Dev Diary, February 2nd, 2023 (Patreon)

This week, my computer has been working its way through the render queue while I had to tend to quite a few other things.

Leap of Faith is coming to GOG.com
And since it was #NSFW-week on gog.com, I and my representative there decided to give it a push to get the store page up. It took slightly longer than expected due to some dlc problems and I no longer had the old promotion video, so I had to make a new one. And I had to keep changing it because Youtube kept tagging it as 18+ long after I had uploaded it. So in the end I made several revised versions trying to figure out which part of the video actually caused the 18+ tagging. Thank you so much for that, Youtube.

The store page is up at: https://www.gog.com/en/game/leap_of_faith. Release date will be 17th of February.

Motion capture
I've ordered a motion capture suit to help improve animations. But just so you're all aware, you won't be seeing lewd scenes in the game which are me and the missus acting out the scene beforehand in a mo-cap suit. :) It's meant for improving animations and poses generally. I've helped a local theater group with music arrangements, so as a return favor, they will be doing a lot of animation work to give me some data I can use for the game. The suit is still being prepped by the company who sold it, and they told me they do around a month of testing and calibration on the suit, so you won't see the result for u4ia episode 1, as most of the animation work is already done.

Cece best girl?
In a knockout style competition with 127 other VN girls, Cece took home the Best Girl award over at the AVN_Lovers sub-reddit. Here is the thank you render I did for those who voted. Big version of this image (and by that I mean, really, really big) attached to this post.

Steam Deck improvements for LoF (on Steam)
Valve sent me a Steam dev-kit Deck, so I will be adding some small Steam Deck quality-of-life improvements for LoF in the near future.

'Thank you for the music'
The musicians I used for LoF keep sending me feedback about how nice it is to see people coming from LoF and commenting on their youtube videos. Thank you for doing so. You show them that it's worth licensing their music for games in this genre.

Poll: Should I make a none adult version of LoF?
I get this question fairly often, and I decided to hear your opinion on this as you are all my investors and should have a say in how I spend my time working. If I do a none adult version of LoF, I want to put a bit of effort into it rather than just trying to remove everything that can be considered 'pornographic'. Which means some reworked scenes. If I were to do this, it would probably mean a 2-3 week delay for u4ia. So, for the poll, should I spend that time making a none adult version of LoF? I have also gotten two offers to make a movie out of Leap of Faith, but it's only initial talk/ideas, so it's far from decided or finalized in any way. And in case LoF ever becomes a movie, of course, it will not be an adult version.

Other than that, there's not much to add for this week. Have yourself a wonderful weekend, and stay safe out there.

// Drifty