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0.7 Status Update #10

Hello, everyone!

This week we continued coding and post-processing renders. The first scenes are officially in and waiting for SFX! Next up will be some branch testing. The game is currently tracking a couple hundred variables that affect dialogue and scenes, sometimes with several options. Today's header cat, for example—you could only pet him if you previously selected "petting stray cats" as your favorite hobby on the introduction sheet. That also happens to be the option favored by Eve.

We also continued ...

0.7 Status Update #9

Hello, everyone!

We've had the first snowfall of the year today! Winter is almost here. Meanwhile, work on Summer Heat continues. Plenty of posing, some outfit testing for a future scene, working on some custom textures and painting normal maps.

We strive to have a natural progression when it comes to clothing and outfits, little changes here and there depending on the situation and time. And we've built quite a wardrobe by now so it is getting easier and easier to mix the clothes for the girls. But the easiest part is ahead, w...

Happy Halloween from Sophie!

"Trick or treat? I'd choose treat..." 

0.7 Status Update #8

Hello, everyone!

This week was mostly spent posing, scripting and working on new renders. There are a couple of big scenes in the 0.7 update and planning the screenplay for them does leave us feeling a bit intimidated. What if it's bad? What if you don't like it? That's always on our mind when creating content and it hasn't gotten any easier with time. However, we have gotten a lot more forgiving when it comes to little problems and perfectionism.

Our focus has always been strongly on the visuals, and that nasty scope creep is ...

0.7 Status Update #7

Hello, everyone!

This week went by pretty fast! We worked on some scripting, Freeplay segments and props. We were unhappy with a small sequence of renders, mainly thanks to a low quality prop we had that stood out a bit too much and was in the focus, so we made our own. A spray bottle. We made a spray bottle. And it will spray... water. Absolutely necessary!

We also worked on some other props and a UI for a camera. You might notice that it's not Player's camera this time around.

2024-10-18 23:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post

0.7 Status Update #6

Hello, everyone!

New week, new scene. This week we've been working on a scene with some returning characters who have been absent for a while. It's always nice to have some variety when working.

Soon there will be a timeskip straight to the evening and we'll get to do something fun—playing with fire! We've been creating the necessary props for this upcoming scene and they can also be used in the future. They turned out all right, simple props for simple use.

Here is our marshmallow and a grilling skewer for example:

0.7 Status Update #5

Hello, everyone!

We continued working on our custom props this week. We also finished an outfit for Cassandra, something casual that also fits her very well. Back in the early days we knew nothing about fitting clothes, and it shows. However, it is much easier nowadays and it's almost fun to see the progress sometimes.

We've also created new renders, scripted a little bit and worked on some dialogue.

This weekend, we're going to continue working on dialogue and do some basic scene scripting. We'll most likely start codin...

Bree Outfit Poll 2 - Player

Choose the color of Bree's running outfit! Note that each tier has its own poll, which means the final result might differ from what you see here.

0.7 Status Update #4

Hello, everyone!

We have a pretty casual week behind us. We posed, we designed and we scripted. A couple of props were also created and tweaked for upcoming scenes with the characters.

We've also been working on outfits. Mainly testing some ideas and seeing what might be fitting for the ladies. There was one idea which was nice but didn't pan out as it would've been too annoying to work with in the long run. Some clothes look really good in simple one-time renders, but once you start posing the characters and showing all the di...

0.7 Status Update #3

Hello, everyone!

Hope you all had a good week. This week we've been going through some of the assets and scenes needed for the production of 0.7. There's not much new in the design department this update, and the set we started recently is now finished. We also continued working on the Ms. Hill scene, which mostly involves making new renders and shaping her shirt around her curves. She has a tendency to burst through the clothes.

This weekend, we'll continue scripting and planning the next freeplay session...

Bree Outfit Poll 1 - Player

Choose Bree's running outfit! There will be two polls for this outfit, the second one with color options will be posted after this one ends. Note that each tier has its own poll, which means the final result might differ from what you see here.

0.7 Status Update #2

Hello, everyone!

This week we continued designing a minor set. A bathroom renovation, so to speak. It hasn't been seen in-game yet but its use has been implied and it will be more relevant in the game soon. We've also started working on a Ms. Hill scene. This scene will be taking place in a couple of different sets and will be our focus next.

We also picked the final outfit choice for Bree. In the next update, she'll have a scene which spans across several sets as well and it will take pla...

0.7 Status Update #1

Hello, everyone!

This week we began the production of 0.7. We have our new rig up and running and so far there haven't been any issues! We made a couple of test renders of the girls and all of them were well behaved without quality inconsistencies. After a few weeks, we'll know better how big overall improvement this will be when it comes to creating new content. Our initial impression is pretty good. We'll report the weekly render counts in the status updates for this cycle but we won't be including every single arm twist and head t...

August Special Render - Eve

"You want more? Come and take it, if you dare..."

0.6 Post-Update Thoughts

Hello, everyone!

Quick warning: this post may be longer than 0.6. It also contains spoilers.

It's time for some post-update thoughts and we'd like to preface this post by saying that yes, it seems like we fucked up with 0.6 in several ways. The biggest issue is the size of the update, and specifically how short the playtime ended up being. Coming from the light indoor sets of 0.5 to the heavy outdoor sets of 0.6, the render counts are also vastly different.

This update was very 2024-08-30 21:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Summer Heat - v0.6 Release

Hello, everyone!

The time for a new update has arrived!

The download links for 0.6 can be found here.

The update is now available for Player tier on Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. All versions except Windows are highly experimental and may contain bugs. If you happen to encounter any issues, please report them so they can be fixed and we can learn from our mistakes!

Version 0.5 will become become public this weeke...

Summer Heat v0.6 - Download

PC v0.6.1 (Windows & Linux) - Download link 1 (MEGA) - Download link 2 (Mediafire)

Mac v0.6.1 - Download link 1 (MEGA) - 2024-08-22 17:51:21 +0000 UTC View Post

0.6 Status Update - Final

Hello, everyone!

This week we have some good news and some bad news.

Let's start with the good news. This cycle we've had to learn how to work around some annoying issues. Next cycle, we'll have our new creation rig up and running to feed the rendering beast. This means both rigs will be running the same version of Daz3D, which should ideally eliminate all the consistency issues we've been experiencing and save Npx some crying. Key word "should."

The bad news is that this update will have a couple less renders of...

July Special Render - Mia

"If you could do anything in the world right now... what would you do?"

0.6 Status Update #39

Hello, everyone!

This week we worked on the extra content, some details, and filled in a gap that felt pretty awkward after playing the game through a couple of times. There aren't many who have seen the mess that is Summer Heat prior to polishing, and luckily you won't need to worry about witnessing it either!

There is still some rendering time left, as well as SFX and coding. Next week 50% of our team will also be gone for a week, from the 2nd to 10th of August. All the remaining rendering should be done by then, but we'll ha...

0.6 Status Update #38

Hello, everyone!

This week we'll start shifting our status updates to what they'll look like during the next cycle, which mostly means that bullet point lists are back! The text segments will also be shorter and focus more on the update numbers. We'll see what vibes and what doesn't.

There will also be a couple of questions about the status updates in the release survey, so be sure to check that out when the time comes.

We also locked on a decision to backpedal on our plans regarding update sizes and return to something r...

0.6 Status Update #37

Hello, everyone!

Another week of nitpicking is behind us! We finished the animations which means all the planned renders and animations are done for now. We've also been going over lots of little issues and changes. As the last batch of renders comes out of the queue, some problems are cropping up again.

One perfect example of these problems is eyes. The characters' eyes. There's been some strange fuckery happening when saving files to the render queue. When saving and checking that everything was all right, there would be no p...

0.6 Status Update #36

Hello, everyone!

This week we've been going through the update and working on scene transitions, SFX, coding and eliminating issues. We also made some little changes to the dialogue where necessary, and fixed poke-through in several renders.

We had a couple of bugs in one route where the dialogue would show when it wasn't supposed to. Easy fix, but there is still one more bug remaining that Rob didn't get to work the way we want it to yet.

Animation tests went well. Some work remains on the animations still, but it's most...

0.6 Preview: Sophie

June Special Render - Bree

"Just take off your clothes and jump in, I wont look..."

0.6 Status Update #35

Hello, everyone!

This week we've mostly been waiting for renders and animation frames to come out of the oven. We did some fixes here and there on the freshly baked renders, but nothing wild. A couple of animation edits remain, especially on a kissing animation. We got two of them in 0.6 and one of them has been hard to get right. Instead of making the animation loop, we'll try a non-looping version this weekend and see if that does the trick.

We also recorded some of our own SFX. Summer Heat will never be the same after these ...

0.6 Status Update #34

Hello, everyone!

This week we don't have much to talk about... except that we finished the planned renders! We also did a bit of coding and played through a couple of the scenes to see how we could improve the player experience. After the scenes are fully rendered out, we'll see if anything needs fixing. We know that the freeplay scene in 0.6 needs some love and there are still a couple of flawed renders here and there.

We're at the point where we could start to make some accurate guesses about when the update wil...

0.6 Status Update #33

Hello, everyone!

This week we finished up Eve's moment and continued working on the last remaining scene. There's not much left now when it comes to making renders and waiting for them to render out. The last scenes proved to be a proper headache to work with in many ways, but we're glad they're almost over now. We won't have to bash our heads against them anymore... at least for a while.

We also did a couple of render fixes, spot renders and clothing morphs for a better looking fit on Bree 2024-06-14 22:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post