ImpiousMonk

Poll for August Special Render

Here are the options for this month's special render for upper tier supporters! Bigger Supporter votes are worth one, Biggest Supporter votes are worth two.

Developer's Journal 4:25

Hey everybody. Still working on the update.

MC lookin' way too serious all the time, don't you think? This dude needs to lighten up. So you missed your shot at going pro. So everybody you love dies or abandons you. So you've got a long-lost sister that you can't even tell her who you are. So your Dad's a serial killer. Cowboy up, son, you ain't the first or the last to get dealt a shit ha...

Developer's Journal 4:24

Hey everybody.

Total count of postworked renders so far is 1282. I can't do a playthrough to test how much playtime there is so far because I've got a coding bug that I haven't sat down to figure out, but it's got to be at least an hour.

I'm not happy with the development pace this cycle. I really thought this was going to be a short one but I still have so much to do. But I am g...

Developer's Journal 4:23

Hey everybody.

This week I finished rendering a lewd scene. It's ready for me to send to Sandem to do the animations as soon as he becomes available. This is the first of three lewd scenes that will be in Episode Four, plus the bonus scene. Given how many people think there are still no lewd scenes in the game as of Episode Three, I am happy to announce that Episode Four will have the ...

Special Render: Battle Elf Jamie

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

Developer's Journal 4:22

Hey everybody. Hope you all had a nice week.

I don't have anything very interesting to talk about at the moment. Can't share previews because spoilers. Still working hard, still have a lot left to do.

That's all for this week. Just letting you know I'm still here and still working. As I've said before, if I'm ever more than a day late on my weekly update (Saturday nights) then ...

Developer's Journal 4:21

I've thought a lot about a phrase used to describe a certain type of AVN: "story-focused" or "story-first." This phrase means different things to different players. For some players, a story-focused AVN means, essentially, an adult romance that is well-written. For others, story-focused just may mean there is some coherent narrative, in one form or another, that connects the game's lewd scen...

Poll for July Special Render

Here are the options for this month's special render. Bigger Supporter votes are worth one, Biggest Supporter votes are worth two.

Developer's Journal 4:20

Hey everybody.

I'd drafted a bit more developer commentary for this week's journal, but it feels small after what happened today in Pennsylvania. In many western countries we tend to take free political elections for granted, but the fact is there are many countries in this supposedly enlightened, cosmopolitan world in which politicians are routinely murdered. And while we are all upset...

Special Render: Samurai Malena

Just a fun little public promo.

Developer's Journal 4:19

Hey everybody. Progress was slow this week. My mom spent three days in the hospital and was just discharged last night. so it's been a stressful period for my family. It's hard for me to come back from sitting in the hospital with my mother for ten hours and want to open up Daz. Anyway, she's out now but my Dad still needs a lot of help with her.

I'm afraid I don't have much else to t...

Developer's Journal 4:18

The climactic courtroom scene in the movie "A Few Good Men" is one of my absolute favorite movie scenes. Written by the one of the great screenwriters ever, Aaron Sorkin, it's clever, brilliantly acted, and just so frickin' epic. But it's not realistic. There's actually a video on YouTube with a couple of lawyers reviewing the scene. The shouting, the objections, the way questions are asked...

Poll: Save Warnings

How do you feel about the game using a save warning screen before a choice that will have a major impact on the story? Just a black screen with text that says "Save Your Game."

The benefits of using such a screen include causing the player to think harder before making the choice and helping the player know what choice they need to reload if later on they realize they want a different ou...

Developer's Journal 4:17

Hey everybody.

I'm in a stretch here where I can't share previews of what I'm working on. In fact, right now I'm not sure how much left there is of Episode Four I can share with you.

I am pretty stingy when it comes to previews. My preference as a consumer is to avoid anything that could be even a slight spoiler for a story, and I bring that preference to my work as a dev. Even s...

Special Render: Skater Girl Emmeline

Skater Girl was the winning theme for this month's special render of Emmeline!

Poll for June Special Render

Alright guys, it's time for Emmeline to get some attention. She's the only LI that hasn't gotten her own special render this development cycle, so all of June's options are for her.

Bigger Supporter votes are worth one, Biggest Supporter votes are worth two.

Developer's Journal 4:16

Hey everybody. Been working on a couple of different scenes this week, including this one with Jamie.

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Developer's Journal 4:15

Hey everybody.

I'm about 800 renders into the new update. It's not where I wanted to be at this point--roughly an average of 50 per week and not even halfway done. Unfortunately, my job being busier than it had been the last two years and the need to spend extra time helping out with my sick mom have made the development pace a bit slower than I hoped.

I have talked to some devs w...

Developer's Journal 4:14

Hey everybody. Not much to talk about this week. Still working on the update.

Thank you for your support!

--Monk

Special Render: Dragonrider Malena

Dragonrider Malena won this month's special render poll!

Developer's Journal 4:13

Hey everybody. Hope you all had a good week.

A dev I'm friendly with had a catastrophe recently, so I thought I'd tell you about my safeguards against drive failure. All of my scripts and post-worked renders are kept in the Ren'py project which is maintained on OneDrive. I also periodically backup the Ren'py project on my NAS. All of my scene and character .dufs are maintained on a ha...

Poll for May Special Render

Alright guys, last month I picked just about the least interesting theme I could think of for Jamie and she still slaughtered her competition. 😅 So she's going to have to sit out the special render poll for a couple of months until all of the LI's have had a chance to get their own moment in the sun. Since Aghavni won two months ago this month will just be Malena and Emmeline.

Bigger ...

Developer's Journal 4:12

Hey everybody.

I like Aghavni. As a driven, middle-class professional, she's probably the closest of the four LI's to the women I've paired best with over the years. Not as smart as Jamie, not as funny as Malena, and not as sweet as Emmeline, she flies a bit under the radar, but is nevertheless a solidly dependable character. She's a fiery but down-to-earth woman, well-acquainted with ...

Developer's Journal 4:11

Mother's Day brisket is resting and I've a render queue under way.

Maybe next year for Mother's Day I'll do a render of all four LI's pregnant. Or maybe one of just Rockford pregnant. Either/or, I'll think about it.

Have a good week everybody, and thank you for your support.

--Monk

Developer's Journal 4:10

Hey everybody.

Still working on the update. Not much else to talk about this week.

Malena is 5'10". You know who else is 5'10"? Gal Gadot. That's right, Gal Gadot and Malena are the same height. Come to think of it, I've never seen Malena and Wonder Woman in the same room, have you? Something to think about.

Well, that's all for now.

Thank you for your support!

Special Render: Soccer Mom Jamie

Jamie proved to be an unstoppable force as Soccer Mom Jamie won this month's special render poll! 4K files are attached.

Developer's Journal 4:9

Hello everyone.

Usually when I work on renders I have videos playing in the background. I never watch anything I really have to pay attention to, like a new movie I've never seen before. It's stuff like Family Guy or Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes which I've seen multiple times already. I also like YouTube videos about writing or movie critics stuff.

This week I had on an intervie...

Poll for April Special Render

(Second try, screwed up the first post)

Here are the options for this month's special render! Bigger Supporter votes are worth one, Biggest Supporter votes are worth two.

Developer's Journal 4:8

Hey everybody. I had sort of a brutal week at work, but I still found time to work on the game.

I've been working mostly on Emmeline content for the last few weeks. Episode Four focuses a lot on Emmeline and between Episodes Three and Four we will see her travel on a mini character arc of her own.

I like working with Emmeline. Not only do I like her model, but I think that her ch...

Developer's Journal 4:7

Hey everybody. Work on the renders continues, but we are still in the early phase of this development cycle.

You know, it used to be that when some of my out-of-state relatives would visit here in Southern California, the thing they would look forward to the most was a burger from In n' Out . If you've never heard of In 'n Out, you should know that they basically have their own cult fol...