Dev Diary #4 - Progress Update May & What's next

We wanted to keep all of you updated on the recent development of our game, so here comes a small summary of last month‘s progress:

Art Updates:

- We posted WIP Sketch, illustration and animation of one of the XXX scenes with our first demonic seductress Ignemis early in the month. The final uncensored animation was also posted for all patrons

- Our character Mayu got her first collectible sticker. We made a small process video for our patrons as well. By now, we already revealed quite a lot about the cute high school girl and the patrons seem to like her a lot! Every girl will get several sexy stickers that will tell you more about their personalities.

- We also finished the artwork for Mayu's first XXX scene – the second one we worked on. She’ll give you a nice blowjob right after returning home from college. As always, a WIP Sketch has been posted to our patron-only stream with the animation yet to come.

- For our angel Anaela, two XXX scenes have been illustrated (+WIP Sketches) and will soon be animated. She’ll let you play with both of her heavenly holes for some exciting action. Anaela will have a special role in the first playable, so stay tuned for more!

- Wallpapers for Mayu and Anaela have been posted containing new background art for both.

- Nikki the circus artist has been introduced as the next girl we work on. She's already got the Portrait with 3 clothing stages of which the first one has been posted. Stickers and XXX scenes are currently being worked on and will soon be revealed in our stream.

Programming Updates:

- Laid foundations for the first playable which will give you the opportunity to try out our XXX Mode for yourself

- A custom audio playback routine has been put in to place in order to control events and movements in synch with the music instead of relying on a global time or frame rates for example.

- Implemented movement and control mechanics as well as physics for the player token including a boost- and cooldown-system

- Constructed a class that holds (for now) 6 types of collectibles (Heart, Superheart, Mine, Ice Cube, Shield and Power-Peach) and their behavior.

- Our newly coded level generator relies PNG png graphics to spawn platforms and items at their according time and place which enables us to do visual level design in Photoshop and the likes

- Dev Diary #3 has been posted for our patrons showing off all those features in a little video with a more in-depth explanation. Dev Diary #1 and #2 show some earlier stages and are available for everyone in our public post stream.

Next Up:

- Artwork: Cucu is creating more and more awesome artwork stuff of course. There's a few open artworks for Mayu and Nikki will get some attention as well in the next weeks. We also still need a few graphics and artworks for the first playable, even though most of it is ready to be implemented.

- Animation: As I'm doing both programming and animating, I am a little bit behind with the animations right now. I arrived at the point where I want to include the first animations in the prototype now, though. At the moment I'm experimenting with a new animation program for the XXX scenes that would allow us to run the animations at the full fps of the game instead of the roughly 20fps-approach we had before while also resulting in smaller file sizes. Sounds too good to be true, right? Even though I'm facing a few technical problems for now, I really hope it will work out in the end, because that would mean even better, butter-smooth XXX animations.

- Programming: Depending on the success of the current animation tests I will either start implementing those next and make them react to the gameplay or instead set out to finish the game mechanics first, including the UI elements like energy bar, heart counter and such. Both needs to be done anyway.

- Misc: Great news here as well: We've found some help for the audio department so we should soon have the prototype covered sound-wise with custom music and sexy voice acting bits!

So that's it for now, folks! If you've got any questions, feel free to ask. Critique and feedback is also always welcome :)

Talk to you soon!
Zanzo & Cucu