Codex 3DX

Howdy, folks!

After December 17th you can find me here:

https://twitter.com/Codex3DX https://codex3dx.newgrounds.com/ https://baraag.net/@codex3dx I’ve also been hanging out on the #3DX Discord server:

https://discord.gg/TxrsVuZ

Come check it out!

You spin me right round, baby...

Life is fine, thanks for asking! I’ve just been occupied with other matters and haven’t produced anything worthwhile lately. If everything goes to plan, that should change in the next few months. I’ve still got plenty of ideas for future work and I’m looking forward to devoting more time to them, once I’ve settled a few things.

This is still the best place to find me.

Absolutely! In fact, I think about it all the time. I’m trying to make my next game more engaging. Actual storytelling, a bit of dialogue, along with some cinematographic techniques like pans, zooms, dissolves, cross-fades, etc. Also parallax effect to simulate depth in the scene. Characters will also feel more alive with ambient animations like blinking and “breathing”. Pretty much the type of stuff that studios like Lesson of Passion are doing with their games. Basically a visual novel with sexy “mini-games”. Of course, all this means a LOT more work. As a solo developer you end up doing ALL OF THE THINGS: writing code, writing dialogue, posing and rendering visuals, sound editing, etc. I enjoy the process, but it does take heaps of time.

The good news is that I’ve made really good progress on the code-base. All the features mentioned above are already implemented. The bad news is that I haven’t built anything with it, yet.

Lately I’ve been exploring ways to generate audio clips of spoken dialogue. I’ve been experimenting with two separate approaches:

1. Record my own voice and manipulate it with software like MorphVOX or AVOX. My voice acting skills might be passable, but morphing a male voice into a sexy, believable female voice has proved to be a challenge. It’s not just a matter of pitch. I’m not satisfied with the results so far. Maybe with enough practice I’ll find the right combination of factors to make this a workable solution?

2. Use a TTS (text-to-speech) engine to generate clips of spoken dialogue. Some of the Ivona voices sound pretty damn good (for a machine), but are sorely lacking in emotional expressiveness. Suitable, perhaps, for a stereotypical android type character, or a lobotomized psychiatric patient, but not appropriate for a mostly normal human being in the throes of sexual ecstasy. That sent me down the path of using Celemony Melodyne in an attempt to add the necessary expressiveness. Melodyne is impressive, but the results for this particular application aren’t that great, either, but I’m still experimenting.

I should probably post some demos of both techniques and get some community feedback.

Dickgirls! I make dickgirls! Big thanks to everybody who answered my question and set me straight. Maybe some day I’ll actually make some futanari and not just pretend I do.

@andiguinness​ raised a good point in his comment on my previous pic. He pointed out that the character was a “shemale” and not a “futanari”. I assume he’s referring to the fact that she possesses only male genitalia, whereas “futanari” traditionally possess both male and female genitalia (hermaphrodite). Now, I’m no expert on these matters, so I’d be interested to hear from you guys.

I envision this character as essentially female, but who happens to have a dick and balls. She didn’t start out male and then get breast implants, begin speaking in a higher register, etc. “Shemale” might work, but that evokes real-life associations of biologically male persons with conspicuous adam’s apples, square jaws, and affected female voices, not to mention it’s considered offensive to certain groups. Not what I’m going for. “Dickgirl” is sort of fun and irreverent and I could probably settle with that. “Newhalf” is another option, but doesn’t seem to have the currency of the other terms.

I’ve received a few requests for a desktop version of my game that people can play offline. Here you go:

Windows

Mac OSX

Good point! The problem is that the game uses XMLHttpRequest to load certain files. Chrome doesn’t allow this for local files. Firefox apparently does. I haven’t tested IE.

There’s a workaround for Chrome, but it requires launching the browser with a specific command line option. Not that big a deal, but probably not practical for the average user.