Devlog #33: New year and Baseball bats (Patreon)

Happy new year everyone!Let's dive straight into this week's news.Almost all the lewd scenes are done, only Rikako's is still to do, but I'll tackle it when I get to it in the Apology path, since that's the only one that is exclusive to that path. When will that be? Pretty soon actually, since tomorrow I'll start working on the big final scene of the Fight path.This setpiece has been quite interesting to work on. The weird lighting has brought some challenges (and some renders that I'll need to redo), I had to learn how to customize textures of both clothes and items (which will come EXTREMELY handy for the sequel) and had to make custom billboards (basically 2D stands of characters to use in the background without killing my CPU). Despite that I kinda breezed through it and had a lot of fun with it.The only thing that bothered me was having to cut out an otherwise good idea. Basically, I wanted the love interest to help the MC if you were on a solo path, but for the life of me I couldn't make it work for half the cast, despite spending over a month thinking about it. It would've been cool having Sarah hack elevators or Alex kicking some Fujikawa goons in the face, but alas, I didn't know how a nurse, an intern and a desk jockey could help.If everything goes according to plan, I'll finish rendering the Fight path this weekend, the Apology path next week and then I'll ram my head against the creative wall that is the Legend path. Then there will be the usual week of coding (and writing the dialogue for the sex scenes).Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to fetch my old Yakuza 3 save file to replay the final fight. For inspiration purposes....See you next week!