First Devlog of 2025
Hey boo,

The weather here is nuts. It got really cold and snowy and this week it is all supposed to melt. I got up at four thirty in the morning to shovel.

I took the time to try some new games this week. It was for the purpose of being a messy bitch but I think the helpful part of me regained enough control.
Once Again
A pretty fun life redo/time travel story.They do the things where the girls are named according to a theme, which I love to do. As seen in the sfw games where the characters are named after the arts of the day and my trunk novel where characters are named after days of the week. Damnit, why'd I start talking about me?
Past Tense
Has some very ambitious visualsand judging by their special renders, the game is going to look fantastic as it continues.
My New Memories The Beginning
It's a shame that Killer7 doesn't have all his assets to keep going on his main game. This prequel is a nice taste of Killer7's style. Conversations with cute girls. It's my genre.

Progress Report
I still catch myself calling it an update. That's what revision is for.
I think things are going well. Hopefully the rate of images done can increase smoothly. 

Programming/Tagging
I don't know what other people are calling it but I have all but the last three scenes tagged. So, I have a very good estimation for how many assets I will need to complete the chapter! It took way longer than I thought it would. Like, I'd sit and time would go by and I'd still have several dozen pages to go. I think this is what other devs nebulously call coding but I have hard coding issues that I also spend time working on.
I want several new features in chapter 3 but I don't think I'll get them all. 

First is a gallery. I've downloaded, read up but I still need to implement it.  I want a menu toggle to add transitions to the game. 
I was hoping a modder would do something because it strikes me as a preference that I don't give a shit about. That's what mods and settings are for, your preferences that I don't care about. Some people like a fade transition between every image and I think that's overkill and it bothers me. So, I'm not putting it in the default game. If you overuse transitions it's a bunch of extra coding but also people can already turn off transitions, which will take out the shitty transitions I do care about. As well as, the meaningful transitions that I put thought into and effect the pacing or punchline of a joke.

The code just hasn't worked for me though and I found some other problems that make me think I need to research it some more.

My first hurdle seems to be getting transitions to work at all. Then, implement the code that makes every image shown without a transition command to have a cross fade.
Then, make that code a toggle in the preferences menu.

Beer Goggle Games
I've been thinking about how some of the "best visuals" in AVNs just look like lifetime or hallmark movies. I'm calling them beer-goggle-games. 

The best working and working daz assets are women and women's accessories. Backgrounds, men, and props not so much. So, this can be rectified by creating your own assets or improving the underwhelming daz assets. People can do like Wilson Wanka and just go hard into 4k textures, and make everything as detailed as possible. Hellcat lounge looks amazing.

The easier way to do this is be hitting the depth of field hard. Heavily blurred background, foreground, and if your lucky a part of the character you'll want to see will be visible. 
It looks good. Especially when someone increases the saturation and sharpens the details the daz renders can look lifelike.

This works great for special renders. It's eye-catching and pretty.
But we run into problems of tone. High saturation, high depth of field, is how people shoot and produce a hallmark movie. It's fine for a sweet little cheap love story where certain tropes are expected but when you are trying to make a story with a mysterious crime story, the wires get crossed a little.

It's a mismatch for some stories, in my mind. But I only took one movie class so this might just be a little brain crack that I needed to get out. What do you think of my new abusable and irresponsible term of beer goggle games?

Artist Search
No update. I've talked to a lot of cool people. I need to organize my notes and make a choice.

Patron Rewards
Cindy and Hermy fans sure to thank Asia the Magical Girl because it was their birthday and request that led to your renders this month.
There is the return of my Daz version of Nova from Eternum. I made her butt bigger. I hope you like your multicolored eyed gingers bathed in non-cannon sunlight.
To round it out, I put tulip and Cindy in the sun too but I stopped my fun there because there was work to do. For the Pixie tier and above we have an 8k render of Cindy and Hermy."

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