Project Updates Mar 05

Time for the monthly project updates. I wasn't able to get as much done as I had hoped, uni was kind of crazy and I was living in my car for a little bit last month, but I was still able to make some progress. 

A Perfect Ten

Still just working on renders for APT. A bit over half of the renders are done now. It's a really exciting process.

I was trying to see if I could port Angela into VaM so that there could possibly be an animated version, but it didn't go too well. Downgrading the model causes a bit too much of a change, and she doesn't really look the same. So for those who have been asking about if the game will be animated, unfortunately the answer is no. As much as I want to, making and rendering the animations in DAZ would take entirely too long considering the amount of content. And since VaM uses Genesis 2 and all of the models in APT are either Genesis 3 or 8, they can't be ported properly. Maybe for a future game I can make Genesis 2 models that can be ported over to VaM to be animated. Then just use DAZ for the polish renders so that it looks better, and then VaM for the animations. We'll see though. I want to finish up my current projects before moving on to anything else.

CH Resort

I was hoping to finish the game up last month, but unfortunately just didn't have time. At this point, all but one of the base videos are done, and I just need to make the beat bars for a few more. I have a week off this month, and my goal is to finish the game then, but we'll see what happens.

Teach Me

After some careful consideration, I decided to change direction on Teach Me. It was originally going to be like Holiday, but just a little bit longer. Same basic idea though. A simple and short story with a few choices. After going back and working on the Halloween scene for a bit, I decided to just expand the whole game. 

In the Halloween scene, there's a few different women you can hook up with. They were originally just going to be one and done kinds of scenes, and then the story would just go back to focusing on Ms. Hartley. But I decided to give each of these side characters their own short storylines instead. It just felt like a waste to only use them once or twice then have them disappear. So after the Halloween party there's going to be a major branch where you'll get to decide which girl you want to really pursue. You'll need to make the right choices to get there though. For example, you can't choose a girl you've never talked to, and if you got rejected by a girl, you wont be able to pursue them either. Since these women were originally meant to be one-offs, they aren't all original looks. They are free looks that you can get on the VaM Hub. I thought about changing them to be original, but I thought I'd give some support to the other creators for releasing their looks for free.

Here's the women you'll be able to pursue. First there's Britney (with an updated look based on the VaM tutorial girl) and Gwen. Then there's Linn, which is a look made by Damarmau that you can get here. Lastly is Ms. Tyler. She was originally only going to have a group storyline with Ms. Hartley, but she's now going to have her own standalone story as well. Then of course there's Ms. Hartley. 

Since the game is getting expanded like this, I'm going to try doing more incremental updates. Rather than going with the original plan and releasing the rest of the game all at once. People will have to restart each time because Tyranobuilder is the worst, but the game is short enough and there isn't any stat building, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue. 

Right now, I've got most of the scenes made for the Halloween scene. I'm primarily working on the polish renders, which are the hardest part.

All that being said, I'm still going to finish CH Resort first, then work more on Teach Me. My goal is to be able to release an update with the Halloween party by the end of the month, but it entirely depends on how long CH Resort takes me to finish.

VaM Content

Now for the VaM content. People really seemed to like Mikki and her scenes, so I'm going to work on releasing more content like that in the future. For now, I'm working on a somewhat complicated scene pack that's going to have some branching scenes. It includes two new looks that I'll be releasing once I get closer to finishing the scene pack.

All Done

And that's it for this month. I should have more time to work this month, so I'm really hoping to get some stuff released. Until next time.