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Tiers changes and new goals

Hello everyone! There's no better way to start the month than cleaning up the house. So I made some changes, added new benefits and tiers, and set new goals that I'll explain now. I want to make it clear that none of this is fixed, I want to hear your opinions and suggestions.

All visitors will have access to the game's public updates. Usually, it's the second update after the addition of a new Step (vX.X.X.1), or some major bug fix update. They will also have access to the progress bar...

[Report] Meet Tiffany (and give her a family)

Hello friends! Now that things promise to be smoother I plan to deliver a progress report every Friday (or Saturday depending on your time zone), and I will try whenever possible to render or capture some interesting images so that it won't just be boring text.

I spent most of this week tweaking and configuring everything needed to start making pre-rendered images. This will be very important in the game for all still images, like the photos the characters take or receive on their cell ...

[Release] Steps 4 Happiness v0.2.2.2 [Bug fixes]

Hello everyone! I'm very happy because we reached the first goal set. 🥳🥳🥳

Many thanks to all of you who made this possible! It's time to set things right, plan more content, benefits for supporters and new goals to be achieved. My wish is to start the next month working on the new chapter of the game and in full swing!

Downloads: Itch.io

Here's an...

[Release] Steps 4 Happiness v0.2.2.1

Hi! This is the update with fixes and some additions to the v0.2.2.0  update, which introduced the second chapter of the story.  This update  fixes several issues in the game, there is a complete overhaul of the  look of the characters and the inclusion of some mechanics that make the  game more fun, in addition to continuing the story by developing  characters and introducing new ones. The possibility of playing with  Nicole and collecting her cherries also...

What's in, what's out, what's next, and what comes later (and some easter eggs)

Finally, Steps 4 Happiness v0.2.2.0 update came out and I am very happy to see almost everything I had planned working inside the game.

There are 20 new scenes (some recurring with dialogue exchange), of these 10 with quite varied lewd content, including nudes, lesbian, oral, anal, and foursome. It al...

[Release] Steps 4 Happiness v0.2.2.0 🥳🥳🥳

Hi friends, this is the test build of the game, the public and definitive update will come next week, or after I fix the possible problems you point out to me.

• Windows: Mega, Workupload 

Thank you so much to everyone for continuing to believe and support me in this hard yea...

Bugs, cats, and other setbacks

Hey guys. Sorry to leave you without news for so long, the game is already big enough to need time to thoroughly test with each change. My desire now is to leave everything aside to work on this game, but unfortunately, it's not possible.

Last week my internet was cut off due to lack of payment and I can't access discord at the moment because I can't receive the verification code by sms until I pay the phone bill. So I hope you don't get the impression that I'm neglecting the game's dev...

Improvements in game navigation

I made some improvements to the game's navigation, now if there is only one option in the hotspot, this option's icon appears on the cursor and you only need to click it once. The menu only appears if there is more than one option. This makes the game much more fluid.

The game is fully functional but I still have to make some improvements in some scenes, especially in the final scene, I'm going to redo some animations and fix some bugs in movements and facial expressions.  I made t...

Progress Report

Hi everyone, I finally finished the hint system. It wasn't a complicated thing to do, but it took longer than I had thought. Most of it consisted of rewriting some lines to something more didactic.

The next few days will consist of me playing and finding the bugs to fix. When the game is stable I will make it available for you to help me finish the tests.

I apologize again for the delay, ...

New shader in development

Hello people! I hope your week was smoother than mine. I'm having a hard time finding work to cover this month's expenses and this makes my financial situation very complicated.

I didn't get to work a lot on what I had planned, which was the hint system. But not to say it was a winless week I got a really good result on something I had been working on for some time, I made a new shader for the ...

Progress Report

Hello guys! This week I managed to define the logic of the new scenes and this allows me to build the game for the first tests.

I confess that this is the phase that causes me the most stress and I would like to have more free time to work calmly, but I will do my best, focusing on the quality of the game.

I've already noticed a few things missing, like better character switching mechanic...

Chloe Anime Cosplay

Hello people! I've been working on the reconfiguration of the old scenes, which is necessary due to all the changes I've made to the characters.

Another thing I managed to do this week was adapt the anime character costumes I got from the Unity Store for Chloe. As I already had the dance scene ready, I decided to use it to show you, so I also value a little the work that went into adapting this...

Progress report

Hi people, one more report here.

The most difficult scenes are completed. One scene is incomplete, but I'm still wondering if it enters the next update.

I've also made some improvements to my editor to make it easier to modify and add content, which will be great if I have any ideas to improve a scene during fixes.

Before going into the testing and repair phase I have to work on som...

Progress Report

Hello people. Another week, more scenes finished.

The unfinished scenes. involve multiple characters and are more complex to set up. The two biggest ones are pretty important scenes and I want them to look good, so I plan to create some more details.

The smaller scene is a daydream, I'm not very pleased with it. Maybe I cut this scene from the next update.

I took a good look at the ...

Progress Report

Hello friends. Quickly passing by to report last week's progress. The main animations of all the scenes are ready, only the transition animations of the bigger scenes are missing. The smaller scenes are fully animated, with only the settings missing and so they still don't appear in color in the progress bar.

And that's it. I expected to deliver this update  in less time, but the amount of...

Progress Report

I intended to make a progress report last week, but I was afraid the post would hide the demo release, so this will be a report for the last two weeks. But before I want to remind you to check out the Demo if you haven't already, this is exclusive content for supporters is also a way to thank you guys for all your help.

Most of my work so far has been in creating tools to animate scenes as qu...

[Demo Release] The Besties - S4H Demo 02

Hello people. I think only two of you have been with me since I released the first demo so I need to explain, this is not a game update, it's just a scene I chose to present to you guys in advance so you can see how things are going. Follow links:

• Windows: Mega, 2021-08-17 08:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Solved technical issues and Demo coming

Hello people. I intended to release the demo on Sunday, but there were still some bugs and minor details that needed to be fixed.

However, I had a nasty surprise on Monday, my HD where all the game files were, stopped working. I still have backups from the previous version, but all the work for the month was on that hard drive, plus files from the freelance jobs I do to pay the bills. There were moments of slight panic, but luckily after cleaning and changing the cables the HD started w...

Progress and new main screen

The progress bar is a way to give you guys a sense of how the game development is going and how much remains to be done, it's simple to make and doesn't take up time, not to mention it's fun to fill in the blocks.

But sometimes an unforeseen event can make me spend more time on a stage than I had planned, that's what happened with the characters that all had to be redone. Another problem is that sometimes it's more advantageous for me to subdivide the work steps and fulfill several smal...

I need your opinion

Hey guys. I'm kind of worried about where I'm going in character design and I need your feedback. As I already explained, I modified the workflow for creating characters so they could be done in less time. I've standardized the topology, so I can take the facial expression from one character into another, which saves a lot of time. So I recreated all the characters in the new pattern.

As I was creating the scenes the new designs started to bother me a little bit, so I decided to spend s...

Progress Report

Hello friends. Here's this week's progress report:

Nine new scenarios are ready and configured to be used in the game. I've still started working on two others, but I've decided to simplify it a bit and these won't show up yet, but that's why the bar has been lowered.

Now I start working on the scenes, which is the part that I usually enjoy the most.

I thank you all so much, I coul...

Progress Report

Hey guys. I apologize for leaving you almost two weeks without a report, but I had to resolve a serious issue. I had an easy way to transfer a facial expression from one character to another, probably due to some Blender update, it stopped working. This put me in a difficult situation because I would have to spend a whole week modeling every facial expression on every new character. Another solution would be to standardize the topology of all characters, which would mean recreating all charac...

Progress report

Helo! I want to tell you how the work is going for the next update.

I spent a lot of time working on the game interface, the idea was to just improve what already exists, so I tried to give the windows and buttons a jelly look, something that matches the movements. Interface design is one of my weaknesses, so even if I'm not satisfied with the result, I can say it's better, and that should do ...

Planning for the next update

Hello friends. It's time to disclose the plan for the next update starting with the progress bar:

Each block in the bar represents a stage of development that I intend to complete, the block size is relative to the time I expect to take each stage. Nothing is fixed, I can increase or decrease the size, add or remove blocks. The important thing is that as I go through these steps I will place co...

Steps 4 Happiness v0.2.1.2 [Fixes and updates]

Hello people! This update doesn't add content to the story yet, but it should fix some animation-related bugs. For that, I made drastic changes to how the game applies background animations as well as dynamic animations.

These changes forced me to reconfigure the animations for all the scenes, and although I haven't created any new animations, some moves look better because of the improvements.

I al...

Progress report and fixes in lighting and color grading

Helo! I did several fixes in the game and I wanted to deliver an update with these fixes last week, but the changes force me to redo part of the animation of all the scenes and adjustments to the lighting of the entire game, so I took the opportunity to modify my editor, the MaliXe Tool, to automate these adjustments. This is good because these changes speed up my creation process and increase the possibilities of what I can do with the game in the next updates.

2021-05-31 00:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Welcome and next steps

Since the release of the latest version of the game, the number of patreons has more than doubled, and I think this is something to be celebrated. I want to welcome and thank our new supporters and tell you all that I am very happy to have you with me on this journey that is just beginning.

We are still 15% of the goal that I had set, which I confess is a bit worrying, but there is still time ...

[Release] Steps 4 Happiness v0.2.1.1

Hello people! I am very happy to finally be releasing the public version of my game Steps 4 Happiness.

Links:

• Windows 64-bit .zip: MEGA, 2021-05-16 02:38:16 +0000 UTC View Post

[Release] Steps 4 Happiness v0.2.1.0

Hello friends! As I promised, despite the delay, here is the test version:

• Windows 64-bit .zip: MEGA, WORKUPLOAD

I only built the version for Windows 64, if you want another version, just a...

Almost there

Hi people! I apologize for not posting these explanations during the last week, but I took a freelance job that complicated my life a lot.

I had cut out parts of the script that at first I thought I wouldn’t be able to do. In the first tests I realized that these parts were missing, I spent this weekend including these. There is also a long scene in which Brendon remembers the farewell of a ...