Dev Log - March 2026 (Patreon)

Hey all,

Time for a monthly dev log and this one’s probably going to be a long one so strap in. For the sake of those who haven’t played it yet, I’ll save any Chapter 9 spoiler talk until the end.

Vacation

I’m going to be taking a much-needed vacation to Hong Kong from March 30th until around April 13th ish. Other than a couple of long weekends away, this is our first real vacation since January 2020… also to Hong Kong… and we all know what happened in China in January 2020 (much to our surprise when we landed). So, let’s hope this time isn’t as stressful and terrifying.Naturally, that means I won’t be online so much during this time, but I do have some special and custom renders scheduled to post during that time, and I’ve got my VPNs ready so I can still get on discord and stuff (because China). It also means that any custom renders due around that time, I won’t be able to make a start on until I get back. So, thanks for your patience.

Also, there’ll be no silly April Fools stuff from me this year, I just don’t have time to prepare anything in advance.

New PC

Yes, the time of worrying about running out of HD space every day or lagging whenever I move a camera or a model’s body part has finally ended. No more taking at least a minute to open each folder and subfolder in my asset library. No more constantly running out of VRAM whenever I’m doing an Iray preview and having to reboot Daz.

I’ve gone and bought myself another new PC to do all my posing on.

You’ll probably know that I already had a pretty decent PC just to do all my rendering on. It’s not an absolute beast, but it serves its purpose. This one is basically the same PC, only everything a tiny bit better… except the storage space which is a LOT better.

Now I face the problem of running out of space on the render rig as the posing PC’s daz asset drive automatically syncs to the rendering PC’s drive, which is only a quarter the size. But that will be easily fixed with a new SSD in the render rig in the near future.

This is going to make posing, and my life in general, so much easier. It’s going to be a heavy hit on the wallet for the next year as I’m doing a “buy now, pay nothing until March 2027” plan. And like I did with the render PC, I’ll aim to pay it all off over the next year monthly before I start having to pay interest. Either way, it’ll be so worth it. And I wouldn’t be able to do it without the support you guys give me. So, thank you!

Chapter 10 Update

Still working hard on the Chapter 10 update and I still have three big scenes (with variations) and a bunch of minor scenes to go. Render count so far is 730. As for the less spoilery content that you’ll see… so far, MC will be spending a significant time with Moonsong who’s his designated trainer for most of the day, getting a little more acquainted with Celeste, briefly meeting a minor new character and, yes, our first real interaction with Coldsnap. There’s much more, but we’ll keep that quiet for now.

Steam Update

Just a quick update on this front. By the time I return from my vacation, the translation I have been waiting on should be complete. So, when I come back I can go full steam (no pun intended) on getting the Steam release out.

Now, from here on, there are going to be HUGE SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 9, so if you haven’t played it, it’s time to stop reading. You have been warned.

Chapter 9 Talk (and what it means for the story going forward) - MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING

Before I go on, let me first address where my mind was at when I wrote that dream sequence. I’m a big fan of comic book properties (though not necessarily comic books themselves – though I did have a brief run with them), and one of my favourite comic book tropes is the bleak apocalyptic future where some loved characters haven’t made it, or some have taken dark turns, and some alliances are surprising. So, I wanted to do something similar to that.

In terms of the reception to the dream sequence, though there has been a handful of naysayers, for the most part it has been exactly what I wanted, which was pretty much “HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THAT WAS AWESOME BUT I NEED A DRINK”. In fact, the reception to it has been so positive that it’s kinda giving me anxiety about what people are expecting from Origin Story going forward. So, that’s why I feel like I need to address a few things to temper some expectations, while skirting around spoilers as I often do.

Firstly, let me address a simple question I keep seeing. Which of these new girls you see in the future are going to be appearing in the present?

There are some that you will NOT be seeing as “fuckable” characters simply because they are alternate universe cameos from other games and developers I respect. I shouldn’t have to explain why it’s disrespectful to have my MC do lewd things to other developer’s characters… as much as I’d love to… especially with this first one...

·       Jenny (Office Perks by Amomynous Games) – Jenny has already been in the present storyline. She’s the speedster who works for Anna and Arwen. And yes, I know, she’s unrecognisable with both her eyes visible, right?

·       Summer (Summer in the City by FlipDaShit)

·       Emily (Dragon of Calon Valley by FireValleyGames)

·       There’s also a Kimberly referenced as the former doctor who left to “go where the dick is”, this is Dr. Kimberly from The Power of Truth by DogCat Studio.

If you want to see lewd stuff with those characters, just go and check their games out instead.

Next, for characters who you won’t be seeing as love interests because of their age. Niamh is 23. If the dream takes place 15 years from then, that will make her 8 in the present. Just no.

And while it is not explicitly stated, nor do you actually see her, Yua is referred to as “the girl” because she is young. So young, in fact, she wouldn’t even be alive in the present.

So, that leaves Ruby & Takako, both in their early thirties in the future, who could potentially make appearances. And I’ll say no more about that.

And now, what is this vision going to mean for the MC going forward. There’s been a whole lot of talk about who MC is going to talk to about his vision of the future, but not as much about… was it even real? Even if it is, is it a vision of a future that is certain, or just a potential future that can be avoided?

What I will say is, yes, MC will be telling someone about it, and a plan is set in motion to figure out if it was even real before he concerns himself too much with it. Regardless, it will still be playing heavily on his mind, as it should. But at the same time, the next chapter is just the next day in his life, and not everything is going to happen immediately.

The same goes for the Evelyn & Amber situation (if you even had it) and why that situation even happened in the first place. Groundwork is briefly laid to addressing it, but it’s not going to happen straight away.

Ultimately, what I’m getting is, please don’t expect resolutions to everything immediately. And bear in mind that the MC is young, horny, and frankly a bit dumb at times. He’s not only struggling with the fact that he might end the world as he knows it, but also if he tells the wrong people about it, he might lose all the relationships he has been building.  

Basically, he won’t suddenly be pushing all the girls away and going celibate, because that doesn’t make for a very good “adult” novel. But he will be treading a little more cautiously.

I can’t say much more about it than that, so I’ll leave it there.

Catch you next time!