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I noticed u worked on short stories for demo and v2., along with updating the girls, stories and such.. I don't mind seeing a headless figure as myself but 2 hands ( even tho not connected by arms ) would be nice. a lot more positions in the action scenarios and I really like the mods u picked so far for earlier vs but the more u try to mod or let us characterize the girls the longer it takes to finish the game much less the plots. :lol: ;) ;)
thank you for the versions so far I may not be patron but I will be buying v 4 +......


Sat Sep 10, 2016 6:18 am
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Hi,
after a long time i wanted to request the current status?
Some News or Vids/Screens of Version 4.0 out yet?
Or is there already a release date/schedule?

Hope to hear/see some News from XPadmin and Folks :)

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Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:04 pm
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T-Virus wrote:
Hi,
after a long time i wanted to request the current status?


Officially, nothing more than background code and shaders.

T-Virus wrote:
Some News or Vids/Screens of Version 4.0 out yet?


Eskarn claimed to have seen some first-hand, but none that have been released publicly.

T-Virus wrote:
Or is there already a release date/schedule?


Nope.


Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:44 pm
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Hope near Christmas we can see something :)
Cant wait to see what is in Process and what is still in work.
Need to Plan the "old" Versions of the Game again.

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Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:44 pm
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xpadmin wrote:
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Hello everyone,

We are really happy that version 3.5 has been received well.
We realize that not all wishes have been fulfilled, but we tried to put as many things in it as we could (given the time we had).
There probably will be one or two patches with small fixes (and most likely adding support for DirectX 11).
But most of the time will be spend on moving forward to version 4.


The girls from version 2:

I know a lot of you have been requesting the girls/stories from version 2 to be added to version 3.
At first glance this sounds easy, but the models in version 2 have a very different bone structure and skinning.
So it would be quite a lot of work converting them to version 3.

This is why for version 4 we will be working towards a template girl that can be customized (instead of different girls with different meshes).
It will allow you to adjust face, hip, breast, hair etc.., basically creating a new different girl by adjusting settings.
This will allow us to focus on one mesh instead of maintaining a lot of meshes, as it currently is.

Updating the version 2 girls towards the new rigging format is a lot of work.
It would slow down the next release too much, so it is put on a hold for now.
This decision was not taken lightly, and we hope you understand.


Version 4 features:

Version 2 contained a lot of nice features like dating, chatting, more elaborate talking and storytelling.
Version 3 was aiming more at animation, physics and action.
We feel like many of you that the elements of version 2, although roughly implemented did contain a good basis.
For version 4 we really want to step up the game and seriously improve the gameplay.

This entails:
- One world where different stories can be played simultaneously. There are different girls allowing for parallel interaction/dating/sex.
- Each girl has her own personality and background. You have to win her over and there are different ways to do this.
- So the stories can split into different paths leading to different outcomes. E.g. you can make progress with one girl, making the other one jealous and visa versa.
- Improved modding. The world contains buildings with empty rooms that you can use to add your own story. Using the girl template creator you can design your own girl and add her to your story.
A pack adds a new girl to the world allowing for added gameplay.

It will mean rebuilding the engine completely. So all in all a lot of work.
It will therefore take some time before version 4 is finished. Sorry but I will not mention a release date (or estimate).
But we will try to release in between version showing the progress.


About a Patreon page:

We are still mulling over whether or not we want to create a Patreon page. The reason we are somewhat hesitant is because this would require regular updates.
Like mentioned above we want to spend as much time as possible on the next version 4, and this could make regular updates more difficult.

These could be possible scenarios (I like to hear your opinion on this):
- We spend 3 weeks per month on version 4 and 1 week per month creating new content for version 3. Patreons could vote on these new features.
- We wait until version 4 has taken more form and then add a Patreon page especially for that. Patreons (and version 4 owners) will have early access to this Beta build.


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I hope this gives better insight in what we plan to do.
I wish things could go faster. Building a custom engine is however a lot of work, but I am pretty sure it will pay off in the end for everyone.

Best regards from the XStoryPlayer developers. :)


check the date on that first post, 30 August 2015.

Just saying, if a developer goes underground for more than a year without giving the slightest update or info except to one of the mod guys who was shown a few jpgs what does that tell you?


Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:10 pm
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Seems to me he still watching the board.
But he not often posts here.
But i would hear/see the current state of the game.
Sure its over a year ago now since version 3 was released.

Currently i spend my time with other topics, so its okay if there is no news.
If there will be now news till next year, i think the game can be burried :/
But maybe xpadmin will give some news.

I'm a bit disappointed about the little informations we got in the last Year.
But more we can't do as waiting on news or stop carring for the game.
I dont want to wait till end of days, so if there will be no news i wouldn't was time/money anymore on but.
But then i will be a bit disapointed :(

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Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:56 pm
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Well... it was a long time since we last heаrd from developers but I must admit that this is one of the best games in this genre (and it's one of its kind). Most of the people making such games are concentrate in
collection monthly fee and then give a game which is 90% flash - random clips where you cannot interact with environment... just watch... which is more like a porn movie not a game. Anyway....

Xstoryplayer gave us something I never saw before and yet.. nothing like it so far - story, great engine, manipulative environment where you can interct with everything and do whatever you want to. This game shows us a great potential.
I even send a PM to xpadmin offering to donate additional money because of the potential this game show... however he (or she) refused by telling me that the money I already payed are enough.

If now development works on a completely new engine that will defenetely require some time - after all this is not a flash animations game....
Let me give you and examble with Elder scroll games - Oblivion release in 2006, then Skyrim (great engine and modding features) released in 2011 (5 years later).

I can't tell what really is going on with Xstoryplayer but I do believe that we (the users) already won when we received Xstoryplayer 3.5 and if version 4 is released this would be another win - so it's a win-win
situation for us, the users.

However, based on the previous coments in this topic I can tell that we are ready for the worst, but let us hope for the best.

PS - I already know what I wish for Christmans - a screenshot from v4.0 ;)
Peace!


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is there a release date for xsp 4


Fri Sep 16, 2016 7:42 pm
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racoon wrote:
If now development works on a completely new engine that will defenetely require some time - after all this is not a flash animations game....
Let me give you and examble with Elder scroll games - Oblivion release in 2006, then Skyrim (great engine and modding features) released in 2011 (5 years later).


Well yes, I don't think anyone is blaming the dev team for how long it's taking to release the update, so much so as we want to see gameplay of what the new update has to offer to know that it's still a well and truly active project, but we aren't seeing that.


Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:05 pm
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I can't help but compare this game to House Party by Eek.

I had a much better time with their old demo than I ever did with XSP, and there wasn't even sex involved. Similarly to XSP, the developer is completely redoing the engine. A big difference is he is doing it at a steady rate, being transparent about it, and releasing actual content not only to his contributors, but to everybody.

I'm not sure what the strategy is here, and maybe they have one, but right now all this silence is doing is hurting their reputation. They are setting a precedent... They have absolutely no interest in interacting with their users.

Eek is building a fan base and XSP is killing theirs.


Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:21 am
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