The Restaurant v0.2.5 – Dev Log #5

Total renders=1004
Zoey's mission=964
Secrets= 40
Celeste is my new favorite character. I honestly enjoy doing her scenes, she’s a pure psychopath. As I showed in my previous video, she was an innocent girl a long time ago, and something went terribly wrong for her. From now on, things will get intense for both Zoey and Valeria in the next update and future updates, that’s all I can say.

Today I’ll start making the last sex scenes in Zoey’s mission, then I’ll quickly start working on Valeria, who I’ve really missed. Valeria is my first creation, so she’s more special to me, but every character I make plays an important role in this, and I love them all equally. They will all get enough screen time. I try to make every scene as special and unique as possible. To me, every picture I add matters, and they all have to look different. Every picture tells a story expressions, hand movements, poses, they all have to be different because I believe they are what create a realistic feeling. To me, this is more important than visual quality, but of course, I still try to keep my visuals as good as possible.

I will never give you guys lazy work. I design every part of the game carefully. I’m well aware that long update schedules aren’t ideal, but this is how I work:

1. First I make the renders.

2. Then I make sure all renders and animations have no visual glitches.

3. Then I write the script and make sure every line is perfect.

4. Then I add choices, stats,secrets and locations, and make sure everything runs perfectly.

5. Finally, there is a lot of testing.

This is why I don’t want to make small updates, because these steps take a lot of time, and the testing part is not easy. That’s why I will bring large scale updates, but you will get a smooth game experience with no bugs.

Currently, I’m in investment mode. I don’t make any profit from this, I use all the money I earn for music and animation, which are both essential for the game. I want you guys to feel the vibes of the game. What you see right now is not even 10% of it. There is a lot of content I have planned. As long as I’m alive, I will keep developing this and making it better.

The sandbox part is not fully implemented yet, which is why I’m not focusing on corruption stats at the moment, because I need to create more side content for that system to fully work. For now, I don’t want to limit anyone’s gameplay with corruption points and ruin your experience. But in the future, before the Steam release, I will build that system properly from scratch. You will be able to earn money, unlock side quests, and more. I may also add another mode for pure visual novel players, so everyone will be satisfied gameplay wise. For now, I’m focusing on the story and moving forward.

I’m excited about all of this. I’m going back to grinding,feel free to join my Discord and watch my stream anytime you want. Feel free to ask questions there too. I’m always there at night working on my beauties. You’ll also see how frustrating the whole process is and get more insight into making this game, but I enjoy it. This is a passion project after all. I wouldn’t do any of this if my girls weren’t this beautiful. Seeing them on my screen all the time makes me happy.

They’re just pixels, but when you add a story and a background to them, they become something different. The more detail you add, the more real they become in the players’ eyes,and that’s exactly what I want to achieve. That’s the beauty of these games. You know they’re not real, but what they make you feel is real.
That’s all for now. Take care of yourselves and stay safe/awesome.