DevLog: Scene 7 Nears Completion (Animation Marathon Complete) + Scene 8 Development Begins

Quick reminder: You can follow development more closely on the Trello board.

TLDR;

• Patreon Change: Future Releases Moving to Remnant Bearer Tier
• Scene 7 almost done - audio is all that remains for this scene
• Scene 8 will be ramping up soon
• Check out a game that I highly recommend Demon Seed's Game Page

✅ Last Week's Progress

What I accomplished since the last update:

• Scene 7 - I'm pleased to announce that Scene 7 is nearly finished! 🎉 The last thing that needs to be completed is music and sound effects. Thanks to Blender's EEVEE, rendering everything took only a few days - collectively ~4,000 images. This scene includes a long intro cinematic introducing Raven, all necessary stills for the story, one Raven animation, and also four additional "Happy Place" animations (one had to get cut due to time/difficulty constraints).

🛠️ Current Development

What I'm working on right now:

• Scene 7 Audio - This will include some simple sound effects, and most likely a custom-made soundtrack; if you're curious, I use Ableton Live 😇
• Scene 8 Writing - The next scene has started! This'll be a breather scene (especially for me after all of those animations in Scene 7!). There will be a few interesting changes, and also introduce a new character (sorry, HE won't be a love interest 😉but I'm gonna give you a heads up that there WILL be a new female character coming!) Since it's been a few months since I wrote the next few scenes, I'll be polishing and making minor writing adjustments.

🔮 Coming Soon

What I'm planning to work on next:

• In preparation for Scene 8 there's going to be a lot of environment creation, asset creation/importing, and character preparation. Just a few things off of the top of my head that will be needed for Scene 8:
  • Anya rework
  • New Test Lab Room
• New Character: Hamara
• There will also eventually be some micro-enhancements coming:
  • Steam Cleaning - just getting started early

⚙️ Technical Corner

A few developers and I noticed and tracked down a Blender bug where the character's skin has a "wood-like" or "marbling" effect due to Vulkan (a new rendering engine that's in beta for Blender). Thankfully, we're able to revert off of this rendering engine, and prevent this artifact from happening! 🤮🤮🤮

👀 Sneak Peek

I've been doing a lot of animations in the past two weeks just for Scene 7!!!

How do you like the new DevLog cover? Made in Blender, because, well... as some other Devs say, "nuii being nuii" 😅

💎 Hidden Gems

Quality games from fellow developers that deserve attention:

Demon Seed

I don't promote anything that I haven't tried myself - and I don't promote anything especially that I don't like. In this case, Demon Seed - I tried it, and I absolutely loved it. It was hilarious when it needed to be, it was hot & spicy at the right times, and all of it was well written - you can clearly see that the developer (Volos) has worked very hard on this. I've also spent some time with him in voice chat over the past couple of weeks. What an amazing, kind, and fun guy - and I can absolutely tell you that his game is just as fun as he is. Please, please give it a try - you will not regret it!

Demon Seed is a mostly linear visual novel where you control an ordinary man with a dark unknown past in this dystopian world. Seduce, breed, and claim your destiny—but at what cost?
Premise
You're an honest and upstanding young man hard at work to earn his place in the world, living together with 3 beautiful women in peace. You never had problems getting laid, in fact girls seem extremely attracted to you no matter who they are. But the more you indulged in that life the more you were plagued by nightmares and weird happenings around you. What will happen when you go down that path? Will you lose yourself or rise above?

See Demon Seed's Game Page

💬 Community Corner

Patreon Change: Future Releases Moving to New "Remnant Bearer" Tier

For anyone who missed it, I put out an announcement the other day showing that I have to break a promise that I made to the community. I want to be open and honest with everyone, and I want to let you all know that it wasn't something that I decided lightly. I truly hope that I can make it up to everyone and provide something extraordinary to make up for that broken promise. Thank you everyone, including those who supported the project in the past but are unable to support the project further because of the tier changes.

Thank you all for your support and understanding - I'm truly lucky to have you all!

I love this community, and I love all of the support you all have given me 🥰 I'll see you next week!

Don't forget to check out the Trello board for detailed progress updates! ❤️