Sapphire Safari News

Okay, I know we are late. Lots of little annoyances happened during development causing the slowdown. Mostly the flu and other assorted things like that. Having said that we made massive leaps when it comes to our internal tools, and we can share with you all today an example of how our new sex system will work.

All of this will lead to our most significant change yet, a move to a fully open world.

[h3]Focus Target system update.[/h3]
This was a long time coming, but our focus system was not correctly giving players information on the targeted creatures. Now when you aim your focus the box showcasing the targeted creature will be displayed properly. We also changed the colors to highlight them better.


[h3]A new interaction system.[/h3]
Turns out our player characters have two working hands! This new system will make use of the previously unused left hand and allow the player to equip a variety of tools. Pressing the “Q” button will cycle between the tools available, for now, you can simply choose the “rock” tool which when pressing the “Left Mouse” button will aim and throw a rock. Eventually, this will be used to interact, distract, guide, and manipulate the creatures into various states and influence their needs to make better photos.


[h3]Version 3 of the Doll System.[/h3]
Oh lordy, this one was a doozy. We have a brand new animation system for all interactions in Sapphire Safari, that will also be used in other products we build. The very first iteration is now working within this build.

Please note that currently it is designed with Futa Characters in mind, so setting a higher spawn rate of Futa’s will lead to better results.

Okay so, how does it all work? Right now the AI has a few spots around the map they can enter and exit for the purpose of doing sexy things. A solo character will begin the chain, followed by a futa, and together they will go through animations. The timing, the length of the animations, the changes in speed, and when they “finish” is all decided by the characters in the moment. The next version we make will add more interactions, for group sex, female on female, and eventually onlookers.


We have massive plans for this system which will allow for orgies, unique interactions with plants and traps, using things for self-pleasure, using the player for things, etc.


Lastly, I wanted to take the time to let everyone know that we once again have had issues with getting PayPal working with our sales. It is a huge pain for us as PayPal as a payment option adds a whole lot. So thank you all for choosing to support us all the same. Our customers are very important to us, and we want this game to be the very best it can!

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We hope you enjoy the patch! Hopefully, v015 won’t take so long!

​It’s about time we talked about the birds and the bees, the hanky panky, the horizontal tango, the special wrestle. Yes, we talking about butt slapping, jaw stressing, ball milking, stomach filling, hole stretching sex. Specifically the amazing new overhaul of our Doll system.

We have gone through a lot of iterations on the Doll system, but it can be boiled down to a system that the game can automatically push NPC’s into realistic-looking sex animations, have them bang however they want, and fulfill their needs, all while being able to animate and move limbs, etc however they like. Then throw in the player being in this, allowing them to move NPCs how they like and ultimately craft and be a part of something really engaging.

Yeah, it is a lot to ask from a system.

It is also the reason we have been releasing something, then remaking it, releasing another, remaking it, etc, etc. The biggest issue comes down to expectations players have with what they need to do, along with making it look amazing.

So here we are. On the 4th iteration of the Doll system, I believe we have a winner!

Here is the first version of iteration 4 that we will be adding to Sapphire Safari. The animations you see here are all chosen by the system, they are mixed together organically and it allows for up to five total participants within one sex animation.

Full video can be seen here.

Allow me to explain just what is happening here. Each character in a scene is split horizontally in two, with the top and bottom halves capable of animating independently of the other. Also, characters can control their animation selection based on whatever we tell them. In Sapphire Safari, characters have a selection of “needs” which are based on how horny they are, how close to coming, how bored, how excited, etc. This will lead them to choose a base animation.

When a second character joins an existing character already in a sex animation, they choose an open slot (the example given in the video shows only one, but expect all orifices to be made available), they then choose an animation based on their needs, they enter the animation position and begin to animate as intended. The amazing part here is when they enter an existing animation they now take over control of whatever half of the body the slot they took is a part of. In the video above it is the lower portion of the pink character. But imagine in the future it could be the mouth, the anus, or the vagina of any character in a scene. A third character could use the anus or mouth of the blue character or the mouth of the pink. The only rule here is that new characters choose the animation the slot on the base character is going to play.



Oh and before you ask, yes, these will include face animations and such as well.



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Anyways, we are working hard to make this a reality, there are still a few bugs and stuff we need to work on to get it all smoothed out. However, it is also worth pointing out that this tech, is our unique system. We have also made it backward-compatible. Meaning all our previous and future Unreal Engine games will be getting this system. Yes, that means Elewder. Hope you all enjoyed this sneak peek! More to come!

Cheers,
Kinky

Okay, we heard you all, Sapphire Safari needed optimizations and it needed it two patches ago. We have a constant struggle, do we focus on building new content for the game, or do we refine the edges and make sure everyone who touches the game gets a great experience. Both take a lot of time, and we are committed to making sure we hit monthly releases. So version 013 is all about optimizations and quality of life fixes! Let’s begin!

[h2]Optimizations and Improvements[/h2]
The big update up first, optimisations. Our old testing environment consisted of older generation machines ranging from 7-5 years old. Naturally our testing conclusions assured us we were working well within limitations. But that was not the case. Modern GPUs and CPUs were running hot, and without proper testing we could never be sure of compliance. So we updated our main testing rig. We are now running an AMD Ryzen 9 7900 CPU, a 3800 TI GPU, and 32gb of DDR5 memory. With this rig we have been able to optimize the buggery out of our game. Check out the comparison from v012 and for v013.



We accomplished this in a couple of ways:

• A vast overhaul of LOD for foliage.
  
• A brand new lighting system for day time maps.
  
• Monster Girls not being rendered outside of the player's viewport.
  
• Dynamic Animation system meaning the further creatures are from the player the less bones they have and animations run at a much lower FPS.
  
• Physics for breasts, butts, ears, tails, etc are turned off once the player moves past a particular distance to the target.
  
• Along with a slew of much more minor tweeks targeting GPU rendering.
  

However this is the starting point of our work here, once you boot up Sapphire Safari v013 you will be asked to participate in the collection of game data to help us optimize for unique hardware along with any crashes or errors that might happen to your game. You can always opt out of this if you do not wish to have anything collected. That choice is always up to you.

Lastly in case of any save file shenanigans we have put within our systems options menu a save nuke button to completely erase any and all save data the player creates, since finding where that is located in order to troubleshoot player issues can be difficult.



[h2]Save Games[/h2]
New for version 013 of Sapphire Safari is the first pass on our Save Slot system. Now you will have a total of 3 save slots to choose from, each with their own progress, character choice, galleries etc. You can overwrite any of them by starting a new game, and future updates will include a lot more data/making it look more appealing as well.



Also the Monpedia system is back up and running again! In the future we are going to be building internal tools for better testing of the Monpedia system so we do not run into this issue again.



So that about sums up this build, lots of time and energy went into making sure this patch fixed so much for the community at large. If anyone has any issues or feedback for us, please get in touch via Discord. We are always ready to hear your inputs!

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Enjoy the patch!
Kinky

​Hello everyone! We are extremely excited to share with you all our first limited-time merch run! Sapphire Safari is our first game we felt comfortable enough building unique support items for so before time runs out be sure to grab your very own Sapphire Safari T-Shirt available only until April 5th, 2023!

Available in four awesome colors with plenty of size options!





​This is all thanks to our friends at Monsterbox for getting this setup, so grab this shirt while you can! https://monsterboxshop.com/products/sapphire-safari-relax-unisex-t-shirt?variant=44629934047519

Thank you all very much for the support!

For a very limited time, you can get your hands on the first official Sapphire Safari t-shirt! The print comes in four awesome colors and is made of a very comfy and durable material!

https://monsterboxshop.com/products/sapphire-safari-relax-unisex-t-shirt?variant=44629934047519

We have partnered up with Monsterbox to make this deal happen, but the shirt is only available until April 5th, 2023, so get in quickly or you will miss out on the deal!

We hope you love this shirt as much as we do!