A small update on next patch

Hello everyone!

I hope all of you are safe and happy in your houses. The global situation can be a bitch to some of us, so, keep going fellas, everything will be fine.

In this post ill just tell you about some of the delays, desitions and stuff i been having this week (all related to the game of course). If you don't wanna read it there is a TLDR at the bottom.

What's going on with the game?

I been secretly (well not, so, secretly in the last month) preparing and working to update the game visuals for the last 4 months. This came up together with some other improvements i wanted to make, and it was possible due to two big factors:

A friend helped me kickstart it and just do it, rather than keep planning it for the future, and also in these last two months, the game started gaining some traction, and i could start saving a bit of money for comissioning the assets i needed.

Particularly textures, as 3d texturing is something i have grow to almost-hate, and that im terrible at, so i choose for the base textures to be done by someone who actually knows what he's doing.

So i wanna thank all of you who supported the project, and even help spreading the word, this is possible thanks to your help! (And that is why i always ask for people to help me getting the game to be more known, it enables the game to grow even more!)

After a lot of delays, some were caused by the current global situation, some were caused by other people's delays who delayed me, and some delays were due to personal problems, i finally got the new model to work with around two weeks ago.

And then i faced a new problem: In my head the new game model would look in a way, and with a particular style that would be very cool, but in reality it wasn't. Not because the 3d modeler (Zaz) did a bad job, he did a splendid base mesh, and the Texturer (D.Leo) did also aswell, but because the idea that i had in my mind wasn't really doable. This is hard to explain.

What basically happened is that i wanted to try a particular style, but i had some specifications that had to be met in order for it to work with the game (a particular size, eye and mouth positions, ir order to do not screw up animations). And when everything was done i realized that i didn't like much the style it ended up.

So i started a new quest to find a personal style for the game, and it was enlightening as fuck, i did so many variations to the face meshes and imitated various -other games characters- face styles, and i couldn't find anything that i really enjoyed and that fited the Kinky Fight Club's base identity.

26 different faces later i started finding a style that i liked, and that it isn't something taken out of another game, but rather a style that i kind of find like personal. Of couse someone somewhere should have done something like this, but i find this style the one im happiest with, because i like and because i did it myself. It may sound kind of good now, but i wrecked my head for a whole week trying to find what was wrong with my designs that nothing was good.

And in case you didn't realize at this point, im a bit obsessive, i like to make things as good as possible (considering my current skills).

But, in the end this is what i ended up with:

On the left: Old model, on the Right New model.

Dont pay attention to the facial expressions, i haven't touched those yet, i still have a bazillion things to do to update the game, updating the models was a way bigger deal than i originally anticipated.

I still have to work on the lights (as im finally able to get rid of a error i been dragging for almost a year), some of the clothing interactions with the lights, skin, and faces, and well, a lot of things.

When will april's big update come up?

With some luck i may be able to get it for the 14-15th. The quarintine is actually allowing me to work more (did around 45-55 hours last week), but there is a lot of content to re-do. (Like the Character cards, and All the Art Assets for promoting the game).

So please be a bit patient, the next update will include all the new characters aswell as the -Player requested - Feature to have "Guest" characters in your game, so you guys and girls can share your favorite characters with each other! (in a much easier way than it currently is). But im not sure how many new animations ill be able to do, or if i will be able to finish the next character in time for the update.

I think that is all i wanted to say, it is mostly that im working on the game but progess is way slower than i originally tought. I really hope you like the new models and enjoy the game's upgrades!

And hey, thanks again! This wouldn't be possible to do all by myself!

TLDR
Working on the game, progress is slow, next update for around April 15th.

I hope all of you are enjoying the time indoors, are safe, and with everyone you love. Have a good week fellas. And as always, any support helps the game grow, even retweeting, commenting on a forum, streaming, making a video, or any kind of thing that mentions the game. 

You can follow me on Twitter to see all this shitty adds i try to do there: https://twitter.com/MrZedgames

Or join us on Discord, where some of the players are starting to organize some Roleplay (or you can just ask/discuss/talk in general)
Discord.gg/hjxwd2k 

Stay safe fellas, Cheers!

A possible custom char, made in 2 mins. The next Character Creator update will be huge!