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Dev-Diary 3
🕑 Added 2023-07-13 06:50:26 +0000 UTCGreetings everyone, I´m back with another rant. First things first. Me being a damn chatterbox already mentioned in Discord that I want to finish my update before the end of July. While I´m horrible with time estimates, I still feel like I´m on the finishing stretch already and a Patron-Release in about 2 weeks could be doable. So let´s make this official by saying it here again!
Now, let´s dive into some details of what I´ve been up to. I´m done with all the writing and proof-reading is in process. So all the scenes are written, but some images are still missing or need editing. The underlying code is also mostly in place, but hasn´t been tested yet.
But the damn dream-scene, I gotta tell you. What I tried creating there went WAY over my skill level, but of course I wouldn´t accept that. So I spent 2 weeks and probably 20-30 hours trying to learn lighting in PS, getting into the Action-Editor in RenPy and then actually "animate" this scene. But it´s finally done now, takes about 15min to play through, so I´m looking forward to welcome you all in the queens tent (hopefully still in July).
But if I ever do a complex scene like that again, I´ll need an artist to partner up. No idea where to find one, but here´s to dreaming (hence to image above)..
Another thing with the art. I originally planed to go for around 10 strength-levels, but only give Gina a new set of images on every second level, as I doubted my ability to create 10 sets of Ginas in distinguishable sizes. But I know many people will be disappointed if they have to wait many months to see Gina grow visibly again, so in the next days I´ll probably try to create some images of Gina Level 3. I have some on her Level 4 already, so I would need to create a "middle-thing". The down-side of having her grow on every level would then maybe be less total levels and more stretched out levels in the end-game, but of course by then we should have 2 more girls in the mix who can grow a bit too. Also creating images is my damn achilles heel, so this might take some time again.. Maybe leave your thoughts on that topic, I read all your comments.
What else is there to say? The next diary is hopefully around the launch. So it might contain some kind of primitive road-map for the future or my bad excuses, if I don´t make it in time. And I´ve got two ideas for Ginas next dream, which I´ll put into writing and present to you guys soon. Of course you can make suggestion too and we´ll let the bosses decide then.
As always, have a lovely week and I´ll stay in touch.
Comments
The_Don
Getting stronger is a given. Some events change with Level 3 (park or financial for example), others will only become available with new Strength-Levels. Still gonna see about those visuals. Creating my old sets took me forever, but now I learned the inpaint feature of SD. So let´s see..
Brad Meyer
Personally I'm ok with growth coming every other level, so long as she still gets stronger with the in between levels even if it's not necessarily reflected in her size.
