I know a lot of people don't like Steve. he seems like a very slippery type. but I like him a lot. although Viv will definitely get in trouble for that sycophant.
This is one of the intermediate characters in our game, she is so cute! I love drawing the fur on her neck and fluffy tails! and dragons. it's a shame that all the animals in our game are real. so the city would be overflowing with dragons. and Viv would be a cute dragon. i assure you.
So, I finished writing the dialog with Steve that I talked about in the previous devblog. Now I need to introduce another character into the game, but here's the problem, I don't know the character's exact name and gender. Bisa sent me some references but I'm a bit confused, the first image is a girl and the second one is a guy. So I have to pause until this detail is clarified, if there is an owner of this character among you - let me know. I hope I can seamlessly integrate him\her into the story. I'm amused by the way I work with other people's characters, they're just a tool in my hands that I use to move the plot forward as I had planned before. Nothing special but makes it feel like the town Viv lives in is really big and has a lot of different animals living in it. I don't know how it feels, because when you're a developer and you go through a game 100 times to test it properly you get addicted and get a different feeling than if I was a player.
So let me know in the comments how well I did in creating the city, what you know about it, and how the world Viv lives in works. I'm really interested in your opinion.
Guys we have a new policy. sorry for this in advance, but otherwise we see no way out. all new updates for the game will be released only for paid subscribers, starting from 3$. old updates will be released for everyone.
Let me explain the scheme! for example we released update 0.1. it will be only for paid subscribers, then we release update 0.2. and now update 0.1 becomes generally available, and update 0.2 only for paid subscribers.
I hope you understand that our income has dropped a lot, we live on the money we get from patreon. there are 2 of us in the family. yes we don't release updates so often lately. but there are a lot of good reasons for that. we will try for you every day! and we hope for your understanding. thank you very much for your attention. love you all! good luck!
Goddamn it, I finished that goddamn branch with Randy. That's where most of the content in this update is hiding, by saying the word large I mean about 70% of all the code at the moment. The only problem is that the path to this huge piece of content isn't easy to find, and I probably won't fix that. All because Viv can't be in two places at once, and while she's wasting her time with Randy, she's missing the opportunity to talk to Steve at the same time, maybe. Anyway, I have no idea when I had time to write such a huge piece of script since power outages in my city have become even more frequent. I wrote this post on the second attempt because my internet was cut off, once again (this happens often and randomly lately). I still need to write one long dialog with Steve and make all the plot branches meet in one place, then I'll start working on the sprites.
So, it's been a while since I've written my devblogs. It's about time for another one. At the moment there are very frequent power cuts in Ukraine, out of 24 hours there is only 12. On the other hand now the blackouts have schedules and they are not random, which is already good. I'm currently writing code for a script, it's the only thing I have time for really with this blackout schedule.
Despite the fact that I have a generator, it takes a hell of a beating on inspiration and it can be very difficult to catch the flow. But let's not talk about the bad stuff.
At this point in the writing I've come across the fact that at this point in about 500 lines, Viv has never once encountered any sexual or even slightly vulgar scenes. That's not cool considering we're having a porn game anyway. Tomorrow I'll try to fix that and add a couple of sex scenes with one guy, you might have seen him in a previous update, it's a raccoon named Randy.
And naturally I'll leave it up to the players to choose whether to do it or not. It is very important that the refusal to have sex with Randy would lead to another interesting scene and not just skip the scenes with Randy.
It's basically what has always annoyed me in other visual novellas, and I try to avoid it in Viv.
The image I attached to this post is a meat golem I made in a blender a couple of weeks ago when I still had electricity and could afford to do something other than code Viv. (It has nothing to do with our projects, it's just my practice that I share with you).
This update contains the beginning of day 5 of Vivien's story. Developing the storyline with the stalker rat and Mr. Scroop. Also in the game there is a new (important for the story episodic character).
The game is finished. but we have an error when making the game for android. we will post for pc, linux and mac. For android we will post in the next few days. I think in 15-20 hours.