#4 Free Devlog Update

Hi!

So... Things are still moving, at a slower pace than I would've like, but that's life. My routine is all kinds of screwed up at the moment. Work has not been kind and I've been very busy throughout the day, at night my mind is spent, and I need to spend time with the family to recharge. After everyone goes to bed, I start feeling like myself again and try to work on the game, but it looks like there's not enough hours in the day, you know? I've talked to some people that also have this feeling... of like, I know how rest is important and all that, but I just don't want to go to bed early, it's the time I have to do MY things and am on the right frame of mind to enjoy it, and boom, when I look at the clock it's 2:30am. It's not that I'm not sleeping enough, my tracker says I've been hitting 7~8h pretty consistently for the past 6 months, all thanks to the amazing human being that's my wife.

But enough about my personal life, what's going on with the development? I've started scene 33/35, it's not a big one but it has some... quirks. But what has taken most of my time? Well... GLAD YOU ASKED. As I may have mentioned before, I got really blessed to be in a community of other avn fans, between devs, artists and all that good stuff. Being exposed to so much quality content makes you want to rise up your own game. So, I've been tinkering with the skins of the characters AGAIN. First upgrade a couple months back was to move from Uber to PBR, now I've been actually fixing every map, adding more details, etc. And it's one thing to fix with someone guiding you over the shoulder (thanks again Bat and Termz), but it's another to understand why each setting is supposed to do, how to fix problems, and not make every character looks the same. That means this update the quality will ramp up towards the end of it, unfortunately I don't have the time to go back and re-render everything with the new skins, it's just a compromise that I had to take. If I want to have 2 updates a year I'll have to bite the bullet, and it's not that the before is "ugly" is just that now it's better.

In other news, we got featured in AVNTimes:

Thanks Stone and his team for the feature! You can check it out here.

That's it for today, hope you all have a great week,

Cheers,

C.