Lust & Passion

Status update

Still working and working and working on the Aiden event which is really tough, elaborate and technically tricky as f**k! When the update will be out you will understand what I mean.

But it's progressing. I think I'm at around 55% of it now. Afer all, It will be one of the most memorable and unexpected events so far.

Sophia ready for the ride

Of course, you need a special dress for a motorcycle ride. So, Aiden took some precautions. Safety first after all. Well, at least, it's Aiden's idea of it.

And now happy guessing what this 3rd task will be because there will be no more teaser of this event. Just as a little spoiler: it won't be something like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B...

Want a ride, baby? (Aiden event)

Aiden picks Sophia up for her next "task".

PS: There are two teaser pics!

And there will be another teaser for higher tiers very soon as well!

Status report update 0.130

I just wanted to let you know why these 1/3 day updates take the time they take.

1) First of all only the first 4 events of the current 0.130 update have already 460 renders. With the Aiden and Sophia/Dylan event we will probably got around 650 renders. Which would be more than 95% of my updates yet!

2) A lot of new places and clothes.

3) Very complex and elaborate light settings and scene adjustments. The work I pu...

Trying on the bridal gown (lil bonus teaser)

Creating this scene is actually pretty demanding. Especially if you want it to look nice! But I'm almost done with it, so there will also be the "Aiden event" teaser soon.

Let's choose a wedding dress for the bride-to-be

Sophia, Liam and Olivia (Cathy's sis) are helping Cathy to choose her wedding dress.

I gave Cathy a little make over to make her look even more beautiful which took a while. Plus it took also a while to find the perfect character which looks like her sis.

PS: There are two teaser pics in case you didn't notice.

A "tutoring date" made by Sophia Parker

As agreed, Sophia picks up Emma from school and takes her to her home for the arranged tutoring for Dylan.

Some good and some "not so good" news

Well, let's say that the "not so good" news for you will turn into much better news for you shortly afterwards.

So, the "not so good" news for you are that I will have a post-correction surgery (of the surgery in Korea last year) on Wednesday this week. But it will take place in Germany, so I will already be back home one day after. This means I won't be able to work only Tue, Wed and Thu. So here we come to the good news. I go...

A little preliminary talk before it starts

Ava and Sophia have a little preliminary talk before "it" finally starts.

Pay attention what you write here. Inappropriate comments will be deleted!

A little preview of the events of playable day 13

First of all, there will very likely be a time jump of one week after the current playable day, when I also will check and edit some things in my script, making sure to not forget anything. So, this preview might be only temporarily and could change a little bit later. But it also could stay like that.

Anyway, this is how it looks for now:

Morning

1) Literature lesson (Aiden's 4th task) + a bonus sc...

Could have made a pretty nice machine:)

Good news! Both of the Asus 3090s are working well! I also don't hear much of a coil whine.

So, I can finally start to render the scenes!

Nursing home day 4

Mrs. Collins, the senior nurse asked Sophia to wear a nurse uniform from now on. But this won't be the only new thing at this day.

Unfortunately, it's a pain in the ass to render right now and this is the only time out of 50 tries, the render reached at least 18k iterations and even here didn't finish. See my next post about the annoying current situation of the development.

0.130 work started (Changes for the next update)

I'm currently preparing the events (story-wise) for the next update and will start with the development very soon.

Events of 0.130:

Noon:

1) Nursing home (1st side job) OR home schooling (2nd side job)

2) Aiden's 3rd task

Noon/Afternoon:

3) Emma/Dylan OR Sophia/Dylan

Some news and changes

1) Since I replaced ...

A happy new year! (+ some "new year's info")

I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year!!!

Just wanted to share briefly some changes for the next update.

1) Since the game will be developed in 1080p from now on, I'm currently working on a way to upload only small patches with the new content, so that you don't need to downlaod the whole thing over and over again.

2) It seems that there are some people out there who seems to have big problems...

Release time period for Vers. 0.115

0.115 release: between Dec 26 and Dec 30

Content: around 470 renders spread over 4 events

I'll start working on update 0.130 already around Jan 6th. Since I'm done with my house moving and there's also not much else to do, the next update should be finished quicker.

Visiting Don Morello's brother in jail

Don't worry. Sophia will speak alone with him.

It's on her how "happy" she will leave Don Morello's brother behind which will also have bearing on Don Morello's mood.

Surprising Liam at work

Sophia thought about some special surprise for her husband at his work. This event is alternatively to visiting Morello's brother in prison.

Meeting Vicky's boyfriend

Sophia finally meets Vicky's boyfriend DeShawn she's already told her about.

Meeting up with Vicky (1080p)

Hope you didn't forget that fiery beauty:)

Ready for another morning shower (1080p)

Please don't share this teaser nowhere! Thank you!

Waiting for the shower partner

Another (completely normal?) shower in the morning.

The first real teaser in (upscaled) 1080p!

720p vs 1080p (upscaled)

OK, I played around a little bit with a program someone recommended me (greetings to  Britt Runa;)).

Here's the first render of the new update in 720p (the bigger image) and the 1080p upscaled version. The other two are also first in 720p and the second in upscaled 1080p. I think for a temporary solution it could be fine. (Maybe even for a durable???) The only catch is that the image size gets also 2x larger but which also...

Update plan

First of all: I just checked for the new RTX 3090 (I didn't even know about it yet) and that thing has got 10.500 cuda  cores (more than twice as much as my current Titan RTX!) and 24 GB RAM.  So, after the next playable day I will let me build a system with 4 RTX 3090 and 1080p will render even much faster than currently the 720p. Then I will only need to confer with a programmer about the "patch updates" to reduce the dow...

Just a thought

Since a long time I wish to render my art in 1080p (Full HD) and getting the most out of it.

The biggest problem was the game size due to the larger image files and also much longer render time.

So, I thought about something. It looks like after the upcoming playable day 12 (Day 19), I will do another time jump in the story. This could be a good opportunity to finish the game as Part 1 and start a Part 2 in 1080p and fulf...

Some further important information

1) My moving is really killing me at the moment. There's every day countless of s**t to do. Every day deliveries, building ups, installations, paper work, contracts, invoices, phone calls and many problems. Some things are defective and need to be replaced. A lot of trash every day to be disposed of and so on.

This is how I'm living at the moment:  2020-09-29 21:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post

My statement to the update speed matter

As promised, here’s my statement to the matter of getting help and releasing updates faster.

Many believe in a miracle. They think that if you’ll get someone, the updates will immediately be released every month with over 1000 renders and no quality loss. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works! Especially not via Internet and in my case.

People also think that the market is full of erotic VN artists which have simil...

What's next

After I spent the last days with the annoying move to my new apartment and hardly slept longer than 2-3 hours, I went away over the weekend to clear my mind.

I'll be back on Tuesday and then start with the work on the new update. In the next days you'll get the promised statement about my work, why the updates take the time they take and why it's not so easy to find productive help.

As for the next update (0.115), it will...

It's finally working!

 Liam finally installed the jacuzzi. 

Just a little bonus teaser as long as you're waiting for the update.

Advance information about Update 0.100

Just started with the art editing part.

Update 0.100 will have 1327 renders! By far the most ever. In comparison, update 0.025 had around 280 renders! I also tried to enhance the art (style) for the upcoming update a little bit.

As for the release time frame. Best-case scenario: first week of September. But very likely not later than the second week. It's difficult to give you a concrete ...

Here we go again

Back in the casino to speak to Don Morello about a solution out of their dilemma.

I'm currently working on the very last event. I hope I can finish it this week and then start with the render editing stuff.