Development Update - Mid December

Hey everyone,

It's been a little while since the beta release, and I realise we've not given a progress update since we returned from our holiday.

We're currently working on future releases alongside adding features and changes to the first Realm 3 release, working towards the "full" release.

Compared to the beta, the full release will add:

The glossary will actually be accessible

Something I was very excited about with the beta release was that you all could see the glossary we'd been working on. Due to a silly error, we left the settings so it could only be accessed in "development" mode. We've fixed this error, and the glossary will now be accessible to all players.

Character Stats

Not that you've seen the glossary, but we also plan to add related character stats to the glossary. For example, when clicking on Leyala's profile, you can check your relationship points, how many lewd scenes you've had with her, and any other stats related to her character. We've not finished this yet, but we hope to have it in there soon.

Three Short Cinematics

These are animations that aren't sexual ones. We plan to add various other animations to make the game feel more alive. The animations themselves were completed several weeks ago. Shoe Lace worked on the lighting/effects while Tae and I were on holiday, and due to various issues with textures/the number of characters in some of these scenes, it took him the whole time we were away to finalise these animations. We have them ready, and I have implemented them in our development build.

You can rewatch these animations on a separate "Cinematics" gallery.

You can play without a save export present

We previously added a "Continue without Realm 2 data" button on the Import Game screen; however, it transpired that you needed to have an exported Realm 2 save to access that screen. We've removed this requirement, so if you don't have your saves on the device you're playing on or you deleted them, you can play with a default save file.

The immersive recap will be added later, allowing players to recap Realms 1 & 2 and simulate a save. We want to do this right and don't want to rush it for this release.

Title Screen Backgrounds

You may have seen on the top right of the screen that there was a "backgrounds" button. The idea behind this is that as you progress through the game and we release further updates, you can customise the background on your title screen. Currently, it's only a dark background, but we plan to add character images for completing specific actions and, hopefully, at some point, some animated backgrounds. This feature is implemented; however, I still need to finalise the backgrounds we will put in this release and implement the relevant methods of unlocking them.

(The image in the screenshot isn't a background we'll use; it's just an example)

Accessibility settings for dialogue

We're adding a text box opacity slider and the ability to space out the letters for dialogue to make this appear more clearly for those who may have difficulty reading the text in its current format. This can also help in the case of some images that have less of a contrast with the dialogue text.

Heart icon next to choices

I realise that some of our choices aren't always 100% clear if they lead to a lewd scene. Typically, I think it's implied, but nothing tells you as the player that it will definitely be one or not.

We've now added a heart icon next to choices that will lead to a lewd scene. This aims to give you more clarity to know when Leyala is going to get naked three images after you decide to kiss her ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Gallery Filters

Realm 3 will be significantly bigger upon completion than Realms 1 & 2. Amongst other things, this also means there will be more lewd scenes. We will add filters to help players navigate the gallery once most, or all scenes are unlocked. This will allow the player to filter scenes by character or actions that take place in the scenes. We've not implemented this yet, so hopefully, we can get it working smoothly.

Music Fade

Music will now fade in and out subtly rather than abruptly changing when moving to a new track.

UI Sound Effects

When navigating the menus, unlocking trophies, and accessing specific screens, sound effects will now play.

Sex Sound Effects

This one is still in the works, and we may need to add these in a future release instead of this one if it takes too long to organise. We want to work with adult voice actors and sound designers to enhance the animated scenes. We currently don't plan on voicing any scenes with dialogue, but we want to add moans and other sounds you might expect to hear during a sexy encounter.

Other Sounds Effects

We also want to add other sounds to the game. These are things we hope will immerse you more in the game. When a character casts a spell, let's hear it.

For Update Two:

Tae has posed all of the scenes. Shoe Lace is currently working his magic on them before we render them.

We have run into an issue with one of our PCs. On a given day, Tae will pose on our most powerful computer, and we will render the images on our second most powerful one. Our rendering one has stopped rendering images using the graphics card, meaning a single image might take 4 hours to render instead of 20 minutes. As you can imagine, this is not ideal due to the number of images we need to render. We've not yet established the issue, but we hope to fix this soon. The good news is that Tae and Autmn3 have completed all the image posing and animation animating. Shoe Lace is working on them, so things are still progressing.

Once our programmer, sound designer and I have finished what we need to do on the full release of Update 1, we will move straight on to Update 2.

Overall, things are moving along, if not sometimes a little slower than we'd like.

We can't wait to share more with you, and thanks so much for your continued support. It means a lot to us!

Have a good one!

Jay