Artemis DevLog (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

I was recently interviewed about myself and my work with Artemis and wanted to share this. It's my first interview and next one I do, I'll definitely write notes/points to questions ahead of time. Because I did drift from questions, going on some tangents lol. One question regarding AI can prob be skimmed as I noticed I repeated myself there.

But to that point, I did have a lot to say about AI and I'm glad the comment about it was left on last week's DevLog. Because it seemed pretty double standard (not the person specifically); the consensus seems to mark AI as bad because it steals/trains off other peoples work with no consent, yet for reasons AI music is okay. Like, don't steal someone's art, but their music is free rein. I'm not trying to single anyone out from last weeks comments, just using it as an example to my point. AI is very gray area and I feel a lot of people are quick to just write off AI. But more importantly, I share what I share with you guys because I'm wanting to show that I've gone through many pathways for music that support artists. And the sources have made it VERY difficult to want to use and support music from real artists. I don't have to have a kneejerk reaction to something, so you all can see the struggles that pretty much narrowed my options toward AI because as I state in the interview, with everything going on AI music is essentially allows me to use it however I want. Playing with a few tracks this week, I can craft tracks that better fit the mood of the scene.

As a creator, I felt it was important to show what I've been doing and how I landed on a decision, rather than immediately go the easy route. Because I still prefer hiring someone for music. I just prefer the collaboration and precise tweaking of a track (or anything creative) you get when working with someone. But for a general clubbing track or elegant piano for whatever the scene needs, AI music seems to fit the bill in this current environment of music and adult content. Anyway, I just wanted to expand more on it because of the current climate AI has in general.

In regard to development itself, I'm in constant review of things. Even to the days leading up to release. The current hurdle I'm working right now is the order of events. A lot of you point out the story's flow and that does give me a nice warm tingle inside because it's something that I mull over a lot. And this chapter I'm trying to make short because it's aimed at tying things up and setting up the stage for Book 3. But organizing the flow of events and giving these scenes room to breathe was a tough one. So much is happening across the span of 3 days, you kind of have to tweak things a bit to spread it out just a bit more. I'm being vague for a reason to avoid spoilers, lol. Each chapter covers roughly a week of story, but in this chapter there's three days where events happen that I had to re-organize to make them flow better.

Enough yapping though. I've stabilized the Sacred Timeline. Artemis will return in AVNgers Goonsday Chapter 8. Manwhore playthrough or you guys eyeing someone(s) specific for this chapter's going steady choice?

Stay hydrated and cool :)

p.s. - I double checked the video and shouldn't have problems showing. But in case it didn't, here's the link to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvu_mB97Pc4

♥ digi