Hey guys!
Here's the XXXmas artwork set -- 24 pages in super high resolution! Don't be fooled by that innocent look, because as promised, it gets super sticky!
I should be uploading the HD wallpaper crops tomorrow (SFW and NSFW), along with the images for the prints.
I'm also planning on releasing a PDF for MATM's 2018 ...
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Hope everyone had a good day! We've put together a little treat for you -- Malise and Neon, Pure Onyx style :D. I had intended to have a full set ready, but I'm about to pass out and didn't quite make it! Expect it within the next couple of days though, and expect it to be super sticky o.o
Malise and Neon, Pure Onyx style! What do you think? It's been a mad dash the past few days for Limbo, TK, and I, but we're going to try to have a little set ready for tomorrow night!
Hey guys!
I've received a few reports of $10+ patrons not being able to see the Inner Circle tier posts. Patreon made a major change to how creators select who views posts recently, and I think it knocked loose a few bugs that were sitting dormant. If you're a $10+ patron and this applies to you, first make sure to let me know. Second, select the $10 tier reward from the right-hand side bar, and I think this should fix the issue. It's qui...
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So, I’m afraid to say we’re a bit behind on the H content for Pure Onyx, but there will be a special eye candy piece for everyone on X-mas :D.
Regarding the H content however, it’s not all bad. It’s just taken longer than expected to learn how to properly rig and bind characters in Spine for full animation sets, and even tougher, for proper animation mixing (Spine’s automated animation blending). We’ve made a lot of headway nonetheles...
2018-12-20 09:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
So, not a whooole lot of visuals to show off this week as we’ve been focused on some technical stuff, prepping 3D assets, and breaking down artwork for animating in Spine. What I do have is pretty fun though. Below you’ll find an updated build of the game that contains some new entries in the H artwork concept gallery :D. Limbo has been working on sketches that illustrate the progression of H events. Keep in mind the game content is the same still (aside from a new g...
2018-12-10 11:30:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
The first stage of Pure Onyx is coming along really well, and we’ve got a lot to show you :D. Limbo and Kitsune are also working full time now, so we’ll hopefully be making a lot of steps forward on character art and animation this coming month. We’re also going to try to have some H animation stuff ready this month pending we get the remaining kinks out of the animation system – but more on that below.
Here’s the list of topics for this update!
Hey guys!
We’re happy to have gotten the first Pure Onyx release out to the $3 tier, but we’ve been really busy working on some other aspects of the game as well, including artwork for the first level and environment effects. First though, how about a little rant :X?
Limbo and Kitsune’s FedEx Adventure
Limbo left his previous job early this month, and both he and Kitsune are wrapping up moving cross-country to better work with us full-time. I’d l...
2018-11-22 06:33:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Apologies for being a few days late with this, but here we are with the first $3 tier Pure Onyx test release! Now that we’re getting into complex animations within the engine, we had to get past a couple unexpected days’ worth of headaches – we’re now all squared away for future stuff though.
Here’s the download, but please read through the rest of this post before jumping in! This is an extremely early build, so try to temper your expectations while t...
2018-11-21 01:55:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
Things are going well, and we have some Pure Onyx progress to show off as we head toward the first $3 tier release. We’ve got the latest build available as well, which includes some new features as well as a “concept gallery” accessible from the main menu where you can find concept sketches of upcoming H content. I’ll include the full list of changes below.
Walk Cycle Animation
Kitsune finished the walk cycle animatio...
2018-11-09 02:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I’m going to keep it relatively short and sweet this month. Progress is going very well on Pure Onyx! We required some extra support for the artwork, so we’ve pulled TK over to help with coloring, and we’ve added a new animator as well – Limbo’s friend, Kitsune. She will be helping us with Spine animations, meaning we now have a great little character artwork development pipeline between the four of us.
November Pure Onyx Test...
2018-11-02 03:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
Mr. Kittyhawk discovered the likely culprit behind the Admin mode / startup issues with the Pure Onyx test release. Turns out Unity was outputting one of the settings files to *his* user path instead of *your* user path, meaning for anyone that ran the test build there’ll be an extra Windows user folder you can delete: ‘C:\Users\schmee’. If your Windows user folder already happens to named ‘schmee’, then no action is required o.O heh.
Hey everyone!
We’ve got the first playable test of Pure Onyx ready for you :D.
As I mentioned in the last update, this is a pretty barebones functionality test. It’s brief, is still using the character sketches for artwork, and probably more clunky than fun – but that’s where we need your feedback :D. Feedback on things like movement speed, jump physics, camera distance, etc. are all valuable at this stage so we get the right feel. The UI will get prettier for sure, but let...
2018-10-25 00:52:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
Sorry for the long wait between posts. We’ve been especially busy trying to get stuff nailed down for a Pure Onyx release. On that note, there’s some good news and bad news. The good news is that we’re aiming to have full color / shaded Onyx sprites ready for this first release. The bad news is we won’t have them ready before the end of the month. We can however have a playable build ready for you IC guys next week or so, it’ll just be using sketches. 2018-10-16 21:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey again!
We’ve got a very basic gameplay video for you, as well as a FAQ that should cover some of the possible questions you may have. Keep in mind that the character animations in the video are not at all complete (including the movesets) – they are literally just frame-switched sketches that will help us establish what works and what doesn’t, and will act as a guide as we work on the higher quality animations. Also, consider everything about the UI as placeholder at this point...
2018-10-04 05:31:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
We've got some big news, and I don't want you to get a false impression, so please read this entire post. This is one of those points where your feedback is highly valuable, and I encourage you to ask questions and discuss!
Right now, we have no other source of income than from Patreon, and it's creating a problem. We're cutting our teeth on something both advanced and unique, and every decision we make is inherently risky. That risk is basically being pushed en...
2018-10-03 00:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
I promised an update on MATM progress and meant to post this a few days ago, but I simply didn’t get around to it ;( . Since it’s been a few days there’s already quite a bit of new progress on Pure Onyx, so I’d like to give you a preview of what we have planned for the monthly update there as well.
So, most of the info in this update for MATM was going to be posted with our Pure Onyx announcement...
2018-09-28 13:31:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
So, here’s a compilation of information based on a bunch of questions and concerns people had in the last post, and hopefully it’ll put some more clarity into our intent and why we think Pure Onyx is a good move.
Patreon Stuff
Hey guys!
We've got some big news, and I don't want you to get a false impression, so please read this entire post. This is one of those points where your feedback is highly valuable, and I encourage you to ask questions and discuss!
Right now, we have no other source of income than from Patreon, and it's creating a problem. We're cutting our teeth on something both advanced and unique, and every decision we make is inherently risky. That risk is basically being pushed entirely to ...
2018-09-21 21:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
We're working on something important but still need a bit to get it where it needs to be in order to show it off. We were hoping to be ready on the 15th, but it's been a lot of work in a short amount of time x_x. Expect an Inner Circle update in the next few days, and thanks for being patient!
Hey guys!
Don’t worry, that’s not a new hair style for Malise :D. This is simply a test of XGen, the new hair modeling software I’ve been learning while I was sick. We’re making completely custom character designs now, and with them we’ll need completely custom hair styles, but I’ll get into that more below.
We made good progress on our Maya transition in August. I completed a set of Maya scr...
2018-09-06 10:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I rarely get sick, but I've been almost completely down and out for the past 4 days with a flu-like illness. I'm starting to feel better today, but would really like a few days to round out what I've been working on and get everyone else squared away for the update. To boot, Mr. Kittyhawk is also sick, so hopefully he'll have the time to finish up his part.
Sorry for the hold up!
2018-09-01 11:41:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
We had a pretty good push this week, and have quite a bit to show off for it :D. There’s also a lot of rigging talk below from TK and I, but here’s the gist of it: on an unexpected and positive note, we’re on the verge of being able to replicate the posing workflow from Daz. This means we can import poses and facial expressions directly to the character rigs, blend between them using a list of sliders, and most importantly we’ll be able to easily custom...
2018-08-26 06:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
Not as much to show off visually this week, but we’ve made steady progress nonetheless. I’ve learned a lot about scripting Maya, which I’ll bore you with below :D. TK has redone the face rig. Mr. Kittyhawk and Ubercharge have been working on clothing assets, and Limbo has started on a new character design. Check it out :0!
Ero’s Maya Conversion Progress
I’ve been knee deep in Maya scripting all week, tackling some s...
2018-08-17 05:01:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
It’s been a pretty good week. We’ve checked a few things off our lists and nothing is on fire :D. I have a new character to show off that Limbo and I have been working on, as well as progress on some assets by Mr. Kittyhawk and Ubercharge.
Exarch Nine
Let’s start off by introducing the new character :D. The co...
2018-08-09 10:16:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Sorry to bug you over this!
A huge number of patrons have had their pledges declined this month, and I wanted to give a PSA since Patreon hasn't done a great job of doing so. This is a site-wide event, and not specific to our project.
Earlier today Patreon apparently nuked its own user base by moving all(?) their recurring transactions to an overseas bank in the UK. This action triggered a ton of fraudulent activity warnings, and a lot of ...
2018-08-03 07:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
It started out clunky but this month turned out pretty well, especially toward the end! I’ll start out by going over some of the highlights.
One of the biggest milestones in our conversion from Daz to Maya happened just last night: TK and I successfully completed a full test conversion of Malise to Maya. This means that rigging and joint corrective morphs for all clothing and body parts and hair were brought over and hooke...
2018-08-02 07:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys :D,
I thought I'd give you Inner Circle guys an introduction to our new concept artist, Limbo Limbo, as well as a sneak peak of his work ahead of the monthly update!
I've been working with him the past few nights on these designs, and am really blown away by his abilities. Not only is he our first actual concept artist, but he possesses 3D sculpting and hard surface design skills that fit our aesthetic brilliantly, meaning he will likely also prove helpful for working on...
2018-07-30 04:32:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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We’re still working on getting our first full character conversion over to Maya, but the good news is we’re nearly there. TK has put a ton of hours in this past week, and we even pulled AltairPL in to help script a solution to the big obstacle TK talked about in last week’s update. We’re just on the verge of doing the first full test conversion of Malise with all the clothing/props/morphs etc, and our tests over the last few days suggest it should work like a charm :D.
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2018-07-26 20:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
This week has gone better than the last I think, but there have still been obstacles. TK has been running up against some new issues as he prepares to send the characters over to Maya, and I’ve been helping him debug stuff there. We’re pretty sure we’re out of the woods, but these issues complicate automation and would be nice to know more about. Save for a day or two of remaining tasks, I’m pretty much at the point where I need rigged figures to proceed with the remaining ta...
2018-07-17 12:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post
