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Dev Diary, 6th of November, 2020

This week I've been pushing as hard as I can, so that I can cram as much content as possible into the next update.

Most of the focus has been to set up scenes to pose as much as possible so I can keep the static render queue filled, and setting up animations I can render for whenever I run out of poses.

I'm at 2878 animated frames and 617 static renders. That translates to being about half way through the Linda route, and continuing to work on the story scenes at the same time. 2020-11-06 12:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev diary, 30th of October, 2020

Time for the Friday progress report.

This has been a very busy week. I've scripted about 1000 lines of dialogue/script, along with adjusting the new scenes to past choices.

Render count is at 2112 animated and 425 static renders. That's a whopping 874 renders increase this week (or one every 12 minutes on average).

The Lexi route is done, in addition to some random small scenes with the whole gang, the 'Bunny v2' (with and without Steph), and extended the confessionals (prev...

Dev Diary, 23rd of October, 2020

Hey there, and thank you for stopping by.

This week has been mainly about working on the sneak peek. It turned out to be a whole lot more work than I hoped it would be, but now it's done and I've turned my attention back to the story.

I have one animation and around 20% remaining on the Lexi route. And I have to tell you that I love her route. There's something very nice and goofy about it. Being both complex and simplistic built into one.

Checking on the render count, we're...

Leap of Faith - Chapter 4 (Part 2) - Sneak Peek

Work on the next update is progressing nicely. Enjoy this little Sneak. :)

Dev Diary, 16th of October, 2020

It's been another week with me pouring out renders. Unfortunately Lexi takes about 40% more time to render than any other character in the story, so it's a slow and steady progress. I don't notice it much when it's 50 or 100 story renders. But when we're talking 1000+ animation frames it adds up, when each render takes 10 minutes longer.

Currently I'm at 741 animated renders and 219 static ones. About 2/3rd of the Lexi route is finished, and I've shifted my attention to the Sneak Peek s...

Chapter 4 and it's three part split.

After having finished Chapter 3 and looking more closely at the followup, I realized that there were a whole lot of work and rendering hours needed for Chapter 4.

And because of the amount of work that would go into every girl - having the choice to romance them at roughly at the same time in the story - it would be hard to give a decent story feel to an update if I went by the normal day-by-day update, and therefor decided to go by a girl-by-girl update instead.

The most natural ...

Dev Diary, 9th of October, 2020

Happy friday, once again.

I hope you all have had a chance to play through the first part of Chapter 4, and that you enjoyed it.

The first week after an update will always have a very unflattering render count, but basically I've just been posing stills and animations, and let my computer pour them out. So, currently we're at 115 static renders and 260 animated ones. That's roughly 1/3 of the Lexi path done, and I'm very happy about the progress being made.

For next week, my...

Leap of Faith - Chapter 4, Part 1 - Out now!

Changelog:

• Added 1011 static renders
• 4381 animated frames
• 5500 new lines of script/dialogue
• about 60 minutes of playtime for one route
• at least 3 playthroughs needed

Leap of Faith v0.4.1c

Downloads

Full Version (2.3gb)

Windows/Linux - 2020-10-02 12:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, 25th of September, 2020

Progress

Starting this week with the last of the render update. We're at 967 static renders and 4381 animated frames - totaling 1 minute and 43 seconds of 60fps animations.

When it comes to progress, there's still a lot of small things to do, but I'm right where I want to be at the moment.

• I have 60% of a semi-huge scene to render and pose for
• All the phone stuff (some nukes, phone clock, bios, etc.)
• A few scenes where I expect to be ...
  2020-09-25 12:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post

The weird dev route.

Whenever I set up a scene I check for possibilities to do something special in it, to avoid it being very static. So when I sat Lexi down in front of a piano every part of me said 'she should play that piano'.

And that is basically why I do all of these 'extra effort weird things' that has not got anything to do with the story itself. But I still hope you'll enjoy it. :)

Dev Diary, 18th of September, 2020

Oh shit. Only 2 weeks to go. No strike that, it's a bit over a week until the testers want their copy.

There's still a whole lot to do, and I'm slightly behind where I would have preferred to be right now. The positive is that it's scripting and dialogue, where I can catch up by putting in some extra effort this weekend.

In addition to that I have some rendering to do. There's two scenes I need a few more renders for, and one full scene in addition to that. And then there's the on...

Dev Diary, 11th of September, 2020

First of all I thought I'd adress some rumors which seems to have popped up and caught hold.

1. Drifty stole DPC's phone system.
Although it's no secret that Acting Lessons was a big inspiration for me taking the jump to actually get my story on the renpy platform - there was no phone in Acting Lessons. I did not get a chance to play Being A Dik (then currently being 3 episodes long, with a different phone than now) until the last few weeks before I released Chapter ...

Leap of Faith - Chapter 4 (Part 1) - Release date

Enjoy :)

// Drifty

A dance with the devil.

Well, at least according to some. :) No matter what side of the fence you're on, I promise you a good story.

Dev Diary, 4th of September, 2020

Another week of steady progress, where my computer has been rendering none stop. Minus the one night where Windows quit rendering to update itself. And minus another night where Windows reset to show me the new 'Microsoft Edge'-browser that I uninstalled right after. Thank you Microsoft.

Looking at render count, we're now at 593 static renders, and 2.796 frames. That is 1 minute and 18 seconds of animation in total. And from my script, there's only 1 animation scene left to do.

Wh...

Dev Diary, 28th of August, 2020

So... there I was. Having queued up a lot of renders. Ate dinner with the family, and relaxed on the couch with the new episodes of Lucifer on netflix with the relaxing sound of the computer fans in the background. It's a much better couch than the mc's, let me tell you that.

Then, suddenly, the sickening sound of a fan going haywire. Like if you took a sharp metal object and rammed into it. And the more sickening sound of the computer dying completely. I'm not joking when I tell you it...

Leap of Faith, Chapter 4 (part 1), Sneak Peek

Time for that Sneak Peek again. Enjoy. :)

Dev Diary, 21st of August, 2020

This week has been a bit more busy than normal for me - which is inevitable with kids and school restarts after summer. That is also the reason why the static render count has increased less than I'd like to, but on the other hand I have posed quite a bit of animations, so the animation render count is higher than normal.

I was also hoping to have the Sneak Peak ready for today, but the last animation is still rendering as we speak, but it should be ready sometime this weekend, most lik...

A little present.

I didn't have any Patreon goals for 200 patreons, but I still appreciate every one of you. You help me create a better VN. Thank you all. And enjoy Cece and Lexi rubbing down the, ehm... car! :)

Cheers

Dev Diary, 14th of August, 2020

This has been another week where I've been focusing on pouring out renders.

Total count is 301 static renders and 1102 animated frames.

I never really focus on the actual render count myself, so I never know how many renders I will end up with in the final release. But it's a steady process of going through one after the other until I'm happy with the scene and move on to the next.

As for the scenes, I've completed 5 as of now. That might not sound like a whole lot, but one ...

Dev Diary, 8th of August, 2020

Time for a progress report again. :)

As I did a lot of pose-work last week, this week has been almost a none stop render marathon, focusing a bit more on animations than usual, due to the 60fps animations that are in ch4.

I've also done a lot of work on the scenes, but they do take a bit of time to gnaw through. Mainly because they all are together and enjoying themselves, so there's a lot of people to focus on in every scene.

I've also completed the first "mini-roam" scene....

Dev Diary, 31th of July, 2020

First Chapter 4 Dev Diary.

As you might know, I had planned a week vacation after the release of Chapter 3, but it's hard to keep my hands off the project when I enjoy doing it so much.

This week has mostly been scripting the routes of Lexi/Cece, and posing animations. Seeing as Cece has quite a healthy lead in the polls, I have put the most work into her scene. Knowing of her popularity, I also know that I have to get it 100% right. After all it's not a FWB scene with Robin or Ki...

Tier 3 - The Lexi vs. Cece shootout

Vote for who you want me to focus on first in Leap of Faith, Chapter 4.

The Tier 1 Version of this poll can be found here.

LoF Ch4 - The Lexi vs. Cece shootout.

I've been thinking a lot about progressing with Chapter 4, and it will be huge. In fact, so huge that if I were to make it all in one go, it would probably be released around christmas - which is way to long. Because of this, I've decided to make Chapter 4 in three parts - focusing on different girls in each of them.

• Option 1 - Cece and Stephanie
• Option 2 - Lexi and Linda
2020-07-25 10:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Leap of Faith - Chapter 3

Changelog

• Added 1.045 static renders
• 3.196 animated frames
• 19 new songs
• 7 sound effects
• 6.652 new lines of dialogue/script
• Rewrote the Nüke app
• Added ability to Nüke pictures you take with your camera
• Preview of the 'Intimacy Control' feature that will play a huge part in romancing in future chapters.
• 70-90 minutes of added game time (+ replays)
• at least 2 playthroughs needed to c...
  2020-07-24 10:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, 17th of July, 2020

Making Chapter 3 has been a very weird experience. For almost 2 months, I did nothing more than render and scripting the dialogue. So I never had a chance to see if I had captured the feeling I wanted you to get from it.

But yesterday I played through the chapter for the first time, and I'm very happy by the way it turned out.

Current status is 947 static renders, 2866 animated frames in 11 animations, 17 new songs, around 6000 lines of scripting/dialogue, and about 70-90 minutes ...

Dev Diary, 10th of July, 2020.

Well, we're down to the two last weeks before ch3 release. I still have plenty to do before I can comfortably put my feet on the table and relax for a bit, but I'm getting there.

Remaining:

• 1 medium scene renders
• 1 small scene renders
• 1 huge animated scene
• a whole lot of random renders for path choices, nukes, traits, easter eggs and the likes
• about 1000ish lines of dialogue
• sound effects
• adding functionality to one of th...
  2020-07-10 12:12:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, 3rd of July, 2020

Weekly update, and I hope you're all doing good.

It's been a very hectic week, finalizing the release date announcement trailer, doing a lot of renders, and being Dev of the Week at the Lewd Gamers Paradise discord (I suspect that's something I can thank a few of you guys for). :)

Current render count is at 737 stills and 1938 animated. Already surpassing the previous chapters that had about 650 renders each.

I'm still in the midst of doing that big scene I mentioned last we...

Dev Diary. 26th of June, 2020

Time for that weekly update again. :)

Chapter 3 is currently at 586 still renders and 1570 animated frames. By comparison, Chapter 1 and 2 both had around 650 renders, so this will be bigger by the time it's done.

Mainly, what remains for chapter 3 is:

• 1 big scene
• 2 medium/big scenes
• phone scripting
• testing/proof-reading

I wanted to give you a release date today, but unfortunately I'm unable to.

The main reason is that I jus...

Dev Diary 19th of June, 2020

And before you had time to react, it was Friday again...

This week has been all about rendering. A whole lot. And adding about 1000 lines of dialogue.

Total render count for Chapter 3 is now at 412 stills and 1288 animated ones. That's a 533 render increase this week. Honestly, I don't think it's possible for me to top that with my current setup (averaging 3.17 renders pr. hour for a full week). At least it should put me up there with the best of them (not that I'm comparing Dik's...