Long Talk and Decisions! Polls are coming back!!! (Patreon)

Hello my friends! I hope everything is fine with you!

We have a lot to talk. If you're in our discord, you already have an idea of everything that is happening. If you're not there, I'm here today to tell you everything! (And to invite you to join discord by clicking here!)

We have a lot of good news and open horizons to follow.

(Watch out. This post contains +18 images. Watch your surroundings before go down in this post!!!!)

The first thing I want to talk about is Live2d! If you don't know what it is, I'm going to tell you right now. Live2D software technology dynamically animates original 2D illustrations. And it can be implemented in Ren'py. Something like this:

It's still have some limitations in Ren'py, but I already spoke with the Ren'py creator and in the upcoming update I think everything we need will be implemented, and we will step up our game! Of course it will take a lot of hard work, but as you can see, it worth! I'm studying and learning to make this possible. Here is the test I did with Influencing sprites:

The sprites of Influencing needs adjustments to work right in Live2d, but we can get an idea on how it will looks like. With Live2d it will be possible to move the char, create expressions in a easier way, add physics to the hair and boobs, Adjust hair size, adjust body part sizes and a many more!

At the moment I'm depending on the Ren'py update to make it possible. But we will get there.

Beside it, I'm doing some tests with AI and the results are AMAZING! I'm not even kidding or exaggerating. I'm loving it! The day/night animation on the top of this post was made using AI and the old Mary's house as base. I'm implementing a system where the day and night will work like in the animation, according to the time of day. I'm using it to revamp some backgrounds and create new ones, Like this one for the beauty center:

I'm using an anime style. And I want to make the same with all backgrounds in game. I think this is prettier than the old ones.

This one for forest entrance:

Anyways...

I'm generating some backgrounds and some of the polls in this month will be about it. We need to decide some backgrounds and the options in it.

We also need to decide some paths the game will take in the next update. I'm finally working on the police systems, codes and backgrounds. Our good friend on discord, RechtWertig, is creating a beautifull police uniform for us! Everything is coming together! And we have a big decision on how to proceed with Live2d. But I'll explain everything in the polls.

Now, out of the scope of Influencing, I want to show you guys something. I have a concept game in mind and with all this AI thing, I'm starting to see a way to make it happen. With AI, I'm able to create realistic graphics to my game. Something like this:

My game concept runs around the old times. The player must create his own tribe to survive in prehistoric times.

The game will have some fixed characters and many faceless npcs, so they can be part of tribes and wars. It's just a concept game and at some point I might work on it. I plan to add history for main chars, of course. My question is, would you like to play a game like this? Depending on the feedback, I can check the possibilities. Who know?!

Anyways my friends. This post is already big enough. Stay up because I'll open polls today and/or tomorrow and things go crazy in Influencing!

Once again, thank you so much for your support. Take care and goodbye!