Hey again folks!
This poll is open to the $10+ supporters! There are no spoilers here.
The 9th character route hasn't been fully formed yet, but I was told that it's going to be about a foxy character (with the ears and tail). As of now, it's supposedly going to be ambiguous on whether she's a goddess or a regular person pretending to be one.
The poll question is:
Do you like the direction this is going for the 9th character route?
If you have other tho...
2018-07-15 14:12:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
This one took a little longer to redo since I have to redraw certain time consuming areas, like the face. All of the WIPs right now need one more step before they're ready for animation. I have 4 more to do to catch up to the work done before, so maybe those will be done by this coming week.
Guys, my apologies if you guys have to sit through these again :P I'm power plowing through these.
Now moving to the next one!
PS: I have the 7th character route's c...
2018-07-15 13:19:28 +0000 UTC
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Here's the redo of the 2nd special scene! I'm hoping I get to reuse the bones on this one, but I'll probably have to redo parts of the animation.
This is one of those cases where drawing the guy makes some sense due to the camera and position.
I'll put this aside for now. On to the next one!
2018-07-13 07:14:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
I'm trying to see how fast I can get my stuff up to speed with where we are now, and it looks like I might be able to do that. This is the redo of the first special scene. I'll see if I can do away doing the MC since that's going to free me up from a lot of constraints. There might be 3 levels of how the MC is going to be drawn in:
- Totally invisible
- Small part (A major body part or Just the pelvis and thigh)
- Almost full/full body
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2018-07-12 02:28:53 +0000 UTC
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Just a bit of an update from me!
I've just finished up what what supposed to be a quick code merging job, but ended up tidying the fan translation area of the game. Summer In Springtime's being translated into Czech right now thanks to @JohnSmit. The translation tool I've got here now supports and generates permutations of lines where there's (n)sfw/sfw text and gender pronoun text tags expanded. So this means that if the fan translator's up to it, the game can be translated w...
2018-07-10 06:22:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
I'm about done with these character avatar designs. Now I need to prepare them for animation then move onto the special events. I'm keeping the collab version on another branch of the game for now as we figure out how to keep collaborating at this point. What I think will happen is, line art and maybe shading can be given to the collab artist and both versions of the game can share common poses in special scenes (but follows own styles.) So for example, we already have some sp...
2018-07-07 04:17:06 +0000 UTC
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Ok so I hear y'all like the old look, so I took the liberty of taking some of the old elements into our new design. Gotta keep in mind though, that this new look I have here really won't be matching up with the old look because of style differences. She has the other hair style as well as this one. Her hair here was a little hard to do for some reason.
2018-07-05 04:07:17 +0000 UTC
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Sup folks!
I'm in the middle of bringing Ise to life. I hope y'all like this. I gave her a minty look, extra big tits, and a tanned skin tone cuz gyarus are awesome lol! I wanted a little more exotic look this time around. Now just imagine her being a home-body ;)
2018-07-03 06:55:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
I've been working on these for the past few days now, and those pledging 10 and up have been able to see (in all R18+ glory) what these were first. Now that I've done the clothes, here we are, it's now available to our 2+ pledgers. I'm in the middle of fixing up Minako's clothes.
So what's going on now is that I'm revamping Summer in Springtime's artwork and taking over the art. There have been some issues when it comes to art consistency from the bros that got me... hmm...
2018-07-01 14:01:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Yesterday, I've been working on the finished look, trying to see how much time it'd take to achieve this. I've been tormented by a plugin that took some time to understand and control. As you can see, this is the result. I'll be taking back control of the shading and coloring.
I just hope I can maintain consistency, since this was a problem before. The special scenes will probably have a reduced level of shadow shading since this mesh I've been playing with, takes a lot of tim...
2018-06-29 04:07:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
;) I tried making the girls a little thicc-er this time, but just around the waist. Our girl's hair will have gradient funk. Summer's outfits are done. I'm just letting them sit there since I may have changes later on.
My artwork's undergoing some changes as I try to establish a new aesthetic standard for Summertime. I've looked around and I think it'd be best to have:
- Simpler BGs. The last time I had them done, they took forever. The focus is on our lad...
2018-06-27 10:06:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
I know you guys have been itching for some uh... material ;) And doing that menu thing is a pain in the butt, so redoing Summer/Chieko is a refreshing change of pace. I'm still not done with the menu, so I'll have to bounce between the two.
I've kept some of the aesthetic of the previous design when it comes to the facial details. I'm still thinking whether to do a full shade with this one or do celshading.
In favor of speed, the backgrounds for Summer in Sp...
2018-06-26 06:26:33 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks,
I've given the art situation some thought. Given the decline in quality, I think I'll need to step up here and get these done myself. I initially thought of redoing everything from scratch, but that would probably set back the project months again. So to not take away from the current progress of the project here's what I'll probably be doing:
1.) All the character avatars and replace the existing ones with them
2.) The remaining unfinished SEs
3.) The finish...
2018-06-25 10:25:51 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
I'm trying to figure things out right now. The fixes for the Summer in Springtime special scenes came in, and I gotta tell you, if I'm being honest about the quality, it's a hit-or-miss with this set. So I'd like to get your opinion on these - do you like what you see here? The image is 2000px in width, you'll have to zoom in to see what it looks like to see the flaws.
I wouldn't put these immediately in the game because I'm going to have to do some QA fixes on the images myse...
2018-06-25 02:48:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi folks,
There's a new possible cause for the game just blacking out, or doesn't continue past skipping the prologue. This mainly affects the web version.
Our games use localStorage, so if this is full for NewGrounds or uploads.ungrounded.net or Gamejolt or Itch.io, the game will not work properly. The error is silent and will cause the game to not continue playing by just showing you a black screen. This can be solved by:
1. Cl...
2018-06-19 03:23:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Ok! I've edited this post again... Let's do this once more! It looks like I didn't clean up the project of Crosswalk stuff enough in the test build earlier. Now the build system only throws in a single ARM APK file. At first I was baffled by this, but then I realized that the multi APK output seemed to be tied to the Crosswalk add-on. So no more Crosswalk means no more multi platform versions.
I've managed to get the official Android Emulator (through Android Studio -> AVD ...
2018-06-16 16:09:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Were you guys notified of the updated version of the game? I was testing out a new feature when I edit posts. If not, it can be accessed through this post:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ramen-no-v0-6-5-19033005
Now before I go back to doing that menu system, I did a quick study of a bird. Maybe it needs to look meaner. Well, I'm just toying with the idea of having a jerk ...
2018-06-16 03:40:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Time flew by pretty quickly. Oh crap.
I'm still stuck creating the menu system I have in mind. Good new is that I think I'm getting to the halfway mark. I kinda knew it was going to be messy again, and yeah, it sucks to do this again, but it has to be done D: . I think the titlescreen was done over several updates, too, so while I think I can get it done faster than before, it's still going to take me some time. So what do I have right now? Basic CRUD stuff (create/read/update...
2018-06-15 15:35:54 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Here are 5 different builds of the demo version for Android devices. I've updated our build tools (took a risk here cuz it might've gone broke and we don't have Android builds anymore.) Can you guys give these builds a test run?
I tested out all ARM builds, and it seems to run as expected. The 64-bit seem to be the fastest out of the 3, but in certain routes, the game still slows down, I think it's because of the all the characters prepped and hidden in the scene. If you're tr...
2018-06-08 18:36:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
In relation to the possibly Android 8.0-only text problem:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/19320755
Does anyone here run the game with an old Android device? An 4.2, 4.3, 4.4? AKA Ice-cream sandwich / KitKat.
If not, I'll try to up the minimum Android version. I'm trying to keep the game as backwards compatible as I think I can, and this is the earliest version of Android OS the game will ...
2018-06-08 15:01:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
One of you guys sent us a bug report on the Android version where the text shows up as incomplete or doesn't show up at all. Do you see the above problems as well? This was on an Galaxy S8 running Android 8.0.
When we built this version of the game, we did encounter some weird problem that wouldn't let us build and we found a solution for it. I'm not sure if it's connected with that, but it's related to some Android Support module and is font-related. So I'm thinking there mig...
2018-06-08 10:21:53 +0000 UTC
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BeerBrew here! I've prepped up what I can for the next set of Ramen no Oujisama and Summer in Springtime scenes. I'm waiting for Summer In Springtime images to come in, so when that happens, I'll jump on them.
I've received the rough artworks already, but I wasn't exactly too thrilled with what I saw. But these were rough pieces so I'll wait until they polish it some more before posting them as WIPs.
Sharkie's a little busy at the moment, so I can use this time to ...
2018-06-07 03:13:37 +0000 UTC
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I updated the release post here with the latest build:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/19033005
All the versions have been updated. Demo version links on the front page have been updated.
All game builds and links in NewGrounds, GameJolt, and Itch.io has been updated!
I'll be posting up about the updates in the usual forums in a bit!
v0.6.5 - 05-30-2018
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2018-05-30 03:14:56 +0000 UTC
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BeerBrew is brewin some coffee. Wow.
I just wanted to say that I'll be updating all version of Ramen no Oujisama later. This is mostly updates to the scene. I'll also be updating Summer in Springtime to include Minako's new scene in there.
I'll also be posting about the games on various places again... As a tsundere would say it, "It's not like I hate a little help spreading the word..."
A new feature in Summer in Springtime that may appear in Ramen no ...
2018-05-29 06:50:05 +0000 UTC
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[LAST UPDATE 06-18-2018]
Hey folks!
It's that time again! This was an unusually crazy month, having to do 7 animations. All scenes with foreshortening too! I'm beginning to understand how much I can do.
Anyway...
The new Ramen no Oujisama is here!!!! Due to Sharkie not having enough time this round, it hasn't been edited by him yet. So maybe this can be done for the next update, or when the character routes' finished already. It took the entir...
2018-05-25 23:46:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Here's what what supposed to be included but I didn't have enough of Thanos' reality stone powers to make this happen. So sorry DX
Now I need to make this come alive and I'm quite tempted to fix this right now. But that needs to wait since it takes at least a day or two to fix a scene. I've split these into parts already so all I need to do is to fix them.
The angle and eye expression has changed, too. So I'll see what looks better and what I can do about it....
2018-05-24 02:32:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Not-so-quick update to the game, adding two additional scenes ;) 16 more to go. Again, please start a new game since we did have to change some parts of the main story to add the special scenes in. I was hoping to put in Minako's first scene here, but that will have to wait since I just got the pic today.
We'll be posting up an updated secret code for this build in the secret code and walkthrough post:
2018-05-23 14:17:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
I'm going to update this within the day or tomorrow. There's going to be 2 new scenes in there. No girlfriend scene yet. So please anticipate this :) I'm putting together the last scene and doing some debugging tests.
2018-05-22 04:03:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
You guys must be getting tired of seeing Summer only getting all of the action. She does have the most scenes. But here's one of Minako. This is going to be the first scene with her! I'll finish up some work for RnO so I can get back to prepping up the remaining Summertime scenes.
2018-05-17 23:22:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
This is the last of this set! I'll be a bit more silent in the next few days since I'm going to try and get this and Summertime updated before the 24th of this month.
I'll put out a general game dev update later for the $2+ patrons.
In the meantime, please enjoy the animation :)
2018-05-17 03:13:35 +0000 UTC
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