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Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday all!,

Business as usual this week. Just grinding away with development. While working, I've also been letting music play in the background and saving tracks I enjoyed. Around CH4, I had told myself to make CH5 trackless until the composer can compose the full soundtrack. But playing scenes without music is just so jarring for me. So, I'll continue to insert temp tracks until we get the full tracks.

I have about 13 scenes left to complete. There are about 4 additional ...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Hey everyone!

Real sorry for the late post, I wanted to drop the 4.2 patch along with this devlog and I try not to bug you guys with too many notifications. I was curious about the memories section and glad I decided to double check it after clearing the persistent file. It took me a while to find a solution but I found one and works great. Because the changelog is lengthy, I'll post the txt file to this devlog again. The file is almost a gig large because I merged some core files to ex...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

What a week. Sometimes I wish I could just slip into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and just crank out as much as I can. But it's safe to say that I got through the Steam checklist last week. I just need to tighten up V's intro and insert the renders that I had to do to patch things up. The long awaited CH4 4.2 patch should be here this week. It addresses a lot of things that I had been holding off on for a while, as well as insert the remaster for one another scene from CH1,...

Cross-promotion! - Projekt: Passion

Hey everyone!

The other week I mentioned fellow dev Classy Lemon helped arrange the trailer for me. Here is his game Projekt Passion. I'll let him take it from here.

Title:
Introducing Projekt: Passion

Projekt: Passion is a futuristic adult visual novel filled with comedy, drama, violence, and romance.

This is an adult visual novel set in ...

Artemis DevLog - CH5 (FEB27)

Happy Monday!

I got a lot done last week in preparation for this week. This week I'm going to hammer out what is left with my Steam checklist, which isn't much. Some key things being resolving some minor CH4 issues (including the removal of the music from Chapters 1-3). Part of Chapter 4 work was me preparing for this change in music, which I had completely re-done the naming so the music files can be easily swapped for any future changes without breaking the code or redoing it. Just a ...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday all!

Thanks everyone for wishlist boost for Steam. There was a nice spike last week. The trailer is in its final stage. Since music was chosen from CH1, which is still Artlist music. I decided to remove nudity from the trailer. Which wasn't even a problem at all, barely an inconvenience. Since there's was only like two frames from the whole 2minute trailer. So, once it gets back to me I'll share it either today or tomorrow. Depending on when it gets back to me. It's probabl...

(NSFW) - Valentine's Day with Kindra

Meant to post this earlier today! Happy Valentine's Day from Kindra!

4K version attached below.

Artemis - Book Two outfit

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday all!

Another week zips by! I'll start with some mild bad news. I have to push back the Steam release a bit further. I've been mostly focused on CH5 and have not done much work on the Steam build as a result. It's been a bit stressful juggling both while trying not to make the CH5 another 9 month cycle. Doing my absolute best to release sooner this cycle. Back to Steam, on top of the Steam build not being done, I also haven't done much marketing with it so the numbers aren't...

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Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

This week sort of flew by me. Even now, I had to double-check if today was Monday. I believe I mentioned this before. But as I was working on scenes that didn't involve Artemis herself this week, I noticed how much her being in scenes really increases render times. Granted lighting in 3D space is a major factor in render times and I've been doing a lot with lighting adjustments this chapter. I've also adjusted the render settings this time around, moving away from denoisin...

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One of the many new locations being featured in CH5. Time to get out of the workshop and explore more of Central Pointe City.

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Good Monday to everyone,

been a busy morning. Spent most of it tweaking the new NAS and setting things up. It's now up and running with plenty of storage to shield Artemis from data issues (knocks wood).

Also, thanks for the feedback regarding future projects. Storytelling I've always enjoyed. I hadn't written anything in 10 years before Artemis. So getting back into the groove has just been great for me. And the whole point of bringing it up to discuss was just to give me food fo...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

I was working on a scene this week that I ended up having to back and correct. Basically, I accidentally disabled a light for one shot and forgot to enable it again for 4 others. While working on restoring the light, I was distracted, stepped away, and came back. And well sort of messed up one shot big time. Fortunately, I was able to log into my backup service and restore the file from the previous night. But that had me thinking, what if that one backup wasn't enough and...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Hey everyone!

Things are steady on the development front. There's a feature I've been working on since chapter one. It's sort of a morality scale but, I guess not really a scale as it doesn't dial back depending on your actions. Both will increase as the story progresses. I'm still tweaking and I'll finally be putting it to the test this chapter. Much like DK, it's sort of a hidden mechanic. DK has a hidden point system in addition to her love points. I could have easily written her to ...

Chapter 5 preview

Hello, world.

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

I had my hands in everything last week, Steam preparation, 4.2 patch, CH5 development. Steam front of things; I initially set the release date to be end of January. There are still things to do on that front and if I were to stay on track that would mean I'd have to take a nice chunk from CH5 development which I don't want to do. So, I'm pushing the date to March/April for Steam. Steam version doesn't get rushed and CH5 development stays on track.

I want to take a mo...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy New Years!

Hope everyone stayed safe during the holidays!

I received the shirt just before leaving to see my family. The first thing that caught my eye was the color of the art. It looked slightly washed out and didn't have a vibrant color. During the holidays my friends and I managed to sync up and one of my buddies who is a graphics designer/marketing guy gave me some notes on it. So, I'm going to review things today and submit for another test print to see how it looks af...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

There's a lot of scenes that I'm excited to work on for this chapter and last week I got to mark one of them complete. On top of that, I have commissioned another track to be made. This one is Artemis' character theme. We're still working on the track, but it's coming along great and listening to the current draft had me tweak the script for the scene I plan to use it on. Once I'm satisfied with it, I'll cut a sample to preview. I don't wish to splurge all at once, so when...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Hey everyone!

For starters, I just want to say I just ordered a sample of DJ Kink's World Tour shirt. I just want to see how the quality is and what to expect after a few runs through the washer, etc. Basically, do a bit of quality assurance before making it available.

Also shoutout to someone in our community, dollie+, for working on the art on the back. You can check out more of their work on https://www.in...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday all!

Just a small update on CH5 progress. Looking at the scene outlines, CH5 is at 14 scenes so far and that's after some major revisions of scene layouts. Slightly concerning seeing how I'm trying to keep CH5 as contained as possible and not let scenes get too bloated. And there are still many scenes planned, so I need to review CH5's flowchart again and see if there are any places I can condense a bit more. I already know how this chapter will conclude and how I want to g...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday all!

This week was fairly short for me with the holidays and visiting family. Though I still managed to get some things done.

While away, I had some time to mess around. I tested Artemis on a laptop with a controller. Not sure how many of you play on a controller, but I actually enjoyed playing a VN on a controller. Some pain points I took note of were the menus. The Archives, DataLeaks and pretty much anything that's an interface had some issues using the D-Pad. I ma...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

Pretty intense week juggling multiple things. While that sounds like complaining, I'm not. I like to think I perform better when my to-do list is stacked. First off, Artemis store page is now live on Steam. The release date shows Q1 2023, though the release is scheduled to go live on Jan 31st, 2023. I placed Q1 2023 in case I need a little more time to wrap up the Steam build. Because 80% of my attention is dedicated to CH5 development, and 10% is focused on Steam. Not a w...

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

I’ve been dividing my time fairly well this week. The final patch for Chapter 4 should be coming soon. It’s mostly spelling errors, the revised LI backgrounds for DataLeaks, misc UI changes. So I’m not trying to prioritize it over the other things too much. But it’s still high on the list to see done. Only a few more LI backgrounds to complete. There was a bug reported over the weekend and I need to take a closer look at it but I’ll have a solution to include wit...

Ladies of Artemis

Hey everyone! Now that we've gotten to know the girls a little more. I've been curious about of where they stand after getting to know them after four chapters!

You can vote on more than one of course.

Artemis DevLog - CH5

Happy Monday!

Just a friendly reminder before diving into the DevLog. If you haven't already, be sure to download the full version if you're in the TI-86 or T-800 bracket. Tier changes will come into effect Nov 11th, this Friday. To recap:

TI-86 will return to access to DevLogs to keep up to date with development progress.

T-800 will gain access to patch updates only. Meaning when CH5, 6, 7, etc. roll around, you'll have access to those patch updates, but will require you ha...

Artemis DevLog

Happy Monday everyone!

Last week was the last part of my vacation, but I still did some work here and there with Artemis. I manage to complete the first checklist required by Steam. All that really remains is building the trailer and a functional Steam build (achievements as well). I also wrote a script for a trailer and look forward to piecing it together. It’s re-using existing art, so nothing too crazy. I also started converting characters from iray Uber textures to PBR textures. T...

Artemis DevLog

Hey everyone!

Thank you for all the comments and messages left regarding the recent chapter. A lot of work was put into this one and I am glad it is finally released. The Mac versions seem to be giving issues it seems. I had one person mention having an issue with the patch, so I'll be restoring the 4.1 download link for Mac users while I continue to look into it.

My eye procedure went well. Been mostly keeping it shut since I can't wear my contact on my right eye until Friday, wh...

Artemis CH4 available for T-800 tier

Hey everyone! After giving some thought, I decided to release CH4 today instead of Friday. The reason being is I have a corneal cross-linking procedure today for my right eye (I have keratoconus an eye disease for those new here). And I'm not sure what state of mind I'll be in on Friday. So felt it best not to chance missing the date. Hope you enjoy the update!

Also, I released a 0.4.1a patch

For those who already have 0.4.1 can download the patch only. If you're on CH3...