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Weekly Update - Oct 10th

Hi Everyone,

Strange week in terms of progress. If you remember last week, I said I was down to two and a half scenes in terms of rendering. Well I got a little carried away with that half scene I was working on, it ended up being a lot bigger than I had initially intended. I also added another scene. I've made good progress though. So I'm now about to start the penultimate scene for the update (that one won't be very long). The final scene is a bit larger. But in terms of rendering, we...

Weekly update - October 3

Hi Everyone,

Rendering progress this week has been excellent. I'm currently halfway through the 8th scene in this update, with just 2 more after this one planned. Scripting though is a little behind, I need to work on that a little more.

As well as building out chapter 10, I've been doing a full run through of the game, to among other things gain an idea of what I want to fix up in my post epilogue update. There's quite a bit to be honest. I should have been taking some notes, lol...

Weekly Update - Sep 26th

Hi Everyone,

It's been another steady week rendering out chapter 10. Which I still haven't a good name for, it'll default to Semester 3. Six scenes are now fully rendered.

I've added another couple of scenes to my plan for 10. So the total number of scenes now stands a 18. Chapter 9 was 28 in length. Knowing me, I'll probably reach 20 when all is said and done for 10.

From a delivery standpoint, I'm going to revert back to something I was doing earlier in the development pr...

Weekly Update - Sep 19th

Hi Everyone,

It's been a productive week for me. Rendering for Chapter 10 is well under way, I am in the final throws of the 3rd scene right now. This particular scene I am working on I predict will be the largest in terms of rendering effort in the chapter, so once it's done, things will be looking good.

I've mapped out the scenes for Chapter 10 and decided I have too much content! So I'm going to add another chapter to my plan. Chapter 10 will be around 15 scenes in length and w...

Weekly Update - Sep 12th

Hi Everyone,

I think you all know what I have been working on this past week. Chapter 9 dropped on Tuesday of course. I hope those of you how have it have had a chance to play through and enjoyed it.

If you've not got a hold of it yet, it can be purchased here of course through the Best Friend tier, also by paying directly for the post that includes the downloads. On Steam and on Itch too. All versions are now updated to include Chapter 9.

I took a day or so to rest after wh...

Quick Update

I'm nearing the finish line. All renders are done. I've just completed a full end to end. Found a spot where I need to add a couple of renders but that'll not take long. The final few steps are editing the script, fixing all those spelling mistakes and grammar issues. One more full end to end test and compacting down the image files before I compile the code and create the distribution.

It should be done sometime today or tomorrow. Thanks for sticking with me :)

Weekly Update - Sep 5th

Hi Everyone,

So remember last week when I said that I thought we wouldn't be talking about Chapter 9 progress in this week's update. Can we all agree that actually never happened please?

Here is the state of play as of 5:30am as I write this. Scripting is complete, I am testing through the code right now one last time before starting the editing process, thanks in advance, Paul :) Rendering though is what is holding things up. I've really put a lot of work into this final scene I ...

Another dog ate my homework!

Hi Folks,

Just a quick note on progress: I'm getting a little carried away with the final scene. I'm at over 60 renders and have increased my plan for animations from one to at least three, maybe four. I said a few days in last weeks update. It may be longer than that if I don't control myself. It is a hugely important scene though, you'll understand when you play through why I have decided to take a lot of time over it. I'm really happy with the results so far but please bear with me, ...

Weekly Update - Aug 29th

Hi Everyone,

As I predicted last month, I will need a few more days to finish up Chapter 9. Let me explain a little my development process to help you get an understanding of where things currently are.

I basically work in 4 separate areas to build a a release. The Script, that's all that dialogue between the characters. The Renders, all those lovely images. The Code, this marries the images to the script and does other stuff to make it a game. Testing, before you see the releas...

Weekly update - August 22nd

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone is doing great, last couple of weeks of summer in the northern hemisphere, enjoy the heck out of them, for us in Canada winter isn't far away :( If you have kids I always like playing the old staples ad from the 90's around now. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkEOrVaBKIU

Anyway to progress. I've been really happy with it this last week. I should be starting...

Weekly update - August 15th

Hello Everyone,

I'll get right into it this week. I'm around a week behind the original schedule I put out a couple of weeks ago. That sounds bad right? Well it's not all that bad. I'm behind the schedule because I've expanded a couple of scenes and added another. Can I make up that lost time? Possibly. There are two weeks left before the date I had set and I'm very much entering the home stretch for the chapter. I just completed the 2nd part of the "big" scene with one part to go ther...

Weekly update - August 8th

Hi Everyone,

I hope your summer is going great. It's raining here again, we've had an really un Calgary like summer this year. Tonnes of rain, usually there is a hose pipe ban on right now and we've got issues with forest fires, not this year.

Anyway to updates. Steady is the best way to describe this week's progress. My render rig has not stopped. I've also been catching up on the scripting side of things too. I decided to make an internal change to how I build the rest of the ch...

Weekly update - August 1st

Hi Everyone,

Happy August !! Progress this week has been steady. I've now started what I call the "big scene" for Chapter 9. By big I mean pivotal, it's important that I get it right and I'm currently taking a lot of care with the rendering process for it.

Last week I spoke about changing up my plan on how I deliver these last few chapters. I have decided that I will follow the new plan I spoke of last week. So Chapter 9 is now titled "Back to Uni" and will run through those firs...

Oh no, Itch !

I just learned that Itch has now shadow banned all NSFW games !

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1m7thsu/itchio_has_shadowbanned_any_game_with_the_tags/

This is not great of course and means that Best Friends may not be available on that platform any longer.

I hope they are sensible enough to allow games that are already sold to...

Weekly update - July 25th

Hi Everyone,

I've been firmly back in the swing of things this week with my render rig working overtime :) I've fully rendered out 6 scenes since we left our pair at the end of the teaser. I've been catching up too on the scripting side of things.

I'm deep in the thought process of changing how I want to deliver the final stages of the story right now. My original plan was to drop Chap 9 as the last big chapter with 10 and 11 smaller instalments. Chap 9 was to cover year 2, chap 1...

Weekly update - July 18th

Hi Everyone,

The good news is I'm all settled now in my new place and ready to start pushing on again with the development. It's been a hectic few weeks but I'm ready to go now.

I've managed to plot out the next half a dozen or so scenes and fully scripted the bulk of them. I also know where I'm am going for the remainder of the chapter. Not quite comfortable yet on putting a time frame against chapter 9's delivery date, but perhaps by next week's or the following week's update, I...

Itch Version Update

Just a quick note to let you all know that I've eventually gotten to update the Itch version. You can now purchase the very latest version of Best Friends, including all future updates here:

https://faenon-entertainment.itch.io/best-friends-complete

Weekly update - July 11th

Hi Everyone,

This update isn't going to take too long I'm afraid. I've been in the midst of moving all our old things out of old home and helping my wife with her move. I've also had my daughter come to visit me from the UK for the past week, so my focus has very much been on my personal life matters.

I've managed to get a little bit of scripting done, and a few renders but it's been slow progress. We close on the house sale now on the 14th so I am anticipating things will return ...

Weekly update - July 4th

Hi Everyone,

Happy Independence Day for our American friends, enjoy that nice long weekend.

As you know, I've been in the middle of moving houses as I formally separate from my wife. This has obviously impacted on my ability to develop the game. I am mostly done with my move but I will obviously be helping get my wife and our children settled in their new home. That move is taking place over the next few weeks. After which things should be back to normal in terms of my commitment...

Weekly update - June 27th

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick note this week, as I'm currently in between homes. My move went well but I'm not all set up yet.

Te early part of the week saw the upload of the teaser for Chapter 9 of course. The update is live here, for best friend tier (fixed a little mistake with that one, btw, I know who you are :)) and also on Steam.

I hope those who got to play it enjoyed and it whetted your appetite for what's to come with the remainder of the chapter. I don't really hav...

Steam - Updated

The Steam version has now been updated to include the Chapter 9 teaser. If you are a Steam player please drop by there and pick up the update. The update includes the small fixes.

Best Friends - Chapter 9 Teaser.

Available now. This is a very short intro into what lies in store in chapter 9. Enjoy. Please note if you encounter an issue loading from an

Available now. This is a very short intro into what lies in store in chapter 9. Enjoy. Please note if you encounter an issue loading from an old save, try an even older one. I had a problem using a chapter 8 save but was able to load from a Chapter 7 one. If that doesn't fix it, I'm afraid you'll have to restart the game, just hold that CTRL or CMD...

Quick update on C9 Teaser

The dialogue is all done now. Still need to review and edit it. But my biggest outstanding task is testing. I've not been able to do a lot of it, due to the nature of the content and my ability to secure some private time in the household.

I may be a little more than a couple of days. But I don't expect it to be later than Tuesday (my time) for the release to be out. If I can get it out before then I will do of course.

Weekly Update - June 20th

Hi Everyone,

I've completed all the renders now required for the Chapter 9 teaser. I'm working kind of backwards to my usual process here, as I manage the development around my personal life changes. Around 90% of the dialogue is in place ready for an end to end, and I need to do a little bit of coding to get it all fit together.

I think we are probably looking at a couple of days of work here, before testing then release. My plan is to release initially to Patreon Best Friends on...

Weekly Update - June 13th

Hi Everyone,

Progress on the the first brief episode for chapter 9 has been good, well over 100 renders/animations have been completed now. I actually well ahead in terms of renders to the detailed dialogue, which is not usual for me. I will have to catch up there.

My plan remains to get a chapter 9 teaser (it's too small to really call it a whole part) out prior to the end of this month. After that point it's unclear right now how much impact the divorce I'm going through right n...

Weekly update - June 6th

Hi Everyone,

Chapter 9 is well underway. 2 scenes are complete and I am currently working hard on a pretty big 3rd scene. My render rig hasn't stopped, the script is lagging a little but I will catch up. I know where the story is going so it's just about adding that detailed dialogue.

I'm thinking that I may release, to initially Patreon only (although I may look into an update of the Steam version too later), a very short but sweet first part. Probably no more than 2 or 3 scenes...

Happy Pride - 30% off on Steam

Hi all,

To Celebrate Pride month, which starts tomorrow. Best Friends is on sale now. Happy Pride :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3544480/Best_Friends/

Weekly Update - May 30th

Hi Everyone,

The first part of the week was focused on getting Chapter 8 out to the Best Friend tier of course. I hope those on the tier have had a chance to play through it. Chapter 8, took a lot out of me in terms of effort, since then I have to admit to taking a little time to breathe. That's not to say I've been totally inactive, I have a queue of renders for the render rig and it's been churning them out over the past few days.

Chapter 8 is available here of course on the Bes...

Best Friends - Chapter 8 - Summer Hols

It's here. Follow the friends as they embark on their summer vacations.

Maybe I should have called it the Bum chapter because if you are a fan of rear ends this one's for you :) I may have over done it.

This chapter is focused more on path content, the shared scenes are not as large as in previous chapters so to experience all the content you will want to play both paths.

Thanks everyone for your patience, this chapter has probably been the most challenging so far, for a num...

Renders Done

I had a few blue screens of death during rendering this morning but Daz Studio seems to be behaving now. All the renders are now complete. I'm just doing a full end to end test now before I build the distributions :) Not be long.