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White Phantom Games

May 12, 2022 09:52 pm

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Hello everybody,

Unfortunately I am going to have to announce a very short delay to v.0.13 to give myself an extra couple of days to make some more renders for a scene nearly all the Alpha Testers have complained is too short.

Everything was going really well for this update, however I've now had feedback from my 4 Alpha Testers and 3 of them, without consulting each other because they don't know who the others are, have all mentioned and complained that one particular scene which is on multiple paths feels jarringly and noticeably short and needs to be extended.

The really last thing I want to do after six months real hard work and in an update of over 5,000 renders have people remember it as "yeah it was good but that one scene was really short/sucked and kind of ruined it." , especially when an extra few days rendering would completely fix that complaint.

So starting up rendering again tonight and over the weekend I should be able to get an additional 50-150 renders made by Monday-Tuesday significantly extending the scene.

Apart from that, everything else is ready to go with the update. Bugs are fixed, the gallery works, new Computer UI works, everything else is done, this delay is just so that I can get this one scene perfect. It means v.0.13 will go from 5,104 renders to 5,200-250ish.

So I really apologise for the delay and I know some people will have been wanting to play on Sunday and this will completely ruin their plans and I'm really sorry for that, but the silver lining is that v.0.13 will be slightly bigger and overall a lot better!

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

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White Phantom Games

May 02, 2022 11:55 am

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Defending Lydia Collier v.0.13 Update Progress

Hey all!

Hope you're looking forward to Defending Lydia Collier's v.0.13 release later this month (15.05.22)!

Just to let you know I have completed 5,000 individual renders and 4 animations for v.0.13, which I'm really happy with and for comparison, it means v.0.13 will be double the size of the entirety of Shadows over Manston.

Don't forget to join the Discord (https://discord.gg/qEB2mcK) or follow me on Twitter (@WhitePhantom18) for all the latest!

Those pledged at $10+, this month's renders will be made and released after v.0.13 as I've got a very busy couple of weeks coming up. With the votes from all sites combined, Corrupted Ellie and Bimbo Steph tied, just beating the Collier Girls, so Bimbo Steph will feature alongside the Wickes Household.

For the menu, Ellie won both polls, public and supporter, so she'll feature as the main girl and the runner up from the supporter poll was Bimbo Steph, so she'll be the background character.

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

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White Phantom Games

Feb 14, 2022 04:31 pm

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v.0.13 Progress (2,383 Renders done so far)

Hello everybody!

Here is the latest on v.0.13 and how it is going.

So far, 2,383 renders are completed, along with 3 animations, meaning if I dropped the update tomorrow it would be nearly 1,000 renders bigger than the previous record high update, but there's still plenty more to be added until it is done.

I've very nearly finished Lydia's path now, along with Jenna's and one of Ellie's paths.

Bimbo Steph's render count has gone down from the last time? On the graph yes, in reality, no. Unfortunately I "copied" the 215 frame animation (all the images are renders separately for animations) into the animation folder whereas I thought I had, and intended, to move them. This meant when I went into the Steph folder to get the previous total by just reading the amount of images in the folder, it included 215 renders for the animation. I've now taken them out and all the animations are counted separately now and not included in any of the counts.

Thanks for your patience with this, in reality it is likely to be another month or two before the update is fully completed. I've still got tons more scenes planned for Ellie's path and Vanessa's, although Vanessa has the benefit of being nearly entirely outdoors on the island which means her path will render a lot quicker than anybody else's thanks to sunlight.

Whilst it will take a while, this update is going to be bigger than my first 18 months worth of updates for the game combined, so I'm certain it will be worth the wait!

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

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White Phantom Games

Jan 21, 2022 10:23 pm

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Defending Lydia Collier v.0.13 Update Progress

Hello everybody!

I hope you're all well!

I just thought I'd update you all with what is happening with Defending Lydia Collier v.0.13, and explain more why it is taking longer than some of the other updates.

Firstly, everything is going very well development wise, I've completed roughly 2000 renders so far, and could drop the biggest ever update size wise tomorrow, but there's a lot more that actually needs to be done before v.0.13 is perfect as I imagine it.

As you may or may not know, Defending Lydia Collier's final update is v.0.16, it isn't going to be a game that runs on constantly forever, it does have an end in sight. Because of this, I'm trying to put as much as possible into each update so they're really fulfilling, and when the game is finished it will be everything I imagined it to be when I set off with this venture.

That means Defending Lydia Collier v.0.13 is going to be enormous, size wise this update is going to be bigger than the entire game's development from v.0.1 up until v.0.9 (which were released from July 2019 through January 2021). I'm expecting the update to end up in the 4000+ render range when it is finally completed.

That's the simple reason it is taking so long, if we look at v.0.12 it took two months and was 1500 renders in total, well Bimbo Steph's path is going to be over 1000 alone, and I plan on giving significant content to every single major character this update.

This is also where Vanessa and Ellie's split paths romantically begin, much like Steph's two paths, these two will have wildly different futures depending on what you want them to be like.

There's no problems or anything with Development, the cause of the increased length of time is simply that the update is going to be bigger than anything I've ever released before, and not just by a few hundred, by a few thousand.

I'll try and update this weekly so you can see how close we're getting, the good thing with this update from now on though, is that a lot of the environments are now built. Vanessa's environment is done, we're on the island, Ellie's house was built for the last update. So these paths will be quicker to render. Whilst there have been some new environments built (I've attached some of the "High Street" I've been building (you may or may not have seen these before), I'm really trying to make a "unique" feel for the game so I've been building some really unique places that you'll never find anywhere else in the 3D Game universe and I'm quite proud of them) all I have to do now is build Lydia's new home and finish building the new restaurant. Then we'll see the render counts going up even faster because the entire thing will be posing and lighting and rendering, rather than customising textures, building locations etc.

Thanks for all the new and continued support! It enables me to continue working on this as my full time job, so really thank you! The support I've got here is the reason I've not gone straight onto the next stage of Legal Studies and got a desk job somewhere, and stopped to instead consider this as a career, so it really means a lot as I really enjoy doing it.

Make sure to join the Discord if you haven't already, I'm very active there and show a lot of previews and you have unique roles attached to your subscription if you're a supporter. I'm also very open to suggestions (there's a room there for them) and constructive criticism.

As I'm nearly done with the Technical Side of things, so there will be a Beta Test available soon for the new computer system so keep an eye out if you are interested in that as I'll announce it when I'm done and its a great chance to give some feedback before I put it into the game if it is something you've disliked before.

Thanks again for all the support!

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