Status update Episode 4 (Patreon)

I had a great and productive week that was mostly spent on coding apps and free-roam events.

One free-roam event, for Derek's branch, is complete and 95% of the code for all apps is done (which was the huge progress this week).

It always takes a bit of extra time creating new environments for free-roam and new scenes in general.  In Episode 4 there will be unique and new free-roams based on the choices you made in Episode 3.

Something that I always wanted to improve upon, but didn't have the time for, until now, was the Chat app.

This week I added a new app to the in-game phone, named Swyper. It's a dating app and here's a sneak peek.

The chat  functionality that I created for Swyper has also been applied to the Chat app (Episodes 1-4).

Here's how it looks now, note that Chat and Call apps have been merged into a single app named Contacts, too.

I can now make Chat dialogue programmatically instead of using Photoshop for it and this will let me add more content to the Chat app faster than before.

You don't have to replay the game for this new functionality. However, you will miss out on viewing the history of your past choices in the Chat app, but you're already used to this with the current design (v0.3.1).

I haven't posed a lot of renders this week, as the render queue has been fairly big I just let the PCs do their work while I wrote code and designed other art.

One animation that took 12 days to render, the winner of the Teen vs Milf poll, was completed this week and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

So far, I've produced 74 animations and ~1000 renders for this update.

I will have to go back to posing animations soon, as there are ~15 animations in the queue and many left to produce.

All in all, it feels like I'm making good progress!

Playing the Episode in its current state gives me a good feeling that Season 1 will be wrapped up just as I wanted it to be.

Happy Halloween!

Dr PinkCake