Hello there, This will be the last status update for the episode. All the static rendering is done. Only the animations are left. We're working on some really big animations, they take 2-3 days each, but they're worth the time. As well as the visual work, the coding and writing is coming along nicely and we expect them to be finished at the same time as the animations. That's all for now, see you guys at release time. Previews:

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Kelly embracing her primal strength in the moonlit night.
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Hello there, We would like to start by thanking our Steam supporters for the love and attention they have given to the Halloween side-story. It has really helped us keep our morale up. As of this week, we've posed and rendered over 1200 renders and from the looks of it, we should be able to finish posing the rest of the episode in a couple of weeks. After the posing, the rendering will take some time as we have at least 15 animations in addition to the remaining static renders. Cheers! Previews:


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A shot from Anna's Halloween night.
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Fixed a bug that made the side story unplayable for some players.

Hello everyone, While we are working on the game, we wanted to add a short Steam Exclusive side story. It contains 58 renders and 2 animations. You can find it in the extras screen. Hope you enjoy it! For those of you wondering, this took us about a day to make and hasn't slowed down the development process of the next episode. Happy Halloween!
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Do you ever wonder what Haley would do in the future? Well, if you do, here's Haley enjoying zero gravity in a space station:
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Do you ever wonder what Judy looked like when she first started working as a secretary? Well, if you do, here's the answer:
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Hello there, We don't really have anything special or personal to share, so let's just get right to it. We've been rendering animations pretty much non-stop for the last 2 weeks. Some nights we've had some problems with our electricity and we've also had some problems with some animations that have cost us a few days, but overall we're in a good place with the development of episode 6. Since we love to share the numbers, let's get to them. Another 10 animations have been completed. In the last few episodes, the animations were in the 90-120 frame range, but in this episode we have upped our game and pushed them into the 160-270 range. We think they look a lot smoother, but they also take almost twice as long to render. Still, we're very pleased with the results. As for the renders, we've finished posing and rendering 3 more scenes and started work on another branching scene. Previews:



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Hello there, We are back with another status update. In the last one, we mentioned that we were taking a break. Oh boy, we needed it after 2 years. So what happened during the previous two weeks? First of all, after we returned from the break, Kagan had the flu and I caught it from him, so we were down for a few days. Anyway, after a few days, we started working on the game and made some progress. Let's start with the numbers last week we posed and rendered 250 renders but other than that we started the first branching scene of this episode which means that in the next few weeks, we have to start working on the animations and I have to say that the second 4090 will come in handy on the coding side 3 more scenes are fully written and coded and I have to say that one of them was the longest scene we have ever written and now that it is out of the way we can continue working on the usual scenes. We are also trying out some new things for a possible future project, but since we are not sure if we want to make those things we will keep the details private for now. Previews:


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Hello there, We're back. After releasing episode 5 we thought we should take a break, but instead we started working on the next episode. It's at a good point right now, so we're going to work on it for another week and then take a break, and oh boy, do we need that break. We did not take a break while we were making the last episode and we just had so many problems that we were on the verge of burnout, so this break was a lifesaver for us. We're not planning on taking a long break, just a week or so, and then we'll get back to work on the game. But before we take a break, let's talk about what we've been doing the last 2 weeks while working on Episode 6. So far we've finished 10 scenes with 500 renders. Please don't ask me how Kagan managed to pose and render so much, he wanted to do his absolute best before taking a break, so we are at an excellent point in terms of development for the new chapter. We haven't done anything with the animations yet, they take at least a day to render, so we plan to do them last. That's about it. Thanks for sticking with us through the last development cycle, we hope you will stick with us through this one too. Previews:



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Fixes for some lines in translations.

Added French, Italian, and Traditional Chinese. While we keep working on the next episode which will be coming up in the next few weeks, we wanted to add more language options to the current version of the game.

Hello everyone, We are back with another status update. So what has happened in the last two weeks? Let's start with the art part of the game. Except for a few missing renders in some scenes, all static renders are complete. Apart from the static renders, we're still rendering the animations for the final cinematic and some scenes, which takes almost a day each. Writing and coding is also going well. With the current pace of work, it looks like the test version of the game will be ready in the next week or two, and after that we should be good to go for the release of the next episode in July. Now that we have the status out of the way, we can talk about why this episode took 6 months to make. It started with the steam release and the tax stuff. To be fair, those things only took 1 month to manage and complete, but after that, when we went back to work on episode 5, we had a problem with our GPU, which we made a post about back then. Anyway, we changed our GPU and went back to development. Now you might be wondering why we bothered to explain this, but we wanted to clarify and maybe justify the long development cycle of this episode. Hopefully now that everything is straightened out, the next dev cycles won't be as long. Previews:



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Hello there, This will be a sweet and short one. We're currently on the last day of the episode. There are some big scenes we have to tackle, but other than that, episode 5 is almost done. I'd give you an estimate of the renders, but we've lost track of them since we've done so many animations and renders, but without a doubt this is the biggest update we've worked on so far. Because of the size of episode 5, we might split the next episode into 2 parts for the next update, because this is getting mentally exhausting. Previews:



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Hello there, We're back with another status update, but this one will be short. We've finished rendering 11 more animations and will start working on the next ones next week. For the static renders, 200+ have been rendered since the last status update and are still rendering as we write this. Lastly, we mentioned that we would be adding some additional language options with the upcoming update. As of last week, Italian translation was added to those options. Previews:



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Hello there, We're really sorry for the delay with this status update. We got caught up with some tax stuff and had to take a few days off to sort things out. The last few weeks have been all about animations. We mentioned in the previous status updates that we wanted to make the animations longer once we had the adequate systems. Now that we have them, we are putting them to good use with the animations. Currently we've rendered 1500 frames of animation with a quality that we're happy with for now. Besides the animations, the renders are also coming along nicely. We're closing in on another 200 renders and now that the animations are out of the way, we can focus on the renders again. There has also been a lot of progress on the translations and if all goes well, we'll be adding Spanish, French and Traditional Chinese with the next episode. Previews:




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Ever wonder what some of the characters looked like in college? Here is a picture of Beth from her college days.
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Hello there, We're back with another status update. The last two weeks have been pretty smooth. We only had an issue with one asset. For some reason the asset couldn't see it's png file and gave us a headache for a few days. We eventually fixed it, but those 3 days were annoying. Let's talk progress. We've finished another 300 renders of 5 scenes. On the coding side, 4 more scenes are coded and the fifth is on its way. Anyway, as I was writing this, I realized that 4090 is making things so much faster and we need to share weekly status updates, so we might as well go to a weekly schedule with these updates. Previews:




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Hello there, We are finally back with another status update. If you read the previous quick check-ins, we had some problems with our GPU and we couldn't solve the problem and we ended up upgrading to the 4090 and wow, this card is something else! So what happened this week? We've done about 300 renders with triple the amount of samples. Now that we know what the 4090 can do, rendering animations doesn't seem like such a pain anymore. Also, 300 may seem like half an episode compared to previous episodes, but we wanted to make Episode 5 bigger than usual. We know we weren't the most active developers last month, but you guys still supported us during that time, so we just want to say thank you again. Previews:




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Hello there, It's been a little over a week since we released The Grey Dream on Steam, and we'd like to thank everyone who bought it or supported us along the way. Normally we planned to take some time off after the Steam release, but we thought why not work some more on Ep 5? So here we are with the first status update of Episode 5. Thanks to all of you we are finally able to update our system. With these system upgrades coming up, we decided to just post the renders for now instead of spending days rendering them. This way, once we get the new rigs, we will be able to render faster with more samples. On the story side, we've decided on the details of the first 5 scenes and have written a few more, but we're still working on their details. And for those who are curious about the story, let's say that your actions will definitely show it's consequences in this episode. Previews:


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Brazilian Portuguese translation fixes.

Menu fixes for Turkish and Russian.

Bug fix for the "Meet Theodoro" achievement.

Turkish and Russian translation fixes. Achievement fix in Episode 2.