It's the "Say what, now?" update...

Hello, and a happy New Year to you all. A lot of news to cover this morning so I'll do my best to not prattle on in my usual manner.

I won a thing!

Astoundingly, I won an award from Lewd Pixels as developer of the year. Which was a hell of a way to wrap the year up. This came on top of another voted for award from the guys at F95zone which was also a hell of a thing (and came with a cash prize which helps towards the second machine - so even better!)

New year, new logo.

Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions in respect of the logo. I tweaked the design a little and ended up with the following.

I've tested it on a variety of backgrounds and it seems to work nicely regardless. You can see how it works on some concept renders and images from Chadwick's domme module behind the paywall. But I think it looks pretty neat and much better than what I had, so thanks :)

Bored Pilot.

Kates is up next, after one of the closest and wiggliest polls I've ever run.

Now to Chapter Four news.

Game progress!

So far I have 7,250 renders in the can which really isn't that shabby for two months work I don't think. The majority of these are animations of course but Chapter Four is -very- animation heavy with Sarah having a big mission scene, boffing with Trisha, The bonus game with Becca and Jane, movies for the domme module, the intro film, some small clips for CoC and ofc the lewds for the VR game. No doubt I'll be adding a few more in-game as I go along as well.

As to the chapter itself - it's big. 

25 scenes, 4 internal new locations, 4 external new locations, 4 missions, 2 minigames, refreshed free-roam content, three hidden Easter eggs, 5  lewd animations, 18 supporting animations (excluding Becca's game ani's) plus bonus content. This one is a biggie.....

Up until now my focus has been on the three existing evening modules and the animations and now it's time to really focus on the main chapter itself. Especially as the evening modules have interlinking events with the main game (dice cheating, deals with Chris etc) and I need to get these in and coded so that I can sign off on the modules as complete.

Roadblocks

Nothing *crosses fingers* seems to be going pear shaped for once but I have some concerns over how the handling of sex with Trisha will pan out. Certainly the concept for it seems good to me but this one will give me some worry until the testers have seen it in full I think. What I'm trying to do with sex with the main characters is to bring a degree of player control to the scenario. Not in a "boffing mini-game" sort of way, but to allow the player to have a choice of how the scene unfolds in a natural way. As always, I'm trying something slightly different and aiming high but if I pull it off then H5 will will have three different modes of lewds. Cinematics in VR, full player immersion for the domme modules and scene control for the main characters. 

Hardware.

With this month's patronage, the prize from F95, and two very generous up front donations there is now enough in the kitty to get a second machine :)

It won't be anything super. In fact it will be slower than my current one, but waiting to purchase something uber-mega-powerful, although sensible at one level, means that I'd be struggling to get this chapter out on a single PC. Oh, it would get done. Of course it would. But it would take more time than I would like. I'd rather get something, anything, that will help me get this chapter out asap now and keep the momentum rolling than penny-pinch and delay getting Four out of the door. I reckon I still need around 8,000 more renders for chapter Four and I don't want my lack of render production capacity to keep you waiting. I'm tired of that.

I can always get a super-mega-powerful machine later in the year as let's face it, my render needs are only going to keep getting higher (if only because if you give me more powah, you just know I'll use it....) and hell, imagine what I could do with three PC's running...

2021 delivery

I'm aiming for four chapters out this year with Chapter Four to be out in February at some point. This would neatly bring part one of Heavy Five to an end at the year end and, rather neatly, make 2022 the year of part two. (Chapters One to Three are really just the introduction to the game I've always felt).

Of course this is all subject to quality tests etc. I won't release anything less than my best efforts.

 I'm also thinking of a way to show you progress better than I currently do going forward (Percentage bars or scenes completed or something.) I'll think of what works best for me and advise.

Annnnnnnnnnd that's about it for now. I'll be quiet-ish  in January mainly, just restricting myself to weekly updates as there is a lot to do this month in respect of core script etc and I want to nail that asap.

Take care.

Notty.