Development Diary #67

Hi guys! We wanted to create a quick development diary to tell you how the progress for the next update is going and what things we've been working on during this time:

• Saraith H-scene (WIP)
• Vex H-scene (Animation remaining)
• Yraselle H-scene (Not yet)
• New characters 2 out of 4 done (3rd and 4th are WIP)
• Backgrounds 1 out of 3 done (the 2nd one is in WIP)
• Improvements on the battles (most of the code done. Need some art details, interface changes... and applying these changes on the different battles)
• Sex training mechanics (Story and mechanics done. Needs some interface and minor art details though)

Besides this, it seems Ren'py has finally introduced new features that will let our characters be animated again in game ("again", because on the 0.05 some of them were already animated...). We're also working on them and more or less they should look like this (they won't look that sleepy):

So yes, characters will be more lively. The good parts about this is that for sure, the game will look better, and this improvement won't practically affect to the final size of the game. But it's true that make thing a bit more complex for us. A character like Nulkan, has 9 different facial expression/emotions. If we animate Nulkan, these 9 different expressions mean 9 different animations for Nulkan, although some of them would be very similar. 

We'll try to at least animate Nulkan for this update, luckily, Dynae as well. We can only animate a few characters per update, because this means more work. But of course, if we go for this is because we really think the game will look better and it's totally worth the time.

Finally, it seems there were some problems with the introduction of this animation feature in Ren'py , at least with Nvidia gpu users. This seems to be solved with the latest drivers update for Nvidia graphic cards. So it's a good idea to do this now, and forget about it later. If you are a AMD gpu owner, you don't need to do anything.

Anyway, if we finally are able to introduce this improvement on this update, we'll tell you once again to update your Nvidia drivers, especially if you find black screens and other weird behaviours.

We're really excited with the next update. Lots of new improvements and mechanics (and of course new plot stuff). We're pretty sure you'll also like them when you try them. But for now, we need to keep working in all this. 

Stay safe guys.

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