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Leap of Faith - Chapter 5 - Release date

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1 Year, Leap of Faith

Open post for everybody today.

One year ago to this day, I was sitting in front of my computer feeling nauseous. As I was hovering my mouse button over the "Publish" button, I was also working my way through about a hundred reasons why I should postpone it until later.

In the end though, I did click, and it's pretty much been a fun ride since then.

So to celebrate this day, for myself if nothing else, here's a few 'did you knows', which you might... well... not know.

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Illustrated Dev Diary, 19th of March, 2021

Remember last week I said nothing much happened and it was a good thing?

Well, this week has been the exact oposite. Somehow Payoneer managed tag my monthly withdrawal as "completed", even though it was not the case. Long story short, it led to a whole lot of hours throughout the whole week wasted on the phone that was meant for me to put into scripting and dialogue. Frustrating, but at least it was fixed today so I can move on without having to worry about that any more.

Current ...

Dev Diary, 19th of March, 2021

Remember last week I said nothing much happened and it was a good thing?

Well, this week has been the exact oposite. Somehow Payoneer managed tag my monthly withdrawal as "completed", even though it was not the case. Long story short, it led to a whole lot of hours throughout the whole week wasted on the phone that was meant for me to put into scripting and dialogue. Frustrating, but at least it was fixed today so I can move on without having to worry about that any more.

Current ...

Illustrated Dev Diary, 12th of March, 2021

Not much to report this week, and that's a good thing.

I've been going through the scenes, posing, rendering and making overall good progress. Now that I've started the lewd scenes, focus shifts towards animations and of course I need to grow eyes in the back of my neck and develop lightning fast alt-tab fingers from curious eyes at home.

Animation heavy days also means I can catch up on scripting and dialogue as they go well hand in hand with the computer being occupied rendering...

Dev Diary, 12th of March, 20201

Not much to report this week, and that's a good thing.

I've been going through the scenes, posing, rendering and making overall good progress. Now that I've started the lewd scenes, focus shifts towards animations and of course I need to grow eyes in the back of my neck and develop lightning fast alt-tab fingers from curious eyes at home.

Animation heavy days also means I can catch up on scripting and dialogue as they go well hand in hand with the computer being occupied rendering...

Dev diary, 5th or March, 2021

Progress
This week I've been constantly posing and rendering, and I've made very good progress. My render folders show 877 story renders and 6,322 animated frames, which is a decent step forwards compared to last week.

Future
I've also mapped out what to include in the release date video, so it's just about getting it rendered, scripted and edited. I'm still holding back on the date itself due to the huge amount of work left to be done. Some have ...

Dev diary, 5th or March, 2021

Progress
This week I've been constantly posing and rendering, and I've made very good progress. My render folders show 877 story renders and 6,322 animated frames, which is a decent step forwards compared to last week.

Future
I've also mapped out what to include in the release date video, so it's just about getting it rendered, scripted and edited. I'm still holding back on the date itself due to the huge amount of work left to be done. Some have ...

Dev Diary, 26th of February, 2021

"I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it."

Ok, from bad movie references to something more sensible. This week I've only been posing static story renders. I was not looking forward to these scenes due to the amount of setup I had to do, but I found myself laughing out loud on several occasions (you know the kind where the rest of the family turns to you and are wondering if you're ok), and normally that seems to transfer to you, the reader, as well. At ...

Final Main Girl - Wallpaper Preview

Here's a little preview of Sea. The 8th and final main girl of Leap of Faith.

Dev Diary, 19th of February, 2021

I've finally finished converting all the characters to Gen8.1 along with their facial expressions, so that part is all done now, and all story renders from now and forward will be Genesis 8.1. Though after having spent 2 days tweaking this and smashing my head against Daz's quirks, I decided it was time to take a little break from posing.

So this week I've made the most progress with the script and dialogue, where I've added 4000 lines and a little 'micro-roam' event with Holly. I wante...

Poll: Lexi undercover.

Help Holly do the Lexi makeover for a day. Which hair color for her undercover makeover?

ps: This is a weekend poll only, as I will start work on these scenes over the weekend! Vote before it's over.

Dev Diary, 12th of February, 2021

Still steady progress posing, rendering and stitching it all together.

I played through the intro for the first time, and realized how big it actually is. Seems my previous statement that I'm behind on renders was off target. Also, while working on a scene this week I found new material I had to include. A little extra for you in the story. Watch your Step.

The numbers for this week is 573 story renders, and 4,912 animated frames.

Also, I've included some HD wallpapers this ...

Dev Diary, 5th of February, 2021

Looking good there, Lexi.

First of all, I hope you enjoyed the Sneak Peek video last week. Also, I'm sorry if it gave you the impression that this next chapter will be all dark and gloomy. It won't!

Next, for the progress. I've done good work in all areas this week to give me a bit of a spread of the repeating tasks. Animation, script, dialogue and story renders are all coming along nicely. We're at 458 story renders and 4,241 animation frames. And this week I've also managed to w...

Leap of Faith - Chapter 5 - Sneak Peek

Not every chapter can be equally wholesome.

Dev Diary, 29th of January, 2021

This week has been very hectic. I've been doing a bit of everything. Some custom renderwork, renpy, taking time to learn new stuff in Daz (way overdue), story renders, animations and post render improvement (look above - and yes, it's a scene from chapter 5).

Last week I talked somewhat about converting all the girls to the new Genesis 8.1 model. I started by converted Cece to Genesis 8.1 this week and she came out lovely. Though, every single facial expression is completely different f...

HTTP 400 - I mean, thank you!

Another round number passed. Normally I don't really keep en eye on this (which might be the reason I forgot the 300 patreon render). But that doesn't mean I'm not thankful for the support you give.

So many of you have sent me heartful private messages about the game, and it's been really touching to read. I had no idea that my story could affect so many in a positive way, and I'm really glad it did. That means I managed to make the game as I hoped I could and get the message through. 2021-01-25 09:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, 22nd of January, 2021

For this week I've been mostly posing static renders and redoing scene setup. It seems the scenes I've used earlier also suffered the same texture glitch I mentioned last week with the characters. In addition to that, I've been working on the sneak peek video, though it turned out really good and I might use it later on for the release date instead.

I've also scrapped and rewrote the Holly route completely. When looking through the first renders and dialogue I got the impression Holly w...

Dev Diary, 15th of January, 2021

The new hardware is in place and even without the 3090 it is a dream to work with and I couldn't be happier. Posing is much easier, and there's a huge improvement in saving, loading, previewing renders and starting the rendering process. Basically bits and pieces of improvements all over the board.

I still lost quite a bit of time getting everything reinstalled, and I had to rebuild every character in the story from scratch due to old ones were all lacking textures because of optimaliza...

Chapter 5, Game Previews

Preview renders from the prologue and intro.

Dev Diary, 8th of January, 2021

First dev diary of 2021, and first a warm welcome to those who are new and respectful nods to those who's been here a while.

After the release of Chapter 4 and the bugfix version, I took a few days of much needed time off to enjoy the holidays with the family and my better half that for once was home celebrating Christmas and not being offshore.

New Renpy version

I have taken a few days to test and adjust Leap of Faith to the new Renpy v7.4.0 version. There ...

Goodbye 2020!

And that's the end of 2020. It's been a weird year for most of us. Filled with uncertainty where we've had to adapt to new routines to accomodate for the world wide pandemic.

For me it started with the news of my uncle having got cancer. One of the healthiest guys I've known, who never smoked a single cigarette in his life, got lung cancer. A few months later, on the very day that LoF chapter 2 was released, he died.

And even with the world wide pandemic and my uncle in the back o...

Leap of Faith, Chapter 4 complete, is now Live!

Leap of Faith - Chapter 4 - Complete

Changelog:

This part (Chapter 4 totals - for those who waited)

• Added 1,450 (2,461) static renders
• 9,836 (14,217) animated frames - more than 4 minutes of (mostly) 60fps animation
• 8,800 (14,600) new lines of script/dialogue
• 25 new songs
• about 2 hours playtime pr. playthrough
• at least 5 playthroughs needed

Bugfix (0.4.5 -> 0.4.51)

• (Visual) A lot o...
  2020-12-22 15:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, 18th of December, 2020

Christmas is almost here. And so is LoF release date. Yikes.

Captain's log, Stardate 45941 or thereabouts

Currently I'm adding the very latest corrections before building the beta test version that will be distributed to the testers a bit later today. This weekend I'll be working on the bonus scene along with correcting what the testers find of hiccups and my 'late night engrish' spellies.

Also, I have to apologize for being late with this months custom's fo...

Dev diary, 11th of December, 2020

Firstly, here's a little CyberCece for you.

But other than doing this Cece special, it's not been any Cyberpunk for me. All of this week has been about finishing up as much rendering and posing of what I have planned for this release, so I can start the polishing. And I'm getting there - slowly but surely.

I have 2 (to 3) animations left to pose, along with another animation that is rendering right now. I'm also down to my 70 last static renders. Current render count is 1.325 stat...

Dev Diary, 4th of December, 2020

"No, you're 'drunkerer'."

The weeks are flying by as I keep pouring those renders out. This week has been a little bit of everything. Animations, scripting, posing, still-renders, and picking out music to fit the mood.

I'm at 1,210 static renders and roughly 5,500 animation frames. I've also added about 2,000 lines of dialogue, scripting, a little mini-game and bought all the christmas presents I had on my list. Oh, and don't worry about that mini-game. You can't ...

Dev Diary, 27th of November, 2020

Progress report

This week I've been focusing on keeping the render queue filled with static story renders. My goal was to finish a big in game story event by today, and I'm happy to say I managed to finish it yesterday, which gave me a very small head start on the Kira/Robin route.

Render count is steadily increasing, and the full Chapter 4 now has more content than the three first chapters combined. Static render count for this update is currently at 1,123 static...

Dev Diary, 20th of November, 2020

Progress report

It's been another week of mostly posing and rendering, and doing some script work. It felt like the week was over before it started, and the amount of work remaining before I have to push Chapter 4 to the testers is simply put insane (*rolls up sleeves*), but a fun challenge.

At the moment I'm at 919 static renders, and 3868 animated frames. I have about 600 static renders to do still, and about 1500 animated frames, and countless hours of scripting in the 4 weeks ...

Dev Diary, 13th of November, 2020

I hope you all liked the Release date video, and I hope you're ok with the extra wait for the release.

The reason for including both part 2 and 3 in one go was because of time issues. When Chapter 3 was out, I predicted it would take until Christmas to do all parts of Chapter 4. But I didn't take into account that releasing them individually means I'm loosing 1.5 weeks for testing and the release itself for every part, meaning I would not have been able to reach the Christmas prediction...

Leap of Faith - Chapter 4 - Release date

Here we go. At least now you know when. :)