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It's been a long time coming...way longer than I or any of you wanted. But the end is finally close enough in sight that I feel confident enough to give a more concrete release date for Build 13-1. Because of issues too numerous to count, both with code, image rendering and real life, I decided a co

A quick update. The past several days have been productive as far as moving files from the old computer to the new one. Sometimes it's easy to forget how many different props, texture files, and different pieces go into building some of the sets. It took me most of the afternoon one day just to move

After what seemed an interminable amount of time, and endless frustrating hours, the hardware issues I was having have cleared themselves up and I've begun to generate images again. I completed 5 yesterday and am on track to get another four to six completed today, so long as my "real job" work "sch

Right now, progress isn't going so well. I've been extremely busy with my "real job"..the one that pays my mortgage and most of my bills. Add to that the fact that I'm stuck in a few key places, codewise. Features I'm trying to add to the game use a couple of very complicated plugins that are not pl

I've been in "development mode" for Build 13 for a few weeks now. There hasn't been as much progress as I would have liked, but headway IS being made. It takes time and effort to build new scenes for the images for the game, and since I'm adding some new locations with several different scenarios in

This morning I moved the 12b code to the maintenance copy of the game, set the version information for b13 compatibility, and started working on some new code. Development on Build 13 of Callie's Life has officially begun. While the features and content will not be finalized until the release, this

A couple of the reported bugs were more extensive than I thought. So, rather than post hofixes, I'm going to be posting Build 12b as soon as it's finished. It will take a couple more days than I thought, but I think the end result will be better.

I had been hoping that Build 12 would only have a few small bugs, but it would appear that is not the case. A couple of big ones have been found, including an entire missing sequence. I got busy during December with other things and it was missed. I'm working thru all of the bugs reported so far, as

Happy Holidays! I hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a wonderful Christmas Day! I know I had a good one. For those who may celebrate Hanukkah, Happy 3rd night (and upcoming 4th!) I have managed to get quite a bit done this week. Most of the images are completed for this update. I only hav

Now that it appears most of the bugs from Build 11 have been squashed, and the new Discord server is up and running, Build 12 development has officially begun.

I am essentially finished with Build 11b except for one thing. I am adding bus transportation around Jamisonville so that Callie doesn't have to walk everywhere all the time. However, the plugin I'm going to use throws an error whenever I try to execute the code. I've contacted the plugin author to

I've finished coding and images for Build 11. It will be released sometime tomorrow afternoon or early evening. I want to run some more tests to try and catch as many bugs as possible before posting it. I suspect there are a couple hiding in the new CDC routine and I'd like to give them the Orkin tr

I've gotten a lot done this week, despite a busy schedule. I still have 4-5 more images to render for this release. (The "Girls Night Out" storyline has taken on a life of its own and not filling it out seems almost criminal) I have to also finish up the Amanda an babysitting sequence, and I feel co

I had a few things come up that took longer to fix, and I got on a roll generating some new images for Callie's Date Night over at Derek's house so it's going to take a bit longer to finish up, but I'll have it out and ready sometime late tomorrow afternoon or early evening.

I'm back in the country (I was on a cruise --my first real vacation in almost 10 years) and I'm compiling the list of reported bugs since there's a fair amount of overlap. For most of the rest of today I'll be working on smashing those bugs and fixing the broken content. I'm also going to be trying

This has been a very productive few days. First off, after I don't know how many rewrites, I believe that I have FINALLY fixed the issue with the AutoSpank appointments. My test playthrus for both one time and regular appointments, the notifications, and the clerk recognizing that an appointment is

Unfortunately, I still have a fair amount of coding to do and my "real job" has kept me busy. Normally this time of the year is slower than it has been recently, but I guess that's a good thing as far as job security goes. Several things that I had written earlier on did not work with a couple of th

The work on Build 11 is progressing. Admittedly, it's going slower than I had hoped, but RL keeps getting in the way. I am currently working on the Date Night scenarios, of which there are going to be 5 different options. 1. Going to the Mall/Food Court 2. Going to North Lake Park 3. Going to the Dr

I'm still working on Build 11. For the most part, it's going well. The code is coming along a bit more slowly than I had hoped, but I have managed to fix some bugs, and I'm getting some new images created. The latter is always time consuming when there are new locations and characters to create. By

Today, I started coding for Build 11 (again). I had to stop all coding in order to fix the numerous bugs from build 10b, resulting in 10c. Any new bugs reported in 10c will be fixed in build 11. Any showstoppers will be addressed with a hotfix. Also, I'm redefining a showstopper as a bug that occurs

Just a quick note to let you all know that I'm still working on squashing bugs for 10c. There are way more than I anticipated, thanks to some exhaustive and aggressive playing and bug reporting by several people, including the ones who commented on posts below. I've already fixed a lot of them, but

Given the number of issues still remaining, including a couple of ones that freeze the game, I've decided to go ahead and do a Build 10c before proceeding with working on Build 11

My apologies about the delay. I recently acquired some new hardware for my development computer and tried to install it over the past few days thinking it would be a quick install, update some drivers and I'd be off and running. Unfortunately it was not working and as a result of that and then tryin

About 20 minutes ago, I uploaded the TEST version for Build 10 and shared the link with my internal testing group for an initial shakedown evaluation. This is the final step before releasing B10 to all of you. I expect the shakedown period to last 2-3 days, and if no major bugs are found, I'll be po

Barring any major issues or real life interruptions, I should have Build 10 ready sometime next week. As many of you are aware, the final makeup of what goes into a build can be fluid. Things from my initial list get added and removed based on the flow of development and what else may occur to me wh

Development work on Build 10 has officially begun! Here's what is on the TO DO List for this release: 1. Cheat Codes - A few codes to make gameplay a little easier but nothing overpowered. 2. Making the CDC Hackable for Referrals, both for Callie and others. 3. Making the personality choices from th

Coding, Debugging, and Troubleshooting is finally done! It took a couple days longer than anticipated due to the complexity of a couple of the issues with AutoSpank but those have been resolved. The Grounding code has been completed and I have not seen any other major bugs. Tonight I am doing some c

RC1 is nearly done. I'm still working on finishing up the updates for the AutoSpank appointments. The feature is actually rather complicated due to having several different parts to it, and I'm having to synch up all the all those moving parts. The updates are a bit more extensive than I thought sin

I'm finishing up my final fixes for one of the bugs, which incidentally also includes cleaning up the code regarding the AutoSpank handling. After that is completed (hopefully by the end of today) I'm going to upload B09-TESTv3 The testing period will be for 5 days. During that time I'll be working

The loading error bug has been found and soundly spanked! :) Now I can focus on finishing up the update and replacing the code that was lost. I'll be working on it for most of the day today.

Something is still corrupted. Whenever I do a test run, I get the following error: However it has nothing to do with the file itself. I've tried using different files, older versions of the same file and still the same error. I'm not giving up though. While searching for the fix, I'm also simultaneo

Today, while finishing what I thought were final updates before building TESTv2, my computer was showing signs of slowing down since I'd had it running for a few days without a reboot. I decided a reboot was in order, so I saved the work I was doing in Callie's Life, and exited out of RPG Maker. Eve

I believe that I've successfully squashed all the bugs that have been reported so far from TESTv1 and I'm currently running my own tests so that hopefully this can be the last TEST version and I can proceed with the RC1 Release testing where Debugging is turned off (to make sure there isn't any debu

Several bugs have been reported. I believe most of them are an easy fix, so I'll hopefully be posting updated links sometime this afternoon for TESTv2

Build 09 (RC1 TEST v1) Changes from B08: * Callie's avatar in the game now has red hair, instead of pink. * Removed "Sol's House" as it was serving no purpose, replaced with Quickie Stop. * Removed the wallet with extra cash from inside the "stash" in Callie's desk. * All Dares will now be given/rep

Coding is done! I'm doing a couple of play-thrus and debugging major issues. At the very least I want to catch all the show-stoppers that I can before posting the TEST release. Just another day or at most two now! I know it has been a long wait, but I hope it will be worth it for you when you see al

I've made LOTS of progress this past week, and even though I didn't meet the goal I had set to have a playable version by the end of the weekend, it is VERY close. I have one last punishment sequence to finish coding. I am going to forego the other one as I am not satisfied with how the images turne

Despite recent drawbacks and my "real job" keeping me really busy I have managed to get quite a lot done recently. I'm glad to say that barring any major issues, I should have a test version ready to post by this weekend. The main thing I'm going to be looking for from y'all is letting me know if th

For the past few days I've been hammering away diligently on the Callie's Life project. I think a large part of the lack of progress was that I had written myself into a corner so to speak. I needed new options to move the game forward beyond a spanking here and a sleepover there. Jamisonville neede

Unfortunately, life and job responsibilities have prevented me from making much progress over the past weeks. However, I am finally getting back on track with updating Callie's Life. Below are some of the latest images from Callie being caught sneaking in well after curfew, which leads to her being

No other game breaking showstoppers have been reported, so I am proceeding with development for Build 09 which will be solely new content including at least two new dares, AutoSpank appointments, some school trouble, and possibly another CDC visit but I haven't decided on that last one yet. If anybo

I think I've gotten most, if not all of the game breakers fixed, as well as a lot of other little ones. The build has been uploaded. Use the same link as the posts below. I'm working on finishing up the new content and some final polishing, and I hope to release an official build by the end of the w

It's taken me forever, but I believe I have finally tracked down the cause of the game breaking issues at school! There was a duplicated set of variables that was being set instead of the one I intended. The one that determines which class is on for the day and how many classes were attended. That i

I've been pounding away on the code fixes for Callie's Life, but have run into a snag. Changes that I make to the code sometimes are not taking effect. In particular I'm referring to anything to do in the History classroom. For some reason it is still executing code that I removed from that map week

There will be a slight delay in my posting the test version of the game. Last night I found a bug that prevented the school schedule from working. Obviously it needs to be fixed and I have to wait until I finish with my "real job" today before I can pay any real attention to it. So I'll be posting s

Happy Black Friday, everyone! I hope all those in the US had a Happy Thanksgiving! The last couple of weeks have been very busy for me with things outside of game development, but I have still managed to get some things done, just not at the rate I was hoping to. Most of the images that were needed

Progress the past week or so has been slower than I would have liked, but I'm still moving forward. More images have been rendered, and I've been working on some code for new dares from the Dare Club, as well as completing the sequence for Callie's Chore Day punishment. I'm also including a small Ea

This week I got some of the coding done and have been building and rendering images for some of the new sequences, including one of the new dares and for the sleepover at Kendra's that was mentioned in one of the previous Game Input polls. I took all of the suggestions into account, and decided on m

The last week or so has been slow with regard to progress on the game because of the demands of my "real job" and life in general. My goal for this week (and I've already made good progress yesterday and today so far, is to put in the code for regular Dare Club meetings and the daily school schedule

For the past week, after getting the (hopefully last) B07 bugfix uploaded I've been working on the B08 update. So far, I don't have anything to show like screenshots or new sequence images, because most of what I've been doing has been coding and building sets (same as building sets for a play or mo