Development report #9

Greetings breeders!

I've been hard at work on bugfixing the reported issues.

• One of the issue of the game crashing during the sex scenes concerned me as I noticed there is a lot of lag loading the scenes. This is because I was feeding the high res images individually to Ren'py, and loading them all and processing the animations took a load out of the CPU. So I'm totally changing my approach. After finding a good video editor I've been editing the scenes in video format. With this I'll just load the video animations for the scenes. Result, your CPU will thank me and scenes will be instant. With that I'm also adding the sounds directly on the video. This allowed me to put the sound effects in synch with the scene. I've been working them all from the ground up and they sound a lot better (still not perfect, I'll probably have to pay for some customization here in the future).

  Too bad I can't post videos here, you will have to settle for a gif. (It might take a while to load)

  

• This allowed me also to think of a new feature. I'm trying to make the sex scenes a bit more dynamic, with a speed up the motions button, slow down, cum, etc. Slow and fast have different sound cues too. I've finished Sierra up. Now I need to edit all the others.

• I'm also coding the gallery and need to come up with a UI. You will unlock images as you progress in the game. It's a good place to give individual special lewds for each character.

• It's still barebones but I'm also working on the new enemy unit. I'm thinking of making him a boss and then have a more generic version of him as an enemy in squads. Still thinking on this one. 

• That said, for the next release I want to finish Mission 2(with the same type of cutscenes and narration, let's see if I have the time to do it) and make the repeateable missions more interesting.

• Also for the next release I want to tackle something that is necessary to keep up with the number of population. The resources room will work with the units you already have but you will be able to assign there your "descendants", instead of recruiting them as combat units. Still on the thinking tank

• I want to make some more spicy scenes available on the ship. I will add more "functionalities" to the rooms.

• Add the option to redeem the exclusive characters directly on the cryo chamber. This is a QoL feature.

And that's it for now. My date for the next planned release should be on the 5th of the nexth month, so 2.5 weeks from now. I'm still waiting for Sierra scene, it's taking way too long this time... I might need to search for other animator. I'll post a poll for Karla scene in a few days too. The faster I commission it the better since sometimes it will take a while to receive them.