Hey Boo,

Things are good. My partner just had her birthday and we celebrated and my work flow is weird even though I had an official extra day off.

There are these scenes when you are writing that can be emotional. They choke me up and sometimes, I lose track of what is supposed to choke up the audience. It gets to me because I'm supposed to be in this character's head. They are made up of little pieces of my personality and experiences. I have the entire picture of what they've been through and where it is going. But sometimes, you are just writing a scene where they stub their toe and you get choked up. 

My thought's are like, am I a failure if this doesn't make someone cry?
The answer is no. They stubbed their toe. Touch grass. But for the reader, with good context and consistent toe stubbing, so should come emption.
Or at least the nod/chin scratch. However you tolerate your squishy emotions.

Choices
I had this whole thing talking about choices and where I was able to find people's feedback. I had a bit of what my goals are and my thought processes were but I think I have said all that stuff before. I couldn't think of the simple words.

Role Play
I want people to role play.
Say what you want to say. Talk to who you want to talk to. It's early on and I want all the girls to have a fair shot and solid first impression. But I essentially want people to role play. Part of role playing means things change. I don't have a lot of confidence that enough things change for multiple play throughs. But I still want difference to be there and for people to have slightly different experiences that they can share with each other.

I love the theory crafting and comparing screenshots and events that happens.

Progress Report
I have been prepping outfits and locations. I test lights for different times of day. Girls T-posing in locations. I'm really hoping I don't need fifteen hundred renders. 

The writing could be going faster. It isn't the rate that I like to write things. But as my partner says, you can't write something for the first time over again. Maybe that is the cost for some writing. I'll probably have to rewrite it anyway!

There are two major sections in the next updates script and I want to get that script out to content editors and proof readers before the next progress report.
Then tagging images, making a list of the tags, and I'll have an accurate idea how many renders I'll be looking at.

Hiring and Artist
Nothing has been done on this front.

Twitter
We've been having some twitter fun. I've been doing a strip poll. I make a render and people vote on what cloths to take off and what poses to put the girls in and they act mildly annoyed and embarrassed. 
Full posts in this months rewards but I have one more round.

https://vxtwitter.com/boudoir_e/status/1836434774145032558

Hello Boo and Bowsettes,
I'm so happy about everyone who played and enjoyed it!

 If you were busy, I released chapter 2 for Baskin: All-In. If you bought the game before, the update is in your itch library. Also, you have an itch library.

I've taken a little break. Did some overdue yard work. Did my once a year Daz update. Messed with the daz content files for organization. Broke daz. Fixed daz, I think. Then, I forgot what break means and started looking for more small town building assets and putting characters into costumes. And I'm always writing.

The Release
I'm so happy with chapter 2.

My biggest fear, that I didn't tell anyone, because it's from a dark place in my brain that is not logical or data-based, was that people wouldn't like spending the majority of the time at the funeral. It's a thing that is universally skipped. It's me and the mem call of duty. I resisted PRESS F TO PAY RESPECTS. I firmly said it doesn't belong in my family drama game with too many jokes.

There are reasons for the funeral and I think most people get that. Mainly, the idea of the game is to talk to cute girls until they kiss your face. It's a good, organic, reason to see extended family.

It also established the start of a pattern that I hope people have recognized of a family member giving a speech and having the chapter named after her. It was my idea early on. I never even considered that people might want to just read several speeches in a row. I hope it helps with the tone for the first arch, where a lot of games you might forget why you are there. We are going to be at this funeral for a while. And everyone will be different, when we leave.

When you make AVNs, you always kind of prep for huge waves of people's attention. Sometimes, it's support. Sometimes, complaints that verge on harassment. It has been very steady and manageable so far. I tried hard not to make the game look like something it's not and I haven't said anything disastrously out of genre norms. After chapter one's free weekend, I counted out the possibility for big shifts.

Support has been steadily growing and organic. I'm very happy with it because no one feels majorly ripped off or tricked, everyone can give at a comfortable amount, and hopefully don't feel pressured for more. It's a very strong position to be in and the day job is at a very stable and balanced place for my work. There are several hundred people who bought the game early on at three dollars and I don't need anything more from them unless they want to give more. (the update is in your library.)

Thank you all again.

Girls Ages
I've seen a lot of numbers thrown around in vague posts. In the game, I don't want people to dryly say their details but here, I can be as dry as I want! But still a little vague.

Su Chau and Aunt Janet Baskin are the oldest around the father's age. 

Evelyn Tank is Imani Tank, and childhood friend Tank's mother. She will get a proper introduction in the next chapter. She's a few years older than Selena Baskin, your mother.

Aunt Kaylin Brown is forty years old. She was ten when her sister (aka your mother) left home to start a family.

Hermione Castellani, Gail Thompson, and Beatrice Baskin are all close in age and were all in the same class after Hermione repeated a year.

Hermy is 31. Gail is 30. And Bea is 29. 

The next close ages are the MC, Tulip Baskin, Jim Reiner, and Cindy Chau. You went to school in the same class along with Tank.

You are 28, Cindy is 28, and Tulip is 27.

Imani Tank and Dora Fitzpatrick are both 25. They don't know each other yet.

Then there is the new adult section. Meka Brown, Bryerly Baskin, and Lilly Tanders. Meka is 19. Bry is 19. And Lilly is 18. 

That feels like enough.

Let's look at chapter 3 complete guesses!
I'm 30k in and there are a few more scenes I want to include. I'm calling it 40k to be comfortable. There are two relationship starting events. 

Changes
ONE PROMISE There are some big steps I want to take with chapter 3. The main core and focus of the game will be what is already, character focus and talking to cute girls. I don't plan on adding money or grinding mechanics.

NO MORE PROMISES
I want to get an artist. I try very hard to make things the best I can but my real focus is on the writing. I'll continue to do art and make backer rewards. But I want to see if I can't hire or partner up with someone. Why tell everyone in a post? Hopefully, it lessens the shock and maybe I'll actually follow-through. I tried to onboard an artist during chapter 2 and that was a learning experience but also I don't know what I learned or what I should try different, next time. So, wish me luck.

I want to put chapter 3 up on steam. I'm going to work on it first. I don't think I can do a simultaneous release.

Cell Phone Mechanics I make no promises because I don't know how to do anything more complicated than pathing and values. I'm also not going to say what I have in mind.
I will say, in House in the Rift there are repeatable events when you can just chill on the couch and watch TV with a character and just enjoy being with them and I like that.

Streamer mode
Part of me wants to do a streamer mode. The part of me that thinks a toggle in the options menu and a few call commands will be easy. The part of me that wants to write interesting dialogue in every scene regardless of toplessness has yet to be convinced.
End of changes section.

I'm very excited to continue working on chapter 3. There is an entire discord that exists solely for people to talk to me and that's the best way to give me feedback and report bugs.

HEY BEACHES

Nah, that sounds wrong. Sorry, boo.
This week I've been toiling away at editing the images; Writing when I'm away from my workhorse PC; And organizing a bunch of other Devs into a promotional bundle.

ALL-IN ADULT GAME BUNDLE
My friends and I are going All-In! July 20-21st
Baskin All-In is free this weekend! To celebrate, you can pick it up along with ten other games at 50% off in this bundle full of devs who are going All-In, this weekend only! To make it better Candied Oblivion is included at no extra cost!

So, I took the prices for the other games, divided in half, added $3 for Baskin All-In, and included Candied Oblivion for free, then I rounded the number a bit because someone told me to make it look nice and we end with $33. All my games at the cheapest they have ever been.

CHECK IT OUT

Unless you count free as a cost but I don't because you still don't own it after the free weekend. OH YEAH, FREE WEEKEND TOO!

Free Weekend
Yes, it's finally here. The weekend of the 20-21st will also be the long promised free weekend for Baskin All-In chapter One. I didn't think it would take this long. 

So, tell your friends. Take a demo download. Put it on a jump Drive or something. We used to share games and porn, do people still do that face to face?

I was going to make it the same weekend it got leaked around the internet but that didn't happen. So, we are going a few weeks before the Chapter 2 release. 
Chapter 2 progress influenced the last possible day for the free weekend. 

Like I said last week The main body of the renders is done, for all that I can tell. It's like the first pass is done. More might get made if playtesting reveals that I forgot to make a transition or Selena's mouth is only open when she isn't talking. So, there might be more and I might have some touch ups that got past my first inspection. The current thrust is editing all of the renders and then it will be on building an alpha then beta.

If I average about 150 images edited each week then I'll be done and building the beta--much later than I'd like. I'd like it to be done now and testing but things take however long they take. 

Backer rewards will still happened! Rewards This month I did a few images.  HD versions are available for supporters.   I have special renders posted on the third Wednesday of every month for all 18+ tiers. This is going to be another thin month for pinups.

While you can see updates and get your name in the credits, I will be distributing games from Itch only.

Hey Boo,

Time marches ever forward.

 

I have been tagging the script with code while away from my big PC and posing and editing while at my big pc.

When I am done tagging, I'm going to count up my missing images and post a new estimate.

The special renders and NSFW images are available on any teir. 

Like everyone else, I'm sick too! 
I don't think I have the vid. So, we are lucky stars-ing this one. Still sick. Head no work great

After last update, I had an idea of how to show ongoing progress and this boring stage of development that I hate the most! If it was possible to dump my script and assets on people and have them construct the story and tell me it was all great, I would do that. Other then the pathing of what dialogue leads to what scene and variable statements, most coding is just placing images in the script.

This is most of what the code looks like. The problem with tracking progress is adding code to the word doc adds pages. So, my idea is tell you how many images I have placed and how many more pages there are to go. There is some room for error if I get really excited about images in a section (I wish this would happen) and probably another thing that I can't think of (head no work great).

So, I have placed 1324 images and have 47 pages left in the script in which to place images. 
Harga barga barga barga.

There are two contests to talk about.
Last month I started a poll for what to call the nerds that Grace has in her band. The current winners are Roman and Alfie.
It makes me a little sad because Alfie is the name of a friend's cat that we all love and these guys are supposed to be kind of douches. But also, I think it is funny to have a character named Skid. The polls will close when I get finish the other programming and change the placeholder names.

Spicy Gaming's art bash is on.
Spicy gaming is a publication that reports on adult gaming news. I read their most recent article on WHY ARE SOME ADULT GAMES BEING REJECTED MANUALLY BY STEAM?
https://www.spicygaming.net/blog-article/190
This month the theme is time travel. And I took the opportunity to share some spoilers.

That is a lot of Graces and a moderate amount of Fosters. I'd like the think the things pregnant Grace tells CO era Grace are about foods she misses eating.

They do voting to decide the winners, after the 21st, on their discord but I'm only mentioning it to share it with y'all.

Stealing Patreon Rewards!

This month I realized I had enough similar bonus renders that I could tie them together with a theme. Boy, do I love themes. This month's themes goes out the characters I love in other games because I stole them. I won't say what games because it is more fun that way but also they don't all look great. OOPS.

I have special renders posted on the third Wednesday of every month for all 18+ teirs.

This could easily be one of your favorite character's aunt or cousin.

Oops, all redheads. Not every hair asset looks great in red. 
Thanks for reading, boo.