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Happy Easter and 100,000 Thank-You's.

What's better than a lightly clothed Easter Bunny? TWO lightly clothed Easter Bunnies, of course.

This week marks the four-year anniversary for the release of the first chapter of Leap of Faith and me diving head-first into this. I have learned a lot since then, upgraded my computers a bit, and some even forgave Stephanie along the way. But the bottom line is that I still enjoy this as much as I did back when I started out.

This week, Leap of Faith also reached 100,000 sales on St...

Dev Diary, March 22nd, 2024

It's been a bit of an odd week.

I had to buy quite a few new 3D assets for some new scenes and decided to update Daz and my Nvidia drivers along with them. Turns out that was not a good idea, and the 'new and improved' Daz gave me quite a few problems. First, the new 3D scene I had bought would not render at all, and it took me a full day before I realized that it was just that new asset and not the ones I already owned.

In addition to that, Daz would get slower and slower and eve...

Dev Diary, March 15th, 2024

Real-life interrupted development quite a bit this week. In short, I've been planning to make some improvements to the road on my property, which led to almost a year of my application going back and forth within the municipality. But last week, I finally got the 'go-ahead,' so this week, potential contractors have visited me every single day to have a look at the property so they can give me a price - since it's a huge project involving reshaping the landscape completely.

But that part...

Dev Diary, March 8th, 2024

As I mentioned last week, I had an idea of making a lewd roam, and that took most of this week to complete. The reason for this was that the animations were rather complicated compared to the normal 'in-out' stuff, as I wanted to give you as many options as possible.

End the end, that turned out to be 16 animations for that scene alone, which shows just how much things had changed since I started doing this when 2-4 animations were the norm and non-lewd animations were nonexistent.

Dev Diary, March 1st, 2024

At this stage of development, most of my time is spent posing renders and sending them to the render queue.

Still, there are scenes I've planned out, but when I get to actually doing them, I get new ideas based on the environment, scenes preceding them, or any number of random things. So, what was supposed to be a 'normal' lewd scene has now turned into a full 'lewd roam'. It's a bit more work trying to give you a lot of options for how to let the scene play out, but it's a nice change ...

Dev Diary, February 23rd, 2024

The render marathon continues, and that's all I've been doing this week - posing and rendering. Everything has been going smoothly, and I've shattered my previous record of how much I've been able to output in a single week with 288 new story renders and 1,426 new frames of animation for this week alone. The total numbers for episode 3 so far are 526 story renders and 2,714 frames of animation.

The big minus with my computer going through what I pose like a hot knife through butter is t...

Dev Diary, February 16th, 2024

I have been working on visuals all week, and for now have a small render queue going. I've been rendering constantly all week, so the numbers are now at 248 story renders and 1,288 animated frames.

I really don't like how Daz Studio does lipstick. If you apply it normally by adding the lipstick that comes with the assets, you will see a very harsh line between the lip and skin, so I've been manually drawing on lipstick to the face textures instead as I think the result is much better. A...

Dev Diary, February 9th, 2024

I was going to take last weekend off, but since I was excited to start working on this episode, I decided to hit the ground running.

There's a new free-roam environment in the next chapter, and I want it to work as a hub (kind of like the hotel did) where you seek out who/where you want to go/spend time with. But this being a party, I wanted an environment that keeps changing as you go along, w...

Dev Diary, February 2nd, 2024, and a poll.

As you might have noticed, I made a major change to the game for the bugfix version, where I removed the 'time limit' and the perks.

I didn't do this because anybody told me to, but because I felt it was a misunderstood feature and took focus away from the game and the story. In the same go, I simplified ways to exit the free roams so that you can use that functionality if you don't want to go through every free roam fully for re-runs.

Other than that, I hope...

-U4iA- Episode 2 is now live!

Episode 2 - v2.01p->v2.02p - bugfixes and major changes to gameplay. See the changelog at the bottom.

You decide to leave your old life behind and set a course for this mysterious island you've been hearing about. Settling down comes with its own set of problems. But as you make new friends, your past can't seem to let you go.

2024-01-26 11:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post

-U4iA- Episode 2 - Download Links!

Episode 2 - v2.01p->v2.02p - bugfixes and major changes to gameplay. See the changelog at the bottom.

You decide to leave your old life behind and set a course for this mysterious island you've been hearing about. Settling down comes with its own set of problems. But as you make new friends, your past can't seem to let you go.

2024-01-26 11:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, and U4iA - Episode 2 - Release information.

Dev update is a little later than usual today, but I've been preparing the Beta for testing and am just about ready to compile and upload it for the testers.

Release information

The game will be available for the $10 and up tiers next Friday, the 26th, as part of your tier reward. As usual, long-term $5 and $1 tier supporters will get the download links 5-7 days after the release. This is due to the high number of downloads happening on release day and the followi...

Dev Diary, January 12th, 2024

2 weeks until release, and still much to do.

Don't worry, though. I'm still on schedule, and the release date of January 26th is well within reach.

A rough rundown of what's on my list:

• render and post-edit 1 medium-sized scene
• render and post-edit 2 smaller scenes
• implement and test the new relationship stats
• implement a replay gallery
• render and insert bonus gallery renders
• music and sound effects
• implement and sc...
  2024-01-12 13:03:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, January 5th, 2024, and Happy New Year!

Hi everyone, and Happy New Year to you all.

I took a few days off during the holidays, but nothing major. Most of the days I did at least something on the game.

Work done.

Mostly, what I've done is work on the script, in-game events, new and improved UI elements, and so forth. Accompanied with doing extra renders where needed.

Work to be done.

I have a full bullet list of small things to do, in addition to render...

Dev Diary, December 22nd, 2023

It's not so much a normal update this week, which can be summarized into me continuing the work in Renpy, doing Christmas customs, and a little something for you.

I assume most of you have played Leap of Faith and seen the Christmas bonus scene (which is now horribly dismantled because of no sound).

Originally, it was meant to be a part of one of the endings, although very different. I decided to scrap the idea because I didn't want any seasonal stuff as a part of the main story.<...

Dev Diary, December 15th, 2023

I finally finished the 'hotel free-roam' this week, and I'm extremely happy with how it turned out.

One of the reasons it took so much work and time, is that I will re-use it in episode 4, and thus save some time when I get to that part. Because of this, I had to think ahead on most I did, so that later on I can start or end the free-roam on any floor, fill in navigation info for future events, and introduce more random events.

I've made quite a few random events already, and when...

Dev Diary, December 8th, 2023

Open post this time, due to the Promotion further down.

Another week of mostly scripting. I managed to output more than 4k lines of script and dialogue, so it's good progress.

Compared to episode 1, which was about 18k lines in total, I'm sure I'll surpass that by a whole lot.

Other than that, I rendered more scenes where needed and made cutouts of interactable objects in the free-roams. Started working on phone events. Prepared a scene gallery of lewd scenes in addition to ...

Dev Diary, December 1st, 2023

This week I spent most of the time in Ren'Py and adding renders where I felt they were needed.

I decided to finally re-do the old perks system from episode 1 of u4ia, and I'm very happy about the result. In the new revised version, you choose a perk at the start of every episode, and you also have a choice later on in the episode that will affect your stats.

The perks will automatically help you as you play, and the stats will affect how you handle certain situations later on. The...

Dev Diary, November 24th, 2023

I hope you all enjoyed the release date video I released yesterday, and if you didn't already, you can have a look at the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUQIW2Bu0NE&ab_channel=Drifty

The release date for U4iA episode 2 is 26th of January.

So, I guess you're probably wondering why January, when I've mentioned before that I was targeting a release this yea...

U4iA - Release date trailer

Unfortunately, Youtube doesn't like bikinis, so you have to watch it at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUQIW2Bu0NE

But here's a preview.

Dev Diary, November 11th, 2023

Just a quick update, as I've barely begun recovering from being sick for most of the week.

I had a fever on and off for a full week, but from Wednesday when it finally let go, I've been struggling with dizziness.

So I'm not completely recovered, but at least I'm at the point where I can sit down and do some work for at least a few hours a day. So my main focus point is to do the final bit of the cinematic animation I've mentioned earlier. Here's a quick preview of that animation.<...

Dev Diary, November 10th, 2023

Just dropping by with a very quick update this time.

As I was working on Wednesday, I could feel that something was brewing, and sure enough, it was. Decided to power through it, but by Thursday, it was game over, so I've been in bed since then.

Don't think it's covid, but I haven't been able to test yet (all my tests were broken).

Anyway, that's it for now. I'm back to bed.

Have yourself a nice weekend, and stay safe out there.

Dev Diary, November 3rd, 2023

2,372 frames of animation were done this week, and they are all for the cinematic I mentioned last Friday.

The positive is that having all the animations rendering meant my significant other could finally drag me out of the house and we could get the Christmas shopping out of the way. The negative is, well, having two computers doing Dforce simulations and rendering nonstop, there was no increase in story renders.

2023-11-03 13:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, October 27th, 2023

This week I finished the guest cameo scenes and did some work on the Teagan/Sea beach scene. I also finished the custom renders for the top-tier supporters for October and even one for November.

However, for most of this week, I've been preparing the cinematic scene that will end this chapter. Because I also intend to use this as a general-purpose trailer for U4iA I have to put a bit of work into it. Also because the location will be of some importance later on.

As it's animated, ...

Dev Diary, October 20th, 2023

I hope you all enjoyed the sneak peek video from the upcoming episode of U4iA. If you haven't seen it yet, you can have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vschZMA06gU.

I have also included a Patreon-only NSFW version of the trailer attached to this post for your viewing pleasure (197 mb). It also showcases the new and improved female genitalia I mentioned in an earlier post (beach scene).

T...

U4iA - Episode 2 - Sneak Peek.

Sneak peek video of the upcoming episode 2. Unfortunately, you have to see it on YouTube due to nipples.

https://youtu.be/vschZMA06gU

Dev Diary, October 13th, 2023

I got a question in the comments of last week's dev diary about the length of Episode 2, so I thought I'd give you a rundown about what to expect from the upcoming release.

U4iA, Episode 2, is much more complex than the first episode compared to the number of choices you have. The amount of things you can see and experience in one playthrough exceeds what you could do in episode 1. On the other hand, it's largely up to you.

Let me show you an example:

2023-10-13 11:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, October 6th, 2023

Once I get to this part of development where I know I'm getting closer to the end, I make a  list of things I need to do before it's all done.

Some weeks you get a lot of things crossed off the list, but this week was all about doing the work for a lewd scene. As you know, animation work takes quite a bit of time to render - normally ranging from half a day to two days for each animation - so in the end, I only got one thing crossed off the list this week.

But it's still prog...

Dev Diary, September 29th, 2023

Same procedure as last week, Miss Sophie!

Okay, so not everyone will get that reference, but it's very fitting for this update as it's mostly the same week for week now. I'm working my way through the remaining scenes, and it's all a big heap of rendering story renders, animations, doing postwork, scripting, and backing up what's completed.

Things have been going really slow on the music front, but a few hours ago we agreed on the contract details, so it's just for them to do the ...

Dev Diary, September 22nd, 2023

At this point of development, there's nothing super crazy exciting going on with my time spent making this. It's basically posing and putting everything in the render queue, and the render rig is working non-stop.

Currently, I'm working my way through the beach roam and making sure everyone gets content. That's the major hurdle before I can start looking at going into endgame content and phone additions for the episode. You might recognize this little vixen which is one of the girls who...