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Chapter Eight released
The newest and so far biggest installment of the Academy series is now available to play on the https://www.dsp3000.games/ website.---Thursday afternoon is a very critical time at the Goodhead AcademyEverything rests on how things go for Principal Valentine.Olivia Goodhead is out to get her... Bridg...
Chapter Eight Bonus scene
On the Executive tier you get to see a little more...I little more of Alicia...A little more of Annie...A little more of Bridgette....A little more of Principal Valentine...---The full game includes all these images, animations and a whole lot more I can't really show you on Patreon.
Chapter Eight remake process
This post will give an insight into all the subtle and slightly less subtle improvements that have been made during the process of reviewing, amending and expanding the Academy series.Chapter Eight starts at 1pm on Thursday afternoon with a visit to the canteen.The canteen was one location which suf...
Chapter Eight launch soon...!
The updated and massively extended Chapter Eight should be released early next week.We are just performing some final testing over the weekend.This part of the story takes place on Thursday afternoon and it's a critical point for everybody. It's all been building up to what happens to Princi...
February 2023 Credits added
This is just a brief post to let everybody know that I have now processed all the credit allocations due for Executive and Faculty tier members from the start of February.Please let me know if you think you have been missed out or if things don't seem to add up.EDIT: Just a reminder that anybody...
Progress update
Apologies for leaving this update for so long. Covid really knocked the hell out of me, but thankfully I am more or less fully recovered now.It was frustrating to lose more than two weeks of production time while recovering.The past ten days or so have been very productive though.A combination of re...
January 2023 credits processed : New Year Bonus added!
This is just a brief post to let everybody know that I have now processed all the credit allocations due from the start of January.Many thanks once again to all of you who are supporting this project.As a new year bonus this month, I have added an extra 150 credits to all Executive Tier member, and ...
Happy New Year!
Just a brief message to wish everyone all the best for 2023.I haven't had the best start to the year because after feeling really rotten all day yesterday I tested positive for Covid.This means that the credit allocations will probably take a little longer than usual and apologies if I haven'...
Chapter Seven released
Have fun and Happy New Year!
Chapter Seven release date...
The next installment of the Academy series will be available tomorrow (December 31st 2022)This is another episode which has been through an intensive remake process. It's probably also one that has the most noticeable changes from the original version so far.I don't have the actual numbers t...
Website updates implemented
I hope you have all had a peaceful and restful few days as we build up to the close of 2022.I'd love to say that it's been a relaxing few days off for me but it really just hasn't!We were pushing really hard to get some fairly substantial changes implemented on the website before the Chr...
Game success images : Chapter 1 - Chapter 8
We have been making good progress on the updates to the back-end website code and will be pushing all that up to the live website this week.I'll talk more about that in due course.One of the other things I had been meaning to update alongside this has been the game success pages that you get at ...
What equipment are you on right now...?
Note: I originally wrote this article several months ago and just rediscovered it in my drafts folder. If nothing else it gives me an opportunity to preview a few images from forthcoming chapters.---Original article as follows...I often/never get asked what it takes to be one of the world's fore...
December Credits Processed
By now almost everyone who is eligible should have had their credits for December deposited in their accounts on the dsp3000.games website.It's taken a bit longer than expected because we are in the middle of resolving some database issues.Database issueI say almost everyone because there are ab...
Website updates
It's seem like ages since I last posted a progress update.But when I go a little quiet on here it's because I'm fully focussed on production.To recap, I stated in a previous post that after the release of Chapter Six at the start of November, we were going to spend some time working on t...
New scene added to Chapter Six and a competition!
Since releasing Chapter Six last week, I've been getting some feedback and lots of questions about how to access the new bonus scene with Bridgette.The key to gaining access involves arriving at the bar as late as possible. That way you can 'rescue' Bridgette from some otherwise unwanted...
Chapter Six now available
Chapter Six:Head on over to the dsp3000.games website now to see that Chapter Six has just been launched.The story continues into Wednesday afternoon and takes you through to your crucial afternoon progress meeting with Principal Valentine.Hopefully you will survive that and find out what's beyo...
November Credits Processed
By now everyone who is eligible should have had their credits for November deposited in their accounts on the dsp3000.games website.It's been a slightly drawn out process due to a couple of hardware issues so apologies if it's taken a bit longer than expected.I also wanted to make sure the c...
Chapter Six Bridgette Bonus - Brand new scene!
While reviewing and remaking the Academy series over the past few years, I've got to know Bridgette's character better than most.She is lots of fun and there is plenty to work with. I really enjoy creating scenes with her.Bridgette is obviously a very important character throughout the serie...
Chapter Six remake process
Subject to a little more testing, Chapter Six is due to be released any day now.This instalment has been through the same rigorous remastering process that all the episodes have and will be subjected to.A substantial number of images have been completely re-rendered using improved camera and lightin...
Animation is awesome...
I have been fascinated by animation for many years now and I've studied its various forms and techniques over that time.One of the things that I hope my games benefit from is the use of animated sequences. I've become much more accomplished in my animating skills and really enjoy creating ni...
Website update : Fixed save games issue
Sometimes it feels like we take two steps forward and one step back...A few people have been in touch about a fault that re-occurred after the launch of Chapter Five.Due to a minor coding glitch, saved games were not loading in any achievements when accessed.It appeared that all previously gained ac...
Chapter Five now available
We are now confident that the issues we had with the Chapter Five launch have now been resolved.This new installment is now back up and ready to play.We've also made a few coding updates to all the previous chapters which fixed an issue which prevented skipping the bonus scenes should you have w...
Credit payments processed
By now everyone who is eligible should have had their credits deposited in their accounts on the dsp3000.games website.I've also contacted those patrons who have experienced issues with the Chapter 5 bonus scenes and reimbursed credits where applicable.If you haven't had any credits added th...
Service will resume shortly...
As soon as Sebastian has kicked the server.Apologies for the problems that surfaced along with the release of Chapter 5.The link to the start of Ch5 has been removed while we work out what occurred.If you do see the link as being live, it's probably just a cached version of the website.Please do...
In game scoring and character avatars
As many of you will no doubt have already noticed, when you play The Academy series you get to interact with a large ensemble cast.When you meet a character you usually see a little character avatar to the lower left of the main image.Above that you see a positive or negative score.How you interact ...
Chapter Five now available
UPDATE:There have been some technical issues which became apparent when Chapter Five went up onto the website. We've reverted the site back to the pre Ch5 release version while those issues are resolved.This means you can't play Ch5 at the moment and your game saves may be temporarily affect...
Chapter Five remake process
With the release of Chapter Five on the very near horizon, I thought I'd show you some of what to expect.While this chapter hasn't had as much added to it as Chapter Four, it's still gone through some extensive reworking particularly on some of the key scenes.Chapter Five means it's ...
Juggling with Bridgette
I've had a lot of stuff to juggle with over the past few weeks with the various technical glitches, Patreon updates and full time game production to keep me occupied.I've also been working on a new bonus scene which will be included as part of Chapter 7.This really fleshes out your developin...
Credits for Patrons & Annual Membership benefits
To unlock bonus scenes on the https://www.dsp3000.gameswebsite you will to get need some credits.The best way to get credits is to become a patreon right here! There are four membership tiers to choose from with the top two tiers rewarding you with credits each month.This post will summarize what to...
