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Developer's Journal 2:34

Hey everybody.  These fun renders I'm attaching (4K versions attached) are not bonus renders but are actually preview renders from the next update!  These will be the last preview renders before I release Episode Two.  But I still owe you guys an all-tiers supporters only bonus render, so you can expect that before the end of June.

I got a lot done this week.  Post-worked renders for the update are now past 2,000 and I'm currently rendering my second animation this w...

Developer's Journal 2:33

Hey everybody, still working on the update, not finished yet.  So close and yet so far away.

The update should be ready for release in early July, although as I mentioned before it's possible I could end up with an animation bottleneck depending on my animator's schedule.  So far he's posed two animations for me and there are seven left for him to pose.  He has other games he is working on as well, but he believes he can get my animations done on my schedule so fingers cr...

Special Render #10: High Elf Jamie

Jamie is the winner of this month's special render!  4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 2:32

Hey everybody.

As promised, I've included a few previews from the museum date.  As you can see, Jamie is excited to be spending the day with you.

The scene is still a work in progress--I'm almost finished with two of four separate sub-scenes.  It's not as long as I originally had envisioned, but the shorter version feels more natural.  While a longer Jamie scene might be more, eh, indulgent for Jamie fans, it would probably feel a bit forced here.  I don't ever...

Developer's Journal 2:31

Hey everybody.  I've attached my updated render numbers so you can see my progress.  I'm now up to over 1,800 post-worked renders.  Again, a strikethrough indicates I'm mostly done with that scene.  I'm going to stop trying to predict the playthrough time since my estimates jump around.  Once it's released I'll ask you all tell me how long it took you.  It's a pretty good length at this point, that's all I know.

I'm working on multiple scenes at on...

Developer's Journal 2:30

Hey everybody,

Still working on this bar scene.  Posing/rendering a scene always takes longer than I think it will.

To be honest I really don't like how the lighting has turned out in this scene.  But the fact is that there are always ways I could improve the renders if I spent unlimited time on them, and it's been seven months today since Part One of LDNA dropped so at a certain point I have to accept that the work is presentable.  I estimate that I redo roughly 40...

Poll for May 2023 Special Render

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Steam Page Now Up!

Leaving DNA's Steam store page is now up!  The actual game is not on Steam yet; the store page just shows it as "Coming Soon."  I'm still working out details, but here are the answers to the two big questions people will have:

(1) There is no release date announced yet for Steam.  It won't be for several months and may depend on how many Wishlist adds I get.  I may not release it on Steam until Episode Three is ready.

(2) Finishing Episode Two ...

Special Update

Hey guys. This is a special update about the finances and future of Leaving DNA.

Let me start out by emphasizing that this is NOT a request for more support from you the people already supporting me. And I repeat as I have so many times before that I appreciate all of you. To have so much support already after only releasing one episode of the game has been such a surprise. Especially from those pledging at the higher levels it’s really humbling.

I also want to say that no one s...

Developer's Journal 2:29

Hey everybody.

The scene I'm working on is the bar scene I already previewed a few months back.  This scene is challenging for multiple reasons, but one thing I'm struggling with is getting the dialogue and the expressions right.  I think I had written three different versions of this scene before I started rendering, and now that I'm playing through it as I finish the renders I find that this part here and that part there don't come across the way they did in my head.  S...

Special Render #9: 50's Pin-up Donna Lee

Donna Lee was the clear winner for this month's special render!  4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 2:28

Hey everybody.  Not much to talk about this week.  Still working on the renders.  I'm back to the bar scene I've previewed for you before but hadn't finished.  It will take a while to finish rendering because it's fairly long.

This bar scene does not have Armin, sadly.  Actually, Armin won't do much in Part Two at all. I have a few frames I might show him in briefly, but we won't get another full Armin scene until Part Three.  Armin does have a sma...

Developer's Journal 2:27

Well guys, we are at Dev Journal #27 for this update.  To my own psychological detriment, that is a long time to go between releases.

There's something very motivating about releasing a new update.  Assuming the update is well-received, the developer gets positive feedback on something he just spent months working very hard to put together.  The developer is also rewarded by the feeling that his financial supporters have been validated.

At this point I've been worki...

Developer's Journal 2:26

Hey everybody.  Post-worked renders are now up past 1550.  Part One released with about 1700 still renders and we've still got quite a lot to do in Part Two.

I may start to get more stingy about preview images for the last several weeks before the next release.  I've brought this up before, but I try to strike a balance between piquing your interest and spoiling content, and because the update is taking longer than I hoped I've already released more preview images than I ...

Public Progress Report (Part One.3)

Hello to all supporters and fans of Leaving DNA.  I don't have an estimated date of release for Part Two yet--it's still several weeks away at least, but there is a lot of content finished so far.  Soon we'll be passing the two-hour mark for how much playable content there is.  Although it's been a long wait, when it does get released, no one is going to complain about it being a short update.

Since Part One was released, I've made a number of fixes to already released co...

Poll for April 2023 Special Render

Here are the options for this month's special render.  Trying to give some love to one of the other women. 😂

Developer's Journal 2:25

Hey everybody!  I am 98% finished with the still renders of the bonus scene.  This is my first time putting together a sex scene, and it's more difficult than normal scenes, but I'm happy with how it's turning out.  But the big part is still left--the animations.

I've been in contact with four different animators and I'm hiring each of them to do a test animation from Erin's scene.  Once I get the animations back from each, I'll choose the best and contract that anim...

Developer's Journal 2:24

Hey everybody!  This week I worked on the bonus dream scene for Part Two, starring ADA Erin Chun.  I'm juuuust about finished with the leadup to the actual lewd part, roughly 70 renders.

I'm betting that when some players saw I was doing dream lewd sequences, they groaned.  And I could understand that.  I don't like dream sex in an AVN.  It's always boring, just diving right into the sex, and it can create an anti-climactic effect when it features someone you've...

Special Render #8: Hooters Waitress Aghavni

Aghavni and her hooters won this month's special render poll!  4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 2:23

Hey everybody!  I just got done with a playthrough of the content I have for Part Two so far.  It's hard to time it precisely because I read with the Dev's speed rather than the player's speed, but I would say for a relatively fast reader at this time there is between 1 hour 30 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes of content that has already been rendered.  I've finished postwork on 1,324 still renders.  By comparison, the entire Part One contained 1,700 still renders and had roug...

Developer's Journal 2:22

Hey everyone.  Progress continues!  This week I worked on another scene with MC and his favorite new schoolteacher.  Several weeks back I showed you guys my in-progress rework of the blonde LI, and I said I'd keep her original hairstyle around as a secondary.  So here it is.

There are over 1,200 renders so far in this update.  Hopefully I'll finish with this current scene before next Saturday and then I'll do a timed playthrough to see how we're doing.  But...

Developer's Journal 2:21

Hey everybody.  It's been an exhausting week and I need to go to bed so this is going to be short but I've got the final renders queued up for the blonde's reunion scene.  She's got multiple scenes in this release so we'll see more of her.

I have to work tomorrow and I've got family in town, but by late tomorrow night I'll be able to start working hard on the next scene.  I've got a lighting test render for it already set up in tonight's queue.

I've attached a previ...

Poll for March 2023 Special Render

Here are the options for this month's special render.  (Jamie just got a render so she gets a rest this month and we won't see the other two LI's show up on the list until Part Two is released.)

Developer's Journal 2:20

Hey everybody!  This was an exciting week for me because a whopping six new supporters signed up, and there have now been 12 new supps in the last 30 days!  Welcome to all of the new people!  It's very rewarding for me to find that people like the game enough to support me either on Patreon or SubscribeStar, so a big thank you to the new supporters, and of course to the older supporters as well.

Looking at my numbers, there are eleven of you still here that signed on in t...

Special Render #7: Dwarf Tinkerer Jamie

Dwarf Tinkerer Jamie hammered out the competition this month!  4K files are attached.

Jamie

This started out as an in-game bonus render but I decided it works better as a promotional image.  4k file is attached.

😊

Developer's Journal 2:19

Hey everybody.  This week I got to work on a scene I've been looking forward to for a long time: the official reintroduction of our blonde LI.  And I don't know about you guys, but a woman lazing around eating cold cereal and watching movies on a Sunday afternoon is a woman after my own heart.  Ordinarily I might say these previews are spoilers, but I think since she's front and center on the main menu it's not exactly a shocker that MC was going to run into her again at some p...

Developer's Journal 2:18

Hey everybody.  Part Two now has over a thousand post-worked renders.  But I still can't predict when I'll be done with this thing.  In the attached previews, the murder investigation continues with the interview of...well, let's just call her a person of interest.

Keeping in mind the excessive time I spent and limited success I had working on animations in Part One, I am exploring the possibility of hiring somebody to do the animations for Part Two.  It's not hard t...

Developer's Journal 2:17

Hey everybody.

As you can see from the previews, this week I worked on a flashback scene with Jamie and MC.  The scene is meant to be a sweet moment, but there's also some dark humor in it.  Both getting this scene and getting the humor will depend on the choices the player has made so far.  If you told Donna Lee you're not interested in Jamie, then you won't see this flashback.

But if you're on Jamie's path, this is a good scene to help put you into MC's head becau...

Poll for February 2023 Special Render

Hey guys, here are the options for this month's special render: