Jock Studio Development Update #13

Fellow Olympians, we apologize for the delay, but we’re back with another Jock Studio Development Update, featuring the first development diary of the year, as well as an update on Jock Studio Physical Merchandise and Jock Studio Demo 2.1! Please read the full post, as it contains details for all fans of Jock Studio and BLits Games!

Physical Merchandise Update

To kick off this update, we have news about Jock Studio Physical Merchandise for our Kickstarter backers! Our team member, Magnus, along with our graphic designers, have been hard at work organizing and setting up production of all of the amazing merchandise items that are part of the Kickstarter rewards, and we’re excited to show some first physical item previews – straight from the warehouse! Check them out below:

Not only have we received first samples of our items, but some, like the art prints, have been fully produced, and even shipped to the BLits Office to be hand-signed by our art team – Zael, Mikkoukun and Magia! We hope that everyone will enjoy these authentic prints, signed with love!

These amazing items are in production now, and we’re on track to deliver them to you, our backers, very soon! Please stay tuned for more details in future development updates!

Development Diary 12 – Puppets, Sprites, Backgrounds, and Survey Results!

Next up, we’re going into our 12th Development Diary, featuring news about what the team has been up to since the start of the year, and all the progress we’ve made on Jock Studio’s development!

Part 1 – New 3D & Painted Backgrounds

First off, our Background team has been hard at work creating even more locations around Olympus University! Although you were able to experience many different places around Campus in Demo 2.0, there’s still lots left to see inside of Olympus University, after all!

Starting off, let’s take a look at some 3D Designs, created by Micman – in Demo 2.0, you had the opportunity to see the Dionysus God House, but it’s far from the only one on Campus. Each of the different clubs has their own house with a unique flair, and you can visit them all in the full game! Check them out below!

God Houses aren’t the only things that have been worked on, though! Kyun has been hard at work painting some of the earlier 3D renders that Micman made, including the Entrance Park, Ampitheatre and Library Study Room! Check them out below:

That’s all for backgrounds this update, but there’s still much more to see both inside of and outside of Olympus University, so stay tuned for more background previews throughout development!

Part 2 – Gym Swim Attires!

Next, while our Jocks have their own unique attire to wear when working out at the gym, getting sweaty on exercise machines isn’t the only option – you can also go for a dip in the pool and do some laps! Ace already had his gym swim attire present in Demo 2.0, but all the other Jocks have their own as well! Checkout a preview of each character’s gym swim sprites below:

Sprites aren’t the only art that’s been getting this new swim costume – AlexW has also been working on adding these costumes to the Puppets as well, to be included in both the Workout and Photoshoot Phases! Check out a preview below:

As a final note, we’d like to clarify that, while the characters will wear these swim attires at the gym, these outfits are different from their official swimwear – the characters will wear something much more personalized and less practical then! Stay tuned for a preview of these outfits later on in development!

Finally, we’d also like to welcome a new animator to our team – JustSyl! Some of you may know her from her artworks and animations, and she’s joined the BLits team to help us with our puppet animations! You can look forward to previews of her work soon, and please welcome her to the team!

Part 3 – Jock Studio Survey Results!

Next up, we’d like to take a moment to discuss the Jock Studio Survey which we held during our last development update, and share some of the results with all of you! We know that everyone has been very curious about some of the questions on the survey, so let’s see how everyone voted, starting off with the character popularity!

As you can see, the ‘King’ lives up to his title, and Derek sits on his throne at the top of the popularity rankings! But don’t despair if your favorite isn’t in the top – as you can tell by the averages, everyone is fairly even, and the actual percentages are much closer than they might appear!

Next, the question about our Jock’s sexual roles are a constant subject of conversation, so let’s see what the fans think!

Interesting results, wouldn’t you say? It seems our fans have particular preferences for our characters! Please note, however, that these percentages represent survey results only, and not the character’s official sexual roles in game.

To wrap up our Jock Studio portion of the survey, we are happy to reveal that the vast majority of feedback we received from our various mechanics, story, and designs was overwhelmingly positive! Thank you all so much for your love and support, and we’re so glad you’re enjoying Jock Studio so far! We’d also like to thank those who gave constructive feedback, and we will be sure to review and consider all feedback during development!

Additionally, about the BLits portion of the survey, we are happy to announce that many people were interested in many of the different endeavors BLits may pursue in the future regarding additional titles, physical merchandise, collaborations and more! Due to the positive reception, BLits will be strongly considering investing our time and effort into some of these exciting opportunities, while still maintaining our focus on our core games! Please stay tuned to our future development updates for more news!

As final note about the survey, we have received a large number of emails concerned about the direction of BLits in regards to female characters – we can assure our fans that BLits is, and always be, a BL / Yaoi company, and we are not pursuing any NSFW content outside of male characters! We apologize for the confusion regarding this question, but we hope this clears up any concerns!

Thank you all again for your participation in this survey, and we will hold more in the future! That’s all for this Development Diary, but we have one last bit of news before we wrap up this update!

Jock Studio Demo 2.1 Update

Finally, to close out our update this time, we wanted to give everyone some new information about Jock Studio Demo 2.1! Our programming team has been hard at work optimizing the features of Demo 2.1, and has been doing a major overhaul of several of the basic systems implemented into the game so far.

One of these major features has been to upgrade our version of Unity, as well as our visual novel scripting plugin, Naninovel, which has taken significant effort from the team, but we are happy to announce that these changes will make gameplay much smoother and less prone to glitches!

All that being said, we are still currently testing these new updates, and will provide a release date for Demo 2.1 as soon as we are confident that everything is working properly! Please stay tuned and bear with us a while longer, Olympians!

Closing Word

That’s all for this Development Update, Olympians, but we hope you all enjoyed these previews and new information! Our team is working hard as always on Jock Studio, and we’ll be posting another development update in April, as well as some exciting news for Camp Buddy: Scoutmaster Season’s anniversary – please stay tuned!

Thank you for your love and support as always, and we’ll see you next time!

Lots of love,

~BLits Games