Hey boo, I'm mostly good. I'm aware that my overall mood affects my productivity with artistic things. So, there's a number of things I do to keep me on task. Power naps, regular schedules, and a bunch of other crap you can look up and I think I've talked about before. The regular rules for setting up a work from home space where there is a work place, what where work happens. I generally write in public. Restaurants, downtime at work, libraries, coworking spaces. Writing is easy. I can do it anywhere and everyday. Daz stuff is different.
Ideally, the work station wouldn't be the same as my chill out areas. Each space has its own state of mind. I know what you're thinking: "Ray, are you admitting to having a goon station?"
Hahaha, you'd be wrong. I'm saying a gooning station would be the most practical thing.
But for now, I only have the one big PC, which is done with the bulk of the rendering-
Progress That's right. We've finished the renders! There are a few backgrounds I haven't sorted out but that will come with the coding checks.
My numbered renders are up to 1,358. There are about seventy renders from Dark Candy. I don't count some redos and sometimes I just make renders without a goal--following the art. Then there are some renders that I misnumbered or didn't count because I was experimenting. I might have just dumped everything I had into my work in progress folder. So, that plus the images I've rendered over the weekend is where the 1,756 comes from. I think before I've done a countdown with the number of renders in the WIP folder and I still might.
New Tracker I thought this would be a good way to follow the ticks to release. The biggest note is any changes that will happen between versions will start at the beta--because of the censorship.
Censorship Watch Things are still changing all the time. Part of me wants to express plans but there is work to do before then.
I'm confident that everyone that has paid money will have access to the new update, at the very least. It will be nice to have the game on a storefront.
Rewards I thought back to basics. Memes and naked women. No cosplay. We get Bryerly and MC and the big-big coffee; Tulip with some long hair extensions; and an 8k preview.
Two weeks ago, several games were retired from steam. It was brought to my attention when I was making my monthly update. I wrote my devlog July Firework Scaries. Later that day, I decided that I overreacted and I struck a line through much of that article.
You can't read this article because after I posted that devlog, every game tagged NSFW was de-indexed from Itchio with no explanation. People freaked out on the microblog site. People freaked out in my dev servers. People freaked out in itchio's discord. For a while the only explanation we got was a saluting emoji from Leafo. A few hours later, it was replaced by an explanation that payment processors had spoken to them and swift action needed to be taken.
Ana Valens wrote a Vice article after the steam stuff happened and was ready with a counter. She had left Vice Magazine between the itch and Steam take-downs.
I encourage everyone to follow these steps in order to stop internet censorship. There are several campaigns with form letters and guides on what to say. Please, try to find one other campaign to follow before 4chan. What will I do?
What about me (and my game(and you))
This has wrecked havoc with my work process. I need some stability to keep myself focused and working.
They broke (de-indexed) searches for NSFW and a few other tags. Several games have been suspended, including Baskin All-In and my Demo Disk. Dragon of Calon Valley was taken down as well as Office Perks. If you'll remember, I just did a cross promotion with office perks. Neither of those games broke the existing or current TOS.
I am following the rules of every platform I am on. If Baskin All-In comes back on itch, it will be because itch reverses their decision.
The new itch TOS clearly outlines incest and pseudo-incest are not allowed. Pseudo-incest is UNRELATED PEOPLE IN A HOUSE with like the vibe hesitation about hooking up. So, I'm not fighting those rules.
I'm sorry to the people who were following and purchased Baskin All-In. I am continuing to make the game. I still have access to my game pages, my devlogs, and analytics. You can't see them because the game associated with them were suspended. Maybe there's a clever clogs way to see just my devlogs. This is why I'm posting this as a Candied Oblivion devlog. So, people can see it. Please follow me everywhere that you are comfortable. As far as I know, I can still release on Steam. I am committed to releasing on steam under whatever their rules allow.
I know and have a way to reach out to everyone who has purchased the game. I have several ideas on how to make up to you/thank you for supporting me and taking a chance purchasing my game.
Relationships and Fiction
FICTION isn't real. Fiction is true. There are real elements in fictions that reflect our world. The emotions writing stirs in you are real. Science Fiction isn't about the future, it's about today and our world. You are looking at actual words on the page/monitor.(I've decided I get to capitalize vocab words.) Fiction and writing is a funny thing. The actress from Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars was asked if she felt weird because her love interest in TFiOS was her brother in Divergent. SHE SAID NO because that's a fucking weird thought. The actor from those movies was not either of those things (idk if they dated). They don't have terminal cancer, genetic super powers, a love fated to end before the age of twenty. THE KISS IN THE ANN FRANK HOUSE WASN'T REAL HOW DARE SOMEONE WRITE THAT SCENE, NO ONE GETS AN OVATION FOR THEIR FIRST KISS IN A HISTORIC AND THEMATICALLY RELEVANT LOCATION. I'M STILL MAD ABOUT THIS.
None of my characters are related because like TV, MOVIES, PORN, and BOOKS none of my characters are real. They are pieces of me, impressions I have of other people that I know and have met, and they are my view of the world filtered and workshopped.
If I have to bend stuff to get it on steam. I can throw in a few steps. This is where mainstream porn is. Step brother or sister. In some cases Swap Brother. That could be fun. There are limits to what I want to do.
As you see and probably know. Top is the least acceptable relationship and the bottom is most acceptable. There are a few relationships that are not related but still not completely accepted. All the way at the bottom there are the completely unrelated relationships. Itchio has banned unrelated relationships, which are just people living in a house.
There are things I don't want to do. I already don't want to mess with minors. I don't want to do the people in a house genre because I hate landlords. Imagine someone owning something that means they get to take a right away from you whenever they want. That's a landlord. They can just decide that you no longer have a home.
The Future/TLDR
Baskin is no longer on itch but it is still on the internet. I can help people find the game on my discord or over email. Support on backer sites is appreciated.
Make calls and emails to stop internet censorship, check out the above infographics.
Hey Boo, It's a weird week for me because work switched my schedule around for taking the inventory. I usually have Wednesday's off and I take stock of the project and write my public report.
I made slow cooker ribs (That's a crock pot, to my real ones.) today and how that works is I put the ribs in the slow cooker in the morning and let them cook on slow all day. It's a lot of nice build up to some soft tender ribs. Unless, you are an idiot, like Raymond. I spend all day occasionally walking around the house and wonder "What smells good?"
I'm sitting at the day job, photo editor open for the last 13 hours according to discord, writing too much about the philosophy of game assets and trying to purchase productivity, which I don't think anyone will care about, and I'm tired. In between the heavy rain and kicking out children, I don't know why we're open today and why I'm here today.
Work is okay. The backers will tell you that there was a really solid week that I made me super proud. I thought I could lean into that progress. Feed off that momentum but no, never again. bye-bye.
My render queue caught up. Every image from the game needs to be posed and renders. THere is the useful thing called a render queue, which is a list of saved scenes that my pc will render while I'm away. It's very convenient and works with animations. So, there is always
something being made for the game and while the queue is going I feel safe and productive even if I'm not actively posing for the game.
The last thing in my queue is animations. I'll normally get through what I made on my days off and at nights and then the queue starts churning away on an animation.
When my render queue last ran out, I opted to make a new animation. I have an estimated less than four hundred renders to go. So, maybe it's a good thing that they are all done. It seems animations are the last things some people finish and what makes their time in between updates drag. This is the first time that I have focused this much on animations, so I'm learning and taking not of this data point. I reserve the right to go nuts and animation nuts.
Contest From the home of reddit there's the AVN Times. It's a digital only, free only magazine that reports on adult visual novels mainly from the perspective of r/avnlovers.
The size thing is a little ridiculous. It's bigger than 8k with an odd width and length ratio. My scene with the main four was cool and looked okay on my monitor but with closer inspection, I saw rendering defects that I don't usually get and don't normally effect me.
Hey boo, It's a rough day. Part of indie work is learning how to work and how you work as a person. Corporations and work places have learned how to make people work in ways that suck. There's the obvious things like the alternatives of having a job. There's less obvious things like the segmenting of time, workplace layout, and the other things that people have to distinctly get used. Training new employees is like a crash course in how fried your brain is. Then there is serious things like culture and behaviors that undermine your rights. Like not getting a lunch break or voluntary, unpaid overtime.
There are some things that are fine with work, like coworkers. Taking breaks is a good idea and something I might do more consciously if I could listen to my body. Stretching every hour of deskwork. Actually taking lunch.
I discovered a nice system at work. Where it's a good break if I forget that I'm at work. I did this by isolating myself and automating my free time. I don't watch the clock, I set an alarm on my phone. I have my meal ready ahead of time. Headphones with my own music. I can get into a book or some writing.
I've already seen somethings I need to work on. I think I've been extra stressed this last week because I didn't have a singular set of scenes to work on, so I haven't stopped thinking about the game and what I need to pick up and do.
I left some threads open but I'm feeling better. What more can I ask for? Sometimes, writers don't know their own thoughts until it comes out on paper. What are your thoughts?
Progress! May is supposed to be my month and it really was, numbers wise. I'm not counting the other artist's contribution for the total, they'll just be an asterisk until the final tally.
May is some of my favorite weather and my birthday. I wanted to squeeze that in somewhere.
Renders I had some popping weeks for renders. I keep thinking of it as halfway done but it's a lot closer to a third. I spent a chunk of yesterday fiddling with a blanket, which will be the basses for a load of scenes.
I have three exteriors and a three room interior to figure out and all of the assets will be made.
Writing The writing has been done for a while, even critiqued, but I haven't done a lot for the corrections and revisions. I actually have a bull clip full of papers with corrections that should take place. I'll see if I can make that priority this week but writing new stuff is so much more fun!
Animation I haven't let the eleventh animation finish yet because I've been too on top of adding more items to the queue, without letting it finish.
Let's highlight this. Chapter 2's opening had a good chunk of animation that felt more like panning around a diorama. Did you like that? Is it a nice effect to get you back into the characters and the story or would a bunch of pictures be fine? I haven't gotten much feedback about it. Maybe I'm just not asking right.
Weekly Report For the month of May I've been making weekly progress reports and posting them to patreon and substar. It seems to have a negative effect on my patreon, specifically. I'm thinking I could move it over to a supporter channel on the discord, which I haven't made.
Or I read the tea leaves wrong and it's fine. No matter what, the public progress report will continue, as you can see.
One positive thing to take from co workers is the necessity for the social aspect of work. I find that I like to and need to share progress with people as I go. It's motivating and fun.
Bundle of Joy The best part of indie work as apposed to corporate jobs is that I am not alienated from the product of my labor. My work is represented in the Pregnancy themed bundle that is still chugging along. We hit our first major goal and I put the game on sale. You can pick up Candied Oblivion or both my games for a discount right now, with a coupon-- coupons work by being a link on itch.
Rewards I saw a cute anime drawing this week and I decided that Byerly should do that. There are a bunch of pregnancy alternatives in this month's batch, which I made for the Pregnancy bundle.
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.
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.
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
Hey Boo When I was younger, I played StarCraft 2. I didn't get to play it when I was a kid because the covers looked too violent for my parents. Living in the country didn't let me have many paths around that. But nothing could stop me in college. I got an install of SC1 from a friend and we played some Big Game Hunters. For some reason I was one of few of my friends who stayed interested when StarCraft 2 was announced.
I wasn't very good. StarCraft has a lot of things happening at once and I wasn't very good. I barely got used to using hot keys but the early game looked similar no matter once. Gather resources, look for early build clues, make counters and defences. I learned and got better.
Until, one day I snapped out of a day dream and three minutes had passed without selecting my units. My life had been rocked in a very fundamental way and I couldn't focus anymore. I couldn't distract myself with my favorite game. I was deeply sad, lost, unmotivated, and I didn't have anything to do. Prime cult bait. Arguably, I had escaped a cult by that time.
I moved on. I got better and worse jobs. Moved cities. Dated. Life moved on. I've even picked up StarCraft and played around for a few seasons. The excitement wasn't there. I didn't have a trajectory to play all the time and theory crafting strategies.
Motivation depends on a lot of things. Fun. Profit. Fellowship. But we are squishy things. Mood can cut off even positive attachments. When I feel motivation leave me or realize that a scene has loaded and has been sitting for several minutes, I remember those drones sitting next to the nexus as the time ticks forward. I could push forward. Organization or task lists and spreadsheets can help push past but those drones stare.
Then, I switch. I write whatever comes through my fingers. I play something dumb. Today, I went out to buy tax software and bought a burger. Aha, I thought I'd have to stop without writing anything that y'all care about but then I found an outlet under the table while adjusting my boots. It's cold here, I don't wear boots for fashion reasons.
Artist news I picked an artist, what to help me with art and whatnot. Emotional stability was not one of my questions or requirements but I'm playing the numbers that they are more stable than me.
They are on the server. They'll be in the credits. I'll make a big fun announcement if they want.
writing Revisions for the last scene have been finished. Everyone's character should make sense when they start headbutting the MC. I need to tag the revisions for images, then there will be the most accurate estimate.
Writing on the next chapter has started. I write a thousand words a week as a rule. I've had other people get confused about that. Like how can I write one part without more reader feedback. I considered this for a little while, then I looked at all the reader feedback I don't get and decided not to worry about it. Perhaps in the future, I will be able to distract myself with other projects but until then, I'm a machine that turns sadness into incest stories with too many jokes.
As a consequence, the final word count has changed but the chance to quantify it has been lost to the injected code.
Art is good. Thank you for asking. I was thinking I had made two hundred renders in a month but math rains on my parade again. I think I have a personal goal for this month. I had a major problem with one scene rendering. An obscure setting was fucking me over.
My estimate has been adjusted. Someone pointed out that I had 15k before. That would be a lot. THat would be an image for every three words. Animations might shake out that way but I don't count animation by the frame, like a nerd. Who has time to do so much math for numbers that players really won't understand, anyway? I don't even think that sounds impressive to players and reddit.
Shots fired. Who am I fighting with now?
My estimate is 1,500 images. Hopefully the last few scenes will only add a hundred.
Valentines Bundle I should really post special promo logs more. The annual Vday bundle has hit its goal of EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS! For a few more days, you can still get all the games and demos in the bundle for free but also, there are coupons for all of my games, special renders, and discounts on backer sites!
Thank you all for participating and supporting and grab some of these 73 games while they are still bundled together.
Rewards I made a teaser post that disappointed someone. Hopefully it was for the teasing and not the actual content.
You can marvel at this rival
Tulip "When they told me they wanted to dress me up as the Invisible Woman, I was expecting a lot less clothes and no shoulder pads." You're the Sue Storm we have at home. Tulip "Does she have shoulder pads on her tits?" Would those be tit pads? It's supposed to be armor. Tulip "It's armor made of shoulder pads. I'm surprised my ass isn't padded." That is the part that matters.
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