Mr Pocket Rocket

Case Log Ch6 #4

I'm back! Feels a little like a George Costanza moment in that something will inevitably go wrong. But I'm nearly 100%. Not doing any sports yet, but it doesn't feel like I'm going to melt into a heap of biohazardous material either. The real downside with being sick was that I had 6 days of rendering scheduled. I tried, but no good.

I'm not posting a render today, because I don't want to give away anything in scene 3. If I don't finish by Sunday, I will render something for your enjoym...

Case Log Ch6 #3

Well, I got sicker. Probably flu. I tried to write a Diary post from bed on Thursday, but I forgot what I was going to write...so not extremely successful. Anyway, I'm better but still not 100%.

Progress has been a little slow due to me being laid out. Chapter 6 is coming along. About 90 renders, and scene 1 is coded. Doing some rendering today. Will be close to finishing scene 2.

Sorry, I'm going back to bed. This sucks.

I'll be back and healthy shortly.

Cheers!

Case Log #2 Ch 6

Sorry, a day late on the log, but wasn't feeling so hot yesterday. Not better today, but for some reason I have renewed motivation. I have updated links with some bug/spelling fixes. That will be the last of the chapter 5 fixes. If you come across something, I will add it to the to-do list for next release.

I tried to get off to a running start on this chapter, but there is always some sort of emotional steam release at completion of a chapter and this was no different...despite my best...

Live Stream Review of Pecker PI on Adult Game Review

I hate to promote this before I know if it's a positive review or not. But I think it's worth promoting for the sake of giving a platform to those who spotlight AVNs. So please check it out at Adult Game Review

I will be back with a Case Log on Sunday.

Cheers!

Public Release Chapter 5

Alright! The free release is here. There has been some further corrections to spelling and a path trigger that didn't engage. I'm hoping all issues have been fixed now. Thanks to wibble, jufot, DogCat and LuckySpices for catching some mistakes...yes, even I make mistakes, but it's clearly not that often:-) Alright, it's not that uncommon, but I will deny it all if asked.

Saves are broken. They may appear to work, but you might miss content if you don't start over. It'll take a few minut...

Case Log #1 Ch 6

I had to rework some of the scene order in the next chapter for flow, but it's all mapped out now. I got a good amount written this week and like I mentioned in a previous tier release, I have finished renders for scene 1. This month is looking pretty good for rendering. Dinner at Bellarosa will probably be the roughest to get through because of the number of characters, which will be a bunch of partial renders since my graphics card can only do 3 character renders comfortably at a time. I'll...

Half Log Ch6

Some would call it just the tip, but I'll stick with Half Log (I know, it's terrible). I will be traveling for vacation shortly and just wanted to post a little update. Scene 1 is rendered. I will start the coding as soon as I get back home. It actually makes a ton of sense to code as I go. Not only because it avoids being a mountain to climb at the end of production but also works to find out early if I need to render another few images. Sorry, no preview as that would spoil last scene of ch...

Chapter 5 release Private Dick+ (with links)

Release for Private Dick tier. Fixed a couple of typos, but no major changes from previous tier release.

Cheers!

PC

Mac

Dear Pocket Diary #5

It's been a little bit since I last opened my beloved diary, but it's so jam-packed with idiotic statements that I had to leave it alone for a moment...to reflect.

Now that chapter 5 is released, I am working to fix a few things. Which will, by the looks of things, all be fixed by the next tier release. Now I have to explain why they weren't just fixed by first release. I was stressed out by the amount of time that this chapter took to finish...that's it. I will update the link on Sunda...

Replay Gallery

I'm working on a few things to make sure that in the future, my to-do list is just putting together good chapters. The replay gallery is one of those items. It appears that the problem is simple enough, but it would require changing the code at the very start of the game: The player naming the MC. There are a few options, but I'd like to fix this before next tier drop this coming weekend.

Option 1 I would change the original name code (cleanest option on my end). Pro: Your MC name would...

Pecker PI Chapter 5 for Shamus Tier +

It's finally done! Some 18,000+ words, 1,500+ renders, 18 animations. There are a few things outstanding that I will work on in the coming days. I'm adding player cards to all prevalent characters. Currently there are place holders for the ones I haven't finished. So if you open the screen it will show doubles of a bunch of the characters. I did this because it's the fastest way to make sure that the characters that you have unlocked show up in the correct spots. It's probably a days worth of...

Case Log #37 Ch5

I imagined that this wouldn't happen, but it did. I was going to do an all nighter to finish coding last night, but I didn't. I completely under estimated the time that it would take to code the chapter. Probably due to the fact that it's been a bit since the last time. New chapter will be done this week, of that I am certain. I'm on scene 10. It will be done before Friday and I will release to upper tiers as soon as it is.

During the time between tier releases I will finish all the pla...

Case Log #36 Ch5

Alright. I will start with apologizing to all of you. The week and weekend got eaten up by RL work (it was brutal) and I am truly sorry. I will deliver this weekend, I was going to try to finish during the week, but I can't make another prediction that will be wrong. I will release chapter 5 during the weekend, take a couple of days off, then start back up with chapter 6. With any luck, chapter 6 will be done in a more timely fashion.

Again, sorry for the delay and I will be back with ...

Case Log #35 Ch5

Well, if all goes according to plan, next weekend will be the drop of chapter 5. Don't you love that my first impulse is to cover myself in case something doesn't work out? I know myself well enough to know that I will work as hard as I can to get to that goal, but I often over promise. This one I have a good feeling about. I should insert audio of myself laughing at my own naivety here.

So I thought I'd give you a run down of this chapter's change log. 1500+ renders, 15,000-ish words, ...

Dear Pocket Diary, 4

It's been a while since the last update. So long in fact that I fear people will have expectations of greatness. And I can see how time spent corelates with the assumption of quality: the longer it takes, the better it will be. Let's deflate that balloon right now. It has taken longer than I would have liked, but don't expect it to be better. Pecker will fumble, LI will look sexy and the mob will be the mob. That's it. I'm excited because I have finished the animations...there are 4 I need to...

Case Log #34 Ch5

Animations. If this project ever goes anywhere, I'll commission the damn animations. It takes forever to set up. I think the current batch are better than the previous, but I really don't know. Maybe you will tell me once the chapter is on its feet. It has been a time sinkhole for sure, along with a busy RL week. I honestly thought I'd have this chapter out by now. I feel like the animations are all in the details, so a lot of little tweaks. I bought Spring Dynamics for DAZ, so I'll give that...

Case Log #33 Ch5

Alright. It's been a week, but I finally think I have a decent handle on the animations. First set rendering now...and I cross my fingers that it turns out well. It's always hard to see prior to a full res render. With the help of Esteban (FuckOMatic dev mentioned in previous post), who has answered all my stupid questions, I now have the beginning of a fair grasp. I will never say I can't learn more because there are always ways to improve. But right now, I feel pretty good, and I will try n...

Dear Pocket Diary, 3

Sitting at the computers and in dire need of a distraction. So, I find my diary and run my hand across the leather binding (yes, I'm pretending it's real...so what?). It's blank pages stare back at me with a want to be of purpose. I abide (much like The Dude). I put pen to paper and the words flow. My inner thoughts, secrets, and desires become eternalized. Fear of discovery hits me like a sledgehammer. I need to hide the diary from prying eyes. This is mine...MY precious.

Alright, enou...

Case Log #32 Ch5

Alright, back from my work trip. I decided to get some stuff done that I know I can finish in a timely fashion and to be honest, I needed a break from the frustration of trying to get the animations to do what I want. I decided to start with finishing up the post work on the images, which took me about 9 hours yesterday. The upside is that those are now completely done. I still have 5-6 renders that need to be done for one scene, which I will probably finish right now. It is a bit of a check ...

Dear Fucking Diary

I posted a pocket diary on discord and this will just be an extension of it. I've been stuck in animation hell for the last couple of days. I'm still in it, but I am considering a release sans animations. I don't like it, because I was going to add to the number of animations. Facial expressions of the lady, shit that adds dimension to these scenes. Am I frustrated? What makes you think that:-) I added the latest plug-in of FuckOMatic to the repertoire, thinking that 5 months later, it would ...

Case Log #31 Ch5

This will be the second to last case log for chapter 5! I will leave a slight window open for coding as that is my real Achilles heel, but I cannot see a future when chapter 5 does not get released in the weekend of the 30th. I'm currently rendering scene 15 with two different locations. I know I could speed things up, if I stuck to established locations. I love new environments, and I think it adds to the three dimensionality of the story...so I will continue to add:-) This particular enviro...

Case Log #30 Ch5

Another no image log, sorry. Rendering of scene 14 is finished. I think the scene is the largest scene so far in the game by render count. Almost 200. I am in the process of creating one character for scene 15, which will include one new environment. I'm contemplating a true cliffhanger for the end of chapter 5, but because it's taking me so long to complete these chapters, it may not make sense. This week I will spend on coding and some leftover writing. The following week I have a bunch of ...

Dear Pocket Diary, 2

Quick mention of how happy I am with scene 14 visually. The environment is quite low res, but most of the imperfections are hidden by my generally shallow depth of field. Some stuff bugs me a little, but the price of high resolution environments is the slow churn renders. With a scene like this one (a fairly long scene) it would have been murder timewise. Now I feel like a genius! No just joking...nothing has changed since the last diary post. It's taking everything I've got not to post a pre...

Case Log #29 Ch5

Hello everyone!

Welcome to all the new supporters! Had an influx of support this week due to a very positive review from DogCat Studios. He's been incredibly supportive of this project and deserves a proper shout out from this cat. I will post some renders from his AVN, "The Power of Truth" once I get my own shit together.

Today was a bit of two steps forward one step back situation as I realized that...

Case Log #28 Ch5

Work on scene 14 is progressing nicely. Halfway mark approximately. Have been doing some writing and more post work on images to be ready to plug into the game. I am not going to post any more previews from scene 14 (I don't want to spoil the game experience), so instead I rendered this promo of Gabrielle. Unfortunately I didn't see what was going on with her hand until after the render was done and didn't have time to fix it right away. I'll replace this image when I sit down to render again...

Case Log #27 Ch5

Happy Easter to those of you who observe it.

When I went to check on the progress this week, I was guessing that I had a decent week, but nothing special. To my surprise, I managed just over 100 renders. Landing us at a current total of 1,414. Despite having unruly clothing articles that require daz dforce simulations every time I change the character's pose. I don't know if it will be worth it yet, but I certainly hope so. Scene 14 is progressing nicely. Kind of 5 parts to it, done wi...

Dear Pocket Diary, 1.

Ever had a moment that confirmed that you are not as smart as you think? I think, if you answer no to that question you are either incredibly humble in realizing who you are, or a greater idiot than any human being should be. But this post isn't about you. It is my diary after all. So, I spent the last day with setting up scene 14. It became a struggle with clothing especially as the asset I am using was not being very cooperative. I went to the daz store to find some morph asset that would h...

Case Log #26 Ch5

Alright! This week I have decided to write the log a little earlier in the day, as to not just state the facts, but also expand on the current state of the project. Sounds like a daunting task? I live for daunting tasks...well, maybe not daunting exactly. More like, fun tasks. I live for those.

So today I will finish scene 13. I smile when I write that, knowing my history of optimism. Let's just say, this time I'm certain (or at least fairly certain) that I will pull it off. We are 1,31...

Discord Pocket Diary

I tend to write a bit of stream of thought stuff on discord in the pocket diary. I always felt that it would be too much posting here to do something similar. I don't want to spam your email accounts with often conflicting ideas, that may or may not be a real plan...although that is probably not super far from what you get here:-) So the question in this poll is: would you like to see the discord pocket diary posted here as well, or would you prefer to check it out on discord at your own pace...

Case Log #25 Ch5

This will be a short one. Scene 12 is done. I realized that I couldn't rush through it and still do it justice. The dog tags turned out to be a little bit of a posing nightmare, but not to the point of regret. About 80 renders for the week. Tomorrow is another full day of rendering. 3 more scenes to the chapter. I rewrote the ending of the chapter a little, and I think it's pretty good...I could, of course, change my mind tomorrow.

Cheers!