VN Unity A Phone Affair [v0.9.0 Beta] [Allure Arts Studios]

[Allure Arts Studios]

One thing I didnt see mentioned that becomes somewhat of an issue - the longer the game goes on, the skip function seems to slow down linearly. This isn't a big deal midgame, but later the 100% speed advances at like 1 message per 3 seconds. I wondered if it was a memory leak, but closing and restarted and loading save slowdown is still present.

Strangely, when you exit the chat back to the character chat selection window, they resume going regular skip speed, the slowdown occurs only in the actual dialogue window.

Yeah it's a known issue and might vary based on PC specs. But not to worry the performance can and will be improved so that the lag issues wouldn't seem like a problem.

And for those who mentioned some extra features that doesn't exist in our game yet (compared to games that have been in development for more months or years or copied the engine from different popular games), please remember that this game is a WIP product that was built from scratch. So rest assured we are working hard to include those features but only after we fix some glaring issues others had mentioned here. It's all planned based on priority

And the voting will be between paid members or will be publicly available.

We do want to make it public but the problem is it could also invite bias from those who are not at all invested in our game and is just voting to try and mess with the results. Have heard such complaints from few devs. So another alternative in mind is to put a poll here in f95 and another in patreon to compare and see how it varies. Let's see when the time comes

 

[xert13]

I like the feature that permits you to enlarge and resize the image. Wish more of these type of games had that option.

 

[Joshy92]

Polls to determine which routes get the most attention? No, thank you, I'll have to pass now then. And the start seemed pretty good too.

 

[BigBramdeheus123]

got a question before i spend too much time on this. Is the texting gonna stay this cringy? I litteraly want to scratch my eyes out. Will it gonna get better or interesting at some point?

 

[kikomascado]

Polls to determine which routes get the most attention? No, thank you, I'll have to pass now then. And the start seemed pretty good too.

Yeah, not a fan of that.
I hate when the game have "multiple routes", but some are clearly waaay behind the others.
At this point I think it's better to just make a single route then.

 

[Return_To_Monke]

Honestly my take is the dev should just do what they think is best for the game. It's impossible to please everyone and people will have differing opinions on things. Going around pleasing everyone makes the game suffer the most. Please stick to whatever original vision you might have had and those who want to support will continue to do and rest will move on. Personally I don't mind the 1 month routine for cuck and 1 month for the other two routes. There are games that take 3-6 months to release a single update so this is good enough.

 

[Deleted member 6873541]

Yeah, not a fan of that.
I hate when the game have "multiple routes", but some are clearly waaay behind the others.
At this point I think it's better to just make a single route then.

So which one do you want to leave?

 

[kikomascado]

So which one do you want to leave?

The one with the less content.
I see no point of having an "Work in Progress" route stagnated in favor of updating other routes.
I always get mad when I start playing a game that advertise it have some route, only for it to end very early compared to others routes which are always getting new updates because of players' suggestions.

 

[Eleanorduval]

Yeah, not a fan of that.
I hate when the game have "multiple routes", but some are clearly waaay behind the others.
At this point I think it's better to just make a single route then.

not sure what u mean,but it prefer when i have multi route than only one path

 

[kikomascado]

not sure what u mean,but it prefer when i have multi route than only one path

I also like it, but my point is that when the dev asks players to choose the next route to be updated, it tends to have some routes never update at all.

 

[Eleanorduval]

I also like it, but my point is that when the dev asks players to choose the next route to be updated, it tends to have some routes never update at all.

ah ok,i agree i hate when poll dicdate which route will be updated.I prefer well balanced route

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

Honestly my take is the dev should just do what they think is best for the game. It's impossible to please everyone and people will have differing opinions on things. Going around pleasing everyone makes the game suffer the most. Please stick to whatever original vision you might have had and those who want to support will continue to do and rest will move on. Personally I don't mind the 1 month routine for cuck and 1 month for the other two routes. There are games that take 3-6 months to release a single update so this is good enough.

I would agree with you if assuming the hunch is correct on alternating between cheat&loyal versus cuck route variations, since the loyal route probably has the least players. However, taken together with the dev's earlier message about 'characters only being avoidable on alpha cuck route', reading between the lines I can quickly see how this will become lopsided in future updates.

 

[Allure Arts Studios]

Alright! Few people here has made some really good points and also made me feel more confident about my initial plan.

So like I originally said, we will stick to 1 month cuck + 1 month for both cheating and loyalty combined. We will test this method for few updates and let everyone get a feel of how each route develops because cheating and loyal are at early stages that it wouldn't be fair to judge them now. Let's see how this goes

About characters being avoidable, I don't see it becoming an issue for the development of alpha cuck route except those who avoid a character will obviously miss out on events related to them. That's the only downside.

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

About characters being avoidable, I don't see it becoming an issue for the development of alpha cuck route except those who avoid a character will obviously miss out on events related to them. That's the only downside.

I should clarify - my mention of avoidable was less in the interest of steering my own path, more as an indicator of overall dev time/direction.

Because I love infographics and wasting time, this is my understanding of the current update path forking as it relates to suitors for Bella.

Spoiler: Current path pairings

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As you mentioned, characters will only be avoidable on the alpha cuck path, so I think it's pretty safe to assume the movie filming intimacy scenes will be present on all other paths (sans loyal).

Thus, what I mean by lopsided is if the same chart looks like this in a few versions:

Spoiler: Potential future path pairings

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Hopefully I'm wrong, and there are other events in the works for our cast of non-Carter characters; though having played all routes in 0.5 it sure does feel like Roy and Chuck have been relegated to supporting cast members at least on the cheat path.

 

[FT35]

Yeap, one of the things I tried right away and it didn't work.


Very annoying, indeed.

Did you also click on pics in conversation to enlarge and find no way to exit as well? pretty sure that was in html as well.. and with not be able to save in this unity version i just gave up... shame they didn't migrate it to renpy.

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

Did you also click on pics in conversation to enlarge and find no way to exit as well? pretty sure that was in html as well.. and with not be able to save in this unity version i just gave up... shame they didn't migrate it to renpy.

I had that happen once or twice - i think thats more a function of the dark black buttons and their placement in the expanded image isnt consistent.

 

[Allure Arts Studios]

I should clarify - my mention of avoidable was less in the interest of steering my own path, more as an indicator of overall dev time/direction.

Because I love infographics and wasting time, this is my understanding of the current update path forking as it relates to suitors for Bella.

Spoiler: Current path pairings

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As you mentioned, characters will only be avoidable on the alpha cuck path, so I think it's pretty safe to assume the movie filming intimacy scenes will be present on all other paths (sans loyal).

Thus, what I mean by lopsided is if the same chart looks like this in a few versions:

Spoiler: Potential future path pairings

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Hopefully I'm wrong, and there are other events in the works for our cast of non-Carter characters; though having played all routes in 0.5 it sure does feel like Roy and Chuck have been relegated to supporting cast members at least on the cheat path.

Wow, that's some nice infographics. I was planning to make one as well. About how you plotted it, I would say you are almost correct about the first graph based on the things that happened so far except in Loyal where it would be pointing to Bella or Ava where it's your loyalty that will be tested.

As for the second graph, things would proceed in a different way than what you have assumed. In Loyal path, it is a given that Bella wouldn't take part in any intimacy scenes because she respects MC's feelings. So that route won't involve any men.

In Cheating Path, she could get involved or not with Carter, Roy or Michael based on how you make choices. Of course if you keep making choices to make sure she stays loyal then you can practically "Avoid" the characters. But I know most don't play this route to avoid things However, this route starts harmless which is why it would take 2-3 updates for this route to get things running. v0.5 focused on setting up the cheating and loyal route so there wasn't much time to include more content. That is the problem with slowburn. But once things are set-up, it will be way better.

In Cuck Path, it goes two ways,
1) In both Beta Paths, you are supposed to be a beta. So you don't get to choose whom she interacts with but instead she will be the one deciding things on her own (and possibly getting influenced by other men).

2) In Alpha Path, you direct how things happen to and around her. So you get to make some important choices since you are holding the reins and driving her forward. And that means getting to choose LIs. Even if you chose to let her not do anything intimate with Carter or others, it doesn't mean there won't be events for remaining male supporting characters. Everyone gets a chance The next to next cuck update would probably give a better idea on how this will happen.

 

[cyanryu]

hey boo... first phone style game i didn't like for any reason

 

[GetOutOfMyLab]

I should clarify - my mention of avoidable was less in the interest of steering my own path, more as an indicator of overall dev time/direction.

Because I love infographics and wasting time, this is my understanding of the current update path forking as it relates to suitors for Bella.

Spoiler: Current path pairings

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As you mentioned, characters will only be avoidable on the alpha cuck path, so I think it's pretty safe to assume the movie filming intimacy scenes will be present on all other paths (sans loyal).

Thus, what I mean by lopsided is if the same chart looks like this in a few versions:

Spoiler: Potential future path pairings

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Hopefully I'm wrong, and there are other events in the works for our cast of non-Carter characters; though having played all routes in 0.5 it sure does feel like Roy and Chuck have been relegated to supporting cast members at least on the cheat path.

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[ScrewMe]

Wow, that's some nice infographics. I was planning to make one as well. About how you plotted it, I would say you are almost correct about the first graph based on the things that happened so far except in Loyal where it would be pointing to Bella or Ava where it's your loyalty that will be tested.

As for the second graph, things would proceed in a different way than what you have assumed. In Loyal path, it is a given that Bella wouldn't take part in any intimacy scenes because she respects MC's feelings. So that route won't involve any men.

In Cheating Path, she could get involved or not with Carter, Roy or Michael based on how you make choices. Of course if you keep making choices to make sure she stays loyal then you can practically "Avoid" the characters. But I know most don't play this route to avoid things However, this route starts harmless which is why it would take 2-3 updates for this route to get things running. v0.5 focused on setting up the cheating and loyal route so there wasn't much time to include more content. That is the problem with slowburn. But once things are set-up, it will be way better.

In Cuck Path, it goes two ways,
1) In both Beta Paths, you are supposed to be a beta. So you don't get to choose whom she interacts with but instead she will be the one deciding things on her own (and possibly getting influenced by other men).

2) In Alpha Path, you direct how things happen to and around her. So you get to make some important choices since you are holding the reins and driving her forward. And that means getting to choose LIs. Even if you chose to let her not do anything intimate with Carter or others, it doesn't mean there won't be events for remaining male supporting characters. Everyone gets a chance The next to next cuck update would probably give a better idea on how this will happen.

I'll insert my 5 cents in here: if it's possible, insert one LI for cheating path, where Bella's the one in control(and I'm not talking about Beta Cuck paths). What I mean by that is: it's not the guys who seduce her and win her over - like the director, head actor or Roy, but she herself somehow ends up cheating and things just happen on their own. Like...with Roy you see from the first messages that he wouldn't mind replacing MC. But having two pure people getting corrupted by each other is something that could be more interesting. Like, inner doubts and conflict of feelings for both and all that.
Hm-mmm, why not insert Chuck in there? I get that his role is to literally be players' eyes, but having an LI where things just somehow happen - accident here, occasional glance there, weird situation a few days later and the chemistry between two people who have always been friends yet somehow turn into lovers, could be somewhat fresh and less cliche-filled for cheating territory(c'mon, let's face it: in 9 cases out of 10 it's a smug alphabro, a cringe blackmailing dude or a horse-dick nubian).
Just one idea that I had.

As far as *which branch should be updated*, I'd say this: if you make one path per update - peeps will start getting upset. "Oh why it's Cuck and not Loyal yada yada". One long update per 3-5 months > 1 small update in 1 month.

Just my 5 cents)