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Developer Update #5
🕑 Added 2024-04-21 09:21:49 +0000 UTCTLDR:
1) Work is going smoothly, found some tools to help with one of my biggest recurring issues
2) Several environments in E2 are looking really gorgeous and I might adapt them into wallpapers for you
3) 5 main characters left to introduce, 1 more professor, 4 more students
1) Hi everyone, hope you had a good week. My week went well and I've made some progress in some of the more difficult areas of my work, specifically posing characters. A big recurring issue for me is that sometimes parts of a girl will look unnatural when they're in some very flexible poses. This is made even worse when the model is quite skinny and you can get some sharp edges around the pelvis. I haven't completely eliminated this problem but I've found a couple of tools I've downloaded to help with some aspects of it and the extreme poses/sex positions are looking a bit better. But I still have room to improve if I'm being honest. Kind of a separate issue but similar in some regards is that I was really struggling to make a twerking animation and I've put that on pause for now. If anyone knows of a VN with a good looking twerking animation please let me know cause I'd love to see it.
2) As I'm making E2 I'm kind of jumping around the whole episode and working on bits from each scene rather than going exclusively start-finish just to ensure there aren't going to be any major obstacles down the line. The great thing about the work I'm doing right now is that it's going to be so valuable in future, I kind of talked about this in the survey summary but in E2 you'll see much of the Elmwood University campus, inside & out and some other cool areas close to campus such as the lighthouse and lake. On top of this you'll see four new bedrooms (3 are your flatmates' rooms) and so in future I'll have all these assets ready to go for later episodes. After E2 is done, there'll be a bit more of the campus for me to design and some more houses/bedrooms but everything will just be getting faster and faster as I have more things already created. Looks like I lost track of my original point but some of these scenes are looking really gorgeous (lake and lighthouse especially) and I might make these into wallpapers for certain patreon levels I haven't quite decided yet.
3) There are now 5 MAIN characters left to introduce, but please remember there'll be tons of side characters (seduce-able and not) on top of the main 18. Reason I'm mentioning this again is because only 2 of the main 18 characters are milfs and I don't want you to immediately think that there will only be 2 milfs in Elmwood. In case I haven't said this already, there are two core differences between the 18 main characters and the side characters that you'll be able to seduce. The main characters are girls that you can have a future with and can end the game with. Main characters will also of course have much more content and more scenes. The side character with the absolute most scenes I have planned in my mind will be ~5, majority will be just 1. Main characters will be much more than that. Reason I'm saying this is because I want Elmwood to have some realism. As an 18yo guy it would be much much more difficult to enter a romantic relationship with a milf compared to a girl your age. It's much more believable for the dynamic to be very casual when your partner is twice your age and that's why most of the milfs in elmwood are side characters, who you can only be casual with. Following this, you can expect the two that are main characters to be much harder to seduce than average. To win over Dr. Riley or Dr. ######## you'll have to be very on point with your choices AND require some of the milf and academic perks. I've planned things this way because I do not want to make it feel trivial to date your professor, I think that would feel cheap. It's going to be very difficult and you'll probably have to sacrifice some things if you really do want to be serious with one of your professors. But... please remember that there will be milfs who are side characters who will be somewhat easier to seduce. I have some really fun little stories planned for the side characters and there'll be side characters to seduce in most likely E3, deffo E4 and onwards. Sorry for the massive post, guess I'm in the mood for writing. Will probably introduce Nina this Wednesday but maybe someone else. Enjoy your Sundays :)
WW
Comments
Wolfengard
Thank you for the update! Looking forward to episode 2!
Danny de Goeij
Great post. Like your work sofar and the future of the game looks promising!
