Status update: 12/30, and Happy New Year!

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Hey. No previews to post yet, but I wanted to post a written update. Due to assorted delays prior to this, I am just now getting ready to do main renders for most of the new images planned to be implemented into the game next week. I will post at least one new public preview sometime next week; I have not decided which one to do yet. Regardless, I think I have the event randomizer thing working again, and I hope to get that implemented sooner rather than later. This may mean an additional variation or two (either written or visual) to existing events, rather than one entirely new one right now if it does work with no issues. I started all this later than I planned and it is looking rough for me to hit my goal of getting the game about halfway done in a week and a half(ish), but I am going to do the best that I can. (I am taking tomorrow off.) Mid-level patrons get whatever I have done either way.

So please vote in the polls if you haven’t yet, check the new stuff on my DA page if you haven’t looked this month, and then check back next week/year for a new preview/more details about the next set of events. In the mean time, I hope you all have a happy new year!

December Patreon mini-set preview and happy holidays!

Hey again, I have most of the new DA stuff posted; with one/two more possibly to come if I can get it to render properly either tonight/monday. Either way, happy holidays to all of you and below is a preview of this month’s Patreon mini-set, as voted for by receiving patrons. The set features Helenya “meeting” another demon by an abandoned shrine in desperate need of release; and she is happy to provide assistance. This mini-set is currently five images, but that may go up. (There is still a month or so to get all these old mini-sets, for those interested.)

In other news, I am rather behind in terms of where I planned to be, but that is hardly surprising; I plan to take tomorrow off and then see what I can do with the next two weeks in terms of game content additions. There is a ton of stuff to do and I am sort of planning some tweaks to existing stuff as well; so there is no telling how much will get added at this stage. I am still aiming for 3-4 new scene sets; but that seems optimistic at this point. I will likely post next week with some kind of update on my progress, although I am still unsure if I will post more public image previews at this stage in development. (I will likely do at least one.)

https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

RTL chapter ten, “The Trouble with Goblins” free release!

Hey. Before I get to the main point of this post, some updates. Sorry for the long gap between posts, but assorted crap happened and I was trying to fix two other animations. One was decent but not great, so I added it to my mid level patron’s content but have no plans to release it publicly. The other one, I thought I could maybe at least get one part working, but over the last two days it just simply fails to render; now causing hard graphics kernel crashes, which is very odd and quite disturbing. So that is shelved until further notice, leaving me with not much to show for the last two weeks except the new scene set for the game… but sometimes that is just the way it goes. As mentioned, the “toys” scene set is in the current game beta that my mid level patrons have, making five scene sets in the current total; and I hope to add another four event sets or so later this month. This week I plan to do the new DA stuff, then likely get the mini-set out of the way once the Patreon poll for that is done, and then after all that work on the game again. I do not know if I will post more public previews of it, as I have already posted four as it is… but we will see. So check back here/my DA page for some updates later this week/early next week. Please vote in the polls in the mean time, though they are looking good already.

In the mean time though, below are the original four previews for RTL 10, and the download link. Before that though, I have to do a NEW Patreon bit. Since I now have the “charge up front” thing enabled, you can now jump into my Patreon at ANY time, and it will charge you then for the current month. After that, just send me a PM on Patreon and I will send you the appropriate rewards message within 24 hours. This means that you no longer have to wait weeks to get rewards and that you all potentially have more than the one month I thought to join my Patreon and get all these older mini-sets before they get wiped in February of next year. To summarize that again, the January message will be the last one containing all the old mini-sets, (and a couple full size story sets) and starting with the following month’s rewards, the list will reset and only a few newer ones will be included. So potentially you could opt in at any time in the next month and a half or so and still get all that, as well as access to the game beta and a bunch of other stuff; if any of that interests you, or if you just want to help support me, please check my Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Also, I will also almost assuredly redo my Patreon page early next year in some fashion; I do not know if this will mean editing the reward tiers, or just the main page a bit, but I really feel that a some kind of overhaul is needed. I have updated/edited my Patreon page all this time to try and keep it current, but I think I will cut down on the wall of text on the main page and redo much of it try to streamline it a bit at the bare minimum. Just FYI though, after RTL is fully posted free, I am pushing back new free releases to a year at the very least. I think giving out almost 20 full (mostly) story sets for free is enough of a preview; so I am going to try and keep it a bit more inclusive to Patreon for a while and see how that goes. Before that though, here is the download link for RTL 10, the password is still redleatherart.

https://mega.nz/#!79EGRSDK!HMwQMY8uADl6MfnAbjLtu-YVuR6OmSqbGodj1sZUlC0

November poll results and end of year polls up!

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Hi again, I came by to post the new polls and discuss the old ones. The new polls are on the right, one asks if you think I should finish the game before starting on the next story arc; the other is another old poll brought back, asking what you breast size preference is. Just an FYI here, I am planning to finish the game before starting the next story arc, but I just wondered what you all would prefer. I will leave these up for a month, so please vote in those.

As for the previous polls, the results were interesting for several reasons. The first poll asked what you thought was the most important aspect of an adult game. The general writing/story was tied with the adult scene visuals for first place, followed by the writing of the adult scenes, the number of adult scenes, and the characters involved in the adult scenes, each separated by just one vote. Below those, the quality of the general gameplay and the types of adult scenes were one vote above the genre of game, which got two votes. Nobody voted for sound; which is semi- good because I can’t do that so well at this time anyway. I had figured that adult scene visuals would win, but I was somewhat surprised that general writing/story also tied for first; it is nice to see that the story overall matters to people in games like this. The other options are basically where I thought they would be and I will take that into consideration. As mentioned before, I have several other ideas for VNs/games besides what I have already, and depending on how people like the current game, I may/may not work on more games sooner after this one is done.

The second old poll asked what the most important aspects of a female character were. Body shape and sexual preference/ability tied for first, which is no real surprise. After that was race/skin tone, face/makeup, and personality, each separated by one vote. Below that was hairstyle/color and backstory, and then clothing in last. This was mostly as expected, but it is nice to see personality doing well and backstory getting some appreciation also. I have been working on assorted things, but I won’t start rendering until tonight, so sometime early next week there may be something new posted here for you all. Other than that, I plan to make some new DA images and work on the game, RTL 10 is scheduled for a free release, there is also the patreon poll and the related mini-set for this month; there may be a few other things if all goes perfectly, but that is still very much in the air.

November Patreon mini-set preview!

Hey, I am back with the preview for this month’s Patreon mini-set; I have not had enough free time to fix the one animation yet, but I should have plenty this coming weekend, so I am still hoping to get that in satisfactory working order. This new mini-set features Lucia getting caught and fucked by a horny lizardman. The first of five images is below, and the whole mini-set will go out to appropriate patrons once payments clear early next month, along with all the others. After this next month, I will likely change things around a bit on the Patreon as they have finally put in the “charge up front” feature for monthly pages like mine. More on that later, I still have to work out the details; but this means that people will likely be able to opt in to my patreon and get content much sooner depending on how I do this. Also one last reminder, this coming month is the last month for most of these old mini-sets; after this next month, new mid-level patrons will only get the 2-3 most recent ones from that point as well as any that follow until the next reset. (I am not sure if I will implement the charge up front thing before this reset happens or not.) So if anyone out there wants to help support me, or you want to see a bunch of different content that I have made that you likely haven’t seen yet, check out my Patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Either way, enjoy this preview and I will be back to post new poll and discuss the current ones in a few days and I hope to have another animation preview sometime within a week, while I also try to work on the new scene for the game.

One new animation here, still trying to fix the original one.

Hi again, sorry for the rather late post but all sorts of things happened this past week and the original planned animation simply is not behaving right now. I spent a week and a half on it between fixing issues and trying to render it over and over, but the tentacle animation just keeps having issues somewhere. (Making decent looking animations is really hard; what I see in Poser is not what shows up in Octane.) So as I mentioned in the update to the last post, I had to go to plan B just to make sure that I had something; so here that is, a little gif of Zayla masturbating. Obviously this isn’t quite what I planned, and I am still working on the other one, despite my better judgement; so I really hope to have the original animation working sometime in the next week or so… or possibly a little something else, it is hard to say right now. (I would still like to fix a few tiny things in this animation, but I have already re-rendered it three times and this post is late enough already.)

Either way, I have to do the mini-set for the month in the next week or so and hopefully add a scene to the game beta, and if things finally work out, I can get this other animation working to some extent. I have been trying to avoid redoing the main chunk of it, but that may just be necessary, I will see over the weekend. I will post the mini-set preview near the end of the month at the minimum, possibly something else a bit after that. The polls are doing better, but more votes is always good so please keep voting in the polls; it really helps me to know what people like/prefer. As usual, my mid level patrons will get the full 1920×1080 size (I have to crop it a fair bit to make the gifs, so some scenery gets cut) mp4 of this animation, as well as all sorts of other things; so check it out if you are interested! https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

New game public previews!

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Hi again. I am back and I have decided to post some more info/public previews of the game beta I sent out to my mid level patrons a few days ago! Below are FOUR previews, including a screen cut of the previous one from in game. As mentioned before, the game is called “Salune’s slave training” and the goal is to get Salune’s assorted stats as high as possible within a month (maybe more) by picking assorted training activities and even making choices inside those activities; as shown a bit below! Currently, only four activities are implemented; and they may still be expanded or redone slightly, but apparently my patrons really like this so far. I am going to work on it as I can and I hope to get it done mid-spring or so next year, but I will update the beta given to my mid level patrons as I go along. (I hope to have at least one new event put in for next month, but I want to do animations for the general content this month and those are messy.) If you want to check this out and/or help support my work/making this, check out my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

The first screen is from the lowest level of bondage training, as mentioned before; however, things do get far more interesting as her skills increase. The second screen is just a cut of the menu that shows if you select “Oral training”, it gives you a choice of how you want to do that; as some events in the game will have things like this. The third image shows one variation of the oral training, and a choice within that choice, that shows alternate text and affects the stats gained/lost. (Obviously the stat increases/decreases with each event are just token right now; I have to balance that more when the game is almost complete.) Currently each scene level/variation has only one image associated; but there are/will be text variations and other choices to keep it interesting. Some events will have more options than others, but that is just the nature of these things; much of the text for the events currently in the game will likely be expanded later to match future events as well. (I kept it semi-basic for many events to try and not go overboard again; although that happened anyway.) I may even add more events/images after the base game is done; that is just one of many possibilities If people like this. My patrons also have the current planned event type list, though that is not final. The last preview image is just a cut from the second level scene from the “masturbation” training option; which was one of the options voted for by my patrons last month to be put in first. (It’s worth noting that I put in all three options that were voted for.) Also worth mentioning is that both this and the small VN I made before have a cg gallery, so you can see all the images you have already viewed without anything on top of them; and this is in the game already. I hope you all like these previews from the first beta of this game, and perhaps some of you will want to try it; which would be great. Either way, I will have a preview of something else new around the end of this week. The polls on the right also could really use more votes.

EDIT – 11/21: So to no one’s great surprise, I am a bit behind again due to constant interruptions and issues with long chains of renders for this one animation. I will give it another go tonight, but I may just have to do plan B again, we will see.

November plans, status update.

Hey. Sorry for the semi-late post here, but I’ve had some kind of head cold the past two days among other issues. However, I am still working on renders and stuff for the game and as I posted to my patrons a few days back, it will be better than I was sort of planning a couple weeks ago. I had left myself many notes and such on what I had planned to do here way back whenever, and I found that I am uncomfortable with leaving so much out and cutting as much as I had planned to do a short while ago. Long story short, I am almost certainly going to end up doing too much again and make this as good as I can. (A lot of choices and options and such that I had planned not to do initially will likely be included anyway.) I am hoping to send out an early beta to many of my Patreon patrons tomorrow with the four events that I am almost done with. (I am slightly behind due to sickness and such but I think I should still make it depending on needed re-renders.) I then plan to use some time this month to further add to the game, and see what else I can throw in in addition to the other content this month.

As mentioned in my last post, I am planning to do at least one animation this month, maybe two if time allows. I am also aiming for more hardcore animations, if everything works this time around, that is. (I don’t want to send out something that doesn’t look smooth or has other issues.) I am planning to post some sort of additional preview of one of the events for this game sometime over the weekend, but I am still on the fence about it since it is not even done yet. Still though, this should be good and I am hoping that people will like it when it’s done. I will likely post again over the weekend and/or early next week with something; either a game preview, mini-set preview, or animation preview. In the mean time though, the polls on the right could really use some more votes, so check those out if you haven’t yet!

October poll results and more new polls!

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Hey again. I’m here with a poll related update today; before I get to the results of the prior polls, please note that there are two new polls up on the right! The top one is a new poll asking what you feel are the three most important parts of an adult oriented game; and the bottom poll is another old poll that I have brought back, asking what you feel are the three most important aspects of a female character. You can vote for three (3) things in each poll. So please vote in those and let me know what you prefer, the polls with be up for a month.

As for the results from last time, things were pretty interesting; which is great. The favorite character poll was somewhat of an upset this time, as Helenya actually won this time around; with Zayla and Salune both getting only one vote less at seven each. I expected these three to be the favorites, but I am surprised that Helenya won, as Zayla won last time. Lucia got five votes which is also good and then Tabitha and Karen both got two; which I expected, but it is really nice that some people like them in addition to the more… exotic choices. The second poll asked what your favorite genre of adult game was, and this was really interesting (after the obvious first choice). This time around rpgs did best, with simulations getting fourth (compared to first last time); choose your own adventure games came second with longer story oriented VNs coming third. Short mainly sex VNs got four votes, and two each for dating sims and point and click adventure games; which is interesting. Puzzle games and card/casino games both got nothing, which is somewhat good as those are the things I am least likely to do and/or have no ideas to really do anything special with them at this time.

I have already made the one short, almost all sex VN, and this simulation/training game is coming soonish; after that I am unsure what will come next. RPG games I would like to do, however it would take a shitload of dedicated time and effort; which I cannot really justify at this time. (I barely even get comments here, I am not sure there is enough interest to warrant this.) Longer, story oriented VNs and choose your own adventure games are far more reasonable and likely; as are simulation games and short, sexy VNs. RPGs I really need to put off until there is more interest in my work, and until I am sure I can do it well enough. (I really prefer not to use RPGmaker if I can, as it doesn’t mix well with 3D art; and I am not totally sure of the details/process of making a decent RPG with Renpy.)

So those are my current thoughts on that stuff; feel free to leave comments/suggestions if you really want to see something in particular and/or have something to add somewhere. I am still working out what the main content for this month will be; I am thinking of trying to redo/fix that one animation from a couple months back (and possibly do another one as well) but that is just an idea at this point. I will send out patreon rewards early next week sometime, and shortly after that I will post here with a more concrete plan for this month.

Early public game scene preview!

Hey. So below is the public early preview (patrons saw this early this week) for one part of one event in the game so far; the low level bondage training image is shown below. (This was also one of the events voted for in this month’s Patreon poll.) There will of course be assorted text with all of these events, but I chose to just post the plain image instead of an awkward screen cut so that you can see it better. The events in the game will scale in intensity and activity as Salune’s stats increase; starting at simple activities like this and eventually getting into decidedly rough territory in most cases. This is a tamer example, used mostly due to restrictions on what can be posted directly on Patreon.

As previously stated, each event will be a mini-set of sorts with narration, each split between the assorted levels for each training (I currently plan to have four levels of each and will probably just use 0-25, 26-50, 51-79, and 80+ to keep it simple); likely leaving low level events such as the one below with one scene image, and the highest level events per activity likely getting two or three. There will also be some other qualifiers for different event variants, including player choice and random chance, for example. The descriptions and explanations will also increase in intensity with the trainings; not least because I can write here without worrying about running out of screen space, as I do with the actual story sets. I am also planning to have some basic sound effects in this game, not just music like the previous micro VN. I am aiming for 4-5 events totally done before I send this out in a bit over a week, and I am on track to hit that goal. If people really like this, I can always come back later and add to the original events and/or add more/different events later; I have several ideas in this regard.

If any of this interests you, check out my Patreon page and consider supporting me; everything put forward helps support my work and helps me make more and better content. Starting with this month, whatever I have done toward this game will be sent out to my $15+ patrons, and the finished game itself will get sent out to $5+ patrons, whenever that may be. However, I have no plans to release this publicly; much like the micro VN from a few months back, this may just remain a Patreon only thing. Do also remember that the mini-sets reset at the start of next year, so you may want to get them before they are gone. (Over twenty minisets are currently available to my $15+ patrons, a couple are full size story sets.) https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart