work on the game while working on WTHI, as long as I stick to around 150-200 renders per-month and don't go crazy with the coding, it might be doable. But I think, either way, I'm going to wait till I get my 2nd computer before actually starting it. I've bought almost everything for the new PC, just need a CPU ( which I hope to get this month ) and a graphics card ( which I hope to get next month ).

whats WHTI ?

 

[CellStudios]

well, if you need just cpy and gpu, perhaps i could help ya...i have some old intel-pentium and r270, and you will get a nice discount also (i know how expensive it is otherway)

Appreciate the offer but I have an i9 lined up and a 3090.

whats WHTI ?

Where the Heart is, I was hired to work on it shortly after announcing this game, check my signature for the link to the thread

 

[Abhai]

Appreciate the offer but I have an i9 lined up and a 3090.

you do know those low-end things are no match for setup proposed above though.
well, suit yourself, yet you will ask for 270 when that old 3090 fails

 

[CellStudios]

Development Update - 11/01/2021

I feel like it's been a while since I've done an update on the game. Since we last left off I've been massively wrapped up with Ep19 of WTHI and it really took it out of me, normally I don't need time off after finishing an episode and I like to get stuck straight into the next but I really needed a couple days off after Ep19, it really took it out of me. I also left off the last development update saying that I plan on re-designing the characters for The Cabin, simply because the old characters were Gen 3 and I really wanted to use Gen 8 instead as I feel they have more in terms of up to date assets and Gen 3 I hardly see anything new anymore.

After Ep19 was released however I've been finding Ep20 a lot easier and it's really coming along a lot faster and it's just all in general coming along smooth to the point I found myself with some spare time, not enough ( I thought ) to work on the game but enough to dabble in something so that's when I started work on The Void, a little comic project just to test my skills and attempt to push my limits. While working on the comic I realised that I do actually have quite a bit of spare time and if I really focus myself I probably could put that time into The Cabin.

So once more I opened Daz and got into some new character designs. I finished the Sister design ( see spoiler below ) and I'm almost done with the Mom design although I'm not 100% set of her yet so no previews of her as she might be changed.

If I am going to be working on the game along side working on WTHI then I have to set myself some realistic boundaries and goals to make sure things account get done, so below is a little list of things I'll be trying to stick to:

1. Render Count - My original plan was to do around 700 renders per release taking 1.5 to 2 months to complete an episode. I now feel that just isn't realistic and I know people don't really expect that amount, so instead I will be sticking to around 150 to 200 renders per release, again taking 1.5 to 2 months per release, this is simply because my WTHI work has to take priority and that is were the bulk of my time will be spent.
2. Simple Script/Simple Story - I will be altering the story to make the script/coding a lot simpler, I can't afford to spend a month doing the renders if it's just going to take me another month to code. Which is why the game...or in this case visual novel will be a story and nothing more, there might be some simple choices but I'm going to try and make it more of a choiceless story with there being minimal options to alter the story, doing so will make the coding simple and I wouldn't need to remember a million different paths.
3. 2nd Machine - None of this will be happening until I get my 2nd PC, I want to make sure I have a machine dedicated to both WTHI and The Cabin. I currently have the bulk of the parts for my 2nd machine, just need the CPU ( which I'll be getting this month ) and the GPU which I have a seller lined up for next month. If either of these fall through then the expectation would be CPU next month and the GPU in March.

I will also be finishing off The Void while I'm waiting to get the 2nd machine, would have to leave that story unfinished.

And that's pretty much it, now without further delay...( unless you noticed the spoiler and skipped ahead ), let me introduce you to...Lisa!

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[Abhai]

Lisa is a cutie, looks good, perhaps even too realistic
Hopefully mom and aunty will be a bit more curvaceous, diversity should be kept
As for simplifying thing, a wise choice, yet i wouldnt go with a full kn-setup though.
Even with a bit smaller updates (in playthroughs terms), a few basic paths should be doable, and could make the game more interesting to play imo...Coding wouldnt be that much of a problem, particularly as you can consult other more experienced devs around here. Yet, thats just me, again, the one who is stuck in/with his "ebony paradise" for some time now.

 

[CellStudios]

Lisa is a cutie, looks good, perhaps even too realistic
Hopefully mom and aunty will be a bit more curvaceous, diversity should be kept
As for simplifying thing, a wise choice, yet i wouldnt go with a full kn-setup though.
Even with a bit smaller updates (in playthroughs terms), a few basic paths should be doable, and could make the game more interesting to play imo...Coding wouldnt be that much of a problem, particularly as you can consult other more experienced devs around here. Yet, thats just me, again, the one who is stuck in/with his "ebony paradise" for some time now.

Cheers actually struggling with Mom and Aunt designs at the moment, not sure if it's because it's just hard or because I have a headache

But yeah, I think I'll have to keep some options in, the whole idea of the game in the first place is you'd have control over not only who you romance but also who dies, you can either be the hero who saves everyone or a coward that let's everyone die...or you could just be an idiot and accidentally get people killed

 

[Abhai]

Cheers actually struggling with Mom and Aunt designs at the moment, not sure if it's because it's just hard or because I have a headache

But yeah, I think I'll have to keep some options in, the whole idea of the game in the first place is you'd have control over not only who you romance but also who dies, you can either be the hero who saves everyone or a coward that let's everyone die...or you could just be an idiot and accidentally get people killed

Perhaps that dying thing is a bit too much for a porn game...particularly if those who could die are the main girls, just remember Acting Lessons, and all that drama
As a workaround you might introduce some secondary characters, or even animals on occasions (yet, perhaps better not animals, there will be "animal lovers" all over the place) for that dying thing...and mc can be chick. or a hero there, impacting the story/relations with the main girls (which could decide to even leave him/the place or so).
Otherwise you are good to go full kn, as if other girls are as hot as lil sis is, mc-s will be plain heroes for sure, no one will ever die, and all shall live happily ever after in one big crowdy harem.

 

[CellStudios]

Perhaps that dying thing is a bit too much for a porn game...particularly if those who could die are the main girls, just remember Acting Lessons, and all that drama
As a workaround you might introduce some secondary characters, or even animals on occasions (yet, perhaps better not animals, there will be "animal lovers" all over the place) for that dying thing...and mc can be chick. or a hero there, impacting the story/relations with the main girls (which could decide to even leave him/the place or so).
Otherwise you are good to go full kn, as if other girls are as hot as lil sis is, mc-s will be plain heroes for sure, no one will ever die, and all shall live happily ever after in one big crowdy harem.

My first thought for this was nobody is safe, I wanted to create something that nobody has done before and rather than simply having it as "you picked a wrong option, game over!" it would be more like "you picked a wrong option, no mom's dead!" but the game continues kinda thing, but I think you're right, if people are playing and they pick a wrong option and mom dies they'll probably just rage quit and never come back, so probably need to walk a very fine line here

 

[Abhai]

My first thought for this was nobody is safe, I wanted to create something that nobody has done before and rather than simply having it as "you picked a wrong option, game over!" it would be more like "you picked a wrong option, no mom's dead!" but the game continues kinda thing, but I think you're right, if people are playing and they pick a wrong option and mom dies they'll probably just rage quit and never come back, so probably need to walk a very fine line here

There would be a rage even if mom/sis/aunty are only wounded or so (check BaRS), killing them would be a disaster probably.
Perhaps they could have some "tolerating" variable, or so, so if they found mc-s actions too unfit (or the environment to uneasy to endure), they could decide to flee (joining some of secondary characters when (rare) opportunity arises)

 

[MammaMea]

Development Update - 11/01/2021

I feel like it's been a while since I've done an update on the game. Since we last left off I've been massively wrapped up with Ep19 of WTHI and it really took it out of me, normally I don't need time off after finishing an episode and I like to get stuck straight into the next but I really needed a couple days off after Ep19, it really took it out of me. I also left off the last development update saying that I plan on re-designing the characters for The Cabin, simply because the old characters were Gen 3 and I really wanted to use Gen 8 instead as I feel they have more in terms of up to date assets and Gen 3 I hardly see anything new anymore.

After Ep19 was released however I've been finding Ep20 a lot easier and it's really coming along a lot faster and it's just all in general coming along smooth to the point I found myself with some spare time, not enough ( I thought ) to work on the game but enough to dabble in something so that's when I started work on The Void, a little comic project just to test my skills and attempt to push my limits. While working on the comic I realised that I do actually have quite a bit of spare time and if I really focus myself I probably could put that time into The Cabin.

So once more I opened Daz and got into some new character designs. I finished the Sister design ( see spoiler below ) and I'm almost done with the Mom design although I'm not 100% set of her yet so no previews of her as she might be changed.

If I am going to be working on the game along side working on WTHI then I have to set myself some realistic boundaries and goals to make sure things account get done, so below is a little list of things I'll be trying to stick to:

1. Render Count - My original plan was to do around 700 renders per release taking 1.5 to 2 months to complete an episode. I now feel that just isn't realistic and I know people don't really expect that amount, so instead I will be sticking to around 150 to 200 renders per release, again taking 1.5 to 2 months per release, this is simply because my WTHI work has to take priority and that is were the bulk of my time will be spent.
2. Simple Script/Simple Story - I will be altering the story to make the script/coding a lot simpler, I can't afford to spend a month doing the renders if it's just going to take me another month to code. Which is why the game...or in this case visual novel will be a story and nothing more, there might be some simple choices but I'm going to try and make it more of a choiceless story with there being minimal options to alter the story, doing so will make the coding simple and I wouldn't need to remember a million different paths.
3. 2nd Machine - None of this will be happening until I get my 2nd PC, I want to make sure I have a machine dedicated to both WTHI and The Cabin. I currently have the bulk of the parts for my 2nd machine, just need the CPU ( which I'll be getting this month ) and the GPU which I have a seller lined up for next month. If either of these fall through then the expectation would be CPU next month and the GPU in March.

I will also be finishing off The Void while I'm waiting to get the 2nd machine, would have to leave that story unfinished.

And that's pretty much it, now without further delay...( unless you noticed the spoiler and skipped ahead ), let me introduce you to...Lisa!

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samples r awesome my dude, try the mom somewhere around 50yo , if possible try julia ann... looking forward.

 

[CellStudios]

samples r awesome my dude, try the mom somewhere around 50yo , if possible try julia ann... looking forward.

I want to make the Mom around the late 40's to early 50's but it's really hard to decently age people in Daz, sadly there isn't a button that says "make this model 50yo", would be really awesome if there was such a thing though xD

 

[rikudolazero]

Development Update - 05-11-2020

It's been a while people but I'm back with news!

I recently stated that as I'm working on WTHI, which doesn't leave me much time for this game, I was going to go back to my roots which was comics/stills. I did a few but realised, the still were easy but coming up with the story for comics was pretty hard, pretty much everything has already been done and I'd just be telling old stories. I'll share a couple of stills I did below as well

Anyway, I've found myself with a little more free-time than I thought I'd have with the current release of WTHI so I've decided to go back to working on the game ( mainly the story ) but I've also decided that I want to give it a total re-haul, new character designs, new scenes, new lighting, new everything. I've learnt a lot from working on WTHI and I was to implement those changes into The Cabin. Of course, no changes will final without first going through an extensive polling and voting system to make sure you guys are happy with the changes.

One big change I was planning on doing was changing Aunt from being the Aunt and making her an older Grandma character instead ( Mom's mom basically ), you don't see a lot of grandma's in games so I figured...why not? I then changed my mind though, I don't want to lose the Aunt story arc so instead will keep it the same, but also have Grandma living in the cabin with Aunt. This does mean I'll either need to find a new 3-bed cabin asset or re-design the current one, which I wanted to do anyone with all new furniture to make it look less stock.

So yeah, that's the plan, the current characters are gen 3 which is why I want to make them, moving on to gen 8 for the 1st release will for sure be the better move, saves me having to figure out how to convert the characters further down the line

But here's a few stills for you guys ( keep in mind, these are not going to be the characters in the game )
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I was planning on doing 2 more stills with penetration in the last one and deepthroat in the blowjob one...might still do it

I love it, grandma heroine is too undervalued in games. Please keep the good work and I am sure that when you get to release the game it will be a total success as long as you focus on building relationships between the characters and their actions to have meaning and consequences. I hope we can have Romance between the drama and thriller story.

 

[rikudolazero]

I'm afraid there won't be any form on NTR in the game.

Yeah please don't ruin so much work and wait with ntr, if your game isn't ntr focused then is the best than you don't add it only to make people happy, because that can ruin the whole game. Every person has their fetishes and every game their story.

 

[CellStudios]

ve it, grandma hero

I agree, not to many people do a granny love route and it's something I've wanted to see for a while, she probably won't be a main character and I'll turn her more into a side character and also avoidable for those that aren't interested.

Yeah please don't ruin so much work and wait with ntr, if your game isn't ntr focused then is the best than you don't add it only to make people happy, because that can ruin the whole game. Every person has their fetishes and every game their story.

I feel like there's just to few people that like NTR, hate it myself and I need to add things I like otherwise I'll lose interest in my own game

Cheers for the words though, glad you think it'll be a success, just need to put that extra time into it now and get it made

 

[CellStudios]

Development Update - 13/01/2021

I worked a little on the Mom character or 'Joyce' as she's currently being called ( possibly not her final name ) and I think I'm getting somewhere with her. This also probably isn't her final design, I still want to try and age her a little more to give her that 'Mom' look, but for now this is what I'm working with.

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Again the in-game previews probably won't make it into the game, just wanted to show what she could look like in-game.

It's really hard to get a realistic looking body/face in daz to show off some ones age, Daz is pretty much super model or old troll, doesn't seem to be much in-between :thinking:

 

[Abhai]

Development Update - 13/01/2021

I worked a little on the Mom character or 'Joyce' as she's currently being called ( possibly not her final name ) and I think I'm getting somewhere with her. This also probably isn't her final design, I still want to try and age her a little more to give her that 'Mom' look, but for now this is what I'm working with.

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Again the in-game previews probably won't make it into the game, just wanted to show what she could look like in-game.

It's really hard to get a realistic looking body/face in daz to show off some ones age, Daz is pretty much super model or old troll, doesn't seem to be much in-between :thinking:

looking fairly good
i wouldnt bother that much with aging her, she is not supposed to be grandma,yet.
and im supposing granny will be one of famous dazs trolls?
yet i would change one thing though - make her a bit more curvaceous, not only boobs, having such large boobs on slim body is kinda too much of boobing imo.
so i would say, go for wider hips, and just a bit more "curvy" designee, unless that is reserved for trol..i mean granmas look
edit.
or perhaps you can go with a bit smaller boobs, wider, more mature, hips, something like this:

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[CellStudios]

looking fairly good
i wouldnt bother that much with aging her, she is not supposed to be grandma,yet.
and im supposing granny will be one of famous dazs trolls?
yet i would change one thing though - make her a bit more curvaceous, not only boobs, having such large boobs on slim body is kinda too much of boobing imo.
so i would say, go for wider hips, and just a bit more "curvy" designee, unless that is reserved for trol..i mean granmas look

I'm not really a fan of big buts or wide hips myself so tis a tough one for me, I could up them a little but don't wanna go overboard with it

 

[Abhai]

I'm not really a fan of big buts or wide hips myself so tis a tough one for me, I could up them a little but don't wanna go overboard with it

well, im not talking about enormous butts, yet nicely curvaceous...look at the sample just been attached as an edit