You voted for her shirt and panties before, now vote for the colors! There are 4 colored options pictured - or you can vote for the original "untextured" gray, as seen in part 1.
Make sure you don't miss the second poll for her panties!
2022-12-30 22:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's status update will be a short one. While the holidays have taken their fair share of time from us, we've also been continuing to progress and develop the chapter. We also made some new renders for the rendering queue and are waiting for a nice moment after the holidays to churn them all out.
The next part of Mia's outfit poll will be published after the status update. The winner ended up being the leading option, #3 2022-12-30 22:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
A new week and a new status update! This week we've been fixing render mistakes, making new mistakes, creating new renders, and polishing the script! The next chapter will be longer than the previous ones and we're still going over the script to make sure it flows smoothly.
The upcoming chapter will also bring something new and previously unseen in the world of Summer Heat: darkness! The night is coming. So far the entire game has taken place during day...
2022-12-23 21:26:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we've been focusing on the script, polls, outfits and planned locations. A new location is coming for CH05 and it has begun construction as well.
For CH04 we created a couple of outdoor environments and a large building that was briefly seen from afar. The building projects for CH05 by comparison will be much smaller, but not necessarily easier to create as they will contain more details. But we won't be slowed down by memory problems this time!
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2022-12-16 21:59:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This polling season we're doing something a little bit different. There will be two polls per outfit: one for the clothes themselves (like this one) followed by another one with color options for the winner. This way you can participate in the process and get a lot more control over the final outfits!
2022-12-15 11:28:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This week has been great! We've been creating renders, scripting and tinkering with new scenes. We also worked on the design of a side character and a few extras planned for CH05. These characters will be in one of the locations seen at the strip mall in CH02.
The first draft of the script is now complete! This is great because it lets us focus on polishing.
This week there was also a large influx of new players and supporters. This was a surprise for sure...
2022-12-09 21:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A simple week is behind us. We've been working on new renders and scripting for CH05. This upcoming week we plan to have most of the script finished. Then it's time to polish it!
In an October status update, we informed you that we'll be able to work on Summer Heat full-time for the next few months. We're happy to announce that this will be continuing and hopefully even become permanent next year.
The first snow has arrived. The ground is white, and the temperature is below freezing... what a wonderful time to work on Summer Heat!
This week we've been rendering and preparing upcoming scenes and characters for posing. Previously, one of our environments was very heavy to load and use, but that has now been optimized for much faster loading times, which enables us to have a faster workflow for CH05.
This bloat became very apparent in the later f...
2022-11-25 21:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post
CH04 has come and gone and we're now deep in the planning stage of CH05. Rendering has also begun! CH04 ended up being roughly twice the size of previous chapters and CH05 will be in the same territory. Progress reports for CH05 will begin properly next week.
We also hit our Patreon goal of 400 patrons this month! This is of course temporary as the number will drop at the start of next month, but it still feels amazing to have such a huge amount...
2022-11-18 21:44:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 04 has arrived!
The download links to the new chapter can be found here.
The release is now available for Player+ tiers. There is a Windows, Linux and Mac version. The Linux and Mac versions are experimental and may contain bugs. If you happen to encounter a bug on any official version, please don't hesitate to report it to us so we can fix it!
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Mac v0.4.2 - [old version removed]
If you want to read the full changelog for Chapter 04, you can do so here. If you happen to encounter a bug on any official version, please don't hesitate to report it to us so we can fix it!
Also consider taking the 2022-11-10 18:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's status update will be a quick one.
Chapter 4 of Summer Heat is coming next week! Next week's status update will be replaced by the release notes, changelog and release itself on Thursday for Enthusiast+ tiers, followed by the Player tier release on Sunday.
We will also run some polls in the near future, starting with the monthly render poll this weekend, plus the final preview of CH04.
The status reports of CH05 will begin in the next sche...
2022-11-04 21:21:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Carving pumpkins is all fun and games... until they start carving back.
2022-10-30 17:27:36 +0000 UTC View Post
"Just one more chapter... then we'll cuddle."
2022-10-29 20:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we've been adding the final renders into the game and working through the looong list of abominations that require fixing. We've also reached a new render count, over 1100! And to complement these renders, there are over 100 new sound effects to create an immersive ambience. There's also some new music additions, but our long term goal is to eventually get Summer Heat its own soundtrack.
In case you missed last week's status update, here are...
2022-10-28 20:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we've been clawing through the final renders and wrapping up the chapter. We've also gathered quite a long list of fixes and changes to be made before release. Some renders also remain in the queue, as well as a mountain of animation frames.
This chapter has roughly twice as much content as previous releases. It has over 1000 renders and multiple animations. Our goal was to create 40-60 minutes of playtime for this chapter and we believe we've succeeded.
W...
2022-10-21 19:53:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we've mostly been waiting for scenes and animation frames to render, which is not very exciting. But while that's been running we've also been coding, adding music and SFX, and scripting the next chapter.
We hit our increased render goal! But add animations on top of that and the render time have essentially doubled... which seems like a good time to mention our hardware upgrades: a new GPU (and PSU)! It's not the newest but rather from the previous genera...
2022-10-14 21:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This week will be the "it's done soon™"-kind of status update.
We finished several of the animations this week. One of them proved to be quite difficult (and annoying) at first, but after staring at the keyframes for several days, the problems began to fade away. These will be our first animations so we want to take our time and not skimp out. Future chapters will feature more and more animation as you get to know the girls better. And as we've mentioned somew...
2022-10-07 20:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we worked on the animations again, a lot. They're way more complicated than the simple blinks we had in the earlier (unpublished) versions of the game and ended up not using. But unlike the blinks, we'll be keeping these ones and we hope they're satisfying. They will certainly take a good while to render, but we think they're worth it!
We made a decision some time ago not to spend too much time on animation. This is because, although they are nice, ani...
2022-09-30 18:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post
"Will you help me out of this dress? ...Or would you prefer if I keep it on?"
2022-09-29 15:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
We're nearing completion of the next chapter. This week we've been going over our to-do lists and finishing up little, less important tasks that need to be finished before release.
Most of the renders for the final scene of CH04 were completed this week, but there's still some posing to do before we wrap it up. This scene also includes several animations, which we'll finish this upcoming week. Exciting!
There's been some q...
2022-09-23 22:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we've been going over the update and adding sound effects, proofreading and making sure the variables work as intended. Most of the coding is now done and we're just waiting for the renders. We also gave some love to the phone content, including a couple of new matches and some small quality-of-life upgrades.
We've also been trying to make sure content doesn't get skipped or overlooked by accident so easily anymore. One of the ways we'll tackle this i...
2022-09-16 20:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's status update will be short but sweet. Progress is steady. We've been posing new renders for the queue and polishing the script. We spent much of our time focusing on the upcoming Freeplay segment, which contains significantly more dialogue than the previous segment(s).
We also improved on some anatomical elements we had prepared previously. We learned some more about texturing and played around with normal maps until we got a result we like...
2022-09-09 19:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we've prepared our characters for the last scenes of the upcoming chapter. Polishing textures, fixing some inconsistencies, and general improvements. Next up is posing, posing and even more posing! We'll also start adding SFX and other effects, as well as finishing up the Freeplay segment. All in all, the progress is at approximately 79%.
Eve got her first special render this week! If you missed it, 2022-09-02 20:55:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It was a normal movie night... until the sex scene came on.
2022-08-30 21:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's status update will be a short one. We've decided to change our weekly updates around a little bit to see what works and feels best for everyone. If there's something you like or dislike, feel free to let us know!
We went over our outline and planned scenes and tried to calculate how much work we've completed on Chapter 04. The number we arrived at was 72%. This is only a rough estimation, but it does give an idea of our current progress. We'll...
2022-08-26 20:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
