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Gymnasium Playtest Build

Hey Everyone,

First, apologies for a lack of end-of-month build with no progress update! We hit a few last minute difficulties and had to delay the playtest build we've been talking about through most of July, which is the Gymnasium level.

It's a few days later than we hoped, but the build i...

Fitting Room Playtest 4.5 Release

Hey everyone,

Fitting Room 4.5 will be up in a private post shortly.

This build is more experimental than the previous relatively stable builds, as we're including some features to gauge performance across users' machines. No improvements have been made to selection / UI usage etc (only new ...

Fitting Room Playtest 4.5 - Coming Soon

Hey everyone,

We've been making some progress to Fitting Room, alongside working on Takayama High campus environments. This won't be as large of an update as with previous builds as our focus as switched primarily back to Virtual Novel, but we've added a few new options and items.

2017-07-23 21:46:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Week 2 Progress Update - Locker Rooms

Yo,

We've been making more progress with the Gymnasium level, working this week on one of the sub-enviros that makes up part of the gymnasium building - the Locker Rooms. The locker rooms attach to the side of the main gym building and will be accessible from the poolside outside, and the gym hall...

Week 1 Progress Update

Hey everyone,

Thought we’d share what we’ve been up to this week :)

We mentioned last week that we’re working on refining all of the incomplete elements of the school campus, until it’s a complete and fully explorable level. We’re starting with the School Gymnasium, a ...

Discord + Our goals for this month

Hey everyone, 

Thanks for the feedback on Fitting Room build 4 so far, we're happy to see that bug reports are in very few numbers! Seems like its mostly a matter of improving content quality and quantity now.

This month and the coming months, we're focusing our efforts on the school ca...

Fitting Room PlayTest #4

Hey everyone,

Apologies for the radio silence this month! We've been busy working on some behind the scenes game engine stuff in prep for Virtual Novel story mode things, which can't really be shown off in screenshots or clips sadly. 

Will be back on social media next month w...

June Dev Plans

Hey Everyone,

Since we got the first build out for Fitting Room we have had a lot of great feedback that we are working on fixing (Eye dropper bug, general UI fixes and user-improvements etc) whilst we continue moving forward with the story,  environments, and main cast of Virtua...

Fitting Room Playtest#3 This Evening

Hey guys, Fitting Room playtest #3 is done and the links will be up soon! The header image is a few examples of characters we made, you guys can probably do better though. 

We've had a huge amount of new supporters this month, so here's some basic instructions / tips on how to get ...

Fitting Room Playtest #3 next week - a feature list of what to expect

Hi!

Fitting Room play test #3 will be out next week, all the features we want are now in, and now we're just doing final quality and bug testing. We Tweeted a clip of some of the new stuff in action....

Long hair + hair physics teaser

Sup everyone,

Thought it would be cool to share this: a recent beta update of the game engine we use (UnrealEngine4) includes a built in cloth physics system, so we've been playing around with it a littl...

Midweek Update :D

Hey guys,

We added some cool stuff in prep for the upcoming build,

First, we added specular highlight size and contrast controls, a feature request by one of our Patrons, Adam. Will now be possible to control the size and gradient falloff of specular highlights to fine tune ...

Weekend progress update, new test build soon!

Hi everybody, 

Another preview clip of our progress with new features, with the hair selection system completed - the clothing system is also on its way to being finished after a bit of polishin...

Mid-week progress update :D

Sup everyone, apologies for no weekend update! We have been a little quiet, but still as busy as ever working towards the next Fitting Room playtest.

The movable menu system is now completed, suggested by Przemek and DrathFox, and probably a few others. Should resolve a few people's gripes with wa...

Fitting Room - Midweek progress teaser

Hey everyone,

Just a little mid-week progress report and more teaser footage of the upcoming update, which will include a few new sliders and settings, and the accessories and clothing system.

Along with that stuff, we're working on all the community suggestions, bug reports and feature requ...

Weekend Progress Update : )

Ohayou,

Thought we'd show off our progress with Fitting Room since last week's playtest build. In the next update, players will be able to save their characters. Up to 5 characters can be saved, and these saves will go into the player's save game folder as CharacterSave01.sav, CharacterSave02.sav ...

Fitting Room demo video - 2nd Test build coming soon!

Hi everyone,

2nd test build of Fitting Room will soon be out for Patrons after some quality and bug testing! Will hopefully be early next week so look out for the post :)

In the meantime, we put together a brief video of some of the editable params players will have control over. ...

Mid-week update!

Yo,

A brief update on how we're getting on with UI-chan!

Many of the character parameters are now programmed in. The three types of parameters (colors, sliders, and modes) update the character in real time right in front of you.

For Skin and Hair we thought an 'overall color' option wo...

Fitting Room Progress! Now with actual character customization :)

Hey!

We've been making great progress with the character creator. We've finished up UI design and are now going full speed ahead on actual character creation functionality, which you can see 2017-04-15 17:21:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Hype

Hope everyone's having a great week :>

Look out for more info about character creator progress on Sat, incl what features will be available in the next test build.

-devs

Character Customization - Color Picker!

 Hii

Just a small update on Fitting Room. We're full speed ahead on programming in functionality for the actual character customization now, beginning with one of the most important features - a color picker!

When this feature is completed, it will include swatch presets for cat...

Fitting Room Enviro Progress #3 + Test Build Date

Hey guys,

We're finishing up with the character creator enviro, and will be moving onto programming of some of the NPC customization features shortly! 

As we mentioned last week, the player has the option of tweaking some visual elements of the environment. The wallpaper, the...

Fitting Room Enviro Progress #2

Hi again,

Time to share our progress on Fitting Room, along with some more info on features which patrons will get to check out in person very soon :)

One of our Patrons, Adam, made a feature request that we really loved the sound of - the ability to add in photos from your harddrive to use ...

Fitting Room Progress Update #1!

Hey everyone :)

At the beginning of the week we announced Virtual Novel's character creator mode, and since then we've been busy finalizing our environment and discussing the kind of features we want to put in, so here's a blog-style update with some screenshots and info (●ᴗ●✿)

The e...

Fitting Room

Hey Patrons,

Thanks to everyone who's been taking part in our Navigation and Interaction tests! We're now moving onto an important part of the game which has received a large amount of community interest in our polls, and some ...

Nav Test fixes and updates for the next build

Hey guys, thanks for your feedback with the 2nd Navigation Test, here are some fixes and improvements we have made / will be making for the next release which should hopefully be before the end of the month -

The new touch to travel and push to run for Vive wasn't very popular, we've reverted back...

Scale adjustment update + few fixes

hi guys,

thanks for your feedback so far, we're trying to iterate these builds super fast so are implementing community suggestions and fixes as soon as you email them to us.

A couple of you had some issues with the height adjuster and suggested we scale the world / player rather than just a...

Navigation Options Demonstration

Hi everyone,

We've nearly completed our navigation / locomotion overhaul and thought we'd share where we're at with it with a short demo vid.

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Some key changes -

The teleport no lo...

Eye Control Demonstration

hey guys, I'm the technical artist on Virtual Novel. Some of your feedback was about eyes and eye variations / the ability to create older and younger looking characters based on head sizes and eye sizes. Head size is already in but i thought eye size variations was  a great idea

I've added 3...

Level Streaming + Some other things

Hey everyone,

We recently Tweeted a clip of Unreal Engine 4's Level-Streaming system, and wanted to elaborate about it on here to explain what this means for Virtual Novel.

To get th...