Update: New Cumshot System, New Voice Overs, Steam, Misc

Hey everyone,

I hope you had a lovely week :)

I have lots of good news and one sad news:

Sad News first: My coder friend, with who I have been working together more than 6 years, will leave the team to reorient his life a bit. He has things to sort out and will only have time to help out on small things from now on. He might come back full-time in the future, but we don´t know for sure yet. We definitely wish him all the best on his way. And he's not out of this world, so it´s not a hard cut. This is good for me as well, because we became good friends and parting ways, even if not full and for good, is still hard. But life is change, so we have to embrace that 🙏

The Good News:

• Workflow: Him leaving won´t set us back a lot with the next game, because the other coder needs to establish the core things first anyway. And the friend who leaves did other things, more backend stuff. So all in all it's sad that he leaves but we can continue with our work without a lot of delay. I am anyway focusing on the next Episodes while we establish the core modules for the next game. So there won´t be a shortage of content 💪
  
• Management: Other good news is that the friend who will do the management started this week. We brought him up to speed, showed him everything (he knew a lot before anyway) and he is now taking the next steps to make smaller, digestible junks of work with proper structures and everything. I am very happy about that 😊I am also very organised, but creating content, managing everything, and so on is just too much to be a sustainable business model. So we got help and it´s going to be great 🥳
  
• Cumshot-System: I can show you some work in progress on the next cumshot system! This is actually really amazing. And it´s all GPU based and super performant and easy artistically directable and so on. The coder is currently merging all work-in-progress modules into one chunk that I can then also play around with. There are still things to improve, but it clearly shows the potential. I personally think that´s the best real-time cumshot I have seen so far. And once we have it with the collision, shader, etc. it will be amazing 😎
  
  Video Link => Cumshot System Proof of Concept
  
• Voice-Overs: We started recording generic voice-overs for PoseViewer (and the next game) of all characters we currently have. I also plan to add them to the next PoseViewer update.
  
  2 Samples from Livia we got yesterday 🥰
  - Oh, that´s so good
  - Fuck me, please

Last but not least a tiny teaser for with a Maya-Screenshot of Episode 9. It will involve a GloryHole 😉I just defined the Poses for EP9 while I am working on the Animations for EP8. But it´s not yet done, just that you know! The possible release of Episode 8 will be June! EP9 I can't tell, but definitely also 2023.

Alright, that´s it for this update! So we have some sad but a lot of good news. I am positive 2023 will be amazing and we will achieve a lot of very cool things together.

And thank you very very much for your ongoing support 🥰

All the very best,
PM & Team