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Chapter Two update news - important

Righties, after slogging away the news is that I could release Chapter Two this weekend.

Except I'm not going to. Let me explain why and what I'm going to do.

Essentially, I made a mistake in using an asset for the accommodation scenes. The room used, after a lot of tweaking, does look great and on testing rendered at a reasonable rate. However, once I start dropping characters into it, it slows to a crawl. Especially, as I have the realism turned up to the max.

For example....

Weekly update No. 4: Poll results and updates

News and accountability time!

So the poll first and our winner (or loser depending upon whether you are the one in the photo shoot!) was by a single vote.......

Annie :)

So, Annie's shoot and interview are all done (the interview was a lot of fun to write, especially the forfeits she had to do...She, herself was less thrilled...) so that's this month's Bored Pilot out of the way. Thank you to everyone who voted.

As to the chapter itself it's looking...

Just a single vote between them...

The voting for this months Bored Pilot centrefold is -so- close. Just a few days left before we know... :)

Bored Pilot poll update!

Just thought you all might like to know that it's a two horse race between Annie and Harris, with the others standing no chance (so those with voters rights should take note).

So who will it be?

An interview with Annie, who gamely takes part in a game of strip "high/low" whilst we speak to her? Or an interview with Harris who we turn the heat up on in our "hot cell" challenge whilst she explains just how hot she can get when she puts her mind to it?

2019-01-23 12:11:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Well, hello...

Just a snippet from the overnight renders I thought I'd share :)

Weekly update: No 3; poll results and more...

Accountability time!

Important things first though! The poll results for dear Chris.

Romping in first place with more than half of the votes was "Show me how you handle it" with "You made a mess" in second place. I'll confess I'm looking forward to writing both of those :) Thank you to everyone who took part and I only regret I couldn't make all of it optional content due to my rendering limitations. That isn't to say if I can upgrade the IT side of things that t...

Weekend peek

Just checked the overnight renders and I'm pleased to say that's another of the scenes for Chapter Two in the bag :) Click for a peek - and yes this will all make sense. I promise :)

Bug fix is up.

Odd typo's corrected, some minor graphical corrections and I've made the coding a bit more "player proof". Size has been reduced by around 250mb too :)

Onwards with the rest of Chapter Two!

Wednesday morning silliness...

Ran a lighting test for an interior scene for the next chapter that didn't quite work. Rather than waste it, I thought I'd be a bit silly with it instead...

(yes, I know it's an awful joke...)

Weekly update: No 2

Hello again!

So time for me to be accountable. What have I been up to?

Well I've done all the bug fixes for Chapter One. Dull, but important and I'm going to re-release that close to the weekend largely to see if I can attract a bit more traffic for the game at that point. I'm in the odd position of it seemingly being that those who have played it, like the game - but the problem is getting people to play it in the first place. Not that it matters hugely - I just find it confusing...

Some silliness....with a prize!

Feeling in a silly mood this morning as I work on the update news (which will be coming later today) so...quick quiz. 

As you know, Becca asks you to enter your name at the start. If you don't she gives you a default name. So, a pin up of the girl of your choice for the first person to tell me not only what the name is - but what does it mean in English.....

Laters!

**ORDERS**ORDERS**ORDERS**ORDERS**ORDERS

Connection to Ophion Station mainframe established....

Y'know orders are -such- a drag. I mean what could possibly go wrong? 

(also remember -all- content is optional  )

Fight night...

Coming soon...

Weekly update: No 1

I know, I know, I've been quite chatty of late but...first week and all that. All a bit exciting, right?

Well going forward I'll be a bit more measured. After all, it's one thing to keep you up to date and another to be a nuisance. :)

That said, I did say, at the start of the week I'd do an update and it would be remiss of me not to actual do my first one. Would hate you chaps to lose faith in me!

So, how can I possibly have anything to update at this point? Well, I bought a...

Meet Doctor Jones...and Doctor Jones...

So we've met four of the characters in the game so far, so allow me to introduce two of the Ophion science team. Doctors Marcus and Trisha Jones. Ah, it must be nice to meet someone, fall in love, get married and then best of all work together with them.

Especially if, as a happily married couple, you're both sent to an isolated science station with no immediate way to leave it. Just think, you'd get to spend time with them every single day.  Every single minute. With no escape.......

Size matters....

...I mean the game of course. But more specifically I mean the download size. It's huge - even with compressing the images, and I can't expect you to download, say, 600Mb every month.

The good news is it looks like I have a solution in hand. Not only will the chapters be released individually, so you never have to download the whole game every time, but I'm trialling out some more graphical solutions which might well cut down the file size. I won't however, -ever- compromise on graphica...

Game interactions

So! 36 hours in the wild and I was wondering if I could get your views on something before limbering up for the coding of Chapter 2?

One of the things I'm keen to do is learn from my mistakes and build upon the players experiences to have continual improvement.

You may have noticed that I haven't used a highlighting system for clicking on items in scene. I have a reason for that which I'll explain later but I don't wish to influence your thoughts in anyway at this stage.

Som...

And so it begins...

...which I swear was the opening line to a PC game many, many years but damned if I can recall what it was called. I do recall a rather pretty looking vampire in it though.

Anyhoo...I digress!

After several months of writing, re-writing, rendering, re-rendering (and wondering -just- when someone would make a decent spaceship interior that actually made sense...) the little game is out in the wild!

I deserve a smoke after all that lot to be honest - well, I think I do at any ...