Ren'Py A Divine Life [v0.25] [Arcane Penguin]

[TeaspoonGod]

Update is finally out, it's been a pretty rough few months but the cause of the disruption will no longer do so in the future. I do apologize for near radio silence on our end but I weighed up the options of either posting ever so often saying 'Hey we are working on it, sorry for the delay!' or just saying nothing and getting on with the work when possible and decided I would rather not just repeat a message that could come across as 'trust me bro, I'm working' and wear away any remaining faith you might have in us as you get more and more sceptical of whether anything is actually happening.

I would rather not get into the why of the past few months have been rather tumultuous but if it becomes necessary to divulge that knowledge, then I will.

I could alleviate some of that scepticism by posting more update images but this is a problem of mine where I am just dogshit at posting update images for WIPs etc and this happens in my sfw art life as well. I'll try my best to put more stuff up to keep you in the loop. Thank you again, for waiting and being far more patient than we probably deserve.

How do you do? Is everything all right?

I'm doing alright, just keeping my head above water and trying to continue with the project now that things can get back to normal. I hope you all are doing well.

In order to be more transparent and clear with you now, I'll let you know in advance some of the content that I already have partially completed for the next update:
>Progression with Sophie
>Adriana booty call content
>Abigail booty call content
>Taylor events (About fucking time tbh)
>Content for Anna and a new character in the Cass/Store storyline

If you find any bugs, typos or issues, please let us know. We try to catch things but sometimes we miss things.

 

[Lewd_Studio]

Update is finally out, it's been a pretty rough few months but the cause of the disruption will no longer do so in the future. I do apologize for near radio silence on our end but I weighed up the options of either posting ever so often saying 'Hey we are working on it, sorry for the delay!' or just saying nothing and getting on with the work when possible and decided I would rather not just repeat a message that could come across as 'trust me bro, I'm working' and wear away any remaining faith you might have in us as you get more and more sceptical of whether anything is actually happening.

I would rather not get into the why of the past few months have been rather tumultuous but if it becomes necessary to divulge that knowledge, then I will.

I could alleviate some of that scepticism by posting more update images but this is a problem of mine where I am just dogshit at posting update images for WIPs etc and this happens in my sfw art life as well. I'll try my best to put more stuff up to keep you in the loop. Thank you again, for waiting and being far more patient than we probably deserve.



I'm doing alright, just keeping my head above water and trying to continue with the project now that things can get back to normal. I hope you all are doing well.

In order to be more transparent and clear with you now, I'll let you know in advance some of the content that I already have partially completed for the next update:
>Progression with Sophie
>Adriana booty call content
>Abigail booty call content
>Taylor events (About fucking time tbh)
>Content for Anna and a new character in the Cass/Store storyline

If you find any bugs, typos or issues, please let us know. We try to catch things but sometimes we miss things.

Glad OP is back and still alive. I was hoping for any kind of life signal and it looks like you've managed to get through that hard time. Keep you head up and I'm looking forward for the future development

 

[ＧＡＢ]

It does look like AI to me, too, but it really shouldn't matter right? It's still good art

it does matters, at minimum for whether or not to add appropriate tags

 

[DavyDaoist]

Great to see this isn’t dead

 

[Hametsu_Shiki]

it does matters, at minimum for whether or not to add appropriate tags

Point taken, but the point I was making then was more like "I don't really care whether it's AI or not, as long as it looks good it shouldn't matter". If it looked like trash and it was made by a human hand I wouldn't play it; if I liked it but found it was made by AI later... I mean, I personally don't feel like it's that important.

And this is a comment I made a year ago apparently? So it's been a long time, but I kinda remember this was when making AI art was becoming popular, so not really sure if there was even an AI tag back then. That said, yes, I agree that every work should have their appropiate tags, as some people feel strongly about some of them and they'd rather not see some of them.

 

[Kamikazez]

Nice

 

[zeranta]

This one have been here the whole time ??? ... Another great art game got underated.

 

[sortakinda]

Huh, I was just wondering few days ago about wether or not this game had gotten an update. Artstyle is superb.

 

[Eigenvalue]

Should I replay 0.25 from the beginning? When I load a 0.2 save, I get tons of missing variable errors (gallery, talking to most characters)

EDIT: On a new game, I got zero errors on the playthrough. Maybe add a note to the OP to start a new game for 0.25?
Also, there seem to be some logical checks missing. Progressing the teacher/co-student storyline first makes references to fucking the demon and getting into shady shit with the rich lady, even if neither of these things have happened yet.

 

[TeaspoonGod]

Should I replay 0.25 from the beginning? When I load a 0.2 save, I get tons of missing variable errors (gallery, talking to most characters)

EDIT: On a new game, I got zero errors on the playthrough. Maybe add a note to the OP to start a new game for 0.25?
Also, there seem to be some logical checks missing. Progressing the teacher/co-student storyline first makes references to fucking the demon and getting into shady shit with the rich lady, even if neither of these things have happened yet.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I forgot about some of the variables being changed, should've expected that it would cause issues and checked to ensure save compatibility. I'll talk to ArcanePenguin about whether we'll tweak them again or just leave them for now and not change anything that would break it next update.

As for the Vic/Madison progression, you're absolutely right, I need to add some bools to only make that event available after the prereqs have been met. Thanks for pointing that out, that's a great catch.

Please continue to let us know about anything else we've messed up, we need to be more diligent on our end but I expect there will almost always be at least one thing that we've overlooked.

 

[sortakinda]

Oh right I forgot, for whatever reason the phone says "visit mansion", yet there are no interactable objects in mansion.
Also, I am not sure if the audio-effects are worth it really, since they're really obnoxious at this stage, and they take quite a bit of space for what good they're doing. Sure it's not an issue at this stage, but if you're streched thin as it is might as well ditch it for the time being.

 

[TeaspoonGod]

Oh right I forgot, for whatever reason the phone says "visit mansion", yet there are no interactable objects in mansion.
Also, I am not sure if the audio-effects are worth it really, since they're really obnoxious at this stage, and they take quite a bit of space for what good they're doing. Sure it's not an issue at this stage, but if you're streched thin as it is might as well ditch it for the time being.

Thankee for the feedback!

When the phone says to go to the Grand Mansion, it should play the Cass/Anna/Mabel intro bit then update to say 'That's all for now.'(Which it did in my test just now)
Can you tell me what parts of the story you've done so far so I can try replicate the issue and figure out where it would be going wrong?

Also the sound effects might get removed, they were implemented with the super basic animations but we decided the animations just weren't satisfactory quality so we stopped doing them. I don't think it would cause too much of an issue if we removed the sound effects as well considering they're not used anywhere else atm.
Something I'll need to speak to ArcanePenguin about.

Edit:
I'm very sorry the phone keeps spacking out, it's a bit of a code mess but we're trying to make it work to circumvent the arbitrary checking everywhere to look for events that some sandboxes have.

 

[Tom7902000]

Great art style!!