Status Update

Whew, it's been a while. Life has been... eh, recently. Between family passing, random happenings, and me rage quitting MZ for a while (I was having problems with plugins working), I hadn't had much time or desire to work on the game recently. Things have calmed down now and I've gotten over my plugin issues so I've been back to working on the game enough to post an update about it.

Technically I could release an update now, I'm not, but most of the work for the update is done. I've made some changes and I had to go back on a few of the things I said I'd implement in the game. The main thing is I've changed how the "party chat/romance" system works. Originally I envisioned you being able to do anything, anywhere, however I've decided to rework that. You'll still be able to talk to party members as well as, hug, kiss, and "view" (get them to pose/model for you so that you can better view their "assets") romanceable members, but all sex acts will be reworked. You'll need to be at specific locations in order to do various sex acts. For now, you'll only be able to do things at campfires but I'll add more locations as the game progresses. Honestly, I'm not 100% sure how I want to go about it but I'll figure it out.

Render wise, I stopped working on the intro, I'll finish that last, and started banging out the character busts. Of the 9 personality types, I'm finished with 7 but I'm currently stuck on Elise, who has an aloof personality, and haven't started on the chill personality. But that one will be rather easy to finish. I've also begun mapping out how events will work and testing out full animations. I rendered out a 238 frame animation, turned it into a video and tried it in MZ. It works, but... nothing I've been able to do will let me crate a video with transparency. Meaning I'd have to manually add the background to every animation, then make the video. Or, manually show all the pictures in MZ. Not sure which I'm going to end up doing. Both have benefits and drawbacks.

My goal for this update is to get all the personality busts done, update the character intros, finish Blaze and Fire's party chat events, and render out several background renders for further testing scenes. Scenes will generally take place on three levels, standing, sitting on a chair/couch, or sitting on a bed/ground. Each level will eventually have multiple perspectives but I just want to set the syetem up first. Bak to Blaze and Fire, I've changed how their intros play out. Mj too. I never really liked the daydream scenario, just put it there to satisfy impatient people, but since the game has no support I'm reverting it back to how I originally intended it to play out. They'll pose for you then the game moves on.

Not sure what else to say, hopefully I can finish the starting renders soon, update is imminent just not sure when I'll release it. As of now though, there's about 2 1/2+ hours of gameplay. More or less depending on how fast you read, or not, the dialogue.

Edit: Just for clarification, when I say scenes I mean party chat/romance scenes. "Full" scenes will still be rendered from Dope's perspective.