I've put a bit of effort into the story scenes this week. The work folder shows 1,723 renders, which should be an increase of about 135 renders posed, rendered, and post-worked.
Now that most of the story renders are done, I'll continue posing scene transitions, animations, and generally wo...
2023-04-07 12:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been mostly banging my head against the quirks of Daz studio this week.
One of the 3d assets I'm using, which is also a big part of the environment of u4ia, has been a major pain in the ass. There's nothing more annoying than waking up in the morning only to see that all the night rend...
2023-03-31 12:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Won't bother you with a big wall of text this time. Just dropping by to say it's going forward at a steady pace.
I've made myself a bullet list of things to do, and I'm just focusing on crossing out one thing after the other.
The script(s) size is around 10k lines of code/dialogue rig...
2023-03-24 12:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post
In this part of development, I'm putting all the scenes and dialogues into RenPy, and rendering extra images where needed. It's a fairly simple process and just about getting everything working as it should, and in some cases, even the dialogue is kind of uninspiring and bland - but it's just abo...
2023-03-17 13:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post
As you might have noticed, the trailer and release date for u4ia is out. Hope you enjoyed it, and it's not meant to reveal much of the story, just to give a general idea of what the game is about. If you didn't see it, the release date is May 5th, and you can 2023-03-10 13:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This had been another week spent in Ren'Py improving the general look and feel of the game. It's slightly annoying having to do these things and it is the only time during development I wish I could clone myself and do several things at once. But then again, it's something I only have to do once,...
2023-03-03 12:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I saw a question last week about the music and if I would use artists from the LoF soundtrack in u4ia. I'm having talks with a few of those artists, and they will be included for u4ia with new songs. Although, for the most part, the new game will have music from artists not connected to LoF.
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Leap of Faith is now available on GOG.com.
If you've been holding back on buying it, now's a good time with a limited launch discount.
https://www.gog.com/game/leap_of_faith
Cheers, and have a n...
2023-02-17 14:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week where I've been progressing on several fronts.
I made the first full scene with the girl you see up there. I was a bit worried initially, as I'd never done anything remotely similar before, but it was great fun doing and she's grown on me.
Although, trying to get on her g...
2023-02-17 13:08:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Leap of Faith SFW?
I've been keeping myself updated on your comments from last week's poll. Even though a #SFW rework of LoF was downvoted, I was honestly surprised by the interest in it.
I know that by having a vote that doesn't have a landslide victory, I've set myself...
2023-02-10 13:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, my computer has been working its way through the render queue while I had to tend to quite a few other things.
Leap of Faith is coming to GOG.com
And since it was #NSFW-week on gog.com, I and my representative there decided to give it a push to get the store p...
I had this animation I posed a while back that I wasn't sure I was going to use as an intro, as it is a huge one with no lewds. But I decided to go ahead with it in the end, and that thing took 5 days to render, which is most of what my rendering rig has been doing this week. A full 2,200 frames ...
2023-01-27 12:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This week was a bit of an all-types-of-work week.
I spent some time in Premiere Pro with post-production on the animations that have finished rendering, and that's when I noticed that some of the more 'wigglier' parts of the girls which I had animated, didn't wiggle anymore.
You see, ...
2023-01-20 13:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I've only been doing story renders this week, and have been working myself through some really enjoyable scenes.
I love making these scenes where you spend some time together with the girls one on one and get to know them a bit better. Most of the time it's not that they are actually sharin...
2023-01-13 13:02:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The first post of the new year, and I have to tell you it's still weird not having to drive anywhere to work. But it's nice looking out the window at the neighbor de-icing his car and not having to do that.
I said I would give you a little insight into the new game U4IA, so here it is, tryi...
2023-01-06 13:05:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the last post of the year, and this time I'll tell you a bit about getting music for the new game. It's more informational and meant for other AVN developers and those who wonder what's going on. Jump to the end to skip it.
Music Licensing
In all of De...
2022-12-30 13:12:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been writing these dev updates from the time I had 7 Patreons back at the start of 2020, and I never really let it sink in that I have a much bigger audience now than I used to back then. And with this post being open for all, well, that number is quite a bit higher.
Christmas for me i...
2022-12-23 13:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, thank you very much for the kind and heartfelt messages I got in response to the last dev diary. I know that there are always people who will not see eye to eye with the story I wanted to tell with Leap of Faith or how I went about it, but you certainly put a smile on my face.
I've been talking about taking some time off after Leap of Faith, and nothing came off it. On this Monday, I woke up to a particularly awful message about me and the game, and although I've got quite hard skin against opinionated comments differentiating from my own, this one really hit home.
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Animations have been running almost none stop this week. While they were rendering, I've been focusing on the Ren'Py part and got a decent chunk done. Numbers are at 860 story renders and 3,474 animated frames.
I wanted to tell you a bit about what -u4ia- will be like, now that I'm getting ...
2022-12-02 13:06:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been stretching myself in all directions this week and made progress on all fronts. I completed two scenes on the story render side, caught up on the custom renders for the top Patreon tier, and right now animations are rendering none stop while I'm working on the Renpy part.
2022-11-25 13:28:45 +0000 UTC
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Progress
Another week where I've been working on the big free-roam. The most exciting news this week was my neighbor building a house and unintentionally cutting the power for everyone in the street.
While he was nice enough to apologize and buy flowers for pretty much e...
2022-11-18 13:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This week has mostly been spent working on the main free-roam renders of the episode. To give you a rough idea of its size, it spans over three floors, and I've been working my way through the first one counting more than 30 unique characters in it so far. The chance you're going to leave that pl...
2022-11-11 13:04:18 +0000 UTC View PostHoly crap. Is it November already?
Progress
My normal job demanded a bit extra this week, and that stole a few evenings of development. Luckily it doesn't happen too often - I think this is the third time over two and a half years of making this it has. From 2023 that's ...
So, for the result of last week's poll, a whopping 74% of you want to set up the sidekick with one of the main girls of the story, 20% of you want a dedicated girl for him, 5% do not want him with any girl, and the last 1% doesn't need him in the game.
I still feel setting him up with a ded...
2022-10-28 12:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostI know that technically, Leap of Faith is released and done, but I got a chance to add four songs so I thought: heck, why not.
The songs will be added this weekend to the final release on Steam, and as a patch/full download for the current Patreon release.
The songs are all from Katri...
2022-10-21 12:02:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This part of development is mostly a render marathon, so it's basically just me posing scenes and sending them to the render queue. Rinse and repeat. There was still quite a bit of animation renders going through the machinery this week as the intro of u4ia is somewhat animation heavy, but that's...
2022-10-14 12:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis part of development is mostly a render marathon, so it's basically just me posing scenes and sending them to the render queue. Rinse and repeat. There was still quite a bit of animation renders going through the machinery this week as the intro of u4ia is somewhat animation heavy, but that's...
2022-10-14 12:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't even begin to tell you how much fun I'm having with the u4ia so far. In fact, I'm enjoying it so much that I forgot today was dev diary day, which is why this is a little later than normal for the update.
Though, as the new art style is hugely improved, it also takes longer to rende...
2022-10-07 13:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post