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MNL Progress Report #118 - Full Opening Cutscene

Hey there nudies! I want to apologize for being so late on this... If you'll remember my last progress report, I made a brief mention of trying to sell my house. Well, I'm happy to share that this house is SOLD. And these last three weeks have been scrambling trying to get everything in order - everything packed, all the paperwork done, new apartment acquired, moving trip planned, and all the last minute repairs and whatever else necessary to complete the house closing. It has been an EXHAUST...

MNL June Comic 2025

Welcome back, nudies! Hope you've been enjoying the prequel comic so far! When we last left Amber, she had just finished quite an intense self-loving session... but don't worry! She's not quite done loving herself just yet! This is just the start of a wonderful nudie summer adventure... A perfect way to set the stage for the game's story! It's also been a lot of great practice both for me writing Amber and for Anne drawing Amber. Doing this comic has helped a lot in really defining Amber's lo...

MNL Progress Report #117

Hey there, nudies! I am so, SO sorry for the extended delay. I didn't mean to take so long getting to you all, I promise. Just an extremely busy few weeks, and not just for me. Invertex actually suffered a power outage that damaged his computer and knocked him out of commission for a bit. Everything's been repaired and replaced now, but it was pretty worrying for a bit! As for me, I've been dealing with trying to sell this house I'm in, talking with banks, and preparing a big personal announc...

MNL May Comic 2025

Hey there, nudies! We're back with page 5 of this prequel comic, here for your viewing pleasure! This is definitely the spiciest our pepper-headed nudist has been, but it's an equally important part of her! A girl's gotta take give some self-love to those very important parts!

Maintaining that balance between sexuality and nudism is an integral element to MNL. We think Amber's eroticism is just as vital to her character as anything else. We obviously want to make erotic acts an optional...

MNL Progress Report #116

Hey there, nudies! Short progress report today, still just trucking along. We got a fun little quality of life element going, which is... keyboard controls! Originally, we only had mouse controls implemented, but now thanks to Invertex's efforts, you can directly control Amber's nudie cutie self with the WASD or arrow keys! We're aiming to keep the control scheme very simple for this game, so the entire thing can be playable with just a keyboard, just a mouse, or both! It's all doable with ju...

MNL Progress Report #115

Hey there, nudies! Back with a weekend progress report! Got a good amount of visuals to go for this one! This week, I got in and finalized the opening cutscene of the game, adding title cards, illustrations, transitions, sound effects, music... basically everyone on the team has SOMETHING in this 6 minute long intro to the game! It required a ton of rewrites and work since it needed to establish so much in as natural of a way as possible, but I'm really happy with how it came out. In fact, le...

MNL Progress Report #114

Hey there, nudies! I'm so, so sorry about the delay in progress report. Unfortunately, things just haven't been great for me these last few weeks, with the biggest thing that's been eating up my time being... well, the loss of one of my comic jobs. I won't go too deep into it, but basically I've had to spend the last few weeks helping wind down the SFW division of the company I work for. Since a lot o...

MNL Progress Report #113

Hey there, nudies! Another busy week for us, with some very fun progress. But first, hope you like this new art from Anne because I personally LOVE it. These COLORSSSS

We've been chugging away in the background, trying to improve our process to make things a bit faster! One of these was Invertex implementing a drop-down selection for animations! Before, if I wanted Amber to emote during a particular line of dialogue, I'd have to go in and write in Amber_Idle_Excited. Not a particularly ...

MNL March Comic 2025

Hey there, nudies! Page 4 of this prequel comic, here for your viewing pleasure! Amber finally getting to enjoy herself a bit~

Anne did AMAZING on this one. God, these colors POP, and the day-to-night transition is brilliant. Extremely happy with how this all came out!

The next page/pin ups might be delayed, but for good reason - we need more art in the game! We came up with a scene that needed more insert panels, so Anne will need to prioritize that over the comics. Apologies, bu...

MNL Progress Report #112

PHEW. Hey there, nudies! Between work and house selling, it's been an extremely busy time for yours truly! It's finally clearing up though, so now I should have more time to focus on our favorite nudie cutie! Check out this ADORABLE picture Anne drew of Amber really working some accessories in the clothing shop! Not exactly clothes, but I'm sure no one minds. Love the transparency on the sarong~

We're still just trucking alone with this cafe zone section - fixing new bugs that pop up (w...

Amber on the Pier

A little bonus illustration Anne drew of Amber relaxing on the pier! No swimsuit required on this beach~

MNL Progress Report #111

Hey there, nudies! Sorry things have been slow for a bit. Real-life stuff has unfortunately been getting in the way of building our nudie game. Three out of the four of us on the team are actually in the process of moving, including yours truly! I had to spend much of the last couple weeks just cleaning my house top to bottom to put it up for sale! It's officially up on the market, and once it sells, I'll be moving across the country from Louisiana to Oregon. Now that that's out of the way an...

MNL February Comic 2025

Hey there, nudies! Another prequel comic here for ya!

Until then, though, enjoy the comic and see you soon with more MNL! This is the last little bit of the introductory set-up... now it's time for some clothing-free adventures!

Anne's also going to try to do a few more lil' bonus doodles throughout the month, so if there's anything you'd like to see Amber do, why not comment below and let us know? Amber loves to take requests!

Thank you so much for the support, and see you...

MNL Progress Report #110

Hey there, nudies! Just a small, text-heavy update today. Unfortunately, this has been an extremely busy month for me personally, and I'm kinda holdin' up the works when it comes to implementing dialogue and filling out the cafe zone with its interactions. See, I don't just write comics (and games), but also help manage a comics site and currently gotta help out my fellow creators file their taxes and keep their businesses afloat. Hopin' to clear out the rest of my work this week so that I ca...

MNL Progress Report #109

Hey there nudies! Huge apologies for the delay in progress reports! Between the holidays, work, and world events, it's been a busy time for the Birthday Suit team! I've also been especially laser-focused on getting more cutscene work done now that I can properly edit them in-engine, and it's given me a bit of tunnel vision. Hard to pull myself away from Amber's exploits to write about her adventure's progress reports. Sorry, sorry!

The main thing has just been polishing up these cutscen...

MNL January Pin Up 2025

Hey there, nudies! Sorry for the delays! Been an extremely busy beginning of the month, and our collective noses have been down to the grindstones! I'll try to have a progress report soon, but work is definitely getting done! Just hard to pull myself away from it to write out a report right now. Afraid I've been diagnosed with tunnel vision...

Until then, enjoy this super cute pin up of dancing Amber, complete with a funky lil mid-2000s boombox! What do you think she's dancing to? Eithe...

MNL January Comic 2025

Hey there, nudies! We're back from the holidays and gettin' right to work, starting with this month's prequel comic! And you can tell it's definitely a prequel comic if Amber's actually covering herself! The blushing is really cute, though...

We'll be back to our regularly schedule progress reports this week! We had to take a bit of a break due to the holidays. The accompanying pin up for this month will also be a little later this week, as it's not quiiite done yet. Sorry guys, just be...

Happy Holidays from Birthday Suit Games!

Seasons greetings, nudies! It may be cold outside, but you can still keep warm and cozy inside with the fire on and your clothes off, just like Amber! Though I don't remember her house having a fireplace...

We're still very busy scrambling into the new year, but we wanted to give you all a lil' Christmas bonus, courtesy of our lead artist Anne! We'll be sharing this on Bluesky and the Discord channel too, but you all get to see it first!

Our music composer Vanware also brought a g...

MNL Progress Report #108

Hey there, nudies! Just a small update this week. With the holidays coming up, much of the team has been busy dealing with real-world stuff. But while it may be snowing outside (depending on where you are), it's sunny and sandy here at Culo Culo Beach!

Bear Festival has begun work on the next location for Culo Culo Town - the beach! Obviously, a game like this has to have a beach! We're curren...

MNL Progress Report #107

Hey there, nudies! Apologies for the delay - some of us were out on holiday, and we needed a bit more time for debugging and clean-up, because we made some major progress, like the thing you're look at above!

I made that myself! I can do that now!

A bit of explanation - I'm not a programmer. Invertex is the team's sole programmer, and has been the person building everything you see, arranging my writing, Bear's 3D models, Anne's 2D art, and AT's animation...

MNL December Pin Ups 2024

Welcome back again, nudies! As promised, a new pin up from Anne! Much like the previous Sweez pin ups, these will usually be related to the events of the comic it gets posted up alongside with. So for this one, Amber immediately got those clothes off and spent the whole day enjoying herself, now enjoying the warm evening glow~

Thank you so much for the support! See you all soon with another progress report!

MNL December Comic 2024

Welcome back, nudies! As promised, it's the return of the monthly comics! But this time, we're doing something a little different...

As you may have seen in some of the updates, Amber's past experience in Culo Culo is something of a plot point in the game. However, the game itself is very focused on the here and now of Amber's life, so there isn't too much we can do to explore that history... That's where these comics come in! Consider this a little prequel story to MNL as we explore va...

MNL Progress Report #106

Hey there, nudies! Posting kind of late. So late that you can see a full moon tonight! Heyoooo!

Yeah, so the big focus this week - skyboxes! We'd been using just a default Godot procedural skybox before, but we actually went and made a custom one using some gradients I whipped up and some clouds Leslie drew! Invertex thread them into Godot, adjusting the lighting and shadows, added some fog where needed, and voila! We've got time of day officially implemented!

I forget if I've men...

MNL Progress Report #105

Hey there, nudies! Things got delayed a bit as we had to figure out some issues around animation looping, but we're back with some cutscene progress! We uploaded a whole little video of one of the first scenes that occurs in game! Check it out above!

Our animations work well, our insert panels pop, and the whole thing just looks so GOOD! I couldn't be happier with how this has come out!

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MNL Progress Report #104

Hey there, nudies! Apologies for the delay! Been a rough personal week, but that's not going to stop us over here!

We ran into a bit of a tech issue trying to implement 3D portraits. Bit hard to explain, but basically Invertex had to figure out how to show a 3D view in 2D overlayed on top of the current 3D view. It took a lot of extra code writing and editing, but eventually we figured it out! Only to realize it looked... a little flat.

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MNL Progress Report #103

Hey there, nudies! Hope you're having a spooktacular evening so close to Halloween! We've certainly been busy this week! So busy, it's SCARY! OoOoOoOh!

The big thing we did this week was actually what you see above! All of the dialogue for the opening tutorial is now inserted into the game! Took me a week to write and format for coding, and 10 minutes for Invertex to slip into the game! That's actually a really good thing, too - because it proves that our pipeline is indeed wor...

MNL Progress Report #102

Hey there, nudies! Sorry for the later progress report. We were working on a VERY important feature... which you can see above! It took a lot of fiddling on Invertex's part, but we were able to get companions to follow you, starting with this capybara! During certain quests, characters can follow behind you and keep you company! We started with this capybara, but other, more bipedal NPCs will be able to follow you as well utilizing the same code. Though apparently, it was a lot harder to impl...

MNL Progress Report #101

Hey there, nudies! Hope everyone affected by the recent hurricanes are doing okay! Unfortunately, kind of a busy week with not much visual stuff to show. The second hurricane delayed us a bit more, but everyone's fine here! Since it did put some of us out of commission for a bit, we focused on what we could - mostly backend coding and clean-up. We're working on implementing an editor system now to be able to better edit cutscenes on the fly, which should make the process a lot easier in the f...

MNL Progress Report #100

Hey there, nudies! Happy 100 progress reports! Wild that I've been doing these for so long now! Hopefully, I'll be doing these for a long, long time even after this game is in your hands. Which excitedly, we just took a nice big step towards achieving!

As of this morning, we've finished implementing the opening cutscene! A nice two minute sprawl with multiple illustrations, transitions and 40+ lines of dialogue! The dialogue itself is even all polished up with nice little effects - 2024-10-07 02:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post

MNL Progress Report #99

Hey there nudies! Unfortunately, another slower week due to weather. Just after we had Hurricane Francine that knocked out my power here for 3 days, Hurricane Helene showed up to blast away two other teammates! Everyone's fine and healthy and pulling through, but it did slow things down a bit. I'm hoping this is the last one, but there's apparently a third hurricane brewing down in the Gulf of Mexico right now that's making me nervous. Please, nature, can't you give us a break?! We're naturis...