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Working on New Main Menu Design (and v0.18.1 Bug Fixing)

First, a quick update on the release of v0.18.1: I'm chewing through bug reports right now and a much improved version will be going up this time tomorrow.

Now onto a new feature I have been ...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.18.1 Public Release!

v0.18.1 is Live! Get it Here! 

UPDATE: v0.18.2 has been released to improve the stability of the new version. It fixes many of the errors and crashes reported in v0.18.1.

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Rendering Experimentation

All of the bugs that have poked their head up in v0.18.0 (so far) have been squashed, so I've been using my spare time tonight to do some experimentation. In particular I am looking into a differen...

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The Bugfixing Begins!

Bug fixing for the recently released v0.18.0 is already underway, with a dozen minor bugs already squashed. One issue in particular had been simmering in the back of my head: when using outfit patt...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.18.0 Patron Release

Lab Rats 2 v0.18.0 is live! Get it here!

PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.18.0-PC
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Preparing for Release

The patron release of v0.18.0 is scheduled for early morning July 1st, which means I only have a couple more days to hammer out some last minute work and do some much needed testing. I'm pushing to...

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Android Wardrobe Bugfixing

People who play Lab Rats 2 on Android will be happy to know I have tracked down and (hopefully) a bug that was preventing the import of character outfits from the .xml wardrobe files. The problem w...

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The Charm is in The Details

For the last couple of days my computer has been rerendering all of the body images used in LR2 to eliminate the gaps seen in some positions between a girls chin and their body. While that was rend...

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Rendering Improvement Progress - Neck Line Elimination

I've been tackling some render quality issues yesterday and today, and I have some success to report! The particular issue I was trying to fix was the black/grey line visible between a girls neck a...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.17.1 Release Notes

Lab Rat 2 v0.17.1 is live and available to everyone! You can find the download links here! 

La...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.17.1 Release, Sorta!

This is going to be a slightly unusual release today. There was scheduled Patreon maintenance last night that I didn't plan for and I'm on a bit of a time crunch today, so I'll be releasing the lin...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.17.1 Release Bumped Forward One Day

The title says it all on this one. The release of LR2 v0.17.1 is going to be bumped forward one day (so roughly 24 hours after this post goes live). I have some commitments on the weekend that have...

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LR2 v0.17.0 Hotfix is Live

The links on the release page here have been updated. Major bugs preventing all sex scenes and severa...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.17.0 Release

Lab Rats 2 v0.17.0 is finished and ready for it's week of bug testing! Get it here!

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More writing, with a family focus!

Just a couple days now until the release of v0.17.1 to patrons for bug testing. I'm finishing up the writing that I've done and moving on to testing to make sure all of the new events trigger and t...

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Picking up the Writing Pace

Lab Rats 1 started development in the middle of November, which happened to be National Novel Writing Month. The concept of NaNoWr...

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Event Writing and Cold Recovery

I meant to get this post up last night, but a cold I've been fighting off for a few days finally caught up with me and knocked me out like a light. I've recovered though and I'm back at it, writing...

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Prototyping Rendering Improvements

I have been looking at my rendering setup and experimenting to figure out what can be improved. I am zeroing in on some issues with the way both faces and emotions are rendered and hope to have som...

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v0.16.1 Bugfixing and v0.17.0 Storyline planning.

This post is just a super quick update letting you know what I've been working on the last couple of days. Most of my work has been done tracking down bugs in the recent public build and planning o...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.16.1 Release

Lab Rats 2 v0.16.1 is finished! Grab it here!

Linux and Windows: Lab Rats 2 v0.16.1-...

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Lab Rats 2 Storyline Flowchart Link

Here is the link to the LR2 Storyline flowchart! This will contain spoilers and is highly subject to change. 

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Bug Fixing, Pattern Rendering, and Story Planning

A bunch of things to report on tonight!

First up, bug fixing for v0.16.0 is going well. So far nothing completely game breaking has turned up and none of the fixes have taken too much time. I...

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Lab Rats 2 v0.16.0 Release!

Lab Rats 2 v0.16.0 is finished! Grab it here!

Linux and Windows: Lab Rats 2 v0.16.0-...

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Lab Rats 2 Plans - Entering Phase 2

The release of v0.16 in a couple of days will include a couple of improvements to the way Lab Rats 2 works. The update will give me the ability to flexibly handle how characters refer to you/are re...

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Updated Clothing Designer

With the coming addition of patterns the outfit creator was in need of an update. Patterns are clothing variants that use the same underlying texture but can be recoloured or masked in different lo...

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Rendering Improvements: Examples!

I've taken the proof of concept workflow I talked about last night and integrated it with both my rendering automation and the outfit display code in Lab Rats 2. I was able to generate a pattern fo...

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Rendering Improvements: Adding Clothing Patterns

The character title work is all done and implemented throughout LR2. The changes will be nice for writing new dialogue and scenes, and as an added bonus all menus throughout the game can now make u...

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A Rose By Any Other Name...

With my crusade against loading times complete I've been able to move onto other, more interesting tasks. In particular I've improving the way characters in Lab Rats 2 refer to each other. Previous...

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Optimization Victory!

I normally like to space out my Patreon posts by two or three days, but I felt like the post I put up yesterday deserved some closure. If you didn't get a chance to read through 2019-04-12 07:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Temporary Optimization Defeat

Following the release of v0.15.1 I've received a few reports that the game is proving to be very slow to load on some machines. Particularly strange are reports that starting the game from the gene...

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