Dev log!

Good day, my dears! Hope you’re all doing great!

Today, I’ve come to you with the weekly… devlog, yay! But before that, I want to say a huge thank you for all the support under the previous post. It was… genuinely really nice to read. And now, to the point!

Originally, I was planning to finish all the renders this week, but I slightly miscalculated how much time everything would take. So! I was out of the country last week, which meant I couldn’t really work on renders properly. I came back on Friday and immediately jumped straight into rendering. I thought I could finish 500 renders in three days.

The result? It took me two extra days. And I only finally reached the 1,000-render mark on Wednesday. After that, the ritualistic dancing around a bonfire began. Or, more specifically, Alicia’s animations.

At the moment, we have two completely finished 20-second animations for Alice, and there’s a chance I’ll make one more tomorrow. Assuming I still have enough strength left to do it. After that, I’ll move on to the next 500 renders, along with roughly 4–5 animations for Tia. Or Lia? (The author himself keeps confusing his own characters. Truly horrifying…)

And once all of that is finished, I’ll finally move on to coding, music, and sound effects. As for the release date, I’m hoping I’ll be able to finish everything by August 29th. However… There is a chance that this update will end on exactly the same kind of note as the current version. Meaning… Right in the middle of a chapter. (Please don’t burn me at the stake.)

A little bit about the chapter itself as well. Originally, I thought I’d be able to fit all the dialogue I wrote for this update into the current release. But then my obsession with, “ONE DIALOGUE LINE = ONE RENDER!” won again. And improvisation happened. Lots of improvisation.

That said, you’ll still learn more about Adam’s past, how he first met Isabella, how his ability appeared, and you’ll also get a little more about Beatrice. There’ll be even more development between Adam, Rose, and Alice, even more jealousy between the girls, and an even stronger unwillingness to… share.

And toward the end, you’ll also get a small piece of Tia’s backstory. All of this lovingly seasoned with absurd humor, stupid drama, and completely inappropriate seriousness in the least serious moments imaginable.

Numbers!

Text - 42k words
Renders - 1000 / 2000
Music - 0
Code - 0

And that’s everything! Peace and goo- Actually, no. If you can, write down below what you’d like to see from the intimate scenes. Maybe one of your comments will inspire me enough to gather my remaining strength and recreate something similar in the update! (Nothing forbidden, please. And preferably something vanilla. Thank you.)

And on that beautiful note…

I’m going back to fixing Adam’s proportions and poor Alicia jaw.