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Shadow Island R6 progress update and plans
🕑 Added 2022-02-04 15:09:53 +0000 UTCThanks for the support, it's really cool to see the excitement around the game grow and to be more and more numerous! The work started again at the beginning of February, and after a lot of brainstorming, the outline of this update is almost finished and the first events of the follow-up are being written with some of them already completed.
This update will probably be one of the sauciest releases so far with at least 3 NSFW scenes in addition to some teases. It's also a major update for me because it kind of closes the first act of the game, after that things will be shaken up by the opening to the outside environment on R7 and the structure of the game will change quite a bit.
I don't know yet how far R6 will go, but it's possible that it will come earlier than usual and be short but intense, this would allow preparing for R7 and the new outside environments without slowing down the release of R6.
What you can expect in terms of NSFW scenes at the current time (confirmed):
- 1 Hale scene (non voyeur)
- 1 Hale scene (voyeur)
- 1 Lily scene
One thing I would like to do on R6 at the current time is to switch all assets to 1080p. The game currently uses 978p assets, which was a youthful mistake on my part, and which I regret. Switching the assets to 1080p will allow for a much nicer rendering quality if you have a 1080p screen and run the game in full screen (which is the most used resolution in the world). Because the native display of the content makes the game look really good compared to the current blurry rendering. It takes some work, but doing the switch now would take a lot less work than if I wait, every time a new version comes out, it would make the work much longer because you also have to manually multiply all the image coordinates used in the game (thousands of lines of code) by the upscale factor and this tends to grow over time.
I've already started looking into this and found an AI-based upscaling method with ESRGAN that renders perfectly with no loss of quality and sometimes even an increase in detail. The only problem is when trying it I realised that my old AMD graphics card was too slow for this, it would take a month to upscale the whole game...
So I ordered a GTX 3050 yesterday which is costing me an arm and a leg (thanks miners) in order to get a GPU with a lot of cudas core which will increase the upscale speed by a factor of 100 or so. It would be cool if I could make this change for R6 in time!
That's about it for now, I don't want to spoil too much but the Hale voyeur scene is well advanced, to the point where I could show some of the animations but I don't know if that's a good idea as it's a scene that some people probably don't want to see hmm.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you wish, but until then see you soon for more progress on R6!
Comments
Redikal
Really appreciated, thanks for the positive energy! =)
Hakiru101
Keep up the good work! And honestly, I love the fact you guys stay consistent with postings and, of course, the communication as well. It’s kind of rare to see that. I really hope you guys reach y’all goals soon. I wish many good things for time to come, regards to the devs and the continuation of the game as well.
AlexMurphy
I'd like to see that scene in-game actually! I can understand the urge to show off some of the R6 progress, but I don't wanna spoil anything for myself.
KingMeaut
Sounds good, and I say pass on showing the Hale seens til R6
