February is the shortest month of the year, yet we managed to get a lot of work done.
I think it's safe to say we're even slightly ahead of our quarterly schedule, and that's great news.
Here's the debriefing of the work we got done in February:
We may be silent, but we silently work :)
Here's a brief report regarding what we have accomplished in January:
- Procedurally generated Chibi (check the gifs above);
- Animations for chibis: (idle, walk, run, jump, sleep, sit);
- Renpy-like Visual Novel system to display dialogues and allow user input;
- Custom shaders to change dolls (and chibis) appearance with minimal impact on performance (in R...
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Please consider this Patreon account as a tip jar, and feel free to download our past games from the list down below.
- GIBC (Girls in The Big City)
- Ciri Trainer
Thanks for all the years of fun we had together.
TheWorst & DarkTl
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2021-01-16 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
starting from the end of 2020 -and for the sake of the transparency that so many "when it's ready" projects lack, here on Patreon- we have decided to share a quarter-by-quarter preview of what you can expect from us in 2021 in terms of game development.
As you should already know by now, the ongoing transition from Renpy to Unity meant that we have also lost Renpy's visual novel features.
However -since our cur...
2020-12-24 16:15:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
let's sum up our progress for this month:
- we are done rigging both dolls and all outfits, porting them to Unity (which will allow us to animate dolls and swap skins pretty easily);
- while we were at it, we have also added a few accessories/outfits for legs (stockings, socks, garters and the like);
- we have added particle systems to wings t...
While Ren'py has (had?) its uses, being a very convenient engine to create simple visual novels with none to basic animations, our games never were "simple" novels.
As many of you have witnessed over the years, we have always added complex minigames and advanced animations that pushed Ren'py to its limits, while forcing us to constantly struggle with its limitations.
For this reason, we have decided to switch to Unity as our engine of choice for our...
Yes!
it's here, out of the blue, and with an official title too (loved the rhyme!):
WinDolls v0.1 (PC):
DOWNLOAD
Have fun playing this WIP (Work In Progress) version, and please join us on Discord to let us know what your feedback i...
What's up Gentlemen,
Here's what has been added since the last update:
Hi everyone,
First of all:
Feel free to join us on Discord, there's a lot more development-related stuff we discuss in Patrons-only #devs_corner: It would feel like watching us (and our cats) working, everyday. :)
That said, let's share a quick update on our work:
1) Character Management screen is ready (picture 1), and it w...
2020-07-20 16:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We know, it's been a long time.
And we know, there seems to be a virus around that is preventing others from working.
But guess what? That wasn't our case.
Covid-19 took its toll on our freedom, forced us to rearrange our everyday life, it even took people we knew away from us (RIP, you all).
But if it really wants to stop us from working on our next project, then it will have to try harder than this.
And that's mostly becau...
Witty puns from movies from the 70s aside, sorry for the delayed Patreon update.
Flu (or whatever it was) happened on last saturday night, and let me tell you, that hit me hard.
However, "hard" was not hard enough, and poor virus couldn't possibly know that his host was one tough motherf**** with a deadline to meet.
And since I've decided that NOTHING would've delayed last chapter release, I've put my 38-39-ish fever on hold and resumed work on <...
Ciri Trainer is a work of Love, and as such, it deserved a special release Date:
February the 14th, 2020.
(See what I did there? :P)
As for development: the Bonus Gallery is ready (100 "behind the scenes" images), and we're currently busy with the last chunk of proofreadin...
If he was still alive, I like to think Bob Ross would have loved this (mysterious) city I have drawn for one of the endings...
...But then again: who cares? It took me just a few hours, It was fun, and I've loved every minute of it...Which at the end of the day, is all that matters :)
So long story short: I've been pushing all of the endings today, and I'm currently directing them with the priceless help I'm getting -as usual- from my man DarkTL.
After t...
Dear people of the interwebs,
it's with great pride (and a bit of sadness) that I hereby announce that we have added the last scene to the game!
I can now work full speed on the three ending sequences (good/neutral/bad), and for how rough it was sketched, the sequence from picture #1 serves as a proof that I got back at drawing with a proper tablet (versus mouse drawing sample from picture #2...
...And win a DRM free copy of "The Witcher Tales: Thronebreaker"!
4th Retweet Contest (Terms & Conditions):
How do I enter the contest? 2019-12-19 11:41:58 +0000 UTC View Post
According to this poll, most of you guys wanted Mistle to be featured as a side character in Ciri Trainer, at some point.
You asked for her, we've added her: so here she is, ready for a hot scene in Chapter 5! :)
As for last week, DarkTl has been busy with the "4 (mysterious :P) girls" scene and the "Mistle" scene (screenshot...
First of all, I just wanted to share the excitement from receiving the cutest of Ciri -japanese- figurines a few days ago.
Tried to mimic our Ciri fighting pose, but unfortunately, it's not as flexible...Still the cutest thing I've ever seen and will be our mascot until the end of Ciri Trainer development. ^^
Speaking of development:
We've been tweaking a few issues with some Battle Engine characters proportions, while essentially working on ...
Win up to $50 in Steam Gift Cards and "The Witcher Tales: Thronebreaker"!
Starting from August 2019, we have decided to hold a “Retweet Contest” every month!
So if you love Ciri Trainer, don't miss out on this chance to help (and get rewarded in the proce...
With Chapter 4 release cycle ended just yesterday, we can now officially start focusing on Chapter 5 only.
By the way, we hope you guys are happy with Chapter 4, and we hope that Chapter 5 would make you even happier.
Speaking of happiness: take a look at the character in the screenshot above.
It's an OC of ours we're yet to find a name for, so could you please suggest a name in the comments down below? ^...
Win up to $50 in Steam Gift Cards and "The Witcher: Enhanced Edition"!
Starting from August 2019, we have decided to hold a “Retweet Contest” every month!
So if you love Ciri Trainer, don't miss out on this chance to help (and to win a juicy Steam Gift Card in the process)!
2nd Retweet Contest (Terms & Conditions):
"Late" update, and for a reason:
after a few years of saturdays/sundays weekly updates (I guess we've started this "weekly trend" prior to starting GIBC development, in 2017) we've decided to move it to Monday(s), as it made the most sense from a "past week accomplishments"/"new week's resolutions" standpoint...I guess.
So without further ado, let's go straight to the checklists we all love so much:
What has been done last week:
Our first Ciri Trainer "Retweet Contest" is over and we have a winner (draw verification page link) :
Congratulations, RJVorris!
2019-08-31 09:03:35 +0000 UTC
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Win up to $50 in Steam Gift Cards!
In an attempt to improve Ciri Trainer popularity (thus increasing support and add more quality chapters to it) starting from August 2019, we have decided to hold a “Retweet Contest” every month!
So if you love Ciri Trainer, don't miss out on this chance to help (and to win a juicy Steam Gift Card in the process)!
1st R...
We're not even done with Chapter 3 "release cycle" (ends with tomorrow's $2 release) and we've got a lot of Chapter 4 stuff done already.
We're so excited -especially DarkTl- about Chapter 4 content: as you can see from the above tasks list, it's gonna be huge.
It's gonna be -without a doubt- the Ciri Trainer's chapter featuring the most art,
2019-07-27 15:44:57 +0000 UTC
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We wanted to celebrate the 2K milestone by gifting the 5 fastest patrons with 1 month of FREE patronage, and i have to say, you've been super quick!
So the mysterious character was Leo Bonhart and the winners are:
Sorry for the cheesy headline, but it felt like the perfect chance for a tribute to one of my fav filmmakers while skipping an "etc". *wink*
Anyway:
there's been a lot going on since "Ciri Trainer Chapter 2" release.
We've been busy promoting it via (video) reviews, banners, adv campaigns...And we're graphtreon "sponsors" too now, so I enjoy the opportunity to welcome all of the new pat...
First of all I'd like to thank all the patrons, old & new (by the way: welcome, new ones! ^^) for all the comments we received after "Ciri Trainer - Chapter Two" release:
we're glad you've enjoyed this little baby of ours. ^^
But without further ado, let's introduce the new Patreon tiers!
Since we decided to increase the amount of POLLS -hence involving you more in the development of Ciri Trainer- we th...
Release date(s):
24/03: +$10 patrons release (built-in cheats + PDF manual)
31/03: $5 patrons release (+ PDF manual)
07/04: $1 patrons release (basic version)
...Just saying. ^^
TW ❤
Literally, that's what we've been putting into Ciri Trainer, so far.
I thought Chapter 2 ending deserved a nice voiceover, so I've been writing/dubbing/mixing it myself and boom: here it is, in the above screenshot.
Despite my rusty acting skills (I've been working as dubber/radio host in a previous life, lol) I think the overall quality of this 2 minutes ending sequence should be prett...
