Game Dev 4/28/25

I'm pleased to announce that my monthly Game Dev updates have been moved to the $1 tier! I made the decision based on how many indie games I've learned about and followed from their social media presence. It just seems like a bad idea from a marketing angle for me to not be sharing my own progress more publicly as well. As with all posts on this tier, they'll post here and then publicly after a week or so.

You might be aware that this was previously a reward for the $15 tier. I wouldn't dream of removing a reward from a tier and not replacing it with something else. Top supporters will now receive a monthly thank you pic instead. To be clear, these won't be anything crazy or canonical to TRW or as detailed as the Monday pin ups I do. My main rule is that it has to be something nice that I can make in 2-3 hours. I've already done one for April and it has gone over well with those who commented.

So what we have here are some samples of my recent work on This Clandestine World and Miss Castlewood that I've yet to share publicly. Let's break down what we're looking at! 

-The wooded apartment exterior is a scene from TCW where Roman has to figure out a way to get into the building by getting past Dakota, a sunbather who thinks he's a creeper. I'd have liked for the trees to sway in the breeze but I should have thought of that before I baked those shadows into the grass. There is an animation for the cat to look around though. And Dakota taps her hand to the music she's listening to as well so this scene shouldn't look too static I don't think. Fun fact: this is a real building that used to live in a long time ago.

-The Tyler GIF is one of what will hopefully be many animated sex scenes in the game. But they're the most time consuming and expensive asset to make by far. I can do little animations myself, but when a bunch of moving parts and bouncing breasts need to loop seamlessly I'm still currently out of my depth. Usually my only overhead is time, but I had to hire outside help on this one. 

-The interior coffee shop is the Milky Cafe from TCW. It's where Roman can talk to Tyler and his landlord, Jiles. This background is a 3D model that I bought the licensing rights to from the Daz store. It's possible that I could have gotten away with not doing so since I'm changing a lot of the original image when I paint over it, but I want to do things on the level here. I'm going to try and hide merch stickers from our shop in these backgrounds when plausible to do so. Can you find the one here?

-The woman stretching her back is Detective Jessica Brant. She's tired and overworked. So I thought it fitting to give her bad back for an idle stance animation. If a woman in this game so much as sighs heavily you'd better believe her breasts are going to bounce from it.

-Moving on to Miss Castlewood, we finally have a stage! Little by little we're building towards the story having a proper opening ceremony. I do like the idea of the girls themselves ambushing you with plot details, but I think the Morgan update will be the last one to do it that way if all goes according to plan.

-And lastly we have little toon versions of the cast so far. Kal wanted the girls to have clickable buttons to talk to them on the map. And since the base models are already full body shots I thought it would be fun to try a different style for these. I'm liking them so far.

And that's all for now! Most Game Dev updates won't have as much to share as I do here. Sometimes I only manage one background or animation per month. But they might be big like this for awhile so I can get you all up to speed with everything I've been working on for the last year or so. 

Hope you like what you see, and thank you for being here to support these two projects!