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Femtech Wars 3 cover!

Here it is! In a change I am thinking about making permanent $10+ Patrons are getting it right now, before it goes up on the site.

$5 Patrons will get it next week, probably on Monday.  It'll go up on the site  on Friday, May 1st.

I'd love feedback on the idea of Patrons getting the actual comic before it goes on sale.

Productive week on the game so far!

I crushed a ton of bugs and typos. I also learned that one of my assumptions about how events work was wrong. Oops. I did a full replay of my content so far and discovered I'd broken some stuff early in the game with changes I've made but it's all fixed now. So far I've tested out all my new content and it seems to be working.

I'll post previews soon when I get a chance! 

Game previews and comic talk

No terribly exciting previews here. Today has been quite productive so far. I'm making progress on both the comic and the game. On the game side I'm mostly going through and testing, fixing pictures, fixing typos I find. Stuff like that.

On the comic side I'm moving forward. I didn't get much done last week because of the holidays but am back at it today. My hope is to get Femtech Strikes Back out before Christmas. My internal date is December 20th but we'll see if I hit it. I should h...

Femtech Wats: A New Woman page 1

Here's the first page of the new comic. I thought I'd share it with you. I'm making pretty good progress on it. After feedback on my last comic from Stormfries I made the text a little bigger this time out. Let me know if it's an improvement!

Meet Jorin

He's not, as you might think, the main villain of the game.  He may, or may not, be a villain. When (or if!) you meet him in game he can teach your character some skills that tend to lean towards the darker, illegal side of life.

Oh, and some of the ways you can pay may have long term consequences!

Game progress report

Rewriting - Done! As I mentioned a few posts ago I got uncomfortable doing the game in 2nd person. "You feel X" just made me worry players would get annoyed I was telling them what their character felt. I tried rewriting in second person "She felt X" but it felt awkward to me. So I did what I probably should have done and changed it to first person, just like my comics. "I felt X". After that, it flowed really smoothly.

Renders - I redid the renders for the main character except for th...

Been redoing game renders

I've been trying to tweak the skin on the player character and will move it out to others. I want the skin to seem as "real" as I can get it with my skills. I think this is an improvement over what I had in the past. Perhaps not perfect but I think it looks pretty good.

This is the sort of default player image that pops up in conversations and stuff.

Musings about renders

So this is a page from my newest comic. In general I love this image, particularly how the light falls on the skin of the woman on the right. Even still there are little complaints I have about the image.

I spend a lot of time trying to get renders that look good and I almost always have to eventually go "Well, I guess this is good enough." I've been known to spend an entire day on a single image and still not be happy with the end result.

If I had to list my most common issues:...

Been one of those days!

So, my renders were all coming out totally black and the game crashed and I lost like....3 hours of work. I fixed the renders with a simple video card driver update. As for the game, well, guess I'll redo the work...