Project 10 (and others) - Update 2 - 05/13/2023 (Patreon)

Hi guys!

Holy cheese, I did it guys! I fix Ina!

It took me around 3 days to work it out. It is a new experience where I need to hand sculpt her hair myself. Usually, I would spend most of my time using Curves to make the hair. However, Ina's case was so different.

I literally stacked boxes on Ina's hair, connecting them one by one, and merging them into (resembling) a single point at the top. Truly a stressful and rewarding experience. I can't believe I could pull this off. Ina is now fully rigged and ready for animation.

For the background, it is sort of random. However, I kind of see it in my head during brainstorming and thought, "Yeah, I think that is a good idea for a background with such a premise". The story is mostly about Ina nagging for attention. And it kind of turns into whack-a-mole once the viewer starts to get a bit irritated. Eventually, she was tied and the rest is history.

Besides that, Selen Express 2 is coming! Finally, a sequel. It's going to be shorter than the original, definitely. It also still does not have a lot of animations, but you can take a look. Hopefully, I could finish it next week.

In addition, I'm also currently making a development framework to make a visual novel. This includes the dialogue creator, under the name of "Miraigata Dialogue Creator Framework" or MDCF, alongside "Miraigata Visual Novel Framework" or MVNF. MDCF is designed for creating dialogues for VN, while MVNF is for integrating MDCF into the VN Scenes, where it will decide what kind of sprites it would use, whose character is talking right now, dialogue logging, CG Management, and the usual VN stuff.

Why do I make this? Because I wanted to make a VN. Probably not related to Niji since I want to publish it. The motivation comes when I decided to take a look at the local job market. It's not that long since I graduated from Engineering uni, and the minimum wage is $2/h (two dollars per hour). I figure that, maybe I could work to fund things that I like to do, like making models and animations. However, less than 10% of the employers were interested in paying minimum wage or following the 40-hour workweek. The ones that did pay minimum wage (but not following the 40-hour workweek) are usually big corpos that have like >5 steps interview process. I keep looking until it really gets on my nerves, and I said "FUCK IT! WE'RE GOING BIG!" and so it goes. I'm going solo, simultaneously becoming the designer, programmer, and artist for the project. The project will be built on Unity. I will add more people when I have something to show first.

Yeah, I'm kind of packed with activities right now. And nothing gives me more ambition to make more content than some corpos saying, "We're not going to pay you minimum wage nor follow the 40-hour work week standard that was set by the government".

We might not see the results just yet. But God damn, I would do my best to speed up MVNF and MDCF ASAP. Then I would have more time to make the character design, game mechanics, and other kinds of shenanigans, alongside providing more content for my beloved patrons.

I hope you enjoy this week's progress.

Project 10 - Hair Redesign and Dress Texture

Project 10 - Rigging and Shape Keys

Project 10 - Hair Redesign and Dress Texture [NSFW]

Project 10 - "Ad-hoc" Underwear Design

Project 10A Background Preview

Project 5C Preview