VN Ren'Py Abandoned A Long Summer [v0.04] [Ardanos]

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EdPokol

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Very promising. Awesome renders with many details and good writing easily dragged me into her world. Feels like something really interesting is going to happen. I'm intrigued. And of course I'm in love with pure, innocent and pretty Emily :love:
 
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LaPein

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A cute pumpkin that you would like to see humiliated, gangbanged and drinking old fart's cum, since you facepalmed my post saying that I wouldn't like to see her do any of those things.
Yes sounds nice.

I am tired to read posts about how bad are Female Protaganists games are or too much lesbian stuff in an lesbian game.
It's not fair because the're so many games with Male Protagonists and dicks. Why to complain over and over again about FP and lesbian stuff? It's ridiculous!
I agree with you, i simply ignore "lesbian games". But you know what im tired about, this community trying to turn every Female Protagonist game into a lesbian one. Just look at this thread its hilarious.
By the way sadly this isnt a Female Protagonist anyway, in my opinion multiple protagonist or male protagonist should already be added to the tags to prevent some disappointments.
 
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Serreos

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A Long Summer [v0.01] Ardanos

Original Size Win/Linux: 952 MB
Original Size Mac: 934 MB

Compressed Size Win/Linux: 73 MB
Compressed Size Mac: 56 MB

Win/Linux: MEGA
Mac: MEGA
...in a ''Compressed'' game there are some different fotoes , or the game is exactly the same ? (no perfect english)
 

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...in a ''Compressed'' game there are some different fotoes , or the game is exactly the same ? (no perfect english)
It's the same game, with the same content, the diference is the size of the assets, and in some cases the quality of the images and videos are lower by a lot or almost none, depending on how the compressing is made, my compressed games are almost equal in quality with the original game.
 
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Vrijgeest

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Yes sounds nice.


I agree with you, i simply ignore "lesbian games". But you know what im tired about, this community trying to turn every Female Protagonist game into a lesbian one. Just look at this thread its hilarious.
By the way sadly this isnt a Female Protagonist anyway, in my opinion multiple protagonist or male protagonist should already be added to the tags to prevent some disappointments.
This community has very strong opinions about a lot of things. Some are not helpful especially when it concerns women or transwomen in relationships. Plenty are knee jerk reactions. If people would think first.
 
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SpikeZg

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wow, very beautiful game, so much detail in every scene, awesome job dev :) :love: (y)
 

Vrijgeest

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Great renders and story line. Models are very good. But trains always are a problem. Never have the right tracks. These here are electric trains but have no overhead cables or third rail. Also running on the wrong side. Trains dont always reflect the traffic flow on the streets.
 
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Holy Bacchus

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I agree!
I'd say I liked urban landscapes and world building even more than the characters and the story, in a way. High level of details.

Anyway. Really good start, nothing really happens there but there are hints to a bigger story, which is good.

Not a fan of multiple protagonists either (doesn't matter if males or females) but will wait and see. If they are written with love and their presence make sense, story wise, then ok!

My only concern is: displaying the stat gaining with the choices could steal the pleasure of the choices themselves (they became non-choices, since if I'm interested in the "casual" path, most of the time I would probably click on the "casual" choice, whatever the choice is - in the end it becomes a kinetic novel, sort of). That is a problem ("problem" from my perspective, of course) common to many games, I know. I suppose it concerns me more with the one I like more :)
Yeah, the addition of another protagonist has me a bit wary as well because, from the sounds of it, it would seem that this male protag is going to become part of the female protag's life, but in what way? An antagonist? A love rival? Or even a love interest? It's somewhat disappointing as it would be nice to just be immersed completely in Emily's life rather than bouncing around between 2 different characters.

Also, the "hints to a bigger story" are somewhat daunting based on this line at the end:

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From this first release, there's a nice, wholesome quality to the game, yet this foreshadows some pretty dark stuff. Hopefully it will be treated in a careful, dramatic way, and not in an over-the-top, sensationalist, and extreme depravity way, or at least that these 2 things will be optional.

As for the choices, they seem fine to me and seem like they might just be setting up the very thing I just mentioned; that going down the 'casual' route might open Emily up to the darker side of the story, and the 'integrity' side might see her be more principled and not give in to those darker elements mentioned in that line at the end.

I agree with you, i simply ignore "lesbian games". But you know what im tired about, this community trying to turn every Female Protagonist game into a lesbian one. Just look at this thread its hilarious.
By the way sadly this isnt a Female Protagonist anyway, in my opinion multiple protagonist or male protagonist should already be added to the tags to prevent some disappointments.
But why shouldn't female protag games be about the protag going down a lesbian path? I honestly don't see the appeal of being a female protag in a VN and having her be straight because if I want to see straight sex, I'll just play one of the literally hundreds of games featuring straight, male protags.

Surely the whole point of female protag games, or at least one of the biggest selling points, is the lesbian path? The biggest demographic for these adult VNs is undoubtedly straight men and a lot of straight men like lesbian porn, so female protag games should at least have the option to go down a pure lesbian path since that's a large part of the appeal of this particular genre of VN.
 

Khairus

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This looks promising. Best of luck and will keep an eye on this game :)

Just a question, how much content have you got in this first release of the Game ?
 

Holy Bacchus

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This looks promising. Best of luck and will keep an eye on this game :)

Just a question, how much content have you got in this first release of the Game ?
If by "content" you mean "sexual content", then none. It's basically setting up the story, but it's fairly sizeable for a first release and very well-detailed.
 
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Mayur

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Nooooo, i was stuck at work all day so i saw this hella late. Have i missed the opportunity to make a 'no sexual content' and image of the girl stroking her pussy pun?
 

lexx228

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Good characters, high-quality rendering and full-fledged scenes, but #no sexual content :oops:
 

dolfe67

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no sexual content is temporary, there is none in this v0.01 but certainly later
 

Ardanos

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Hi,

thank you all so much for your interest in my VN. So far most of the comments are positive and the feedback I got for now is a lot better than I could have hoped for.

But I thought I should clear up a few things. I realize now that I was far to vague regarding possible future adult content. I should have thought about the tags before I asked to have it published here.
Sorry about that.

The short version:

Of course there is all kinds of adult content planned. So id say the usual stuff is a given like: Corruption, Lesbian, Masturbation, Oral sex, Romance, MILFs, anal and others. I will try to make a list in the next days.

Regarding the MC:

In my experience with a lot of female characters in VNs, non protagonist as well as playable ones, they start out really innocent and then either have a pure corruption route to the point that they are a mindless and pretty unrealistic bimbos or they have a really wholesome pure romantic route that tends to be a bit boring in my opinion.

I also plan to have her follow routes like that up to a certain point but then there will be a twist.

I plan to have all adult content optional with the possibility to handle scenes in a different way.

I saw how many of you care about a pure lesbian route and will try to turn characters from planned lesbian scenes into true love interests.
 

Ardanos

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The long version:

My plans for the story:

For the story i have a hopefully pretty realistic and not over the top crime story in mind. As i mentioned before there is a new drug on the streets and the main characters will get personally involved with it and other people entangled with it. I tried to think of events that are not to unbelievable and could happen in real life. It also will be a pretty normal party drug like there are plenty in real life. So no mind control or other unrealistic stuff involved with it.

The plans for my MC Emily so far:

The casual route: since stuff like corruption of female characters is a bit overdone and became a bit stereotypical in my opinion I thought about a possible twist. So in the beginning on the casual side she will go down a route you could pretty much call corruption. There are characters that want to take advantage of her sexual as well as in other ways, maybe substance abuse because of her stress and other things.
But instead of going down a route like this to its usual conclusion I plan for a pretty traumatic event (if it is sexual you will of course be able to opt out of the sexual part) that will make her snap. After that she will begin to turn her life around and start to take revenge on gangs and criminals she met so far. The sexual content after that is because either she wants to or she gets something beneficial for herself out of it but she is the one in control!
In this route she will be more personally involved with criminals like gangs or a biker club for example.
The appeal of this route will will hopefully be to see her go from a insecure girl others take advantage of to a stronger character that knows how to handle herself in difficult situations.

The integrity route: this is a non corruption route. But in my mind characters that don´t have to struggle now and then tend to be a bit boring since there can´t be that much character development.
So in this route there will be stuff like for example a supervisor that will try to make her do his work or one that tries to get handsy and she will have to deal with them. On this route there will also be a traumatic event when she learns about the involvement of a person she cares about with the drug and other crimes that will make her reconsider her situation and how she deals with the fallout of the situation.
This route will deal more with the white collar aspects of this new drug on the streets. She will either try squash the crimes she witnesses or will turn into a ruthless business woman.

Typing it out like this I realize it sounds pretty ambitious put hopefully I will be able to realize it in the way i imagine it.

On either routes I plan to have certain characters as true love interests she can pursue exclusively up to endings involving them.

I plan on having forced scenes with male characters for story reasons but you will be able to opt out of the sexual parts of them since I myself dislike to have to see characters I care about with others I despise. And having a choice is what makes a VN.

A pure lesbian route was not planned so far since it did not occur to me to put one in but since I saw how many of you care about that I will think about ways to make characters from planned lesbians scenes into possible love interests.

I hope that clears things up a bit.
 
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