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August Devblog

Published: August 14th 2023, 6:41:40 pm

Hi,
I'll like to do a devblog to share with you some news about the game's development and state of affairs in general.

Shortly after the release of the last chapter I started to work on Chapter 7, planning and writing the main plot points that would be develop in the chapter. When that was done, at that point I just went directly for the environment design part as usual.
That was when I noticed that I made the first huge mistake on my part as developer, the scenario/environment I choose for the date in the last chapter was just way too complex and would require way too much time to make.
In the end I decided to continue and work on it even if it would consume a lot of time, mostly because I think it's an interesting environment and it's way more dynamic than let's say a restaurant or something similar.
After mostly finishing the main environment for the chapter I moved to designing and making outfits for the characters, that's when my worst nightmare happened:

I first noticed it when my pc was doing weird stuff, like taking a lot of time opening folders and files, I booted up Daz as usual and then none of my daz files could be opened, there was no error, it will just work as it was loading the file but it never did. Then I decided to restart the pc, and when it booted up again it was clear my ssd just died. Windows won't boot and was stuck in a boot repair loop.
At that moment I felt crushed.
The bad news is that I lost a lot of the work and progress until that moment (It happened like 3 weeks ago), basically all the scenes and outfits I did were lost. Fortunately I have 2 backup hard drives, I do a complete backup of daz and all the game files each time I finish a chapter so the game itself up to chapter 6 it's completely safe.
The good news is that I don't save 3d models in the ssd but in a different hdd as I work with Blender to do 3d modeling, so I didn't lose any of the 3d models and textures I did for chapter 7, if that was the case then I would probably had a bigger meltdown...

At the moment I have all the outfits finished and I'm mostly done with the main environment for the chapter, so I think I'm still good to deliver in time. There's only a problem, the update would be shorter than what I had previously planned.
The chapter was going to be one main big part and then a small part for content with a side character, but now I will have to cut the side character part to fit the release cycle.
The update (Chapter 7) itself would be more or less like the same as Chapter 6 in terms of length and content.
I hope this explains why I didn't have much to share until now.

WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD (Probably)
Just for people who want to get a feeling or an idea of what Chapter 7 is going to be.

Chapter 7 will focus on Kailey and the MC.

It will continue just after the end of Chapter 6, we will see Mc and Kailey go on a date like they agreed on. And some interesting stuff happens. Two characters will also meet for the first time and some new problems may appear.

Here's a render of Kailey's outfit (for the date):

I thought about uploading some quick renders from the environment but I think that could spoil too much stuff...

I will soon do a poll regarding extra content and some other stuff.
Remember to go on Discord  if you want to ask me anything. I will try to answer the best I can.

That's it for now. I hope that was at least a bit entertaining to read.
As always, thank you for your support.

Have a good day!