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Getting Back to Business

It's been a slow week for Lab Rats 2 development, mostly due nerd sniping myself with Live2D experimentation (The recent Tarkov wipe ha...

Lab Rats 2 v0.42.1 Release! Available to Everyone!

Lab Rats 2 v0.42.1 is live! Get it here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.42.1-PC
Mac: 2021-07-08 10:29:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Plans for v0.43 - Making Girls Trainable and More.

First up, if you've been trying to download the PC version of v0.42.0 and having problems with Mega I have reuploaded it and replaced the link in the patron release post 2021-07-04 10:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Lab Rats 2 v0.42.0 Release

Lab Rats 2 v0.42.0 is live! Get it here!

UPDATE July 4: Mega had a bug that was preventing the PC version from being downloaded. This has been resolved.

PC: 2021-07-01 10:53:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Relationship Writing Progress

My last couple of days have been spent writing new relationship content for both Lily and Jennifer. Previously you haven't been able to start an official relationship with either of these character...

Uniform UI Preview

It's been a couple of slow days of work for me, a combination of scheduling issues and just feeling low energy, but I've got the new uniform management system fully implemented so I thought I would...

Ren'py Statement Equivalents and Uniform Management work

The initial release of v0.41.1 contained a bug that caused crashes during certain sections of dialogue. That bug was addressed in v0.41.2 (which you can get 2021-06-12 06:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post

LR2 v0.41.2 - Fixes dialogue crashing issues.

The switch to the new version of Ren'py changed behaviour in some event dialogue.

You can find the updated links on the main page or on the release post 2021-06-10 11:42:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Lab Rats 2 v0.41.1 Release! Get it here!

Lab Rats 2 v0.41.1 is out!

UPDATE: v0.41.2 has replaced .41.1. It includes a crash fix affecting some event dialogue. It should be save compatible.

PC: 2021-06-08 10:33:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Character Frame Design

With the move to the new version of Ren'py and it's native shader support the flat background behind characters was no longer needed (it existed as a hack because the old system couldn't render tra...

Lab Rats 2 v0.41.0 Patron Release!

Lab Rats 2 v0.41.0 is live! Get it here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.41.0-PC
Mac: 2021-06-01 11:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Belated Writing Update

I planned to have this update on my progress out a few days ago, but there has ended up being significantly more writing involved than I had initially anticipated. So instead of a detailed post abo...

LR2 v0.41 Writing Progress

The results of the last poll were clear, with more content for Lily being the clear winner, with more content for Jennifer being a notable 3rd place as well. Since posting that poll (and reading al...

v0.41 Focus Poll

The transition to a new version of Ren'py and the reimplementation of the animation shaders took significantly less time than I was expecting. That's left me with two weeks of development time befo...

Native Shaders and Ren'py Version Update

Shortly before the public release of v0.40 I spent a few days experimenting with the native shader support Ren'py 7.4 introduced. I found that native shaders ran significantly faster, and would let...

Lab Rats 2 v0.40.1 Release!

Lab Rats 2 v0.40.1 is Live! Get it Here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.40.1-PC
Mac: 2021-05-08 09:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Shader Experimentation Results - They're Good!

tl;dr - The native Ren'py shader support is much faster than the current system used. LR2 v0.41 will move to Ren'py 7.4 to make use of it. v0.40.1, releasing tomorrow, will still be using the old s...

New Ren'py Shader Support - Experimenting!

A little over a year ago I added the first implementation of Lab Rats 2's "animation" system. I use the word animation lightly, as it's really just a way of warping and distorting sections of a fla...

LR2 v0.40.0 Android Fix

Turns out Ren'py doesn't include the unittest class in it's android build, despite it being a standard python library. I've manually included the library and built a new android version. You can do...

Lab Rats 2 v0.40.0 Release

Lab Rats 2 v0.40.0 is Live! Get it here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.40.0-PC
Mac: 2021-05-01 11:07:41 +0000 UTC View Post

The Unit Testing Slog

A bit of a dull update to give today, but I've been busy writing unit tests and have made good progress through the LR2 code base. As of this moment I've written 89 test cases, which cover the majo...

What and Why is Unit Testing

A major feature of v0.40 will be the inclusion of a unit testing framework. This will reduce the number of bugs that make it out of development, and help prevent bugs from reappearing once fixed. S...

Lab Rats v0.39.3 - Let's Try this Again!

Forgot to fix side effect traits, which meant more crashes for serum sometimes. Here's an updated v0.39.3 that fixes the issue:

PC: 2021-04-13 09:46:31 +0000 UTC View Post

v0.39.2 Patch Release

v0.39.1 had a critical bug causing crashes when serum was given to a girl. This has been corrected in v0.39.2, which you can get here:

PC: 2021-04-11 07:04:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Lab Rats 2 v0.39.1 Release! Get it Here!

Lab Rats 2 v0.39.2 is Live! Download it here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.39.2-PC
Ma...

Lab Rats 2 v0.39.0 Release!

Lab Rats 2 v0.39.0 is Live! Get it here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.39.0-PC
Mac: 2021-04-01 11:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Collecting Refactoring Dividends

Last week I detailed a major cleanup of the Lab Rats 2 code, which took the main game file and split it up into organized files and folders. The purpose was to make development faster, and that wor...

The Great Script.rpy Refactoring

It's been a little longer since my last dev post than I normally like, so let's fill you in on what I've been working on!

A few days ago I finished the first iteration of the Clarity system. ...

v0.39 Planning - Bringing a little Clarity

tl;dr - v0.39 will introduce a new resource Clarity, generated by having sex. This resource will be used to unlock serum traits, make serum designs, and unlock business policies.

The...

Lab Rats 2 v0.38.1 Release! Get it Here!

Lab Rats 2 v0.38.1 is live! Get it here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.38.1-PC
Mac: 2021-03-08 12:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post