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SENSE/s: Death Harvest

Halloween 2086 - a blood moon, All Hallows Eve and a Witch's death curse converge and spread horrifying evil over a small farm just outside of Gettysburg, PA. While putting the finishing touches on the haunted corn maze for the local Halloween festival, Ollie Zhai is trapped in a gruesome nightmare as the maze is twisted by the dark magic of what was once believed to be a local urban legend. SENSE/s: Death Harvest is a new merger of cantonese horror and local Pennsylvanian folklore, a nightma...

Moving time!

Hey everyone! Just a quick update today to let you all know that our move is next week! Back to the colder climate of the North East and Kayi and I are very excited, but also nervous about the changes. There's a ton we still need to get done, but virtually our entire life is now packed into an 8x8x24 ft area, ready to be put into a truck and go. I will be tearing down my computers and stuff this weekend in order to finish up some commission work first, but soon I will be on the road.

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Step 2

Happy Friday! I wanted to give a special update here on twitter today. Over the past few months I've spent a lot of time thinking hard about what we make, where it needs improved, and how to make those improvements. I will likely talk about this a lot more in the future, but the biggest takeaways I've had are the following;

1. I believe myself to be a decent writer, I seem to be able to tell stories that many people can connect with and find engaging or entertaining. A lot of japanese p...

Restart Coming Soon

Hello and long time no talk everybody!

I'm sure you have all been curious where I've been and what has been going on. Well, the answer is - nearly a lifetimes worth of anything and everything. (Side note - I'm trying my best to remember to use "I" instead of "we", so bare with me lol. SUZAKU is just me and Kayi now, but I am the primary dev full time. I've gotten kind of weary of trying to make us look like a super serious company. I'd rather return to being personal and more human wi...

NEW GAME

Hey everyone! Long time no update, but we are ready to talk about what's next! 

Honestly the last few weeks has been a little rough for us. Midnight did not hit as well as we thought, and though we think we've addressed every bug and concern that we possibly can, we are also working to add an entirely new area to the park with some new gameplay, interactions, and chat/dialogue. It's never easy to feel like you failed or didn't make something that people actually liked, b...

SENSE/s: Midnight ANNOUNCED!

Hello everybody! We are finally able to reveal that Midnight will be published by East Asia Soft, and will be released on STEAM for PC on July 22! IT will release for $11.99 for those of you that have not backed at the higher tiers or did not back yet. 

We are so excited to finally get this game out the door and will be starting the dev-log/updates on our short little mid-term project after launch! So starting in mid august or so.

Steam keys for patrons ...

August Update!

Hey everyone! We wanted to share with you the plan for this months VERY important alpha build! We've spent the last month working on cutscenes, scares, more environment polish and our contractors are working hard on some exciting new updates we will share very soon. 

AL, our coder, is working hard on a number of functions while we polish up the AI and add some important systems to it. We need the ghosts to dynamically be able to adapt to your situation, whats in your inv...

The rest of the cast and alpha build update!

Hey everybody! I will be sending out the build tonight, just polishing some last minute bugs and issues to make sure we don't New World anyone's PCs lol. you will get a DM with a link to the mega a bit later tonight!

I thought as a thank you for your patience I'd also show off the remainder of the living cast of Midnight. I'll detail them individually on Twitter tomorrow, but as a reminder all but one of these will not appear in the game physically, instead these are the members of th...

Alpha build update!

To start I wanted to introduce you all to Kaho's best friend Kikuchi Sakura!  She won't be in the park with us physically, but she will be part of the Occult Club chat group, helping Kaho out with puzzles and emotional support.

I thought I'd share this concept becuase we don't have much to show of our progress since the last update. It's been a lot of very spoilery interactions and dialogue while Al finishes up the enemy ai. The good news is that we will be sending out the new Al...

Camera test build incoming!

Hey everyone! Great news, the camera test build is about done. I am putting some finishing touches and extra polish in and clearing all the compiler errors so I can make the build. I can't be sure exactly how long it will take, but we should have it out friday or monday morning at the latest! 

This build is just a very early pre-alpha so you can walk around the park with the camera angles working properly. The environment is roughly 60% complete, we will need to do a lot more decor...

Cameras are being set!

Our test-girl Olly is helping us make sure the park is as spooky and unsafe as possible for Kaho! We've been setting up cameras all over the park and making sure they work properly and transition smoothly We should be able to release a test chamber in May which will have a few cameras in a test-room so you can help us break them and make sure they work correctly. After that we hope to have some kind of test build with enemy AI or atleast a few interactions nailed down before the end of the mo...

Inventory!

Kaho's backpack is the key to her survival. The 4(+1) slot inventory is held in here. But what happens if Kaho gets grabbed by a lesser spirit and loses the backpack while trying to get away? We've been toying with an idea that we will definitely put in a test chamber build eventually, that you can actually drop your backpack and lose access to your inventory until you retrieve it. How do you feel about that over all?  Our thought process is that it adds another layer of danger to the en...

Weekly update!

Hey everyone, jsut so we don't go a week without posting, Wanted to let you all know that Our coder begins work on Midnight on April 1! So we will likely be able to have some kind of video progress next month. Due to needing to ship out the first round of Kickstarter items, Ive not been able to do any work on midnight this week, so there may not be any update next week. Expect the next one to be the week after next, and hopefully i can show you all some screenshots or something!

2021-03-26 17:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Working hard on the Kaho model

she's already temp rigged while we work on refining the details and features. This is my first completed and polished character model and we are hoping to reach a PS2/dreamcast aesthetic with the game (maybe like PS2 HD or something, better lighting and textures/materials of course)

Pretty soon we will be sending her off to an ACTUAL ANIMATOR! A friend of mine working in AAA games agreed to work with us within our budget and Im really excited to bring him in so we can make Kaho move l...

POLL:UI and Mechanics

Hello everyone, for our next poll and discussion, we need your help to decide how to handle UI. We've narrowed it down to a few choices,

Fatal Frame Style - The "health bar" will show on screen when the ghost is nearby or chasing you. then fade away when you are in a safe area. We would also allow the correct item to be used on interactions automatically if they are in your inventory.

Resident Evil style - The player will need to frequently check their inventory (PDA) screen t...

Stylized wins!

From discord, twitter and Facebook polls all tallied up, stylized won by a large margin!

This means that Kay will now spend her time on making the environment look crazy! I will be working hard to improve this model and then jump to our ghost!  I will show you updates as the model progresses, and am definitely hoping for your feedback now, let me know what you think, what are some areas you would like to see improved. pics  and references are a huge help!

Also, now th...

Pick Kaho's in-game look!

Hey everyone! We need your help! In order to make sure that Midnight looks the best we can make it we want to see what you think about the character model for Kaho. These are for the most part WIP and tweaks and polish will still be made, but the core of each version is complete.  What do you think? In your honest opinion  we need to know which model WORKS the best for the game and for our "fingerprint". 

First concepts and promo image

Though cameras will be fixed, here is a mock up of how we intend the game to look. Also a look at Kaho's standard attire!

SENSE/s Midnight!

We're excited to announce SENSE/s Midnight today with Niche Gamer! Check out the article, and get ready for exclusive content here soon! 

FINALLY HERE

Well everyone! I am so sorry for having a few weeks of no content but here is finally why!

Tomorrow I will have several pieces up for everyone, to make up for the lack of content.

I will also have NEXT weeks content ready to post in 7 days, and will show it as a WIP for all of you to see.

I am so sorry that I have been a terrible patreon creator but I had so much to do on Sense that I could not share.

The good news is that Now we are funded and I will not be relyi...

Sense 2.0 Demo out!

Hey guys sorry for the quietness. But here you can see what I've put all my  time and energy into.  The kickstarter relaunches on May 15th and from there i will be able to get back to posting art and psds for you!

As usual I appreciate all the support you have given, it's helped quite a bit and i hope you will stick around to help me make more art! 

No content this week

Hey everyone!

Unfortunately i wont be able to upload any files for you guys this week, i had no time to actually make anything SFW other than super secret stuff for the Sense 2.0 demo and kickstarter relaunch! (more on that in a few days ^-^ ) Thank you all for the support this month and i promise in a  few days it will all make sense! (no pun intended) 

Double image PSD

Hey everybody the PSD link is being sent out! there are 2 images in this pack for you all! 

Double content pack coming in a min!

2 psds, 2 high res images! 

this weeks post!

Ill be organizing the psd tonight or tomorrow and sending out this weeks files over the weekend!

This weeks content!

Hey guys, putting together the content pack for this week and will dm it out tomorrow! 

This weeks post!

Hey guys, sorry for a slightly late post but i was a little short on SFW to be honest. I have 2 things i can give out so which of these psd options would you like more? 

Shirotech - Moteki

I was commissioned to create this character and really liked how it turned out. I decided this would be this week's upload! Ill be sending out the PSD shortly!

UPDATE

Hey everyone! Ill be changing up the descriptions and account stuff to remove NSFW mentions. With that said, what would you like to see take it's place?

1. more tutorial like posts
2. SFW sketches
3. concepts

Migrating NSFW

Hey everyone! As of the first of February I will be moving all NSFW/LEWD art to a different account and patreon. This account will be pushed into a SFW gamed and concept art focused thing. I hope you will continue to support me so if you are here for the lewds and nudes just check your DMs in a minute, a new link will be there for you!