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February status update.

Sorry about going dark for a bit, I tried very hard to get this done. I had some issues that didn't work out quite the way I wanted them to. I know it sucks, but I consider this next release as the turning point for my project and I have to get it right.
Once the next version is out there will be an update for it every two weeks and it's almost done now, I managed to fix the big blocking issues I had, there are a few smaller things I will need to get fixed to make the experience smooth (an...

January week three, status report

Last week didn't go quite as planned, I think I have found out what has caused my build problems, I hope to get it all running by tomorrow.

Also, I will finally get a new poll up later today.

Let's just pretend it's still Friday somewhere in the world.

Just a quick update I'm having a small issue with my build, I'll go to sleep now (It's almost 3 pm here and I haven't slept since yesterday, my brain probably has just ceased function and the issue could be fixed easily). I'll figure out what's going on after I'm up again.

January week two, status report.

Most of last week went into programming and setting up the build for the next demo, it will go live this friday (18th of January 2019).

Since this didn't result in any pictures or videos I didn't bother setting up the twitter account yet. I will do that after the new build is out.

January week one, status report.

The thing I've been working on for most of the week was finalizing my facial rig with the new animation blend shape based animation system. I felt like facial expressions were seriously lacking and fixing this was very important to me.

There will be two things happening this week, first I will open a twitter account where I will post random images and videos I produce while working on the game. I do often end up at the end of the day with some videos and images similar to the video at t...

A happy new year to all of you.

I'm sorry about the lack of updates over the past weeks. I tried to get the new demo out, but it just didn't feel good enough to me, I know that I'm failing at my own perfectionism and I have to find a better balance.

Also I got sick over the past one and a half weeks, nothing serious but enough to make unable to work a lot on this game. This is hardly the reason why there isn't a new version yet though, but it shows me, once again, that I have to get better at the project management pa...

World preview later today. Edit: Tomorrow, sorry.

The day before yesterday I updated unreal engine to the newest version and fixed some issues that were related to that. The main reason why I'm trying to keep developing in the newest version is that "Niagara" is finally becoming usable, "Niagara" is used for VFX and replaces "Cascade" which I didn't want to learn considering it was going to be obsolete soon. These tools are used to create special effects (particle effects, fire, smoke, lightnings etc.), the new system allows to work directly wi...

Release week, new feature body morph targets.

Daily updates from now until release:

This part is one of the main reasons why the new version took so long, I already showed a preview of it over a month ago. In the first version I wanted to only be able to change height dynamically, but now proportional changes of individual body parts are also supported. Currently torso, neck, head, shoulders, arms, hands, hips, legs and feet can be individually changed in their proportions (also breasts obviously). With this base I will b...

Payments paused for october.

I didn't get to do any updates during october, so I decided to pause the patreon for another month. On the bright side I will be able to put a lot of time in during the next two weeks, I plan to update the project page (mainly focusing around the magic academy which will be the center of the game in the near future) and will release the new Version (maybe I will make it to a halloween release but most likely it will be during the first week of november).

I can't wait to let you finally enter L...

Payments for September have been paused.

It was and still is my goal to provide this game with regular updates, unfortunately this isn't working out yet. I'm certain that I will have the new version ready in october but I didn't want to force out a quickly hacked together buggy update just to release something.
I'm really grateful for the support I receive from all of you and because of that the only thing I can do right now is to pause the pledges until the next version is done. I'll still try to spend as much of my free time as po...

Luna Plena Magical Academy

Sometimes you have to take a step back and realize that you have to change your plans. With how slow things have been I've decided that the direction of the game has to change.

While working on the farm gameplay I came to the conclusion that it won't be fun just by itself, the reason why managing your farm is fun in a game like stardew valley isn't so much because of the farming but because of all the other stuff you want to do and because you have to squeeze your time around it.

Asa and...

Gameplay demo delayed to september.

All patrons who supported me during august will still get an early download link even if you decide to lower your donation amount.

The thing is, the demo is just not ready yet. There are quite a few things in it like a proper UI, better NPC interactions, farming, brewing, magic and a shop system. The movement system has been improved and many other things. (Not to forget the new characters I'm working on and a system to generate random NPCs to populate the world)

Another part is that the...

More work done on the drow.

I think I have solid base for her face now, time to fix up her body and then she'll get a detail pass.

Next I will check the goblin girls animation files and upload them in two hours or so. 

Status update

Sorry, I have been sick and the extremely hot weather didn't help either.
I couldn't really get any coding done, because of this the gameplay prototype will be pushed back to mid of August, I want to release it on the weekend between the 17th and 20th of August.

The blender animation file for the goblin girl is almost done and I will upload it later today.

While I wasn't really able to code I did at least some more artwork with new clothing options for Asa and I finished the first pas...

Player character and Asa 3D Models

The models including my rig are now available for 5$ patrons.

The goblin will follow very soon.

Next month I will extend the files with hair styles and clothes.

Status update and drow facial features poll result.

3D Models release
The 3D Models for Asa and the player character will be released tomorrow, the goblin later this week (for 5$ Patrons and higher).

Gameplay prototype
I hope the get it ready by the 30th July (next Monday).

Drow face poll
The poll received an even amount of votes for "human with pointy ears" and "slightly exaggerated" and so I will try to go for the exotic but still very close to human facial shapes, you can expe...

Alchemist base rig

So here it is, this is the core of what I'm currently using to create animations for the game. 

The contents of this file is the bottom layer of my rig the actual models I'm using in the game have an additional layer of deformation, muscle and twist bones on top of what is in this file, but all these additional bones are procedurally driven by this base skeleton, I don't touch any of these additional bones.
Missing bones I do animate are bones used for animating the penis, vagina and b...

Blender "enable new depsgraph"

This post is related to my public Alchemist Rig.

This option increases the granularity at which blender solves it's dependcies, this is especially relevant when it comes to Armatures because with this option dependencies can be solved at a bone level making a lot of multi skeleton setups unnecessary (Also it runs faster at least on my PC). Though it is somehow difficult to find an exact explanation on how to do this on the internet.

To put it simple to start Blender with the new dependen...

Drow girl results on breast vote and what's next

The vote ended with a draw between flat and large breasts, for this reason I have decided that she will have by default a flat chest, but I'll add an enlargement ointment to the game with her which will be the first alchemistic potion the player gets to make, this way both options will get their way and I'll takle an issue which I would have to do sooner or later anyway (the whole breast enlargement, shrinkage thing).

I wanted to hold additional polls for her looks already some time ago, but I...

Sorry for not updating, huge blog post incoming.

I didn't stop working on this at all, in fact quite the opposite.
While working on some new animations and the drow girl it became more and more obvious to me that by just continuing the way I'm doing it right now I won't be able to produce animations and introduce new characters as fast as I want and especially regarding animations I'm also not reaching the quality I want.

DIY Motion Capture
So I'm currently building my own setup for motion capture, involving some goPro...

Prototype update and next poll delayed to saturday.

It isn't quite ready yet. I did spent some of my free time on implementing a version of motion matching, unfortunately I don't have much to show for it yet (motion matching is a technique to get more natural animations while controlling the character). (A presentation about what motion matching is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSTn3ePDt50)

The main reason why I'm looking into stuff like motion matching and u...

Prototype 1 available to everyone and development update..

The first prototype is now available for download: https://witch-dev.itch.io/alchemist 

There will be at least one more update to the first prototype this friday, the update will include:
- Two animations with futa like content (Magic attachable "plant" penis).
- Pubic hair.

- Maybe, the goblin girls outfit and lingerie if I can't get it done in time I will do an additional update at the end of june. 2018-06-19 01:39:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Facial animations will be added to the prototype tomorrow.

Also there will be a few new animations.

Look development for the drow girl.

Within the next two weeks I will put up a bunch of votes to figure out the  look of the drow girl. The plan is to have her body and face done for the July prototype release (clothes following after that).

Prototype 1-0-3 changes and what's next

Prototype 1 will be available for everyone next week.

Changelist from version 1-0-0:

 - Fixed "standing" animation.
- Fixed an issue with Asa's hair.
- Slight improvement to the goblins breast physics.
-  Fixed an issue with the characters knees (caused sometimes bad deformation and the physics to freak out)
-  Added a new animation, which will be part of a 3 piece animation set  (initializing the animation does sometimes mess up the physics, if that &nbs...

Finally

Sorry for the huge delay. I'm uploading the prototype right now and it will be available for 20 $ patrons shortly, 10 $ and 5$ patrons next monday (11th of june) and on the 18th it will be available for everyone.

It's really small and not very much content wise, but it marks a point where I can easily add new characters, handle animations for multiple characters and test new animations easily in engine.

I will extend the first prototype with a few more animations during the next two week...

Prototype release on Monday 28th

I originally wanted to get it out today but I'm a bit behind my schedule. By monday everything will be ready.

On future releases

My original plan was to keep advancing the story with regular updates. Obviously that didn't work out, with the amount of time I'm currently able to put into this project I won't be able to do it, so I'm changing the way I develop the game and release new content.

There will be two different kinds of releases from now on, there will be prototype releases and much rarer story releases.

A prototype will generally contain a self enclosed small scene where I present new features, characters,...

Development update: Goblin girl is getting ready.

First thing: thanks to everyone who voted in the new race poll last month, the winner was the drow. So expect some posts about a very tsundere waifu soon.

Development for the goblin is going well but I didn't get her done quite as quickly as I hoped, I will make some adjustments to my schedule to work faster and more efficiently.

The next version should be ready by the end of next week.

Goblin outfit preview.

The base for the goblin girls outfit is now finished and each piece will be removable separately, sex scenes will be possible with and without clothes, but I'm not certain whether I will have animated transitions for removing the clothes in the game initially.

I expect to release the new version including the goblin within the next two weeks.