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The status of the development of Horny Dungeon
🕑 Added 2024-02-15 12:10:33 +0000 UTCHello everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates lately.
I know the demo was supposed to be released at the end of this month (Feb), but given the current progress, it doesn't seem to be a very realistic goal.
The freelancers who worked for this game have done great jobs. The other parts of asset creation (VAs, sprites, sound effects. etc) are mostly done.
However my lack of 3D animation experience has been hindering the progress quite a lot. Sorry about that. The gameplay has still many missing parts too, but I believe I've laid a good foundation to build upon.
The bright side is that I've made quite a lot of procedural workflows in Houdini, which will allow me to add some refinements to multiple characters much more easier. For example underwear, stockings, and subtle animations like this:
I could've done these in Blender in a traditional way... honestly that would probably been faster for this demo. However I'd like to make the workflows more future proof, as this game's premise is that there are multiple female characters to form a dungeon raiding party, and I really don't think it's a good idea to make these refinements for each character from scratch.
The priority at this point is to finish Iris's animations (I still believe it can be done in this month). And I'll connect the dots and make the sense out of the gameplay next month. Honestly, it'd probably still be very very crude at the end of March, but I hope it'd be at least something presentable.
In conclusion, the demo release is postponed to late March/early April. Sorry for the delay.
Comments
L30
No worries, it is better to have a solid system in place rather than rush something out. Same with expending effort on a short term solution when said effort could be better used setting up a long term workflow that would benefit you and the game in the future. Thanks for the update, keep up the great work, and take care of yourself.
Paweł P
Better to have pipelines figured out sooner than later. Stable foundations are really important.
