Serenity C2 Episode 4 (Devlog 6)

Hello my friends...

Well, work at my full-time job certainly picked up over the last 2 weeks. We've had a lot going on with our company absorbing another one. Luckily, I didn't get picked to travel to that site, but I've had my hands full with everything from moving their servers into our virtual environment to inventorying hardware. Needless to say, I've still slowly managed to pick away at getting renders done for episode 4. But there is so much left to do with all the extra animations (due to adding more options in a few of the scenes). I want to try and add options for sex scenes going forward. And at some point, I'll need to go back and redo a few of the previous sex scenes and perhaps add options to those as well.

Taking some time out here and there, I've been also writing for Last Human episode 5. I've been trying to adjust my workflow so that I make SOME time for at least getting some of the writing done for the next update on my other game. Basically, right now I am of course focused on Serenity episode 4. But it's like 80% that, 15% pre-writing for Last Human, and then 5% writing on the Camilla VN. Once this Serenity update is out, I work on Last Human 80%, write for Serenity's next update around 15%, and Camilla 5%. That sounds stupid reading it back to myself LMFAO. But hopefully you get the idea. While trying to up my game on the graphics and adding extra animations, plus more choices for sex scenes, I really need to try to get ahead on the writing at least.

While writing for Last Human, I was writing content for Alaina. I feel like Alaina has been pretty neglected in the story so far, and that wasn't on purpose. It's pretty obvious (if you've followed the story so far) that she is next for some focused attention from the captain. After getting some ways into her story arc, I realized something. I wrote this the way I should have written all of the other girl's story arcs. And I know some people out there are going to say, "why didn't he put this kind of attention on the other girls?" - and they'd be right about that. Something just clicked while I was writing this stuff about her. I don't know why that happened and at first, I was going to delete all of it and try to simplify it. I let my wife read it and she said I would be an idiot if I deleted it. Now, I have to tell you that my wife is probably more critical of my work than any of those reviewers out there. She loved the storyline I came up with for Alaina. She hasn't reacted that way to anything until now. If this turns out to be a big hit for people, I'll never hear the end of it from her LOL.

The point is... In some of my (negative) reviews, it has been mentioned that there just wasn't enough "getting to know" each girl. When I play it back myself, I can see why they would say that. At the same time, it still isn't that bad compared to most other AVN's I've read out there. But it is a legitimate statement (about both games). Well, now I have this little dilemma of sorts, I suppose. We're going to get this really cool storyline for Alaina and I'm going to keep it in as is, just as my wife advised. And we'll have to make it up to the other girls as we go forward. Spend more time with each one. Hopefully it all works out. With any luck, you guys will enjoy Alaina's story as much as my wife did and give me time to work that into the other main girls. I don't really want to go back and rewrite a bunch of shit because when I play it back myself, I do see things I'd like to change, but I like it the way it is.

Anyway, sorry this devlog got derailed a bit talking about Last Human. But in my need for transparency, I wanted you guys to know what's going on. It sucks to finally figure these things out well into development and writing, it is what it is I guess. In any case, I am working on Serenity right now, rendering away. I skipped the rendering/animation work for the first sex scene just to try and get some images completed. I've gone back and I am working on that now. I don't know how other devs do this, but I tend to first, write the dialogue. Then I work one the renderings in order, following the story and at the same time, reading the dialogue to make sure I'm getting the right emotions, facial expressions, eye position... you get the idea. And normally when I get to a sex scene, I'd work on it right then. This time, I chose to skip it and keep rendering just to see how that would go.

That's it for now. In the spirit of Halloween, enjoy Cammie coming out of your TV ;)

 Love you all, ...Fire