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Slice of Venture Remake Diary #16

Hello everyone,

As you all know, the game should've been released somewhere this week originally but it's not going to happen. I do believe the extra two weeks will be enough, though. So you can expect the game between the 13th and 19th of May.

In terms of workflow, we're finally reaching something stable for the graphical part. I hope you'll enjoy the H content. Hopefully, I'll be able to show you one full scene in the next post (thing is, some are ready but...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #15

Hello everyone,

Let's not beat around the bush. At the same time I don't think I'll surprise anyone saying that, but we're late. The original release was supposed to be the end of this month but I underestimated the amount of work. "Thankfully", we're all late. I am late with the writing of the game (I'm around half-day of Sunday so in terms of main story, I've written around 75%, but it's the side things that still need a lot of work (notably the horse quest that is barely d...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #14

Hello everyone,

For this post, I'm going to talk about something I don't talk much: programming. And there's a reason for that. Hime's the one dealing with the scripts and stuff, so I'm better at talking about my part. But after some thinking I thought about two things: Hime's work isn't displayed much in my posts and that doesn't help you getting an idea of the amount of work things represent.

You have to understand one thing. Hime dislikes working on other ...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #13

Hello everyone,

Today I'm going to take some advance because I'm going to talk about a feature that will mainly be inserted AFTER the first update but that was already coded because you can't always code something at the moment it appears in the game.

This is a little whim of me, and I have to admit I do like the result. While this feature won't be visible in the first update of the game, there will be one character with whom you'll be able to see the change,...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #12

Hello everyone,

In the middle of April 1st with the tons of stupid things you'll see around the internet, I've made the choice of simply posting something utterly normal. There are enough bad news these days, I don't really feel to make you go emotional for nothing :x

So, this post is going to be quick. I wanted to wait later to show this to you because it's not finished but oh well, I guess it doesn't hurt. I'm just going to show you how conversations will l...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #11

Sorry to bother you with that AGAIN, but you're still 25% to haven't moved to the new tiers. And you're so well spread through tiers that if I were to remove those old tiers right now, I'd lose 25% of my income right away. I'd like to avoid coming to this situation but I will HAVE to do it at some point so please, change your pledge, even to a lower one :/

Hello everyone,

Another day, another censoring. Ci-En (DLsite's Patreon-like sit...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #10

Hello everyone,

We're reaching the end of reworks. There were two characters left and we're going to look at them right now.

Let's start with Anaëlle. It's going to be quick. There is nothing that changed. JFC completely reworked her back in the days and her design was top notch. We used it for Slice of Venture 3 after all. So Peak simply had to provide his version.

Some bad news to kill the mood

Hello everyone,

In case some of you didn't know about it, I've been making games since 2013. When I released the first SoV in August 2015, it was a great time to be an H game creator. Anyone wanting to work on adult content could simply have a Patreon account and have people fund their games (or whatever).

2017 was the beginning of the end, though. The first Patreon shitstorm that kicked out some of the most important adult creators arrived and since then, it...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #9

Sorry I'll keep insisting but many of you haven't changed tiers yet to the new ones. Please do it if you can so I can avoid losing too many patrons when deleting the tiers :/ Thank you

Hello everyone,

Time to move to the next character. And today we'll talk about Fubuki.

If you've followed the previous posts you already know that Fubuki will be present in Slice of Venture Remake. The reason she wasn't around back in the original ...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #8

Hello everyone!

Today I want to talk about Misao.

Back in the days, Misao was the "naughty girl" of the Kuritas. After all in SoVO, Akiko was never seen, Mari only had fun with Hitoshi, while Misao did a lot of nastier things (she even got a daughter.) I've always liked this contrast of having a pure-looking girl that acts as the perfect daughter/mother/daughter to everyone and that Fubuki is more or less the only one able to upset her.

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #7

Hello everyone,

I'll keep on pestering you with that, sorry D: Please switch your pledge for those who haven't done it yet, thank you!

Time for a quicker post than usual. It will be about Akiko and Momoko.

Among all the female characters, there's only ONE character who's design has been the same since the very beginning: Akiko. And considering it's the only member of the Kurita family to have been created for SoVO (therefore not ...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #6

Hello everyone,

Please, if you haven't done it already, switch your pledge to one of the newer tier. Thank you very much.

Time to focus on the other star of the cast: Reiko.

Like I did with Naomi I'll quickly show you how things went back then.

Once again, even if I mentionned it a lot already I remind you that Reiko's design was chosen based on the decisions of one of you. Things evolved like with other characters, the major differen...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #5

Hello everyone,

Sorry I'm a bit late. I should've made this post earlier but I needed the original SoV project to take screens and I didn't have it until I came back home yesterday. I'll catch up with a closer release of the next post, don't worry ;)

So yes, mapping again. But this time, it's a completely different approach. I'm gonna shower you with pics. I'll first start with 10 comparison pics between SoV maps and their new version in SoVR. Keep something ...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #4

Hello everyone,

Here comes the dreadful posts about mapping :x

Don't worry, it won't hurt...

As I said before I'll be dividing them in two posts. In that first post I'll explain you the sort of difficulties/frustrations I have to face about mapping with what is probably the most relevant example I ever had since I started working on RPG Maker. In the second post, I'll just show you the different new maps of the game (including a couple of new...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #3

Hello everyone!

Before I show the post, I'd like to thank those of you who've already made the transfer of tier. All the high tiers have moved, meaning I was able to delete the old versions of those tiers since they were empty. If you haven't done it, don't forget to switch your tier. Thank you :)

I was supposed to make a post about mapping, but I'll do it next time. Don't worry, I have enough to say about mapping that I can hold two posts with j...

Tiers Change Effective Starting Today (Please everyone, read it it's extremely important.)

Hello everyone,

It looks like I'm a bit dumb because it didn't even occur to me that I WOULDN'T be able to change tier pricing. After all it's logical: you need to be okay with it. The only thing I can do is delete old tiers and add new ones.

So even if it's going to be a real mess, that's what I did. For the whole duration of February, both tiers will coexist so that you can migrate to the new tiering. Feel free to choose up or down your c...

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #2

Hello everyone,

As you can guess, we're going to go through most of the cast members in those posts (even if I have planned a couple more posts about other elements.)

So it's only natural that the second post focuses on Ayame, after Yuki.

I gotta warn you, though. You won't see as many pics as I posted for Yuki. And the reason is simple: We found a satisfying design right away ^^'

Slice of Venture Remake Diary #1

Hello everyone,

Time to put The Hunter 2 behind for a while and focus on Slice of Venture Remake!

And it's always a good idea to open festivities with Yuki, right? It's even righter here that we spent more time working on her than Ayame for whom we found a suitable design right away.

I have to explain a bit things about both how things were back during SoV development and about my current state of mind.

When I decided to star...

Change of tiers pricing incoming

Hello everyone,

This post is aimed at Fanbox users only. During February, I'm going to change the tiers value. You read it on most of my income post through the last years but the value of the yen makes it that my income on Fanbox is low. It's gotten even worse now that I'm almost at half the value I was 1 year and a half ago.

Here's my Fanbox ...

TH2 goes back to the $10 tier (+ Update)

Hello everyone,

As promised, I've uploaded a fresh version of the v0.3 version of TH2 (in the concerned post). We've corrected most (not all, unfortunately) bugs that were reported since the last patch. You'll find them at the bottom of the correction list in the Changelog.

As I've also mentioned in the past, the game is going back to the $10 tier.

However, to avoid unfairness, if a patch needs to be released for whatever reason (mainly game ...

Looking back on 2023

Hello everyone,

Another year has finished and it's time to do something I stopped doing a long time ago but felt like doing again: a recap on the work accomplished during the past year.

2023 was the first year I spent working on a single game ever since I opened my Patreon. So basically, I haven't done it since I worked on Slice of Venture between 2014 and 2015. I have to admit that it felt pretty nice. And it's probably the reason I'm so motivated to reitera...

I'm back and I have plenty of things to talk about

Hello everyone!

First of all, Happy New Year!

The Blue Axolotl Team is back from Japan! We needed a couple extra days to catch up with the jet lag (and personally, I haven't finished catching up :x) hence why I'm writing only now. As planned, we all particpated to Comiket 103. That was one hell of a ride. A physical one but a funny one. We bought lots of doujins (even if on my side almost 20 artists were already sold out when I arrived at their booth XD) and ...

TH2 v0.3 is now accessible to the 600 Yens tier!

Have fun! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all of you!

o/

A little bit of everything

Hello everyone,

As you know the next update is about two main things: adding the last gameplay part of the brothel and polishing everything so that the game can be played smoothly.

In the previous post I showed you the big lines for the brothel mini-game, so now, I'll show you some things for that update. Keep in mind that those are just things I can show. There are many polishing elements that can hardly be shown. For example, it's now possible to pay back Z...

The last gameplay element of the brothel

Hello everyone!

Time to talk about the final gameplay element that we'll be implementing in the brothel. It's a two-time thing and it's linked to the tea salon and the restroom.

So, first of all, when you'll talk to Betty, you won't sell cum vial anymore. You'll take her place as a barista and you will serve special cocktails to customers. Kaya will have to put back her barista outfit but you won't have to craft it: she already did it in the first game 8D

Small update (on TH2 and my health)

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the delay with news but I've been struck with covid again and I spent a very terrible week (got all sorts of symptoms from headache, fever, sore throat, sneezing, stuck/running nose, muscle pain, exhaustion...). The good news is, since I already got it two years ago, I only took one week to recover (instead of two), and now I'm back and ready to work.

I'll just show you a little something since I haven't really been able to work prop...

Slice of Venture Remake Announcement

Hello everyone!

Some of you maybe saw it coming from the teaser pic I posted a few weeks ago, maybe you weren't expecting this announcement at all (at least, not now) but here it is.

This post is going to be LONG, because there are many things I want to share with you about my plans for the future and questions to answer as well. Let's not waste time and start right away.

About Slice of Venture Remake

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TH2 v0.29 is now accessible to the 600 Yens tier!

The post containing the update has been unlocked.

Have fun!

What's in store for the next TH2 update?

Hello everyone,

Time to talk a bit about the next update. You have to understand that since I knew right from the start of 2023 that I'd work on TH2 only for the year, I planned things quite early. Of course, there's always a part of adaptation based on what can be done or not. And I've always had two possible path for v0.3.

Either I went for a full polish to have a solid version of the current game, or I'd go full "extra stuff" with new places and all. I won...

TH2 v0.29 now accessible to the 1000 Yens tier

The title says it all. The post has been unlocked. Be thankful to the few patrons who reported a good amount of bugs (notable map ones due to big modifications I did (written in the Changelog) that will allow you to have a cleaner version (you'll still probably find bugs, though.)

I have reuploaded a clean version so you don't need the patches, but I have no doubts I'll have to upload a new patch very soon anyway x)

I'll see you in a couple of days to talk a ...