Novus

General Update

Okay, so I'm still sorta sick, but the worst of it seems to be over (hopefully). I'm still coughing horribly and have a splitting headache, but at least the 102-103 degree fever I was running for several days is gone. Unfortunately, between being slightly high on cough syrup and delirious from a high fever, I'm now seriously behind on just about everything, including the freelance work that pays my actual bills. 

Now that I can sorta-kinda think straight again, I'm planning on getting the...

Novus is sick

So, I managed to catch the flu, despite having had a flu shot (yes, I know it's been reported as not being effective this year). Ugh. I generally don't get sick much, and when I do it tends to me the high-fever-can-barely-think-terribleness-foggy--brain-is-mush sort of sick. Which means there's going to be delays to any of the stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'll update everyone on the timeline when I can think straight again. 

New Years MMS!

Update: And now, I apparently have the Flu. Despite having gotten a flu shoot earlier in the season. Bah Hum Bug. Anyway, I've added a .htm with at least somewhat better-quality graphics. I tried to fix the whole convert-to-pdf thing, then said 'fuck it, I feel horrible,' and did this instead. It at least seems to have removed some of the compression that was causing the issue. 

Okay, so...I'm exhausted. Which is why you're getting this MMS in .doc format. I used two diff...

Update on the New Years MMS

So, I've FINALLY gotten the new years MMS renders done. It was pretty much a nightmare. Apparently, I hit the limits of either my hardware or Daz3D with the number of figures I had in some of the renders, causing super slow renders/load times/camera lag/etc. Add in some crashes, some graphics glitches that took time to sort out, and a bunch of other irritants that crept up and the entire thing took SO MUCH LONGER than it should have. And the end result has more errors in it than I'm used to allo...

Short Story - Eros Academy: A Christmas Toy Party

Yay! The Christmas short story is done! Also...it got slightly out of hand, apparently. What was originally intended to be a quick 2,500 word short turned into a 4,500 word short. Which makes it just about the same length as the regular Eros shorts that Jaylee writes. 

Apparently, it took a bit longer to get it done (not that I had actually realized it) because Jaylee also wrote a winter-holiday-themed piece for the Christmas Contest 2017-12-23 10:57:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Timeline for Christmas/New Years Rewards

Some of you might remember that I said I was doubling up on rewards this month. Jaylee is writing an Eros-related (or at least her Eros Academy characters related) Christmas short. She's pretty much got that done and says I'll have it for editing tomorrow. The goal, obviously, is the have that one up by Christmas. For reference, it will be a for-all-patrons reward this time. 

The Mixed Media short that I myself am making is actually going to be a New Years thing, rather than Christmas, pu...

Release! Eros Academy 1.9

Note: Bit of an oops moment, when I originally upload this yesterday, I accidentally left it at the default (patron's only). In my defense, it was after having pulled an all-nighter. Even so, I apologize, as it was supposed to be a public post. Though, since the links were also in the main page description, I don't feel to bad about it. 

Whew. I'll be honest, I wasn't sure I was going to make even my revised timeline. I apparently underestimated just how much wri...

Super Quick Note

I got drug out by my family for dinner and drinks (it's my birthday, which I normally don't do anything for since it's so close to Christmas). While free delicious food and alcohol on my birthday was nice, it slowed my timetable down a little bit. I'm still 95% sure I'll be able to release before I go to bed (barring major bugs during testing), but it might be early in the A.M. tomorrow morning instead of tonight. Right now I'm wrapping up the code for the theater scenes, and I've already done t...

Update for the 1.9 Update/Future of Eros Academy

So, normally I make status updates Patron-only, but I have a relevant announcement for the general public as well, and I don't like splitting things into too many posts for fear of some of them getting lost in the shuffle. Please read the second announcement in this post. In a lot of ways, it's more important than the update news.

First:

Update 1.9

All renders for the next update have been finished! I spent the weekend (plus yesterday) gri...

Game Ideas 2

Alright! So here's the second set of game ideas I've been kicking around. If you haven't seen the first set, they are here: Game Ideas 1.

Unnamed Star Wars Parody

Note: I have to admit this one was mildly inspired by Orange Trainer, by Exiscoming. I've been enjoying the game enough that I recently si...

A Quick Update on the next Update

 
So, good news! Mostly! Currently, I have 53 renders done for the new update. This, thankfully, includes all the renders I need for the theater itself (I think, there's always a chance I forgot something -_-), which were the ones that were really slowing me down. I'm planning roughly an additional 25 renders, making this another rather large update. Without the theater renders slowing me down, though, I'm hoping to run through those relatively quickly.As a result, I'm still aim...

Update for the Old Rewards Post

The "Old Rewards" archive post now contains the "Eros Academy - The Virtual Elf" short from 3 months ago. "Eros Academy - Alyssa's Payment" has become the new $5+ short. You can find the archive post HERE. 

Short Story: Alyssa's Payment

Whew! Finally, the story from last month is ready. And it has officially taken the record as the longest Eros Academy short ever, clocking in at just a smidge over 8500 words. So, hopefully that makes up a bit for the delays. I am going to issue a small warning, the editing might not be quite as good one as I'd like. A combination of the need to rush things and Jaylee being loopy for most of the writing portion. Hopefully, it's not too bad though.

Anyway, PDF is attached, I hope you enjoy!&nbs...

Short Story Update

Sorry this isn't the actual story itself! However, I did want to let you guys know that the story is in fact finished. It ran long, however, just like I was expecting, hitting 7000+ words even after Jaylee cut a major scene at the end of it to try and speed the process up. Anyway, I have it in hand (just got it a bit ago), but given it's length I probably won't be able to get it back to Jaylee fast enough for her to fix it and send it back tonight. Expect it to be up sometime tomorrow. ...

A Quick Update for the Month's Short Story

Okay...so Jaylee did get me PART of the short story to look over. The first 3-thousand words or so. She also claims she's feeling better (if you missed it, I mentioned in the last post that she's been sick) and she's hoping to get the rest done today. I've got my doubts she'll completely manage that...she bit off more than she could chew with this one again and I could easily see it running a fair bit longer than the normal 5k word goal. Plus, it takes a couple of days to go through our editing ...

Games Ideas 1!

So, I meant to post this last night, and kinda screwed that up by shutting down my computer before hitting publish. Not one of my better moments.

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First: A quick note for the $5+ Patrons. Jaylee is sick, something which I only discovered when I bugged her about the short yesterday. She said (last night) that she was about 50% done...but she sounded loopy enough that I'm not expecting it to be smooth editing even if she gets it to me in time -_-. Fair warning th...

Just a bit of an update

So, I'm sure you've all seen my public post about the game. What I didn't say there, because it's not certain at all, is that I may continue to add the occasional scene to Eros Academy even after I move on. As something of a long-term side project instead of my major focus. MAYBE. And only if there ends up being enough people that would like that. I'm still tossing around quite a few thoughts, like making a monthly extras poll for future patrons (whom hopefully will include you guys!) that would...

The Future of Novus' Stuff

So, I've been putting off this post for over a week. Almost two weeks, actually. After the last patreon billing cycle produced the absolute worst results from the very beginning of this game/page, I was pretty damn depressed and took the better part of a week to seriously think about just what the hell I've been doing. 

Now, BEFORE YOU PANIC, please understand that I'm continuing work on the next update (As evidenced by the image heading this post). I've actually got the ...

Update for $1 Patrons - Old Rewards

With the release of the new short for the $5 reward people (go to the other new post if you're one of those people and haven't seen it yet!), another of the old rewards cycles onto the $1 Patron Reward archives post. This time, it was the first Michael Mae's Mixed Media Short (MM1 Michael.pdf). You can find it on the appropriate post HERE. (hopefully that link works, I've never tried to link to one of my o...

Short Story - Eros Academy: Demonstration Day

WooHoo! Finished and uploaded on time(if only just barely), despite me being gone for three days! Which might not seem like much of an accomplishment...if it weren't for the fact that this short clocked in at a whopping 8,394 words. Roughly 3,400 words beyond the usual 5k target for these shorts. That made both the writing and editing take longer than we thought, which wasn't helped by the fact that I couldn't help as much on this one as I sometimes can. It's a bit to near-educational for me to ...

Sneak Peak of the Movie Theater

It's nothing impressive and not finished yet, but I figured I could put up a quick post with the main location for the movie theater date. The lighting, which is something like the bane of my existence, is going to need fixed still, at the very least (need to figure out how to make the screen glow -_- it currently doesn't look right). The image on-screen is also likely a placeholder (I'm currently debating on making the choice of movie type alter what you can do. In which case this might show up...

General Update

Well, the polls for the next update have finished! I'm only half-surprised that Naomi won again, though it was a much closer thing this time. I've been tweaking the theater scene in anticipation of that being the probable location, since the votes for Lily were mostly at that location as well.  I'm mostly done with creating it, and I've started actively planning out the renders I need for Naomi's theater date. As well as working out the details of how it will work this time (I'm sure you've...

Weight Poll for Eros Academy 1.9

This is the weighted poll for $5+ Patrons! See the main poll for details!

On another note:

I haven't forgotten about the monthly bonus content! Jaylee has floated several ideas for shorts that we are currently discussing, and I have a general map for the next MMS in case that ends up taking too long. I will likely announce by the 20th which way the reward will go this month! 

The Focus of Update 1.9

Alright! I actually intended to put this up last night, but something came up and I ended up forgetting about it temporarily. This poll is for deciding the major focus of the next Eros Academy Update. For now, I'm continuing to focus on the dates, as I want to get the major story/date lines for Naomi and Lily completed. Additional scenes may be added to any given update, if they run fewer total renders (the time consuming part). There was nothing but Naomi's date in the 1.8 update precisely beca...

Eros Academy 1.8(Beta)

Okay, it's here! Yay! 

Having said that...

First thing is first - There is currently a known pair of bugs that I haven't been able to get rid of. Neither are game breaking, but one is somewhat annoying.

Update - I've fixed these two bugs, any new copies downloaded should be okay. If you're a sane person and want to fix a copy you already have without downloading the whole game again, grab 2017-10-09 08:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Quick Update

The coding for the update is pretty much done. Right now, I'm running through the new editions, squashing bugs and editing out the worst of my grammar errors and such. Unfortunately, there are so many possible variations with this update, that doing so is taking me longer than anticipated. I will likely still finish before midnight tonight, hence technically keeping my self-imposed deadline, but the upload to Mega often takes 1-2 hours. As such, unless I find a major game-breaking bug, expect th...

Update 1.8 is almost here!

Yes, you read that right! As of roughly midnight, I've finished all the renders (I think) needed for the 1.8 release. It came out to a grand total of 68 renders, which isn't quite a record, but it's pretty darn close. Just to give you some idea, the previous Naomi date only contained 52 renders, so this one's got quite a bit more in the way of options! Particularly as it doesn't contain nearly as many duplicate positions with merely different clothing combinations, like I needed for the...

Old Rewards Update

Just a quick notice for the $1 Patrons. With the release of a new short story, the previous short "A Lost Bet" has been added to the "Old Rewards" post. The next reward in the queue (and thus the one likely to be transfered over this month, is Michael's first Mixed Media Short). Currently that MMS and the new short story are the $5+ exclusives. 

Enjoy!