Dev Log - March 23, 2025

Hey everyone,

Time for a quick dev log before I dive back into work!

I’ve been putting in long hours over the past few weeks, pushing hard to make sure everything in Chapter 7 looks and plays exactly the way I envision it. That said, this chapter has been especially demanding when it comes to post work. A lot of the scenes involve tricky assets and lighting setups, and as anyone familiar with Daz Studio knows, rendering is only half the battle. Post-processing in Photoshop (or GIMP) is often necessary to clean things up, things like hair or clothing clipping through bodies, or strange specular highlights that don’t look right in the final shot. Depending on the complexity of the scene, that post work can pile up fast.

On top of that, I made a dumb mistake during one of the scenes where a character ends up wearing two different outfits in the same sequence. So yeah, I had to go back, reload a bunch of scenes, fix the wardrobe, and re-render dozens of images one by one. Loading scenes alone can take a few minutes each, so that whole process cost me quite a bit of time. Definitely kicking myself for that one. All that said, progress is solid. I’d say I’m about 90% done with Chapter 7 and anticipate a release right near the end of the month.

I know this update has taken a long time and gain, I’m sorry about that. The scope of the scenes has expanded a lot compared to the earlier chapters, and that’s a reflection of how my skills (and my vision for the game) have grown. It’s a double-edged sword: the ambition keeps me motivated and creatively fulfilled, but it also increases the amount of work each update requires. If I had stayed in the same lane I was in a year ago, I could probably push out updates faster, but the quality, depth, and creativity would suffer, and that’s not something I’m willing to compromise.

That said, I know it’s been nearly five months since the last main game update, and that’s too long. I mentioned this in the last dev log, and I’m sticking to it, I’ve been taking concrete steps to streamline development for future updates without cutting corners on quality or content.

That’s all for now! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out—I’m always happy to chat. Thanks again for your continued support, it means the world to me. I hope you're all having a great weekend!

Bobby