It's been a slow week for Lab Rats 2 development, mostly due nerd sniping myself with Live2D experimentation (The recent Tarkov wipe hasn't been helping my productivity either). I had fooled around with Live2D before as a potential rep...
2021-07-13 12:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.42.1 is live! Get it here!
PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.42.1-PC
Mac: 2021-07-08 10:29:51 +0000 UTC
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First up, if you've been trying to download the PC version of v0.42.0 and having problems with Mega I have reuploaded it and replaced the link in the patron release post here. Sorry for the inconvenience, that's the fi...
2021-07-04 10:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.42.0 is live! Get it here!
UPDATE July 4: Mega had a bug that was preventing the PC version from being downloaded. This has been resolved.
2021-07-01 10:53:53 +0000 UTC View PostMy last couple of days have been spent writing new relationship content for both Lily and Jennifer. Previously you haven't been able to start an official relationship with either of these characters, but that will be changing in v0.42. I'm using the same style of story progression I used for Lily...
2021-06-22 07:24:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a couple of slow days of work for me, a combination of scheduling issues and just feeling low energy, but I've got the new uniform management system fully implemented so I thought I would show it off!
The first major change is that company uniforms are no longer explicitly an over...
2021-06-17 08:40:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe initial release of v0.41.1 contained a bug that caused crashes during certain sections of dialogue. That bug was addressed in v0.41.2 (which you can get here), and I thought the root cause was interesti...
2021-06-12 06:38:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe switch to the new version of Ren'py changed behaviour in some event dialogue.
You can find the updated links on the main page or on the release post here.
This updated version should be...
2021-06-10 11:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.41.1 is out!
UPDATE: v0.41.2 has replaced .41.1. It includes a crash fix affecting some event dialogue. It should be save compatible.
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With the move to the new version of Ren'py and it's native shader support the flat background behind characters was no longer needed (it existed as a hack because the old system couldn't render transparent sections). I had intended to remove the background entirely, but when I experimented with i...
2021-06-05 10:01:20 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.41.0 is live! Get it here!
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I planned to have this update on my progress out a few days ago, but there has ended up being significantly more writing involved than I had initially anticipated. So instead of a detailed post about it you get a quick recap, then I have to get right to work doing final testing and polish for v0....
2021-05-31 06:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe results of the last poll were clear, with more content for Lily being the clear winner, with more content for Jennifer being a notable 3rd place as well. Since posting that poll (and reading all of the comments, a ton of great ideas in there that I'm keeping in mind going forward!) I've been ...
2021-05-21 11:13:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe transition to a new version of Ren'py and the reimplementation of the animation shaders took significantly less time than I was expecting. That's left me with two weeks of development time before the v0.41 release, and I want to know what areas of the game you would like to see more content a...
2021-05-16 07:04:19 +0000 UTC View PostShortly before the public release of v0.40 I spent a few days experimenting with the native shader support Ren'py 7.4 introduced. I found that native shaders ran significantly faster, and would let me cut out a huge amount of janky, bug prone code.
I've spent the last week moving LR2 over t...
2021-05-15 11:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.40.1 is Live! Get it Here!
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Mac: 2021-05-08 09:30:21 +0000 UTC
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tl;dr - The native Ren'py shader support is much faster than the current system used. LR2 v0.41 will move to Ren'py 7.4 to make use of it. v0.40.1, releasing tomorrow, will still be using the old system.
Two days ago I noticed that Ren'py 7.4 included native shader support and decided to sp...
2021-05-07 09:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostA little over a year ago I added the first implementation of Lab Rats 2's "animation" system. I use the word animation lightly, as it's really just a way of warping and distorting sections of a flat image over time. That system was built on experimental 3rd party code, and it required a fair amou...
2021-05-05 09:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostTurns out Ren'py doesn't include the unittest class in it's android build, despite it being a standard python library. I've manually included the library and built a new android version. You can download it here:
Android: 2021-05-03 11:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Lab Rats 2 v0.40.0 is Live! Get it here!
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Mac: 2021-05-01 11:07:41 +0000 UTC
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A bit of a dull update to give today, but I've been busy writing unit tests and have made good progress through the LR2 code base. As of this moment I've written 89 test cases, which cover the major game classes like Person, MainCharacter, and Clothing. Next up I'm working through the smaller cla...
2021-04-23 07:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostA major feature of v0.40 will be the inclusion of a unit testing framework. This will reduce the number of bugs that make it out of development, and help prevent bugs from reappearing once fixed. Since most of these improvements and changes will be invisible to the end user I thought I'd detail t...
2021-04-17 10:15:36 +0000 UTC View PostForgot to fix side effect traits, which meant more crashes for serum sometimes. Here's an updated v0.39.3 that fixes the issue:
PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.39.3-PC
Mac: 2021-04-13 09:46:31 +0000 UTC
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v0.39.1 had a critical bug causing crashes when serum was given to a girl. This has been corrected in v0.39.2, which you can get here:
PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.39.2-PC
Mac:
2021-04-11 07:04:31 +0000 UTC
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Lab Rats 2 v0.39.2 is Live! Download it here!
PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.39.2-PC
Mac: 2021-04-08 10:52:34 +0000 UTC
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Lab Rats 2 v0.39.0 is Live! Get it here!
PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.39.0-PC
Mac: 2021-04-01 11:16:42 +0000 UTC
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Last week I detailed a major cleanup of the Lab Rats 2 code, which took the main game file and split it up into organized files and folders. The purpose was to make development faster, and that work is already paying dividends. Since that post I have polished off the last needed additions to the ...
2021-03-30 10:51:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a little longer since my last dev post than I normally like, so let's fill you in on what I've been working on!
A few days ago I finished the first iteration of the Clarity system. With the core done I wanted to take some time and work on something else. A lot of you had good idea...
2021-03-20 10:56:39 +0000 UTC View Posttl;dr - v0.39 will introduce a new resource Clarity, generated by having sex. This resource will be used to unlock serum traits, make serum designs, and unlock business policies.
The gameplay of Lab Rats 2 is based around three main activities: Producing a profit, corrupting girls,...
2021-03-12 15:40:25 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.38.1 is live! Get it here!
PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.38.1-PC
Mac: 2021-03-08 12:58:09 +0000 UTC
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