Unreal Engine Magical Girl Ava and The Cursed Harness - Game Development Journal

[Aridecan]

Magical Girl Ava Game Development Journal

I hoped to have something more to show before I started writing the journal. But I find that I need a kick in the pants to keep things going. So, I decided to start this development thread for the game I’ve been writing and researching for the past year. Now that I’m actually to the point of creating visual content for it.

Hi, I’m Aridecan. I’m a software engineer with 25 years of experience with C/C++, with 7 of those working for one of the evil empires. I am also an amateur writer who’s found that writing vanilla works, while enjoyable, is not that satisfying. I find that writing smut/porn to be much more satisfying and stimulating. Most of my fiction is in long-form, over 100k words. And I’ve decided to brush off my game dev experience and get back into development, this time doing it all myself. At least until I have my initial build and maybe chapter 1 done before bringing in outside help.

Let me introduce Magical Girl Ava. Megan Higgins is a 19-year-old ‘retired’ magical girl who’s spent t ten years fighting the wrath demons that invaded her home world. She started when she was eight and retired just after graduating high school. She’s spent the last year hiding from her family, past, and war and has come to her new home to start a new, quiet life.

Little does she know that the tech boom on her new home-world has a nefarious past, and she’ll be pulled back into the battle, this time with the agents of lust.

Main Genres:

Corruption, BDSM, Bondage, Female Protagonist, Robots, Demons, Uniforms, Exhibitionism, Inhibition

So what do I have done so far?

Story-wise:

• The prologue (tutorial) and chapter 1 plot points have been put down, and several scenes have been written
• The story arc goals for chapter 2->5 have been written down, and the final fight/scene/climax for chapter 6 is done
• Chapters 7->11 have their arc written, but I don’t know if they will make it into the first game or I’ll save it for the second.
• World history and tone points are outlined. Basically, there are two colonies: the planetary one, where the game takes place with no minors present (mana poisoning), and the space colony, where the families are, about 36 hours away.

Tech-wise:

• Major tools have been chosen. Unreal Engine 5.3+, Blender, and Photoshop for the DCS.
• Written the script for four videos on DevOps and Unreal Engine, how to set up the project and get the builds created by Jenkins. The first three have been posted to YouTube. The fourth has had the primary video captured, just need to record the voice over and then edit.
• Pipelines have been set up for a main (Steam/Twitch safe) game, and a Spicy DLC using UE Gamefeatures Framework. (4th video above is how to set that up with Jenkins)
• Almost all the features will be defined in components so that the components in the Spicy DLC will override the vanilla components as needed. Like most of the combat system. And extending most of the quests/adding new quests
• My goal is to automate everything that can be automated. Like animation retargeting, and chaos cloth ML simulation. (Those are examples, I have to research them for automation).

Art-wise:

• Spent the last two years working with Blender / Clipstudio (thanks for going to subscription and forcing me to go over to Adobe that I already have a subscription for other reasons). Decent at Hardsurface modeling, and almost to the point where I’m happy with humanoid character design.
• Detail Descriptions are written of Megan, Ava, Tamara (roommate), Celeste (roommate), and Tierney (Primary Antagonist).

Planned Features / Decisions:

• Using UE Chaos Clothing for the clothing system. With clothing destruction/degradation done with Perlin Noise opacity masks in the material
• Action-RPG with wasd controls, and auto lock on. Much like MMO controls. Point and click movement will be optional. Right mouse will be panning, scroll wheel will be zooming
• Combat Sex and capture: By both sides (only in Spicy DLC). Can be stun locked, but aim is not to remove all control from player, player will always have some sort of option, they just might not work
• Jumping Puzzles will be part of the experience but optional (story reason)
• With clothing distruction, Ava’s uniform can be destroyed and will need to be rebuilt over time. She also has a submissive outfit, that she might be stuck wearing.

General Art Style:

• 4 block Cel-Shaded, with simplified textures having mostly the same color
• Simplified pallet
• Lower Poly-count (better than low, but aiming for 20->40k triangles per model at most, instead of 80-100k)

This week’s goal:

• Work on the 4th DevOps video on automating the build of the spicy DLC.
• Get the basic terrain for the map, with automaterials in place, and start work on the city layout with city builder
• Work on the main character mesh and hopefully be satisfied with it.

My goal is to post progress about once a week. But for now I’ll leave you with a couple of renders of Ava’s collar.



Spoilers Below: Really do not read this if you don't want it spoiled

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[Rosvos86]

Wow, from what I read this is an very ambitious project! As a bondage fan I'm really excited to see another game of this genre and this one seems pretty much well planned which is a good start for a development thread. Can I ask you what type of BDSM/bondage content will this game have? Like light bondage with simple restraints or hard bondage with latex, tentacles and sex toys? Thank you and good luck!

 

[Aridecan]

Well, it will be moderate to hard. I take inspiration from several games like The Moral Sword of Asagi and, of course, the devious mods for Skyrim. There will be some stealth missions in there, or escape missions where Ava is wearing naught but an armbinder, collar, bondage boots and ballgag. So there will definitely be Leather, Steel, and latex. In chapter 4 there will probably be a slime golem. And since demons are involved it might have tentacles.

But there will definitely be outfits for Ava, that leave her properly bound and exposed, and she'll have to find a way out of them. I just don't want to say too much. But bondage will be a bit part of the game. There probably won't be total immobilization, and things like being tied down spread eagle. One of my major goals is to always have the player able to do something, so being tied down spread eagle might be a bit hard to escape.

But you're welcome, and thanks for the good luck. I do have the landscape modeled in Gaea right now, and importing into Unreal. I'll see if I can get the automaterial I found on youtube into place and we just might have a colourful terrain.

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week 2 2024-02-11:

I didn’t hit the goals, but I did get some work done on the opening sequence. The opening sequence is the introduction of Meghan and her trip to her new world. So, I started to lay out the spaceport where her passenger shuttle would touch down. With Sci-fi, there is an element of realism and making something technically possible. So, I fell down the rabbit hole of how a practical spaceport would be and what it would need to hook into the rest of the game. That led to the shuttle, how big the shuttle would be, and so forth. Let’s just say I started to work on the passenger seats and how those would work with the shuttle and build out from there.

Of course, I couldn’t leave well enough alone with it, and made sure that it would work nicely with the corruption aspect of the game, and making sure that good old steel cuffs would work with the seat, and to make sure that if our heroine were bound in the seat naked, she would be able to survive the 3G acceleration that the shuttle would use to get back into orbit. You know, practical things like that. The good news is that I’ve also written a good portion of the opening dialog and how it will fit in with the tutorial of the game. The important part for me is that I want to make sure that the opening sequence before the player gets control of the main actor is 30 seconds, or at most 60 seconds. I don’t want the opening sequence to be a wall of text for 20 minutes before you can actually do something. Also, there’s a big part of ‘show, don’t tell.’ And with video games, this is weighed more towards the show and discovery than blatantly telling the player what is happening. I think a lot of games fail at this point.

I’ve also thought about the control scheme some more. I want to make sure it’s fairly dynamic and offers a wide range of options for those people who are insane like that. I’ve been racking my creativity about this. I’m trying to make the decision of real-time vs turn-based combat. The type of game I like to play is more real-time than turn-based. But real-time combat has limitations on what type of skills you can get access to quickly. And turn-based allows you to have many skills available. Since the player can decide what they want to do in each case, both are capable of online co-op, but real-time leads to a better experience for everyone involved and not having to wait for people to make decisions. Also real time leads to some of the other mechanics I want to involve.

Anyway what I’m thinking of is a two sequence skill active sequence. This will hopefully work well with both the controller and mouse and keyboard actions, though more optimized for mouse and keyboard.

This is currently under design and will probably change.

Action	Keyboard and Mouse	Controller
Look	Mouse	Right Thumb Stick
Forward	W	Left Thumb Stick Up
Strafe Left	A	LTS Left
Strafe Right	D	LTS Right
Backwards	S	LTS Down
Walk	Left Ctrl	Lesser Pressure on LTS
Run	-	Full Pressure on LTS
Sprint	Shift	LTS Click
Jump	Space	Bottom Face Button
Dodge	V	RTS Click
Skill 1	1	Left Face Button
Skill 2	2	Top Face Button
Skill 3	3	Right Face Button
Skill 4	4	Left Bumper + Left Face Button
Skill 5	5	Left Bumper + Top Face Button
Skill 6	6	Left Bumper + Right Face Button
Skill 7	7	Left Trigger + Left Face Button
Skill 8	8	Left Trigger + Top Face Button
Skill 9	9	Left Trigger + Right Face Button
Use	E	Right Trigger
Switch Weapon	Tab	Right Bumper

I still have the D-pad unassigned. With the double key activation and 3 weapon groups, there can be 243 skills mapped to the controller, though I doubt anyone will use that many. But there will be a in game UI for assigning these as the players want. At the start of the game the player won’t be able to select different weapons, maybe in the later part of chapter one they’ll be able to pick up knives, clubs and swords I haven’t decided. It will be introduced in chapter 2 as a new feature. I don’t want to go stupid on overloading the players at the start with what they can do.

So at the start there will be four action groups:

• Punches
  • High
  • Mid
  • Low
• Kicks
  • High
  • Mid
  • Low
• Blocks
  • High
  • Mid
  • Low
• Grapple – Grab, pins, clothing strip, bondage, sex, this might lead to triple activation

To punch mid, the player on keyboard would do 1 -> 2. On the controller, it would be LeftFaceButton -> TopFaceButton. I think combat will be a bit slower but still fun, especially as I add more skills throughout the story. Just think of the possibilities as player skill with the system grows.

This post is getting long, so I’ll leave you with a render of the passenger chair. It’s what I think will be good for a 3G acceleration / weightless environment. It has a very tall back for one class of engineered humans.



Next week, if I don’t have much more progress to show, I’ll go over the Resource Optimized Humans (station rats) and Heavy Worlders (no one dares to call them names). I’ll also talk about some of the background, one of the alliances of worlds, and the mining planet and how it fits into the galaxy.

My goal for this week:

• Finish the passenger shuttle for the opening sequence, and set up the shaders in Blender and Unreal Engine.

 

[Mattress]

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week 3: 2024-02-19:

I added an extra day to the week since it’s a long weekend, and this is a weekend project. I have been working on the shuttle for the opening scene and made some decisions on it.

The basic skin of the shuttle is in place. The colors are picked, and the doors, wings and control surfaces are in place as well. I’m still learning the best way to set up the UV maps and textures to get the Anime/Toon look I’m going for. I’ve provided a few images of how the shuttle looks. There’s still some things I want to add before I import it into Unreal Engine. Like the landing gear, and the mechanics on the passenger doors.



The shuttle is mostly a lifting body design but also has variable wings like the F-14.

I was going to talk about the various different humans that will show up in world. And some of the background of the universe.

For those familiar with my works Elknid’s Behemoth and Agent Lenna, this will be part of the same universe. There’s three types of humans, only slightly changed from basic humans.

Normal Humans:

These are your every day humans, you would expect to see around. They’re typically what you would find on Earth. They make up around 85% of the population on the planet. Nothing much to say about them

Resource Optimized Humans:

These are also known as Station Rats. Their genome has been changed to make them smaller, with males topping out at 155cm, and females at 145cm. They have slightly larger heads in proportion to their bodies.

They’re optimized for remote stations and places with lighter gravity than typical planets. Since they’re smaller than normal humans, the derogatory name Station Rat is often used to refer to them. They’ve also been optimized to eat less, and work in hotter climate conditions. Basically the corporations higher them to fill out the stations they don’t want to fund to the level needed for regular humans and heavy worlders.

Since they’re smaller, they have a lower body temperature, and usually wear more clothes than the average human does.

Heavy Worlders:

These are humans who have been changed to work on worlds of higher gravity and pressure than normal. They have a heavier bone structure, and are taller than average. With males around 215 cm, and females at 200 cm. Designed for remote mining worlds, they’re also less intelligent than normal humans. They’ve been bred to be trusting and gullible. But there are of course outstanding individuals.

With a larger body, they have a higher body temperature, which works well for colder worlds. But on normal worlds they are prone to overheating, and wear less clothing and showing off more skin than normal humans and Station Rats.

Make Up of Society:

The society is very much a dystopian society seen in most cyberpunk genre stories, with large corporations that effectively run different sectors of the galaxy. They are constantly at each other throats, with alliances and wars. The government barely holds them in check with its military might, but really, they’re on the take as well. And as long as a corporation doesn’t do something completely insane than the government won’t do anything.

There’s also constant wars going on between corporations, governments, pirates, and anyone else you can think of. Perfect for a demon invasion to happen. They do happen, and Ava/Meghan was the lead hero in the one against the wrath demons. People in the know, know about her. People who are fans of Magical Girls know of her exploits. But most think it’s silly and not real.

But with the constant wars going on, there’s a lot of fighting, and conscription is a good way to get soldiers. Almost all the male population has been in some sort of conflict and seen a lot of death. In fact, thanks to the wars and primary males being on the front line, there’s a disparity between the sexes on the remote planets. There are typically nine females for every male. And often the males that survive the wars are scooped up by the upper crust to prevent inbreeding. Among the heavy worlders and station rats this is even bigger, since they’ve had their genes fiddled with their population was skewed at the start.

On some worlds, they’ve used artificial insemination to help boost their population, and to try to get back to a normal population balance. Unfortunately, in some sectors, the corporations providing the services are skewing the results to keep the population under control.

About the World of the Game:

The world is a fairly new mining world, only about a hundred years old. It’s an independent world, outside of any of the sector alliances, and was mostly a normal mining world. Primarily basic metals, like Iron, Copper, Zinc, basically very Earth like in it’s distribution of materials. It does not have any of the strange materials that other worlds have to make them special.

But thirty years ago, they struck it big. Some miners found some energy crystals that have never been seen before. And it’s an energy crystal that provides light as well as can be tapped for power. But other strange materials have been found on other planets, that had new applications that they could be used about, causing a tech boom.

This is what the colonists were hoping for. They built a new city, around the mine they found the crystals. They aimed to have two million people living and working there. With skyscrapers filling the skylines.

And just as they were going, disaster struck. Children were getting sick and dying. Adults seemed to be immune, but anyone under the age of eighteen were getting sick. And no-one, rich or poor was immune from whatever it was.

And that wasn’t the worst of it. While the crystals they used drained at a constant rate, when they were removed from the planet that rate increased. If they were pulled from the solar system they disintegrated. Again no-one could figure out why.

This all happened with the last year. People fled the world, and the expected boom fizzled out before it got started. People with families ran from the world and went to the nearby space colony. Anyone who became pregnant was immediately taken off the world and forbidden from stepping on the world again.

This is where Meghan comes into the picture. She’s spent the last year traveling. Using her biometrics to travel along the alliance systems she’s fought for. Being the hero who fought off the wrath demons came with some privileges. But now she’s come to an independent world, not knowing what has been going on and has to make her way.

Goal for the Next Week

• Finish off the shuttle texture
• Start work on the main character again
• Work on the lay out of the space port for the initial scene.

 

[Bondage Queen]

Cool stuff so far. Where are the devops videos you mentioned?

 

[Aridecan]

Thanks. The youtube videos:

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So far just the three, I'm working on the one right now for making what I call a spicy DLC. Basically a DLC that you put all the adult content into so you can publish the core game on steam, and not get banned. Then put the really fun stuff into an easily added DLC.

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week 4: 2024-02-25:

I obviously still have a lot to learn about blender and setting up the animation rigs, and then animating them. But I had success in setting up the bones for the shuttles landing gear. And I am able to get the doors to move like I want them too. I’m not happy with the results just yet, but it shouldn’t take me too long to get something good. Mainly I decided to break some of the rules with bones and IK rigging, and got something that looks nice when it animates.

So let’s talk a bit about combat and how it will be set up. Combat is going to be the biggest thing facing the player and it needs to be engaging, fast, and fun. The goals I have is to never (hardly ever) lock out the player from being able to control their avatar. But there will be stuns and other things that will make things very hard to work on. I’m going to list the requirements that I have (in requirements language).

• All actions will cost stamina
• Stamina will recover in a parabolic fashion. The higher the stamina bar is the faster it will fill.
• Emptying the stamina bar will stun the character.
• Moving costs stamina. Slower walking drains slower than running or sprinting. For the most part this will be hidden as the stamina recovery will be greater than the walking cost, but it will be evident when the character is attacking, vs attacking & moving
• A character will also have a conscious bar. Effectively the character’s hit points. When the character’s conscious bar empties they will be knocked unconscious and ragdoll to the ground
• A character will have a mana pool. Mana pool is filled at a continuous rate, based on environmental factors. (I won’t explain what these are, it’s a plot point, showing up in chapter 2!)
• Mana is keyed to a characters will power. As mana drains so does the will power. Will power is important for resisting illusions and mental suggestions.
• (Spicy DLC). A character will have an arousal bar. When it fills the character climaxes and is stunned until recovery.
• When a character is stunned there will recover after a length of time, or can shorten the time through player actions.
• (Spicy DLC). All clothing will have a durability pool. Clothes with low durability have their benefits decreased. Clothes have a cost to repair, but if past a certain point they cannot be repaired. Clothes with 0 durability are destroyed.
• Actions may be restricted based on status of the character. A character can’t punch if their wrists are restrained behind their back for example. But they can still kick.

So from this, you can see that the player will have to manage multiple bars. Since I don’t want any deaths in the game, I’m using a conscious bar instead of hit points. We have the following bars: Conscious, Stamina, and Mana. For the Spicy DLC there will also be an aroused bar. I don’t plan on blocking access to the Spicy DLC, but putting all the adult material into it allows me to sell the game on steam without the censors getting their undies in a knot. Also I will probably have to offer different spicy DLC based on region. Thank you censorship laws in Japan. I love the games you produce but the mosaic censorship laws are a bitch aren’t they?

The next big thing I’ll explain is attributes. When it comes to attributes I like the paired system. With one attribute providing a bonus to attack, and another attribute providing defence.

Class	Attack	Defense	Note
Physical	Str	Fort	Kicks, punches, blocks
Magical	Pow	Def	Fireball!
Mental	Int	Wis	Illusion, Mind Control
Stamina Pool	End
Conscious Pool	Vit
Mana Pool

For each of the bars:

• Stamina: Major Affecting Attribute: End(urance)
• Mana: Major Affecting Attribute: Int(elligence) Minor: Wis(dom)
• Conscious: Major Affecting Attribute: Vit(ality) Minor: End(urance)

There are some other stats that will come into play. The big one will be in the Spicy DLC which will be inhibition. That start’s fairly high. And increase the character’s embarrassment depending on how exposed they are. For example if a character with full inhibition gets her shirt ripped off, she might cover her breasts and run away instead of fighting. The more clothes that get ripped away the higher the chances of the character panicking.

So there will be stats like:

• Inhibition: Affects how embarrassed the character gets
• Embarrassment: Gives a chance for the character to panic.
• Excitement: How excited the character is, higher excitement might make them stronger, but also more impulsive
• Exhibitionism: Related to Inhibition, but the character might grow more aroused the more exposed they get, they might also get stronger in combat and skill become less costly the more exposed they are
• Submission: A character will get more excited as they get bound and humiliated
• Domination: The opposite of submission, they might get more excited dominating/tying up their foes
• Masochism: May be overpowered, but the character converts some conscious damage to arousal.
• Sadism: The character will get excited inflicting pain.

I don’t have the full list together, but this gives you an idea on what will be happening. For the first chapter a lot of these mechanics won’t be available. But as more chapters get unlocked the more mechanics will be available to play with.

So Goals for this week:

• Finish off the basic mesh for the shuttle the player arrives in, and finish off the animations
• Review/research the best way to do UV unwrapping and positioning to make a toon model
• Review/research the shaders in blender and Unreal Engine to get that tune shading. I know I’m going to have to edit the normal
• Hopefully have a tune/cel shaded shuttle complete this week

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week 5: 2024/03/03

The shuttle is modeled, and rigged. I still have to figure out how to adjust the normals to have decent cel shading. But I think that will wait until I get the main character modeled, at least nude.

I have been thinking about things, and I think I might make some small demo games of some core mechanics. Like the IT girl job, and the bar girl job. Have those fairly well done so that I can then incorporate them into the main game. I’m kind of on the fence for this.

I do need to pause for a bit on the game, and finish up my 4th video for youtube. I really do need to get that one out, so I can focus on other things. So the order of things I plan on doing:

• Work on the 4th Unreal and DevOps video. Adding in the Spicy DLC
• Model the main character. With a set of clothes. (sneakers, socks, panties, bra, denium shorts, and crop top half-shirt).

So that’s what’s planned. Let me cover what I plan for the Magical Girl outfits. And how they interact with the combat system

• I want the magical outfits to be semi-customizable. So that players can dress up the magical girls as they like. Within reason. It will depend on the inhibition and exhibition stats.
• Magical Outfits will act as shields. So if you remember I had consciousness points. There will be a mana pool that is used as the shield. When the shield collapses the magical girl outfit will then be affected as normal clothes. As it gets damaged it’s effectiveness decreases
• Technical Gibberish: As the magical girl outfits take damage I’ll use a Perlin noise mask, that will be clamped based on the percent damage, and then that will be fed into the opacity mask of the shader. As the magical girl outfit takes damage the ‘rips’ will get bigger and bigger.
• There will be a skill to feed Mana Points into the magical girl outfit to fix it. And to repower the shield. But remember the Mana Pool is not infinite, and if it gets exhausted….
• Some attacks will target the magical girl outfit directly

Spoiler: Curses

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[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week 6:

More 3D art. But this time it's for the main character model. I'm working through a set of tutorials on making anime style characters. Hopefully this time it will stick, and I can then start working on dressing the character and bringing into Unreal Engine and really get things going.

This week I hope to get a lot of progress done on this, as work has decided to pay for the share holder's dividends by having a week long shutdown. So this week I plan on finishing up the 50 part tutorial and redoing it with an older looking character. The character used in the tutorial is definitely teenage, and that will be too young for my characters. At least I'll get the skill together to work on things.

I'm not too sure what other things I want to talk about with what I've decided for the game. There will be a big thing to do with Ava's wand, but I don't want to talk about that because of major spoilers. Also the mana crystals, again major spoilers with the story and how they work with the system. So I think I'll leave this blank for now unless someone asks something specific.

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week #7: 2024-03-17

I have been working almost exclusively on the main character mesh. I think it's coming together, have a look below. I have one generic head done but I think I'll work on a second one, the one that I have was based off of a manga teenager, so I'll work on a second one that is more adult. Once I get this mesh done, I can then modify it for all the female characters. An example of this is that Meghan has C-cup breasts. But her transformed form (Ava) has D-cup breasts. It's not that big of a change but it will be noticeable. And since this is all work that I've done in blender I can use it without worry of copyrights.

But the body proportions are nice, and I'll be able to use it with the custom heads I make for the main characters. Though mostly, the customizations will be fairly minor (except Tierney, who'll have horns and pointed ears).



I have researched Steam bans and other similar things, and I've come to the conclusion that having a Spicy DLC with all the sex and nudity is probably the best way to go. That way, the core game won't have these elements and probably won't get hit by a ban. I'm thinking of three different levels of play.

• Stream-friendly (who knows!) that disables the Spicy DLC and makes underwear indestructible. It also has a mesh without genitals. Also, all the curse words are censored (fuck->fudge). No sex will be available
• Core game – not stream. Curse words aren't censored. Anatomically correct mesh, full clothing destruction. No sex. Monsters meshes don't have genitals.
• Spicy DLC – Full clothing destruction system, arousal system, sex enabled, full meshes.

The plan, as always, is to have the spicy DLC freely available. I'm just erring on the side of caution when it comes to Steam since that's the biggest marketplace. It's also why I'm making sure that there will be no minors on the planet, and everyone looks adult.

I have been thinking about some things I can do for the start just to play around a bit with the opening scene and the spicy DLC. And to introduce some trap mechanics early.

Spoiler: Opening Scene

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Object-based inventory is another thing I thought about implementing, but it could be too tedious. What I mean is that the objects being worn can be used to carry stuff, but depending on the object will depend on what can be carried. For example, a set of denim shorts would only be able to carry a wallet and maybe a cell phone. While a shoulder bag could carry more. I'm thinking about adding it this way to add it with clothing/object destruction. If Meghan is fighting something and her shorts are destroyed, everything she was carrying in them would probably fall to the ground. Leaving her vulnerable to losing them. Any opinions on this?

A few dev reports ago, I talked about the male-female ratio. The funny thing about that is I found an article recently about the Y chromosome has been shrinking and withering because it doesn't undergo genetic recombination as the X chromosome does. Which might lead to a lack of viability in the future. This makes me go hmmm and I might just add this in as one of the reasons for the male-female ratio, besides being a dev who wants to stare more at certain anatomy than others.

This week's goals:

• Finish off the base female mesh, and work on some clothing
• Start work on the male mesh

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week #8: 2024-03-24

This week I worked on finishing off the female mesh, and worked on the hair for the model. Took a few attempts but I have a pony tail now that is around 13.3k quads, which should be fine for the engine. I might need to optimize it a bit better.

I actually quite happy with how everything turned out, especially with the eyes. But I still reserve the right to go with a different head with smaller eyes. But we'll see how this looks, the character should be 19 years old, and I hope they look like it. You tell me.



Not much else I want to go over today with how the gameplay will work out, I'm still excited about how to lead the various gameplay elements into the story, and make them make sense in universe of course. There is the player HUD of course, some of it I can't explain away like the key/skill interface. But some of it like the leveling system will have a nice in story reason.

This week:

• Get some real clothes onto the model – may take some time since I want to make sure chaos clothes will work with UE.
• Start work on the basic male body

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week #9: 2024-03-31

This week I finished off the female mesh, at least it's to the point where I've added the naughty bits. I also created a second head for the body, one with a smaller set of eyes, and bigger nose. More people liked the first head to the second head. So I'll keep the head with the bigger eyes, and just go with morphing it a bit for the various characters.

I also started to work on the male body, but I'm not really happy with the results, the nose is way off and I think I'll scrap the head, and start from scratch. The hardest part is finding a good reference for the head. I'm looking for at least one head for a 22 year old male, and then a more generic head as well. Then I'll work on the body for it.

The solar eclipse is coming up, so I may not be able to work on this as much as I would like. But we'll have to see how that goes. I'm hoping to look at the Unreal Engine Chaos clothing demos and see what I need to get together for the morphs I'm setting up. Maybe soon I'll have Meghan running around the game.

Goal:

• Finish the male body
• Start work on the chaos clothing.

 

[mnb341]

Damn, this looks real interesting. I wish you the best in developing your work!

 

[Aridecan]

Damn, this looks real interesting. I wish you the best in developing your work!

Thanks, I appreciate all the well wishes.

 

[Beta The Slave]

I am very excited to see this project grow. It seems very much my speed

 

[Aridecan]

I am very excited to see this project grow. It seems very much my speed

Thanks, right now I'm funded by people's desires, and excitement. So the push to succeed is welcome.

And in your signature about 'deviously cursed loot' that is definitely one of the inspirations for this. Around chapter 3, there will be some sneaking around, traps, and other things that Ava will run into. Some of them will, of course, tie her up. And she'll have to escape.

Oh and there's also Dr Spider I have to included. A nice semi-organic spider bot that looks for naughty magical girls who haven't had their physicals recently. May not be the Creatures Addon to sexlab, but I'm sure the magical girls will have a fun time with their phyiscals.

 

[Aridecan]

Dev Report Week #10 & #11: 2024-04-14

I was trying to view the eclipse last week, but that was a bust. And trying to do art from my in-laws table was more pain than it was worth. So I didn't finish up on the male morph. But my muse hit me up side the head with writing the prologue. Or at least the short story of the prologue of the game. The short story currently covers about 2/3rds of the prologue. I have also been copy editing the short story into a screenplay format. This will mainly be for the voice actors (when I get them) and used when I start to frame the shots and set up the action. I'm essentially writing a movie script for each of the cut-scenes and vocals that make up the prologue. I also added a bunch of programming tags that will make it into my technical briefs to record player choices.

Spoiler: Prologue

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Goal:

• Satisfy my muse and finish writing up the prologue short story and transcribe into the screenplay
• Work some more on the male mesh
• Look at the chaos clothing and get some characters dressed and into the engine

 

[Aridecan]

For those that are watching, and don't mind a bit of spoiling, I'd love an opinion on how the Air Duct path looks. One person I asked says it looked cute. I'm not sure if it keeps in with the proper characters. If you need a link it's in the spoiler of the previous comment.