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Just a quick update on v0.04

Hi all! Hope you had a good holiday and have a good new year!

Just want to let you know that I'm working on the last dozen renders and will try to do just one animation once those are done. Aiming to release sometime next week!

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♬ All I want for Christmas... ♬(2K)

Took a little break today to churn out a tiny set of holiday renders.

And now back to trying to finish this update! I have about 45 more renders to do. Hoping to get them all wrapped up this week. Have a good holiday and new year!

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Please confirm your name in the patron list, as I approach v0.04's release

Hi all, please review this patron list, which can be viewed from the main menu. As before, if you'd like to change your displayed name or would like to opt out entirely, you can drop a comment here, or message me through Patreon/Discord. No need to comment if you're good with it as-is. If your displayed name is what appears to be a real name, I've shortened it to "FirstName Initial".

Thank you for supporting this project! <3

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v0.04 Progress Update (December)

As you can see, I'm getting pretty close to the end of the update.

I've learned a lot about how to estimate render counts, but unfortunately it took me a few failed attempts to get an actually accurate number. I knew what the path through this chapter was going to be, but I highly underestimated how many renders it would take to get there. Before I started, I was pretty sure I could do it in ~350 renders. By mid-November, that number was closer to 430. But once I started working on the ...

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Poll: Animations

So, this chapter is nearly twice as long as I intended it to be. I'm making daily progress (another progress report coming this week), but one thing on my mind right now is animations. My goal was to complete the chapter's static renders, and then pick a few spots in the chapter to attempt to animate, similarly to the animation in the first release.

But I don't want to drag this update out too long. I still have about 100 renders to complete (the actual final count will...

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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #8

Just another of the many new characters introduced in v0.04!

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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #7

Education. Always important, even in a fictional futanari story.

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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #6

Mmm. I could use a coffee.

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v0.04 Progress Update (November)

Hi everyone! I was hoping to write this up a few days ago, but it ended up always being a zero sum game for my time, which was better spent on rendering, writing, programming... But now I'm at a good place to take a moment to talk about progress!

Before getting into the details, I want to reflect about my development pace. From what I can tell, most other games release updates about once a quarter, with about 300 renders per update. For various reasons, some games have more renders, and...

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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #5: Eye See You

Whose eye is that? What is she looking at? When will we find out?!

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November Render #1 - Ragnarok (2K)

Jenny wouldn't mind a trip to Midgard...

2560x1440

No 4K version this time, was struggling to get this one to render higher than 2K :(

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Interactivity, Choices, and "Focus" Actions

In a few days I'll be providing my November progress update, but in the meantime I wanted to talk a bit about how player choices and actions will be implemented. Standard disclaimer that this is a work-in-progress and that things could change.

Note that the choices and actions in this post are not actually in the game. I put this together as an example, and did not want to spoil the actual choices in v0.04.

In writing this, I started to get on a long tangent about...

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The naughty first version of the main menu image! Also, upcoming post details.

Stumbled into the first version of the main menu background from the early days of starting Renpy development. I had to tone it down a bit, since I wanted the main menu image to be the Patreon banner. But the silhouette is a nice view...

And just an FYI that I'll be posting my monthly progress update later this week, as well as a 'blog post' style post about how I'm implementing choices and actions into the VN.

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In-game patron list — Opt out or change your displayed name?

While waiting for a few renders to finish earlier, I threw together this in-game patron list. Some people used pseudonyms, so I listed those as-is. For those of you who have what appear to be real names, I've shorted the last name to an initial. Please let me know in this post or on discord if you want to opt out of this list or change your listed name to something else.

Thanks!

Edit: Oh, and FYI that the list order is based purely on join date.

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October Renders #2 - Alice (5 Images, 4K)

Alice won the recent poll. Here's a mini image set. Spooky!

3840x2160 version for Gold Patrons

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Poll: Naomi's piercings, bigger images

Vote here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-naomis-nose-73629477 

There is some discussion over Naomi’s piercings.

I know that some people don't like septum piercings (and I usually don't), but this one looked really neat and gave the character a unique flair.

That said, if too many people hate it then I'm not opposed to a different piercing.

Please vote your prefer...

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Poll: Naomi's nose piercing


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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #4: Naomi (Poll Result)

Introducing: Naomi! She is the result of the character design polls from a few weeks ago.

She is Audrey's assistant, and is in her mid-20's. And per the polls - Blue eyes, teal hair, B-cup, and a slim physique.

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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #3

Another tiny little teaser for the next release!

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v0.04 Progress Update (October) — 3 weeks and 30 patrons!

So before I get into my progress towards v0.04, I just want to give a big THANK YOU to all of you for your support! I'm not sure what I was expecting when I published the first release just three weeks ago, but I am so grateful and pleased by the response!

So, as promised earlier in the week, here's what I have planned and in process for v0.04 and my general thoughts about my progress towards it.

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v0.04 New content (subject to change):

350-400 ...

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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #2

For the next v0.04 teaser, meet Ashley! She's a grad student, and is the TA for Jenny's biology class.

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October Render #1 - Jenny (4K)

Tonight I spent a few hours remaking Jenny. There was something wrong with the previous iteration that wouldn't let me properly simulate cloth physics. But no more! Jenny 2.0 can now wear clothes with cloth physics! So here's a test render, in all its cloth-y glory.

This is the 3840x2160 version.

[ And yes, I'm aware that October hasn't actually started yet :) ]

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That one photo on the wall...

Here's a full view of the photo hanging in the sorority house. Who is this "Audrey" they mentioned, exactly...?

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Major Release v0.04 Teaser #1

Looks like Alexis texted someone at 3AM! Who could it be... And what's going to happen next?

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Futagenesis Unveiled [v0.03a](Windows/Linux)

This is a minor update, which adds a Select Game Mode choice at the start of the game. This gives players two options: Normal Mode (bonus scenes are unlocked by puzzle completion) and Story Mode (all puzzles are skipped and all bonus scenes are unlocked). This lets everyone play however they'd like to play!

https://mega.nz/file/EftyARpC#CoU-xLtq0C7iU1zJT5SquRfIqncjcxRFYufypzQznq...

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Futagenesis Unveiled [v0.03a](Android)

This is a minor update, which adds a Select Game Mode choice at the start of the game. This gives players two options: Normal Mode (bonus scenes are unlocked by puzzle completion) and Story Mode (all puzzles are skipped and all bonus scenes are unlocked). This lets everyone play however they'd like to play!

This is the Android upload.

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Futagenesis Unveiled [v0.03a](Mac)

This is a minor update, which adds a Select Game Mode choice at the start of the game. This gives players two options: Normal Mode (bonus scenes are unlocked by puzzle completion) and Story Mode (all puzzles are skipped and all bonus scenes are unlocked). This lets everyone play however they'd like to play!

This is the Mac upload.

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Three hours since release... Let's talk puzzles.

The first option I want to give patrons: Does the puzzle element of the game need to change? Should bonus scenes be shown even after a skip?

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Futagenesis Unveiled [v0.02] Release! (Android)

It's finally here! The first half of Chapter 1! This is the Android version.

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Futagenesis Unveiled [v0.02] Release! (Mac)

It's finally here! The first half of Chapter 1! This is the Windows/Linux version.

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