Captain's Log #10 - August 2023 (Patreon)

Greetings Spice Seekers! 🌞

Welcome again to another issue of our monthly devlog! We don’t let the summer distractions take us away from work, and we continue pushing further with the Soulgasm development!
Ready for the details? Because we are!

🔧 Technical Update

In the tech section, we continue integrating new game art and expanding the technical solutions for the minigames and spicy mechanics! There is a lot of fine-tuning when including so many bouncy objects, if you know what I mean 👀 Besides that, we have:

• Fixed a lot of minor bugs and polished things in the code that didn't look too sexy so far,
• Added a setup to the camera movement in the group conversation - so you know who is talking when more characters are on screen!
• Added a feedback-gathering tool from inside the game! Now, if there is an issue, we can easily know what, who, where and why 🤔
• Redesigned the game interface (UI) and integrated it for the dialogue, menu, minigames, map navigation, and sex scenes 😎 Now it’s fancier than ever! ✨
• Started implementing SFX and sound system 🎷

On top of that, we’ve got some questions about the progress tracker: We stopped updating it because we thought it was irrelevant, but if you are curious, we can bring it back! Let us know in the comments! ✨

📝 Writing

While the story continues, we swapped the writing workflow for a quicker one, where the Writer just writes (as a writer should) and a trained monkey 🙈 puts the dialogues into Unity! This means we have a bit of a backlog in how quickly the new stories appear available in the gameplay, but also that the writing generally goes quicker and juicier 💦!

🔼 Example of a single conversation scenario in Unity, one of the MANY in Soulgasm! 🙊

🎨Art

We don’t slow down with the assets production 🎨, and even if we operate now on placeholders and know that the game will look n o t  p e r f e c t  until very short before the demo launch, we are happy with every new piece appearing! Long story short:

✨ We blocked out some new kick-ass backgrounds with details for you to explore! We can’t wait to show you more about them !!

✨ We did a huge rework of the Soulgasm game interface to ditch the heavy wooden frames that made it look like a game about pirates 🏴‍☠️ for a sexier, more elegant delicate look. More about this very soon! ✨

✨ We are almost there with the game intro as well - it’s taking some time, but we love what we have done so far and hope you will too 💜

✨ We’ve got new steamy 👀 sex scenes in the making, and the good news is that they will be playable too!

✨ We’ve got the cutest Moruga ready for rig and animation 💃

🧙‍♂️ Team update

And last but not least, we’ve got Louthri, the weird cat-mermaid, officially joining the Team! Louthri is doing a great mermaid job in the underwater art department 🧜‍♀️ and you might not even know, but you’ve seen some of her pieces already, Seekers!

🧠 Final Thoughts

We now feel the wind in the sails as we move towards having the demo ready for you as soon as we possibly can. Not only because we want you, Seekers, to finally check what we’ve brewed so far, but also because we want to hear your ideas and get your opinions so that we can improve and make the game we all dream about!

Thank you for supporting us while we make it real!

Stay awesome!
--Polly 💌

🔎TL:DR;

• ✨ Louthri joins the Team as a 2D artist! 🧜‍♀️
• 🔧Redesigned and implemented game interface,
• 🔧Added camera movement setup, fixed plenty of bugs, and added feedback tool from inside the game,
• 🔧Started implementing SFX and sound system 🎷
• 📝Game Demo writing and dialogue moving to the game engine continues,
• 🎨Game intro art continues,
• 🎨Game backgrounds at full speed 🖼️
• 🎨Moruga dialogue art in progress 👀
• 🎨New extra hot scene featuring Nova begins rigging!🧯
• 🎨Two new spicy scenes in the making 🔥