Shop System, Mocap, Boss Enemy, Voice Overs, EP11 Release Date, Short Clips, Misc

Hey everyone,

We hope you had a nice week!

It's pouring here and has started to get colder. Autumn is here 🎃

Let's get right to it!

Treasure Island:

SHOP SYSTEM:
Progress on Chapter 2 is very good. We refactored the Shop System completely because previously we just had a Temp-Standin to make the Quest work. But we now have a much more sophisticated and Future-Proof, System in Place.

Camera Placement and Depth of Field needs to be adjusted. But the Functionality is there. And the System works great with Controllers as well 😊

The Shop System (and technology behind it) will then also serve for Skill Trees and Weapon Upgrades at a later Point. You see, we again created something elegant and flexible. Yes, not only our Girls are flexible, the Pipeline is as well 😋

BOSS ENEMY:
We have our first Boss Enemy. He will shoot at you with the big Canon 🙈

The animations are just placeholders, I will record & animate him next week. First I have to finalise the Rig with the correct hierachy. Lot´s of technical stuff that needs to be take care of before.

CUTSCENES & VOICE OVERS:
So, I have been recording Mocap the last 2 weeks and we came to the conclusion: We need Voice Overs for the Story-Cutscenes. It´s just too boring without.

We can't add them now, but I am preparing all Cutscenes in a way that they can be added later. Because we want to wait until we have multiple Cutscenes done and then either try something with AI or get the original Voice-Actors to do that. But we all know how long that can take... And it´s freaking expensive...

Goal 1 is: adding Voice Overs to Cutscenes! That we will do for sure!
Stretch-Goal 2: adding Voice Overs for regular Dialogues. We will see about that. It´s all about budget.

MOTION CAPTURE:
Aaaah, that is fun! I just wanted to show some Progression Shots of a Cutscene for Chapter 2. I really like how all this turns out. The Pipeline I developed works great, it´s stable and flexible (again 😉) and a bless to work with. As long as it works... Because of course there are Hickups every so often. But most of the time, it´s working great 😊

And in the Youtube Video at the top, you can see some more Footage. Note the fingers! Yes, we have basic Finger Mocap also now! It´s an interpolated Solution with only 3 Markers for 5 Fingers, but it still works great as a foundation for Finger Animations.

PROGRESS IN GENERAL:
We aim to have 20 Levels for the Temple in Chapter 2 and 15-20 Quests outside the Temple. Things with the Levels go really well. I can´t wait to show you some stuff soon. Our Level Designer does a great job, and the Team works flawlessly together. I am very happy about that🥰

And of course, we are also developing the behaviour for the Boss (and more Enemies), more Story-(&Sex)-Cutscenes and so on and so forth. Maaany things are coming together at once. But the pace is great and we are positive to hold the Release Date for late 2025/early 2026.

Please do keep in mind: we are still in Early-Access. We try to get as much polished and done as possible, but not everything will be 100% spot on. Just to keep that in mind 😉

EPISODE 11:
We have a final Release Date for Episode 11: DECEMBER 5th

I still have to re-render some stuff and make final adjustments, but it´s good for me to have some more buffer and no Stress.

But yeah, mark December 5th in your Calendar 😉

I hope it sells well. Episode 10 is not even close to Break-Even 😔

Short Clips:

Once we have more Quests done for Chapter 2 (currently working on it) I will also share some more Short Clips of hot Poses here on Patreon. It´s just right now that we have so much other work to do, Sex-Animations have to wait just a bit longer.

MISC:

FAMILY:
My father is still in the Hospital and the Chemo Therapy started. He chose to spend his remaining time with the best Life-Quality-Time he can get and not extending it by force. He is a great example of courage to all of us. We hope he can also get out of the Hospital soon and spend some time at Home. I will have this as the last update from me on that topic because I don´t want to drage everyone down. You are aware of the situation and should something change, I will let you know. Thank you for all the best wishes, Love and Prayers ❤️It does help!❤️

SALES:
We have been facing the fact that the number of paid supporters are going down. We are actually already below my "magic number" of 600 paying Patreons. Back in the days, I mentioned that number as my Limit that I need to work fulltime on 3DX stuff. Things change a bit over the years, having Steam and Affect3D as well, so I can keep going.

I hope the Christmas Season will be better again (it usually is). Also, one of the Reasons why I don´t stress myself now with the EP11 Release but rather have it in the Christmas Season.

The payment for the Team is secured for this year and we are really hoping that, with Chapter 2, things will kick off a bit more. Because it will be much more fun, much more polished, much more everything.

I am also very gratefull for the ongoing support from those of you who stick around. It really means a lot to me, and of course the Team.

Thank you very very much! ❤️❤️❤️

Alright, that´s it for this week!

Have a great week, stay safe and healthy!

All the very best,
Puppetmaster & Team

Treasure Island Update (YouTube)