Ren'Py Heavy Five [Ch.2RS] [Nottravis]

[Oddball2k]

It could be in danger of being eaten...
I do like my word play, but yeah, it can be difficult on non-native speakers (or even occasionally native ones too).

But if it's shiny plastic with a sticker 'Not edible" or "Kids, do not even think it!".

I like it too, don't stop!!

 

[Oddball2k]

I just hear a little green guy called Jeb laughing: "No lithobreaking, no R.U.D., where is this landing emergency? "
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Oh, a Kerbal Space Program enthusiastic, GREAT!!!

Edit: R.U.D. is for Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, right?

 

[DA22]

Hey guys,

Will do my best to run through and answer posts as best as I can tomorrow. As you can imagine hugely busy at the mo

But look....

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As the well as the obvious better composition and dustcloud from kicking the engines on (not bad, eh? ), the landing pad has had a makeover with the rescaling done much better (ever wondered why the rails were so high? It was because the asset was too small and I was crap at faffing with them...). Also redid the surface so it won't look so bad in closeup and dirtied it up for wear and tear. Oh, and better lighting for shine and shadows and Vanny loses her missiles for common sense purposes on re-entry (again, I didn't know how to knock stuff off assets before)

Remastering the shit out of it. Well, as best as I can on an etch-a-sketch

Spoiler: Not only but also...

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The RahRah we know and love is back. Well about the qualities of the renders all has been said and I would not like to fluster Notty further or make her shy by complimenting her any further, just have a ciggie and jaffa cake. Also nothing to tease her with.

Thanks. I'm making all of this on a single 1060 card....which is I dunno *laughs* For some reason I'm insanely proud of what I'm now squeaking out of the second lowest available piece of kit!

*has skillz now?*

You always had skills, just refined them a lot, oh you lovable lovely innocent fisher after compliments.

I think it's akin to NASA or ESA in a sense. A governmental project outside of the military or at least a joint operation.


This makes total sense to me. The military takes care of all the logistics, so it is reasonable to have one of their officers in that role there. All the traffic is military.

Well the military are heavily involved in exploration of space and which military organisation in history would not be heavily interested in an almost uninhabited planet all for their own purposes? So it would make all the sense in the world for them to pull strings on that planet, we do miss the information though on the political situation on Earth, though from the few hints we got, the military has more influence then we are used to in Western Europe or even bit more as in current USA.

You mean those lights that look like a burlesque dance stage?

Now we do need that stage in Ophion station, who would not love to see Annie, Sarah and Chris perform on that and possibly a few others?

It could be in danger of being eaten...
I do like my word play, but yeah, it can be difficult on non-native speakers (or even occasionally native ones too).

Well no worries it is even harder to do word play in another language without becoming either very crude or super obvious, we do our best and try though.

 

[Nottravis]

*peeks in*

If you liked the last render, you'll love what's coming next

Massively bizz but will read through and answer key pointies as best as I can *goes reads*

 

[Nottravis]

She is a non com officer and on a civ station. She and mike are essentially the same rank. Just one is civ other is mil.

This is true. I do have a list of civ grades, you guys just don't have them - not a great deal of reason for you to do so, but Mike and Annie would be equivalent to each other.

The point I was making was in response to claim it was a civilian base and I was just pointing out it seemed unlikely. That at minimum it was a joint operation though considering military vet the research I think it safe to assume its a military operation. There is no way Mike has the same authority as an Ensign. Chris may let Marcus pull his politics but if any of crew were endangered she would pull her rank and bitch slap Marcus into next week...and if she ever finds out about the tests with Sarah we might just get to see it.

Lets not forget MC has the power to shut entire base down which seems to make it an entirely Military operation.

Well the military are heavily involved in exploration of space and which military organisation in history would not be heavily interested in an almost uninhabited planet all for their own purposes? So it would make all the sense in the world for them to pull strings on that planet, we do miss the information though on the political situation on Earth, though from the few hints we got, the military has more influence then we are used to in Western Europe or even bit more as in current USA.

One of the biggest challenges I have is how and when to let you know things With there being so much underlying detail the challenge for me is how to provide this to the player without overwhelming them (especially, and let's be honest for a sec, this genre of game has never really gone into too much plotting other than "your father has died and...." ) Also, I have to bear in mind that not everyone will want to know this sort of thing - although, you have no idea how delighted I am that a lot of you do!

Amanda, however, is my sock poppet for this detail. When you talk to her in Four there's a branch line where you can really get into how and why everything is organised and who is responsible for what. She seemed a good mechanism, to me at least, to be able to provide all this to the player if they wanted to know.

However! Short answer is that the project is under civilian governance with civ scientists etc but with the military providing the manpower for the vessels etc. Although how strong that governance is, is perhaps open to question...

 

[TheDevian]

Well no worries it is even harder to do word play in another language without becoming either very crude or super obvious, we do our best and try though.

I have done a bit in Japanese, but even that is a challenge, and they love puns. XD

 

[Nottravis]

I have to wonder who in the military thought they needed hand rails on a landing pad. That will not end well one day.

Sadly I just can#t get rid of them. Built into a single bone asset and so nothing I can do about it unless I learn how to rip assets apart on a whole new level, so we're stuck with them.

However for game purposes they don't matter. No one makes manual landings...oh.....

Spoiler: *wiggles eyebrows*

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[Nottravis]

I am going to have to respectfully disagree with the developer here. While she's working tirelessly on remastering her renders to make it look better, I'd encourage you to go ahead and download the current game and give it a shot.

1st -- its just three chapters. You can probably play through the 3 chapters (the first time) in less than an hour and you will get to see what the fuss is all about...

2nd -- BELIEVE ME.... you are going to play it through again, making different choices. And again, making different choices.... and then again, trying to break the system... and again, "for reals". Now you have gotten 3 hours of fun out of an hours worth of content.

3rd -- You will now have a frame of reference for "most" of what is discussed here... i say "most" because it can go off the rails fairly easily, but that is the other amazing part that the game itself created a little community of fellow travelers that kind of check in with each other daily, hourly, minute-Ly? with each other just "cause".

4th -- The new renders are going to make it sexier - but the content/story isn't changing, so when It does come out, you can oooh and ahhhh with the rest of us and not feel like the noob.

Welcome aboard, now go get started!

*PS*
and if you like the game, I'd encourage you to go to the patreon and throw some coin the developers way.... if ever there was a new developer that deserved patronage, it is this one.

PPS
There are a few developers from other games that hang out here from time to time... which is a god sign. And birds of a feather..... so go check them out as well cause they are quite interesting too!.

Almost all right except for the timings... I recently played through just one route (to test an android version) and it took me close to four hours. Of course, depending on your reading times and how much you investigate, your timings might be different. But unless you skip through loads of text or mash the space bar (really not recommended) it's way more time than an hour (Notty mentioned around three hours for the first three chapters) just to get through once without rolling back and trying a different route.

PS I would recommend waiting for the remaster though, it's not far off and based on some of the shiny we've already been shown, it'll be well worth the wait!

Reading speed average is thought to be 200 to 300 words a minute. So take the amount of words in the game, do the math and you have something close to how long it might take, this does not include any time taken to weigh decisions or choose paths. It also doesn't include or break down on which path you may be taking, reloading to not die, etc.

Thank you for the kind words

On content time I have a rule of thumb that you -should- get an hour of play per chapter at least for a decent run through. Of course H5 is not a "clicky flicky" game so that is based upon it actually being read as it's intended to be. Naturally, your content will depend upon your choices with some paths being longer than others.

The word count is an interesting one. Not sure really how to measure it. Per path? In total? To include the PDA gubbins? Tricky one. Must be well over a 100,000 words in total though I guess so far.

 

[TomberryDude]

I have done a bit in Japanese, but even that is a challenge, and they love puns. XD

JaPUNese?

 

[TheDevian]

Sadly I just can#t get rid of them. Built into a single bone asset and so nothing I can do about it unless I learn how to rip assets apart on a whole new level, so we're stuck with them.

However for game purposes they don't matter. No one makes manual landings...oh.....

Spoiler: *wiggles eyebrows*

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Actually, there is one way that might work, if you can find that object in the pull-down menu on the asset, you might be able to make them invisible with the opacity slider.

Spoiler: like this

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[Nottravis]

Actually, there is one way that might work, if you can find that object in the pull-down menu on the asset, you might be able to make them invisible with the opacity slider.

Spoiler: like this

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Thank you but nope, no can do I'm afraid. The asset is a single structure so using opacity makes the whole lot vanish.

 

[TheDevian]

Speaking of word play, anyone have a funny parody idea for Sega? (I am sculpting a console, and Sayga, and Gayga just are not really thrilling me). I already have a console name, but the company name is not cumming to me yet...

Thank you but nope, no can do I'm afraid. The asset is a single structure so using opacity makes the whole lot vanish.

That really sucks. Usually they break it down into sub pieces, harder to recolor that way, unless they used a uv map for the while thing.

 

[somebodynobody]

H5 is not a "clicky flicky" game

I have heard of "chick flicks" for female pointed movies, is a "click flick" a female erotic game term?

 

[Akamari]

Amanda, however, is my sock poppet for this detail. When you talk to her in Four there's a branch line where you can really get into how and why everything is organised and who is responsible for what. She seemed a good mechanism, to me at least, to be able to provide all this to the player if they wanted to know.

Is it weird that I'm looking forward to that even more than the lewd scenes?

Sadly I just can#t get rid of them. Built into a single bone asset and so nothing I can do about it unless I learn how to rip assets apart on a whole new level, so we're stuck with them.

No big deal. Plus I rather like my theory of them having build-in tech for precision landing.

 

[somebodynobody]

Speaking of word play, anyone have a funny parody idea for Sega? (I am sculpting a console, and Sayga, and Gayga just are not really thrilling me). I already have a console name, but the company name is not cumming to me yet...

Are you hoping for the same naming commercials? You can do Mega and use something similar to the mega website icon.
Kega, isn't as funny but is the name of the sega emulator really good one too.
Nega slightly racist sounding, also a korean word meaning (I), portion of denoting counterpart of a unit of measurement.
Vega can use a miniature vega/m bison to mock the name switch
Hard to help without context and such.

 

[Akamari]

Speaking of word play, anyone have a funny parody idea for Sega? (I am sculpting a console, and Sayga, and Gayga just are not really thrilling me). I already have a console name, but the company name is not cumming to me yet...

Sagga Genetits?

 

[Nottravis]

No big deal. Plus I rather like my theory of them having build-in tech for precision landing.

https://f95zone.to/threads/heavy-five-ch-3-v1-2-nottravis.23184/post-2190328

*wiggles eyebrows*

 

[DA22]

Sadly I just can#t get rid of them. Built into a single bone asset and so nothing I can do about it unless I learn how to rip assets apart on a whole new level, so we're stuck with them.

However for game purposes they don't matter. No one makes manual landings...oh.....

Spoiler: *wiggles eyebrows*

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I thought Boob-off time would be at earliest in chapter 5 or 6? No kidding, looking lovely even if most of us might never see the surroundings.

 

[TheDevian]

Are you hoping for the same naming commercials? You can do Mega and use something similar to the mega website icon.
Kega, isn't as funny but is the name of the sega emulator really good one too.
Nega slightly racist sounding, also a korean word meaning (I), portion of denoting counterpart of a unit of measurement.
Vega can use a miniature vega/m bison to mock the name switch
Hard to help without context and such.

Sagga Genetits?

Vega isn't bad, though not very sexy. XD
The console itself is a parody of the Saturn, the Slattern.

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I suppose I may have to poke fun of another company instead, but that would have been good.


...Humm, 'gase' means 'fake' in Japanese, I might have a winner... XD

 

[DA22]

Is it weird that I'm looking forward to that even more than the lewd scenes?


No big deal. Plus I rather like my theory of them having build-in tech for precision landing.

No kink shaming here, since I am very much interested in that part as well, but you might overdo it a little. At least be as interested in the lewd parts. Notty also worked hard on those and sacrificed herself for them, so we should at least enjoy them.