Big Ol' Update Post: NEW POLL (NOW PUBLIC)! 73 Base Poses! Hiring Animators! Content Plans!

Hey peeps, sorry I'm late this month as I said earlier power outage slowed some things down. I was expecting a week, but thankfully it was only like 4-5 days. But now everything seems good.

Last Month

So after making many milestones in programming, I actually felt quite content with the state of things. And also the writing is in a good state and in good hands. 

In that moment of calm I realized, "Oh god, it's been so long since I've had a proper stream of content I need to fix this ASAP". While the cinematic stuff is extremely important, I can't do all that and not have a content plan for after it. 

And you might think "Man only now you get worried about that?", and yeah kinda. In my mind if the other stuff wasn't to a reasonable standard the rest would fall apart so they demanded my full attention. Now my feelings are reversed :P. I've never been worried about my ability to deliver content, that's easy. I've always been more worried about the programming, design and writing fronts. It's a mark of how far the game has come that my feelings have finally flipped.

So last month I set out to plan as much of the future content as possible. I've done this before, where I would show some poses and the content would come down the line, this time is just more at a larger scale. As I've said before it's easier for me to do the same task repeatedly as I get more efficient as I go. So I decided to work on Sex Sim or general sex positions.

And that's what I spent all of last month doing, resulting in 73 base positions. And you might think "Just making poses took all month?" and yes it did! I want to find Unique poses, ones that suit Naomi and the players dynamic specifically, and I have to make sure they work at all camera angles. For me the base pose is half of the work for a whole animation set. And it also sets the tone for when an animator is commissioned. So I give these a lot of attention.

Now when it comes time to animate more stuff or commission animations a big chunk of the guess work is done already. It's pretty much just getting the job done at this point.

You can preview the poses here! 

New Poll!

At the moment for supporters there's a new poll posted yesterday. A public version will come in due time (this is just in-case the poll service doesn't like NSFW). 

This poll will help determine priority for what animations get made. But due to progression plans, it depends, some positions may only unlock after certain conditions are met or planned for late game. Also, I may occasionally have preferences (I'm surprised some of them aren't as highly voted as others).

The public poll will help with this too it's just a different category. 

EDIT: POLL NOW PUBLIC CLICK HERE 

This Month

So, like I said before I'm focusing on content planning, I likely won't be finishing this content myself for now but I will do the initial work. And the next batch of planning content work is:

• Outfit Items
• Post Sex Sim Scenes

The former I did before, most of the current outfit items were made all at once. And we got A LOT of milage out of that batch. So basically I'll be producing a bunch of basic outfit items then they'll be textured and implemented later.

The latter I wanted to get done last month but it just didn't happen. As you know after sex sim Naomi says some dialogue, these in the future will be replaced with scenes and special poses depending on the result.

Not sure which I'll tackle first but once these items are done it should be easy enough to get someone to handle texturing and get people animating.

Build Status

Because of the former efforts there's not much progress on the build, I still have cinematics to make but I know what needs to be done there. And the task of getting these assets planned will be much quicker than doing the cinematics with a bigger long term pay off. Allowing me to commission these aspects which is easier to manage than cinematics. So, while cinematics gets done, content can be made provided I can find someone to do the work.

Easily my worst problem is getting people to do things I need while I do something else. It's harder than it sounds over the internet, at least for me. So hopefully this will help with that.

Hiring Animators!

I'm hiring animators, join the discord, DM me on twitter, whatever. 

It may take me some time to respond as I only like to contact people when I have confirmed exactly what work is needed. So, send me a message INCLUDE WORK SAMPLES, and I'll get back to you if/when I have work, I feel works for you.

Must work in Blender, if it's not your main software I'm unlikely to consider you cause there's usually a serious efficiency problem there. And I'm not generally hiring people to train them.

Conclusion

I'm sorry there's only content previews this month but I'm trying really hard to manage things properly. We're past due for some proper pay offs!

But hopefully the position previews help you feel a bit of excitement for the games direction. Expect many more previews next month! Not sure about other polls though, I'm not sure they'll be needed when it comes to post sexsim scenes and items.

Thanks for your support and patience!

~sacb0y