Dev Diary - Issue #4
Greetings perverts, it's time to tear myself away from the sheer unbridled horror that is the Planet Surveys, and fill you in on what filthy things we've been up to these past 2 weeks.
This character is actually really critical to the story in the opening Chapters, and features prominently in a very early cinematic - as such we have swapped her and Taron around in the production schedule to enable our cinematics crew to be able to work with the model. I don't wanna reveal too much but her inspiration is a hefty mix between Guts from Berserk and a Terminator...so yep, you can imagine what kind of badass we're crafting here.
Badasses still need to look good though, so here's a WIP shot of her lip-gloss. The General's model should be ready soon at which point we will resume the normal waifu roadmap.
We're continuing to update our texture library and of course we need some gross-looking stuff for tentacles and the inside of Moneyshot's colon. This is well ahead of schedule and only a few organic textures remain, so our scenebuilding team of Beamwire and WTX are primed for the rest of 2019.
No StudioFOW adult product is complete without anime-style fight scenes that 90% of you will skip anyway, so naturally we are working hard on this part of the game. Taking a leaf from our filmmaking ventures, we've gone ahead and storyboarded these story sequences out, in order to give our animators the best possible foundation for success. You can find a sample of these boards below if you want to take a peek. Eventually these will be voice acted along with the rest of the game.
I will also be expanding the animator team to help cope with the increased cinematic load, so if you're interested in being part of our animation crew then start prepping those CV's! Please note that only exceptional candidates will be considered for this position, but if you don't have the required industry experience then you can still apply if your demo reel is amazing. More details on the posting to come next month.
The planet survey has eaten up almost all my time these past 2 weeks. Out of the 400 or so planet surveys about 80% of these had to be completely rewritten, so this is going to take way more time than initially I thought. Combined with the huge number of non-english speaking applicants (Writing your entire lore in Chinese doesn't help us, guys) we're looking at one big shitshow. Luckily I have recruited somebody to help me out with this so god bless my translator for taking this unholy bullet straight in the balls. We'll get there, buddy. Hang in there, and hold my hand. But no seriously, patience is appreciated as we get through all the surveys.
Out of the 57,730 backers only about 70 of you still need a key. This is down to things like typing "gogle" instead of "google" on email forms, and using throwaway emails - Fow-Chan will be contacting you to sort out the keys manually, but in case she doesn't feel free to email her at [email protected]
Please remember to activate your keys on Steam. This can be done by going to the Games tab then clicking Activate, and entering the code you have been sent. The fulfillment team has done an exceptional job with delivering everything (especially considering this is our first KS and we didn't use BackerKit) so please help them out by activating your keys and checking your spam folders.
On a personal note, this will be my last update until September - I am moving countries next month so our Senior Producer Mr. Kristoff will be stepping in to do the next 4 updates for you guys. Hopefully everything goes to plan and immigration doesn't throw me out for attempting to smuggle DEMI dakimakura prototypes across the border. See you on the other side!
-DC
The Corrupt General
This character is actually really critical to the story in the opening Chapters, and features prominently in a very early cinematic - as such we have swapped her and Taron around in the production schedule to enable our cinematics crew to be able to work with the model. I don't wanna reveal too much but her inspiration is a hefty mix between Guts from Berserk and a Terminator...so yep, you can imagine what kind of badass we're crafting here.
Badasses still need to look good though, so here's a WIP shot of her lip-gloss. The General's model should be ready soon at which point we will resume the normal waifu roadmap.
XenoEnv Textures
We're continuing to update our texture library and of course we need some gross-looking stuff for tentacles and the inside of Moneyshot's colon. This is well ahead of schedule and only a few organic textures remain, so our scenebuilding team of Beamwire and WTX are primed for the rest of 2019.
Cinematics
No StudioFOW adult product is complete without anime-style fight scenes that 90% of you will skip anyway, so naturally we are working hard on this part of the game. Taking a leaf from our filmmaking ventures, we've gone ahead and storyboarded these story sequences out, in order to give our animators the best possible foundation for success. You can find a sample of these boards below if you want to take a peek. Eventually these will be voice acted along with the rest of the game.
I will also be expanding the animator team to help cope with the increased cinematic load, so if you're interested in being part of our animation crew then start prepping those CV's! Please note that only exceptional candidates will be considered for this position, but if you don't have the required industry experience then you can still apply if your demo reel is amazing. More details on the posting to come next month.
Planet Survey
The planet survey has eaten up almost all my time these past 2 weeks. Out of the 400 or so planet surveys about 80% of these had to be completely rewritten, so this is going to take way more time than initially I thought. Combined with the huge number of non-english speaking applicants (Writing your entire lore in Chinese doesn't help us, guys) we're looking at one big shitshow. Luckily I have recruited somebody to help me out with this so god bless my translator for taking this unholy bullet straight in the balls. We'll get there, buddy. Hang in there, and hold my hand. But no seriously, patience is appreciated as we get through all the surveys.
Keys
Out of the 57,730 backers only about 70 of you still need a key. This is down to things like typing "gogle" instead of "google" on email forms, and using throwaway emails - Fow-Chan will be contacting you to sort out the keys manually, but in case she doesn't feel free to email her at [email protected]
Please remember to activate your keys on Steam. This can be done by going to the Games tab then clicking Activate, and entering the code you have been sent. The fulfillment team has done an exceptional job with delivering everything (especially considering this is our first KS and we didn't use BackerKit) so please help them out by activating your keys and checking your spam folders.
Moving
On a personal note, this will be my last update until September - I am moving countries next month so our Senior Producer Mr. Kristoff will be stepping in to do the next 4 updates for you guys. Hopefully everything goes to plan and immigration doesn't throw me out for attempting to smuggle DEMI dakimakura prototypes across the border. See you on the other side!
-DC