April 10th 2024: Progress Report

Oh god it's already April it's-

Alright, let's skip that to save time, and get right into the Progress Report! First, Sachinama as usual has been working like a beast breeded with a machine every day and every night on drawing the P Cups. And boy are they huge. If you don't mind being spoiled, remember to check out Sachinama's weekly Ci-en posts! There's about 15ish more non-cutin CGs for Sachinama to renew/draw P Cups for but most of those are from three of the side jobs (Toilet, Stripper, Trainer) so they will be hellishly time consuming. Remember to give support to Sachinama by commenting and encouraging him during these trying times!

(The rest of today's post is just personal stuff, you can skip it if you're only interested in Karryn's Prison development)

As for me, it's been the usual like last month? But also not usual at all? In terms of board games, so the big box game I was talking about last month was Primal the Awakening, and I enjoyed a lot. However. However... I've also been waiting since last month for the eBay seller to send me the rest of the non core box expansion stuff because apparently they also haven't received it yet from the publisher. But just core box by itself is still really fun and neat, I'm impressed by the design and hopefully! Hopefully I'll find some time this month to get it back on the table!

Another big box board game that I brought on a whim from eBay was Tainted Grails: King of Ruins. I enjoyed it to, but mostly for the narrative stuff instead of the gameplay part. In terms of inspirations for how I would like to a make a game, Primal is definitely more up my alley but I'm still happy to have played Tainted Grails KoR.

Those two and more Spirit Island (mostly teaching it to new people) were mainly the board games that I played since the last Progress Report. And that is because......

Since the last month's report, I actually decided to plan and go to three domestic trips in the future. So I never traveled until I got this job and my first time traveling was to Japan back during Karryn's Prison first year of development to meet Sachinama and do business stuff over in Japan. Since then, I've traveled two more times, once more pre Covid and then my second time to Japan last spring. So all three times, two of them for work, were trips where I would meet and see Sachinama at my destination. This time however! All three trips will be completely solo and without Sachinama. 😭

For the time being, the first of those three trips is actually going to be NEXT WEEK to San Francisco where I will be checking out the Cherry Blossom Festival over at San Francisco, kind of like a replacement for last year's Japan trip to see cherry blossoms over in Japan with Sachinama. All three trips will last less than a week, but I'm bringing any laptops so it will be essentially a break from PC time. Will I discover or find something during these trips? Who knows. I'm nervous since I will be by myself during the whole trip but in a way I will also be alone from both computers and people I know and just chill.

Hopefully I won't end up on an episode of South Park as a guy jerking off in public in San Francisco, hah.

Now for some bonus material for reading this far! I know a lot of people have been curious, but work on the next game has not begun yet. It's simply not possible because in Sachinama's case, working on P Cup DLC and family stuff already takes literally all his time. In my case, well, I'm still figuring out and narrowing down my ideas and concepts and experimenting. But I'm really happy with having discovered the world of board games because it really introduced systems and concepts I never thought about before. I'm thinking of checking out one more big box board game called Kinfire Chronicles. It's pretty much out of stock everywhere but I caught with my lil eyes last night a place that had a physical copy of it but I didn't buy it last night because I didn't research about it yet. I also brought my first hardcover book since like forever that I'm taking with me on the trip next week to read and who knows, maybe something or nothing might pop up.

I also haven't forgotten about my bread and butter which is playing and testing out eroges but honestly not much has come out recently but I have had my eye on one indie game since the beginning of the year that I've enjoyed alot. But it is also very similar to Karryn's Prison... yet it's so fun and appealing to me... and like so my heart and mind (and something else) wavers on deciding on what form the next game should be. It's so hard, no pun intended, it's like something stuck in the back of my throat or I guess, like something thick in the back of my head trying to push out, no pun intended.

Anyways. That's it for this month's Progress Report! Hopefully my plane won't disassemble mid air or anything crazy like that and if it doesn't, I'll talk to you all again next month! Or if it does, I guess I'll talk to you all on the other side instead. Stay safe, hydrate, and wear sunscreen!

March 5th 2024: Progress Report

Oh boy, it's March already. Every month when I do a Progress Report I'm surprised by how quickly time has passed.

So let's get right down to this month's Progress Report! Sachinama has been beasting and about 50% of the CGs now have P Cups, not counting the Cut Ins!

Which you would already know if you have been following Sachinama on Ci-en, so why haven't you been?! Sachinama has also been posting weekly updates, unlike me who have switched to a monthly update format.

https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/2068/article

Speaking of me, so my board game journey continued in February, and I took a look at BoardGameGeek.com where I had logged my plays and

A lot of board gaming went on! And it's good thing I logged my plays because I would've forgotten them. The big thing in February was that I started moving onto campaign board games, first starting with Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion (I thought it was eeeehhhh) on the first week of February, and then into the two big, big campaign board games that I brought and had arrived starting in the third week of February, which were Middara Act One and The 7th Citadel, both really fun and neat! I am still impressed how board games are doing stuff not being done with normal PC/video games. I also had just purchased my third big, big box campaign board game, and hopefully that will arrive next week... assuming no delays......

But, I think my journey into exploring the board game space is going to come to an end sooner than later. One thing that I've realized after playing and buying a whole lotta board games since December 2023 (According to my logs on BoardGameGeek.com, 30ish board games) is that I can hone into the types and mechanics of board game systems that I personally enjoy and have fun with. And within the systems that I personally enjoy, there is a smaller subset of systems that I would personally like to iterate and expend on myself. That third big, big box campaign board game that is (hopefully) coming this month is going to be me confirming if this is a mechanic I would like to incorporate myself in some way shape or form.

As for some personal health stuff that happened, I actually unfortunately caught pink eye around the third week of last month. It was actually pretty scary because not only was it the first time I got pink eye since I was a kid (and me getting pink eye as kid to me was the trigger that started deteriorating my eye sight...) but also because of the recent few years with me getting LASIK eye surgery and Sachinama and all that stuff that happened with his eyes (which are doing fine by the way!!) so I was a bit sensitive to anything related to my eyes.

I went to the eye doctor that did my surgery, got some eye drops and you know, the dang fucking pink eye just wouldn't go away. I figured ya know, when you get a bad cold or sore throat and go to the doctor and get some antibiotics, you start seeing results after like 4ish days right? But not with this pink eye apparently, it wasn't as red and itchy but it was still a bit red and itchy for way beyond a week. But last Saturday I went back for the followup and the doctor looked into my eyes, and said I should be good with continuing the eye drops for three more days and stopping. Alright then.

And that's it for this month's Progress Report, wash your hands, don't touch your eyes, stay hydrated and I'll talk to you all again next month in April!!

February 6th 2024: Progress Report

Oh god it's already February, hands in the air screaming while the house burns down panicking

So what have I been up to since the last Progress Report? Mostly two things, one is that a few days after the last Progress Report, Steam finally approved of the game! It is none other than

TADA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2745710/Modern_Pink_Elf_RPG/?curator_clanid=33020227

Modern Pink Elf RPG developed by the talented Sensouya-san (Warshop) and localized by our friends at CursedAtelier!!!

Modern Pink Elf RPG is similar to Sensouya-san's previous eroge which we also published, Kiara -The Knight of Icicles- (which unfortunately Steam did not approve so that gave me PTSD for much of December and January while waiting on Steam's verdict for Modern Pink Elf RPG......) except the setting is a different and there is no combating at all, just a pure slut slutting it up around town.

I really liked it so I decided to get it published on Steam for you all, and hope you enjoy it! It's available at a 20% launch discount on Steam until basically 2/8, so grab it if you haven't yet! And if you enjoyed Modern Pink Elf RPG, you probably would enjoy Kiara -The Knight of Icicles- too if you haven't gotten it yet over at Itch.io!!

https://remtairy.itch.io/kiara-the-knight-of-icicles

So yeah, after it was approved I worked on final touching up and implementing Steam Achievements (which was bugged for the first several hours during release 😭). I always disliked how originally, you can only access the smartphone and navigate the main menu/smartphone with only a keyboard, so I worked to make it all accessible with a mouse or gamepad too.

The second main thing since last month has had to have been just more and more and more board gaming. Among the many I have played, my favorites have been Pax Renaissances and Imperium: Horizons/Classic/Legends. And while it wasn't my favorite, I also played Kingdom Death: Monsters and the way the game was designed essentially occupied my brain space with inspirations and ideas for the next game. It continues to impress me with how board games are designed and played and how those certain elements are either abstracted or just not at all in the PC games I have played, and I've played a ton. So it continues to be a very educational (and expensive...) experience with just going hog wild on board games to catch on years and decades of board game design history and iterations.

And that's it for this month's Progress Report! The sun is slowly rising earlier and slowly staying up in the sky slightly later, and the world continues to keep moving and changing! Stay safe, stay hydrated and I'll see you all again later!

November 7th 2023: Progress Report

Hello everyone, Rem here with this month's short Progress Report covering Sachinama's work! Mostly for people not already following our Ci-en account posted by Sachinama himself, which you should be doing!

Sachinama has finished making the P Cup variations for 4 CGs total out of 50+, and is about to finish the fifth one! Currently, Sachinama is working first on the oldest CGs in the game, which is the combat CGs, and then it will most likely be followed by CGs from Level 1 and so on. The older CGs also happen to use a different layering technique compared to the newer ones, so not only is Sachinama drawing the P Cup variations for the older CGs, but also basically redrawing the CG's base layers from the ground up so that it can actually support P Cups, thus the significantly higher difficulty and time that it takes to get each CG done.

On the plus side, since the CG's base layers are being redrawn, it also means that the combat CG have been getting new pose and facial variations to go along with them! I gotta say, the 5th CG that Sachinama is working on, which is Karryn's Evade CG, is making Karryn look SUPER cute (imho) with the new variations. Karryn is cute, CUTE!

The estimate for the P Cups to be finished still remains at the earliest somewhere around the first quarter of 2024. Until then, make sure to stay hydrated, stay safe and stay warm this winter!

October 3rd 2023: Progress Report

Hello everyone, Rem here with this week/month's quick, short Progress Report!

Sachinama has just finalized the design and finished the P-Cup Variation for the first CG!!! I got nothing on my end to report right now, so y'all should be following and checking out Sachinama's weekly Ci-en reports for further details and in-progress artwork!!!

https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/2068

If you don't know because Japanese is hard, all you need is to do is register an account and follow us at Ci-en and you'll be able to see Sachinama's post every week, so I highly recommend you do that if you haven't yet!

https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/2068

It's somehow already October and for awhile, the temperature here went straight from 80 degrees to 50 degrees for a week, followed by a week of rain and a day of flash flooding (thankfully me and my family was spared from the flooding) and now this week is 70 degrees. The weather is weird, so stay safe and stay warm/cool out there everyone!

September 11th 2023: Progress Report and Announcement

Hello everyone, Rem here with this week's Progress Report!

After resting for only a week, Sachinama has decided to restart on working again! Starting this week, work will now begin on adding a new boobs size variation for Karryn, the P CUPS!!!

P Cups will be bigger than the default K Cups that Karryn has been sporting for all these years. As mentioned last week, drawing bigger beautiful boobies will take much more time compared to smaller versions. The P Cup Variation will also be a paid DLC because of the amount of work involved that is estimated to take six months for real this time.

Work has just started, so that will be it for this week's Progress Report! There's a potential hurricane heading to the East Coast of USA here this week, so if you're near its path please stay safe everyone!