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September campaign news and update
🕑 Added 2018-09-14 14:59:14 +0000 UTC Hi everyone, here's some news and update regarding Divine Arms, Alya, Daryl and the game they 're doing.First of all, I would like to announce that I am still looking for another animator that can do Chris' style. I read and understand the concerns of other patrons. Tho Alya is eager of taking the mantle for Divine Arms, it will surely not come soon. I honestly would rather have her and Daryl accomplish the smaller game first before even thinking of doing Divine Arms.
Sadly, I can't get Chris to stay. When he did leave sometime ago, I will just be glad he stayed some more to finish all 8 sets.
Getting great animators that can do all is hard to find. When I went to local animation studios, we will need to hire the whole team and the 5k a month will never be able to afford it. (Quality studios rate is 9k-16k a month) And their portfolio shows they really should be paid that much, yet I also think it's a bit of an overkill, so I am still searching for a more reasonable studio / talent for such task.
On the search, I did get to meet a mobile game dev studio and offered to port Divine Arms to 3D. The whole game including the lewds into 3D and playable as twinstick on the phone. The offer was pricey but compared to the bigger animation studio i mentioned, we can pretty much tightly afford the 3D port, but for now I'll wait for their visual proposal.
At the moment I am considering chop-splitting the game into chapters, so the art inconsistency won't be much of a problem. And if the idea is viable, I will be the one to do chapter 2 and with enough time by then, Alya will have had enough training to take on Chapter 3. So yes, with Daryl also in the team (he already signed a 2 year contract last week) I will be going back to animating sprites and full screen lewds.
We have been devising actual game plans and designs that can still save Divine Arms even with Chris' initial works in it. All these plans will be relayed here as it progresses and we will do our best not to hurt the project with whatever changes it tilts into.
On that topic, I have been orienting Daryl about the game engine he will be working on with Alya. He stayed at my place for 4 days planning everything and me teaching him everything as well. He was supposed to stay for a week since he lives far from my place, but then this shit showed up:
So he had to go back to his kids and probably go back here next week after the storm.
Tho we have a very terrible placeholder prototype about the game they will be making, I'm certain we can finish this soon with all the details regarding how it plays and the exciting "gimmick" we cooked up to make it different from the usual eroge mechanic of:
"player loses, therefore show reward with sex scene".
I had to get Daryl to speed with the engine and also point him to not do the mistakes and bad habits I did, but as soon as he's on his own, he's a much better coder than me.
The game they will be making is a side-scroll brawler like double dragon / final fight and the main protagonist is non-other than a very familiar Divine Arms enemy, the Blood Hunter. (Their chieftain, so the design will be less generic) and the story will play 400 years before the invasion and blightlust corruption.
Excuse the placeholder and the sprite size warping, tho the grab animation should be the correct ratio as blood hunters are huge:
More info will come to it as soon as I get Daryl to polish a bit for its initial presentation and as I make some initial sprites for it. We will release the demo here and give much info about timeline, lore and game mechanics as soon as one enemy is done and the lewd animated by Alya.
Alya news: Here are more of her mid-weeb renditions of Siggy:
Hires Versions:
https://imgur.com/QXUUERj
https://imgur.com/9Gr471V
https://imgur.com/XvOsAPL
https://imgur.com/PDtqrGq
She just recently received my animator's survival book and we also got her a license for Adobe Animate CC. I had her train with the trial for Animate CC and Clip Studio and she chose Animate CC since she also wants to explore that path and kind of liked how her stills/non-animated output looks with vector strokes. Also I will be able to help her to speed since I know flash well.
She'll send over animation samples just as soon as she's done tinkering with it and as she prepares to do her first lewd scene with the demo enemy. Hopefully by Chapter 3 (If we ever go that path) of Divine Arms she's more than ready to shift to the main game.
Alya, by the way, aside from her animation training, is offering 2-4 full colored renditions of Divine Arms or anything lewd you'd like her to draw a month.
If anyone here is familiar with something like what other campaigns do, like voting for what she'll draw, please comment your ideas and suggestions so I can tell her asap.
Anyway, thanks everyone continuing the support despite these events. I'm trying my best to get this thing solid still, but for everything else like Chris leaving the project is beyond my control already and can only work around the situation. I thank you guys once more for sticking around. We still have tons of stuff to give and surprise you.
-kReig out!
Comments
At first I was disappointed with the announcement of a new artist but Alya has really proven herself a great artist already to me and I look forward to seeing her work! I also hope she sees this message!
Siggy being forced into fellatio by the blood hunter! Either that or Siggy and Mahalai captured by all the monsters!
The Legendary Armin will be remembered! I can't hide my joy from seeing Ayla's newly adapted style though; I'm getting excited all over again-! Great job finding new talents, Viper! :D
Cres
How about a full image of the smiling siggy in the bottom right/top right of the 4th pic. the smiles give a fluffy feeling. -u-
Yami Kyuketsuki
Chris!!! your arts were magic! you'll never be forgotten!
Mini_heals
also could ask people to upload stuff onto dropbox from around the world to try this out. to widen the spread ... maybe you are already doing this and I'm just dumb XD.
Mini_heals
Also You might have already done this but you could ask university animator students ... and I mean different art styles could be pretty interesting as long as they don't clash too hard.
Shadefalcon
How about a monthly or every other month raffle for fun. BBC does it on picarto. Patreons who join f. ex. a stream or a participation thingy will be available to request an art piece. F. ex. of a game character they like, a divine arms thingy or an oc. Within reasons of what Alya wants to draw of course!
ViperV
i'll speak with Alya as soon as she's online about the poll. for now, lust worm gets on the list. anyone who has ideas throw em. come monday or tuesday i'll start the poll.
Hikaru Agaki
Upvote, Agree, Like, or what ever you want to call it. I approve of this statement
Ian W
I would suggest that you have a poll with the different ideas for images, and let the patrons decide.
Obamna
Can we get Ayla to draw Siggy and Lustwurm? Its been a pretty interesting topic but we haven't seen anything of it yet :c
tehhojo
Alya's style is great! I hope she keeps up the good work, I'll be here quietly throwing my money into whatever you guys decide what's good for the project!
Zaths
This may be unpopular, but I like her style more.
RemnantRyku
Aww, she's so cute. Great job, everyone!
JonDom
Completely second this sentiment, the art style and and 2d animation was literally SPOT ON
If I might contribute here, I'd like to speak against 3D port... I mean, one of the best feature of 2D animated sex scenes is the fluidity and, yes, realism. 3D games lack a lot in therms of body deformation due to pressure and hugely on interfacing bodies together. To exemplify: breast squeezing, skin elongation, tissue compression, interactions in general (like a hand holding to an arm or a penis penetrating a vagina or anus), fluids deposition, viscosity and surface tension... I mean, I could go on forever. Those are very important thing on the quality and excitement of a sex scene. I'm also patreon of the Derelict's Helmsman project Breeders of Nephelyn and the inherent limitations of 3D are quite clear. So... Think twice before 3D'ing the game :)
Polandball
also i got idea instead of doing expensive animations, u could just give us painted images of scenes and then gradually not rushingly change it slowly to animations, or how i saw someone doing sprites instead also good route in my opinion
Polandball
even with unfortunate events that accured it would be unfair to not give her chance to proove herself, lets hope she will stay to the end of project this time
If she can draw a blood hunter orgy, then we'd know she'd be able to draw anything :3
GetRekdm8
Also gonna say that sketches/concept art for sex scenes or just of Siggy performing said scenes/lewd things would help ease people's minds. That picture at the bottom is really cute btw so I'm hyped.
Arkest
Hurricanes ruining everything! The one beating at my door right now needs to sod off!
Naj
I like both Chris' and Alya's style, but I'm gravitating more towards Alya. As long as the animation remains smooth during sex scenes I'll remain happy. Looking forward to see Siggy's "ahegao" in Alya's style. Also would love to see some sample of Siggy having sex from Alya if possible. A sketch would suffice. Japan has earthquakes, the Philippines have super typhoons. I know what it feels like to be in the storm capital of the world. It's hard too commute because of the flood. Being outside of the house is like experiencing the end of the world. My relatives always keep me updated about what's happening there. You guys take care!
I still really think her art would fit in well once she gets a better feel for the original, but honestly whatever you feel is best I will continue to support. Looking forward to everything, and please stay safe!
Push on brother (and now sister)! There are so few quality lewd games out there! Don't give up! I like the idea of there being more lewd content being posted... maybe some stills for animation ideas up for vote? People still pay top dollar for just straight art so it could be worth providing monthly stills for patreons? Even if you have to outsource the art style.. ultimately siggy is still banging. ;) props to you alya for being so accepting to change your artstyle too...
Stay safe and thank you for the updates
