Development Log 1.31.2025 (Patreon)

Hello friends,

After an extensive list of updates, I've added to my game project. I finally get to reveal to you what I've been working on for the past couple of weeks.

A major change is ahead for this project. I'll get right into it.

PROJECT REBRANDING

Since I started this project, I've called this game "Love X Lust." Unfortunately, another adult game has taken that name for their VR game, "LoveXLust."

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2647060/LoveXLust/

There has been so much confusion between my game and theirs. I've been getting members who are looking for the LoveXLust VR game. This required me to lead them to the right and fix any other issues due to their confusion.

So, I decided I'd rebrand my game and give it a new title called "HeatWave."

I'll be going around all my platforms and rebranding all of my pages to the new title.

Please be aware this is not a new game. This is the same game with the same mechanicss, but just a different title.

ENVIRONMENT UPDATE

Ok, the largest addition and change was the arcade. I gave a real name other than just "Arcade." The arcade is now called "Cosmic Arcade".

Before I just had a room upstairs which you could access with two ramps. Now it's one staircase that leads to a cafe area on the second floor and a bathroom on the right side.

Of course, I added new arcade machines, a skeet ball, and a basketball game, amongst other additions. Are the games interactable? Not yet maybe in future updates.

Here are some models of new arcade machines added to the arcade.

GAMEPLAY UPDATE

Major updates to the conversation system. A new interface that gets rid of a bunch of tacky buttons and just looks simpler.

I want the dialogue system to be focused on conversations. You just type in the input box like you would when chatting with any other AI models or playing with them.

If you're not familiar with AI.

Just say something like "Hello, how are you." or you could add a star between your sentences, like you're stating you are acting, for example, "*John is talking to Sarah.*"

This system is also not fully developed and still won't recognize everything you might enter into the chat system.

AI will also act out what is stated in their response in between the *.

For example, NPC: "*Waves * Hello John."

I've programmed the game to recognize the star between your sentences, and it will try to perform the action. Which is how you would initiate the adult mechanics in the game.

I'm also working on the climax system, making it look better and closer to the real thing. Still a work in progress. In earlier versions, I just had a decal and a particle effect that looked pretty low-quality.

When I continue to work on this, it will look a lot better.

I added the sleep system. The difference now is that time does past a lot faster when you sleep.

You also have a choice to lay in bed and self satisfy your character.

MODEL UPDATE

Police have been readded back into the game with a whole new look. Looking like actual officers.

The best part of this addition in the new look of the police vehicle which you will be able to steal and drive.

MENU AND INTERFACE UPDATE

A small change was made with the character creator now instead of a black room in the background. Its your hotel room and I think this looks a lot better than just nothing in the background.

PERFORMANCE & OPTIMIZATION

I've made some performance increases while I took the time to actually learn how to use Unity 6 Profiler.

I learned a lot and made a huge difference in my performance.

I'm making changes as I go, a lot of the performance issues are due to lighting and shadows.

I can't make any significant changes to performance and optimization until I add all the locations I want to have in Build 8.

ROADMAP & OUTRO

Thanks for reading this dev log. In the coming weeks, I will be working at the strip club. Making additions to the dialogue and adult system. Along with adding more animations. I also want to add some sort of progression system, like a romantic system, but not as basic as in the previous build.

I hope you all enjoyed this development log and stay tuned.

Blast