Hey everyone,
Sorry, there won't be a dev log this week.
I'm writing this on my mobile phone while sitting in bed.
I caught the Influenza from the fam (all of them had it since last Saturday), so now I've been in bed since Wednesday.
I haven't felt this shitty since I got hit by Covid a few years ago...
Anyway, I'll skip this week's dev log and preview renders and try to get out of bed as quickly as possible.
Stay safe and healthy,
Ceo
Hey everyone,
This has been a pretty busy week and the weekend is going to be too.
Lots of work and family stuff and less time to work on the game. I'll keep this Dev Log short so I can fit in as much development time as possible today.
The numbers for this week:
85 new static renders for a total of 1775
4 new animations for a total of 47
214 new lines in the script file for a total of 5255
Next week will be a pretty busy one too for the same reasons (fam + wor...
2025-01-31 07:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Tempus fugit... time flies. It's Friday already...
I managed to do everything I had planned for this week which means I finished the remaining renders for the next test build and created said build.
I also did some tests on it and moved on to the next scene.
The new scene requires me to create 4 new environments, 2 of them are done, 1 is being worked on right now and 1 planned for next week.
I also started rendering and coding the first parts.
As I sai...
A few more renders than usual because I couldn't decide which ones to pick :-)
2025-01-17 09:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Weekend ahead and that means time for the new Dev Log.
Decent progress this week... in fact it was one of the most productive weeks ever.
The plan for this week was to get most of the scene done I planned on working on. I finished it completely even though it got a bit bigger than I expected (as usual...) but I'm pretty happy with the result.
That also means I can move on to the next big scene of this Chapter. I assume that it will take a while to get it don...
Hey everyone,
It's Friday again so it's time for the next Dev Update.
I'm finally back to a (somewhat) normal schedule without national holidays and other stuff that keeps me from being productive.
It should stay like that for a while now, so I hope to get some solid progress on the new chapter within the next several weeks.
This week I got everything I wanted done.
That started with setting up the new internal test build by finishing the post-work on the remaining rende...
Hey everyone and Happy New Year.
I hope you all had a few nice days but I'm glad that lies behind me now.
Time to get back to my chill schedule of working around the clock. :-D
I did get a bit of work done and I finally finished the work on the current scene (yesterday...). Took me long enough and it feels good to move on to something new.
The PC's are rendering the remaining images and animation for the scene and once they're finished I'll put together the next internal tes...
Again...
And with that, sales, gifts, and all the other capitalistic stuff.
I'm no different, of course. ;-)
With the Winter Sale on Steam starting yesterday, we set up a new Bundle.
The bundle contains:
"Glowing Stones Heroes Awakening" (I have a feeling of Groundhog Day...)
"A Foreign World" by Highborn Tiger
"Morningstar, Book of the Fallen" by DroidProductions (I'm extremely happy he was up to it!)
"The Neverwhere Tales" (surprise!)
So if you don't kn...
Hey everyone,
last Dev Log this year because there won't be a lot to speak about in the remaining two weeks.
Of course, every free minute will go into working on the game (as in the past 3 years...) but with Christmas and the usual family stuff around it, time will be limited.
I plan to post the next Dev Update in the first week of January.
There will be other posts before that, just not Dev Update :-)
Also, no preview renders this week because it doesn't really make sense. ...
I promise we're (slowly) reaching the end of the scene and thus different preview renders... ;-)
2024-12-13 08:31:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
This has been a pretty normal week, given the season and the pre-Christmas madness.
Speaking of Christmas, Patreon introduced a new feature a while ago called "Gifts."
Creators and Patrons can gift Subscriptions to non-Patrons (sadly you can't gift to Patrons with an active sub even if you want to gift a higher tier than they pledged).
I'm going to use that feature to gift 6 months of Chaplain tier to 5 people on Christmas.
The registration and selecti...
Hey everyone,
time for the 2nd part of the Q&A answers.
After the last update, the story lore is getting Vivid and also new
types of monsters and creatures are being introduced so are you also going to dive deep into their origins and lore and characters arc or are these characters just side characters with less addition in the main lore?
There's no universal answer to that and to be honest, the role I have planned now might change in the future....
2024-12-12 12:51:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
I'm glad this week is coming to an end.
I caught a cold from my wife last weekend and spent most of the time in bed. This time of the year sucks... everyone sneezing and coughing.
I'm sure they specifically target me in an attempt to harm me! Now where's my tinfoil hat?
On top of that, the new PC gave me some issues because it did not boot on Wednesday afternoon. After spending several hours troubleshooting I hope I have fixed the problem now (RAM settings in B...
2024-12-06 11:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody,
First, thank you all for asking your questions. There were more than I expected and some really good ones.
I'll split up the answers into several parts (2 probably), this is the first batch.
If your question isn't here, expect it to be answered in the 2nd batch.
Do you have plans for the number of chapters in book 1 or how many books it will eventually be? Or, is it still loose for now?
The plan right now is 10-12 Chapters for Book...
2024-12-05 15:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I know, I know... Kaija again ;-)
It is what it is for now but we'll see other characters later down the development road of Chapter 6.
Hey everyone,
This week I focused on getting the remaining animations for the current scene done.
Especially one of them gave me quite a bit of a headache due to the dforce stuff. Hair simulations through several hundred frames aren't fun. :-D
I did manage to get most of the stuff done as I had imagined it so that's probably still a win...
The second PC is still busy rendering the animations but it's a great help that I can continue to pose new renders on the other PC now.
...
Hey everyone,
time for the next Dev Update.
This was a pretty standard week. I built the next test build last weekend, did some test runs on it, and already found a few bugs to fix. Getting that build done was a bit more work than expected due to the number of renders and the branching of the scene.
But it's done now and I moved on to the next part of the scene.
This one's going to be "fun." 6 assets with dforce on it that need to be simulated every time the poses change even ...
Hey everyone,
I've seen other developers doing Q&As, and some even do it pretty regularly.
So why not try it myself and see how that goes :-)
The first part will be collecting the questions (Duh!) and depending on how many there will be, I'll pick a bunch of them to answer (and keep the remaining ones for possible future Q&As). If there will come up questions, that is... ;-)
To ask your questions, you can either use the comment function here or the correspondin...
Hey everyone,
Aaaand it's Friday again. I'm pretty sure yesterday was Friday too.
Outside that very obvious break in temporal structure, this week (I mean day...) has been pretty good.
I managed to get quite a few renders done up to the point where I'm waiting for the last few ones to be rendered before I can build my next test version.
The plan for the rest of today is, to get exactly that done and tested.
Next week, I'll focus on setting up a few more renders and then...
2024-11-15 14:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Another week has passed by, and it is time for the next Dev Update.
Overall, this week has been pretty good. I was able to get back to my usual schedule which was good timing because the day job is usually pretty busy at the start of the month.
Most of my time for the game went into writing, coding, and setting up static renders.
Still quite a lot to do for the scene I'm currently working on. Expect the preview renders of this and next week to be a bit same-i...
A few more renders this week because of missing last week. :-)
2024-11-01 12:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
