Spent the week wrapping up testing and final tweaks to allow the release of the beta to $10 Patreons. Happy to announce that both the PC and Mac versions the beta are currently uploading and will be available to $10 Patreons shortly.
Actually managed to get a little more done this week than planned and inserted the teaser into the current beta. It flows on from the main story line, hence made sense to get it done now. There isn't too much to be addressed next week, outside making correc...
2021-08-20 14:35:49 +0000 UTC
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Got a big week ahead of me, attempting to tidy up the loose ends, to allow the release of the beta. Going to put my head down and work over the weekend in an attempt to release next week. Have about 1 day to close out the battle renders and then few days for the aftermath, prior to final coding tweaks and testing. Looking forward to put a bow on this sucker.
2021-08-13 09:09:01 +0000 UTC
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Working through the final renders of the main story line to prepare the game to be ready for beta. Also took the opportunity last week to do all of the image processing (enhancements / glitch correction). On top of this, did all of the video encoding for animations for v0.70. May include 1 more action animation, as I think it will add something to a critical event at the end of the main story line. Need a good sound effect to go along with the animation as well.
2021-08-06 08:41:35 +0000 UTC
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Working on the stills for the final portion of the main story, which represents the majority of what is left before beta release. While this is going on, my 2nd GPU is crunching out the last of the animation frames. The frames for the animations should complete on the weekend, which will allow the post processing and encoding next week. Takes a little time for the computer to work through, however they are done as a batch process, so not to hard for me. Whilst this is all going on, will still...
2021-07-30 14:07:47 +0000 UTC
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Spent the week doing lewd animations for the upcoming release. Just one animation remaining to pose, plus a few related stills. Whilst these animations are threesomes and require a little more work than the standard animations, they don't compare to the pole dancing animations. Invested a little more time on these, to ensure that the little details and lighting are optimised. It's surprising how very subtle movements can have a huge impact on the quality of the result. Below is just a single ...
2021-07-23 13:49:19 +0000 UTC
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My GPU is off and processing animations for the v0.70 release. The posing for these animations will continue and hopefully conclude, next week. Weekly progress is now starting to align with the forecast work, as the renders become a little more straight forward. What is clear however, is that the release of the beta will not arrive until next month. As a result, I will once again suspend Patreon payments, hence nobody will be billed at the start of August.
2021-07-16 03:15:31 +0000 UTC
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Change of pace over the last week, as I switched to the Tanya backstory. Gave me a chance to flex some of my scene creation skills, as I switched from location to location.
Have the last of the tidy up to complete on the Tanya backstory, following which, I will switch over to posing the last of the ani...
2021-07-09 09:29:28 +0000 UTC
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The renders over the past week have had a higher technical challenge due to the scene complexity. Although with this challenge, comes some very nice results. The main story training sequences are now complete and I'll make the switch to the Tanya backstory next week.
The above image is an example of this complexity. It required tweaking the ship textures and adding fire and smoke effects. Addit...
2021-07-02 10:44:31 +0000 UTC
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Had a little change of pace this week as I switched my attention to some renders related to the Sam backstory. Was a nice change to switch to a more creative set, rather than the cranking out of many images with adjusted character posing. They take significantly longer per image, as the set and lighting has to be customised for each image, however they provide more satisfaction upon completion.
2021-06-25 14:16:29 +0000 UTC
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Still progressing the image renders for the main story content on Dione. I will likely spend all of next week focused on this content as well. The following week I will give myself a change of pace and work on the Tanya backstory. The script / code is largely written for v0.70, hence at this stage it's just a matter of keeping the motivation to crunch through the images required.
The image abov...
2021-06-18 14:41:22 +0000 UTC
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Last week was spent crunching through the renders with the new recruits on Dione. Each image is multi-character, hence multiple figures to pose per frame. This made progress on this portion a little slow. There was also a fight scene which always causes complexity with figure posing. Most of the remaining images in the main story involve fewer figures in the scene, hence progress should be easier to achieve.
2021-06-11 13:54:19 +0000 UTC
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With recent events, I thought I would give you some insight into my past and my work ethic. Prior to working on Callisto, I had an extended career in engineering consultancy. Over the years, the goals of these consultancies shifted. At the start of my engineering career, it was all about the quality of what you were producing and acting in the interests of your client. Really from the global financial crisis onwards, the focus has shifted in consultancies, to a profit motivated, self interest...
2021-06-05 03:16:04 +0000 UTC
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The last week has been less than ideal in terms of game development. Came down with a pretty crappy head cold, that has been plaguing me all week. It is in decline (only cough left), however much of the week was spent in bed. As such development progress on the games was virtually nil.
What has become apparent, is that between the development time lost last week and the number of images remaining, a beta release is not possible this month. As a reaction to this delay, I am going to paus...
2021-06-04 10:05:12 +0000 UTC
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Head down and tail up generating the images for the main story for v0.70. Really just running though the script and generating images as they are required. The other activity during the week, was to resolve the script for the Tanya backstory. It has gone through a few iterations, however except for a couple minor tweaks it is now resolved. A couple Tiffany images to keep your attention.
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2021-05-28 11:48:23 +0000 UTC
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Been a quiet week just working through the posing of the renders for the main story. On top of this there was a little work on the script for the Tanya backstory.
Progress was a little lower than hoped, which may be seen in the below.
As a bit more of an insight, please find the test render as be...
2021-05-21 09:39:03 +0000 UTC
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There have been some real world distractions this week, so progress on renders less than hoped. Currently working on the main story renders of which the below is an example.
The above contains some story choices in order to determine how successful your piloting efforts are. Your performance will also play a bearing in the overall effectiveness of the fleet training.
Progress due to the l...
2021-05-14 12:43:32 +0000 UTC
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The main story script is complete and is currently being reviewed by the Callisto team. As part of this script, I wanted to mesh in the outcomes of the side missions and other items such as your martial arts training with Kara. Additionally, there are far more choices to be made, affecting outcomes in the main story. As I get closer to the end of the game (version 1.0), I can afford to branch more extensively. The increase in branching is clearly visible in the coding of the main story.
2021-05-07 01:40:51 +0000 UTC
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The last week has been a mix of undertaking lewd animations and also story development / coding for the main storyline. If things go to plan, the writing for the main storyline should be completed over the weekend. This and the associated coding only equates to about a quarter of the work, with the images taking the majority of the time.
As with previous versions, I have pushed the animations to the front of the version development. This allows additional time for rendering and guarante...
2021-04-30 03:27:17 +0000 UTC
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Work continues on v0.70, with progress made on the main story script, set and character creation. I have planned out what is possible, within the roughly 2 month development period, I have restricted myself to. Whilst I will tweak this a little further next week, as I complete more of the script, the below is fairly accurate.
I have taken into account of the results of the lewd content poll and...
2021-04-23 04:09:30 +0000 UTC
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In case you hadn't spotted it, Callisto v0.60 was released to Patreons earlier this week. Only one significant bug, related to salvage goods splitting, has been identified to this point. This has since been resolved with the v0.61 release and via replacing the hold.rpyc file should you have downloaded v0.60.
Development has already started on v0.70 with the drafting of the version outline. Associated with this outline, I have done a preliminary schedule, however until I have done the de...
2021-04-16 05:34:55 +0000 UTC
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In the final throws of winding up development work on v0.60. All of the stills for the side mission have been posed and the vast majority rendered. Just need to do a little tidy up on renders that didn't quite come out as intended.
Only remaining piece of new content is the news story, which for this episode is back in the news studio. Hence the render creation for this is fairly straight...
2021-04-09 05:04:56 +0000 UTC
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Quick update this week, as I predominately crunching through the side quest renders. The Rachel backstory development is complete and is more extensive than originally intended. Thanks to ProfessorX10 whom has taken the lead on the script for this content.
The above is from the side mission I am currently working one. On the right is Denear, whom is a Lavarian. On the left is Raz'al from the Po...
2021-04-02 06:09:58 +0000 UTC
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The beta testing has been going very smoothly. Currently there are a couple of little glitches that need rectification, however nothing that will create significant work or affects playing of the beta as released now. The piracy frequency will be reduced for the final release, as it bumped up in the interests of testing. Hence it will not be as challenging as in the current beta. Thanks to some assistance from the development team, I have had multiple contributions to customise the pirate tex...
2021-03-26 05:58:54 +0000 UTC
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Polished off the content featuring Tiffany and Julia last night and made the beta available to $10 Patreons earlier today. A fair amount of internal testing was carried out by the development team, hence the beta should run fairly smoothly.
I have set myself the goal of completing the game by the end of this year, which will require some discipline in relation to what I elect to include. The sc...
2021-03-19 06:51:05 +0000 UTC
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The current version is in the final stages of development, prior to the release of the beta. Following of the completion of the piracy and salvage coding, a couple of things became apparent. It would require more testing than originally thought, due to the shear number of permutations. Secondly, that the interaction with the 3rd side mission reward is far simpler. As a result, I have elected to defer the completion of the side mission until after the beta release.
2021-03-12 07:25:18 +0000 UTC
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Firstly thanks to all those that voted in the Pirate Poll. The results are really not what I expected. One of the interesting things is that Kaa'na and Kii'na are based upon the same asset. The asset creator updated the asset last week to G8.1F and also changed the skin. Funny thing is, that all of you seem to prefer the older Kaa'na variant, than the newer Kii'na variant. I'm going to working on the Piracy content next week, hence if you want your say, you need to vote soon. Also keep in min...
2021-03-05 05:18:16 +0000 UTC
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Been a busy week cranking out the renders for the final scenes in the main storyline for v0.60. Since the last update, I have posed 106 images and 7 animations. The images have already been rendered, however the animations are still in the render queue. Some of these have turned out really well, due to the focus placed on lighting and also some high quality assets. You don't have to take my word for it, as can be seen below.
2021-02-26 07:19:10 +0000 UTC
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Bit of a change of pace this week, as I placed additional focus on the writing / coding side of the game. During the course of the week I completed the writing / coding for the main story with only the renders of final portion to be completed. Over the last couple of days, I have also written / coded the 3rd side mission. This side mission will give greater insight into two more races in the Orion sector.
2021-02-19 14:30:49 +0000 UTC
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Nearing the end of the action part of the main story renders as I put the finishing touches on the combat scenes. These scenes, due to the number of effects, take far longer than typical images to create. Gunfire, explosions, Lia going nuts, all takes time to tweak the little details, to make the image come alive. As a result, despite putting in plenty of time, progress against what was planned was less than hoped. As mentioned previously I hope to get around 20 images done each workday. Howe...
2021-02-12 09:34:13 +0000 UTC
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