Unity A Long Journey [v0.9.4] [Marvellous Lunatic]

[battali0n]

Sorry, I'm not planing to include gay scenes, maybe lesbian scenes, but this is not laid out yet.

For the sake of being misunderstood, trigger-happy people or just being picked on by the statement. This is not kink-shaming, or any phobia or whatsoever. It's just not my kink. I don't care what sexuality someone has. Sexuality doesn't define the character of someone, or at least in the most cases, and therefore as long as someone is a decent person why should I care his sexuality.

pilgrim2003 The last statement wasn't especially meant to you. I just wanted to leave this for the future. After the earlier little NTR discussion I try to be more specific in my statements.

If you decide to add lesbian, will it be optional, as In I get to choose whether it happens or not?

 

[XCelesX]

What is this? Only empty rooms and no hint system?

 

[Ottoeight]

What is this? Only empty rooms and no hint system?

 

[Tulrek]

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Better that way !

 

[clms100]

EDIT

Hello everyone; I share with you the Spanish translation of A Long Journey version 0.8.1. The instructions are inside the zip file. I want to thank Dev for this great game.

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EDITADO

Hola a todos;
Os comparto la traducción a español de A Long Journey a la versión 0.8.1. Las instrucciones están dentro del archivo comprimido.
Quiero agradecer al Dev por este gran juego.

 

[NathanD7]

Oh boy. This game might be put onhold indefinitely. Unity has a new tax for developers. $0.20 cents for each install, that includes pirated games too.

 

[Aristos]

Oh boy. This game might be put onhold indefinitely. Unity has a new tax for developers. $0.20 cents for each install, that includes pirated games too.

This game is not gonna be affected. The new fee will affect those games meeting 2 requirements:
1) $200,000 revenue in the previous 12 months,
AND
2) 200,000 total installs since the game was first released.

The two requirements must be met, not just one.
If those two thresholds are surpassed, then for every additional install after those initial 200,000 occurring after 1st January 2024 there will be a 20 cent charge.

Unfortunately for Marvellous Lunatic, he isn't making $200,000 a year with this game. Nothing to fear on his end.
This fee is a fucking shame, but it's aimed at indie studios and very successful single devs. A normal AVN dev on Patreon or any other similar platform should have no problems.

 

[PapaPhat]

This game is not gonna be affected. The new fee will affect those games meeting 2 requirements:
1) $200,000 revenue in the previous 12 months,
AND
2) 200,000 total installs since the game was first released.

The two requirements must be met, not just one.
If those two thresholds are surpassed, then for every additional install after those initial 200,000 occurring after 1st January 2024 there will be a 20 cent charge.

Unfortunately for Marvellous Lunatic, he isn't making $200,000 a year with this game. Nothing to fear on his end.
This fee is a fucking shame, but it's aimed at indie studios and very successful single devs. A normal AVN dev on Patreon or any other similar platform should have no problems.

Good Luck to Unity tracking all that shit! I predict an influx of Unity Games converting to the Ren'Py engine! Hahaha

I, for one, would LOVE to have a Long Journey on Ren'Py. As is, this is the only title good enough to drag my ass out of Ren'Py games long enough to play it. This is the ONLY Unity title that I ever play. I have tried a few dozen but I always get hung up on the interface. I'm not a fan of mini games either which are frequently over used in other Unity titles. I never had that issue with this game. The mini games, like the computer hacking, actually add to my immersion rather than take away from it like other mini games. But, I see some serious issues with Unity having to track all of that shit, just for twenty cents per copy. Some bean counter's bright idea that made more sense in his leger than it ever will in practice.

Adventure ever on my friend, Phat

PS: I'd be willing to bet that all that extra tracking will cost them twenty five to thirty cents per copy and end up costing them major revenue losses... Then when they try to raise the price per unit and lower the cap to $50K annual earnings and only 50K total installations to try to recoup their losses, they end up going bankrupt because EVERYONE stopped using their game engine within two weeks of the announcement! Fucking bean counters... meh...

 

[Aristos]

Good Luck to Unity tracking all that shit! I predict an influx of Unity Games converting to the Ren'Py engine! Hahaha

I, for one, would LOVE to have a Long Journey on Ren'Py. As is, this is the only title good enough to drag my ass out of Ren'Py games long enough to play it. This is the ONLY Unity title that I ever play. I have tried a few dozen but I always get hung up on the interface. I'm not a fan of mini games either which are frequently over used in other Unity titles. I never had that issue with this game. The mini games, like the computer hacking, actually add to my immersion rather than take away from it like other mini games. But, I see some serious issues with Unity having to track all of that shit, just for twenty cents per copy. Some bean counter's bright idea that made more sense in his leger than it ever will in practice.

Adventure ever on my friend, Phat

PS: I'd be willing to bet that all that extra tracking will cost them twenty five to thirty cents per copy and end up costing them major revenue losses... Then when they try to raise the price per unit and lower the cap to $50K annual earnings and only 50K total installations to try to recoup their losses, they end up going bankrupt because EVERYONE stopped using their game engine within two weeks of the announcement! Fucking bean counters... meh...

Me too, I can count the Unity games I play on the fingers of one hand and still have a couple left. This game is really well optimized and it includes almost every feature that I normally appreciate in Renpy games.

Apparently, the company's CEO is the same guy who brought Electronic Arts to the brink of bankruptcy a few years ago.
Einstein and human stupidty.

 

[Elduriel]

Good Luck to Unity tracking all that shit! I predict an influx of Unity Games converting to the Ren'Py engine! Hahaha

I, for one, would LOVE to have a Long Journey on Ren'Py. As is, this is the only title good enough to drag my ass out of Ren'Py games long enough to play it. This is the ONLY Unity title that I ever play. I have tried a few dozen but I always get hung up on the interface. I'm not a fan of mini games either which are frequently over used in other Unity titles. I never had that issue with this game. The mini games, like the computer hacking, actually add to my immersion rather than take away from it like other mini games. But, I see some serious issues with Unity having to track all of that shit, just for twenty cents per copy. Some bean counter's bright idea that made more sense in his leger than it ever will in practice.

Adventure ever on my friend, Phat

PS: I'd be willing to bet that all that extra tracking will cost them twenty five to thirty cents per copy and end up costing them major revenue losses... Then when they try to raise the price per unit and lower the cap to $50K annual earnings and only 50K total installations to try to recoup their losses, they end up going bankrupt because EVERYONE stopped using their game engine within two weeks of the announcement! Fucking bean counters... meh...

yeah well the job hopping CEOs that force these kind of changes don't give a fuck about all that unfortunately... they get the job, make bullshit decisions that increase revenue for a few quarters, then bounce before all of it inevitably goes to shit, update their CVs saying how much they improved the company... because obviously they won't stay on long enough to see the long term consequences. Fucking infuriating.

 

[Aristos]

yeah well the job hopping CEOs politicians that force these kind of changes don't give a fuck about all that unfortunately... they get the job, make bullshit decisions that increase revenue votes for a few quarters, then bounce before all of it inevitably goes to shit, update their CVs saying how much they improved the company country... because obviously they won't stay on long enough to see the long term consequences. Fucking infuriating.

I changed those three words and the message still made total sense. It's terrifying.

 

[Elduriel]

I changed those three words and the message still made total sense. It's terrifying.

capitalism, am I rite?

 

[Aristos]

capitalism, am I rite?

Well, not really. Non-capitalist countries are even more corrupt and normally poorer.
It's politicians, as a category; a necessary cancer in every society across history.

 

[Neko-Chan Pacifica]

The readhead girl whats wrong with her face, and whats with her veins being so highly visible?

 

[cbsx]

The readhead girl whats wrong with her face, and whats with her veins being so highly visible?

Space veins... don't question it.

 

[Khondur]

Sorry to hear about your problems, I attached a visual explaination in the spoiler below. I hope it will help you.

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In the future I'll add mini-quest icons to the map and quick navigation to have a better indication where to look for tasks.

Spoiler: Vague answer

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Thanks for the hint (I thought I needed to go sleep to advance the time. SO imagine me cursing walking to the sleeping capsule and not able to sleep

 

[kingdevil31]

Full save pls ?

 

[Aristos]

The dev went on holiday/vacation in September and paused all Patreon payments for the whole month.
He's been back at work for some days. Here's his latest dev update on Patreon where he also talks about Unity's fiasco.

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Greetings,
I'm back from my vacation and slowly started to get back on working on the game. I still had a lot of privat matters to attend this week so there isn't too much progress to report.
Progress
However, I modelled a few smaller props that are used in the next scenes I intend to work on or rather started to work on as seen above. I basically finished writing, I just need to wrap up some things and than I can give it to review.
Unity
Maybe some of you heard a about the whole buzz surrounding Unity and there new policies for license fees and all that stuff and I want to address this briefly. First of, I'm not affected by the changes at the moment as my revenue is by far not high enough and the way I distribute my game is not tracked by Unity anyway. Unity would have to make a deal with Patreon itself. Anyway, I don't want to go much deeper into the specifics as this is to big for this format.
The problem I see is the lost trust for Unity as a company and their display of lack of communication within the company and the lack of understanding their customers. This whole situation is such a mess that one can only think that the whole development of Unity itself in the inside must be a mess as well which probably isn't a good foundation for the future of Unity.
The trust in the development of the engine is pretty much gone at the moment. However, I'll stay with the engine for my game for now as it would be to much effort to convert it to another engine (even with some proposed tools online). Act 1 will definitely be finished in Unity. Act 2 probably too, but it's not settled yet.
I had a lot of other features planed for the engine I wanted to implement but I'm not sure anymore if I want to go that way. They are postponed until all the dust has settled.
Current Status
~ 325 rendered and edited images
~ 90% written

 

[jimmyjoo]

Has the skin tone changed since those listed in the screenshots? They all look mottled and corpse-like

 

[battali0n]

Sorry, I'm not planing to include gay scenes, maybe lesbian scenes, but this is not laid out yet.

For the sake of being misunderstood, trigger-happy people or just being picked on by the statement. This is not kink-shaming, or any phobia or whatsoever. It's just not my kink. I don't care what sexuality someone has. Sexuality doesn't define the character of someone, or at least in the most cases, and therefore as long as someone is a decent person why should I care his sexuality.

pilgrim2003 The last statement wasn't especially meant to you. I just wanted to leave this for the future. After the earlier little NTR discussion I try to be more specific in my statements.

Hi,
I didn't see an answer to this in the thread so I wanted to ask.
Will the lesbian and group sex content be optional, as in I get to choose whether it happens or not?