Ren'Py The DeLuca Family [v0.09.6] [HopesGaming]

[HopesGaming]

Hi there, so apparently it's unwelcome to ask for an ETA on the next update here, but could someone tell us approximately the approximate mean of intervals between updates ?

From the Patreon page;

Q. How long does an update take?
A. It is hard to give a precise answer as a lot of factors play into it. But I usually try to keep it in the two months frame. Sometimes it can be faster sometimes it can take a bit longer.
Sadly, it is an impossible thing to give an estimation on. This is my hobby and real-life can tend to take priority when needed. Under 3-4 months is what would be realistic. 3 is the goal.
But I have had updates taken a lot more. That I want to improve, but alas, it can tend to happen. Hopefully, in the future I am in a comfortable enough spot to go full time on this project! But for now- there is no guarantee for monthly or even bi-monthly releases.

Hey HopesGaming I hope you've been well.
Just couple of questions for ya (if you don't mind, apologies in advance if some has been asked already):

1) Is there any way we can keep track of the relationship stats with each character (whether it's the red heart "love" stat or the purple "respect" [?] stat) or where the MC stands in his morality (since these morality choices will has consequences in later updates)?
Or do you prefer that the players just play without knowing (like the phrase "just go with the flow"?)

2) Will there be any updates to the girls portraits in 0.06.5? Or is it being postponed till 0.07 (to be implemented among the other gameplay changes)?
Not really expecting any portrait changes for Luna or Gracie (since the events weren't focused on them, though it would be nice), but with Isabel I guess I'm kinda hoping we're getting the portrait update (with the recent events focused highly on her) if we had the MC take the netori route.

3) It's a fictional region, but approximately how big would you say is Lucania's area in modern day City standards (e.g. roughly size of London? Or New York, or perhaps another region/City?)

4) Wilfred, is one of the most essential character to the DeLucas, no doubt fundamental to the Family's success. In times of War between the Big 5 (and others), has there been any times in the past in which he had close calls with assassinations or kidnapping (becoming a target for the other Families, with a bullseye on his back)?

If we take a look at it from any rival Family's POV, perhaps it's just me but wouldn't it be reasonable for them to think they'll get the upper hand over the DeLucas if they take Wilfred out of the equation somehow (I mean yes, the DeLucas have many strong characters like the 4 Serpents, the Capos, Elite Soldados etc, but noone seems to be as good as Wilfred to possibly replace him, especially the management side of running the Family)?

5) Would you ever consider making it snow in Lucania for main Story or Lewd/Freeroam update, set in the Christmas Holidays perhaps?

6) Would you possibly consider having the characters (for both girls & the guys, though I guess I'd put more importance on the girls. Yeah I guess I'm a little bit bias in this matter lol) change their default clothes/attire in the future?
It was fun to watch Gracie trying out Cynthia's old clothes for the Beachhouse prison event, & it was so endearing seeing Luna in her yellow dress. But these are used limited for specific events, so I am just curious to ask if you're willing to give the girls updated default attire.

1) Right now the way you keep track of the love stats is via the girls' portrait images. There is no way to check for the respect stat and for morality MC portrait will be changed depending on it.
No plans for exact numbers on it, but may change in the future.

2) That's the plan !

3) It's far from anything like London, New York, etc. Those are major cities where Lucania is more of a small town where everyone knows who everyone is. A community. (But not that small either)

4) Wilfred has been through many unique situations. The story will dwell into who Wilfred is the deeper we get into the story.

5) Perhaps What holding me back, for now, to truly 'explore' lucania is that I am planning to commission the whole town. I want a town build from the ground to fit my story and not the current town (which is based on a german real life town heh)

ON THAT NOTE; if anyone knows someone that takes a commission for creating house assets for Daz (such as buildings and towns) hit me up!

6) The clothes are kind of iconic for the girls right now (and even for the guys) and that was what I had planned for to happen. Whenever a clothing change happens it is because something unique is happening.

A whole attire change is planned. For specific characters. For specific reasons, heh.

 

[Penfold Mole]

Here you go:

ESET NOD32 reports after clicking on the link in the OP.
An excellent AV program btw.

Thanks for the info!

I also have been extending my ESET NOD32 licence for about 15 years already. It's a really good and reliable top of the line AV. Also, its business user version has had a great central management system for a very long time.

This time I tried to open the site, my NOD32 blocked outtonova.com website (172.255.6.223) when I was opening this Racaty site. Nothing about the trojan on your screenshot.

Looks like it's about this script:

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

(please ignore the stylesheet lines from mozilla extensions that I'm using )

Looks like it could have been injected into their site code without their knowledge.

Right now it looks like it contains nothing though. It could have been that trojan there previously that triggered ESET to blacklist outtonova URL because of it.

 

[MaximumSatan1]

The absolute best adult VN i have ever played. Amazing renders, decent storyplot, good portion of non-cringe humor, the world rules straight from shonen, outstanding character development (i mean, look at Luna storyline. I might honestly just fell for a videogame character)... Too bad that we have to wait 3 years to play completed version (hopefully).

P.S. The only downsides are that the game is far from being complete (obviously) and a certain lack of sexual content (fine by me, but may push away some players).

 

[weneedrwbyporngames]

I'm yet to play the game, but if there isn't a character that looks like this guy

I'll be severely disappointed

 

[Sinister Dahlia]

I'm yet to play the game, but if there isn't a character that looks like this guy
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I'll be severely disappointed

And have a quote "...sending in carabineri with flamethrowers (lancafiame)..."

 

[weneedrwbyporngames]

And have a quote "...sending in carabineri with flamethrowers (lancafiame)..."

I see, you're a man of culture as well

 

[ut1stgear1]

Goes to show you how important it is to have a good AV program!
I got the guide, so it's all good.

Yes it is. As I said I was using ESET but am now using Norton. Long story so don't ask Both are great AV's and both caught something but still gave the guide D/L while killing the virus. So WINS for all of us.

 

[ut1stgear1]

Well I am on my 2nd time through this due to getting a new laptop. Doing "I am Luna" again. Even knowing what was coming my heart was still in my stomach. The story telling and the music is so well done. Time to eat before I pick up where Lucas comes in. Damn you again HopesGaming

 

[ut1stgear1]

These are my two favorite shots in this game. Tried both as avatars but only one worked for clarity. Actuality wanted the one with the heart in the center. Tried to use them for my signature but no way to just upload them and don't know how to do it.

Edit: FOREVER SEVEN YEAR OLD SOFI AND LUNA. MAY SOFI REST IN PEACE. That says it all even if that was all there was to the story.

 

[ut1stgear1]

This might say it better though.

 

[Gh0st_Harambe]

The Luna´s story made me drop a couple of tears.
Only one other vn made me cry.
Great game I look forward to the next updates.

 

[Axeleen]

The updates are mean, you're right - or are we?
And you can ask for ETA, if you're ask niecly, yet the answer would be the same, as we simple don't know it.

Updates are coming, calculating from what is in the OP, around, more or less, all 4 months.

Just looking at the OP should give you that approximate.
Look at the date of the OP. Now look at the date of the latest release. How many months are between them?
Changelog in the OP contains 5 major version updates (v0.01 is the first release).

Penfold Mole : Please don't try to peg me as dumb when you don't know how statistics work.

c3p0 As far as I can see, the OP only gives the release date of the penultimate update in addition to the last one (btw I really don't know why F95 staff delete the release dates of old update, if you see this message please keep all the dates on the OP for us !), so that's only 2 points of data, which is at the very least not a good sample size. Which is why I asked my question here cause there surely are people passing by in the OP that know the release dates of more updates and would consequently be able to give a much more precise estimation. As you can effectively see here :

Version Release      Days
v0.01   2018-07-26
v0.02   2018-09-08 = 44
v0.03   2018-11-15 = 68
v0.04   2019-03-18 = 123
v0.05   2019-09-28 = 194
v0.06   2020-03-22 = 176

Mean: 121 days (i.e. 0.07 late July) - but that's probably misleading, recent updates have taken longer.

There will be a medium update 0.06.5 before that though to conclude the latest Isabel arc.

Meushi Thanks a lot ! Where were you able to check all the release dates ? The OP changelog only gives the previous one.

 

[Meushi]

@Meushi Thanks a lot ! Where were you able to check all the release dates ? The OP changelog only gives the previous one.

Initially I searched this thread for posts by N7, who did most of the release announcements previously.

Then worked out you can see the release announcement post titles at

You must be registered to see the links

without a subscription.

 

[Valex]

I rarely write a comment; Rather click the like button.
But i just have to commend this game's storytelling, character development and music.
The crazy thing is that the (relatively) lack of sexual content (as of ver. 0.6.1) doesn't really seem to bother me as much as it usually does with adult games. Sure, more lewd content is always appreciated, but I truly hope that the developer doesn't rush the story and instead, bind his time to keep the unique atmosphere he has created through the end.

The only small issue (probably nit-picking) which sometimes bothers me is the MC's clothing, which for whatever reason almost never changes during different scenes. I mean... you don't take the lovely Luna to a fancy restaurant wearing the same turtleneck and jeans you've been wearing during detention, missions & travels...
On a positive note, the elite soldado costume looks very nicely done and a class above the default ones the MC wears. Hopefully, since he has already been promoted to a higher rank, he will start wearing it much more frequently.

All in all, definitely one of my top 10 all time favorites.
Magnificent job, amigo!

 

[Penfold Mole]

Penfold Mole : Please don't try to peg me as dumb when you don't know how statistics work, you're ridiculing yourself.

You are reading way too much from between the lines. Pegging ain't my kink

 

[Sinister Dahlia]

It's not just the little Luna's story - actually a follow-up with the Russian roulette, and the Luna character card afterwards representing her soul's cry to find someone trustworthy in her life. These parts were also strongly written, and I would suffer a very long delay in next versions in order to receive the same quality of writing from the Dev

 

[ut1stgear1]

Just finished "My name is Luna" event. I missed this the first time through. A mere oversight by HopesGaming in that at the end of the vows he neglected to include the proclamation that "You may now kiss the bride/groom". However, Luna and the MC did a nice improv thus saving the day and HopesGaming butt.

 

[ut1stgear1]

I just finished v 0.06.1 and somehow I missed a very significant part of the 10th story event my 1st time through. That being the end conversation between Cordia and Wilfred. If I may be permitted to do some speculation. Thank you.

1. There is so much psychology that it is oozing out of the pages which can easily be missed due to it being a slow but steady ooze if you are not reading everything.

2. Antonio will not emerge as a rival or even a threat but rather a right-hand man of the MC.

3. The biggest threat to not only the MC but to The Deluca Family will be Wilfred.

4. The next generation of serpents will be MC, Gracie, Luna and drum roll please JOEY.

5. My favorite, hands down, bit player is Trino whose loyalty and ability to predict the future are shown in these 2 screen shots.

 

[Paapi]

I just finished v 0.06.1 and somehow I missed a very significant part of the 10th story event my 1st time through. That being the end conversation between Cordia and Wilfred. If I may be permitted to do some speculation. Thank you.

1. There is so much psychology that it is oozing out of the pages which can easily be missed due to it being a slow but steady ooze if you are not reading everything.

2. Antonio will not emerge as a rival or even a threat but rather a right-hand man of the MC.

3. The biggest threat to not only the MC but to The Deluca Family will be Wilfred.

4. The next generation of serpents will be MC, Gracie, Luna and drum roll please JOEY.

5. My favorite, hands down, bit player is Trino whose loyalty and ability to predict the future are shown in these 2 screen shots.

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Mc will not become serpent

 

[AKONER]

i am not gay but i can think of it because of antonio will this option be in the future?