- Thread starter Maleficent
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I want the goddess as my Queen...she can then smite my enemies. I mean, really, who wouldn't want to marry a goddess over a mere mortal? On a more realistic note, I guess it would be Aelinia. Since she seems the most intelligent and we probably won't have the option to marry a goddess.
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Thanks to regular steady progress in development (finally!), I've set release dates for the next three releases. Chapter 11 ended up growing quite a bit, so I've split what was originally planned for Chapter 11 into two parts. What was Chapter 11 - Part 1, is now just Chapter 11. Chapter 11 - Part 2 will be Chapter 12, and what I was calling Chapter 12 is now Chapter 13. I am thinking that Chapter 13 will wrap up Volume 2, but I'll know more about that mid-year. Might need a Chapter 14 to finish out Volume 2. I've put the planned released dates for the next three chapters at the end of this post.
Progress is good on the next release. There is finally a good groove, and issues I run into are more easily dealt with now. It has been a very long road to get here, much longer than I expected or hoped for, but the render speed gains, as well as the ability to do things in renders that were never possible in Daz Studio (my old software) are making me very happy. It is going to be fun to grow more into the new software over the next few years.
The remaining chapters in Volume 2 are doing a lot of work for our story. There are some characters, like Alessia, Tamura, and Flavia, that we have not gotten to know much about. That will be remedied over the next three chapters. Also, there are several big decisions, like choosing your queen, that you will be making. For a lot of you, there are going to be many more save files over the next three chapters.
My final note is that we have a few more characters coming into our story over the next two chapters specifically. These new characters are going to present some interesting choices for you, and some may test current alliances. Just when you think we might be getting some normalcy.
I'll be back around mid-February with what should be my final development update before Chapter 11's release. Have a fantastic 2024!
P.S. A note to patrons who saw these dates earlier in the month. I've pushed out Chapter 12 and 13 a bit due to them having a lot more content with some notable scene additions.
2024 Planned Release Dates:
- February 23: Chapter 11
- June 7: Chapter 12
- September 27: Chapter 13
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Considering how long he took to give an update he should be releasing all the 3 chapters on Feb 23.
No, that would be too much. What is shocking is that after all this time he still hasn't finished even half of the original Chapter 11, otherwise the new Chapter 11 would be ready for release.
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I still think the game looked better during it's first few releases. These images look kind of "softened". I don't know how else to explain it.
It's just the characters' hair that looks "softened", but the backgrounds and locations look way better.
I'm not sure I can agree with that, but even if that's true are backgrounds that important anyway? Most of the time focus is on the characters and backgrounds are blured half the time anyway.
I took a couple of screenshots from early old game.
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I definitely have to agree here. Honestly this whole thing with using a different engine to create 'better' backgrounds just seems like a huge pointless waste of time. It sacrificed the main focus of the player which is the characters and how they look for a secondary focus which is the background. The old images posted showed that the backgrounds were already fine as is and were able to fit the setting of the story. Now what we have is worse looking girls who are nowhere near as beautiful as they once were which was the main draw for a lot of players, a tremendous amount of time spent, all for supposedly better looking walls, ground, sky, trees and whatever else is in the background which most people won't pay attention to and all of it is going to be gone in just one click away.
The trade off was not worth it. The dev makes it sound like he is painting the Mona Lisa.
The points of the different engine to render the graphics are fastest render times, larger sets of available assets. After this long delay, it should make turnaround time quicker, or more renders in each release.
One of his big reasons was animations. The development time will remain the same with how much time he will need to spend for animations for simple scenes which could be done with a few still renders previously without fancy animation.