Fellow Olympians, it’s time for our next Jock Studio Development Update, featuring an update on our Physical Merchandise production and a Development Diary! Please be sure and read the full content of the update, as it contains information for all fans of Jock Studio and BLits Games!

Kickstarter Physical Merchandise Update

First up, we have an update about our promised Kickstarter Physical Merchandise – production is still ongoing, but a large number of items have already been manufactured and arrived at our sorting facility! Just look at all these boxes:

There’s a whole lot of merchandise here to be unpacked, sorted, and organized to their respective backers! We’re still waiting on a few more items to arrive, and once we have the complete inventory, we can begin final packing and shipments to backers – we’ll update everyone again when that time comes! We hope everyone is excited about these items!

PS – Like we mentioned in our previous update, at this time, the Kickstarter Physical Merchandise is unaffected by the current tariff situation. If that should change, we will inform everyone as soon as possible. Thank you for understanding!

Jock Studio Development Diary #13

Next up, we’re going into our 13th Development Diary, featuring news about what the team has been up to over the past month and a half, and all the progress we’ve made on Jock Studio’s development!

Part 1 – Story Update!

To kick things off, the last time we released an update about the Story Department was during the Jock Studio One-Year Update, and we’re happy to announce we’ve made great progress in this department! Like we mentioned in that previous announcement, our priority was first designing the various mechanics which you’ve all been able to experience in Demo 2.0, and then focusing on the game’s overall plot and flow! Now, we’re excited to show you a first sneak-peek at the Jock Studio Game Calendar – check it out below!

Like we’ve revealed before, Jock Studio takes place over Ace’s second semester at Olympus University, and the timeline will span over the course of the whole semester! There are several exciting events spread throughout as well, including our Kickstarter goals of Spring Break and the Festival Arc! We’ll have more to discuss about these arcs and events later, but for now that’s all we can show!

Part 2 – New Sprite Costumes!

Speaking of Spring Break, like we announced during our last development update, while the Jocks will wear practical swimsuits when working out, they have special, additional swimwear designs for the beach – checkout the concepts below:

Looking sexy, aren’t they? On top of this, as much as we’d all like to see the Jocks near-naked all day long at the beach, the saying ‘no shirt, no shoes, no service’ still applies in the Jock Studio Universe. To accommodate for this rule, each of the Jocks have an additional Beach Costume, which is a slightly dressed up version of their swimwear! Check them out below:

Both of these amazing outfits will be included on all of the Jock’s sprites, and will be frequently worn by them while they’re out at the city beach, or on the exciting Spring Break Arc! We’ll have more previews of these designs as they go through the sprite art phase, so please stay tuned!

Part 3 – New 3D Concepts!

Next up, we’re leaving the beach and headed back to class! Our 3D Department has been hard at work designing even more additional locations in Jock Studio, and this time it’s fleshing out the Academic Buildings! Demo 2.0 showcased the lecture hall where Ace attends his classes, but it’s far from the only location inside the building – check out the other travelable locations below:

Whether it’s meeting with a professor in the teacher’s lounge, having a quick chat in the hallway, or meeting for a secret rendezvous on the rooftop, the Academia Building isn’t all about lectures! You can look forward to painted versions of these backgrounds to be previewed later, as well as travel to them yourself in the full game!

Part 4 – New Puppet Animations!

After you’re done exercising your mind, make sure to exercise your body as well, with brand-new puppet animations! Jock Studio Demo 2.0 previewed three of the available workout minigames, including Weights, Machines and Treadmill, but as you’ve seen based on the icons, there are three more minigames in the full game!

One of these minigames includes a Calisthenics Exercise, also known as a body workout, and each Jock has their own unique take on it, just like the other minigames! Check out a puppet animation preview of each of these unique poses below:

We’ll have another preview of the Calisthenics Minigame Mechanics in a later development update, as well as more puppet previews of both other minigame’s animations, so please stay tuned for more in the future!

Jock Studio Demo 2.1 Update

That’s all for this development diary, but we have one more exciting piece of news to share with everyone – after a major overhaul that we detailed in our previous update and lots of hard work, Jock Studio Demo 2.1 is nearly ready for release! In fact, we expect Demo 2.1 to be available for download on May 9th, 2025!

Jock Studio Demo 2.1 is the promised optimized version of Demo 2.0, which should resolve all major issues that were experienced during our initial release! On top of that, Demo 2.1 also features several other additional features, including animations for the Jock’s Sex Scenes, the merging of Demo 1 and Demo 2.0, and more!

We’ll have full details of what’s changed on the release date of May 9th, so please stay tuned until then! Thank you all for your patience with us throughout this process, and we’re very excited to share this updated and smoother gameplay experience with everyone!

Closing Word

That’s all for this development update, but we hope that everyone enjoyed all of these exciting content previews!

We’ll be back in May with the announced release of Jock Studio Demo 2.1, as well as a Development Diary later in the month! In the meantime, if you’re itching for more BLits content to hold you over, please check out the Side Stories DLC we just released for Camp Buddy: Scoutmaster Season!

https://www.blitsgames.com/product/camp-buddy-scoutmaster-season-side-stories-dlc/

Thank you as always for your support, Olympians!

Lots of love,

~BLits Games