Dev update and news April 2020 (Patreon)

Hey everyone, I hope everyone of you is doing well and safe in your homes.

It has been a very tough month since our country went lockdown. 

My wife got sick and we were super worried if she got hit by the virus. 

She is very susceptible because of her asthma.

Thank Odin, it was just a normal fever and she's fine now. 

Despite the work I do, is basically quarantine in the mancave  ever since; going out lately for supplies feels like the walking dead.

Again, I hope all of you are well and will never have to go through anything worse.

Now on to the development, I am finalizing the editor and have successfully integrated the map maker. Unfortunately, there's no update for the patron version yet since it is a different build than my dev tool. 

This virus and current events have put a toll in my coding ability that I could not focus on anything algorithmic, so I decided to do the patron animation first. Drawing takes less mental stress than coding.

Anyway, this piece, like the patron editor will have 3 different body types and lots of face variations. For now, Paperbagman's head will suffice. I might commission B-Spike's friend to do the head designs, but again for now, the animation and positioning is there ready to be edited.

In this animation, CG's arm and legs won't also appear opaque like that. it will randomly fade.

Her eyes and her mouth will also have different and separate expressions. 

But since they will be dynamic, I could not show it all in one gif.

Here's the blink. It will be random and will change expression randomly as well.

Mouth animation. Same as the eyes, it will be randomly expressed.

Below is a cross-section / xray version of the loop.

Unfortunately, that's all I can show at the moment for Isekai as everything else i am currently working on are for the technical backend. I'll also be cleaning up B-spike's sprites to be in game and many other stuff that I hope this virus don't end up fucking.

Now for some other important news:

A few months ago I mentioned Origins getting either paused or getting a manga or getting a new animator.

Well, it is still paused. It won't get a manga because Alya is busy. 

However the animator I mentioned that time is technically available. 

Origins won't see the light of day, still (since I really want the manga get pushed through as priority) however, its game engine and its 'Finisher' (charged deathblows system) is something I still want to pursue.

Now, if you remember Daryll, a good friend of mine who helped code and fix Isekai got married last year, had a better opportunity and worked somewhere else.

The badnews, however, his employer is based in Italy. And there have been no news about the project, no news about the condition of his employer, and the pending payment from his last month's work will probably never gonna be arriving. 

So, come May, he might do the Origins game for us and help in Isekai as well.

FORBIDDEN ARMS:

Origins have been a child engine of an old game of mine, Forbidden arms. But for this project Daryll will be coding, we will continue with forbidden arms instead because it already had sprites to be based on.

If you remember Sigurd's samurai/zombie/slasher demo, that's basically what he'll work on.

So here's Forbidden Arms: Bloodlust!

Initial character design and sketch. The protagonist is a Katana wielding buff hottie.

I want to do a sweet brown character this time, so she's half Filipina and half Japanese. I haven't named her yet tho. Any suggestions?

Full body. I opted for a simple design so her sprites are easy to animate.

And speaking of sprites, B-Spike has been at it after his break. This was done blazingly fast because I already had the animations for the sprites in Sigurd's. He just had to reskin it.

Lewd scenes and animator:

Pinoytoons will be doing the animations. Well, not directly 100% Since I bet these kind of work have assistants, but basically this is a reskinning deal just like Sigurd's sprite. Meaning he already has existing animations that will just have our protagonist's texture on.

This game is not 100% reskin tho, we will still have original scenes, but to speed production and initial demo release up, we take this path. 

pinoytoons character turn around model version:

Sample animations:

They've already done quite a ton of re-animations for this game now and we'll get about 20+

here's some of the scene preview thumbnails:

So I hope you also approve of this project and get Daryll some work to do for his family.

I also wanted to get this out in steam and at the same time get an alternative to patreon as I will badly need money this coming JUNE.

Chris Armin will be back animating for us this June!

...But we need to be able to afford him first. lol. 

At the campaign's current rate, there's no way to rehire him if we don't get alternatives or new patrons. Don't worry though, we will have contracts this time.

Anyway, that's all for now. Again, everyone be careful and take care of yourselves. Thank you all for keeping me and my family supported in this end of the world shithole we are all currently in.

-kReig out!

PS: No, this is no April fool's joke. I'm a troll, but we don't do that here.