Getting ready for Susan’s sex scene, your opinion about wrinkles and answering a few more questions
Hello, my dear FreshMen!
We’re getting ready for a big sex scene, and I want to share a bit of our process with you!
This time, we’ll be dealing with an absolute fan favorite, and a character fans have been begging to have a spicy scene with since Episode 1: Susan! Your favorite MILF will have a VERY hot scene in Season 2!
I’m personally very, very excited about this scene. Susan hits all the marks for me: great body, beautiful face and a sexy personality. Here’s our plan: a scene full of teasing, 30+ animation in 60 FPS, sex sounds, moaning, and light BDSM in a Mommy Dom/Brat Switch setting (if you know, you know ;) ). What do you say? What’s something you’d like to do to Susan? Please let us know in the comments!
In other news, last week, our team developed a new wrinkles tech! Now, our character's skin will wrinkle and fold according to their facial expressions (and age). Before we commit to this fully, I’d like to hear your thoughts about it. A few members of our team are very excited about this, while others are afraid that this can make some characters look older. I think we can reach a nice balance by taking age into consideration when we calculate how strong this effect will be. What do you think about it?
Watch our tech demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6eWJwlDgo
Changing the subject a bit, I noticed a few common questions in my last post, so I thought we could take a moment to answer them here:
Wasn’t Season 2 supposed to be released in 2023? Why is it taking so long?
Yes, Season 2 was supposed to be released in 2023!
We originally planned to release Season 2 in 2023, about a year after Season 1. This delay happened because we moved our production to Blender.
Originally, FreshWomen was made in Daz 3D, a very beginner-friendly 3D software, that served us very well for Season 1. Problem is, we hit a quality ceiling in Daz, and there wasn't any space to grow with it. There are A LOT of features missing in Daz, specially in animations.
For example, I animated most of Season 1, and it was entirely animated on Daz. Daz doesn't loop animations natively. If you try to do it with the tools available there, they'll come out choppy (as it happens in a lot of other AVNs). You know what I'm talking about, those looped animations where the animation slows down and speeds up right where it should loop. Our animations have seamless loop because we figured out a way to circumvent these issues (with a bit of math and a clever workaround). This took us weeks to figure out.
In Blender, to loop an animation seamlessly, you just need to press Shift+E on your timeline.
And this is just a very basic animation problem. There were features missing in render, clothing, hair, animation, posing, rigging, materials, SSS, basically, everywhere we looked, we had technical issues that wouldn't exist in Blender, and prevented visual evolution.
That's why we decided to move our production to Blender as soon as Season 2 started. Problem is, we had to basically redo almost everything, and train everybody. We redid characters, rigs, textures, hair, clothing, scenery, backend systems (like our render farm), and got our team up to speed.
This took a lot of effort and time, and made releasing Season 2 in 2023 impossible, but, in my opinion, it paid off big time. Look at a few renders on Season 2 side by side with Season 1, and you'll notice a big difference. Alyssa's scene in the pool, on Season 2, Episode 2 is my personal favorite.
Why do we have so many reviews? And why so many of them are from Asian countries?
This is actually a very good question, that doesn't get asked too often!
Originally, we were going to release Season 1 in English. But, a few weeks prior to release, Oppaiman made translations possible, and we translated FreshWomen to 14 different languages.
We thought these translations would increase sales a bit, but didn't expect it would have a huge impact. We were 100% wrong. Turns out, people love playing games in their native language, and China turned out to be our second or third-largest player base.
How much do we charge devs to publish their games at Oppaiman Store?
Nothing.
As of now, all payments are processed through Patreon, and go straight to devs.
In the future, we’ll implement new payment methods, so devs can reach markets that Patreon doesn’t support, and one time payments are available. Then, we’ll charge devs a 15% fee for this service and for the infrastructure we provide (store page, storage, fast download, marketing, etc). For comparison, other stores usually charge indie devs 30%.
That’s it for this week, guys!
Thank you for being with us, and for believing in our games!
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them in the comments!
See you soon,
f1r3
