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Art update 34 ...and stuff
🕑 Added 2018-04-04 22:12:50 +0000 UTC And we're back with another art update today! Is it really already two weeks ago I did the other one? Is there some kind of drug out there which can fix whatever is wrong with my perception of the flow of time? Maybe I need to start reading boring literature to moor me to the present? Anyway it's time to check in with you guys!With the 1st of April well behind us we can all lower that shield of permanent disbelieve again : ) We always have some sort of problem which may take more or less time to deal with, but thank god being hacked isn't one of them (like the post on the 1st of April said)....yet?
I'm knocking on wood like a crazy m*therf*cker right now, because when it comes to FET I'm not taking any chances. I'm not superstitious, I'm just eeeextra careful to not anger Odin or whomever is in charge of messing with us mortals.
I have gotten some of those "support calls" trying to scam you into downloading a virus or whatever they're trying to make you do. I always simply act like a senior citizen who has never used a pc before and keep them on the line for a long , looooOOOONNNNNGG time!
That's not because I like to listen to their voice but I figure the time they spend on trying to get into my system (fruitlessly) is time they can't spend on some other poor sap who actually believes them. I'm not in the habit of calling other people scumbags very quickly but those "support people" certainly deserve the title with a cherry on top.
But enough about that.
I actually made a short list with key words to help me remember what I've been doing lately but so far, instead of a little reminder they have proven to be a puzzle to be cracked. Did I already tell you my memory is a joke? I can't remember...
Anyway, clearly I've been working on the art files for our little April fools day joke. You might recognize a lot of it since I've been pillaging earlier game files for it. I've scaled, rotated and then combined them with some new stuff to speed up the creation of it. It's not like we don't have other stuff to do as well, so I wanted this to be done fast.
I think catching the first 20 pussies to unlock the quick n' dirty scene shouldn't be too much of a problem if you're willing to seriously try. Don't forget you can save your game with each pussy you catch if necessary.
The rewards for the highscore mode (a few lowres sketches) are harder to get so I'll just add some of those to the attachment of this post. All but the final highscore reward because the people who got to 50 cats deserve that little bit of glory for themselves :)
I've been doing some research for a few minigames which we're planning to use in the future. Generally I leave that up to the coder, but it doesn't hurt to help each other out every now and then. Actually, that's the best way to do things. Sometimes I come up with ways of doings things he simply hadn't thought of yet and vice versa.
So one of those things the coder helped me with was a Toph scene. I had already finished making it when the coder came up with an addition which was just too good not to include. Unfortunately that also meant I had to trash all of the work I had done so far because the addition just didn't look right in combination with the older things. That work isn't done in vein since I can always reuse it during the love route. I'm sure it'll save me a lot of time in the future, but right now it's the exact opposite. I just look at it like I'm renting out time to my future self. You better be damn thankful to yourself future me!
So having done that, I tried to make up for the loss of time by cutting corners with another scene. Leaving a part black thinking the coder could use it as a blank canvas to paint the scene with words.... yeah... he didn't think that was a good idea either(rightfully so) and I've been working on adding those parts. I'm happy I did(or rather he made me) because it makes for a far better scene.
Another scene thought up by the coder was making me grouchy when working on it. It had all the necessary elements to be good or at least mediocre, but I just couldn't feel it. Whenever that happens I start adding stuff, trying to make up with quantity what's lacking in other departments.
That resulted in some nice extra's but didn't quell my general feelings of dissatisfaction. Long story short, after spending a lot of time on redrawing the faces and fixing some background colors things brightened up enough for me to high five myself mentally and mostly consider it a victory.
It's not all victories this month though. We've been working hard to try and catch up with our original schedule and that turned out to be unrealistic(very). We already sort of knew but we still had to give it a try. The latest early release build was on the 9th of March after all. I said it before but, when you don't have much room to spare any sort of delay which starts out as a guest, becomes a permanent resident.
I've also been working on a new part of the maze which had it's own problems. Putting it in worked fine... if you didn't mind having to start the game from the beginning again. Imagine every possible trigger in the maze being reset to it's virgin state while outside of it everything is still where you left it the last time you saved. Pure pandemonium is the nicest way to describe the results.
We may not always manage to keep your save games sane and working, but we sure as damnation will try our best and don't feel like making exceptions just because the maze was having a fit again.
Getting things compatible with the earlier save games had us flipping out of our skulls with errors and problems, wasting a truly retarded amount of time on getting it to play nice, but we think we finally got it figured out. That doesn't give us back all of the lost time, but we can move forwards again. That also means we'll be late. Maybe the fashionable kind, but far more likely the "Where the FUCK have you been!?" -kind.
Though without errors beating us down at every turn we might still be able to keep things reasonable(don't count on it). Just don't ask us for a specific date yet. Despite all of that (we hate delays as much as you) I'm feeling pretty upbeat about the next build. Maybe it's the weather. I actually got to see the sun again today which I haven't for awhile : ) Or maybe it's the fact we finally have what looks to be a way forward out of the save game madness for the new maze part. Whatever the reason is, I feel ALIIIVE BABY!!!
Comments
Nemos
Where are you, early access? :(
MITY
Well, we certainly don't consider ourselves to be part of the cool kids club. But more importantly, we rarely are able to hit our intended release date(this month being a prime example of that). Unless we can get some consistency going there, we don't want to add anything to our list of things to do which might add time to the release dates. Getting the new build(and the tier rewards) ready comes first.
FreshFire
Hey MITY, have you ever thought about doing Pictaro streams or Discord servers? It's what all the cool kids are doing these days.
Jamie
Agree korra is one of the best IοΈ just hope you donβt have to play with anng in book 4 and also korra has her long hair instead of her short hair
At this point, I doubt he'll finish the game. Bend or Break was good too but I honestly can't wait for MITY to get started with the Korra chapter
Jamie
You could have just looked it up <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mindbreakstudios">https://www.patreon.com/mindbreakstudios</a>
you got the link to world hero trainer?
Jamie
Hay i was wondering the guy who made world hero trainer is taking some time to make his game maybe when your done with four elements trainer you could help him out Korra is kinda my favorite π
Is there anything that us as patrons can do to help?
MITY
That's the million dollar question. All we can say right now is we're going as fast as we possibly can and hope it'll be rather sooner than later.
MITY
We'd probably turn out to be a Jerry and end up with a mr. meeseeks holding a knife to someone's throat asking us about our shortgame..... and you know our shortgame is horrible.
MITY
What the fuck... No.... ; )
MITY
This game would be far different without the patrons' input so it's absolutely necessary to keep everyone in the loop of what's going on!
MITY
The coder is doing really long days atm to get it ready as fast as possible, but that's all we can say right now.
MITY
I think we're slowly getting to a point where we really have to start giving a longer development period some serious thought. I would really dislike doing so but I'll talk it over with the coder as soon as he has ended the crunch he's in right now. (a poll would be the least we should do imo to see if we'd have the support of the patrons) We're being very sparse with 3rd person shots since we think most people would find it distracting but the new build will have one such scene(with a twist)
MITY
Maybe during the love route but not this route(we already have a big enoug cast as it is!)
MITY
Those are absolutely my least favorite scenes as well and I try to avoid those "dildo-fucking-machine" parts as much as possible or offset them with something extra. I'd like it even better if I could someday just replace them entirely...But sometimes I'm putting them in for simple time reasons so I'm afraid you'll still be seeing them every now and then : ( Some of the dialogue which needs updating to take into account the story progression is on our to do list, but always the last item on it. Well get there eventually but this month isn't the one. Still, thanks for letting us know. It's good to be reminded of these things.
Sounds like you need a Meseeks box
John Hamilton
Take a break, MITY. Go for a run in a stream. :D
James M Heinonen
you guys are doing great. its all the behind the scenes, reworks, and do overs that makes it all shine in the end
Nemos
Hey guys, when's the next update? I do not force, but... hehe)
Zana
Still loving this game. Been supporting a long while now. 2 questions if you would. 1.) any chance of some third person perspective h-shots? So you can see Aangs body banging suki, or zuko doing Azula. 2.) I know you said you're still thinking the monthly builds work well, but you can do so much better builds bi-monthly. Would you be willing to put it to a poll for Patreons?
Sally Fields
Hey, would we be seeing Yue in this game?
Eustacheus
I've been playing books 2 and 3 for the last 2 weeks or so, and I love the Art and the storytelling. The only things I do not like artwise, are the sexscenes in the maze and that one Toph scene, because it looks as if they are fucked by a dildo on a fucking machine. I really think that the 2 to 4 frame animation looks better. And adding something to the art so it doesn't look like the cock is cut off at the base. And one question: Will there be more variations to the scenes we already have? It's quite odd when Toph still feels uncomfortable to remove her pants during the titfuck scene, when you already fucked her...
MITY
Book 4 will be very fertile grounds when it comes to new avenues of pervertedness so yeah we hope that time will come rather sooner than later too :)
MITY
Isn't making a savegame right after the long intro just as effective? we're not messing with the beginning anymore(we wouldn't even have the time for that right now) so you should be safe.
MITY
Turning the tables on them is absolutely the best : )
MITY
When it comes to the main girls, love path is my prefered route as well. I consider every new slave route build a step closer to the love route.
MITY
Hmmm , shit always seems to touch the fan at least a little for every build, but we usually manage to fix things in time. This just took quite a bit longer. The problem was with loading a save from a previous build and the maze not updating in the right way. But it looks like we got a solid grip on it now.
MITY
There are so many perverted/funny options to pick from for book 4 it's going to be struggle, but yeah very fertile grounds for comedy!
Lucky
Wow... after seeing the attached pictures, i want to play book 4 :3
Hey MITY, just a suggestion. I personally do not care if I need to start the game anew with every update. Actually, I think I DO start anew with each update. What you could do is add a button to skip the very neat but very LONG intro of the third book. I'm no coder but I don't think it would be too complicated to skip this at least.
Reed Varatis
lol Mity, my mom get's calls from "support" people too. I usually mess with them a bit when I'm over there helping out. nothing like ending to conversation with "this place hasn't had an internet connection in 2 years and we have a Mac" when they call pretending to be from Windows XD
Alex Espresso
I just can't wait for the love path, thats what i'm waiting for
The Melon Man
Wow MITY, great moves, proud of you.
percy Jackson
So it sounds to me like shit hit the fan and now your cleaning up the mess. Now correct me if Iβm wrong but that maze portion. Are a problem with loading up the save from a previous build and the mahe resets or is it when you make any save, close the game and then reload the game does it reset? That part was confusing. Glad to see that all is well.
morris ridgeway
Your hard work is most appreciated. Thanks
so whens the next update
a leotarded amount of time
DJ Quinn
The contents of the art pack reminds me, I really hope that in Book 4 you'll play around with the fact that Korra is the main character in a past life, so whatever he does to her, he's technically doing to himself. You could probably draw a lot of comedy from it :P Side note, I hope we'll get to inhabit Bolin rather than Mako (I don't like Mako...at all). Speaking of Bolin, I'm hoping for some fun with Eska ;)
