Confusion, Chapter 9 (v0.9) [NSFW 18+]

Devlog

• Bi-weekly status #61 (20241122)
  November 22, 2024 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 10, #Low-res renders, #Status

  News Really, really busy. Kinda jumping around doing a bunch of things all at once. I’ve been working on Steam integration. I spent a couple of days working on the December 4K renders, along with a... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #60 (20241108)
  November 08, 2024 by AVNSnax

  6

  #Chapter 10, #Low-res renders, #Status

  A short status masking a busy couple of weeks. In addition to everything else, I spent quite a bit of the last two weeks canvasing and call banking for a political campaign that shall, uh, go nameless... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #59 (20241025)
  October 25, 2024 by AVNSnax

  6

  #Chapter 10, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Headline The big news this period was the replacement of my main render system. Every time I have to migrate to a new machine, I forget what happened the last time I did it. This time around, it was a... Continue reading

  
• Happy Halloween!!! (2024)
  October 18, 2024 by AVNSnax

  4

  #4K Desktops, #Hi-res renders

  Unlike our last public 4K render, Halloween is a more or less universal holiday, so everybody should be able to enjoy this post. The gang all decided to go all “superhero” this year, after admirin... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #58 (20241011)
  October 11, 2024 by AVNSnax

  6

  #Chapter 10, #Low-res renders, #Status

  So much going on! Vacation was marvelous, and much needed after the Chapter 9 effort. Once I got back, aside from a few days spent researching some potential Android issues (which turned out to be unf... Continue reading

  
• New game idea summaries
  September 28, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  New game idea summaries Still on holiday, but while we’re waiting for new content… While I was in the hospital and recuperating, I spent a lot of time fleshing out some possible story lines for fu... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #57 (20240913)
  September 13, 2024 by AVNSnax

  8

  #Chapter 10, #Status, #Low-res Renders

  A lot has happened these past two weeks. Today Today’s the public release day! I’ll update the download links to point to Chapter 9 sometime today. The Chapter 9 releases went very smoothly. Almos... Continue reading

  
• It's almost time!
  September 05, 2024 by AVNSnax

  8

  #Chapter 9

  Another week, another release! Tomorrow morning, it’s time for our base tier Patron and SubscribeStar supporters to get their hands on Chapter 9! The itch.io release will be this coming Friday the... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #56 (20240830)
  August 30, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 9, #Chapter 10, #Status

  The Chapter 9 release went out to top-tier supporters on Patreon and SubscribeStar last week, and this week, it’s the mid-tier members’ turn! Things have gone pretty smoothly so far (knocking on w... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #55 (20240816)
  August 16, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 9, #Status

  Chapter 9 principal production has wrapped! Chapter 9 deals with lust, guilt, regret, revenge, and discovery. We get closer to solving Alex’s abduction; we learn more about Suzie, and the events lea... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #54 (20240802)
  August 02, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Bi-weekly status #54 (20240802) Things are slowly getting back to normal. I’m starting to spend a bit of time sitting upright, but the standing desk has been a godsend. I knocked out quite a few ani... Continue reading

  
• A quick status post
  July 25, 2024 by AVNSnax

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  #Status

  For those who have sent me get well wishes and expressed their concern over my condition, thank you! I’ve been back at home since Monday, and although it pretty much hurts to do anything, a friend m... Continue reading
• Bi-weekly status #53 (20240719)
  July 19, 2024 by AVNSnax

  6

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  This is going to be a very short update, I’m afraid. As those of you who patronize our Discord server will have seen, I’ve been in the hospital since last week. It’s still not clear when I’ll... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #52 (20240705)
  July 05, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  Sorry for the lateness of this update. I strive to get these things out at 9AM every other Friday, but…holidays. Amirite? Almost a week off for the July 4 holiday, so not a lot got done this period... Continue reading

  
• Happy 4th!!!
  July 02, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Hi-res renders, #4K Desktop

  For our U.S.-based supporters, we present this special treat. In line with our Christmas and Halloween 4K desktops, we now add Independence Day to the mix. Steaks are on the grill and everyone is enjo... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #51 (20240621)
  June 21, 2024 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Snax here. So, I’ve got some news. An announcement of sorts. I’ll be personally writing all of these status updates from now on. I’ve been dreading having to write this. BB and Turkish have been... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #50 (20240607)
  June 07, 2024 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Wow. Our 50th bi-weekly update. Seems like only yesterday that we started on this journey. (Well, for Snax anyway–the rest of us came on in October of 2022…) Snax still isn’t back to 100% yet, b... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #49 (20240524)
  May 24, 2024 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  No lie. This has been a rough couple of weeks. Snax was hospitalized for a little over a week thanks to complications from a previous surgery, so (relatively speaking) not a lot got done. There’s on... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #48 (20240510)
  May 12, 2024 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Scene 7 is proving to be a real bear. Well, figuratively speaking, of course…we aren’t actually fighting bears, per se (although, if you ever get between Snax and morning coffee…) It involves se... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #47 (20240426)
  April 26, 2024 by AVNSnax

  6

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  A productive fortnight! Scene 5 is finished (well, except for animations… Snax …) as well as scene 6, which featured three set changes, is done as well. As we’ve said in the past, when starting... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #46 (20240412)
  April 12, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Not a whole lot of things to report this development period. Most of it was spent on issues with Ren’Py’s persistence system (the part of the program that “remembers” things from one play to a... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #45 (20240329)
  March 29, 2024 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  A lot of work this past fortnight had to do with bug fixes. Several long standing “irritations” have been addressed. Additionally, we spent some time working on beautifying the preferences screen... Continue reading

  
• Chapter 8 is live!
  March 20, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 8, #Release

  Chapter 8 is now available on itch.io! Chapter 8 builds on Alex’s love interest arcs, as well as giving some insight into Jordan and Becca’s past. It also deals with the fallout of the ending of C... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #44 (20240315)
  March 15, 2024 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Another short status. All Patreon and SubscribeStar paid supporters have now received their download links for Chapter 8, with the public release arriving this coming Wednesday, on March 20. On that d... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #43 (20240301)
  March 06, 2024 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 9, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Short and sweet. Top tier monthly supporters on Patreon and SubscribeStar received their links to Chapter 8 on Feb 28. Middle tier supporters will get their links today, and the rest of our paid suppo... Continue reading

  
• Principal production for Chapter 8 has wrapped!
  February 21, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 8, #Status

  It’s about damned time, too! The closer we get to the end of the story, the more branches and dialogue variations have to be accounted for. This chapter features some interesting additional backgrou... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #42 (20240216)
  February 16, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res renders, #Status

  So close. The last scene we’re working on (not the last scene of the chapter—just the most involved) is almost complete. Frankly, it’s kicking our butts. We’re hampered by two things: a low-li... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #41 (20240202)
  February 02, 2024 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res renders, #Status

  This will be a short status. The past fortnight was incredibly productive. We finished scenes 10 and 11, meaning there are only two left for chapter 8. Both of these scenes are longer than usual, and... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #40 (20240119)
  January 19, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res renders, #Status

  This has been an eventful fortnight. Just as we were finishing up scene 8, Snax decided to merge it into scene 6 to improve the flow of the story. This involved some hefty story rewrites, and a bunch... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #39 (20240105)
  January 05, 2024 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res renders, #Status

  A fresh, new year! Oh, it’s just a couple of days after the stale, old year? And time is just an abstract, artificial construct created by humans to measure ongoing decline and decay? Well, when you... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #38 (20231215)
  December 15, 2023 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res renders, #Status

  The thing about Mr. Murphy’s Law is that it usually hits you when you least expect it. Week #1 was one of those weeks. We won’t bore you with the details, but it involved a major (!) hardware cras... Continue reading

  
• Happy Holidays!
  December 11, 2023 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Hi-res renders

  A bonus 4K desktop wallpaper / poster for our loyal Confusion fans! We wish you peace, and Happy Holidays! Link to full-size image: 4K Holidays poster... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #37 (20231201)
  December 01, 2023 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Slow week, what with Thanksgiving and all. We hope you had a restful, politics-free family holiday! Even with five days off for the holiday, we’ve managed to finish scene 4 and will push to finish s... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #36 (20231117)
  November 17, 2023 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res renders, #Status

  The Chapter 7 release went pretty smoothly, all things considered. Chapter 8 is well underway. So much controversy over Alex’s new hairdo! We knew that there would be some strong feelings, but the t... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #35 (20231103)
  November 03, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 8, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  Chapter 7 went into general release this morning. You’ll find the download links have been updated in the pinned message. As you can imagine, most of the last two weeks was spent on testing the fina... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #34 (20231021)
  October 21, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 7, #Status, #Low-res Renders

  Chapter 7 development is done! Yippee! We had some major hurdles to overcome for this release, but we finally pushed through and got it over the finish line. We’re currently in the beta-testing phas... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status #33 (20231006)
  October 06, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 7, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Good and bad news this report. Chapter 7 static content development has almost concluded. This has been the hardest chapter so far, for a variety of reasons. We revamped a couple of scenes so that you... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230922)
  September 22, 2023 by AVNSnax

  2

  #Chapter 7, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  The end of chapter 7 is in sight, at least from a content development standpoint. As we announced back last month, we’re revamping the VN from the ground up. This was due to our being forced to reth... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230908)
  September 08, 2023 by AVNSnax

  2

  #Chapter 7, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  Short and sweet. Venimus, vidimus, vicimus . After a fashion. We didn’t vicimus as much as we would have liked. Since our last status, we’ve completed a scene and a half. Most of the time it takes... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230824)
  August 25, 2023 by AVNSnax

  2

  #Chapter 7, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  A rather boring status period. Gosh, the heat wave. Our air conditioning system must have been manufactured around the turn of the century for all of the problems it’s been giving us. (The turn of t... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230811) (NSFW)
  August 11, 2023 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 7, #Low-Res Renders, #Status

  These two weeks went by in a flash. To be honest, progress has been slow. We’re still embroiled in a long, intricate scene that requires a ton of setup. We’d hoped to have been moving on to the ne... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230728)
  July 28, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 7, #Low-res renders, #Status

  It was, overall, a fairly uneventful fortnight. Thank God. We’ve made it about halfway through scene 4 (of 12). Things are clicking and we’ve settled into a comfortable cadence that we hope we can... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230714)
  July 14, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 7, #Low-res renders, #Status

  TL;DR: Our 2-day server upgrade turned into 2 weeks. “It’ll be simple,” he said. “We’ve done this a million times before,” they said. “We’ll get to take a weekend off,” we thought. I... Continue reading

  
• Chapter 6 is live!
  June 30, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 6, #Release, #Status

  Bi-weekly status (20230630) Chapter 6’s general release is today! We’re already well into chapter 7. We finished the 2nd of 12 scenes yesterday, which is about where we were into chap 6 when chap... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230616)
  June 16, 2023 by AVNSnax

  5

  #Chapter 6, #Low-res renders, #Status

  We finished chapter 6 a couple of days ago. We’re currently in the throes of testing. Fortunately, even with all of the changes we’ve made to the underlying code in the past three months, testing... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230602)
  June 02, 2023 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 6, #Low-Res Renders, #Status

  We’re getting close to the end of Chapter 6. One major scene to go, and then testing can begin. Unlike the last couple of chapters, we’ve replaced a lot of the VN’s underpinnings which are going... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230518)
  May 18, 2023 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 6, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Finally: a couple of very productive weeks! And this with the team spending a not inconsequential bit of time holed up with Link and the new The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom release. The long... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230506)
  May 06, 2023 by AVNSnax

  4

  #Chapter 6, #Low-res renders, #Status

  A mixed fortnight when it came to productivity. There was a hospitalization and death in the family of Snax’s closest friend. On top of that, Daz Studio crashed early this past week, requiring a com... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status (20230421)
  April 21, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 6, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  We reached the “halfway” point of chapter 6 this past weekend. The word “halfway” is in quotes because the first half was the easy half. The second half is, well, full of a lot of timesinks. T... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  April 07, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 6, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  Back from holiday! We had a relaxing, much-needed break from the non-stop development streak we’d been on for over a year. And, as a result, we’ve had a very productive couple of weeks. We’ve be... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  March 11, 2023 by AVNSnax

  3

  #Chapter 6, #Low-res renders, #Status

  The past two weeks since the release of Confusion v0.5 have been challenging. Mega, a file-sharing service based in New Zealand, received a complaint (we asked why; they won’t say) that caused them... Continue reading

  
• Chapter 5 is Alive!
  March 03, 2023 by AVNSnax

  2

  #Chapter 5, #Release, #Status

  Chapter 5 is alive! Change notes: Around an hour of new content 10+ new scenes and 10 new animations 857 new renders (between animations and static images) Enhancements to dialogue to include text eff... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  February 17, 2023 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  Friends! The last two weeks have been spent mostly on animations. They came out pretty good–there’s one that isn’t quite up to our standards so we’ll be reworking that one today, as well as th... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  February 03, 2023 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Another fortnight; another scene. Scene 9 is in the can and scene 10 is underway. Scene 9 was, by far, the longest in the entire story so far. As alluded to in a previous update, the further along the... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  January 21, 2023 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Low-res Renders, #Status

  We just finished scene 8 yesterday. Whew. That was an important milestone because our rendering server is getting a major upgrade this weekend. Assuming everything goes according to plan, we should be... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  January 07, 2023 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Low-res renders, #Status

  We’re now into scene 8 of 10. Of course, the last three scenes are going to be the hardest to realize, for a variety of reasons. There is a definite turning point to the story . . . check that. Ther... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  December 25, 2022 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Bi-weekly status Great news! It looks like we finally solved the issues we were having with Daz Studio. For those interested, it appears that Daz Studio has severe issues with newer versions of driver... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  December 14, 2022 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Another challenging fortnight. Daz Studio just refuses to cooperate, with a bunch of crashes every day hindering our workflow. We think we have a temporary fix, in that the crashes have dramatically r... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  December 05, 2022 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Short update. We’ve had a shortened work schedule due to Thanksgiving, but got scene 2 of 10 for Chapter 5 done today. As the story progresses, the number of story branches increases, meaning that w... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  November 23, 2022 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Chapter 5, #Status, #Low-res renders

  Not much to report this time around. We’ve spent most of our time dealing with the chapter 4 release and some of its associated issues these past two weeks. Chapter 5 is well underway. We’ve decid... Continue reading

  
• Chapter 4 is live!
  November 17, 2022 by AVNSnax#Chapter 4, #Status, #Release

  It’s time! Chapter 4 is now live for itch.io members. If you haven’t already, please stop by our Discord server and say hi, talk about Confusion, and share how you think the story will evolve in f... Continue reading
• Three days left!
  November 14, 2022 by AVNSnax#Chapter 4, #Status

  Three More Days! Chapter 4 is just three days away! Just in time for Thanksgiving! We’ve worked hard, long hours to make this chapter happen, and we’re proud of the end result. Keep in mind that t... Continue reading

  
• Short chapter 4 delay
  November 05, 2022 by AVNSnax#Chapter 4, #Beta-testing, #Status

  TLDR : Daz, Windows 11, and the internet have all conspired against us this week. It took all week to polish off the last of the renders to close out the chapter. Chapter 4 is finally ready for testin... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  October 28, 2022 by AVNSnax#Chapter 4, #Low-res renders, #Status

  Sigh. Development was supposed to be completed today. We’re so close, but not quite there. The issue is that the most extended scene in the chapter takes place mostly outdoors, at night. Low-light r... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  October 14, 2022 by AVNSnax#Chapter 4, #Low-res renders, #Status

  To all of my new paid supporters this month: Thank You! It’s support like yours from the community that allows me to spend so much time working on Confusion . Chugging along. I’m just about done w... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  September 30, 2022 by AVNSnax#Chapter 4, #Low-res renders, #Status

  I’ve finished scene 4 of 9 and am most of the way through scene 5. There are a lot of new locations in this chapter, which are taking a long time to set up. But they’ll be used throughout the rest... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  September 20, 2022 by AVNSnax#Status, #Low-res renders, #Chapter 4

  And things were going so well! Grrr. I built an animation that should have taken 8 hours to render, so I set it to render overnight while I slept. Somehow, 8 hours doubled to 16. And somewhere along t... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  September 07, 2022 by AVNSnax

  2

  #Status, #Chapter 4

  Thanks as always for those generous enough to support this project! Now that Chapter 3 is released, my original plan had been to take a couple of weeks off and enjoy what remains of summer. But I just... Continue reading

  
• T-minus 7!
  August 31, 2022 by AVNSnax

  2

  #Chapter 3, #Status

  Getting closer to public release! In Chapter 3, we get to meet Brad. Alex’s date with Brad is fast approaching. Will she be ready? Alex will need to step up her workouts, buy new clothes, and overco... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  August 17, 2022 by AVNSnax#Status

  Bi-weekly status Chapter 3 development is complete! According to plan, I finished the last of the animations and renders yesterday, so it’s time to start testing! While waiting for one of the longer... Continue reading
• Bi-weekly (?) status
  August 07, 2022 by AVNSnax

  2

  My bi-weekly status is almost a “bi-week” late. What happened? Life, I’m afraid. Last month, as I was trying to finish off Chapter 3, I experienced two massive internal hematomas. After 2½ week... Continue reading
• Bi-weekly status
  July 08, 2022 by AVNSnax

  2

  #Low-res renders, #Status

  I’ll be honest. It’s been a frustrating couple of weeks. EDIT: PyTom has come through with a quick bugfix release that happens to include a fix for the following issue. So ignore my request for fe... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  June 24, 2022 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Low-res renders, #Status

  Wow, has it been two weeks already? Development is coming along nicely. 805 new renders in total for version 0.3 so far, and I’d guess I’m about halfway through Chapter 3. The biggest hurdle for m... Continue reading

  
• Bi-weekly status
  June 09, 2022 by AVNSnax

  1

  #Status, #Low-res renders

  I just published chapters 1 and 2 a week ago, and I’m well into chapter 3 now. I’d guess I’m about 20% completed with the renders for chapter 3. There are a few more locations in this chapter wh... Continue reading
• RELEASE of Chapter 2
  May 28, 2022 by AVNSnax#Release, #Public

  The Story Confusion is the story of a transgendered girl with a problem. Alex has few friends, a lot of enemies, and even her foster family disrespects her. How will she learn to cope? Should she leav... Continue reading