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College

Page from the intro

Clothes (0.1-0.2)

Taking a nap

Bathtub

Minipool

Shower

Wardrobe

Since the game's images are now layered, we can easily add many different clothes for the main character and NPCs. And lots of clothes require different categories to make changing between them more comfortable. The categories are: sleepwear, sportswear, home clothes, swimsuit, casual, evening, and special lingerie. The last category is going to be mostly used in sex-related events. Don't worry, you won't have to babysit main character, she's a big girl and is perfectly capable of changing her c...

Fitness

Here we go again

My previous post caused a lot of stir, so I guess I wasn't clear enough. On hindsight, maybe using words male protagonist wasn't the best idea since the word protagonist is often associated with stories. Usually it's not a problem because playable characters in games are also game's story protagonists, but not this time. So let's make this distinction official: from now on, when I'm talking about the story, I'm going to say Story's Protagonist, and when I'm talking about gameplay elements like d...

Compromise

Last couple of days we had an active discussion about a male protagonist(mp for short). We don't want to ignore the players who supported us from the beginning, but we also don't want to delay the game's development or try to fit a square mp in a round story. Thankfully, we are making a sandbox, so we can try to compromise. A lot of content in the game is going to be unisex and we can add mp for those parts.

Now, about the compromises:

First of all, the main story is sti...

When?

A lot of people ask about release date of the first version of the game, which is why I want to tell you where we are right now in the development.

When I was working in AAA company, development wasn't as streamlined because managing large groups of people is very complicated. But now that we're a small team, instead of drowning in bureaucracy, we can focus on the game development instead of wasting our time with sitting in meetings and reading e-mails half of our working days.

While tec...

Work in progress #1

Possible places for Julia in the living room

We will add more new things for her and other NPCs to do, just like we will be adding new clothes.

Layer up!

As you probably remember, Big Brother had tiers of clothing. Kira moved into the house and everyone changed their clothes, which led to massive amount of work because we had to re-render a whole bunch of images. There were even a couple of events that stopped working because we didn't make new images with new clothes. Adding a third tier turned out to be even more complicated and we had to compromise, replacing limited amount of images in some events. Also, some players were asking us why NPCs d...

Poll results

Our previous poll about choosing your character's gender is more or less finished. Over 2400 people have voted and about 36% want to be able to choose main character's gender. I think it's safe to talk about the results now.

As some of you already know, our new game Glamour is a remake of my first game. I came up with the idea in June 2015, and I've put a lot of thought into the game's story over the years. Adapting some parts for a male protagonist would be very complicated.

Technically...

Inventory

Since Glamour is going to have a lot of items, we're working a good, functional inventory. For example, the game has categories for items like: "all items", "food", "gifts" etc. The categories are temporary and we might change them down the line and add new ones. We'll definitely add "quest items".

Once you select an item, you'll see its description and useful information. If it's a cake, then you'll see how it will affect the main character after eating it. If you give it to someone else, the...

Hall

Gender poll

A lot of people are asking about main character's gender. We firmly believe Glamour's protagonist should be female, but we can't ignore player's desires. Which is why we want to make a poll while the game is still early in the development.

1)  The protagonist should stay female

2)  I have no strong feelings one way or the other

3)  I want to be able to choose between genders at the start of the game

I want to clarify here that option 3 doesn't mean "just magica...

Полное прохождение 0.5 (спойлеры!)

Игра представляет собой песочницу, то есть, открытый мир с большой свободой действий. Однако, одной «песочницей» игровой процесс не ограничивается. Также присутствует несколько различных сюжетных линий, как пересекающихся друг с другом, так и независимых. 

С каждой но�...

Backyard (Updated)

As you can see on the image, it has a minipool, where you can relax in a small company. It also has a place (on the left), where you can enjoy a good book. Julia and Kate can tan right in front of the neighbor's house, so someone will be happy to spy on them. And it's a great place for a romantic dinner.

Updated: added some grass, replaced trees textures, changed the lighting, added depth of field.

Interactive objects

As I've mentioned before, the game will have interactive objects. For example, in the living room it's a sofa, your wardrobe, TV set if you bought one, and the kitchen. After clicking on object's icon you'll go to the object's screen and see available actions. For example, if you walk up to a closed door, you'll see options like lockpick the door, crack open the door to peek, and enter. When someone's at the front door, you'll have options like ask who's there, open the door, and leave quietly.<...

Julia's room

GUI

Since we're planning to release the game on mobile devices along with PC and Macs, we're reworking the interface so it has good usability whether you use a mouse or your finger.

Top part of the screen has important information you want to see at all times: your status bar (I'll tell you more about it later), your money, the main menu, current time and location.

Structurally, the game is made out of hubs with several locations in each one. If you're unfamiliar with this terms, think Kate'...

Dialog UI

Today I'm going to tell you about new dialogs. We completely reworked its design and functionality. If you've played Big Brother you've seen the game had a lot of dialog options like “yeah” and “continue” that were there just to break someone else's dialog in two because the dialogs were taking only about 1/5th of the game's screen. Also the game had a lot of meaningless choices that didn't lead anywhere and it didn't matter what you pick. And Max barely ever said more than one sentence ...

News

Big Brother's development is now officially over. We've finished 0.13 and now we are moving to our next project. I won't link 0.13 in here, you'll have to look for it yourselves.

Now it's time to talk about Glamour. More specifically, game locations. The game is going to have a city map with key locations: your home, college, shops, NPC's houses and other locations. Some of them are going to be unlocked only after Kate learns about them. You'll be able to open city map from certain locations, ...

The main character is a girl?

Many people were surprised by the news that our new game will have a female protagonist. Today I'm going to tell you why I want to do this.

All games with male protagonists can be boiled down to just one formula: you create a perfect alpha-male who fucks everything in his path. That's how they all work, same thing over and over and over again. Simple and predictable.

But when the main character is a girl, then the whole game is completely different. Instead of just being an empty avatar ...

And we're back!

Well, we had a very long week, but we're back now, so I'm going to explain what happened for people who don't follow us on discord or telegram.

If you missed it, our page was suspended for a couple of days. Recently Patreon has decided to crack down on certain, em, let's call it sexual preferences, so now Big Brother is banned from this website. We're still going to finish 0.13 because it's almost done anyway, but 0.13 will be the last version of Big Brother and we won't be working on it any t...

Kitchen (Project G)

Julia (Project G)