[WIP] My first VN - Isabella

[badtimetales]

As i said before...
It's a story driven VN with sex scenes.

The story is about the MC, a mid 30's male, who lost his GF, found a "friend with benefits" (Alex, "whatever style girl", as someone called her), had to go through some drama and meets Isabella (the blonde, "looks like a snack").
Isabella's story will merge with yours, with what happend the last months ...
This will include crime and violance - depending on your decisions.

As I said, there are two main LI: Alex and Isabella
You will be able to go for both of them, or choose the one you like.

Some other girls will be available for sex scenes, but you will not be able to build up a relationship with them or a harem.
I know, that this will scare away a lot of users, but that's how this VN is build.

I hope to deliver this month ...

CU soon

 

[badtimetales]

Well ... the rerenders are still rendering.

120+ still renders and about 800+ animation renders will set me back for a few weeks, but I still think I might be able to release S01 this month.

Well, that was a bad idea....

I've started this project months ago and I've learned a lot in this time.
Scene setup, lightning, camera settings and so on.

Just trying to change the makeup now just doesn't fit my standards anymore.

So I have to change the setup (lights and cam) for a few hundert renders and rerender them.
I'm not sure, if I will be able to release the complete S01 in this month, as planned, but there will be a release, even if I have to split S01 in 2 Parts.

Sorry for this, it's a learning progress and I've been working on this for quite some time.

*You can only improve*

 

[badtimetales]

One thing i was'nt happy with: Dark scenes indoor rendering.

The background should be visible, but dark with all details.
But the figure should be well lit, fitting the scene.

So what do you think about these renders, using canvases??







Your opinion would be really be important to me!

 

[badtimetales]

I hope to deliver this month ...

CU soon

Sorry to say, but the rerenders are still running
I really need a new GPU...

I can't keep my promise to release this month.

I have thought about splitting the release of EP1 in two parts, but I won't do it.
EP1 will introduce the two main LI and I think it's the best to introduce them together.

So ... November it will be.

I'll post some previews in the next days.

 

[badtimetales]

Not the best start, I guess....

I promised a release and didn't deliver.

With the learning curve in the last months I wasn't happy with my work, so I decided to rerender them.
Ok, I've got the quality I've wanted in these scenes ....
But now the other scenes are lookig poor... Ok, redo them.
So basically I'm making a complete new set of renders - and this takes some time with a Nvidia 2070.


Real world problems got me distracted too. Too much shit is going on atm.


So basically ... I've redone nearly the whole chapter.
I'm not giving any release dates (ever again), but Ch. 1 will be ready soon.

Judge me when you see the result, that's all I'm asking for

 

[badtimetales]

I've never been a creative person, in fact I didn't understand most of the creatives i've met or got a feeling for what they did.

Inspired by some games I found here, I got curious.

Daz doesn't seem to be so difficult, so why not try to do something myself?
Yeah, that was the start of a long learning process.

As I haven't done something like this before, I set the goals very high, foolish as I had been.
A complete Chapter 1, with a few hundred renders and some animations (with a few thousand renders).

I started end of 2019 and finished my first Chapter 1 in April 2020.
Can't say it was a masterpiece, but I had fun creating it (which was the main reason to start it).

But after playing more 5* games (where only a few deserve this rating) I recognized that I would rate all my efforts with 3* max.
That's not what I planned to deliver.

So I started over from scratch.
New character design, better story and so on.

I started to improve my renders, learned a little bit more about renpy, thought how to bring new things, animations, into the game. The main goal was to make the game realistic, in visuals and story.

The story was was a tough decision. I hadn't thought a lot about it when I started.
Sure I knew what I wanted to tell, but not how.

What sells best is young girls and a harem setting.
There are enough Highschool Harem games out there, that's not how I saw this project.

So mid 2020 I started from scratch. New characters, new thoughts what I want to tell...
No harem, that's for sure.
A threesome relationship, or just a relationship with your preferred character.
And enough sex with side characters.

End of 2020 I thought I'm good to release CH 1.
But i didn't like the appearance of one of the main characters.
So I rendered this pictures and animations again.

2 weeks later, one of the environment I'm using got an iray upgrade (yeah, my fault to start with a 3ds environment. that was a decision month ago, where I didn't knew any better).
Ok, render all scenes in this environment againnnnnnnn.....

The last months I had some personal/work related problems, which kept me away from my project .....

Long story short:

The learning curve is huge, I'm still not at the same level as the top devs here.
But i'm getting better every week

So this is the last attempt to create CH 1,it will be released when it's done, hopefully soon.

 

[badtimetales]

Still busy