​Last Human: Episode 5 (Devlog 2)


Hey everyone! I know, I usually post these on weekends but the first devlog was posted back on the 28th. So, I figured it was time to give you an update. Besides, this update should make you happy ;)

Last Human: Episode 5 coding is now complete; minus a few scenes I want to tweak during rendering and animating. Main thing is... the episode is written and ready to roll. Now we just need some pretty images to go with it. And this is <ahem> well ahead of schedule right now! I normally spend several weeks on the coding, but I knew what I wanted to do with this episode. Once I got started, I just rolled with it.

What to expect in episode 5? I'll try to do this without too much spoiling. As you know, we were 'banging' the girls in order as MC met them (or as they 'claimed' him as "pet"). I know now that choosing to do it that way was probably silly and now, I wish I hadn't made such a big deal out of the order. But it is what it is, and we just have 2 left anyway - Alaina and Queen Tessa. Admittedly, some girls got longer, more detailed scenes than others. This was not intentional. But I'll make up for that with future events with different girls. Alaina and Tessa will be "taken care of" in this episode. Alaina has a rather long section because I decided to write a bit more story for her. I felt like she sort of got left behind. I think you'll enjoy it and maybe if you weren't such a fan of her before, you might be after this episode.

Tessa's event isn't quite as long but will be sexy and fun. I'm trying to create sex scenes with more animations and positions, along with camera angles, etc... Although Last Human was never meant to be focused purely on sex (like Serenity), episode 5 has quite a bit of it. Moving forward, episodes will usually have 1 or 2 sex scenes each depending on the situation. This is an "adult" VN after all, so there will always be plenty of NSFW content in the story.

Beyond Alaina and Tessa, we'll run into a few other girls... Cindy (the clumsy big boobed shorty), Nia, and Mary. These girls are mainly 'extras' for some fun and silly situations outside of the usual plot stuff. Don't take it too seriously... just have fun with it.

I'm starting on rendering tonight. There are fewer scenes, but longer than my normal scenes. With fewer scenes, that means I am working in the same space for more images which is actually faster than a lot of short scenes where the atmosphere/background and setting has to be changed. Once I have a setting all setup the way I want it, the posing, facial expressions, and even the animation setups are just a lot quicker to roll through. I've gotten pretty fast at setting up poses fairly accurately, with the only slowdown being hands and fingers. Posing hands and fingers takes just a bit longer because I hate to see fingers clipping into things or looking awkward.

Someone brought up a graphics issue where Rin's leg looks jagged in one particular render from episode 4. No, that is not normal, but I think I know why that happened. It's due to the dark background behind her leg. You need light in these things in order to have pretty renders and there probably should have been more in that scene. But I wanted it to be dimly lit because it was his room and night time. When I opened that scene up and put a light source on the floor/wall behind her leg, the jagged lines went away. Yes, this is a minor thing for the most part... but if it was a sex event, that would have been a bigger deal to me. So, I probably won't redo that entire scene just for that one image. That could be a week or two worth of work which would set me back and I'm trying to get this update done as soon as I can.

That's it for now guys and gals. I'm sorry I don't have a preview to post with this. I haven't done any rendering yet (as I said, I'll start on some of that tonight). In case you missed it, Serenity Chapter 2 was just updated, adding episode 4 to that game. Serenity C2 (Episode 4) Now Available in itch!

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You da dude dude!! Great to get update progress reports like this. As for the "Order" subject. I thought it was a fun angle. But I also got the idea that there has to be a little different order for the "results" of the order bond completion.. Tessa, being queen and all, HAS TO BE the first one to get pregnant!!!! She is the Queen! She has to be FIRST! Then the first two he met, the travelers he rescued and where the first to call "PET" bonding on him should be 2nd and 3rd but that will require coordination with story line since they are ship crew and mission prioritized. Can't have the "First Officer" out of commission because of morning sickness too early in the mission schedule now can we? Snicker Snicker Har Har!

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By coincidence, I reread Last Human today and now I find out episode 5 is coming soon. I'm really looking forward to it. Since you reference Serenity in Last Human and Last Human in Serenity, you would think they have the same timeline. In Serenity, the dream angles answer dreams for people on earth, however, in LH the earth is destroyed. I tried to rationalize the time discrepancy by recognizing that they are immortal but it all falls apart when Rin mentions needing to return to Mike (in Serenity) to help deal with the dark flame. There are other inconsistencies like this in Serenity, such as when Rin tells Mike about meeting his twin on Pantheria. Other than that, well done!

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They are not inconsistencies. They are in different dimensions - different versions of the same reality. It has nothing to do with timelines. I could create another game based on yet another dimension, another version of earth where technology is highly advanced with aliens and humans living peacefully together. Rin (a dream angel from Serenity) has the ability to jump to other dimensions. She shows up, and meets that dimension's version of "Mike". Now she knows three versions of the same person.

Now, want more confusion? Celeste is from Sylphine (yet another dimension)... Melody is from Seaside (another dimension). And all of those dimensions have one thing in common.... you. The person reading it. Hopefully you're picking up on what I am doing. I'm basically saying that we, the ones who read these visual novels, live in all of them. So when you play Last Human, you actually get to see someone from Serenity. When you play Serenity, you get to see someone from Sylphine.

Anyway... they're not inconsistencies. If they were, I'd be a pretty shitty writer LOL. It might be 1:00pm in Serenity but Rin jumps over to the Last Human dimension and its midnight there. So it has nothing to do with timelines at all. Hopefully you understood all that (and I didn't confuse you even more) :)

Okay, that works. I guess I didn't pick up on two separate earth dimensions. Then again, if a dream angle can jump between dimensions, who's to say that they couldn't jump time as well.

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Your hardwork and dedication fam damn, this is why I respect creators like you who never abandon their masterpiece. Thank you as always for the dev logs :D

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mate, you are one of the devs i wish i could fully fund. if i ever win big in the lotto, id have no problem giving you 250k to develop the game and support your family. lets hope i win next time eh? :P cant wait to see what you got next for us, serenity is an absolute banger of an AVN