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Hey, hey you! Got a scifi visual novel for you.
It's on the Steam Spring sale right now. Sexy cyberpunk action and babes.
Are you down with that?
It's the not so distant future.
After the war of the megacorporations for data, resources and power. The government was not capable of keeping them in check and had to cede.
As a result the megacorps forced them to get exterritorial rights. In an era of progression those grew fast into becoming megacities with their own laws, cultures and underground businesses.
In the aftermath the sciences prospered. Artificial Intelligence, Virtual reality applications, gene editing, food printing to feed the people and development of advanced robotics led to a higher standard of life.
The Main Character(MC) of "Cyberlinxxx" just created a new medicine to treat Malkov`s disease. A psychosomatic illness affecting the brain and central nervous system. An effective treatment would mean big money on the market.
Its an opportunity the biomedicinal wings of the megacorporations wont let slide by.
Thus the MC becomes a target. But hes got some aces up his sleeves and is ready to take up the fight to protect his life, girlfriends and work.
The trail leads him to the nearby megacity Arriaka
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2291120/Cyberlinxxx/
Hey folks!
Welcome to this year's year in retrospect.
Hope you have a wonderful day. Let me be sentimental for a moment and let me say how grateful I am to be supported here, on Steam or blsky. Many thanks, your feedbacks are greatly appreciated and keep me going through the rough patches.
Let's take a look back in time.
Steam release went quite well. Good feedback and bug reports came in and I tried to address all of them in a timely manner. I'm happy that the achievement system works flawless. People have fun collecting them ... more than I do when playing games.
(What can I say, I just don't care if i get an achievement for building a house with only ten stones made of recycled underwear fabric or such thing)
The release lead to the establishment of me being a self employed Indie dev. Yet, I'm not quite self sustained financially. Officially I jumped up the ladder a knotch or two with the authorities and am a self employed unemployed unless I make a certain amount of money for a specific amount of time. Such are the bureauocratic rules. On top of that ... filing taxes. Nightmare stuff, I tell ya.
With the upcoming federal election, my official in charge warned me that, if the conservatives win(which is very likely unfortunately) could raise the pressure on people getting social benefits. And she suggested that I need to expand my business portfolio to counter any negative measurements that could be implemented by the conservatives.
Her suggestion was to release my VN on the google playstore, (where her son gets his games from) but she didn't quite caught the process of Early Access and that Cyberlinxxx isn't finished yet and will take another year or two for development. My argument was that I could expand the franchise and my brand and name by releasing my comics(only two but it's a start) on more paltforms. I don't think she really grasps what it means to do my kind of work and trying to sell it via Internet and all the hoops and whatnots, despite explaining it to her. I hope it will expand my reach further.
Although the commission fees are absurdly high with a 50% cut. Bloodsuckers, man, I tell ya.
Speaking about cuts. My fridge saw less meat put in it and if there was some it was mostly chicken and poultry. Trying to eat healthier with more veggies in my diet. I don't like what gout is doing to my brother and I wanna avoid that.
Hopefully it melts some covid pounds off as well. Fitness has been low for some while now ... years, to be honest. And I want my old fitness levels back! And this year there will be one more bike again in the "garage" of my apartment complex.
My mom's health wasn't in good condition as well. It won't get better because of her old age. She needs more care than before. But I don't want to talk about it too much. It's a very personal topic.
Still struggling to get the methhead out of the apartment above. We had some annoying trouble like customers comign in and out, trampling on the stairs, loud music all night, threats to the elderly and so on.
And the landlord is doing jackshit.
I can't express how draining the living situation has been for over a year. But I do enjoy the sounds of him trying to clear his nose and throat for over an hour because his meth supposedly gets laced with washing powder or something.
I don't care what anyone needs to cope with life and shit but if you're a person who doesn't gets his shit straight, then by all means, don't be surprised people get pissed because of you. And 2025 will be the year the stakes are higher than before. M ypatience is running thin, same goes for my energy.
Since there weren't much cyberpunked copyright free music tracks released this year, I began to experiment with Ai music. Maybe some of you may boo me for this but as a solo dev I look for ways to keep my budget in check.
Besides copyright free music doesn't mean it can be used anywhere. Nope, there are musicians that still put other terms for usage for their tracks. Not everyone is happy knowing that there are more or less questionable avenues using their music for their work.
As said the few tracks the Ai made for me are still pretty rough and need more refinement before they're good enough to be added to Cyberlinxxx.
The expanded monthly pictorials seem to be liked very much by my community. so they will stay. But the bigger monthly cyberpet pictorials and runner-ups do need their days to make. As of Feb 2025 those get limited to 6 images each, if there are results justifying a pictorial with two contestants plus something like 4 renders with the winner and runner-up in them.
I need that rule for me to not go overboard with the scenery and time put into it.
As talked about a few months ago, A-Z will be converted to G8, so I can use a wider range of assets for her, just like Cary-June will looking different, for the same reasons. Which probably means I have to rerender the images in her earlier appearance as well at one point.
it will be worth it, even if she doesn't get much love by my community. I love her and that's why she stays ^^.
Last year was just tiny baby steps and the feeling of not getting anywhere has been exhausting.
That's why I'm looking forward to the visual novel festival in march on Steam. Some points of success would be nice this year. New update will be out before it begins.
Other things in 2025 that could be good: Enshrouded getting a full release. Gothic Remake coming out in spring(hopefully) and Subnautica 2 in EA. A new dishwashing machine. My first tax refund. Yay! And NOT buying any of the Nvidia GPU's.
There were many more topics that affected 2024 but this is a long enough read anyway.
Thanks again for accompanying me on this journey and all the power to you.
Let's hope the absurdity levels won't skyrocket this year ^^
Have a great day!
I got no cat but here's some Zandratax.
PHNIS News Bulletin
Live from the studio: Caramella Creamz
"Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen.
We're coming to you with a Special News Bulletin. Reliable sources report that Cyberlinxxx, the adult cyberpunk visual novel is now available in a bundle with an eye-pleasing feature. The developer added a whopping 242 images big big-sized artwork bonus content. With a wide variety of wallpapers and pin-ups, there's no doubt that it will satisfy everyone interested in Arriaka's many flavors.
The last patch also includes further minor changes and the developer hopes he fixed the darn achievement "Technical difficulty" this time. No rest for the wicked, right people? I'm excited to visit Megacity Arriaka in the Cyberlinxxx - Upgrade Edition. I can't wait to get home and play that sexy visual novel.
Leaving you into a wonderful weekend, your Caramella Creamz."
Hey, cyberjacks, gun nuts, and tech heads,
here's a little update for the delay of the bonus content.
I forgot to fill out the NSFW survey and had to reapply for a review by STEAM. I think everything's fine now so the additional artwork should drop sometime next week.
242 pin-ups and wallpapers await you with all the girls from Cyberlinxxx put together in a nice collection.
It will surely quench your thirst for the juiciest imagination.
That's it from me today
Have a nice weekend
Hey, cyberjacks, street rats, and skyraiders,
wishing you all a happy easter!
Your bunny babe Asako is here to sweeten this wonderful holiday. She wants you to enjoy her filled baskets which she brought just for you. They're big and round and if you squeeze them they make a wonderful sound.
Enjoy your holidays
regards
Baka_Energy_studios
Hey cyberjacks, streetrats and gunkers
Hotfix #02 is live.
-Fixes "holokeely"
-Fixes "trish_one"
-Fixes "daytonight"
And some minor image problems with Keely's gloves
Have a fun weekend
A clarification
Yes, Cyberlinxxx is still in early access.
At the time of release, I made the dumb mistake of not changing the status of the release. Right at the moment I clicked the "publish" button I realized I didn't label it properly.
I'm sorry. This was not intended and I apologize to everyone who thought he would get a full game release. It's absolutely OK if you refund it because of it. It'll hurt my sales but that's something I have to live with.
At least I hope you still had fun while playing. That's the most important part to me.
regards
Baka_Energy_studios
Next up:
Hotfix #02 is being worked on and will be up in the next couple of days.
Hey cyberjacks, streetrats and gunkheads,
the first hotfix for Cyberlinxxx is here. It contains the following patches.
- fix achievement "Snaketamer" is now granted properly
- fix achievement "Technical difficulties" is now granted properly
- Trish choice "talkpoint4" fixed
- Fixed not showing image aap8
If you experience further errors please message me. Your help is much appreciated.
Have a wonderful weekend and a Happy Lunar New Year.
Permanent price drop for CYBERLINXXX
Hey cyberjacks, gunkheads and robolovers,
the remaster takes more time than expected. As a gesture of goodwill the price for CYBERLINXXX
gets lowered from 14,99,- to 12,99,- permanently. I hope it'll compensate for the longer waiting time.
On top of that there will be a discount of 20% at release, so make sure to wishlist and stay tuned.
Have a good one
regards
Bakaplays from Baka_Energy_studios
Hey there,
hope you're doing well.
I'm deep into rerendering the images for the VN.
What started as a simple rerender turned out to be a much needed rework of all renders up to v0.15. Except v016 because since the virtua game is intended to be a virtual recreation of the ingame reality it can look the way it does without changes.
Cary-June got a new black-golden dress and some repairing of her underlying UV map which caused cracks in her skin texture. You, as the player, never saw them but they were there and they annoyed the hell out of me.
I'm also using the latest iterations of the tall amazonian Zandra and her smaller girlfriend Geena. The former got a new skin in, I think 0.14 or so. Her bigger frame caused the skin texture to look like a pimple swamp around her butt. Not anymore. Zandra was a real banger before but now she rocks.
Geena got some changes to her body and face and according to your reactions it made her just they way she was supposed to look. Petite, sexy and fierce. You will be surprised when you see her for the first time!
Trish's face got a slightly different nose and some changes to her mouth doesn't made her look "a bit intimidating" as some of you were putting it. Her blonde hair got a new shader and now it doesn't have that strange plastic shine anymore. She's gotten some Cyberlines under her eyes in orange-purple. Her lips were improved as well.
Easy to see that Trish benefitted the most.
Asako will keep her tattoo which you have seen in the july wallpaper.
Keely remains unchanged, just like A-Z. Tried to convert her from G3 to G8(a technical description for the version of charactersG3 is a few years old and G8 was introduced 2 1/2 years ago. Neweset versions are so called G9 which I don't use because there are barely any cyberpunk or sci fi assets for those character models.)
The conversion made A-Z's face too ... smooth somehow. There must have been other changes happenning under the hood. Her smile turned out to be looking like someone stomped on her foot and she had to tolerate it. That change wasn't very usable so I throw the conversion over board.
Anthea also's gonna keep the tattoo that she had in an older wallpaper and maybe some back tatto.
Deanna got no changes until today. There could some but I have no idea what I could add or throw out to make her even more cute, so she will be her old self.
All those changes on top of updating to DAZ 21.05 with improved IRAY lighting(the render engine that produces the images) and many more other things are responsible that the images look way way better than 3 years back.
Another setting that looks way better now.
This is just a short glimpse on the many improvements Cyberlinxxx is undergoing right now. There are still a lot of images left that will be rerendered and replaced in the next weeks. It is also one of the reasons, if not the biggest, that the VN will release in early access ... sonn.
That's it from me today.
Have fun
Baka_Energy_studios
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