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Dev Update 20/09/2019

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I started out this week with a great plan of tasks to be done on the new game. But now I'm 2 weddings and a national election later and frankly, not a lot has been done. I've managed to squash a bug and fix some typos in Bell Master. And do some minor tweaking to the new game prototype. But that's about it. I'm confident this unproductive clusterfuck of a week isn't going to become a habit. But as you know, transparency is important to me, warts and all, so you get to hear ...

Dev Update 13/09/2019

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This week went as planned. I managed to finish up and implement the new interaction I started with last week. Phoenix delivered another image and is now working on the two variants of the final shot of the game. Chris delivered all the new clothes and I managed to put them in already. Patrons over on the discord got a minor preview of that.

I've also managed to sneak in some pre production time for the next game, finally getting around to propping up a prototype ...

Dev Update 06/09/2019

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First off, some logistics, I've been informed by Patreon that due to some EU bullshit, if you are from the EU, you may get a pop up from your bank when pledging, asking for various bits of information. Patreon wanted to make it clear that they do not control those pop ups, and therefore cannot help if you have any pro...

Dev Update 30/08/2019

It's update time!

I've been doing a lot of small things this week. I've been setting up all the various channels and basic bots required for the discord server. It's already proved itself with a couple of useful bug reports and  requests. So I went ahead and dealt with some of those. In the process I've whipped up a 32bit Windows version of v 0.12.1, in case anyone else is interested in that, you can download it 2019-08-30 14:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Discord

I've opened up one of them newfangled discord things. Should you be so inclined: https://discord.gg/JxXXUAU
(still testing the waters with that one, so... expect the unexpected). 

Dev Update 23/08/2019

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This week I focused back on the clothes system. I've squashed a game breaking bug in the outfit system. As you can see in the gif I've also changed the way basic wear and remove commands work. It's still a little laggy so I'll give it some more attention over the weekend, but I think this change should make it much easier to play around with her clothes.

I've also looked into improving the way the game tracks which action has already been seen by the player. That's on...

Dev Update 17/08/2019

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This was a... less productive week on my side. I spent most of it collecting references for the artists and making small adjustments to existing systems. I did manage to implement one cool thing this week, but I'll be keeping that one a surprise until the release. This less productive week will not affect the expected release date for this version, which remains the end of September. It might mean less time to work on pre production for the next game. But Bell Master remain...

Dev Update 09/08/2019

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First off, continuing from last week's update, while some of you were okay with anonymous analytics, enough of you were not to make me decide to abandon that idea. I'll have to continue relying on your active feedback, so keep that coming!

This was a rather productive week. I manage to finish the implementation of the games endings. All the text, code and choices are in place, now only the art is missing. While we wait for that, I've gone ahead and worked on some thin...

Dev Update 02/08/2019

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I've spent this week refining and implementing the first segment of the ending. It's a mostly linear segment that wraps up the immediate story. Like most scenes involving the old man, it's been super fun to work on. I also worked on the "bad" ending branch, that one gave me some serious anxiety. I almost hope no one experiences that one :/

Phoenix is continuing work on the images for the endings. It's a large event with multiple unique images, so it'll likely take mor...

Random recommendations

First off I'd like to say hi and thank you to the new patrons. Hope you enjoy your stay!

Now, it occurs to me that I haven't done a "these are games I like" post in a while. Just to be clear, this isn't one of them "cross promotion" things, most of these devs have little to no clue who I am, these are games that I actually played and enjoyed enough to personally recommend. So here goes:

Areas of GRAY...

Dev Update 20/07/2019

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This week was extremely productive! I managed to add both the new date and a complex new order (and related purchasable) to the game. The new order was something I wanted to put in for a while. It might not be for everyone, but I had a blast writing it, and like all orders, it's up to you if you want to give it. Tech-wise, this order was a bitch to implement, and exposed a lot of the inherent issues with my pose and animation systems. Those issues are very entrenched and fi...

Dev Update 13/07/2019

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As you know, I spent the week on a business trip. I got to see London, which was rather awesome. As anticipated, I couldn't really get much work done on the game during that (what with "normal" work getting in the way and all). The redeye flight home didn't help with that either and took Friday mostly off the table as well.

I did manage to get some writing done for the new date, but it'll likely need some serious editing when I'm less jet lagged. I've also continued t...

Dev Update 06/07/2019

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I have to say, the decision to postpone the endings implementation has made a significant difference to my overall mood (and therefore, productivity). Turns out I'm affected by stress just like everyone else, who knew :)

This week was fairly productive. I integrated all the new clothes Chris made, all the art for existing actions Phoenix made, and a new order and related content. I've started work on a new date, got Phoenix started on a commission to go with the new o...

July gear shift

So as you probably know, this version has seen a multitude of setbacks, I was prepared to tough it out and deliver, until I prepared the art commissions for this month and realized I had way too many of them lined up. More than it was realistic to expect during a single month, especially from a new artist.

I considered delaying the version to give Phoenix time to complete everything, but that would mean delaying the version by at least a month, maybe more. That's not ideal either. So I'...

Dev Update 29/06/2019

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The first stage of writing for the games finale is over. It's currently standing at over 4k words total. I'm now going to go into editor mode, clearing out redundancies, fixing typos and making sure it's the best I can make it. I'll also be starting the process of compiling the various visual references I'll need for the endings images, so that the new artist can start work on them.

As patrons already know, I've gotten at least one result back from an artist that I'm h...

Dev Update 22/06/2019

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The artist search is still in progress. I got at least one promising sketch (and some... less promising work). By next week's update I should have all the results in hand and have either a new artist, or another round of audition commissions to report on. It's a slow process but it's now at the point where it's easy to run concurrently with regular work so it's not a huge time sink.

Speaking of regular work, I spent this week working on the large(ish) scene leading up...

Dev Update 15/06/2019

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So, bad news first, BDOne is still MIA. Not gonna lie, I've grown used to working with them, so I've delayed the inevitable until now, but development must continue, so I've spent time this week setting up an audition commission for several potential artists. 

I have to say, once you know where to look, and have a game and Patreon set up that you can point to and say "you'll be working on this" the artist search process becomes much easier! I've currently got thr...

Dev Update 08/06/2019

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This week was spent writing multiple ending segments. Some of it turned out rather well, some... didn't. So I'll spend some time next week making improvements where needed. There's still a lot time in the plan dedicated to writing and it's still very early in the versions development so I doubt it'll impact the release date.

BDOne is still in low availability due to work. It's a sad reality of working with artists on commission that sometimes they aren't available whe...

Dev Update 01/06/2019

Since I spent all of last week working on the hotfix version, I will spend this weekly update to lay out the plan going forward.

At this point, I consider v 0.11 stable, so unless anything terrible gets reported, I will be moving on to working on v 0.12. 

As it stands now, v 0.12 will focus heavily on the games ending(s). There's a lot of writing ahead of me, most of June will be spent on that. While I'm off in writers land, I'll set BDOne working on adding images to some of ...

Dev Update 25/05/2019

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This week was filled with a lot of tiny tasks meant to improve the overall polish of the game. Things like: Going over typos, fixing minor animation mistakes, adding a basic bell sound when you click the bell and a way to mute it, minor rewrites to some early game actions, finishing up the new outfit system, streamlining some menus (thanks to helpful feedback over on F95), all the while working with BDOne on revisions for that last art commission.

At this point, I fee...

Dev Update 18/05/2019

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BDOne has started work on the last pieces of art for the upcoming version. With work crunch still being a factor, it may take a few days. 

As Patrons already know, I've spent this "extra" week on a quick and dirty version of a feature that has been requested quite often. Custom outfits. You can now save any arrangements of clothes as a named outfit, adding it to the wife's roster of randomly chosen clothes. She might change before going to work if you go too craz...

Dev Update 10/05/2019

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So bad news out of the way first: BDOne has been hit with some crunch at work and so will not be able to finish work on the art for the new date on time. I've considered releasing the version without the new date (or without the art) but this being a polish version, its light on new content as is. And so, in agreement with the opinion of the patrons, I'm postponing the release of this version. The new estimated release is near the end of May.

The good...

Dev Update 04/05/2019

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The UI upgrade process is finally done. It's taken longer than I planned and took over most of this week. But it's done. In addition to upgrading images and changing some of the details of how the stat bars look. Probably the most time consuming aspect was upgrading every bit of text in the game. I won't bore you with the tech details, but the gist of it is that, since I began work on the project, Unity purchased and integrated a far superior text display library called Tex...

Dev Update 26/04/2019

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This week was a well balanced week. The rebalancing of sex based actions is done and I continued the UI update work with BDOne. I implemented the UI updates for most of the menu screens while he continued to design the main game screens and stat bars. 5$ patreons will be getting a sneak peek of that work during the weekend.

I've added a fun new article of clothing, which joins the blindfold in the list of clothes that are kept on when moving between poses. I've also f...

Dev Update 19/04/2019

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It's been a rather insane week in my personal life (all good stuff, but still time consuming). However I did manage to steal a few moments to work on Bell Master here and there.
The UI redesign process is going strong. BDOne has been truly instrumental in this, providing multiple edits, good suggestions and overall being a pro. High tier patrons have already gotten a couple of early peeks. But as usual I'd like to get as much feedback as I can, so here's the current mock...

Dev Update 12/04/2019

Update time!

Plenty of progress to report this week: Chris created a new outfit which should make it into the coming version. BDOne started the (long) process of upgrading the UI. It's going to be a lot of back and forth between us until all the details are settled, but judging from the first steps made this week, I'm cautiously optimistic. I plan to share images from this process as it develops, with 5$ patrons getting a sneak peek a little earlier.

I've focused mostly on writing...