DomJOI Witch bi-weekly 06-22-2025 - only status report
Howdy everyone,
TLDR;
We are still working on the game, but we had some issues with voice acting, so it will take a MUCH longer than expected.
The main developer was on vacation with family, there were canceled flights (union strike), and he couldn't work on the game for a prolonged time.
Because we anticipate that VA will take another two to three weeks, we decided to push other tasks to the pipeline so version 1.0 will be richer in the content.
The next version will be 1.0 but richer in the content that we originally planned, on the downside it will take more time.
Long version
About VA (Voice Acting)
VA is a complicated business. Firstly we wanted to use real actors, it's expensive, also it requires quite a lot of legal work, as there are a few legal issues when dealing with real actors and NSFW content in my country... In the end, we ditched the idea when the potential VA we were looking for asked us about legal terms, higher pay as it's NSFW, and so on. I'm (main dev) not a lawyer, and I'm maybe a little autistic and I do not like dealing with legal stuff and unstable people. I believe that artists should be paid well, but with some many burdens, we finally passed on the idea of hiring people in our country and record VA with facial expression/lipsync in single go.
The issue above was quite a long time ago, and about a two months ago we decided to use one of the most popular freelancers platform to find the new VA.
We got a few good offers, reasonably priced. We picked one work with VA, and then VA told us that we have to buy extra licensing because it's a game, and it requires commercial and broadcasting rights... I know you can roll your eyes, as to how I could be so stupid not to check everything before hiring someone, but I wrote that it's for the game that will be sold, and I thought that our deal is gold. So after putting a lot of effort into the project, she demanded much more money, and as she knew that we were in a hurry, she was trying to squeeze us for an absurd amount (extra rights cost much more than the work that we did together).
So I passed, swallowed the bitter pill of being stupid, cursed myself, and told her to go **** herself. Not because she is a bad artist, but because she, knew from the start, and was trying to take advantage of us.
Okay now we go with the new VA, but it will take about two weeks to get everything sorted out.
In the meantime (before going with the new VA) we made a mistake like the wrong process - instead of doing VA first and then lipsync, facial expressions, we did it the other way around. This makes everything much longer, as recreating the facial expression and lipsync is much, much faster as we can do it on our own and do not have to wait for VA to do a new sound version, etc.
Good news
The 1.0 will have rhythm events :). This is one of the most requested features, and we are happy to announce that it will be in the game.
We are adding a lot more content, like more tasks, more combinations, fixes, and so on.
The following Trello cards were completed:
In the order of completion:
[CHORE] The following Trello cards were completed:
[Audio] Metronome for rhythm events and add proper classes
[Audio] Create a list of reactions, with potential sounds
[Audio] Record reactions
[Audio] Reactions Extract Audio
[Audio] Reactions boost Audio
[MILESTONE][Audio] Work with VA - THIS WHOLE WORK GO TO WASTE BECAUSE OF THE F****** LICENSING
[Programming] Merge pleasure clusters
[Programming] Rub your nipples slowly and firmly, rub your nipples -> new tasks
[Programming] Extra CBT tasks
[Programming] Add (CBT (ba**),CBT (c*))insertable
[Bug][UI] 100% is best option -> 100% is the best option
What is next?
Add more tasks and more kinks.
Add rhythm events (but without rhythm endings, we will do that later when we create the task chains)
Add VA
Prepare for bigger releases, like marketing, extra platforms, etc.
Thank you for your support,
Your support means a lot, thank you from the bottom of my heart
DomJOIDev