Weekly progress report #68

Hello! Time for our regular progress report. But first, take a moment to look at this picture. As you can see, Blake has a different hairstyle in it. Not the one we agreed upon. That's because I still get trouble with it. Apparently, every single time I load Blake's model, this hair gets distorted (like, its polygons explode. Seriously). And I have to delete it, and put it on again, which is a real pain in the ass, especially since I use my own shaders for it. So… here's a different one. What do you think? Blake looks unfamiliar, but this is what we have right now. Hair assets either make him look very different or don't work or look like shit. Good god.

Anyway, back to the report. The work goes on. I'm trying to make the scenes kinda simultaneously: one day for the city Blake, and another for the slums Blake. So, now I'm finished with Vanessa's true route scene (you will LOVE this one. I promise), Samuel's slut scene, and two different sex scenes in the slums. I'm still not sure if I want to make Blake fuck a lot there or just watch other people. It might be a bit of a psychological thing, right? In order to finally severe the connection with this place, he needs to get this final closure. Oh, well. Do you want a poll about that?

As for the text… it moves slower. After I came back home, I've had zero days off, and I'm not getting any for at least two weeks, so I'm just dead tired these days. But I'm trying my best, believe me. What makes it worse is that I have a lot of new characters to design, and this takes time as well. I'm gonna show you some of the sprites tomorrow. The hard part, of course, is to make the slums part somewhat balanced. Blake remembers a lot about this place, but we never got to learn it in the first place, and the last thing I want is to bury you under all that exposition. Some people like to know the lore, and some don't, and I want to give you the choice for that one. It's kinda hard to not get lost in the details, you know? But you trust in my vision, I'm sure of it! :)

So, that's about it. We'll have some interesting polls next week, and I'll try to talk even more about the demo on Saturday. Thank you very much, and have a nice day!