Hi everybody!

After many delays, here is the new version of Glassix 2. This version focus on the Newbit scenario story however I might have to disappoint some of you since the new content can be played in less than 5 minutes if you take the time to read everything. This is due to the complexity of writing events in Glassix 2 compared to Glassix. In 2D, I just had to pose characters, save the image and add the text. With 3D, this process is more complex since I need to adjust animations, face expressions, position in the room, camera angles and more... Add on top of that the needed time to add new buildings, locations and furniture each with their own texture to organize. Well, that's several days of work just for that. The fact that I don't master the whole process yet also adds to the needed time. However with time comes experience and I also plan to create tools to make everything much easier to handle thus making adding content much easier, for me and for players. More details in a future post this month.

Besides the story, I've also added some nice boobs physics and focused on making the game less of a hassle, learning from our experience with Glassix, though the way Glassix 2 plays is different.

First, to make things easier on the players, I've added some buttons to quickly go to objectives and I've added the quick skip feature when holding the CTRL key. I've also adjusted loading screen so they properly wait until everything is loaded in the room before disappearing.

Secondly, I've been looking into making locations less empty, starting with the new restaurant location. There's still some work to make it better but that's a first step in this direction. Unfortunately, I did not have time to fill other locations with more furniture but that'll come.

Overall, this new version doesn't bring too much for the player but it should give you a better idea of where I'm going with Glassix 2. Some of you mentioned the game looked a bit like another 3D H game named Lifeplay which was right but with this new version and seeing how the Newbit scenario unfolds, I want to show you that Glassix 2 will offer some proper story line similar to Glassix, unlike Lifeplay where you are a bit lost in what you should do in the game. Glassix 2 will offer both nice stories with scenarios and for those who prefer freedom, the Free mode will let you play in any city and set you own goals, though you'll have some optional side objectives to complete to earn karma and unlock more spells.

I apologize again for all those delays and hope you'll enjoy the new content. Let me know if you encounter any bug in the game!

Have a nice day!

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Here is the new version of Glassix 2 in which I focused on the skill, skill experience and actions features.

Regarding skills, the process is pretty standard, gain xp while doing certain actions and once you have enough xp, you level up automatically. Having higher skill level will give better job opportunities and will often be used in events to check if an action succeed. They are dependent on the attributes of the character, meaning if your character has shitty attributes, he won't be able to level up the skill to a very high level and will be stuck in mediocrity! But luckily, that's where magic comes to the rescue and will help make the game easier even for normally lost causes :D 

Glassix 2 is aimed at being a simulation which reflects real life (with a drop of magic) which means normally, skill xp will be earned very slowly, usually taking 10-15 years to level up to max level, something close to real life if we want to be considered a master in a certain skill (Depends on the skills though but for simplicity, I set all skill at the same level. Though it's easily possible to edit values in the XML files to better reflect reality). Some skills, spells or items will make this process much faster and cumulates so you could be 2-3 times faster than normal (again, this boost can be changed easily in the future if players want to customize to their own preferences) and add to that the mentor feature, such as teacher for students or a trainer at the gym which can boost up to 3 times again the value, depending on the skill of the mentor again. Depending on the scenario, it might be useful to take some classes before finding a good job :D

Now, I already anticipate the kind of grind this can bring, similar to what we have in Glassix and I plan a simple feature to skip several days or weeks or months at once,  to reduce the grind and getting large returns, be it in quick money from your salary or skill xp from working, though less than if you had been going day by day. A simple character focus to this would also allow you to pick up some citizens you'd like to befriend or make more obedience during this process so the grind will be reduced even more. I still need to organize my thoughts on this to make it work flawlessly but I'm letting you know just as a heads up ;)

Back to the slot bar feature, you can now change the actions in the slot bars. This time, I tried to make it more engaging than my other panels with some drag and drop (yeah, basic feature I know but still new and interesting to code for me). There are two different slot bars, one in city mode and one while inside a location, each having their own actions coming from basic actions, spells, work and more in the future. I'll add multiple slot bar to both interfaces in the future when there are more actions which can be switched with the usual up/down arrows so players can organize that better when one slot bar won't be enough.

Finally, I've added some basic hire/fire/promote buttons inside the business panel if are working in said business and if your job allows you such actions. At the moment, NPCs won't react to such actions at all, similar to setting up the city in Free mode. I plan to add actual slot bar hire/fire/promote actions so we can get specific events related to the target skills, personality and what not with different reaction such as refusal if they have a better job or don't like you and so on. Lots of possibilities there but I was too short on time this month due to Chinese New Year (Yeah, I get both Christmas and Chinese New Year being French and living in China lol).

The UI is currently still barebone, notably for the slot bar edit panel (I was planning to add a filter to the list but considering the number of current actions, I decided to wait until there are more). I do plan to improve the existing UI later on but not a priority at the moment.

The basic and most urgent features of the game being mostly done, I'm planning to organize a poll next week to let you decide what actual content you want in next version.

Let me know if you have some feedback regarding those new features. Thanks for your time and support!

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So, here is the new version for Glassix 2 which simply introduce money to the game. Though it's just about money, there's quite some stuff going on behind such as the addition of building and business ownership which will be expanded on later on too. At the moment, owning stuff impact who will receive rents for buildings, and who will receive business members fees and pay employees salaries.

I've added those basic information in the Businesses panel and the Citizen panel so that everything is clear. I've also made it work for both modes: Scenario and Free mode. While in scenario, initial owners will be specified by the scenario and it might be possible to change during game if the scenario allows it. In Free mode, you'll be able to directly change ownership of the map buildings in the Citizen panel so if you want to own everything, no need to cheat, just go Free mode and get unlimited money :D

The UI is currently really blend. Since there's still a lot of stuff to add, I'll keep it blend to get a better idea of what we'll have and once done, I'll update the UI to make it prettier and more user-friendly.

I had less time to work on that due to Covid this month but overall, this new version introduce the basics of the full economy feature I'd like to add to the game to make it more complex and fun to play, feeling you actually achieve stuff and progress. In the future, I'll also add a new unique job, mayor, which will unlock even more actions to control stuff in the city such as building and business taxes and such though it's not a priority but something interesting to keep in mind.

I realize the current game is still not very interesting to play. I will still have to push your patience a little more with next version to add skill experience feature and jobs actions so that all the minimum necessary basic features of the game are done and then I'll be able to focus on actual game content, progress the Newbit scenario, add more sex animations, more interactions and events...

I apologize again for the lack of communication those last two months and thank you for your patience, understanding and support!

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I'm a bit late with this one, partly due to some assets corruption which forced me to reset art of the project files. I also took some time to add a few quality of life stuff in the game. Let's review the changelog a bit.

I've added more occlusion textures in the game which should improve the visual quality of the game. Some of the texture might be a bit quirky, making stuff really dark even in bright lights which will need some fix but overall, it should increase texture details. I've also fixed an important bug which prevented light to behave properly. Now light should not ignore walls.

Not really graphical related but it'll reduce the number of sub titles, I've added a few animations and started some tests with animation blending. You'll be able to see the result with teachers teaching their class. 4 different animations are blended to make a randomly unique animation which changes a bit with each loop. I'm hoping to achieve a semi random type of animations this way which would make NPCs less rigid in the end. It's still a bit quirky but it does show some potential to make things more lively in the game in the future. It does take some time to produce though so it'll come little by little.

Male hair even been decimated reducing its vertices count which should reduce CPU and GPU usage. Occlusion and specular maps have been packed to reduce additional memory usage and I've also looked into some core graphical options such frame rate control which did reduce CPU/GPU usage even more but I forgot to enable it, my bad :x I'll add it in next version.

A few new buttons and some behind the scene code have been added to make it easier to look around in locations. 

First, camera movement, rotation and zoom speeds are now tied to how zoomed in your are. It might be a bit tricky yo get used to at first but it makes it much easier to move around the interesting parts when zoomed in ;) It was way too fast before when zoomed in. It does mean we have to zoom out if we want to move faster though which downside should be reduced by the new camera focus button inside locations which allows the player to quickly move the camera to any character in the room and focus on a body part. Still about camera movement, you should now be able to move with WASD (or ZQSD for french players, currently based on Windows language) on top of the arrow keys.

Next would be the new auto hide button. Several players got confused as to why furniture was disappearing randomly. I've now disabled the auto hide by default and the player can enable it with this new button. Furniture gets hidden when it blocks the view relative to the current camera position and zoom.

Not really useful for the player yet, but I've started to change some logic to make various aspects of the game interact with each other more easily and in a similar way, namely, tags. The idea here is to have the various game entities (characters, jobs, residences, furniture, outfits and so on) use tags and entities which can interact with other will have another set of tags to know which tags they can interact with. I hope that was clear (lol). To give a practical example making more sense, let's take the case of what a player character could do in a room. When a teacher is teaching in a class, students should be able to look at the teacher or the whiteboard, while the teacher would look at random students at random interval to make things more life like. Students would have a student tag and the teacher would have a teacher tag. The blackboard would have a board tag. Then, students would search for characters or furniture with tags teacher or board as a target to look at, while the teacher would search for student tag to look at. By changing the tag of character and furniture and the tags they search for, I'll be able to easily have them look at whatever I want. We could even add some kind of appearance tag, determining if a character is pretty or ugly, and would have a character with the pervert trait only look at the pretty tag rather than the tag he should normally look at. In this example, tags are used to search for a look target, but it could be used more easily as a filter in the several UI lists used the game such as the characters interfaces to filter. It could also be used to describe outfit and use those tags for characters outfits preferences on top of the audacity parameter we had in Glassix 1. In the end, this new hidden feature allows to standardize the logic of several entities making it easier to maintain code in the future and once editors are available to add content in the game, tags will help classify stuff much more easily and with more freedom than some rigid piece of code, which is often an issue happening when games gets too big and poorly organized early on.

That's about it for this version! Even if graphics could and will still need work, I still feel like the game has been worked enough on optimization and better graphics in the latest months which finally leaves me room to focus on proper gameplay content so you can actually interacts with the city and your waifus (or slaves :D) in the future. 

For v0.10, unlike what I had planned before, I won't be releasing a poll to let patrons vote for content because I'm afraid the result won't align with what I think is urgently needed in the game (I assume it would be more sex content or naughty spells lol). I'm planning to implement the money system, with salary, rent and more stuff related to money in general. I'll resume monthly poll once the game content the minimum features required to be enjoyable to play without extra content. I'll let you know more about that once asap.

As always, thank you all for your patience and support and I hope you'll enjoy this new version. Let me know if you encounter any issue with it!

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This is it!

Glassix 1 has, as of today 30th of October 2023, reached its complete version v1.0! After 7 years of monthly releases and faithful support from you all, I've managed to reach the goal! I've already updated the credit page at the start of the game to share my feelings about it but that's one line I'm happy to reach. Even more considering the -slight- mistake in my calculation regarding missing images, where I had announced 450+ images. Well, turns out I forgot to multiply that by 3, since we had 3 missing outfits (The 450 was actually for only 1 outfits per girl) and then the 50+ images per girls was also slightly off, it turned out to be closer to 60-70 images. All in all, that's 1800+ images added in this version. Sure, it's only duplicated content but it still took several days to take care of it. Not a situation I hope to be in again.

Anyway, this v1.0 does mean the end of my work on Glassix, except for some possible bug fix or other missing images or events which might still be present in this version. I've only given access to the full download to make sure every player plays the proper latest version with its latest content since I might have messed up previous patches so better make sure to start fresh. I'll keep my hears and eyes open for any bug report or issue you report for the game but except that, Glassix reached its end. Though I say Glassix, I mean Glassix 1. With Glassix 2 on the way, you'll still be able to have fun with Lily and Anael (once I had a proper prologue to the game) and possibly in the future, see some Glassix 1 girl make a come back to Glassix 2, maybe the full game? I already received questions about this, nothing is sure at the moment, Glassix 2 is closer to a simulation adult game engine than a VN or simulation game, at least that's my goal. When I'm done with that, it'll be possible to create various stories easily meaning we could technically migrate Glassix 1 into Glassix 2, but that's not my goal at all with Glassix 2 so be aware of that.

I feel more relieved than proud with this new version actually. When I started Glassix back in 2016, I had lots of ideas and I implemented quite a lot of them. Being able to control girls was one of the important aspect I wanted to deliver and I think it is not too poorly implemented with the ability to have them follow, summon, teleport or pimp them (Yeah, I know not everybody like to share their waifus but it's all about giving choices and liberty to the player, just because it's in the game doesn't mean you have to do it). Spells were another aspect I had to limit such as time stop or possession being simple events rather than full gameplay control. And the outdated graphics made me wish I had started the project just a few months later when a better version of Illusion Studio with better graphics went out. But at that time, Glassix already had quite a lot of content done and I didn't feel the courage to update all that. Overall, I wish I could have delivered a better quality game but it is what it is, no point in worrying about the past, let's look forward to the future. All those issues I had with Glassix and 2D, I'll overcome with Glassix 2 and 3D even though 3D involves a lot more complicated stuff than 2D, a lot more aspects to consider when creating the game and I've been advancing slowly, but surely. I have no doubt I'll be able to deliver an even better game with Glassix 2 with enough time.

Ok, I'll have to stop with the pondering now and once more thank you all for making this game possible. I wouldn't have gone so far without your support. Don't hesitate to share the game online once it goes public wherever you can or talk about it, the more exposure the better!

Thank you all and enjoy the game!

Hi everybody!

Well... This one took longer than expected, again :/ So many issues between some third party plugins crashing the game then followed by even native Unity plugins not working after update which delayed me even more... So many back and forth here but I got most of the issues out of the way and this release should be playable though with some quirks which I'll fix in a patch later on.

Anyway, from my last troubleshoot help request, some of this new stuff was already done: New Global Illumination system which still needs some works but should better lit indoors, some update with hair shaders which is still ongoing but should improve visuals (Currently, only female hair have been properly updated and I'll need to update male hair as well as outfits, locations, furniture and character skins shaders to work with additional textures to give better visual (occlusion, specular and sub scattering skin). There was also a new day/time system which is also a bit quirky currently but I'll adjust that over time too. And some nice water effect on the city map too.

Now for what I've been doing this month, I've added some loading screens when changing locations (I'll add those too in editors too asap) and added some mouse highlight over buildings to see better what is interactable (both were requested additions and made sense so don't hesitate to shoot more ideas). Finally the biggest part, the Free mode allowing you to finally inject your own character cards in any city, choosing the jobs and residences of those citizens. There is also a citizen randomizer which allows you to populate the city with generic citizens using a few options, such as a body template, gender ratio and age average for example. More options will be added in the future to fine tune this process to create your dream city. But you should already be able to create your own harem with a city full of young girls with one male lead :) Once you've set up your city, you can choose any male citizens to play. It's currently limited to male as players but will be expanded to include female too in the future, it'll need more work on animations and interactions to work this way.

The current process to set up a Free mode city is to select your own custom citizens first, choose their jobs and residences second, then add random citizens last. The process is a bit clickity at the moment but I'll add some ways to reduce this hassle. 

Anyway, this should give you a better idea of where Glassix 2 is going. Unlike Glassix, you'll be able to create your own cities and own events in the future to live whatever adventures you want, not only the ones I'll have created, and of course, be able to share those easily so that you can have something new to play pretty often. It's still a long way to get there, but I'll get there eventually.

This update took much longer than expected, sorry about that. Unity has been quite annoying to work with those last 2 months with problems cumulating and taking time to fix. But it's still easier to work with than Glassix 1 engine overall so I won't complain that much.

That's about it for v0.8. let me know what you think about this new addition! Thank you for your patience and support!