Code, Renders, and Losing My Sanity (Again)

Hey, my beautiful degenerates.

I’m currently buried under what feels like a goddamn avalanche of code and renders. I'm talking 1200+ images being rendered, edited, and lined up like little perverts waiting for their turn to break my PC. My GPU is crying. I'm crying. But the game's lookin' sexy AF, so we're all suffering for a good cause.

The code side? Oh, just me trying to get thirty systems to talk to each other without imploding like a NASA space shuttle. Corruption system, affinity, sneak stats, weird mini-games, night events, peeping scenes, secret endings... every line of code I write spawns three new bugs like some enemy from World of Warcraft. But you know what? It's working. Slowly. Painfully. It’s working.

This game is becoming a goddamn monolith. I’m not even 10% done and it already makes playing a lot of other VN's feel like stick figure flipbooks (No offense to any other devs. Plenty WAY better than me, and plenty who put in the same passion). But I love that. I love knowing this thing is going to hit like a truck once it all comes together. Not just porn with buttons. A legit experience.

Thank you to everyone sticking with me through the chaos. Whether you’re here for the story, the sex, the rants, or just to watch me mentally unravel, thank you. I see you. I appreciate the hell outta you. And I’m gonna make sure this game was worth every second of your support.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go fight Ren’Py with my bare fists and pray Daz doesn’t crash for the twentieth time today.

More soon. Less sanity. All love.
– Jay (Nuverotic)