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Dev Diary, October 18th, 2024

Quick little update this week.

Scripting has progressed nicely, and I've only got one scene left to script. After that, I'll be jumping right into the actual personal testing, variable checks, transition adjustments, music, sfx, and so forth.

Episode 3 will be sent to the testers next Friday, and I'll also reveal the release date then.

Last preview before the release, guys.

Have a nice weekend, and stay safe out there.

2024-10-18 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, October 11th, 2024

As mentioned in the last update, I decided to put in a bit of extra time and effort this week, and it paid off.

U4iA Episode 3 is now the largest release I've done regarding any numbers, whether it's script size, music, lewd scenes, or other visuals.

This is about the time in the development cycle when I stop posting numbers, but I've notified my testers of a potential date for testing. I don't want to put a definitive date out there, but a release within the next four weeks shoul...

Dev Diary, October 4th, 2024

To start with the positives, I finished a scene that is a bit different visually than static images alone. I wanted the scene to feel more alive and thus had to make a moving background. It turned out to be easier than I had suspected, but took a bit of time making the visuals.

I also experimented with some of the new features of the latest version of Renpy, which will be very useful going forward.

In the comments last week, someone mentioned wanting to hide the new 'mood-meter, '...

Dev Diary, September 27th, 2024

Around 4k lines of script/dialogue were done, along with adding some renders here and there, which so far is just about the same as I wrote in last week's update (yes, I briefly considered copying/pasting that one :p).

But that's about it for similarities.

In this episode there is a hidden 'mood' variable for every person, which goes up and down depending on what happens, and your actions. So I thought, 'why not make it visible instead?' - and here we are.

Spent a day or so ...

Dev Diary, September 20th, 2024

I've spent the whole week scripting and working on the Renpy part of the game. I had a lot of fun doing it, too, as it's always nice to see everything coming together.

I completed around 4k lines of scripting and dialogue and added many UI elements, icons, effects, roam hovers, etc. To compare, episode 2 had about 15k lines, so there is still plenty to do, but it's good progress.

I'm working on the lewd roam right now. Since this is a side girl, I added several ways for you to dec...

Dev Diary, September 13th, 2024

Progress

It's Friday the 13th, but it hasn't come into effect yet. :p

Because it's been another week of good progress. Finished up the last 'normal' scene, and I have one big cinematic-type scene to do. In addition to that, I also made some renders for the phone and plan to add them to the wallpaper app as well. 147 renders were done in total.

I've also ported the existing episodes and new script over to the newly released Ren'Py 8.3.2. There are some nice features in the l...

Dev Diary, September 6th, 2024

Progress

Great progress this week. I've finished all of the solo scenes with the girls and the planned transition scenes. 153 story renders and 262 frames of animation were done. On paper there are only two scenes left to pose and render (unless I add something during testing).

I won't say anything about one of the scenes as I don't want to spoil it. But it's the biggest one in the episode and contains a fair amount of animations. I'm saving that one for last be...

Dev Diary, August 30th, 2024

I was working on Sam's solo scene this week. Since we've spent little time alone with Sam so far, I knew I had to establish a solid foundation for future content with her, but after looking at the first completed renders, I just couldn't feel what I was going for.

So I ended up scrapping what I'd done completely and taking a few days off, buying new assets for the scene, and just playing around with it in my head. I came back to it a few days later, resumed work, and so far, I am very h...

Dev Diary, August 23rd, 2024

Progress

Working on this is like going through an everlasting bullet list of things to do. Some weeks feel frustrating because you spend two or even three weeks on a single bullet point, but this week, I got through three and started on the fourth. Great for dev morale and also for progress.

Numbers

Last week, 213 story renders were completed. I'm now just shy of 3k renders, with 2,976 done in total. Episode 2 had about 3.3k, but it incl...

Dev Diary, August 16th, 2024

Progress

I was going to focus 100% on scripting this week, but I was able to do renders instead. I finished Sea's scene, and that's the last of the lewd ones. There's still one major animation scene, but I'm holding that off until the very end, as it can be rendered through testing when I get to that point.

There are still quite a few scenes to do otherwise, but I'm attacking them one by one, and there's constant progress. Now this girl is up, and... you're bloc...

Dev Diary, August 9th, 2024

This week was mostly about rendering animations. Not a lot of stills were done.

As I mentioned some weeks ago, I'm having some work done on my property. They were supposed to start working on September 2nd, but I woke up this Monday to find them working in the garden at 7 a.m.

Why is that a problem, you ask? They are going to remove 250 square meters of mountain (more than 30 trucks of stone), so it's nine hours a day with constant drilling and blasting right outside my office win...

Dev Diary, August 2nd, 2024

It's been a fairly straightforward week. Sea's hair reacts a bit weirdly to sunlight, so there were a few re-renders due to it; other than that, she's been behaving exceptionally.

I know that people have wanted to romance Sea since she was introduced back in Leap of Faith, so doing the actual scene seemed more daunting than normal as I wanted to do it justice. But it's looking very good so far. And, of course, there's some nerdiness to her, even in the bedroom. Can you guess the referen...

Dev Diary, July 26th, 2024

One of the things I love about making these games is that the characters evolve almost beyond my control as the story progresses. As I mentioned last week, I was working on a scene with Teagan, and as I put her and 'you' into the scene and saw how you got along, everything changed from what I had scripted.

As a result, the 'two or so' animations I had planned turned into much more, and the same happened with the still renders. That took most of the week, and my render rig has worked non...

Dev Diary, July 19th, 2024

Thank you for the helpful suggestions last week concerning my SDD clone task. I tried the software mentioned, but one gave an error due to too many bad blocks, and the other outright lied to get me to buy a full-year subscription.

However, the hardware I bought did a great job cloning the non-system disk, and I can very much recommend it if anybody wants to upgrade their storage space with the least amount of hassle. It's the Icy Box Clone—& DockingStation, and it...

U4iA - On Steam

The U4iA Steam store page is now up. Have a look, and remember to Wishlist so you get all the news directly in your Steam client.

And thank you to everyone who Wishlisted it so far, pushing it into the popular upcoming games.

Cheers

2024-07-19 11:32:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, July 12th, 2024

I finished the big scene this week and ended up with 200 renders for that scene alone. I still have a big non-lewd cinematic animation scene to pose and render. And, of course, all of the scenes where you get to spend some one-on-one time with the girl(s) of your choosing.

But I feel I can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. It's approaching slowly, but it's there.

Other than that, I received my new hardware this week. The SSD cloning dock didn't arrive until an hour ago...

Dev Diary, July 5th, 2024

Seems it's Friday again, and I hope all the Muricans had a nice 4th yesterday.

Progress

When you are making a game like this, there will always be stuff you dread having to do. And I had this scene with everyone in the same room, which is always going to be an annoying and time-consuming thing to do. So, I decided to start it this week and almost completed it, which is such a load off my shoulders.

Below is a composition image of the primary process o...

Illustrated Dev Diary, June 28th, 2024

Okay, so I went a bit nuts on the Roxy lewd scene. I ended up with 20 animated sequences, which have been rendering all week and finished up about an hour ago. So, no story renders were done this week, but a hefty 2,647 frames of animations were done, which is the maximum I can output in a single week.

I did finally add 'bones' to the ass cheeks on the girls. This adds for some more 'jiggly' action, as none of these models have naturally moving asses without using morphs.

All in a...

Illustrated Dev Diary, June 21st, 2024

First, thank you very much for last week's kind comments. I hope all of you have just as nice memories from your grans as I do.

It seems that last week's events didn't hinder progress too much, as I was still able to get a good chunk of work done, especially on the animations. The output was 1,223 frames of animation and 62 story renders.

I started the Roxy scene, and since you all helped design her through several polls, I thought I'd give a bit of insight of my thought process f...

Dev Diary, June 14th, 2024

This week, the main focus was posing and rendering animations, which has kept my render rig and me busy all week. 1,879 frames were rendered, and 48 story renders to complete the scene.

On a completely different personal matter, we were notified on Wednesday that my grandmother was on her deathbed, and sure enough, yesterday, she passed on. She was a wonderful grandmother to me and has been there for me all my life. But I am not going to use this as an excuse to claim I'm so mentally de...

Dev Diary, June 7th, 2024

I reached a few milestones this week by surpassing 2,000 story renders and equalling the number of animations from u4ia Episode 2, which is my biggest animation update so far.

Unfortunately, it doesn't mean the release is right around the corner. There's still a heck of a lot to do.

Currently, I'm in the process of working through the scenes that are essential for any playthrough. Once this is complete, I'll move on to the scenes where you have a say in participating - primarily i...

Dev Diary, May 31st, 2024

I had a small hiccup where the renders turned out extremely grainy, and I was eventually able to track it down to a small picture frame that had neon lighting surrounding it. And even if that wasn't even close to being in the camera, it impacted lighting for the whole scene. Neon surface lighting = bad for grain. Noted.

It was also a fun week where I laughed a lot while posing. This means I either made something you'll like and laugh off as well, or I'm going slightly crazy posing all d...

Dev Diary, May 24th, 2024

Last weekend was a long weekend here in Norway, with both Friday and this Monday being national holidays. But from Tuesday, it was business as usual, and I finished up the first part of the free-roam segment.

I also spent quite a bit of time making sure the girls were dressed up properly for the fun stuff, and that was quite a bit of work with wardrobe changes, hair, makeup, and whatnot for all 10 girls present. Honestly, I'm never going to complain ever again about a girl not being rea...

Dev Diary, May 17th, 2024

I'm trying something new today, as this post is going out about a day after I wrote it. That is because "today/Friday" is Constitution Day in my country, and I'm out celebrating.

This means I don't have any numbers this time, but I'll just give you a little rundown on something I had to do this week.

Last week, I mentioned Nyah had some quirks with her eyes. She's based on the Genesis 9 base model, which was just released at the time I made her. So I gave her the outfit she would ...

Dev Diary, May 10th, 2024

Since it's the month's preview this week, I thought I'd just throw out the numbers real quick, so we can jump right onto the visuals.

I've been rendering animations all week, and it just finished up a few hours ago. A bit more than 1000 frames of animations were done in total. So now it's back to story renders for a bit and see if I can build a bit of a render queue.

So, for the previews.

2024-05-10 12:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, May 3rd, 2024

Most of this week I did animations, and added almost 1000 animated frames to the count. Still got time to do quite a few story renders too.

In total, I'm at 1,612 story renders and 6,582 animated frames.

I'm hoping to give you a poll for a threesome soon. But honestly, I don't want to give you completely random candidates for it, so I'll have to see how this party unfolds to get a better idea of who'd be a nice fit for it - or better yet, not fit for it.

There's not much to ...

Dev Diary, April 26th, 2024

I finalized the script this week, so now it's just to get the renders done.

However, there are a heck of a lot of renders left to do. Looking at the script is almost demoralizing, so my main focus is to keep putting in the hours and working through them one by one. Eventually, it will be done.

For the most part, I've been setting up the whole free-roam (as it's the only big free-roam this episode) with interactable characters, items, and so on. I also managed to save all the scene...

Dev Diary, April 19th, 2024

As I mentioned two weeks ago, I've been trying to finish everything in the story except for this trip we're going on and do that last. That's now completed, and only the trip remains. This week, I did the prologue, epilogue, and a guest cameo.

Story renders are at 1,447; no new animations were done this week. However, that should change in the upcoming weeks, as I expect to do quite a bit of animation work. It wouldn't be a memorable trip without a little animated nudity, would it? :) 2024-04-19 12:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, April 12th, 2024

Back to full-time rendering this week, and after last week's extremely annoying scene, this is been much more enjoyable.

I noticed one of the animations rendered really quickly, so I decided to render it in 4k, as it's been on my to-do list to try that.

Of course, the leap in quality is noticeable, but I doubt I'll start doing it for all animations, as the only advantage is that more detail will be preserved when downscaling it to HD (which I do on all the still-renders).

St...

Dev Diary, April 5th, 2024

I've been working on a very annoying scene this week. It was so irritating to pose that I felt more or less burned out at the end of it. But in the end, I got through it somehow without wanting to strangle myself or contemplate my life's choices that led me there. :)

Play Leap of Faith and u4ia on the Iphone or Ipad.

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