This week I've been pushing as hard as I can, so that I can cram as much content as possible into the next update.
Most of the focus has been to set up scenes to pose as much as possible so I can keep the static render queue filled, and setting up animations I can render for whenever I run out of poses.
I'm at 2878 animated frames and 617 static renders. That translates to being abo...
2020-11-06 12:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for the Friday progress report.
This has been a very busy week. I've scripted about 1000 lines of dialogue/script, along with adjusting the new scenes to past choices.
Render count is at 2112 animated and 425 static renders. That's a whopping 874 renders increase this week (or one every 12 minutes on average).
The Lexi route is done, in addition to some random small scene...
2020-10-30 12:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey there, and thank you for stopping by.
This week has been mainly about working on the sneak peek. It turned out to be a whole lot more work than I hoped it would be, but now it's done and I've turned my attention back to the story.
I have one animation and around 20% remaining on the Lexi route. And I have to tell you that I love her route. There's something very nice and goofy a...
2020-10-23 12:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Work on the next update is progressing nicely. Enjoy this little Sneak. :)
2020-10-20 22:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been another week with me pouring out renders. Unfortunately Lexi takes about 40% more time to render than any other character in the story, so it's a slow and steady progress. I don't notice it much when it's 50 or 100 story renders. But when we're talking 1000+ animation frames it adds up, when each render takes 10 minutes longer.
Currently I'm at 741 animated renders and 219 stati...
2020-10-16 11:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
After having finished Chapter 3 and looking more closely at the followup, I realized that there were a whole lot of work and rendering hours needed for Chapter 4.
And because of the amount of work that would go into every girl - having the choice to romance them at roughly at the same time in the story - it would be hard to give a decent story feel to an update if I went by the normal day...
2020-10-09 11:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy friday, once again.
I hope you all have had a chance to play through the first part of Chapter 4, and that you enjoyed it.
The first week after an update will always have a very unflattering render count, but basically I've just been posing stills and animations, and let my computer pour them out. So, currently we're at 115 static renders and 260 animated ones. That's roughly ...
2020-10-09 11:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Changelog:
Leap of Faith v0.4.1c
Downloads
Full Version (2.3gb)
Windows/Linux - 2020-10-02 12:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Progress
Starting this week with the last of the render update. We're at 967 static renders and 4381 animated frames - totaling 1 minute and 43 seconds of 60fps animations.
When it comes to progress, there's still a lot of small things to do, but I'm right where I want to be at the moment.
Whenever I set up a scene I check for possibilities to do something special in it, to avoid it being very static. So when I sat Lexi down in front of a piano every part of me said 'she should play that piano'.
And that is basically why I do all of these 'extra effort weird things' that has not got anything to do with the story itself. But I still hope you'll enjoy it. :)
2020-09-18 12:21:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh shit. Only 2 weeks to go. No strike that, it's a bit over a week until the testers want their copy.
There's still a whole lot to do, and I'm slightly behind where I would have preferred to be right now. The positive is that it's scripting and dialogue, where I can catch up by putting in some extra effort this weekend.
In addition to that I have some rendering to do. There's two s...
2020-09-18 12:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all I thought I'd adress some rumors which seems to have popped up and caught hold.
1. Drifty stole DPC's phone system.
Although it's no secret that Acting Lessons was a big inspiration for me taking the jump to actually get my story on the renpy platform - there was no phone in Acting Lessons. I did not get a chance to play Being A Dik (then currently being 3...
Enjoy :)
// Drifty
2020-09-10 17:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, at least according to some. :) No matter what side of the fence you're on, I promise you a good story.
2020-09-04 12:42:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week of steady progress, where my computer has been rendering none stop. Minus the one night where Windows quit rendering to update itself. And minus another night where Windows reset to show me the new 'Microsoft Edge'-browser that I uninstalled right after. Thank you Microsoft.
Looking at render count, we're now at 593 static renders, and 2.796 frames. That is 1 minute and 18 se...
2020-09-04 12:36:36 +0000 UTC View PostSo... there I was. Having queued up a lot of renders. Ate dinner with the family, and relaxed on the couch with the new episodes of Lucifer on netflix with the relaxing sound of the computer fans in the background. It's a much better couch than the mc's, let me tell you that.
Then, suddenly, the sickening sound of a fan going haywire. Like if you took a sharp metal object and rammed into ...
2020-08-28 11:45:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for that Sneak Peek again. Enjoy. :)
2020-08-22 10:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This week has been a bit more busy than normal for me - which is inevitable with kids and school restarts after summer. That is also the reason why the static render count has increased less than I'd like to, but on the other hand I have posed quite a bit of animations, so the animation render count is higher than normal.
I was also hoping to have the Sneak Peak ready for today, but the l...
2020-08-21 11:40:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't have any Patreon goals for 200 patreons, but I still appreciate every one of you. You help me create a better VN. Thank you all. And enjoy Cece and Lexi rubbing down the, ehm... car! :)
Cheers
2020-08-15 21:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been another week where I've been focusing on pouring out renders.
Total count is 301 static renders and 1102 animated frames.
I never really focus on the actual render count myself, so I never know how many renders I will end up with in the final release. But it's a steady process of going through one after the other until I'm happy with the scene and move on to the next.<...
2020-08-14 12:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for a progress report again. :)
As I did a lot of pose-work last week, this week has been almost a none stop render marathon, focusing a bit more on animations than usual, due to the 60fps animations that are in ch4.
I've also done a lot of work on the scenes, but they do take a bit of time to gnaw through. Mainly because they all are together and enjoying themselves, so there'...
2020-08-07 11:58:20 +0000 UTC View Post
First Chapter 4 Dev Diary.
As you might know, I had planned a week vacation after the release of Chapter 3, but it's hard to keep my hands off the project when I enjoy doing it so much.
This week has mostly been scripting the routes of Lexi/Cece, and posing animations. Seeing as Cece has quite a healthy lead in the polls, I have put the most work into her scene. Knowing of her popul...
2020-07-31 11:48:57 +0000 UTC View PostVote for who you want me to focus on first in Leap of Faith, Chapter 4.
The Tier 1 Version of this poll can be found here.
2020-07-25 10:36:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been thinking a lot about progressing with Chapter 4, and it will be huge. In fact, so huge that if I were to make it all in one go, it would probably be released around christmas - which is way to long. Because of this, I've decided to make Chapter 4 in three parts - focusing on different girls i...
2020-07-25 10:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Making Chapter 3 has been a very weird experience. For almost 2 months, I did nothing more than render and scripting the dialogue. So I never had a chance to see if I had captured the feeling I wanted you to get from it.
But yesterday I played through the chapter for the first time, and I'm very happy by the way it turned out.
Current status is 947 static renders, 2866 animated fram...
2020-07-17 11:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostWell, we're down to the two last weeks before ch3 release. I still have plenty to do before I can comfortably put my feet on the table and relax for a bit, but I'm getting there.
Remaining:
Weekly update, and I hope you're all doing good.
It's been a very hectic week, finalizing the release date announcement trailer, doing a lot of renders, and being Dev of the Week at the Lewd Gamers Paradise discord (I suspect that's something I can thank a few of you guys for). :)
Current render count is at 737 stills and 1938 animated. Already surpassing the previous chapters that ...
2020-07-03 12:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostTime for that weekly update again. :)
Chapter 3 is currently at 586 still renders and 1570 animated frames. By comparison, Chapter 1 and 2 both had around 650 renders, so this will be bigger by the time it's done.
Mainly, what remains for chapter 3 is:
I wanted to...
2020-06-26 12:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post
And before you had time to react, it was Friday again...
This week has been all about rendering. A whole lot. And adding about 1000 lines of dialogue.
Total render count for Chapter 3 is now at 412 stills and 1288 animated ones. That's a 533 render increase this week. Honestly, I don't think it's possible for me to top that with my current setup (averaging 3.17 renders pr. hour for ...
2020-06-19 11:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post