Summer's Gone is an interactive, slice-of-life Visual Novel about a guy who's lost his childhood love and suffered severe trauma. College is about to start, mysteries are about to unfold, and a girl named Bella drags him out of his comfort zone.

Hello everyone!
Slowly, I'm getting back to work. I've outlined 3 scenes that are left, so I know how much render work I still have ahead of me. I've calculated that I have roughly 450 renders and around 40 animations to do :D And there is the extra scene but I’m not yet sure how much renders it’ll have. Last extra scene had about 100 renders and 11 animations so I guess it’ll be roughly the same amount this time around. I’ll know more when it’s written and transcribed.
I've already started working on the renders for the scene with Jasmine, which you can see in the preview :D
Due to my absence for practically the whole of February, we're behind on wallpapers! So, this month, the two girls with the most votes will each get one of their wallpapers. Additionally, Easter is coming, so as every year, we need to decide who will be Jake's Easter bunny!. Of course, as always, one render with the bunny will be public for everyone, and for Patreons, there will be an NSFW version :D
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And few words from Joshua:

Progress on 3.2 is going well. I'm writing the crux of the episode now, and it's a lot of fun. I've mentioned before that writing a multi-path story can be quite challenging, but this is a whole new level, with the episode playing differently not jsut for your chosen love interest, but who you want to help with the battery project, and how close you are to them.
I'm hoping I can have the draft finished by mid next week, hit up the Melbourne Grand Prix, then get into editing afterwards.
Part of 3.2 is also introducing a character that will play a bit of a part in the story going forward. I don't want to give too much away for her, so I'll just share the playlist I'm using to get into her head:

Halestorm - Love Bites
In This Moment - Army of me
Guns n Roses - Rocket Queen
Egypt Central - Taking You Down
INXS - Devil Inside
Dorothy - Wicked Ones
Breaking Benjamin - Dance With The Devil
Lauren Babic - My Curse
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
Nonpoint - When Doves Cry
Three Days Grace - You Against Me
Arch Enemy - Poisoned Arrow
The Veer Union - Watch You Lose
Metallica - Sanitarium
Linkin Park - Bleed it Out
First to Eleven - So Cold
Slipknot - Vermillion
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Alice in Chains - Put You Down
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Witchcraft
Drowning Pool - Tearing Away
Godsmack - Voodoo
Five Finger Death Punch - Hell To Pay
Warrant - Cherry Pie
My Darkest Days - Porn Star Dancing
The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again
State of Mine - Careless Whisper
Electric Six - High Voltage
The Doors - Light My Fire
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex type thing
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
Alice Cooper - Poison
Velvet Revolver - Slither

Apart from that, it's just business as usual as we start the run towards the 3.1 release!
Oh, and for anyone wanting to check out the tracks, the SoundCloud playlist is here:
https://soundcloud.com/dissident-969709/sets/mystery-woman?si=d4e51128d7d44e5a8143f0d64d8bd24f
I'll drop in the other playlists over the next week or so.
Some tracks need a Spotify paid account, but it's the best I can do.
Youtube link:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5OSorpJ-AA1OZMgwDYnkkltJygjGkBIO&si=676Zsgou1t-e_t8b
Stay tuned!

Chapter 3.5 - Dev Log #5
Привет,
Теперь, после некоторой реорганизации, WiAB снова на этапе активной разработки, пока приближается релиз SG.
Я ограничил время для WIAB 2 часами в день. Остальное время занято постобработкой и подготовкой галереи для SG (к счастью, я могу выполнять рендеринг и постобработку одновременно благодаря видеопамяти в 48 ГБ)
Превьюшки (глава 3.5).
"Все в одну кучу."





Теперь WiAB полностью разрабатывается на (старой) рабочей станции SG.
- Ocean

(Цитата)
For the next few weeks, there's a change of plan. As many of you know, I'm preparing the Summer's Gone Chapter 5 Full release and the Steam/Epic release that comes with it.
As I said in previous Logs on SG. Reworks affect my mental health negatively. It feels like I'm standing still, even though I know I'm not.
I know the SG Rework is worth the effort. (Considering Steam, etc.) But it's still draining my energy like crazy.
I'm at the end of the SG CH5 Full release, and with that, the reworks are done once and for all.
But I need to get it done ASAP.
While I did do some WiAB in the past two weeks, I'm going to focus on SG for around 2-3 weeks, and then after the release of Season 1 SG, I will return to the usual schedule. A slightly improved schedule.
As WiAB is now on the big workstation, I can work on SG and WiAB at the same time. (Thanks to the A6000 Adas').
I think that's better than switching back and forth each day.
Anyway, 2 to 3 weeks is what I need.
There's just so much to take care of. From translating, dealing with Steam, Epic & Gog, rendering, fixing & trying to get more music, and building new environments.
I just need around two to three weeks to focus on the release.
I hope you WiAB boys will understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1t5rV6n7s
...There are a lot of choices
Waiting to be made
Too many choices
Making me afraid...

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 12:11 pm
v0.09 Development progress
Renders - 75%
Animations - 0%
Rendering post-processing - 75%
Music & Sounds - 0%
Translation - 10%

Chapter 3.5 - Dev Log #3
Hello,
Progress is slightly slower at the moment, as my priority is to get Summer's Gone Season 1 released.
I've been moving WiAB over to the SG PC, and have gotten most of the environments and characters to work. (Collecting all the missing assets.)
The SG PC was upgraded a week ago. (2xA6000 Ada.)
After I successfully moved WiAB over to the SG Workstation, WiAB is also going to benefit from them.
The current amount of renders:
Chapter 3.5 = 860
Chapter 4 = 45
For Chapter 3.5, I have to design a few new places and have finished MC's and Miru's potential new apartment & started developing the scenes in it.
Chapter 4 needs a few new environments and I'm currently collecting and building them.
But yeah, I need to release SG S1 as soon as possible. But as always, these updates are bigger than I first anticipated.
There's only one preview today. 4K attached.
MC's new potential place & Ni.



Soon, I'll start contacting more music artists and see if I can score some new music for WIAB/the games.
- Ocean​

ГГ сошелся с одной богатенькой девицей, но что-то (уже не помню) у них не сложилось и он расстался с ней. Она его отблагодарила, подбросила ему в сумку свои драгоценности и обвинила в краже. В тюрьме молодого ГГ сильно били, там он познакомился с Миру. Поэтому вторично попасть в тюрьму он никак не хотел, но его опять подставили. Старая версия кончается началом суда над ГГ