Nude Byte Extras: August 2024

As mentioned before, there are no more NPCs to show anymore. Instead, I'm sharing sketches of NPCs that didn't make the cut.

For this month, I want to show this sketch of a girl named "Nundy".

In Nude Byte, there's a theme for all NPCs: Each of them is a bootleg of existing characters with a trait that's altered.

Nundy is the nun version of Mandy.

I imagine she's a kind-hearted mom compared to all the NPCs.

Counting the number of NPCs that didn't make the cut, I think there are only two left, and they're kinda boring. Aside from that, from what I can tell, I think I'm required to add one new NPC in Full Nude Byte. (Unfortunately, none of the unused NPCs can be that new NPC, so I have to design another based on some specific criteria.)

Full Nude Byte aside, I've been experimenting with something while taking a break from the project.

Behold:

Gah! Ms. exhibitionist, please stop flashing.

Gah! How'd you get bigger?!

Anyway, I'm trying out a different method of animating. Compared to my usual frame-by-frame, this one is made with Spine+Photoshop, where artworks are rigged to animated bones.

Here's my conclusion so far: It's a lot of work. And so much technical babble had to be done just to pull off something this simple.

But I'm very interested in this method of animation because it works best with games, especially in saving disk space, which is important to me. But I just didn't realize it'll be a lot of work.

I can technically pull this off with Nude Byte's NPCs. However, if I were to do that, there would be lots of technical conflicts and more additional work (and wasting existing work) just to add this. I'd rather make animations with this method for a different project, not for Nude Byte. Nude Byte's NPCs are already good as they are, there's no need to change them. (Why am I thinking of adding this to Nude Byte in the first place???)

On another note, and sadly, it's a bad note: There's a huge chance $5 Tier will become $7 Tier (or higher) someday, but not anytime soon. (Maybe in October. September will be a busy month for me) However, that doesn't entirely mean my income will instantly increase. This is because I plan to combine Manyakis and ManyakisGames! It's because, well, let's face it. Manyakis isn't that active anymore. So, I'm going to let go of Manyakis and transfer all posts from there to ManyakisGames. That way, fans won't need to subscribe to two Patreons! But that also means a lot of work for me. Like, oh my god... Years worth of posts to transfer. Wow. So I'm not going to do that anytime soon. (Like, I said, probably in October) It sounds like a huge work for me, but the end result will be a more straightforward Patreon page!

I'm also thinking of changing my name while I'm at it. "Manyakis" is such a weird name if you don't know the language. And so many other things show up when you Google that. It's stupid. I want something shorter and simpler. Probably "Manya". But I'm worried if I change my name, I need to change the links too. And that'll break soooo many links on my Twitter. (sigh)

I'll make a proper announcement for these soon. (Or I should think about this more carefully)

Anyway, that's all for this month. Of course, there will be another poll for the $5 Tier, but I'm not sure whether to go with 3D poses or NPC special scenes. What do you guys think? (I'll probably go with 3D poses again. I don't see why not.)