Tennis Ace VN

@tennisace.bsky.social

🔞Adult slice of life and sports visual novel. Furry and gay. Developed/written/owned by Basket and illustrated by Nyaruh🔞

Took a bit to get Taro's assets properly exported. He wound up with a LOT of expressions (over 40) despite only appearing three times. Guys, seriously, go praise @nyaruh.bsky.social for the ungodly amount of work she put into him. Even I didn't expect that much expression work.

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We'll be trying to offer monthly (at least at first) pin-up illustration rewards on Patreon. This one's kind of a Halloween themed thing and we kept the scope small, but for future months we'll be doing votes to figure out what character and theme to go for! And damn, Nyaruh cooked with this one...

nyaruh 🐰@nyaruh.bsky.social · 2d ago

@tennisace.bsky.social @awildbaz.bsky.social Mr. Haruki wants to show you what he has in his holster... 🔫 soon on www.patreon.com/tennisace!

Won't be able to get the update done for today (although I really wanted to), but here's a few screenshots of what's going on in it. She got clothing assets finished for Tanabe while working on a CG for the next Haruki update (clothes not yet drawn)!

I'd started a short story showing Tanabe's POV to events in Jun's route (as well as more of his introspection and motivations that play into all the routes) a bit over a year ago at this point. I never liked how it was coming out, so i shelved it. I finally feel like I can write it properly.

I think (?) I finished the Haruki short story last night. Will have some beta reading done as well as give it a couple more passes to refine. It's a bit experimental since I'm trying to get better at short story writing in general, so I'll look forward to Patrons thoughts when I post.

My thought of the night while I work on the Shoichi update: God, why did I make Shoichi so unnecessarily hot? Having him with glasses on on the screen for so long is way too distracting and makes me feel things. Me using console to take his shirt off ALSO doesn't help

Just finishing up on the writing and polish of this scene and then I'll be able to ship off the update. But I'm having a guest from out of town over to see me and my partner before partner goes back to his home country, so will probably have the update out around mid of next week.

Will launch the Keisuke update tomorrow. All that's left is to finish coding in the music (which I'll keep minimal) and have it playtested. I'll be taking my partner to the doctor tomorrow as he's been having very intense tooth pains during his dental treatment.

Really been feeling the downsides of trying to take a more realistic and grounded approach with TA's storytelling the past couple years. I spend so long doing research on things I know nothing about to try to write them as "accurately" as possible that it takes forever to do anything.