ImpiousMonk

Developer's Journal 2:16

Hey everybody.  I remain very busy with my job, but I'm still putting in some late nights on LDNA.  I still am nowhere near being done with the update, but hopefully you all understand this is a long process.  It would be nice if I could do this full time, but so far my SuperLotto Plus tickets haven't been too lucky so it is what it is.

I don't have much to talk about this week, but you guys are always welcome to reach out personally if you have any questions about the de...

Special Render #6: Kitty Cat Erin

Erin beat out the other supporting ladies for this month's special render!  4K versions are attached.

Developer's Journal 2:15

Hey everybody.  Slow week for progress on the game.  I'm transitioning to a new project at work, which has meant trying to wrap things up on my last project and getting trained on/acclimated to the new one, and it's been very stressful and draining.  Adding in a couple of small personal dramas and I didn't have a lot of time to work on the game, and when I did have time I just didn't have the right mindset.  Between my job and this game I've been working 16+ hour days seve...

Developer's Journal 2:14

Hey everybody.  It's only 9:30 p.m. here but I'm totally bushed.  I'm in the middle of doing spot renders for this last scene I've been working on--there was a subsurface scattering issue with one of the character's models that led to a wonky light effect in a bunch of renders, so I'm fixing that and then I'll be headed to bed early.

In this scene's previews, you can see that Aghavni, supported by MC, is aggressively interrogating someone, but I'm going to leave that person's ...

Poll for January 2023 Special Render

Hey guys, I'm a week late on getting this poll up and I apologize for that.  I'll leave it up through the 27th since I probably won't be getting to the render until the 29th anyway.

Since both Jamie and Aghavni got a render last month, this poll will be dedicated to the supporting cast of women and I'll give a second chance to some options that didn't win in earlier polls.

Developer's Journal 2:13

Hey everybody.  Because I just put out a public update a couple of days ago this will be quick.

With long waits between updates of an AVN, it's easy to forget almost everything that happened in the previous episode.  Consequently I've put together a "Last Time on Leaving DNA" sequence that will play at the beginning of the episode.

I'm also starting on a new scene tomorrow, so I'll have some previews for you next Saturday.

That's it for this week.  Thank you g...

Public Progress Report

Just a quick public post to let everyone know I am making good progress on the game.  Although I am still some months away from finishing, I have completed over 800 still renders and have finished coding a new replay gallery for the lewd scenes, which can be accessed through the Extras menu shown above.  There is presently roughly an hour's worth of content, so the full update should end up being well over two hours.

Thanks for being a fan and special thank you to all of my fi...

Developer's Journal 2:12

Hey everybody.  Another report that's a bit early, but I had a productive week owing to taking some time off of work.  Post-worked renders number 687.  In the interests of leaving the mystery in place I'm not going to tell you the scene I'm working on now, but it's a pivotal one that I have been looking forward to doing for some time.

I always wonder when I'm working on a scene if you will have the same reaction to it I do.  Will my humor fall flat?  Will you fi...

Developer's Journal 2:11

Hey everybody.  I hope you have something fun planned for the New Year.  Personally, I've never been a big New Year's guy, so I'll be at home working on LDNA tonight.  But since I'm starting work on a new scene today, I decided to send out this  weekly update a bit early.

It's a year and a week since I bought my desktop and started from scratch on learning Daz3d and Ren'py.  At that time, I knew I wanted to make a game, but Leaving DNA was still just a hazy conc...

Special Render #5: Snow Maiden Aghavni & Winter Fairy Jamie

In the voting for this month's special render we had a tie!  Since the themes of both options were similar and I could use the same environment for both, and 'cause you guys are awesome, I decided to go ahead and do both scenes.  So here are Snow Maiden Aghavni and Winter Fairy Jamie.  4K files are attached.

Merry Christmas!

Finished my second holiday themed render! :)

Developer's Journal 2:10

Hey everybody!  I hope you are all enjoying whatever holidays you celebrate.  This is a busy weekend for me with Christmas and there is family in town, but here is a quick journal entry for you.

I did publish this Hanukkah themed promotional render earlier this week. I wanted to do a second Christmas themed one, but I may run out of time (it's 12:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve here).

I don't do a lot of promotional renders because they are time consuming.  I do a monthly ...

Developer's Journal 2:9

Hey everybody.  I'm really loving the fact that I upgraded my graphics card because I'm currently working on a scene packed with characters.  Even though it's still super time consuming (especially since I've redone these renders multiple times and each scene takes like 10+ minutes just to load) it would be so much worse without the doubled VRAM I have over my last card.

I am presently working on the courtroom scene for Jamie's trial.  In this scene, the rape/incest victi...

Poll for December 2022 Special Render

Hello, here are the options for this month's special render exclusive to upper tier supporters.  I'm also planning to do a couple of promotional/public holiday themed renders which I'll publish separately.

Developer's Journal 2:8

Hey everybody.  Post-worked renders number 337.  I am presently working on another office scene with Jamie and MC.

Writing dialogue in an adult visual novel is hard.  I remember after Attack of the Clones came out, my brother said, "George Lucas can't write a romance."  I can appreciate his struggles.

Dialogue heavy scenes in LDNA should accomplish multiple goals.  They should explore the themes of the story, they should advance the relationships between t...

Poll: Bonus Scene Theme - Part Two

Okay, so here are the options for Erin's bonus lewd scene in Part Two.  I'm a couple of days late posting this, but it will run through December 10th on both Patreon and SubscribeStar.

Option 1: Courtroom Scene.  Erin is the prosecutor and MC is the defendant who has committed a sexy/funny crime.  She convicts him and his punishment will be carried out then and there.

Option 2: Office Scene #1.  MC finds Erin looking troubled a...

Developer's Journal 2:7

Hey everybody.  Postworked renders equal 277.

Nyx reported today that her computer caught on fire.  That sucks for her and also makes me nervous because one of the fans in my computer (I think it's one on my graphics card) started rattling yesterday and has continued today so I'm going to open it up tomorrow to look for the issue.  Of course, one of the problems with people with no computer hardware experience at all becoming computer game developers is that we are basica...

Special Render #4: Sith Lord Jamie

Couldn't decide between two styles for her so I went with both!  4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 2:6

Hey everybody.  I'm posting this week's developer's journal a day early because I'm not sure I'll be able to tomorrow night.  Post-worked renders are at 227.

Reminder that if you want to make a suggestion for Erin's Dream scene in Part Two the deadline is Wednesday the 30th.  PM me here or post in the supporters-only channel on our Discord.

I want to talk to you for a few minutes about music.  Music can be a powerful tool for a storyteller. &nb...

Developer's Journal 2:5

Hey everybody.  I spent most of this week working on the prologue for Part Two, which is a flashback to a bad moment in Rockford's childhood.

Yes, once again, just like Part One, Part Two will start with a fucked up moment.  Why, Monk?  Why do you insist on all this dark bullshit?  We just want to see Rockford banging a bunch of hot chicks.  Free the boobies and let's get things going.

Look, let me list some of my favorite movies: Gladiator, Last of the Mo...

Developer's Journal 2:4

Hello everybody.  Post-worked renders number 122.  Not much to talk about today so I thought I'd share with you something I had posted in a developer's forum about my process.

Leaving DNA originally existed just in my head, obviously, and then I sketched an outline in Word.  The original outline looks very different and is much smaller than the current vision.  Along with the outline I created a timeline spanning decades and a list and description of all characters. ...

Poll for November 2022 Special Render

Hey everybody.  Here are the choices for this month's special render.  The poll will run through the 20th and I'll post the render before the end of the month.

Bonus Scene - Erin

Hey everybody.  I'm excited to announce that voting by upper tier supporters has concluded and the bonus scene for Part Two will star the lovely Erin!  If you don't know what this is all about, you may have missed the Bonus Scene in Part One.  Go to the game's Main Menu and click on Dreams.  If you finished Part One, the first bonus scene will be unlocked and it will explain what's going on here.

Erin is a young prosecutor with the District Attorney's Office.  W...

Developer's Journal 2:3

Hey everybody!  I don't have a lot to report on tonight.  I spent almost the entire week working on the blonde redo.  Looking at her you wouldn't think it would take that long, but I can be a bit obsessive about details and I spent hours making tiny little modifications to her hair and eyebrows, and then I had to go back through the basketball court scene and redo all of her renders.  In redoing those renders I also made small changes to her dialogue and poses to avoid wha...

Poll: Bonus Scene Character - Part Two

Okay everybody.  Hopefully you all played the bonus scene in Part One and understand what this poll is about.  (If you didn't, open up the Main Menu and click on Dreams.)  Upper tier supporters will vote for which side character they want featured in a bonus lewd scene which will be published with Part Two.  This poll will run through November 10th.  After you pick the lady, I'll open it up to all tiers to submit ideas for the scene's content.  I'll bring the bes...

Special Render #3: Royal Princess Aghavni

Royal Princess Aghavni was this month's unanimous winner!  4K versions are attached.

Developer's Journal 2:2

Hey everybody.  I had a pretty busy week at work and I didn't have a lot of time to work on the game, but I did complete an additional 31 renders.  The scene I'm working on now is another bar scene, but with Rockford and a different cast of characters.  For the bar interior I decided to use one straight out of the box because it's a new asset and it looks really good as is, but I did have to put together an exterior for some renders so that took awhile.

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Developer's Journal 2:1

Hey everybody, hope you've all had a chance to play the new update by now.  I'm already working hard to get the next update to you as soon as possible, although we're still some months away from that.

The release of Part One, both before and after, brought us a lot of new supporters, both on Patreon and Subscribestar.  A couple of weeks ago we had 16, now we are up to 26.  This is very exciting for me!  Welcome to the new supporters, and whether you are planning to s...

Follow-up to Poll: In-Game Clue Questions

I appreciate everybody's responses to the poll on the clue questions.  LDNA is a work in progress, so I'm always open to suggestions on how I can improve it.

I have decided that there will be no additional clue questions added in Part Two.  The clue questions in Part One will remain, but when I release Part Two I will add much stronger hints for those questions that should make them a lot more intuitive.

Thanks for your input and your support!

--Monk

PS - As ...

Poll: In-game Clue Questions

Hey everybody.  I'm opening up this poll to the public to get as much input as I can.

In Part One, there were two points where you had a chance to enter a clue that led to some additional dialogue.  Correctly answering these questions is not necessary for the story to progress, but they do unlock some dialogue which you may (or may not) find helpful to the murder investigation.  To clarify, whether or not MC and Aghavni ultimately solve the murder in the story (and I'm no...