VN Ren'Py The Rising Son [Upcoming Cyberpunk-Themed Erotic Game] ~ Development Journal

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Greetings fellow citizens! Welcome to The Rising Son, a dystopian cyberpunk story of ambition, corruption, and revenge. Will you join the corrupt elite and take the city for everything it’s worth, or will you make the hard choice and try to bring joy and honor to those who can’t take it for themselves?

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The Rising Son is a dystopian cyberpunk action thriller with strong dramatic and romantic elements.

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The Rising Son has been in development since early February of 2021. Our philosophy for the game is to first tell a story, to keep action scenes fast paced and frequent, and to provide a wealth of opportunities for romance and pleasure. We have a quality first mentality, hoping to provide the best product we can possibly produce with each step forward.

Our goal with this project is to have one coherent story that is told through the decisions made by the player. While most major story beats will not change, how the characters get there, how they react to those events, and who gets there will all depend on the choices made.

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The story is set in the fictional city of Toyomi, which was modeled after a cyberpunk version of modern day Miami. The game takes place in the year 2107, with the Japanese Empire having come to control roughly three fifths of the world following the advent of Titanium-4. This titanium based alloy led to massive leaps in multiple fields of science and technology, including synthetic organs and prosthetics, new configurations of computer technology, and weapons and armor that has created a new global cold war.

In Toyomi, the seat of the Fujiwara clan, one of the clan’s heirs has gone missing. Yakuza activity is on the rise, and the Fujiwara have been unable to control the situation. The heads of the other three shogun clans, having caught the scent of weakness, have descended on the city and claimed large swaths of the city as their own. We take the perspective of Fujiwara Joji, eldest son of the Fujiwara clan head, and a young samurai searching for his missing younger brother.

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3DCG, Anal sex, Animated, Graphic violence, Incest, Prostitution, Romance, Vaginal sex, and more.

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The main character is Fujiwara Joji. Joji is the first son of Fujiwara Ryuunosuke, a powerful shogun and the head of the Fujiwara clan, one of the four main clans of the shogunate. Joji has spent his entire life training alongside the samurai of the Fujiwara clan, and a combination of natural talent and consistent training has resulted in him being one of the most talented swordsmen in the Japanese Empire.



This is Cassandra Miller, an officer with the Toyomi Police Department. Despite her original run-in with Joji resulting in him being arrested for assault and Cassandra being reprimanded after his nearly immediate release for trying to arrest a shogun’s son, Cass is one of the good ones. Her reason for becoming a police officer was to try to bring some semblance of justice to the world of suffering and squalor that she grew up in, and she works hard to achieve that end.

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We would be unendingly grateful for any amount of support you can show The Rising Son. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your cat, and become a patron on Patreon.

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We do not currently have a hard release date set for our first release. We’re hoping to have version 0.1, which will be the first full episode of the game, ready soon.

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While we’re preparing for our first release, we intend to be active here in the development thread. We’ll be here to answer questions as well as post additional character renders and other promotional renders on a weekly basis until the first version is ready for release.

 

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Hello! I am The Mithril Hourglass, the lead writer (as well as a whole slew of other things) for the project. I'll be here nearly daily to answer questions or discuss the project.

While I have more to say about The Rising Son and the world it takes place in than I will ever write here, please know that there are a large number of things I'd like people to discover for themselves while reading the VN. If an answer I give is cryptic, vague, or otherwise incomplete, please know it's just because I want you to get the most out of the final product.

Other than that, I'm in regular contact with Barry and have at least a minimal understanding of every aspect of the project. We're both very excited to share this project and welcome new citizens into the hive of debauchery and violence that is Toyomi!

Answered Questions:

Will The Rising Son include any transgender, futa, or dickgirl characters?
In short, yes. This will also be the sort of thing that we will put into polls for patrons to decide once we're past the prologue portion and are ready to introduce new characters.

What races of female characters will be available for the main character to romance?
Many! We already have a mixed race character, Japanese, and white just among the characters revealed so far, with several more planned.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

I’m back with another update. As you may infer from the poster and title reveal video above, this one is inclined more towards the promotional aspect of our upcoming project. However, the intention of this update is to also elaborate the goal of this project, the vision behind it, and what you as the player can expect from it. Yet, down below, a brand new character shall also be revealed.

I have a tendency to ramble, and perhaps you may or may not want to read through this, but please bear with me as I provide you with some backstory.

Believe it or not, this project originated as a desire to work on an erotic visual novel game set in 80s Miami, based on one of my all-time television series, Miami Vice. I was even all but ready to begin working on it, but since real-world vehicles like the Ferrari Testarossa were supposed to be at the center of this idea, I realized it would not be feasible or possible due to copyright concerns.

Thus, I had to depart from that idea and was left with merely the 80s, neon-drenched aesthetics and what not. Then out of the blue, it struck me that the cyberpunk genre aligned with my vision quite well, which I also loved but wasn’t too familiar with, apart from series like Altered Carbon, and having played City of Broken Dreamers from here, which is an awesome game. Even more so, I was eventually struck with the idea for a plot in which a more technologically advanced Japan takes over the U.S. (and other territories), specifically Miami, in a distant, dystopian future.

I realized, and perhaps you do too, that our project may seem similar to Cyberpunk 2077, which was somewhat of a fresh release when my mind unexpectedly conjured this idea. Being genuinely honest though, that’s not where this idea stemmed from, rather I wasn’t very familiar with the game. To me, the idea almost seemed quite similar to The Man in the High Castle.

As you can tell by now, I am quite an avid viewer of films and television series, so the inspiration may have come from a myriad of sources. Beyond that, I was fortunate enough to team up with The Mithril Hourglass, who is a brilliant writer and without whom I’m not sure this project would take shape the way it has been, and I have even more experience of working with our programmer, who is equally innovative.

Of course, once the brainstorming on this project commenced and I began to do my research alongside The Mithril Hourglass, I could not help but draw a healthy dose of inspiration from Cyberpunk 2077 but also plenty of other cyberpunk-themed media, both from the 80s and more recent ones. If I were to point out, perhaps a major source of inspiration was the series, Into the Badlands, despite the fact that it has nothing to do with the cyberpunk genre.

Getting to the point, our goal and intention for this project is to share a visual novel game that is equally action- and sexually-oriented. In addition, it is not intended to be a mere kinetic visual novel game, rather a major focus of ours is to incorporate choices that are not included just for the sake of it but shall rather influence the gradual and ultimate outcome of our overall plot. A particularly personal aim of mine is try and make this game relatively more animated, literally, than just the animations being limited to sex scenes, and if I succeed, I am at the very least hoping that it might feel like a mix between an actual 3D game and a visual novel. Last but not least, as much as this project shall be steeped in action and sex, it shall also rely equally on music and sound effects, which we are putting an equal amount of effort to incorporate as well.

And with all of that out of the way, it’s time for all of you to meet Rebecca Carter, Toyomi City’s leading gridaster (newsreader). To be honest, but not necessarily ashamed, her profession is somewhat inspired by 2077’s Gillean Jordan. A fun fact though, she is also the first character I ever created when I began learning DAZ Studio, and I updated her with Iray-compatible assets only recently. In fact, it was The Mithril Hourglass who suggested her for this role after he saw her and I couldn’t have agreed more. Rebecca is going to play a major role going forward in our project, one which you may or may not expect.

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One final word of update is that we are currently at a stage of preparing our characters, locations, promotional media (such as those above), and more, but in the coming weeks, we will commence rendering our in-game CGs. Although this was more of me just rambling, I hope you found some merit in what I have written in this update post and that it provided you sufficient insight into how this project came to be and where it is potentially headed. Above all though, I hope you enjoyed viewing our poster, title reveal video, and Rebecca herself.

Feel free to support us on Patreon, which I must admit is in an updated state but it shall soon be. I shall be back soon with another, perhaps better update.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

This week, I wanted to take some time to share my philosophy about the project. To do that, I'm probably going to end up stating the obvious a few times. Starting with the following.

The Rising Son is a dystopian cyberpunk action thriller with strong dramatic and romantic elements.

So, let's run down that list. Between Cyberpunk 2077 and some of the other projects that have come through here, I'm sure everyone is well aware of what cyberpunk is, so we'll skip that part. Anyone who has watched a movie probably knows what Action, Thriller, and Drama are, too, so I won't spend much time there, either.

Dystopian, however, has a bit more room for interpretation. From everything to 1984 to all the subject matter with post-apocalyptic settings that have come out in the last 20 years, dystopias have a lot of different faces to present. The way I'm incorporating it here is a fairly simple prospect, at least on the surface. I want to present the dystopian angle less as 'everything is terrible' and more as 'equal parts progression and regression.' For example, I'm sure a great deal of the people here would be happier if society as a whole applied less stigma to sex and the subcultures that revolve around it. In Toyomi, that has been realized. Rape is still a crime, but where there is consent, there is acceptance. Establishments like The Peach Tree offer Peaches - their special brand of prostitutes - for anyone of age to purchase time with them. What goes on behind closed doors isn't just accepted, it's encouraged. There's the progress, but where's the regression? As is appropriate for the cyberpunk genre, the regression comes from capitalism. Sex sells as well in 2107 as it does in 2021, and companies are all too willing to sell you your Dream Girl in a bottle of sake. This follows through to the entire setting; from the police, to the people, to the shogunate that effectively rules the empire, every step forward is mirrored by a step back.

That takes us to the action thriller part. This is something most people are going to be familiar with. It's the part where swords get drawn, punches get thrown, and sometimes people die. Thriller just means that there's stakes. General United States needs to punch the Frost Warrior or else the fancy helicopter is going to start sniping people who chew gum too loudly. There's suspense, and maybe you're a little bit anxious about the bad thing actually happening. The biggest reason I wanted to call this out is because we really do have some ambitious ideas for how to implement these elements, and not just from a writing angle. Hopefully you won't have to wait too terribly long to see what I mean.

The drama is a fairly mundane point by comparison to the rest. That's why it's near the end of the list of the descriptors. However, it is still important. Drama is building relationships with the characters of the story, learning more about them, falling in love with or growing to hate them. Drama when it comes to The Rising Son is simply familiar.

That brings us to the romantic elements. Though "romance" is really just a thin veil behind which porn tries to hide the fact that it is actually porn. This is the reason we're all here. And I went and put it on the bottom of the list. The reason for that, is that this is a story first, and porn second. Take the sex away, and the story will still stand on it's own. I've probably lost most of you at this point, but if you're still reading (if you are, you're handsome and/or beautiful) then I want you to know that there is still plenty of sex here. At the time of my writing this, there isn't a single female character in the game that you can't find a way for Joji to sleep with. It is important to note, I feel, that all of my favorite games that I've found here have all had this in common. The best always stand on their own and are compelling and engaging even when it stops being horny. I hope to achieve that for this project as well, and that you'll keep reading regardless of what you may or may not be doing outside of the computer.

 

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I'm keeping a close eye on The Rising Son. Very exciting, and I wish you guys all of the luck in the world!

- RCS

 

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We appreciate it! Thanks for the well wishes!

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

For this update, instead of relying on words, we have decided to allow the renders we are sharing below to speak for themselves and shed further light on our upcoming project. These renders are more advertisement-centric, a reflection of the fact that advertisements are going to be in abundance in the world we are building. Brief introductory texts also accompany the following images.

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Meet Nina “Fuka” Cole, the face of Fuka-Cola, Toyomi’s leading carbonated beverage that is available in varying assorted flavors.

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This here is Tachibana “Holo-Momo” Momo, an interpersonal, holographic AI who not only serves as the foremost means of advertising The Peach Tree chain of brothels but is due being a hologram she is also present as the receptionist at all of The Peach Tree locations.

Last but not least, here are two, quite incomplete previews of the left and right sides of the Toyomi Beach area. As you may notice, some of the buildings are presently mere facades with missing walls. Moreover, the advertisements, etc. visible on all the neon signage will eventually be replaced.

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Greetings fellow citizens!

This particular update is going to be brief yet meaningful. Although there is not much to explain here, the following renders and screenshots are meant to indicate the fact that we are gradually progressing towards preparing our in-game CGs and the overall GUI of the game. One feature worth point out though is that the main menu buttons that will be a part of the game’s main menu are animated, namely when the cursor is hovering over them. Please, feel free to share feedback about both or either of these.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

Meet the Fujiwaras. This update is all about them, namely to introduce the remaining members of the leading shogunate family in Toyomi.

The missing heir mentioned in the original post and the brother Joji is searching for, this is Fujiwara Taro. He is headstrong, outgoing, and cares deeply about the people he chooses to keep near him, with his brother and sister being at the top of that short list. He has always clashed with his father, even more so than some of Ryuunosuke’s most short lived advisors, but ultimately keeps the best interest of his family at the heart of his actions. What, then, is to be made of his disappearance?

Fujiwara Ryuunosuke is the head of the Fujiwara clan, and father of Joji, Taro, and Nozomi. He is amoral and ruthless in the pursuit of his goals, which has given him the reputation of a demon and a name to match - Fujiwara Mazoku, which translates roughly to Demon Lord Fujiwara. Whisperings among the other shogun and their vassal clans say it’s only a matter of time before his house of cards come crashing down, but none have dared take action against him for fear of swift and terrible retribution.

Fujiwara Kamiko is the mother of the family, and Ryuunosuke’s third wife; she’s also the only woman he’s had any children with. Kamiko loves her children dearly, but she is first and foremost a Lady in the court of shogun, which has created some distance between her and them. Like many in her position, she tends to keep her time among those powerful men with her mouth shut, her head down… and her ears open. Though a sharp wit and a position of power haven’t stopped the Fujiwara samurai from gossiping about the way she looks at Joji while he’s training.

In many ways, Fujiwara Nozomi is nearly the polar opposite of her mother. She’s compulsive, she puts more energy into avoiding her private instructors than learning anything, and she’s prone to getting so caught up in whatever she’s doing that she seems to forget about the world around her. What’s more, she’s taken to spying on Joji since his engagement, especially when Joji has his new fiance with him.

 

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Characters look pretty good

 

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Characters look pretty good

Thank you. We appreciate the positive feedback.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

This particular update is partially a plug, but also an introduction to several other major male characters, who also happen to be the avatars of our various Patreon tiers. As such, this update is also meant to inform you all that our Patreon page is relatively up-to-date as of now, with the exception of including in-game preview renders, and some changes that need to be made to the perks our patrons will be receiving at each individual tier.

So, without further ado, here are the characters.

The frontman of the metal band IMPURE is none other than Fumihiro "Fujun'' Ramírez. Born as one of many mixed race children with only one Japanese parent, Fumihiro has no shortage of anger towards the system that supports the Purity of Heritage Act. After one such instance led to the shiny metal addition to his skull, he and his friends decided to look for a different way to tell the system to go fuck itself. After his near-death encounter and the insult of being called fujun'na gomi - impure trash - he decided to own up to the name and use it as a banner to rally behind.

Darius Jackson is a former soldier, the current leader of the Resistance, and a man of the people. For a time, he was labeled as a terrorist and was considered one of the most wanted men in Toyomi. Over the years, he has changed the focus of the Resistance, taking them out of the spotlight and in turn out of the public eye. While many people still view him as a criminal to be arrested on sight, many more have come to see him as a force for good, helping those who are unable to help themselves.

Ryuunosuke’s best friend and advisor, Joji’s sensei, and one of the few O-Kintsukuroi who does not have a blood relation to any noble clan nor any synthetics, Nakamura Bunta. He is a proud man who believes strongly in his ideals of relying only on one’s self and using strength for the betterment of the people around him. At times, Bunta has been more of a father to Joji than Ryuunosuke has been. More recently, he has been feeling the weight of his age, and has spent time away from Toyomi with his family, who are urging him to use his station within the Fujiwara to extend his life with synthetics.

His Immortal Majesty Emperor Kinhito of the now nearly global Japanese Empire, the most powerful man alive, and also the oldest by more than a decade. He has a spotless public image and an air of benevolence to him, leading to positive reception among both common citizens and nobility alike, even outside the empire. That said, this is also the man who created the shogunate, appointed its corrupt leaders, and allows them to continue unchecked. The man who signed the Purity of Heritage Act into law. He speaks of a unified empire, and of representing all of his citizens, but where do his loyalties truly lie?

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

Just wanted to make a quick update as we received a question regarding future characters. For easy reference, I'll be storing questions like this in my first post, just under the OP.

Will The Rising Son include any transgender, futa, or dickgirl characters?
In short, yes. This will also be the sort of thing that we will put into polls for patrons to decide once we're past the prologue portion and are ready to introduce new characters.

What races of female characters will be available for the main character to romance?
Many! We already have a mixed race character, Japanese, and white just among the characters revealed so far, with several more planned.

As a bit of extra information, something that we're borrowing from Cyberpunk (of the 2077 or RED variety, not just the genre name) is the level of diversity. In our setting, country borders have started to dissolve, opening the world up to be more diverse than ever before. You can expect to see and interact with characters with many different cultural backgrounds, and of course, various skin colors.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

Behold IMPURE, 2107’s most popular metal band. After forming in 2105 with their self titled debut album, their message of overcoming inequality and embracing the idea of being “impure” to be used as a banner to be rallied behind instead of a derogatory label sent them rocketing to not only the forefront of popular culture, but into being a voice for those too afraid to speak out against the unfair standards that the Purity of Heritage Act has made commonplace.

Each member of IMPURE has become not only a literal rock star, but a massively popular activist representing different aspects of the struggles that citizens face day to day, speaking out against discrimination, wage-slavery, and everything in between. Their most recent album, Fuck the Pure, carries with it not only the cathartic ideal of bringing down those who have and abuse power, but also a message of cultural integration. When asked for his thoughts regarding Fuck the Pure, front-man “Fujun” Ramirez had this to say:

“Often, and enthusiastically.”

Azai “Yogorete” Naoya is the lead guitarist and backup vocals of IMPURE. He is the only member of the band who is considered Pure by the Purity of Heritage Act, being the first born son of a Daimyo. He got his nickname from his father, who called him unclean for sullying the family name by participating in protests with the impure masses.

Andre “Kegareta” Torres is the bassist of IMPURE. Though he lived a quiet life, well off enough to avoid bullies but still disconnected from the shogunate enough to be unaffected by their politics, he nonetheless feels very strongly that inequality is something worth fighting against. He chose his nickname, another word for impure, as a gesture of solidarity with his bandmates.

Jack “Jaaku” Davis is the drummer of IMPURE. Jack became an activist in response to his highschool sweetheart breaking up with him. He had proposed to her, and she might have said yes if it weren’t for her parents telling her that he was a wicked man - jaakuna otoko - who was only trying to take away her purity.

 

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Greetings Fellow Citizens!

To build on the musical theme of the previous update, this week I want to share some of the music we're planning on including. As an extra bit of news, while this does mark the 8th update since our original post - in which we had hoped that we would have at least a demo to share and we have to admit that we are unfortunately behind schedule - I am excited to share that we are entering into a more focused phase of development. Scenes are being posed, rendered, and ordered to prepare for assembly of what we've been calling the Day 1 Demo. While this estimate is still probably a little optimistic, our goal is to have the Day 1 Demo ready to share in 2-3 weeks.



With that out of the way, please enjoy the following selections from our assembled soundtrack.




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Greetings Fellow Citizens!

For this week, I'd like to talk a bit about our iteration process as well as give a bit of a preview for the Behind The Scenes content we intend to share as part of our patron rewards on Patreon.

Specifically, I'll be going over the different versions of Joji, the main character and protagonist of the story. This first version is the original render that was made for the recruitment thread.



After some internal review and discussion, Joji was reworked somewhat so his face looked less gaunt and to add some other smaller details and increase the overall quality of his model. This resulted in the change in mask, as well as other pieces of his armor. This is a preview within DAZ of what the different pieces of armor look like without Joji's overclothes.



Here is an example of an alternate style that was considered using different assets. In both pictures, you can also see that we considered giving Joji a back scabbard, rather than having his sword hang from a belt.



And here is a more complete preview, with the scabbard still on Joji's back but with his overclothes and new mask added back in.



Finally, a little extra texture work, a few additional additions and adjustments (such as adding the pants of his overclothes back in, and returning the scabbard to his belt), we arrived at Joji's final look for the game.



In total, Joji went through about 19 iterations. This is above average, but most of our characters go through 5-10 iterations before their final look is decided upon, with the intent of giving each character a unique feel that lets a part of their personality be expressed through their appearance. We hope to bring this level of quality to every aspect of our game to give you the best experience possible.

If you enjoy this kind of Behind The Scenes content,

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. I know we're a little early in development to be asking this sort of thing, but it would mean a lot and help more than you might think.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

Since we have already shared quite a few male characters so far, so for this update, we have decided to reveal two female characters who are from one of the other three shogunates that are central to our plot, and who going to make relatively frequent appearances during the later episodes.

Minamoto Yumi, the eldest child of the head of the Minamoto clan, is the woman who has been offered to Joji as a means to bring the two clans together. As with any political engagement, there is a web of conspiracy and veiled intention behind it, but Yumi generally chooses to ignore that aspect of her life. She has instead devoted herself whole-heartedly to her future husband. What this means for the succession of the Minamoto clan, much less for herself or Joji, remains to be seen.

Minamoto Reiko is the samurai the clan wishes it had. She is determined, skilled, and constantly goes above and beyond her duties. The life of a samurai is not one Reiko has been afforded, however. The traditional values of the Minamoto prevent her from joining the ranks of the samurai, and her father refuses to acknowledge her efforts as it would diminish his own reputation. This leaves Reiko as a well-armed wild card in Toyomi’s nightlife.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

This week we’d like to share a few more example renders. The following are from the second scene, following the alley renders we had shared in a previous update. Here, Joji’s father Ryuunosuke is receiving reports in the audience hall of the Fujiwara palace.

In other news, we’ve encountered some unforeseen delays caused by certain assets that made rendering either painfully slow or entirely unable to render. This will result in a large number of characters going through additional iterations as we identify which assets are causing the issues and changing posed scenes as necessary. We apologize for the delay in the release of our demo, and for any disappointment these changes might cause regarding the appearance of characters we’ve already revealed.

If you’re familiar with DAZ 3D and a fan of The Rising Son, we would appreciate any advice, tips, tricks, etc. that you might have regarding this issue.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

This week we’re sharing previews of certain locations within Toyomi.

This is the Fujiwara Palace, home of the Fujiwara family. It was modeled after traditional feudal era Japanese palaces, and built using modern techniques and materials. This gives the entire structure an old fashioned, historic feel while still providing all of the protection and amenities you could expect from a more modern mansion.

Mentioned in an earlier post, this is what the inside of a room looks like in a Peach Tree brothel. These rooms are meant to offer every kind of comfort, from food and alcohol to more illicit activities. No matter what the desire, a citizen of Toyomi can indulge in it here.

 

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Greetings fellow citizens!

We hope you have all been doing well. As you may have noticed, we have ended up missing several of our previous updates. However, that is by no means an indication that the project has been abandoned, or anything of that sort. In fact, my partner The Mithril Hourglas (hreserves) has already planned and typed out the outlines of several episodes ahead of the first one, and we continue to plan further ahead in advance.

Primarily, the reasoning behind the delay has been from my end since the project is now within the rendering phase. Due to some personal issues that persisted for the past two months or so, the rendering was not able to progress as we had been hoping, resulting in this unforseen and unintended delay.

However, with my circumstances relatively better now, I am confident and hopeful about resuming the rendering process once again and having a demo of our project ready soon to share with you. For that very reason though, there is also a possibility that our updates may end up being spaced out every two weeks instead of on a weekly basis. At the same time though, those updates shall likely feature previews of actual in-game renders to give you all a better idea of what to expect.

Once again, to everyone who has been looking forward to our project, we and especially I, sincerely apologize for the delay and the lack of any updates as of lately. We are immensely grateful to each and every one of you who has and continues to take interest in our project, and we our confident that The Rising Son will not disappoint.