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MNL Progress Report #75

Hey there, nudies! Bit of a slow week for us, as some of the team had their illnesses from last week carry over into this one. Everyone seems to be okay now and we're back on track, but we ended up falling a bit behind. I'll show you what we did manage to do, though!

What you're seeing above are some of Sweez's concepts for some of our Culo Culo Town pedestrians. Some of which you've seen before, but most are brand new! These are more generic characters who don't have much story going o...

MNL Progress Report #74

Hey nudies! Sorry, but not much to show this week! By some weird cosmic coincidence, both me and Invertex managed to get taken out of commission for the majority of the week. Invertex got utterly destroyed by some food poisoning, while yours truly suffered some major back pain and was laid out on the couch all week. It SUCKED. But we both pulled through and we're ready to get back to work.

Bear, AT, and Sweez did manage to get some work done throughout the week while we were comatose, o...

MNL Progress Report #73

Hey there, nudies! Whew, what a week it's been! I've actually been a bit sick and couch-ridden for the last few days, but I'm now on the mend and ready to show some really cool stuff! Including the above gif of some gameplay footage! We've got the dialogue system working, we've got interactable NPCs, we even have head-tracking so Amber's naked self can really turn some heads! We actually wanted to show this off last week, but Godot wasn't playing nice with some of Amber's animations. Got that...

MNL Progress Report #72

Hey there, nudies! Sorry for the delayed post. Really, I'm not trying to make this a habit! We ended up running into some technical hurdles for a thing we REALLY wanted to show off tonight and hoped a little bit of extra time would be enough to fix it, but it didn't pan out. But that's okay, because we have plenty of other stuff to show instead! Buckle up, because this is a VERY image-heavy post.

So, as AT was working on some particularly spicy animations, we noticed that some of Amber'...

MNL Progress Report #71

Hey there, nudies! Sorry for the delayed post. We were cooking last night trying to get a cool lil' preview ready, but we unfortunately ran into some importing issues with our animations (specifically, some would just flip around when transitioning to another). But we still got nice progress to show!

Importing issues aside, all of the animation touch-ups are DONE. All 21 of Amber's conversational animations are completely redone. Once we resolve that previously mentioned issue, we will ...

MNL Progress Report #70

Hey there, nudies! Great progress this week! We're just about halfway through with our Amber animation readjustments, and we've already begun importing them into the game! The above .gif isn't an official cutscene or anything like that, just a test throwing Amber into a new environment with a new animation. We also adjusted the previous shader we were using on her, and now she's looking really great in-engine! Her skin has a bit more texture to it, but her face keeps that cartoony look! I rea...

MNL Progress Report #69

Nice.

Hey there, nudies! This week has mostly been a lot of file exporting and importing, making sure everything is consistently named and organized for easy compiling and retrieval within Godot itself. We're getting closer and closer~! But since none of that is very visual, here's something that is - some fresh new animations from AT!

I talked about this a bit in the last progress report, but Amber's new model and rig has necessitated redoing basically every custom animation AT h...

MNL Progress Report #68

Hey there, nudies! Big milestone today, as we've now finished and imported our first big explorable area which also happens to be our LAST area for the demo! All the demo-related environments are accounted for, including two new areas that weren't in the original demo plan! That's right, we expanded the demo! Since some stuff took much longer than expected, we used that extra time to get more areas finished.  You'll have more places to be naked at now!

Since Amber's model has gotte...

MNL Progress Report #67

Hey there, nudies! Unfortunately, not a whole lot to show this week. Out of our four people (including me) on the crew, two of them were out this week due to health problems (they're okay now!) and the third had PC issues. The rest of the time this week was mostly spent messing around with a new update to the Godot engine that improved some elements to the dialogue engine. It's taking a bit longer than expected, and all these different health and computer problems certainly haven't helped. Bu...

MNL Progress Report #66

Hey there, nudies! Sorry for the delayed update! It has unfortunately been a really rough week for yours truly. Our 2 year old kitten Pickle passed due to some really horrible and sudden health complications, and it really took a toll on me and Leslie. I let the team know and took a break for most of the week.

And let me tell you, I nearly cried my damn eyes out when I came back and saw that our artist Sweez immortalized Pickle in one of our shop interiors. 

2024-01-22 03:24:33 +0000 UTC View Post

MNL Progress Report #65

Hey there, nudies! Gonna be a text-heavy blog post today because damn near everyone on the team was sick as hell this week. Even one of our cats got sick this week! Whew, it has been ROUGH. But there was still progress made, so let's talk about it.

We've just about finished the first major outdoor area, the cafe and park! It just needs a little bit more texture work, and then we can call it done and start importing it into the game! I even went through and set the fixed camera angles my...

MNL Key Art Clean and Alt Version

Hey again, nudies! Back again to give you all a clean, logo-less version of the key art! We also have an evening version! Leslie actually did this version first, and god, isn't it just beautiful? The colors, the way the sun highlights Amber's curves... Sweez and Leslie did such an incredible job! It's always such an honor to work with such incredibly talented people. I hope you enjoy! Make these your phone wallpaper if you're brave enough!

Thanks again, and see you next week!

MNL Progress Report #64

Hey there, nudies! Sorry for the delay, but we needed just a bit more time to get stuff together. But first, check out the poster above! This was a collaborative effort with Sweez on the inks and Leslie on colors, resulting in this GORGEOUS piece of art! This'll be a key image going forward, and I hope to be able to use it as promotional material to advertise the game. But before we do, I wanted to show you all first. There's also an evening version, but we'll post that (and a logo-less versi...

MNL Progress Report #63

Hey there, nudies! Last progress report of 2023! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday! The team over here certainly did. While we did get a bit of work done over the week, a lot of us also took it easy over the holiday week, so nothing too terribly visual to show right now. Just a lot of back-end stuff, writing, asset creation, and this adorable piece of art from Sweez. But since we're near the end of the year, I thought I'd talk about the state of the game and all that's happened this year.<...

MNL Progress Report #62

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, NUDIES! Have some adorable Amber art from Sweez! This wasn't even something I requested, Sweez just wanted to make sure you all had some really cute holiday art! Thank you, Santa Sweez!

This is going to be a short post this week. Most of the team has been taking it a bit easier this week, what with the holidays and all. Still some progress made, of course. AT is working on redoing those animations, Invertex has also been helping with that, Sweez made this and a bunch of ...

MNL Progress Report #61

Hey there, nudies! Sorry this progress report is a bit late. We have several technical difficulties throughout the week all the way up until today. We've got Amber's new model and rig in-game, but Invertex had to do a lot of trouble-shooting and eventually had to write some stuff up to fix it (and submit it to Godot so that these animation improvements can just be implemented into the engine itself). I have to stress that we're still learning a brand new engine and rebuilding our previous wor...

MNL Progress Report #60

Hey there, nudies! Real short progress report today. We did manage to get a lot more insert panels and illustrations done this week thanks to Sweez's hard work, but you'll have to wait and see them later. I know you're all used to seeing some cute art at the top of these progress reports, so it's probably a bit of a bummer to see nothing but text. Well, the truth is, I just needed to stall for a bit and make some space so I can jumpscare you with this.

2023-12-10 04:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post

MNL Progress Report #59

Hey there, nudies! I lost power for a good bit today, so sorry if I'm a bit late!

Okay so! AMBER'S! NEW MODEL RERIGGING! IS FINALLY...

85% COMPLETE

It's close! But it's not quite there yet! It has taken a lot longer than expected, but it's also a lot more complicated than her previous model and allows us to do a great deal more with her. It'll give us a lot more options when animating her, even down to smaller details. Like this!

2023-12-03 05:01:20 +0000 UTC View Post

MNL Progress Report #58

Hey there nudies! Real short blog post today. Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving week for those of you that celebrate!

Unfortunately, Amber's new model rigging has taken all week to finish, though the holiday also helped to slow things down a bit. It should be done early next week and in Invertex's hands though, so NEXT WEEK FOR SURE, we should have some fun in-game stuff to show.

In the meantime, Invertex has been doing a bunch of back-end stuff to handle how MNL will be updati...

MNL Progress Report #57

Hey there, nudies! This week was more than a bit hectic for yours truly, but we're still progressing at a steady pace! While Invertex imports our models and makes adjustments to better suit our Godot engine, we've been prettying up our environments and filling in the little details.

Stuff like this, basically. Bear's done a fantastic job making these environments come alive! We've also been fil...

MNL Progress Report #56

Hey there, nudies! Things have been going really well this week! We finished yet another demo-related story illustration! We're actually almost done with all of them as far as the demo is concerned. We have maybe 3 more to go, and then everything beyond that will be for the main game. Very exciting! Check out this serene picture of Amber just floating on the water. What the heck are those things next to her? Quick, grab them and throw them far away!

We're also happy to announce that Amb...

MNL Progress Report #55

Hey there, nudies! Unfortunately, between some personal troubles our crew was having and some technical hiccups, we weren't able to finish some stuff to show for this update. Amber's new model needed some more time in the oven, some animations were being a bit fussy importing into Godot, and we were only able to get one full illustration finished completely. We do have significant progress being made in all three of those areas, though! Amber's model just needs to be re-rigged and then we can...

MNL Progress Report #54

Hey there nudies! Short blog post today! It's been a productive week, but unfortunately, lacking in visuals that aren't too spoilery. Sweez has actually gotten a lot of illustrations done, but we want to save them for the full game. I can at least give you this panel of Amber eating pizza in shock, though.

Something cool I wanted to show was this custom shader and outline tool Invertex developed! Check this out!

2023-10-29 02:00:44 +0000 UTC View Post

MNL Progress Report #53

Hey there, nudies! Things have been progressing extremely well this week! Leslie just finished all the illustrations for a very important, very cozy scene! Sure, it's October NOW, but in Culo Culo Town, the sun's ALWAYS out for those buns! So relax and read a nice, weirdly familiar comic book while you work on your full-body tan.

There's more images to accompany this particular scene, but we'll keep those as a surprise for now. Sweez has also been working on another scene involving full...

MNL Progress Report #52

Hey nudies! Check out what we got in store today!

So now that we're utilizing Bear's super sexy 3D models as visual novel-style portraits, we realized that we could put Sweez's amazing art skills to work in a brand new way - namely, in our cutscene direction!

We came up with something we're calling "insert panels". I'm sure there's a more official word for them, but we didn't have time to look it up! But essentially, because MNL already draws so much inspiration from our comic wor...

Alison Nude Portrait

Welcome back, nudies! As promised, here's a nude version of the Alison portrait! Sweez also managed to do clean-shaven alts of Amber, as well!

Unfortunately, it was just going to be too tricky to do character customization with 2D portraits. Amber's very expressive, even in 2D stills. Even if the only customization was her pubes, keeping them on a separate layer from her default portrait and ha...

MNL Progress Report #51

(If for some reason the above gif isn't working, click here to check it out!)

Hey nudies! All right, let me just jump right in because I know you're checking out that gif up there! So, we experimented last week with 2D portraits alongside dialogue, but we quickly ran into the issue that 2D art was greatly limit our customization options. Because of this, we'v...

MNL Progress Report #50

(If for some reason the above gif isn't working, click here to check it out!)

Hey there, nudies! Wow, 50 progress reports already! Development just keeps trucking along, smooth and steady! While the transition from Unity to Godot hasn't been as perfectly smooth as we'd have liked (it's apparently harder to debug in Godot versus Unity), we're still making grea...

Record Store Owner Nude Alt

Hey again nudies! As promised, the nude alt of the record store owner! To be honest, we haven't settled on a name for her yet. If you have any suggestions, throw them our way!

Our adorable and very pretty record store owner might be the last character reveal for a bit, as we're now focusing hard on getting portrait art done for these cutscenes and conversations. There'll definitely be more later down the line though, don't you worry!

2023-09-24 02:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post

MNL Progress Report #49

Hey there, nudies! We've got a lot to show today, including this new cutie with Amber right at the top!

This was originally a scrapped design Sweez made for the clothing store owner, but we ended up loving her so much that we decided to repurpose her into a new character entirely. And with MNL having such an amazing soundtrack thanks to Vanware, it only made sense to create a shop to buy songs from! Thus, Culo Culo Town now has a record store... and a new shopkeeper!

2023-09-24 02:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post