Weekly Update – Public Release

Hi!

So the public release was finally published Friday night and I just wanted to say thank you. We got more than 49 members between Friday and Saturday and that honestly makes me super happy. Seeing people follow the game, showing support and just waiting for more chapters is really such a good feeling.

If you have any doubt, any question, suggestion, or want to report a bug, missing images, errors, anything, you can DM me on Discord. I just created one this morning because I think it's easier for you guys to contact me there. (If the link doesn't work, you can search for me as "pixelend" and send me a friend request.)

I won't be creating a Discord server yet for different reasons. First, we are still a very small community. Second, I gotta be honest, I don't really know how to properly create and manage one 😅. And third, time issues. Even if I knew how to create it, I wouldn't be able to pay enough attention to it.

That leads me to something paid members already know (and I swear this is the last time I repeat myself 😅 please forgive me)

I work on Falling Apart only 3 to 4 hours max from Monday to Friday, at night. I have an IRL job. I finish at 5pm, then I drive one hour home, recharge a little bit, and around 8/9pm I start working on Falling Apart until midnight.

And it's not always like that. Sometimes my IRL job is just too much and I come home completely dead, where I just want to go to bed instantly.

I'm not saying this as an excuse, just to point out the reality of development. Hopefully one day Falling Apart or AVN development becomes my main job, who knows. To be honest, I don't really even put myself in that scenario. I just want to keep developing Falling Apart because it's fun to do. I treat it as a hobby / extra side thing that I genuinely enjoy.

In theory, you can expect Chapter 3 to have the same amount of renders as Chapter 2 but with less development time. I now have a better PC compared to my old laptop, so technically speaking, yes, it's totally possible to develop Chapter 3 faster.

The thing is, when you look deeper into it, I want Chapter 3 to have higher image quality. The difference with Chapter 3 compared to Chapters 1 and 2 will be that CH3 will be completely rendered in 4K and then downscaled to 1080p. Rendering at 4K takes way more time than doing it at 1080p of course, and rendering Paige at 4K in heavy scenes honestly sounds like a nightmare, but it's something I really want to do because it will look better.

Chapter 1 was developed before I even had a Patreon. Around 500 renders, plus coding, music, SFX, everything, and it took me 10 months total.

Then I opened Patreon in May last year and I promised that Chapter 2 was going to have more renders and lower development time. And I kept that promise. Chapter 2 took me almost 9 months and had almost four times the number of renders of CH1, a little over 1900 renders, plus more sound effects, more music, more everything.

Now for Chapter 3 I want to do the same. My goal is around 2000 renders again, with increased image quality and hopefully less development time.

The exact development time? I don't know. That's as honest as I can be. But just know I will do my absolute best.

In this post you can find more details about what to expect for Chapter 3 and forward.

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Now jumping to something completely different, the result of the poll deciding the body type of the new female character that will be introduced in Chapter 3 was:

Big 🍒— Big 🍑

This is actually kind of important ngl. The body of this new female character will decide some clothes, and some of those clothes will also be used by Abby and Paige. You'll see what I mean in Chapter 3.

I'm currently creating the character as we speak.

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This week I spent some time learning Blender more in depth, more technical stuff that you probably don't really care about 😅 but I found a way to make the characters' skin look better overall. Less flat, less dark, etc. The nipples of the female characters are also going to be way more detailed 😏😄

From tomorrow, the development of Chapter 3 officially starts. A mix between rendering and script like always.

Thanks again for the support. I really, really appreciate it.

Hope you all have a great week.

—pixelend 🧟