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RoE Devlog 7 - Upcoming 0.09 Release

Hey everyone, with version 0.09 just about finished I want to show you what we've been up to.  We're aiming to get version 0.09 out before the end of the month but still have a couple of big ticket items left on the to-do list so there's a chance we could overshoot.  We should have a clearer idea by this weekend so I'll keep you posted.  A couple of the placeholder backgrounds have been replaced, including the creek:

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October 2021 Pinup

Final poll results were:
Eryn: 24
Raisa: 13
Lucine: 10
Rithe: 10
Lena: 9

RoE Devlog 6 - Version 0.09 And Beyond

Hey everyone, we've been hard at work on version 0.09 and have a lot of things planned that I'd like to go over.  First up I'd like to welcome all of the new patrons with a recap what the next couple of versions are going to include.  The first 6 days in the game are a short prologue chapter that we plan to complete by the version 0.10 release.  Version 0.09 is going to cover day 5, and version 0.10 will cover the day of the festival which will feature some major events and nee...

Version 0.08 Progress

Hey everyone, just want to give a quick update on the final release of version 0.08 which is set to replace version 0.08a.  The artist has moved on to the upcoming version 0.09 renders while I finish implementing the last of her new and improved character sprites into the game.  I'm still on track to get this update released tomorrow with a working gallery and some additional bug fixes, so stay tuned.

Quick Update

Hey everyone, Just wanted to let you know that we're on the home stretch for this release.  If all goes well it should be coming out Sunday evening, but if we hit any snags we'll wrap it up by Tuesday.  There's still some more optimizing to be done, so we're going to split this into a main release followed by a small hotfix shortly afterward like we did for the last version.

September 2021 Pinup

Eryn drying off at the creek

Lucine Handjob Scene Animation

Here's the process that we went through to create the animation for Lucine's H-Scene. 

RoE Devlog 5 - Performance Updates & New Sprites

Hey everyone, it's coming up on the end of the month so it's about time for a progress update.  Version 0.08 is just about done with one and a half renders left to complete before release.  This is a pretty massive update that adds in some additional events for day 3 as well as the complete events of day 4.  Before I go into the other major tweaks and changes we've made, I want to paint a quick of a picture of where we are with development to set some expectations.  The fi...

What's Coming in Version 0.08

Hey everyone, version 0.08 is underway so it's about time to let you know what we're working on.  First up in terms of story we'll be adding a scene with Raisa to the existing events of day 3, then finishing up day 4 of the prologue which will have 2 rendered scenes.  As far as artwork goes, we're going to continue improving our sprites by bringing the rest of the characters into the new pose-able system.  We've already finished with Raisa and added her pregnancy morphs.  ...

Another Quick Update

Scratch that last post - We have one last render and a few more face animations to finish up and will have the release out midweek.  In the meantime enjoy some artwork!

Quick Update

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that we'll be releasing the new version this weekend.  Since we overshot the release we decided to add a couple more things, including a fixed render and a set of pregnancy morphs for Eryn that can be seen in the Sprite Viewer for now.

Upcoming Scene

Quick Update

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you all a quick update on our 0.07 release.  By the end of tomorrow we'll be down to our last two renders.  We're aiming to drop the new version before the end of the June, but it looks like we may overshoot by a day or two.

Biggest things you'll notice in 0.07:
-Completed Lucine H-Scene & story events through day 3
-Full redesign & beautification on Eryn
-Sprite pose system implemented for Eryn & MC, others to follow lat...

RoE Devlog 4 - Sprite Changes

Hey everyone, just wanted to update everyone with our progress on the upcoming 0.07 release.  In the last post I mentioned some major tweaks to the character sprites, and I'd like to show you what those look like.  In previous releases the bodies of our sprites were treated as a single layer which has a lot of limitations.  For example, when the main character carries Lena's firewood that pose was saved as an entire second sprite, which eats up disc space and makes the script o...

Lucine's Fence Render

Here's a recap of our art process for the render where Biorn helps Lucine with her fence.

Also - We did some tweaking and beautification to Biorn & Eryn's character sprites while we were adapting them to our new and improved layered image system, and it really is a massive improvement.  Their new sprites will be in version 0.07, but Lena, Raisa, and Lucine will probably be saved for the next update to save time.  I'll post a proper devlog later on this week with...

Behind MC's House Background Render

Here's a time lapse video showing our final render for behind Biorn's house.

What's Coming in Version 0.07

Hey there, with 0.06 released I figure it's about time to update everyone on what to expect in the next version.  First and foremost, we didn't want to hold up version 0.06 any longer but we still have a bit to finish up on Lucine's H-scene.  To do that we're going to render a bit more detail as well as complete the finishing animation.  Once we wrap that up, we'll complete the story events for day 3 with a few new renders.  That brings us to a major housekeeping update th...

Working in the Market Render

Here's a time lapse video showing how we made the two renders of Biorn working in the market alone and helping Lucine set up her cheese stall.

Raisa's Drinking Render

Here's the time lapse showing how we drew the scene where the player character buys a drink for Raisa.

Finished another final background

What's Coming in Version 0.06

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you all an idea of what we're working on for the next release.  Version 0.06 is going to start moving into the events of day 3, and will be our first release with a fully animated h-scene.  After making a list of all of the artwork required and estimating the time, we decided that we're going to split up day 3 into 2 smaller releases so that we can get them released faster, ideally closer 1 month each this time around.  While our artist is work...

Baylor's Character Sprite

Here's a time lapse showing how we drew Baylor, a side character who will be popping up for a short scene in the release this weekend.

RoE Devlog 2 - Version 0.05 Finish Line

Hey everyone, with version 0.05 just about done here's what to expect. In addition to a few minor tweaks to day one, we have doubled the play time by adding in all of the events of the second day. The first day was all about introducing the world and main characters, but now in day two your choices will begin to have an impact on which story pathway you unlock. With that in mind, we've also been working on both a route map and journal system to make it all easier to track. We need a bit more ...

Quick Update

Hey, just wanted to drop a quick update on our progress on version 0.05.  We're starting on our final big render this weekend and should be ready to drop the release towards the end of next week at the latest.  I'll get some timelapses posted up this weekend for some of the new artwork we've added.

Final Marketplace Background

Since two of our renders in the next release are going to be taking place around here, we went ahead and updated the placeholder background we had for the marketplace.  Here's a timelapse video showing our process.  

Rithe's Character Sprite

Here's a time lapse showing us creating Rithe, who will appear in the next release along with one more side character.

Raisa's Intro Render

This was the final and biggest render that we added to version 0.04, when we introduce Raisa in the blacksmith's shop.

Lena's Intro Render

All of the artwork for Lena's intro scene is now wrapped up.  With that taken care of, we're finishing up the last render for Raisa and getting ready to launch the updated version.

A simple animation of Lena falling

Here's another quick process video showing a time lapse of us creating Lena's intro scene, this time a simple falling animation.  It looks like we'll be ready to drop the new release by this weekend.

Animated H-Scenes

I have some great news, it looks like we just found a way to double the number of h-scenes that we can produce in a set amount of time.  With AI frame interpolation, we can get smooth animation loops with just 6 drawn frames.  Doing this at full game resolution takes way more VRAM than we have access to, so we still need to overcome the limits of my tired ass GPU before we can take advantage of this.  In the coming months I'm going to experiment with techniques that break anima...