April Drools to Pools: Progress Report


Hello Boo and different yet distinct Boos,
April is a month that we are in. I want to say that it's good but it's mixed. The weather is getting warmer but we've hit seventies a few times for it to snow again next week. 

I'm weirdly hyped for the new Marathon game even though I don't play extraction shooters. The story seems interesting and dealing with complex ideas of identity, death, and instrumentality. I can see clap back to that like other games have done the whole your body is owned by a corporation thing kind of corporate nihilism. Ship breakers for one. It plays with a lot of ideas from the lore and setting of the original Marathon that just weren't the topic of the games and perhaps an entity from the old games is messing with that, which gives a layer of depth and mythology that I really dig.

Bungie's gunplay is always really solid. The only thing I'l like more is if there were no iron sights for aiming. Right click or left trigger belong to melee. 

Enough faffing. The progress!

Progress
I'm excited to see that number. More is always better but the render number needs to be higher. The story has been written for months. The coding is rough but it's in the script and just needs to be fine-tuned. There is the matter of editing and compiling the images which is tedious but a later thing, that turns out best when it is made all at once consistently.

Renders
712 of the renders are mine so far. I realised during my weekly numbers check that I only had half of what I have been putting out in my highest productivity. That sentence is confusing. The number of renders I have been able to make each month since I have ramped up production has grown. In the beginning there was a lot of prework and still writing that I was doing but I got to a point where I was pretty steady on 150 a month. I crammed this last week (and this morning) and got up to 118 more renders.

My doctor suggested some lifestyle changes and I freaked out about it for a few days but hopefully things are steady now and I will live to write for several more decades.

Moral Changes
The creator of No More Money is changing his output because he had some moral shifts. I don't know him personally so I can't speak to what he's going through or his game. He looked at some factors in his life and decided that he couldn't keep making what he's been making. YET, the things he writes still have erotic bends to them. Which I want to key in on.

Erotisism is a part of being human. It isn't evil or dirty. It's a part of life. As deep and diverse as every other parts of our lives and interests. There are things about people's desires that I don't understand. My desires are not universally understood. I think writing about it is great.

I hope it is always an accepted and open part of my work and I wish the people pushing for ignorance and a narrow view of acceptable dialogue enlightenment and short of that failure in their restrictions. 

I'm a weird dude.
I'm dull in a way that I can't pick up on some things at face value and have to know the reason why to even remember it in some cases. One of those things is family relations. I don't care what adults do between themselves. I don't like my own sister in that way but I don't like a lot of women and most men in that way too.

I can really get behind the knee jerk reaction to being against family relations because that's a thing that kings and monarchs do. And I can't think of a monarch that doesn't deserve to be a head shorter. Keeping the bloodlines pure was a stupid and elitist thing and deserves to die in the past.

But people don't say that. Instead people's reasons say in the ick or get kind of eugenics-y. There just isn't' a lot of support for the stance in my eyes. Especially with my experience with autistic people. People look at them like they are a burden or a mistake but they don't know. There are some extreme testimonials from people that I feel sorry for and want them to have support but they are a minority and none of them were producing children with family.

My mother worked with special needs students and if you ask her, thinks everyone is autistic. Which, I find hilarious. My mom thinks you're special, in the nineties way.

That's the negatives.
The positives is it can be hot. For my express purposes, it is hot. Girls you've known for a long time have an easier time being cute around you. And it doesn't matter because none of them are real. Write about a hot fetish that I and no one I know will express in real life. The closest I am to it is a friend of a friend who married his step sister after getting some life experience out in the world. 

Writing it feels the same to me as writing any other kind of romance. If I write about total strangers meeting, I still have to inject my life experiences and emotions into them. It's all me, even if a girl is partially based off of a person I know, I still have to see the world through their eyes to write them. 

None of them are realer than any others. They all, depending on your view of art, are partial or entirely me. None of them are my sister.

I'm done telling on myself.

This months PATREON REWARDS are Scully from FBI show, which I made for Amomynous Games Birthday. Then there is my Apri Fools renders in full 4k.

Hey Boo,

Winter refuses to blossom into anything else. It snowed again today, despite how it's also been seventy degrees. I broke out my shorts for  single day. I grilled once. Then bam! Lighting, rain, and snow all in one day.

Work on the game goes on.

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Progress!
I have made 594 renders, where's the rest of those from? The artist! Any amount faster is faster, right?

I have to get back to programming one of these days. I have a gallery with a placeholder and a new preference in the game menu. I need to add a replay gallery and if it works like the art gallery, then I might have a clever way to make things unlock without replaying the game.

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Steam We are on steam and wishlists are very important. So, please wishlist to support the game. Tell your friends. We have very gentle conversations with gentle girls that have very gentle lips and also Gail. 

This months REWARDS are Lilly taking a break from her futile attempts to sun tan by shaking it. Then a set of renders with GOTH TULIP AND GRACE that celebrate the goth contest that HanakoX is hosting on their server. I can't compete. I'm judging. So, here are some goths anyway.
-Lilly to come in a followers only post