Hey everyone,
Hope you've all had a great week.
Got another short update for you. I completed the standard ~50 renders and spent time reviewing/editing the script. I'm pretty happy with how the episode's shaping up. It's got some nice twists, and a few choices that will significantly affect which side wins the war (even this early on).
Cheers,
TheRedMyst
2024-02-06 15:38:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
Got a nice, short update for you this week. I completed 40 renders and 2 animations, and made good progress on the script. A few scenes are now done with rendering, and most have been at least started.
For Speculator+ supporters, don't forget to vote in the monthly render poll on our discord in #polls. Otherwise I'll just pick a random LI ;)
Cheers,
TheRedMyst
2024-01-30 08:21:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
Hope you all had a great week!
I had a very productive one and smashed out ~110 renders. That might even be a weekly personal best for me. I'm trying a new approach where I'm rendering a few scenes simultaneously, and it's working well so far.
In terms of script, ep 4 will have another debate (like with Dante in ep 1), so I'm carefully writing that scene now. Don't have anything else to report really. Things are going good.
Btw in a few days I'm going to...
2024-01-23 03:17:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
Welcome back for 2024!
I'm happy to report that work on ep 4 is off to a good start. The script for it is well underway, and I've already done ~60 renders to complete scene 1 out of 12.
Episode 4 will be 'a few days in the life of an ordinary praetorian'. Except the only problem is... you're far from ordinary. With your shackles removed, you'll get to freely mingle with the people of the capital. You'll bust up a criminal enterprise, you'll take a trip through...
2024-01-16 01:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 3 of New Antioch is now available to everyone!
I hope you guys like it! I'll be posting a preview and the first dev log of episode 4 soonish.
Cheers,
TheRedMyst
2024-01-09 14:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas everyone!
Fun fact: the very first day I started work on New Antioch was Dec 25 2022, so this is kind of an anniversary for me. I whipped up a special render for the occasion, and a 4K version will be on #bonus-renders in our Discord (available to Speculator+ if I've set it up right).
I want to give a big thank you to everyone who's supported me in 2023. You guys give this project life, and I really hope you all enjoy episode 3. I have big things planned for episod...
2023-12-22 05:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Changelog:
Episode 3 "Death in an Oval"
Episode 2 "The Mission over Mourning"
Episode 1 "Water and Blood"
General
Hail citizens,
A short update, but great news. Against the odds I managed to do 69 renders this week, which means rendering is fully done. I'm now doing a final iteration of the script, and starting work on the audio. Somehow ep 3 has ended up even longer than ep 2 at ~16,500 words and ~750 renders.
Arena fight #3 was my favorite scene to render so far, and I think it turned out really well. And as you'll soon find out, it has a profound impact on our MC.
This might be the l...
2023-12-12 08:03:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you've all had an awesome week! I completed 60 renders and finished Arena fight #2. I've started work on fight #3, and estimate that I've got another 1.5 weeks worth of renders left in total. My day job's in a crunch period at the moment but I haven't let that impede work on New Antioch. In the mean time, let me preview ep 3!
Ep 3 is called "Death in an Oval", and serves as the ending to an unofficial Act 1 of New Antioch. You'll take back control of your life, ...
2023-12-05 06:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
We've hit the 90% mark! And another week, another ~45 renders done. The first Arena fight is finished, and I'm working on the second fight now (featuring a few animals :D)
As expected, the Arena is quite time and resource-heavy. There's a lot of moving parts and manual posing. It's fun to work on, but slows my throughput a fair bit. Nothing else to report on, though. We're getting there.
Have a great week for me.
Cheers,
TheRedMyst
2023-11-28 09:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
Hope you're all doing good! I had a fairly typical week and completed 60 renders. I'm still working on the first Arena fight, and will finish it in the next two days. Animations are all done, and there are 7 of them in total (I don't count non-adult / ATL anims in that number, or it would be much higher).
I'm very happy with how the Arena looks. It fits the exact "new tech slapped on ancient architecture" look I was going for. One of my biggest inspirations fo...
2023-11-21 09:02:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
I completed 35 renders and 2 animations this week, and I'm rendering another anim as I'm writing this. Unfortunately I had to redo these anims several times, which slowed me down a lot. I'll need to redo the first one once more, and then it should be good enough.
I think the animation quality is steadily improving the more I create, but it's still not at the level I'd like it to be. Anyway, can't let perfect be the enemy of good. ;)
The scene I'm working on is...
2023-11-14 07:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you're all doing good! I completed 67 renders this week, finishing scene 11 out of 13. I'm now working on the next adult scene, after which I'll do the Arena (which will be ~150 renders by itself).
I spent some time this week reviewing the adult content plan (yes, I have a spreadsheet tab just for that lol) and found good opportunities to add more scenes in, starting from ep 4. I'd also like to address a concern some folks have raised about the relatively low nu...
2023-11-07 03:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
One week down, 63 renders down. It looks like ep 3 will settle on 14-15k words and 700-750 renders, so about the same length as ep 2. However it'll have a lot more animations and scene variety.
The script is all done, except for the Arena fights. I spent this week finishing off every other scene, and creating flowcharts for the fights.
Based on feedback I've received via Discord and other platforms, I've decided to give the combat system a rest. Instead,...
2023-10-31 05:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Hope you're all having a great day! Figured it's about time I did a proper sneak peek of ep 3. :) I hope you like them! I'll probably do at least one more before the release.
Cheers,
TheRedMyst
2023-10-28 09:22:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
Another busy busy busy week! Another NSFW preview! I completed ~50 still renders and 4 animations. We're now up to 371 renders in total. I'm currenly working on the first adult scene of ep 3, and I think it's coming along verrry nicely.
The girl in the preview is Adaeze (Ada for short), a travelling gladiator and ex-acolyte of Kekhempi--the Zarese goddess of rain and fertility. Since I don't want to spoil anything, all I'll say is that I've got big things plan...
2023-10-24 07:07:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
Another 66 renders done! Scene 7 is complete, and I'm working on assembling scenes 8 and 9 at the moment. Unfortunately I've been very busy with project work in the day job, which has slowed me down a bit.
Also made great progress on the script. I'm having a load of fun writing dialogue for the lanista in the Arena. He's like a psychotic drill sergeant, and is (imo) the funniest character in the game so far. I still have to write the fights themselves, but I'm stock...
2023-10-17 10:58:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
A promo before tomorrow's dev log! This is a game from a fellow new dev Mr Pocket Rocket. It's a hot and promising AVN set in the 1950s (a time period you really don't see that often). It's centered around you, a detective and war veteran, being roped into a mystery far greater than you bargained for.
Overview:
While a war rages in a foreign country, the mob rule the s...
2023-10-16 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
I had a verrry productive week, finishing 95 renders. Also pretty sure I broke my personal record for renders done in a day (27). Scenes 5 and 6 are finished, and scene 7 rendering has started.
As you can probably tell, I'm getting all of the smaller scenes out of the way first, leaving the adult and combat scenes to last. ;)
Admittedly I have been neglecting the script in favor of renders, but I'll make up for that this coming week.
I'm really liking how...
2023-10-10 05:54:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
More NSFW previews! I did ~70 renders this week. Scenes 3 and 4 are done, and today I'll start work on scene 5.
The script is getting there… a bunch of scenes are half-written, but most have a finished first draft. I also did some scene planning for ep 4, which actually helps a lot with writing ep 3 since I know what I do / don't need. Other than that, nothing much to report on. :)
Ep 3 will be the end of an 'unofficial Act 1'. At its conclusion you will be ...
2023-10-03 03:37:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
I completed 74 renders this week, so it's safe to say that we're in full swing again! Scene 1 (out of 13) is done, and scene 2 will be done today. I've also decided to add a previously unplanned adult scene into ep 3, with a woman from Zari (one of the very few sex scenes not including one of the main LIs).
It just felt right to add it mid-writing, and it ticks a couple of boxes like letting me shed some light on Zarese culture/religion. Safiya's ethnically fr...
2023-09-26 00:14:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hail citizens,
The first dev log of ep 3! The script is well underway, and rendering has started (as of literally the night before this post).
The next episode of New Antioch will take you into the Arena, where you'll engage in armed combat with some famous and eccentric gladiators. I'm trying to take inspiration from Oblivion's Arena, if you're familiar with that. You'll also undergo some... 'fun' medical testing, and the relic's encrypted contents will be revealed. There's...
2023-09-19 06:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 2 of New Antioch is now available to everyone!
I hope you guys like it, and I want to say a biiig thank you to all of the legends that joined the R0.2 ride. Stay tuned for more!
I'll be posting the first dev log of episode 3 tomorrow. :)
Cheers,
TheRedMyst
2023-09-18 14:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Changelog:
Episode 2 "The Mission over Mourning"
Episode 1 "Water and Blood"
