FreshWomen - Season 1 News

Hello, my dear FreshMen!

I’m very excited today! We had A LOT of progress this week, and there’s a lot to tell you!

Firstly, you were very hyped about the Deluxe Edition, so I went to work right away to see what we could deliver in a timely manner. Our most popular extras for the Deluxe Edition were: Digital 3D Printable Statues of Characters, and Skins. Those are also the most technically challenging items in the list, so we started with them!

I talked to a lot of 3D Sculptors this week, to find those that would give us the best result possible. Two of them are already lined up, and will start working on statues next week.

We’ll start with a Julia Statue, and, if there really is a demand for them, we’ll produce more.

If we confirm there’s a demand, we’ll be able to create a few of them for the Deluxe Edition. You’ll choose which characters, of course, as well as their pose and clothing style!

This week, I want you to pick your favorite outfit for Julia’s Statue! Let us know in the comments!

Now, about the skins. We made a quick and dirty Proof-of-Concept this week, to validate our hypothesis, and, while it did work way better than expected, there are still a few technical things we have to perfect before I can tell you for sure that it’ll be possible.

If works, you’ll be able to select character skins in a few scenes every episode. We’re working very hard to make it possible, but it’s important that we keep our expectations in check.

There’s a reason most 3D Visual Novels don’t have skins, and it’s because it’s a difficult and complex process, full of moving parts and intricacies.

Having said that, I’m very, very excited about this! It’ll be an amazing new piece of tech that we have mastered, and it’ll improve player experience in all our games. We’ll do our best to bring skins to you!

We’re also making steady progress on Season 2, and Susan’s sex scene is coming out beautifully! I’ll bring you screenshots starting next week. I think this scene will be one of our best scenes, and can’t wait to share more with you!

What a week, huh! This was an amazing one! A lot of work done, a lot of new tech coming, production flowing. It amazes me how much our team is capable of. A team filled with talented and passionate people is unstoppable, and this week proves it. We started the week with scary challenges on our table, and finished Friday dominating them!

Thank you so much for your support, and for making it all possible! Together, we’re making incredible things!

See you soon,

f1r3

Hey FreshMen,

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Content:

• Alyssa: 11 videos and 39 images
  
• Chloe: 23 videos and 34 images
  
• Devilla: 5 videos and 5 images
  
• Gabby: 21 videos and 59 images
  
• Julia: 4 videos and 8 images
  
• Lily: 5 videos and 6 images
  

Hello,my dear FreshMen!

We're working hard on Susan's sex scene for FreshWomen - Season 2, and I want to check your opinions on something.

We never had a character that had pubic hair in FreshWomen. This was a decision we took because of a poll we made long ago, that showed our player base at the time preferred the full shaved look.

However, since then, our player base has grown a lot, and I want to know if this decision still holds, or if you'd like us to experiment with this concept a bit more. Susan is a mature, sexy and very elegant woman, so I think this could add a lot to her personality.

What do you think?

In other news, we’re thinking about creating a Deluxe Edition of our games! Deluxe Editions are a great way to give our hardcore fans more content, reveal a bit more of the behind-the-scenes processes, and create a new way to support your favorite games. They also add to the experience of the players who want them, without decreasing the experience of players who want to play the Standard Edition.

What do you think?

We brainstormed a few potential features for this Deluxe Editions, but would love to hear your thoughts! Here’s what we came up with:

• Digital Statues of your favorite character: Absolute quality 3D models of your favorite characters, complete with a dynamic pose, textures and base. We currently don’t have the infrastructure needed to offer physical statues, however, these files will have enough quality for you to 3D print them, should you want to.
  
• A Digital Calendar: A digital calendar with lewd images of your favorite characters. This would be distributed as extra quality files, so you can print it or use it as wallpapers.
  
• Wallpapers with exclusive art: Gorgeous wallpapers of your favorite characters, with graphic design, easter eggs, and exclusive art. They could be lewd or SFW.
  
• Digital Art Book: Digital art books of our games, with amazing illustrations, behind the scenes facts about characters, a full character sheet, walkthrough, and detailed explanations about the design process of each of our main characters.
  
• Skins: being able to change clothes of a few characters during a few scenes.
  
• Storyboard version: play the game in the same way we play it when we’re planning our releases! This quick and quirky illustrations of our characters serves as the base for our updates, and you’ll be able to see our games in a whole new light!
  
• Other features: Let us know in the comments!
  

Is this something you’d be interested in? Which of these features would you like the most? And which of these you disliked the most? Let us know in the comments!

I also want to ask you another question: how frequently do you want these posts?

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been updating you weekly on the status of the development of Season 2, asking your opinion about different topics, and showing more of our processes.

Do you want these updates to continue? If so, should we do them in a weekly, biweekly or monthly basis?

Let us know in the comments below!

As always, thank you for your support, and for helping us create these amazing games! It’s always a pleasure to have you with us!

See you soon,

f1r3

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:



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.



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.



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