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Summer's Gone - Season 2 - Chapter 1 - Dev Log #38
🕑 Added 2025-08-11 07:03:14 +0000 UTCHello,
So…
I wasn’t in front of my PC for most of the weekend and suddenly remembered that I had moved Dev Logs to Sunday.
Sorry.
I created about 275 stills and 3 animations in the past 10 days.
Which puts us at 7275 stills.
I have no idea how many animations I’ve done yet… I’d say about 15 to 20.
And those are all animations with 60 to 300 frames, and more to come… But those will be tackled after all stills are done.
Obviously, because the game is now in 4K, all animations are rendered in 4k too.
Here’s a list of what I still have to do:
- Another ~750 stills
- About 15 to 20 animations (Non-cinematic)
- Cinematic 1 - ~30seconds
- Cinematic 2 - ~1min
- Cinematic 3 - ~1min (Teaser)
- Implement the new main menu and all its functionality
- Implement the new gallery.
- Implement the new Chat system for the phone (It’s coded but not tested in-game yet.)
- Implement Aurora (Optional for CH1)
- Create 5 standalone preset starts for Season 2
- Postwork for about 3000 renders
- Implement the ambiance and SFX
- Test it all, including the save porting from Season 1 to Season 2.
I’ll have to come up with a system to test future Chapters more efficiently, especially if it involves porting saves from other Seasons over.
The Steam page for Season 2 will go up in the next few days, it’s been in review for about a week.
Season 2 and its Chapters.
As the next update will be as big as four normal chapters, I should also adjust the counting for it.
The next update includes Chapter 1 to 3, with 7 to 8 more updates to come for Season 2.
The game will be released on Steam/GOG with Chapter 4, the update after the upcoming one.
Provided that’s still possible after the recent, simultaneous, worldwide attempts to morally guide us, censor, and fuck all our privacy.
Censorship and GOG.
SG Season 1 was part of a free bundle in collaboration with GOG.com (FreedomToBuyGames) to stand against censorship and the right to buy and sell games as long as they’re legal. (Watch them make everything that could be seen as immoral illegal. Hello 1800’s and great work Project 2025.)
GOG now gave us the official numbers and 1,357,973 had claimed the bundle. A very solid number, and maybe a few will even try the game.
I’m not going to lie, not knowing if I will be able to pay my workstation lease and electricity bill next year is on my mind a lot, especially now that they are thinking about a new electricity levy after telling us it would finally be reduced.
“The government is planning a new levy for all customers as soon as the reserve power plants go online.” German Source
Awesome.
I do have some contingency plans if the worst comes to worst. I assume SG Season 1 is safe as it’s not classified as an adult game, but future Seasons might be severely affected.
Germany, as usual, likes to go one step further and thinks about banning payments to adult platforms, even for adults.
“The state media authorities want to force financial service providers to refuse payments to adult websites [...] – even payments made by adults. The legal basis for this is the new Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media (JMStV).
This was explained by Marc Jan Eumann, chairman of the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM), to the Evangelical Press Service (epd).” - I can't attach the direct link because Patreon flags it due to a word in the link. - German source
They are speaking about certain websites there, but we all know how this goes. It’s never just that.
I was thinking about getting a cheap third PC to help with animations, as I still have a 3090 lying around.
But because I invested easily 90% of what I earned over the last few years back into the games, I must now build reserves for the worst case so that I can at least pay the workstation leasing as well as the electricity bill for the next 2 ½ years and then the workstation is mine.
No matter what happens tho, I will never stop developing these games.
Previews – 4k attached
A rare sight. Marla.
Cheeto
Bellchen
I made a cool discovery in Marvelous Designer a few days ago, I'll talk about it in the next log.
I’ll see you in two weeks.
- Ocean
Comments
Frosty
I was playing through season 1 again and noticed some changes. And also noticed in episode 3 into 4 some of the character models are still from older scenes. They gonna be upgraded at all?
Scythelord
"Project 2025" has nothing to do with it. If anything the recent Trump executive order involving fair access to banking looks to be a step in the right direction of eliminating pressure felt by Steam and GoG as it directly addresses banks using "Reputation Risk or other equivalent concepts" to refuse service. These banks were the ones which contacted Steam and GoG, not the card networks/payment processors directly. Hopefully in 176 days we will see less pressure on sites to comply with nonsense from banks and card networks.
