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Chasing Sunsets: Chapter 6, Dev Update #2 (And poll!)
🕑 Added 2022-06-26 19:27:25 +0000 UTC
Things are moving along again after a bit of a workflow disruption. Kentyrr typically does the scene building and posing on his rig, and in turn, I render them since writing and coding doesn't require a ton of GPU, and leaves him free to do his bit.
Early last week, I began migrating my development rig into a bigger case with better cooling. The process has taken a bit longer than expected, so there is a bit of a backlog on artwork rendering. Renders in the first few scenes are taking unusually long as well.
This all sounds bad, but it's not. My last touches on the rebuilt rig were completed yesterday, and I'm rendering around the clock. Over the next few weeks, the backlog will be absorbed and I'll be waiting on new art again.
While this doesn't impact the development cycle timeline, it has sidetracked me on a few things I've been wanting to make progress on, including language localization (so we can support multiple languages) and codebase collapse. After giving Kent enough dialogue to keep him occupied for a few weeks, that will be my focus.
We're beginning on the fourth scene now, and hopefully we'll begin to see render times come down.
For those of you who are interested, I thought I'd give you a little insight into what your patronage has done:
When we began Chasing Sunsets, Kent was running a single watercooled GeForce 1080ti GPU, and I was running a single aircooled 2080ti GPU on a Ryzen 3600X.
Since then, we have put about 75% of our Patreon pledges back into the project in some way, shape, or form:
We have:
- Both upgraded our development rigs to state-of-the-art
- Formed a business partnership (and some friends for life)
- Met (virtually) some of our AVN heroes (Drifty, STWADev, CNG, Naughty Captain, Xor, and many more)
- Filed a copyright
- Purchased countless instances of art and music
- Contracted out for 3D object assets and animation
- Launched on Steam
Much of this would not have been possible without you. Kent is nearly at the point where he can begin looking at doing this full time, and if the trend continues, I may be able to as well for a second game. It's beyond anything we ever dreamed that this might transition from a hobby to our livelihood!
"Do what you love and you'll never work another day of your life."
With that said, as the conclusion of Jaye and MC's story begins to slip into view, I thought we'd take a moment and poll you all for what kind of game we should do next.
I will follow up with a poll on the setting and theme for our next game in our next update.
*Note - This simply informs our decision making process, and will not necessarily determine what we choose to do next.
Comments
Taylor
This is the way
I_Only_Support_Real_Onez
Why not a story driven romance with a small harem. Has all the qualities of a slow burn story with romance but you dont have to choose only one of the girls.
Matt
Obviously I love what you're doing which is why I support; I put other just because I feel like the Harem/GM would be cool to add once you complete the story as bonus content or as a separate holiday patch or something. I am honestly so impressed by your storyline that I'd say the main story doesn't need a thing. For the fans who are in it more for the porn or just have played through the story already or are donating at higher tiers, that's where I'd say you could add some more lewd stuff as bonus content. That's all I've got; keep up the good work!
