Prince of Suburbia - Part 1 News

EDIT: The fans have spoken! We will be sticking with the OLD Semi-Realistic art style. Thank you for taking the time to comment and voting!

We would like your feedback on whether or not we should use a NEW Cell Shading style for the Prince of Suburbia Re-Impregnation DLC.

If you didn't already know, Auxiliaryout is back and will be working on the Prince of Suburbia Re-Impregnation DLC. We're thinking about using auxiliaryout's New Cell Shading style (like he has been using for his game, Her Last Piece).

Below is a comparison for Catherine. The NEW Cell Shading style is on the left (post-pregnancy) and the OLD Semi-Realistic style is on the right (pre-pregnancy).

NOTE: The "thicker" post-pregnancy look will be applied to characters for the OLD Semi-Realistic style sprites if we keep it too. It's not exclusive to the new style.






Pros:

• Faster than the style currently used in the main story of PoS
  
• Doesn't require as much time to ramp back up on the original style that was used which would delay the DLC development
  
• It's novel and more fun for us. This is a style that we hope/plan to use for future 2D games as well so it would be nice to keep on with it
  

Neutral:

• Style has already changed with the Pregnancy DLC so things will be a little different regardless for the remaining DLC
  

Cons:

• Lack of 100% consistency from the main story art
  

Please let us know with voting on this POLL: (STRAW POLL HERE)

and in the comments if you like the NEW Cell Shading style or would rather keep the OLD Semi-Realistic style for the Prince of Suburbia Re-Impregnation DLC.

Hey everyone. We have some BIG news! Auxiliaryout has made a glorious return to ViM Studios!!! Please enjoy this special illustration with Catherine, Sarah, and the MC, courtesy of auxiliaryout. You can find all versions of this illustration (including 4k with and without the logo) in this link (CLICK ME):



What does this mean for our game development plans going forward? Let's get right into it.

[h2]Prince of Suburbia Re-Impregnation DLC
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We're thrilled to announce that auxiliaryout will be heading the art and animation effort on the Prince of Suburbia Re-impregnation DLC! We're more than happy to have auxiliaryout back to help us send the game off one last time. His art and animations are as amazing as they ever were. He's told us he's ready to burn rubber on creating the art for the game!

[h2]Prince of Suburbia Pregnancy DLC
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Progress is still being made for the Prince of Suburbia Pregnancy DLC. Art production has been slower than we initially anticipated but it's still chugging along! There are four art tickets in progress. Three of which are needed before we can fully prepare our first small mini-release.

[h2]A Shot in the Dark Development
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If you missed what's currently going on with A Shot in the Dark please check out the previous post HERE. We don't have any further news on its development as of right now.


What else is planned?

We discussed the future with auxiliaryout and we mutually agreed that the plan is we would like to continue working on new games together after the completion of the Prince of Suburbia efforts. We have no idea what future games will be but we know that they'll be 2D and that we're sure they will be great!

Lastly, before we knew auxiliaryout was coming back we had also already started planning a railroad/kinetic 2D monster girl visual novel. We're currently in the process of selecting an artist that would fit what we're looking for and pretty much have the rest of the development team filled out already. You'll hear more details on that from us in the near future.

[h2]Team Member Games[/h2]
As we close with this dev log, we wanted to let you all know that some of our team members (previous and current) have released their own games! If you like what you see, let them know!

auxiliaryout:

He wants you to know that this game is his precious baby.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3042250/Her_Last_Piece/

auxiliaryout's Patreon


m.:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703610/I_Just_Want_to_be_Single_Season_One/

m.'s Patreon


Doc62:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3477740/Mistress_Marigolds_Home_Improvement/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3002920/City_Park_Play_Date/

Doc62's Patreon

Hey everyone! First off, we apologize for neglecting to communicate more frequently on the other platforms like Steam and Itch over the past several months. We hope this update clears up questions that many of you have been asking. The below contains news about our other game, A Shot in the Dark, which will impact Prince of Suburbia and other 2D game development. The impact will be more focus on 2D game efforts for the short term future (not just Prince of Suburbia).

A Shot in the Dark Development

We wanted to wait and see how things were going to be on our end before communicating exactly what was going on with A Shot in the Dark. Now we have a pretty good idea as to what at least the short term future is going to be like for us and feel like we can communicate it to our fans.

If you didn't already know, we have a kiddo. Over the past year and some our kid has been dealing with some major health issues. It reached the point a where we had to pull them out of school for the foreseeable future. All in all, the recovery process has been a lot more extensive than we originally anticipated. Josselyn has been taking on the task of homeschooling and supporting their recovery, but that means her availability to work on the business has been and still is extremely limited.

With Josselyn being the 3D render artist and the writer for A Shot in the Dark it should be clear as to why development on the game has slowed considerably. This means that TheOmega is focused on Prince of Suburbia right now and 2D projects in general until we're able to get back into the swing of things with A Shot in the Dark at some point in the future. Josselyn will have more time available to work on A Shot in the Dark as our kiddo continues to recover and is able to do more things independently, but we can't give definitive time estimates on that right now.

If you're an A Shot in the Dark fan we suggest you refrain from pledging further until we are developing the game on a more regular basis again. We do intend on finishing the game, but it's going to take longer than anticipated to get to that point which isn't ideal for anyone. We hope this transparency helps provide some insight as to the state of things right now and why we didn't feel comfortable sharing our situation until we were more certain of what the future looked like. All that being said, having to contend with these things over the past year has been very stressful for our entire family. It's taken quite a toll on all of us. We understand everyone's frustration. We'd be frustrated, too. Thank you everyone for your continued patience as we navigate this difficult time.

Prince of Suburbia Pregnancy DLC

The holidays slowed down the pace of work on the Prince of Suburbia Pregnancy DLC as our artists and animators took time off to celebrate with their families. The holiday season is normally like this for a lot of game studios so that's not really surprising.

As mentioned before, the art and animations are and always have been the most time-consuming aspect of developing 2D games and continue to be. Once we have the art ready for the first mini-release of the Prince of Suburbia Pregnancy DLC we will release a beta version of it on Patreon and SubscribeStar not long after.

Hello everyone! We would like to hear your pregnancy AND re-impregnation (get pregnant again) scene suggestions that would like to see with your favorite characters in the game for the Prince of Suburbia Pregnancy DLC.




If you have ideas that can be fun with the theme/story/setting we're really interested in those too. One fun example is one of the scenes already decided with Sonia as a HuCow with her cosplay outfit and all. The sky is the limit. Tell us what you've got!




We're taking suggestions for MC + female character (M+F scenes). We may decide to add a couple of MC + female character + female character scenes (M+FF scenes), so if you have ideas for those feel free to drop them here too. As always, there is no guarantee your idea will be chosen, but there is a very good chance we'll accept some of the idea suggestions from our fans!

Here is a reminder of all the characters we have in the game:

• Catherine
• Sarah
• Fiona (pregnancy scene already chosen, only need suggestions for re-impregnation)
  
• Sonia (pregnancy scene already chosen, only need suggestions for re-impregnation)
  
• Naomi
• Heather
• Samantha
• Lina (Black) (we will do separate scenes/art for both boss variations for more variety)
  
• Lina (Egyptian) (we will do separate scenes/art for both boss variations for more variety)
  

Please leave a comment with your favorite characters and what scene you'd like to see them in!

It's been a hot minute since we talked about our future plans for Prince of Suburbia with all of you, hasn't it? We appreciate your patience in waiting to hear about what's next.

Let's start off with the unfortunate news first. For those that don't already know, we parted ways with auxiliaryout (the most recent artist and animator for Prince of Suburbia) a few months after the release of V1.0 (the end of the main story). He is a talented artist and animator and we wish him the best of luck with his future endeavors!

So, that brings us to the next order of business. We are looking for a new illustrator and animator to help us continue the Prince of Suburbia story with a Pregnancy DLC!

We've spent a lot of time reflecting in the past year about what players want and expect when they play Prince of Suburbia, and how to deliver the best experience possible. With that in mind, our two priorities when it comes to the future art for Prince of Suburbia are:

• An illustrator who specializes in MILFy type characters (aka BIG BOOBAS), big belly pregnancy, and adult breastfeeding/milky breasts content.
  
• An animator who specializes in Spine. The main game was animated using Live2D, and we feel like we pushed it to its absolute limits in terms of quality. Our understanding is that Spine has a higher ceiling in terms of quality and we want to explore that potential.

Do you have any illustrators or animators you'd like to suggest we reach out to? Let us know!

We have also obviously been compiling our own list of artists we want to approach. Once we have a shortlist of artists we want to audition, we'll commission a few illustrations/animations from them and seek input from our community before moving forward.

This is your chance to help shape the future Prince of Suburbia Pregnancy DLC! We look forward to sharing more news with you as things develop, stay tuned!