TakoYuh

Dev Update 05/03/23

Hey, y'all!

Sorry for another late devlog (what a surprise!). 

I finally got my review build uploaded and approved after a day full of stress and confusion trying to figure out how Steam works. Also got some achievement designs ready, I'm thinking of having ~20 achievements at launch, but that number may grow depending on how many I can come up with.

The numbers are now up to 364 images and 8 animations. Hoping to get 80-100 more renders done next week to make up for th...

What kinks would you like to see in game?

April Wallpapers

Dev Update 04/25/23

Hey, y'all!

Had a pretty productive yet restless week, worked my ass off to get some animations done, and messed up a few times during rendering where I forgot to save the final draft and rendered a half-posed animation in its entirety which isn't ideal.

In total, there are now 270 images and 6 animations. That's 20 renders over my goal for the week while also getting some animations done with 2 more in the queue ready to render.

I'm going to be working on some Steam stuff...

Dev Update 04/18/23

Hey, y'all!

Finally on time this week, hoping not to miss two weeks in a row again.
Anyway, I tried catching up a bit on rendering this week but didn't do a great job at it, only managed to get 50 renders done since the last dev update which is a terribly low amount.

The render count is now sitting at 188, hoping to get to at least 250 by next week's dev update.

Writing has gone fairly smoothly though, which is kind of ironic considering how much I struggled to write the...

Dev Update 04/14/23

Hey, y'all!

Very late this time, and that's two weeks in a row. Terribly sorry about that.

I worked on a steam trailer this week and I'm not completely happy with it, but I suppose it'll do for now. You can check it out here 

The current render count is now up to 138 renders and a buncha words.

That's about it for this week, stay safe.

Ily<3

Dev Update 04/05/23

Hey, y'all!

Sorry for missing the dev update yesterday, was a bit busy and forgot to write up a post. Things are going well, I've got around a thousand words and 83 images rendered so far.

The word count may seem a bit low, but it's mostly me making a bunch of cuts to dialogue I feel is unnecessary or doesn't add anything of value. I received some comments about it after the release of Chapter 3, mostly saying some of the scenes weren't fully fleshed out or properly developed, whi...

Dev Update 03/28/23

Hey, y'all! 

I want to thank you all for the support, it truly means a lot.

I took my first post-update break after this release and had a family trip which took up most of this week, I did get a bit of writing done and a couple of renders posed though.

This next update is going to be the Steam release, which I'm both terrified and excited about, you can wishlist it if you want to support the game 2023-03-29 04:06:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Render - Paige

A little something I put together to celebrate last week's release:)

Westview Academy Chapter 3!

It's finally out! Thank you for all your support, it truly means a lot.

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Chapter 3 Release Dates!

Hey y'all!  

Chapter 3 of Westview Academy is coming soon! 

The release dates are as follows:

Rockstar+ patrons - March 20th, 2023

Hall of Fame patrons - March 23rd, 2023

All-Star patrons - March 25th, 2023

Dev Update 03/07/23

Hey, y'all!

Still ironing out the kinks trying to get the update out this month.

The image I used for this week's preview is one of the remade chapter 1 renders from this next update, I really didn't want to remake it, but since I'm going on Steam and first impressions are very important, I figured I might as well go ahead and give it a visual makeover.

On to actual Chapter 3 news, I unfortunately had to cut out a scene in the music path due a licensing agreement falling ou...

Dev Update 02/28/23

Hey, y'all!

Still mostly doing some writing, testing, and adding music to scenes. It's been pretty annoying since most of the songs in the service I currently use aren't great...
I've been thinking of switching over to a new service but I'd have to find one that allows use in NSFW content first.

The numbers are now up to 1190 images and 15 animations.

Anyways, that's all for this week, stay safe.

Ily<3

Feb Wallpapers

Dev Update 02/21/23

Hey, y'all!

Not much to update you guys on this week, it was mostly spent looking for music and doing some light play-testing. Things are looking pretty good so far!

The numbers are now up to 1,130 renders and 14 animations!

Anyways, that's all for this week, stay safe.

Ily<3

Dev Update 02/14/23

Hey, y'all!

Got to work on some animations this week, forgot how much of a pain the Daz animation timeline could be, and had to remake the same animation about 4 times until I got a decent result.

Didn't get that many still renders though, the animations hogged up my queue for most of the week.

The numbers are now up to 1,050 renders and 14 animations.

Anyways, that's all for this week, stay safe.

Ily<3

Dev Update 02/07/23

Hey y'all!

Short update this week. Things are moving along at a decent pace, hoping to speed things up and get this update wrapped up soon.

Had a bit of trouble with a particular scene where I kept running out of VRam or whatever, so some of the renders took over 6 hours to fully render. After doing some optimization, I got the scene under the cap and cut render times back to the usual 30min-1hr.

As for the numbers, they're now up to 1,015 renders and 7 animations.

A...

Westview Academy now on Steam!

We are now live on steam!
Please consider wishlisting the game, it would help out a ton:) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2275560/Westview_Academy/

Dev Update 1/31/23

Hey, y'all!

I had a pretty crazy week, I impulsively bought a 4090 simply because they were going for a decent price. So rendering is now going to be a bit faster and I won't have to worry about the crazy temps on my old card.

I also upgraded to Daz 4.21 and had some weird issues where it kept crashing and it wouldn't let me render certain scenes, so I had to switch between 4.16 and 4.21 throughout the week which slowed things down quite a bit.

That being said, on to th...

Jan '23 Wallpapers:)

Dev Update 01/24/23

Hey, y'all!

I tried catching up this week, think I got enough to cover last week's poor progress.

The totals are now up to 800 images and 7 animations.

I haven't mentioned this publicly, but I'm working on a future Steam release, so a lot of my "dev time" has been focused on cleaning things up over there and also patching up some dialogue and scenes that have been bothering me a bit from the previous 2 chapters.

Anyways, that's all for this week, stay safe.

I...

Dev Update 1/18/23

Hey, y'all!

This week was pretty bad for progress, I couldn't really write or render at all. I've had some personal problems come up and I guess they affected development more than I thought they would. I did start making one-off renders for the image gallery though, so there's that. I'm really sorry I couldn't get much done this week.

That's about it for this week, stay safe.
Ily<3

Dev Update 01/10/23

Hey y’all!

Just a quick little update this week.

The render count is now up to 634 and 7 animations.

Been dealing with a bit of a writer’s block lately, hoping it doesn’t affect progress too much this week, but we’ll have to wait and see.

That’s about it for this week. Thank you all for the support, truly means a lot.

ily<3

Dev Update 01/03/23

Hey y’all!  A good amount of progress was made this week.

Render count is now up to 522 and 6 animations. Progress is looking pretty good so far, if things go according to plan, the update shouldn’t take too long to come out.

That's about it for this week, hope y'all have a wonderful week.

ily<33

Dec Wallpapers!

Dev Update 12/27/22

Hey y'all! I hope those who celebrate had a lovely holiday.

I had quite a lot of free time this week, and it shows in the progress I made. The current totals are now up to 376 renders (with ~25 in the queue) and 3 animations (2 more posed waiting to render).

I also implemented an image gallery, you will unlock images if you go through certain branches of the game or if you play with mini-games enabled. Here's a preview of what it will look like in game.

2022-12-27 21:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Update 12/20/22

Hey y'all!

Didn't get much done this week since I had family over and some of the progress I made was for a scene I ultimately decided to push back to the next update.

I did, however, finish writing and rendering the "main" scene in the sports path, all that's left is to work on the code a bit and try to make it cleaner.

As for the numbers, the current render total now sits at 270 and 3 animations.

That's about it for this week. Thank you all for the support, it ...

Dev Update 12/13/22

Hey y'all!

This week was mostly me playing around with one of the environments, unfortunately, it does not look as good as I'd want it to but it is what it is.
Writing is a bit easier now that I can switch between paths when I'm feeling a bit burnt out, which is a big plus:)))

The total numbers are now up to 220 still images and 2 animations. 

That's it for this week, stay safe ily<3

November Wallpapers!

Sorry for the delay, will try to get the December batch next week:)

Dev Update 12/06/22

Hey y'all!

Another week focused on writing, this time I focused on the sports path side of things. The sports path will feature one major event that will take quite a lot of work in code and rendering, hopefully I don't mess it up since it's a very important scene and it would be a shame if it didn't play out how I intended it to.

The total numbers are 150 renders and 2 animations.

The render above is a one off I made because I made a promise on Discord to make more Lesli...