Day 2 Scene 10.

It's done. It's posed and more than half of it is rendered. So far, the results are pleasing, aside from a few details that had me rework the kiss shots once again. Posing lips and tongues is tricky.

I haven't made the switch to coding, as I should have. Instead, I directly jumped on the music task.

The music.

At that point, music has become essential to the game. I need to deal with it in this update, one way or another. However, that task is very difficult. I think it's time to talk about it in detail.

I started to work on a soundtrack in December 2021 / 2022. At that time I was going easy on it and it wasn't my priority. I was simply listening to various tracks and making potential playlists on a popular and widely-used music licensing platform. By the end of 2022, that site ( as well as others) would crack down on licensing for adult content and ruin my plans.

Restarting my foolish quest from scratch in 2023, as if finding the music itself wasn't difficult enough, I now have to directly contact the artists to try to strike a satisfying deal, track by track.

Months later I managed to find a couple of artists who agreed to sell me some tracks. And I actually already bought some.

So I do have a few tracks. But not enough to make a proper soundtrack. And I now wonder if I really want to use that genre of music. Yes, I do, but I also want to use other styles. Can I mix styles? Like atmospheric pseudo-classical and low-fi / trip-hop? Probably? Movies often mix different kinds of music, right? But then I have transition issues.

And it feels weird. I listen to these tracks while playing the game, to see if it fits. It sometimes does! And sometimes it doesn't.

Aside from some legitimate questions, the problems ultimately lie in myself. I have a "perfect" soundtrack in mind, one that fits perfectly with the tone of the scenes and drives the emotions of the player right where I want them to go. But it isn't realistic. That soundtrack doesn't exist and never will. So I have to settle for something else and I have a hard time making definitive decisions. But I don't have a choice, it needs to happen now, even if I have to change tracks later. I'm curious to know what you think on the subject of music.

On a side and sad note, one of the artists who accepted to sell me music has stopped replying to my emails. He is Ukrainian and lives in Ukraine. I hope he is alive and well.

The quick sum up :

• Day 6 Part 4 will contain 2 new scenes: scenes 26 and 27
• Day 6 Part 4 will contain 2 reworked scenes from Day 2, Scenes 1 and 10
• Day 2, Scene 1 and 10 have been rewritten and posed, Day 2 Scene 1 has been fully rendered.
• 9549 words so far.
• 289 shots are planned, 289 are posed, and 234 are rendered.
• I'm working on the music.

You can follow my progress on this Trello board.

Thank you for your support!

The Naughty Captain