Posted April 10, 2023 by Killer7
Hello there you super wholesome and very attractive people out in the world!
Another week, another progress update!
I have to start with kind of a bad news. Since last wednesday, my main PC started to give me bluescreens out of nowhere. I've been trying to pinpoint down the issue for like four days ( so, until yesterday ), but couldn't find a solution. I did memtest several times for the ram, no errors, I stress tested the CPU and RAM with prime95 and sometimes prime95 crashed, but it never caused the bluescreen itself. I also stress tested the GPU with furmark, nothing. Changed my m2 drives, still nothing. I even tested each ram stick in each slot and while it sometimes ran stable for an hour, it always ended up with a bluescreen. The culprit, according to bluescreenviewer, is an exe called "ntoskrnl.exe". Since I'm not able to switch the CPU or PSU, or even the mainboard, I messaged the company that build the PC for me. Thankfully, I'm still in a 6 months window where they will come and pick up the PC to check and repair it. I also put up an order for a new PC ( I wanted to do that anyway, so I have another 4090 here for rendering ), but that will also take a few days to arrive ( since today is a holiday in Germany ).
This means that the update might be delayed for a few days, since I'm only on one pc for now. I'm still making renders like usual, but trying to figure this stuff out threw me off my initial timeplan more than I thought it would. The render PC is still good and all my data is also saved, so no worries there. I'm really really sorry for that. If I can't release the update this month, you can ask for a refund for April and even if you are not a supporter anymore, I will make sure you get the pre-release anyway.
There will still be a lewd render this week and the lewd teasers as well. Thank you for the nice feedback on the "regular" teasers, by the way!
Now, let's talk a bit about My New Family. Before the stuff with my pc happened, I was in the process of adding a few Mods to Honey Select 1 to make the game look better. Mainly, 4k Diffuse Textures and LRE/IBL. That probably doesn't tell you much, but if you want to see the kind of "Look" I want to achieve, check out Ripples by Jestur. He is using these kind of things and if I can add that to Honey Select 1, it will be the engine I will use for My New Family 2.
Okay, My New Memories. I'm currently in the process of making the renders for the first half of the day and I'd say, I'm about 50% done with them. The second half of the last day is almost done in terms of writing, but given the fact that I had these PC issues, I wasn't able to write as much as I wanted to. I put the scripts on the render pc tho and I will be able to write here while the PC is rendering, so that is a plus, I think. The second part of the last day will be the biggest rollercoaster of emotions we had in My New Memories so far. From the event with Sabrina and Jessica ( If you are in a relationship with her ) to the "big boom" of the update and then of course, the "climax" at the end which will be the biggest turning point in terms of events for the game. I will not try to tease you guys too much with it, I think I did that a little too much anyway, but at the end of Chapter III you will be smiling and maybe shedding a tear, depending on how emotional you are. Oh, and you will curse me, I guess, more than you ever did before. Chapter III is hands down the best update for My New Memories so far, and it's actually the first time I'm really confident about that statement. Todays render is Sarah in the morning, before you go to the hospital with her. She actually made breakfast for the MC, something she still remembers from when she was younger.
And I think thats it for now. Sorry that I had to bring some rather bad news, I don't think the impact on my work is too big and I'm optimistic regarding this week in terms of work. If anything comes up, I'll let you guys know. Stay awesome!