Bi-Weekly Report #30

Busy couple weeks. At least, it's felt that way. I'm never sure what's really the case until I do one of these. Is this for you, or for me? Two things can be true.

Let's talk about it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

I've been overlapping the Drawpiles with report weeks, but I think that might be silly in the Mondays' case and not give a lot of heads up, so the next Backer Drawpie session will be June 9th around 6 PM probably (as seems to be about the time my sleepy ass is most capable of finally being settled and ready). This gives all participants a week's notice, instead of like a few hours maybe. Hope that helps.

In other news, I've added ahegao commissions to my VGen offerings. They're a bit more costly than a surprise box comm (AKA the PWYWs; I've altered their branding a bit too to align more with what seems to be the accepted norms) but also offer a fair bit more control over the expected outcome. I put some nice options in there I think, so give that a gander if you're so inclined!

GAMEDEV

I've been working on getting that high score table to actually show saved high scores. Somewhere in the process of doing that, I found a critical error in how I was loading the local cross-profile data, so what I thought was the data manager not sending scores over correctly was in fact those scores never being loaded in the first place, because > and >= are not the same thing, mathematically, and I made the critical error of using the former where the latter belonged in my load script. Oops! So that's fixed.

Anyway, that had me learning a lot about custom resources and employing them to pass data around. I know, riveting stuff. About as riveting as reading the full documentation for my online leaderboard plugin. Basically an action movie over here. Tom Cruise is going to burst through my wall and promptly fall asleep any minute now.

I think I also came up with a solution for the bug that happens exclusively if your 40th slime in a matched set is the one that triggers your set bonus. This happens extremely rarely (by which I mean I've seen it once ever in all of my testing and fiddling, which is the only reason I know there's a bug in the first place), but my solution should be easy enough to implement and, if it doesn't break something new at least, should fix the niche-ass problem quite well.

Bit by bit.

ANIMATION

The Manor motion planning has been doubled in frame count and refined quite a bit into something I can almost call properly sexy. She has le tits now. There's still a lot of planning to do, but it seems to be about time to actually get her partner's head in there so the boy can get to work.

Rarity has entered the editing phase and mostly just needs a transition or two and maybe some kind of like... lip sync effort for her implied dialogue??? She has dialogue. I almost forgot the client ordered that. She also has a lot of rigged movements to go with her hand-drawn movements and she's coming along very very nicely. I'm not sure how much more of the work is stream-worthy, but it's getting very close to the boring-to-observe editing and fiddling stage. We'll see.

COMMISSIONS

Someone paid me to host a three hour request stream and just go off. The above is the one image out of three I can post on Patreon without needing to paywall it, because despite my whole page being age gated the site still demands the naughty stuff be behind the paywall. And they still won't give me video access. Fuckin' rude!

Completed:

• Surprise Box x 7

• Sponsored Request Stream (thank you, Malka!)

In Progress:

• Haunted House YCH

• Rarity Paizuri for Rowlet

Upcoming:

• Rabbit With A Hammer (deadline-ish)

• Vale Trading Card

• Very Happy Face x 1

• Surprise Box x 4

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AND THAT ABOUT DOES IT

Still not getting much writing done. I need to do something about that, at this point. Just juggling so much, trying to bring money in, and Thralls doesn't seem to do much on that front. Food before frolic, I guess.

On the recreational front, I've been dragged into R.E.P.O. and had an alright time, and I blasted through Nova Lands. I have... so many thoughts about Nova Lands. I genuinely don't know if I'd recommend it or not. For everything it does right there's something else that I feel I could write a whole essay on how lacking it is. Such mixed feelings, but it's thoroughly defeated and removed from my hard drive already, so that just sits and festers for the time being. Absolutely hooked into my brain hard, though. Caught myself still thinking about how to optimize my production and such last night. Sera, the game is gone. You removed it. Stop it. Get some help. God damn.

We've got kind of an odd week coming up, so we'll see how things go in the immediate future, but rest assured I am always doing some shit or other. Back to it!

• Sera