The Life and Death of Louis FF de Bastin

Devlog

• Release with Act III
  February 15, 2025 by jm-bueno

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  Here it is. Act III is ready to read and test... Continue reading
• Testing
  February 14, 2025 by jm-bueno

  Implementation's done. A full re-read and it will be ready for publishing... Continue reading
• It's a wrap!
  January 31, 2025 by jm-bueno

  Asset generation has concluded now to implement the chapter in renpy... Continue reading

  
• Almost done shooting
  January 30, 2025 by jm-bueno

  FADE IN: 1. INT. ARTIST STUDIO — DUSK IT'S ANOTHER DAY of shooting and everybody is tired. ME Ok Henry we are ready for your shots, so stop playing in the Internet HENRY Ok, boss. ME (Tired) Makeup!... Continue reading

  
• Progress and unused art II
  January 28, 2025 by jm-bueno

  Three scenes or 32 assets to generate/obtain. In this act there is a scene that serves just as an excuse to generate paintings within the universe of the VN, and the most famous painting of all time w... Continue reading

  
• Progress and unused art
  January 23, 2025 by jm-bueno

  62 assets to go. Two receptionists Stairs to a column How to tie a string to a key... Continue reading

  
• Imagen Limitations
  January 21, 2025 by jm-bueno

  There are times the models I use to generate the image have their own ideas. Self Driven Hearse circa 1900. I wanted a sign that said "Closed due to bereavement". Other alternatives have been: Rehreve... Continue reading

  
• Crosspost Art Dump
  January 17, 2025 by jm-bueno

  Crosspost from my tumblr . Implementation ongoing... Continue reading
• Act III Progress report
  January 10, 2025 by jm-bueno

  Writing is done at last and the script now has over 70k words. Now I am correcting and making a list of all the AI Art Assets I will need to generate. Act III is a bit longer than the first two, and a... Continue reading
• Crosspost from my tumblr blog
  January 03, 2025 by jm-bueno

  For a small preview of what's cooking go to my tumblr ... Continue reading
• Gordian Knot
  November 29, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I am still struggling with the third chapter's story. When I began writing, I thought it was going to a simpler story, but these characters and their stories have developed in something a little more... Continue reading

  
• Casting Call: Pulham
  August 01, 2024 by jm-bueno

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  I am writing Act III, new characters are appearing and I will need to settle on their looks. There have been conversations about Pulham, but he had yet to appear. Pulham is returning to the City after... Continue reading

  
• "El Corazón del Constructo" My new novel is available.
  July 11, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I don't have lots of news for this project these days. I have begun writing act III but it's going to take a while. On the technology front, there is some expectation about what direction Stability AI... Continue reading
• SD3 Medium (2B) Crosspost
  June 14, 2024 by jm-bueno#AI Discussion

  Crossposting from my tumblr blog with my thoughts about the SD3 release. For the implications on the development of this Visual Novel, I will add that I don' plan to adopt it, over concerns about the... Continue reading
• Release for testing
  May 28, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I have updated the files for the game with Act II for testing purposes... Continue reading
• Act II progress and plans
  May 23, 2024 by jm-bueno

  A small update on the progress: I am currently working in Renpy to put Act II together. I haven't found any major issues and there is just one scene left with some complexity (just for the amount of c... Continue reading

  
• Discarded Art Samples
  May 10, 2024 by jm-bueno

  Crosspost in my tumblr blog... Continue reading
• Writing-Generation-Implementation
  April 26, 2024 by jm-bueno

  When I started working on the second act of the VN, I decided I was going to take it slow and work in one thing at a time. Writing is finished. And now I am working in generating /obtaining the assets... Continue reading
• Suno Crosspost
  April 05, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I wrote a post in my tumblr about AI Generated music and what it might mean for this project. Link . In other news: the writing of the second chapter of the VN is almost finished. I took a little deto... Continue reading
• Still writing...
  March 15, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I am still writing act II. The scene structure is set, just four scenes to go. In other news: I am eagerly awaiting the release of the SD3 model. I don't think it's going to mean anything for the game... Continue reading

  
• Character reveal
  February 16, 2024 by jm-bueno

  Head over to my tumblr blog , to see our latest addition to cast of characters... Continue reading
• Music for "The L&D of LFFdB"
  February 02, 2024 by jm-bueno

  Since AI generated music has very little going on from my experience, I needed to source music for my project elsewhere; and this being a no budget- solo project, I had to find a suitable solution. I... Continue reading
• Consistency alternatives
  January 27, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I am half the way in writing act 2, and I haven't done explored anything else regarding the AI tools I'll have to use to create the images for the Visual Novel. Unsurprisingly there are now new things... Continue reading

  
• More Characters
  January 20, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I am still writing the second act (30%-40% done). I already introduced Mary (she is Claire's maid). She will be joined by the following characters: Constable Burry Detective Inspector Leslie Strade Ev... Continue reading

  
• Kineticism
  January 05, 2024 by jm-bueno

  I am making progress in the writing of the second act, not fast, just steady. I don't like sitting with an empty mind about what is going next, I like to have a good idea about how the next scene is g... Continue reading
• Casting Call
  December 20, 2023 by jm-bueno

  For the Visual Novel 'The Life And Death of Louis FF de Bastin' Mary (AI generated female with auburn hair, 18 years old, of Scottish-Irish descent): a resourceful free spirited woman of humble origin... Continue reading

  
• AI Art and you (II)
  December 19, 2023 by jm-bueno

  Last post covered the main technical hurdle to create consistent characters. I had begun the development of the VN with a known limitation, and I had postponed setting up a good solution, which I knew... Continue reading

  
• AI Art and you (I)
  December 16, 2023 by jm-bueno

  After I conceived the idea of doing a visual novel, the question was obvious, could I do it? and how? After researching the developments tools (RenPy, that was easy), I needed to assess if I could gen... Continue reading

  
• In the beginning was the Name
  December 14, 2023 by jm-bueno

  In this post I will explain how I got the germ of the idea for the game, before I get to the technical aspects. I was so enthralled by AI generated art that I started to crave more excuses to use it... Continue reading

  
• First Impressions
  December 12, 2023 by jm-bueno

  I declare this devlog open for business. I have attached to this post the first concept image that got me to this point. I'll leave for another time discussing how it was that I got to the point I am... Continue reading