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Dorm Playtest 2 Soon

Hey guys,

Dorm env build 2 will be up later in the day! Probably around 2pm PST. We were hoping  to get it out by the end of Feb but ran into some issues with performance. It is hopefully stable now, but please let us know if you run into performance issues.

Dorm now contains some more finished sub-envs and a few 2Ds to talk to. To begin talking to 2Ds, go up to them and point at their name, and hold Trigger with your Motion Controller. Check out this clip which sho...

Dorm Progress Update

Sup

We've been working on bathroom stuff for the past week! With the kitchens, bathrooms and dorm rooms almost completed, we have the laundry and rec room to go. Still on track for a new build this month, where you guys an check out all these new rooms.

Surprisingly don't have much to talk about regarding toilets and bathrooms, so here's just a pic dump! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

2018-02-17 16:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Dorm Env progress + some other stuff!

Hi!

We've been making some progress with dorms, adding detail and furniture etc. The Dormitory buildings contain a bunch of sub-environments, you guys who played the test build at the start of the month probably noticed all the rooms were empty ;_; But we're going to tackle these one by one, and hopefully we'll have a new updated test build this month with the Kitchens, Bathrooms and Toilets, Utility room and Recreational area completed (or at least more completed than empty rooms)&nb...

Dorm early preview + ADV Test #2

Hey everyone,

We’ve been working on the School’s Dormitory enviro this month, so we thought we’d set the latest VR-ADV test#2  there, just to make things a bit more interesting, and to give people a teaser of what’s to come in the full game.

Feel free to explore, but please remember that the build is mostly an untextured environment with unfinished rooms ^-^ This is the first time w...

Playable Environment + ADV (end of month, hopefully!)

Hey everyone, 

We've been working on a new (and one of the final) environments - the Student Dormitories. This is where you will live during your stay at Takayama, as well as some of your classmates, and we imagine a bunch of fun scenes will take place here ;           )

The dormitory campus contains two buildings, male and female, along wit...

New ADV Build this month + Plans for early 2018

Hey everyone,

Kind of a boring post here, but stuff should get more exciting again soon.

Happy new year and thanks for supporting the project! We've been working on improving the ADV after you guys' feedback through email and the Discord, there will be a new build nearing the end of Jan which will hopefully represent the final and completed ADV, save for some minor improvements. 

We're working on story content and finalizing the School Campus now, so it's our plan for builds i...

VR-ADV Test Build up in a little while :)

Hey there,

Thanks for being patient while we've prepared this build, it took us longer than anticipated. This test build doesn't contain any enviros or anything much fun D: But it's an important test for us, since we're finalizing our Dialog System (which we will refer to as the VR-ADV). 

The VR-ADV is probably one of the most important systems in Virtual Novel, as it's how you will interact with every character. So we really want your feedback on how comfortable you find it, any gr...

ADV Progress update + new Build date (kind of)

Hey there,

Thought we'd do an update on how the ADV is going, we've now incorporated a settings menu for changing colors and all the other editable settings that it will have. 

We thought we'd have a test build out by now but we've had some delays in development - we are really sorry ;_; But there will be a test build before the 17th of December, where the ADV will be usable for VR and non-VR players, for you guys to give your feedback on it so we c...

VR-ADV Progress and Upcoming Feedback-test-build

Hey Patrons!

We've been working some more on the Dialog System. We've updated the design and are close to finalizing some of the features of the system.

One of the main features we've been working on in preparation for getting to work on story content, is an extensible Tag system for Dialog Triggered Events. You can see a demo of this in action in the header video or on 2017-11-25 20:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post

A little status update :)

Hey everyone, we've been quiet this month since the Halloween update, but we've been busy as usual. We've been working on two things mainly, in prep for getting some demo story content out -

First is a face overhaul, where we're creating an extensive emotion system using blend-shapes, exactly the way MMD models do it. It's difficult to show without animation, but here's a preview of how this system is done, with creating many versions of the face that can be switched between and blended in-gam...

Fitting Room Halloween

Hey guys,

Fitting Room Halloween play-test build will be up shortly. 

Thanks to all the new Patrons we got recently! Please enjoy Fitting Room, unfortunately there's no real tutorials or instructions to get started yet, so if you guys have any issues, please post or join the Discord to ask.

Here's some quick info for new VR players to get started...

Halloween Update - Out Tomorrow

Hey everyone, happy Halloween!

We're doing final touches to Fitting Room for tomorrow's release, hopefully all goes well :>

Here's a couple pics of the new outfits that will be in the build, with a full list below -

The update contains a total of 20 new garments and hopefully around ...

Halloween Update Teaser

Hey sup,

Thanks everyone for helping us to squeeze past the $500 milestone, we'll put up a new goal soon after doing some budgeting ^^

We're aiming to release the Halloween update to Fitting Room hopefully no later than the 29th of October. As well as a bunch of outfits which have been shown off as WIPs in some of the recent posts, Fitting Room is going to have a few feature updates and bug fixes - here's a few of them, but the full and comprehensive list will accompany ...

Fitting Room - Halloween Teaser

Hey!

We've been making some progress with costumes and new outfits for Fitting Room and Virtual Novel, in preparation for the end of the month Halloween themed Fitting Room update. Here's a small teaser of the first three outfits -

2017-10-10 07:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Surprise Campus Test Build! - Old School Building :3

Hey Patrons,

In keeping with spooky October feels, we've updated the school campus to include the Old School environment. 

There are a few bug-fixes and improvements in this build since the Diner build right at the end of September, thanks to everyone who submitted feedback and bug reports -

• Overall performance has been improved dramatically
• The visible polygons in the Sky Dome have been fixed
• Visible seams / outlines on the 2Ds' necks have b...
  2017-10-10 07:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Fitting Room Halloween Update + Some other things

Hey!

We're doing a Halloween and Cosplay themed Fitting Room update for the end of the month, which will include new outfits, accessories, and other fun stuff. If you have any ideas for accessories, we'll hear your suggestions over at the Virtual Novel Discord, and it may make it into the update ^-^

We've had some feedback about the latest play-test build causing crashes when some graphics options are selected, particularly the Screen Percentage setting or the Quality Pr...

Future Builds will have limited support for non-VR!

Hey everyone,

Thanks to all you guys supporting the project, but especially to those who don't yet have VR systems who don't get a chance to play the build releases. The latest build at the end of last month / beginning of this month included an experimental feature which auto detects which VR system you're running, and if you don't have one at all.

It seems to be quite stable, so we're beginning to add support for non-VR in a proper way, which gives you a first person style character a...

Diner Playtest Build

The private link to the Diner build will be up after this post! We're doing something a bit new with builds from now on, and are deprecating the HMD Select system in favor of an automatic system which should detect if you're running a Rift or a Vive. 

This is experimental so please let us know if you have problems, we've tested it on a limited number of systems and it seems to work. You will spawn in mid-air, just teleport to the ground to be able to navigate properly.  2017-10-01 07:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Takayami Diner Env Build Soon

Hey people, thanks for your patience! We'll be releasing the explorable Diner Level build soon for Patrons - either tonight or tomorrow - which also contains the explorable Gymnasium Level from the previous build, along with the un-explorable exteriors of the other campus buildings to give you guys an idea of the overall campus and building sizes. 

Takayami Diner marks the final building of Takay...

Progress Update + Next Build Plans

Hey everyone,

Apologies for lack of progress updates first of all ): We get swamped occasionally and have to put Social on the backburner, but we've been working hard on completing more of the school campus in preparation for the whole school campus build.

Next up is Takayami Diner, a family style restaurant / school cafeteria combination that is run by the students of Takayama highschool. We're making good progress on this environment, and we're aiming to release a test build later this...