Hey guys. I'd like to announce that JV, one of our long-term and one of our most dedicated Prince of Suburbia enthusiasts/biggest fans, has volunteered to be a Discord moderator for us. He has experience moderating for other Discord servers and we think he'll be a great fit for ours too. Thank you for volunteering JV!
2021-12-17 04:04:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, I wanted to give you another quick update. But first, here is the last (M & A) inspired illustration that AikawaAyhen completed for us a few months ago that I've been holding onto.
I've been talking with our programmer, polisummer, and he has expressed to me that he believes he will be caught up with the code by the end of the year for a partial release to the point of the MC having the fall. So, barring any craziness, expect the partial release to come by December 31st at...
2021-12-16 16:34:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I just wanted to give you a quick update. I'm waiting to hear back from polisummer to see what the status is with programming/new script etc. He let me know he got very sick over Thanksgiving but thankfully he is feeling better now. I also wanted to let you guys know that the GUI artist completed their work so we will be putting a custom GUI in (not the Ren'Py defaults) for a lot of stuff in the near future.
Auxiliaryout has completed another animation for us (MC + M). You ca...
What do you think they're talking about? Post your theories below!
2021-11-17 06:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, we're excited to share this teaser for the new 3D Ren'Py game Josselyn Stark and I are developing. Nothing is set in stone at the moment and is subject to change so please don't expect this to be exactly like what will be in the initial release.
The setting of the game will be with the MC starting their freshman year of college. The MC is interested in cameras and working on building their social circle with a focus on building relationships with the women he fancies. The gam...
Hey guys. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up that we have changed the URL for the page so that there isn't any confusion and/or if you need to update bookmarks if you have them. I'm sure you've seen the bull logo and ViM Studios when running the game. That's the actual indie studio name we fall under.
The new URL to access the Patreon page is this: https://www.patreon.com/ViMStudios
2021-11-05 17:26:43 +0000 UTC
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For Prince of Suburbia: Hey guys, I just wanted to give an update on the state of things. First off, I'm very sorry to all of you as things are delayed from my previous expectations. We're doing alright on the art side and are just slightly behind on art assets right now. We have maybe 4-5 more illustrations needed and two more animations before we have the content originally needed before I considered the V0.6 content to be ready for release.
We had to make the tough decision to move ...
Movie sprites would only be used if we are updating the sprites per the previous poll. Please see this post for more information: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-sprites-us-57424455
2021-10-15 05:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostPlease see this post (https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-sprites-us-57424455) for more information. We will likely allow players to choose whether or not they see the old/legacy sprites or the new ones based on an option they can toggle in-game.
This will not slow down development as ScarlettAnn is still working solely on new illustrations - auxiliaryout would be creating the ...
For Prince of Suburbia: Here is an example of some life-like movements the movie sprites would have. Here you can see M breathe and blink. If we updated all the sprites to movie sprites, they would look like this in-game if the players decide to use the new sprites instead of the legacy sprites.
Comments?
For Prince of Suburbia: I spoke with auxiliaryout and we wanted to see what everyone thought of the idea of updating the sprites in the game. The sprites were initially created years ago and ScarlettAnn's artistic ability has improved significantly since then. You can see in the illustration with A from V0.5 that M's face has changed a fair amount since the original sprite was created.
I put an image together comparing the potential new sprite wit...
2021-10-15 04:54:40 +0000 UTC View Post
For Prince of Suburbia:
Here's the teaser for the M sprite/bust makeover with a seasonal cherry on top. This is to polish the game a bit and update things given that Scarlett's art quality has changed quite a bit from this game's beginnings. This will not slow down development time as auxiliaryout is doing this for the project. We're also hoping to have him make slight touch-ups to some of the older illustrations to try to keep things more consistent all the way through.
For Prince of Suburbia: here is the Black character that Scarlett is working on creating the various emotions for. EDIT: This is not the final look for this character. The character will have a different shape for the eyes, they will be brown, and maybe a darker skin tone.
Scarlett is working on the illustrations for the special animation for M in the coming update (animation yet to be worked).
As a bonus, auxiliaryout has devoted some time to helping us revamp ...
For Prince of Suburbia: here is the Patron requested character that Scarlett is working on creating the various emotions for. I'll post the illustrated sprite/bust of the black researcher when she gets to that one next.
I also wanted to let you guys know that we're going to have a special animation for M in the coming update (animation yet to be worked). The special part is that the animation will have two separate views/varying animation (similar to other 3D Ren'Py games). The ending ...
The full illustration for the Head Researcher here is courtesy of one of our patrons, !AmazingOne who originally commissioned the character through ScarlettAnn. I will share the sketch and sprite/bust of the black woman option for the Head Researcher when we get to it.
I just wanted to give a quick development update and let you know that progress is coming along for the next version (to include changes to the first parts of the game). Scarlett is working on setting up the second anima...
The Prince of Suburbia poll results for the new character are in. Option #5 (patron requested character) has a commanding lead. Option #3 (black woman with braids and big breasts) was neck and neck for a while with Option #5 but it ultimately ended up in 2nd place.
Option #5 (patron requested character) will be the Head Researcher. HOWEVER, the feedback has been clear that patrons want some variety. So, since this is the last planned character for the game (to V1.0), we will be doing s...
NOTE: I had to delete the old poll since we had a late addition of a character option. PLEASE RE-VOTE.
Prince of Suburbia will have at least one new character. For this, we want the fans and patrons to help decide on what the new character should look like. Patrons gave suggestions and you can see them all by looking at the posts previous to this one (Option #1 - Option #5).
Please choose your favorite look/character so far based on the sketch and then ...
2021-08-27 02:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a character that one of our Patrons is requesting we give a shot too. I'm open to considering her as well if she is voted in.
2021-08-27 02:13:49 +0000 UTC View Post
For this option, I asked ScarlettAnn to create one of her choosing to see what she would come up with.
2021-08-27 01:56:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Black woman with braids and big boobs
2021-08-27 01:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Woman of Asian descent (Ada Wong inspiration)
2021-08-27 01:53:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Woman of Indian descent
2021-08-27 01:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello Dear Patrons,
I just wanted to give everyone a quick development update. We are on target as far as re-writing the script goes (from the very beginning of the game) and are in the process of reimplementing it from a programming sense as well. The game flow will have some choices for the player in the game in V0.6 so it will not just be a kinetic novel.
I apologize in advance for anyone who liked the doctor and police officer characters in the previous versi...
2021-08-07 20:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello Dear Patrons!
The V0.55 RELEASE has been released for $5+ patrons. There is one new animation/scene on top of what was in the V0.55 BETA as promised. Please follow the link here to download the game: https://princeofsuburbia.itch.io/prince-of-suburbia/patreon-access
EDIT: PLEASE load a previous save that starts just before the last scene you h...
Hello everyone. After looking at potential voice actresses for Prince of Suburbia we have decided to bring HaruLuna to the team! She will be creating custom moans for each of the female characters in the game. There are no plans for her to create dialogue at this time. We have plenty of work for her to do as there are quite a few animated scenes in the game already.
Please give her a warm welcome!
You can see more of her works here:
2021-07-21 19:47:51 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, I wanted to give you all the opportunity to give suggestions before we create a new character (likely the last new character we introduce in the game from now until V1.0 - last new character that will be illustrated anyhow).
The new character is going to be M's boss, the head researcher (PhD). She's ambitious and will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals of having a major breakthrough to show off in front of her peers. A fan has already offered using a character that Scar...
2021-07-19 05:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons,
I just wanted to give you all an update. We're a couple of illustrations away from having all of the art assets needed to finish what was planned to be the end of V0.55. There is a final animated scene already finished that was supposed to be in V0.55 as well. I hope to release the final version of V0.55 this month that will have all of the planned scenes. It will only be a small amount more of story content in comparison to the V0.55 BETA release.
Bigger news is b...
2021-07-09 21:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe patrons have spoken! We will be including some sexy scene sounds with custom moans for each woman in the game so that each one has a unique sound to her enjoyment. We'll also tinker with sex SFX to add some more to the immersion as well. We'll be trying out a couple of voice actresses to handle this.
The plan is not to have voice acting for the dialogue, but to just focus on the moans/SFX. As a reminder, we will put in an option in the game to turn these off if the players don't wa...
Right now in the game we currently play music (specific music for each prospective woman the MC is with during sexy scenes). I've been receiving requests to put in sex SFX into the game. The types of SFX would be squishy sounds, blowjob slurp noises, faint female moaning, etc. There would not be voice acting with dialogue.
That being said, if I were to put these in the game, every player has the option to mute sound as per usual, but I would also include an option at the start of the g...
Hello Dear Patrons!
The V0.55 BETA has been released for $5+ patrons. Please follow the link here to download the game: https://princeofsuburbia.itch.io/prince-of-suburbia/patreon-access
Please note that it has one major animated scene missing from the end which will be added before there is an official release. The official release for V0.55 will hopefully come out someti...