Every week you go to the marketplace to buy something. Hopepunk City has a simple economic system, and it does not keep track of "moolas" or have prices. The system is based on what you can afford, and what you c...
2021-09-15 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is what I am calling the final beta. Basically it means I am done adding new content to the game, so whatever is in the game will be what is in the final release. I suspect there are still bugs and grammar errors lef...
2021-09-15 01:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostThese are the best choices to make in the dialogs you are likely to get in the game. Dialog choices are based on points earned. Choices that get you achievements will be marked as well. Of course you can choose what you want and live with the choices, this list is for people struggling to get enough points at vari...
2021-09-13 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the link to the "Free Demo" version of Hopepunk City. It basically contains the first month of the game including sound and 24 achievements. The only thing in the demo that is not in the full game is a tr...
2021-09-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of months ago, while thinking about the game balance, I developed a problem that needed my attention. There is an employment path that does not require training of any sort, just exercise. It goes table busser &g...
2021-09-10 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the last things I did graphically before releasing the beta was revamp the pictures in Maya's office. Before this, it was represented by basically a single picture.
Maya's T-shirt is dynamic, which is computer simu...
2021-09-10 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Having shared most of the first two months of content already, I'd like to share tricks of the third month and how to get the best ending.
Some of this gets political, I understand that is odd for a game of this nature to get p...
2021-09-08 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBased on feedback, I made some changes to the game, and since these only affect the game files it is easy to patch.
Changes:
Hopepunk City does not really work in a way that can be covered in traditional step by step walkthroughs, so I decided to create advanced tips and tricks and call them "Case Files", for no other reason that it sounds fun. I'm s...
2021-09-07 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've done enough tinkering, I need to stop! Time to finally release a beta!
A lot has changed since the alpha version back in July. I was supposed to finish the story, release a 3 month alpha, then work on audio and...
2021-09-06 14:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned in my last post that the last section I need to do is a date with Ariane, and I featured one choice for dinner. Here's the other choice: the Drive-N-Dine.
I updated the interior lighting, the overhead li...
2021-09-02 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I am writing and illustrating the last scene there is to do on Hopepunk City. It is set in Lizzard's Nightclub, so I am using pics from Date Ariane as placeholders while I write it, and then the illustra...
2021-09-01 16:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm literally in the home stretch of finishing Hopepunk City, at least the story part. The scenes where you date Ariane, which I have surprisingly struggled with, is literally the last scenes I have to write and illust...
2021-08-26 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week where most of my game images are uninteresting out of context, or spoilery, so here are some new HDR renders.
I had a need to bring back the hair style used in Rachel Meets Ariane, where Ariane posed for R...
2021-08-19 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of posts ago, I said my goal was to finish 12 Hopepunk City scenes by the end of august. I've done 3 so far, and it's AUG 12?!! Dang, this is taking longer than I thought. What's worse is that the ...
2021-08-12 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm spending the month busily trying to finish the missing Hopepunk City scenes of the game, so new pics showcased this month are going to be new scenes. These are some "end game" scenes that I am doing, so I want to avoid spoi...
2021-08-05 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Since it is the beginning of a new month, thought I'd give you a status report of what I am working on. By my calculations, I have about 12 scenes left to write/illustrate, some I have figured out in my head, some I have no ide...
2021-08-02 15:03:31 +0000 UTC View Post
My free game week is over with about a 1000 free downloads. Price is now $2.00 at my store fronts. But all Patrons $1 and above can download this game free right here.
Also available on itch.io with a free account
Been busy this week getting Strip Crazy Eights ready. I released version 1.0 to Patreons already (se my original post for updated downloads including Android), so I haven't had time to work on any other images. S...
2021-07-29 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After finishing up the latest graphic updates for Hopepunk City, I looked at the latest sales figures and saw they were down. Most likely a July slump common among game developers, which is why Steam and others have big sales i...
2021-07-25 18:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I released a demo version 0.4 in June and then changed 95% of the graphics. This is that same demo but with the new graphics, a major bug fix (the game ends properly after the trailer plays), and some spelling fixes.
The...
2021-07-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the Android release of the alpha version 0.5 of Hopepunk City. See the release notes in the last post.
This alpha test is not optimized for android, uses a lot of memory. It is just a port of the PC version,...
2021-07-24 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So here it is in less than a month after 0.4, with none of the things I promised, but I guarantee you will like it anyways.
The good stuff:
* At least 95% of the pictures re-rendered in Poser 12 Superfly which are vast impro...
I decided to continue the IBL fun I started last week, but this time I am using two figures in couple's poses.
So who are these people? They are the new player avatars in Hopepunk City. The idea is to have the two A...
2021-07-22 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Today happens to be my birthday, another trip around the sun, and I thought some "Birthday suit" pics would be appropriate.
This week I played with a script called EZDome that uses IBL files (360 degree photos) to create accura...
2021-07-16 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I've spent a second week updating images in Hopepunk City from Poser 11 Firefly renders to Poser 12 Superfly, which I will release as an alpha update later this month.
But as I work on these new pics, I cannot help throw in som...
2021-07-08 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
After releasing the latest alpha version of Hopepunk City, I got a couple of comments about how graphically it is not an improvement on Ariane in Paradise and it is true. Hopepunk City was made in iso...
2021-07-01 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a test version of the first month demo that includes a teaser trailer. If you are a $5 or more level patron, you should stick to the Alpha version I released yesterday, as it contains a lot more content. This is p...
2021-06-27 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the latest "Alpha" release. What I released back in April was the first month of the game, this is month 2. New stuff:
* 9 additional careers, for a total of 16. In month 1, you could "train" for a car...
2021-06-26 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the android version of the alpha release I posted earlier. Because of file sizes I have to do a separate post.
This is a direct port of the PC version to android. It has not been optimized, so as a result some of the buttons are hard to press on small screens, though I played through the entire game ...
2021-06-26 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
