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Sep 16, 2022 09:09 am

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DEVLOG 7.5 : I'm in it deep
[The poll is on Patreon]

Hey there, so this devlog is kinda special as I write it in a bit of an urgency.

I felt motivated to finish the update today, so I decided to boot up Ren'py and get to work, but as I opened Ren'py, I realized that...

Tales of Unity's entire script, is missing.

The main menu works, I still have all the renders, the script simply got yeeted, and deleted.

The last time I worked was 2 days back I had just finished to write Elise's intro scene towards her animation, and here I am facing a black screen.

So, not all is lost.

Basically all I need to do is grab the latest Beta I posted, simply copy and paste the script, easy isn't it ?

But that means that I lost 40% of v0.11's entire update.

I am Absolutely livid, I am mad beyond fucking relief

I won't be able to ensure ToU's update until atleast a while, this unironically fucked my motivation.

I've got multiple options in front of me on how to handle things.

Option 1 : Redo everything

I'll gather what I can from the latest Beta, and from there I'll slowly, build everything back, the main drawback is that it takes time, a lot of time but you'd get the full update.

Option 2 : Summarize and develop the main axis

This one is the easiest to get an update fast, the main scene with Lou would still get it's development but anything around it would be summarized by Stronk ingame.

keeping the main axis of development intact, but reducing the length of the update

Option 3 : Pick up Project: Jericho

Regardless of either of the 2 first option, I am unironically fed up to see my work, as slow as it was thrown away.

So I'm thinking about getting Project: Jericho's 0.1 out before finishing the beta, effectively putting Tales of Unity, in a micro hiatus of a month or two.

This option gives me the time to mentally reset my brain around ToU, while still getting a massive chunk of content through P:J out.

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Basically ever since I started "working" IRL, my time has been scarce and my life even more depressing, so I decided to quit my IRL activity to go back to, well writing VNs.

But I want to frank with y'all, I don't want to work on Tales of Unity right now, not after losing all of that major work I've put into it.

Careful, I'm not saying that I'm done with the project overall, FAR from it.

But I need a break, I discussed this with a few people, namely Story Anon, the dev of OOT, Cryo dev of Oppai Odyssey, also discussed a bit with Jestur from Ripples and Sky a common friend which is too preparing a banger VN

The main reason I'm scared to work on Project: Jericho is that I don't want to disappoint my patrons, these people that literally allow me to stay alive each month, I'm sorta scared that I could lose my only way of life by switching project, even briefly.

So I put this choice in your hands, fans, pledgers, and simple players.

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Stronkboi

May 18, 2022 01:26 pm

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Devlog # 4 : Moving forward

Hello there, it's been a while since the last devlog so I thought it would be a good time to gather and talk about my conclusion with the last devlog

Devlog # 3 : Focussing efforts

The main thing I get is that people want BIGGER updates, even over faster releases.

So I think you can dismiss what I said on the Devlog 2, the last beta is way to small anyway, and I wouldn't have felt comfortable posting anything that small anyway.

So I'll get back to work on 0.11 and get a proper, large update as the people asked.

As I said, I do have an IRL activity, I guess you could call it a "job" which is sucking quite a chunk of my time, but regardless, it shouldn't impact the workflow on Tales of Unity too much.

I'll be honest, I can't promise a release date, all I can say is that I want to release 0.11 before the end of June in a public release.

While I work on ToU, I'll keep a few infos posted about Project : Jericho, I'll repeat it but Project : Jericho won't be my main project until Tales of Unity is over, therefore no need to worry about it sucking away ToU !

I'll share every now and then some arts like the one just above when I feel motivated to work on one !

Another thing that I keep in mind is that, a lot of people didn't see anything related to Himia Ophelia, Mine in almost a year, and that's a huge nono.

Starting 0.11 I'll add screentime to these three, alongside Nelsie and Valoria of course.

There is a lot of content for Himia coming, due to major narative points surrounding her, the snow elf fans can rest assured that I haven't forgotten about them.

While Ophelia and Mine are in another part of the world with Ygritte they will soon get back on the "major character" which will happen during the 2nd part of Chapter 3.

With that said Tales of Unity has been there for almost three years, and it's starting to take too long to get an update out, I pumped 6 updates on the first year one per month / two month, and I want to get back to this INSANELY bad.

So I'll do my best, starting tonight, I really will.

I also have a lot of polls coming soon for Patrons, I want you to help me shape the game in something that you'd enjoy, I'll ask for character polls see who's popular, who needs more content, who could perhaps could use a small rework, and other things you'd like to see in this universe.

Until then take care, don't forget to CONSOOM water to deal with the burning, scorching weather that we're witnessing.

Have a nice day evening fellow cultured fellas.

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Apr 26, 2022 06:22 pm

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Apr 09, 2022 12:27 am

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Hello there !

It's something I mentioned on discord a while back, but I began working or actually, REworking the first chapter of the game for multiple reasons.

1 : Obscelete content, Chapter 1 sets up a story that goes way too fast and doesn't take the time to flourish it's characters and romances.

That is mostly due to the nature of the game that requires H content fast to keep the player interested, unfortunately, while it may have been good back then, it is now needed for me to patch things up to feel more organic and real !

2 : Poor render quality, over 3 years I Improved my renders quality, lighting, camera angles, filters, reworking the game allows me to freshen up the first part of the game.

3 : Poor model quality, every model in ToU is handmade, but for most of them are awfully basic, to make up for it I reworked most character to give them a new and proper appearance for Chapter 1 of course, these changes remain minor and characters that recieved a proper change like Lou won't change imagine going through chapter 1 with a model, go back to it's old model for chapter 2 to go back to it's chapter 3 Model, you'd quickly lose your mind !

4 : Rewriting a story that fits it's conclusion, in 3 years a lot goes through in your head in how a story is evolving, and I can safely say that Chapter 1 doesn't fit that bill anymore, some lore elements need to be changed, some need to be explained and a lot has to happen in between.

As of today, when you boot your game, you're greeted by me, your fancy french friend into the game it's a funny and relaxed way to introduce players into the wacky world of whoohoo stronkboi man's quality shitpost.

I love breaking fourth walls and I will continue doing it, but I want to be a bit more subtle about it.

I want to drop a few more memes here and there, some will make you grin at your screen without taking you too much off the plot the 3rd image in this setup is a good exempl

When you'll boot the game when the rework is done, first of all, I WON'T BREAK SAVES

Once the chapter is fully reworked, you will have the opportunity to answer to major choices that happened during the reworked version of chapter 1 without doing it, of course this choice is only open IF you use an old save Keep in mind that the choices from chapter 2 will remain unchanged.

If you make a new save and play through the reworked version of the game, your new choice will matter all the same

It sounds a bit confusing but it's really as simple as if you don't make a new save and load an old save you simply recieve a small intermission in which you'll pick your past choices for chapter 1, a bit like Mass Effect Genesis, if you know how that DLC works !

Chapter 1's rework will happen before the actual current opening of the game.

In the first screenshot, you can notice that "Nona", Vanessa's mother finally recieved a model she is an important character, and I feel like keeping her to the side would be a bit silly, you won't be able to romance her in any way or form as it isn't her purpose, don't worry we have a lot of other thicc hips mommys on the way.

At first I wanted her to look a bit older, kinda closer to a proper middle aged woman, but it would feel weird in my opinion to have Vanessa's age be that far from her mother, she's only 20 during chapter 1.

I also want to remove routes, they're more restrictive than anything and it's something that has been recieved negatively, which I agree, in doesn't make sense to have branching path related to romances this early.

If I can keep up the good work, the full reworked chapter will be ready for 0.12 / 0.13 at worse, chapter 1 is supposed to be a bit longer than what it currently is.

I still want to push the rest of chapter 3 out as I rework the rest !

If you have suggestions for Chapter 1, please do let me know, there is no better time to share feedbacks and opinions

I'll soon use polls a lot more to ask my patrons what kind of stuff they want to see, so if you want to directly help me with chapter 1's rework AND the future of my projects, consider pledging !

I'll finish this post with a good note, but now that I'm back on my schedule I should be able to get a beta out for 0.11 REALLY soon, I want it to be out before the end of April, so I'll do my best to get it out and fleshed out

Take care of yourself and thank you for following the project !

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Stronkboi

Mar 15, 2022 11:37 am

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Hello there !

It took me some time to consider it, but I finally decided to open up a Subscribestar page.
Here you'll be able to pledge in the same way as other websites I hold a page to access Early builds, special wallpapers, and exclusive polls and devblogs.

SS has the reputation to take a long time before confirming a page, so until then sit tight, for as soon as this page has been checked and approved I'll start posting updates here as well !

Take care and have a great day !

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