ImpiousMonk

Developer's Journal 3:28

Hey everybody.  Work kept me busy this week, including today which I spent at a work conference.  But I did make progress on the still renders, and the animating PC stayed busy.

I don't know exactly when the update will be finished, but the Steam release will be March 7th and you all will get Episode Three some time before that.  I'll do a public announcement on the Steam release soon.  All supporters who have contributed at least $12 total will get a Steam key (or I...

Developer's Journal 3:27

Hey everybody.  The weekly update is a few hours late because I've been toying with the lighting in this scene and I wanted to include previews.  That's Seo Jun in the towel. 🔥

Still working hard on the update--getting closer every day but still have a lot of work to do.  Not much else to talk about this week.

Thank you for your support!

--Monk

Poll for January Special Render

Here are the options for this month's special render:

Developer's Journal 3:26

Hey everybody, I hope your new year is starting off great.

This week I spent a couple of days tidying things up in the wedding scene and then spent some time on copyright fixes.  Remember the James Bond movie posters that I had to replace?  I also had a poster of a James Bond car and some images from a Texas football game broadcast, none of which I had licenses for.  So those have all been fixed now.  I also spent some time updating a few more of Aghavni's renders wi...

Developer's Journal 3:25

Hey everybody.  I just started a render queue of 16 images from the wedding which will probably run through late tomorrow afternoon.  After that I've got a couple of hours of render fixes and then I will finally, thank god, be done with the wedding scene.

The wedding scene is substantially shorter than I wrote it.  Part of that is trimming fat and keeping the narrative moving, but there are some things I just decided were not worth the time they would have taken to pose a...

Developer's Journal 3:24

Hey everybody.  Not much to talk about this week.  Still no release date, still working on the wedding (previews attached).

2023 has been another busy year.  Keeping up the grind of essentially two full time plus jobs for two years now has been taxing, but I remain motivated to finish the game and tell the story I've got in my head.

I hope you all have a great 2024!  Thank you for your support!

--Monk

Merry Christmas!

Developer's Journal 3:23

Hey everybody.  I hope my subscribers don't mind, but I'm making this journal entry public so I can give a shout to the artist I hired to handle the lewd renders for Gina's bonus scene.  I commissioned these from another artist so I could focus on the story renders, and I think the scene turned out great!  In particular I really like this heels shot of Gina.  The artist is RenderGeek3D, so give his Pa...

Special Render: Jamie

Jamie won the special render poll!  4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 3:22

Hey everybody.  Last week I said I'd finish the restaurant part of the Gina scene and then work on the lewd part.  Instead, I hired another Daz artist to do the lewd part of the bonus scene.  This allows me to keep working on the main story without losing two weeks or more, because the lewd scenes are a lot of work.  I don't think I'd ever turn over one of the real sex scenes with the main girls to another artist, but I think for a bonus dream scene it's okay.

I'm be...

Poll for December Special Render

Hey guys.  I haven't decided what to do for the special render this month, but go ahead and vote for which girl you want featured and I'll come up with something fun.  I'm going to try to do a promotional holiday render by Christmas so I'll probably do this one before that.

Developer's Journal 3:21

Hey everybody.  Just a quick update.

My job kept me very busy this week and there were a couple of nights where I wasn't able to get much done on the game, and then I spent half of today at a work conference.  But I did build the scene for MC's sister, and then I switched gears and built the first part of Gina's bonus scene and finished a few dozen renders for that.  Tomorrow I'll start work on the second part of her scene, i.e. the lewd part.

Thank you for your sup...

Developer's Journal 3:20

Hey everybody.

I thought I'd work on the dream scene this week, but it took me a couple of days more than I expected to finish with Malena and Anna's scene, and then I went back to finish the final courtroom scene which I had left undone.  Renders for both of those scenes are now complete.

My process this update cycle has been different than it was for Episode Two.  For Episode Two I was constantly playing through the scenes as I made them and making adjustments to the d...

Special Render: Wonder Woman Aghavni

Aghavni won this month's special render poll!  4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 3:19

Hey everybody.  This week I worked on the above scene with Malena, and hopefully I'll get the last renders for it queued up by tomorrow night.  After that I'm going to work on the bonus scene with Gina so that the animations will be prepped when Sandem is ready for them.

I was starting to lose my mind trying to work around the long save times bug in Daz so last night I finally fixed it.  I ended up having to export and reimport my smart data, which only took a couple of h...

Poll for November Special Render

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I'm a bit behind schedule but here are the options for this month's special render.  I'm recycling some options that got votes in previous polls.

Bigger Supporter votes are worth one, Biggest Supporter votes are worth two.  This poll will run through the 26th.

Developer's Journal 3:18

Hey everybody.

MSI got my animating PC back to me quickly so I only ended up being without it for a week.  It's currently rendering the first animation for the next update.  As for the Daz software issues, those are still issues.  The suggested fix for the eight minute save times might wreck my asset organization, so I'm probably just going to have to wait until I finish this update before I tackle it.  I don't want to risk doing something to mess up my preexisting f...

Developer's Journal 3:17

Hey everybody.  I worked on and finished a scene with MC and the Carrington siblings this week.  I'm happy with my level of production, but there were some setbacks.

On Tuesday the graphics card on the new computer stopped working.  Due to my work schedule I wasn't able to take it in for repair until Friday (yesterday), and it will probably be two or three weeks before I get it back.  Naturally, one hour after the computer which I bought for handling animations died,...

Developer's Journal 3:16

Hey everybody.  Episode Three sees the return of fan favorite Erin, MC's colleague in the DA's Office.  If you missed Erin's bonus scene from Episode Two, you may want to close your bedroom/office door and load that up now.

I am 95% done with the courthouse scenes.  There is one final witness for which I need to rewrite his dialogue and do his renders, and he just happens to be the most important witness since he is one of the main reasons for including the trial in the g...

Developer's Journal 3:15

Hey everybody.  Still working on the courthouse scenes.  I had a relatively productive week and was able to keep my main PC busy with either rendering or posing with no dead time for several days in a row.  Meanwhile the new PC is still rerendering the older animations while I wait for the animator to send me the new ones.

That's about it for this week, nothing much to report.

Thank you for your support!

--Monk

Happy Halloween from Aghavni!

Special Render: Figure Skater Jamie

Jamie won this month's special render poll!  4K files are attached.

Poll: What did you choose?

Hey guys, just curious what the split was on this one.

Developer's Journal 3:14

Hey everybody.  This week I worked on the jury trial scenes.  The work is not very difficult because I already have all of the assets set up.  It's just a matter of posing everything and changing the outfits for each day of the trial.  I did create a crime scene for a few brief flashback renders, but otherwise it all takes place in the courtroom.

I have some anxiety about presenting the jury trial.  Audiences do love criminal jury trials, as attested to by the p...

Poll for October 2023 Special Render

Here are the options for this month's special render.  Remember, Bigger Supporter votes are worth one, Biggest Supporter votes are worth two.  You can check out previous month's winners by using the "special renders" tag.

Developer's Journal 3:13

Hey everybody.  I have been fighting a cold all week but I think it's finally leaving.  It did slow me down a bit but I still finished the last scene I was working on and sent some files to my animator.  Now I'm working on the court trial again.

I am a little frustrated with the pace of development this cycle.  I'm still working hard, but I feel like the renders are just coming much slower than they did for the last update, and I'm worried that this episode will feel...

Developer's Journal 3:12

Hey everybody.  I shared these previews on Discord already but here they are for anyone who missed them.

Progress this week was mixed.  Sunday through Wednesday I made decent progress on the scene you see here, but Thursday and Friday I was very busy with work and a family function Friday night, so I couldn't work on the game those days.

In the images you see here the lighting has been tricky.  In a scene like this which has a lot of dark spots it's hard to get the ...

Developer's Journal 3:11

Hey everybody.  This week we are going to talk about Aghavni.

Aghavni is obviously a very important part of the story.  Her volunteer investigation is the catalyst for everything that happens.  She is passionate about getting justice for Amy, the murder victim, and has worked very hard to solve the case.  We've now had multiple evidences of her great detective instincts.  And although she did put the axe on her relationship with MC five years ago, she still care...

Special Render: Netflix Night Emmeline

Emmeline won this month's special render vote!  4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 3:10

Hey everybody!

I enjoyed taking a couple of days off, but now that I'm back home I'm ready to get to work again.

I told you I had something cool to show you, and aren't these James Bond posters super cool?  If you recall, MC has different posters for these three movies up in his office.  These will be replacement posters for those versions.

There are three reasons I have these posters in MC's office, and in particular why they are a part of the first image we see ...