[previewyoutube=ab9L3uuQNrc;full][/previewyoutube] First up the interview video for Watching Lizard! Now they are very different in terms of route choice. They are non-binary and both physical sexes. Makes the H Scenes interesting to animate XD. Short story, Lizzy is a hybrid lizard, an accident in an experiment that left them with the dna of a human/lizard hybrid. Sexual drive and behavior is based on body temperature. Lizzy lives in a steam filled Domain with boilers and heaters everywhere. What will your day be like there? They own a freaking AIRSHIP! Maybe you can fly it???? Cooking? Beach time? As the player it will be up to you. Their live wallpaper is here.
So lets get the tedious stuff out of the way first. (Technical Babble Warning) Unity: So modularity has been a big goal of ours when making this game. We want people to be to express themselves in games they make from our work. As we delve deeper in the code, there has been some refactoring involved to improve Quality of Life for future developers. Knight has been working hard with me on this. 1. No more global namespaces. Each section of the game (Global, Audio, Live 2D, Dialogue, ect) have their own namespaces now. Meaning when an error pops up, it tells you which section is faulty. 2. Some UI code was proprietary. It was the old stuff from when we made our first template (especially the transition system <.<). So it's being refactored with component and unity scriptable objects in mind doing most of the heavy lifting with the C# code base remaining in the CS files. Goal is to have less savvy programmers able to just make a game without too much tinkering in the back end. 3. Error Logs and debuggers are critical in making sure a game remains polished and efficient for when you want to play on that samsung fridge! That is why there will be a system, editor, audio, and script debugger all tied into one! It's custom made for B1NARY's systems and not just helps us, it will help you as well. 4. On top of debuggers. There will be a custom program designed to help you lay down VA efficiently. To make it easy to understand, we had to set it up to lay down the audio files based on line. Now, you don't require voice lines. But they are there in case you want them. The VA tools rename all of them in a folder, if you have to add some lines of script or additional commands. Live 2D: Owlidy, our rigger for the H Scenes, reported she should be close to finish and final polish end of August. Both routes will have a full blown H Scene with Audio, moans, sex sounds, and a touch of comedy... UI: Disclaimer: These are raw UI assets. Lighting has not been introduced yet. You will see a theme going.. UI Design is by Myself, Xplicit , with Taku doing the primary art design and work. I have expanded on that and tweaked it to further match our needs in game. So we now are at the fun part. So UI is designed with VN enthusiasts and Hentai pros alike. We want to have a nice looking and unique UI, but not take away from the immersion. We also want to capture the theme of the visual keys in this game. Parallax. Live 2D, Animated Backgrounds, and Floating animated UI. All clean, matching each other to create a simulated 3D space. To add to flavor, we are using Unity's URP to add lighting effects to create a frosted glass effect across the UI that will help it meld into the background more, yet bring the UI closer to the futuristic, yet airy, vibe we are going for. Animations for button presses, panel changes, mousing over, will have a very minimal, but floaty feel to it. And there will be themes! For now, the color shades will match the background and the feel. Players will be able to change to a theme to suit their needs if they so choose. 1. Chat Box / PDA
PDA: Art of Asterella Star is made by the Amazing Tsiox! Be sure to check out their art! One of the few Fan Art Peices that are going to show up in the game! The PDA is your codex: the hub of all information gathered in the world of B1NARY. Stats, Maps, Text Messaging, Lore, Relationship Ranks, Ect. In the demo the function of pulling it up and checking it out will be up. Everything past that is WIP. We have a ton of information to add to your fingertips, and the demo is not the place to test that. UI Design will be complicated for the PDA, and I know how I want it to flow. It will take some time, based on Lore you need, ect, to really dial in the look and feel once inside. I want this thing to be your SUPER SMARTPHONE. We also want to input twitch clip functionality into the PDA. We are looking into that for Main game release. Watching a video on the PDA???? PDA COMES OUT!
Chat Box: The chat box is designed to be minimal with some unique flair, and all the important functions right there, including a shortcut to sound options. It may be built upon for the main release. The bright green items are meant to glow, and slightly move independently of the chat box, to give a light feel of a floating chat box. In fact: all of the glowing triangles will all "float" throughout the UI. You will also have hotkeys on the keyboard to make it vanish. I will find a way to make a visible button as well. We will also have a hotkey map, and maybe for game release, we will allow custom hotkey binds. It is a part of our job to make the system reusable. Options Menu:
Options is your system hub. Now all the triangles will glow, as will the borders in the main panel. The buttons will only glow when you mouse over them. Demo will have Sound control for NPCS, Szy, Star, and the MC's. The right side is for Credits of Fan Art, and H Scenes. For Save Files, and H Scenes, they will also include locations / pertinent information to that file. Character Route Selection: Now the Character Selection will have an Animated Panel for the demo and use the MC's Live 2D animated model for the main release.
The Binary and non Binary choices will be right after the character selection. These will actually be buttons that you press to choose. H Scenes:
So the H Scene: Art by Alfy Rigging is by Owlidy. A big chunk of the H Scenes will be done by these two in the future. However, we will require a TEAM of Riggers and Artists to finish all the H Scenes in a decent amount of time. I may have a solution but waiting until after the demo is ready to start looking into implementing it. H Scenes will have lip sync , breathing, and they can track movements. o.0 All H Scenes will have a big warning prior to activation. This way if you are living on the edge on twitch, or you are at starbucks, we have you covered. Live 2D Interactable H Scenes with reactions and VA. The templates are almost laid out, and several things here. The HAND: A placeholder for now. But you will be able to grab booba, make them moan, among other things planned in the future, including Disrobing. We plan to make a custom Hand will be animated to 'grab' when you do XD. ONE HANDED UI: That is right. Whether via the mouse, or hot keyed on the laptop keyboard, we are making the H Scenes 100 percent one handed! Example, if you want to zoom in? Or pan? You hold right click on the mouse and do so. Release the right click, and you can adjust the tempo. Each tempo (three in total), will have small steps of tempo to adjust. I will also add an option to have the tempo allowed to forward the whole scene. Wait is that... Xray???? YES! It is! I have always wanted it! So based on the scene, we will add some xray and additional cum layers for your pleasure. If we can set it up where we have a womb cutout IN the scene, we might try that. FUCK FORGOT THE Exit button LMAO. We will add that no worries. It will be on the left. What's left until closed beta? Well, we have to finish the refactoring and put in the UI, implement the translation systems, and rig the H Scene itself. We are hoping this will all be done by end of August, which means.... We might enter the closed beta phase soon after that. The closed beta team has already been chosen and are kept up to date. If you have a mac or a linux machine, it would help greatly if you join our discord and DM me personally. I want to make sure all builds are great across all platforms. Once those are ironed out. We will check out Android, IOS (For the non H version), and the consoles. Touch input is a stretch goal but we are working with that goal already in mind.
Promotion Art Ptolevian, Our Promotional artist, is starting the final part of the big digital Background. The last two are Projekt Melody and Silvervale! It's really cute. Keep and eye on twitter and here next month for progress. Character Art Ai Candii is coming along great! Second Outfit is already underway! We will now have 5 full models to rig once the demo is complete. Still WIP but Polish is coming, and we are adding a few changes as well.
Unity: Refinement of UI after demo. Making the minigames for the Routes based on their needs. Creating documentation for reuse. Increasing Bokeh, camera zoom, and weather-based panels. Story: Yeah, once the demo is finished, we will be focused on finally putting the story into Unity. It's what I have been waiting for. Background Art: Finally Taku can start creating the 50 plus backgrounds for the world! H Scenes: Ongoing throughout the entire story. When an H Scene is written, we will figure out the rigging and art requirements, and order the commission. Fan Art: Going to start focusing on each route and Fan art collecting during that time. Some fan art may be part of the narrative! (Reading a Shalen Fan fic on the toilet for instance.) We still plan to integrate fan works of all types into the game. And everyone will have their credits in the gallery. Thank you all for reading through this wall of text. There is a ton to cover. Keep an eye out for polls, on here and twitter. I want the fans to be directly giving input into the game. This is OUR Creation! Have a nice month! Project Manager Therinwhitten