Making a Demo
As Paws has been taking the time to answer the questions of the players and update them on what is going down, I have been stitching the demo together for release. As somebody asked in the last post, yes, my art style has been polished a bit. I decided to use techniques that worked better for me, in the coloring and shading aspect of my drawing. We think this looks better, along with being much more simple. While you can input their name, we refer to them as Lucas and Lucy by default.
Not only is it more visually pleasing in my opinion, but this means that bodily changes will be much easier to make...Which means getting those finished faster. The needs systems have almost been touched up completely. The demo won't have EVERY aspect of the game in, but we want to give you enough to sample the new systems and set up. I could add to everything Paws has told you, but I believe a picture is worth a thousand words, so enjoy some sneak peeks.
The old cooking script now actually has a core use! Yay!
The player has their own speech bubbles. Also Lucas and futa Lucy learn the hard way to clean up after themselves.
Leftover evidence from personal fun time must be hidden.
[chill] good for you but what happened to the people helping you?
ReplyDeleteYou'll get your answer if you read the second paragraph and comments on the previous post.
DeleteTo Chill: as we explained a few times, the team has inner troubles a fee hac to prune it down to people who were doing good actual work and didn't cause unnecessary drama. Now it's just me and Nekomama for now.
DeleteTo Izelith: Thank you, random citizen!
[chill] sorry I just now say something and I am sorry to hear that and maybe you can look for people to help you out on legendofkrystal.com you know they make 18+ games too so try seeing if you can find help there I love your work so I help in what little I can keep up the good work ;>
DeleteIs the clothing already changable (with visibility) in the upcoming demo? It gives me eye cancer. :(
ReplyDeleteThe player will have different clothes in the actual game. However, you have the option to walk around naked in the demo.
DeleteHeyo Nekomatic and Paws,
ReplyDeletePreviously I wrote about optimizations. I ran the Main character topic post picture through the paths I'd use. It went from 467KB to 148KB, same resolution. I used a diffusion dither, GIF format with a 32 color pallete and set the white area to stark green, and made stark green the transparency color. That's a 69% reduction in size!
That's amazing! We'll certainly look into it, definitely worth it. Less packing time for us, and less downloading weight for you!
DeleteI really like the art style improvement, particularly when it comes to the character's noses.
ReplyDeleteYep!
DeleteI'm looking forward to it. I belief in you! :D
ReplyDeleteAlso, hi Paws! :3
Hi right back at you, friendly citizen!
DeleteWow, lot's changed! Nice to see you gals back at work!
ReplyDeleteWe're glad to be back at work as well. The game is much neater and nicer to work with now. And the new Dev team cast though smaller, definitely feels more comfortable.
DeleteI really do like the improvement to the art style, so much cleaner. Also the two MC's look so fancy, almost, what's the word.... Posh, yeah that's the one. As if they are high class nobles with an image to protect. I like it, really adds to the idea that they are supposed to be innocent and hide this aspect from most people.
ReplyDeleteThough the screen shots bring up a question. Well Futa Lucy have both a dick and a vagina, or just a dick by itself? Or would I need to use a potion like in the original game to have both?
We are still contemplating the question because it has more weight now, since it does connect to Lucy's mom and Izuna's daughter, Nora. Plus, the hiding if the indecency.
DeleteJust curious, but do you ladies have a preferred release window for the demo.
DeleteWe hope to have it ready either before or right after ner years if the Christmas season will prove too taxing.
DeleteEverything you've shown so far looks great! I can't wait till I get my hands on the demo
ReplyDeleteAnd we can't wait to hand it over to you folks! We're super excited about the reboot.
DeleteWould there be like able to release the demo before X'mas or end of this year?
ReplyDeleteWe are about 75% done with the demo. I'd say it's highly possible.
Deletewill there still be pregnancy stages and breasts stages too?
ReplyDeleteYep! Though it will be a while until we get to that.
DeleteWould there be any upgrade on that system? It was abit raw in old collar.
DeleteThat depends on what do you mean by upgraded. Technically, we will polish it up, since this time around we know our wy around programming it efficiently better.
DeleteUm, what I mean was like make it as an independent menu screen and have deeper details for both offspring and pregnancy informations. Such as the one in Violated Heroin e(ofcorce it should be simplar then that... that one was the top of the line and have hundreds of men to kept it float for years)
DeleteActually, since you brought it up, we are working on HUD systems and quick 'check' menus. One such feature we will be testing in the demo is the needs HUD. While this is my first basic attempt at a custom HUD, I am going to see how the players like this attribute, and refine it from there.
DeleteFor now it only shows the needs meters, but it will show a little more information in the actual game. Whether it's menstrual state/pregnancy length, or something else. But of course, as mentioned before, we want to see how everyone likes this before we advance from there.
As an old fan of VH, I did love the impregnation and pregnancy system the most, so I can see possible pregnancy menus in the future game.
This is the main reason why I decided to switch up my art style, as it was a little more difficult making body add-ons, but now it should be easier to make them and sync them up to the player profiles just right.
DeleteLong time silent fan of the original Collars, sorry to hear about the troubles, but glad to hear you're still moving forward! Eagerly awaiting more from the team, and want to give my support as I can to a darling project!
ReplyDeleteHopefully, you'll get the demo before the new years!
DeleteI am still here cuz I hope to see a come back I may not say much but I will be here tell the day they call it quits collars true fan [chill]
ReplyDeleteMarry X.mas.
ReplyDelete[chill] can't wait to see that demo paws its makes me go off and on this site going is it there yet? and its true I have been doing that for 7 days it seems
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the new project!
ReplyDeleteIt is abit early, but: Happy new years!
ReplyDeleteHow do i get out the hause?
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