VN Ren'Py A Wife and Mother [v0.201] [Lust & Passion]

[AlfredBundy4]

I think AWAM has in reality very few choices (except the ones you stated that are more do you want to see the content or not).
Those choice are actually what form the "routes". They define what you want to pursue in the game: get blackmail by aiden or send Dylan to boarding school, pursue something with the kids or only with adults, or whatever else you might want Sofia to experiment.
Unfortunately, in the current context, with slow updates, those choices could easily mean one or two years without any content, so it's more like: do you want to see the new content or do you want to ignore the game.




You think just because a woman is kissing someone and goes to second base with him, it means she is ready to go all the way? Especially, if there are other factors involved (such as the guy being her son).





I don't think L&P could really write Sofia in a realistic way. He would need the help of a woman, even better, a mother. Men haven't been able to understand women for thousands of year, I'm sure L&P will not be the first one to do so. This is why his writing will almost always fall short in the realistic part.
Also, there is no world where Sofia would be craving as much attention as she does. She is a gorgeous woman and always has been. She hasn't suffered some miraculous transformation when they moved to the new town. She has been getting a lot of attention all of her life. This is just a lazy excuse to have her act in certain ways. (Such a young and "handsome" man is paying me compliments. It's hard to read this with a straight face. I usually try ignore the crap as much as possible and skip the lines that are too bad/corny.)




The playing days are the worst thing that can happen to this game. It breaks any chance it would have at realism. If she would indeed be such a horndog all day long, she would be cheating already. I like to imagine every event is a few days away at least. Maybe more sometimes. Or else, it's just silly town.
I think Playing day 15 or 16 is supposed to have 3 sex events or something.
Imagine going from no cheating on Friday to sleeping with at least 3 different people, in 3 different situations on Sunday. it's ludicrous. I don't know why he insists on such nonsense.




One thing I will say about L&P after the latest release is that I don't think there's anyone on this website at least with the same quality of renders. There are a few that have good quality. But everything coming together so well, at least in regards to Sofia, I haven't seen.
That being said, imagine a perfect world where L&P hires someone to do most of the grunt work on the scenes and he just puts the finishing touches to keep up the quality.
A world where he uses a render farm, if his computers can't keep up and they are one of the reasons for these massive delays.
A world where he indeed hires a writer (preferably female) to help him with the story.
Now coming back to reality, I unfortunately don't think any of that is going to happen. He would have done something by now if he wanted to.

At least he isn't as bad as ICSTOR. Not yet, or maybe not at all, time will tell.
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Edit: Your full post won't show in my reply so know I'm replying to more than the part about ICSTOR.



Original reply:

Solid reply I even liked because it's well thought out and serious.

The few areas of question or disagreement are ones that we actually don't.
When asked if I think second base is pretense to fucking, I make it clear that I both don't mean outright fucking as much as going further. Even more, a direct focus on her ability to change her emotions (physical and mental) on a dime and the other behaving in a way that perfectly falls in line with it. It comes off as weird and very unbelievable.

Then, I even wrote that the dynamic between her kids should be that way. Other guys? No. Her son and daughter? Of course.
So that's not even a disagreement as much as, at most, a misunderstanding.

The rest is total agreement or a slight difference I can totally understand.

I'll end by saying that I also never once claimed L&P's renders are anything but terrific! That's not his issue. Frankly, it's a reason to get help as it should not have taken 4 months to make that update. If it did and does...you need some help with the work.
I think his real issue is writing, planning and execution of the story if we pretend he isn't outright milking it.
Let us pretend for a second that he really is the Kubrick of adult VNs. He demands perfection, lol.
In this obviously fake scenario, his perfectionism is getting in the way of the work he's a perfectionist about. It's the equivalent of taking 25 years to make a film and the film turns out to be Cocaine Bear, lol. Mildly entertaining but otherwise nonsense and not needing a 25 year shooting process. One could assume that Cocaine Bear could be made in a couple years...with help.

But solid post. Really.

 

[tofhdns]

I think something is getting lost in translation between us because I don't think we disagree on as many topics as it might have seemed until now.
Just the erotica/porn stuff.
Just for your information, porn doesn't have to contain sex. Playboy is porn, by definition, but doesn't have sex in its pages.

Where have I stated anything contrary to your statement? Where did I say what kind of porn people want? I just said a lot just want sex, sex, sex.
A gangbang doesn't mean it's cheap porn, just like 1-on-1 sex doesn't make it high quality. (if that's what you were referring to)

You are just playing with words.

No matter what you call Playboy magazine, no one equates it with porn games or porn videos.
Also, just because there is no porn in a magazine doesn't mean that a porn game or a porn video doesn't have to be porn.

And I didn't know that there were people who thought 'gangbang' was high-level sex.

Most people put gangbangs, bukkake, and anal sex in the 'dirty sex' category.

 

[ihl86]

At least he isn't as bad as ICSTOR. Not yet, or maybe not at all, time will tell.

Edit: Your full post won't show in my reply so know I'm replying to more than the part about ICSTOR.



Original reply:

Solid reply I even liked because it's well thought out and serious.

The few areas of question or disagreement are ones that we actually don't.
When asked if I think second base is pretense to fucking, I make it clear that I both don't mean outright fucking as much as going further. Even more, a direct focus on her ability to change her emotions (physical and mental) on a dime and the other behaving in a way that perfectly falls in line with it. It comes off as weird and very unbelievable.

Then, I even wrote that the dynamic between her kids should be that way. Other guys? No. Her son and daughter? Of course.
So that's not even a disagreement as much as, at most, a misunderstanding.

The rest is total agreement or a slight difference I can totally understand.

I'll end by saying that I also never once claimed L&P's renders are anything but terrific! That's not his issue. Frankly, it's a reason to get help as it should not have taken 4 months to make that update. If it did and does...you need some help with the work.
I think his real issue is writing, planning and execution of the story if we pretend he isn't outright milking it.
Let us pretend for a second that he really is the Kubrick of adult VNs. He demands perfection, lol.
In this obviously fake scenario, his perfectionism is getting in the way of the work he's a perfectionist about. It's the equivalent of taking 25 years to make a film and the film turns out to be Cocaine Bear, lol. Mildly entertaining but otherwise nonsense and not needing a 25 year shooting process. One could assume that Cocaine Bear could be made in a couple years...with help.

But solid post. Really.
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You are right, it was a misunderstanding on my part there, with the emotion changing. To be honest, I kind of half skipped half skimmed the text with Sam, because it was too bad, so I based my view, more on the last scene with Dylan.

The part about the quality of the renders I put in, not that you were not agreeing to that, but more as an intro to the fact that I think he would still want/need to have final overview of the scenes to keep up the same quality.

Regarding perfectionism, unfortunately it's a disease. I am the same way. I want to make my own VN. I started it four years ago and I still haven't released the first iteration. It took me four months just to make my MC (combination of something I modeled myself, with some morphs from daz. Same with textures, combination of existing textures, edited by myself afterwards.) Of course, I think I can afford to do that, since I don't have any duties to patrons that are supporting me. I do it on my own time and money.
But as another example of procrastinator, perfectionist that has slowed down his work down to a crawl is GRRM. His books from the Ice and fire series are taking longer and longer until this last one 13 years or something and still not out. Crazy how this happens sometimes.
I don't know if this is indeed L&Ps problem but I can imagine it being so. As you said in your original post, he would have more to gain if he was faster with his updates and even got a new game out at some point.
If he does manage to put the game on steam, and that's a big if, the motivation there is different, as the money is one time, so you get payed by what you do, not every month while you do it.

 

[Andyboi]

Android link pls...sharing is caring...

 

[Alley_Cat]

Oh, you mean, Dylan and Sam are just 18 now... in text I thought you mean he will do the complete story with new renders... now I get it
Yeah, that will work and publish just part 2 (or part of part 2) ..

I thought Dylan was stated in-game as only being "1X". It's Ellie that's 18, being in her final year of high school.

Not counting the "All characters are 18 or older" on the intro screen, because only an idiot would believe that - Ava's sons certainly aren't.

 

[xxxorro]

Perfect analysis! Would be great if you do one with the actual event out now...

Thanks, even though I just try to make sense of the collective efforts to put together the bits and pieces that we have for each update.
Usually I do an "unpack" post with all the things that happened, the conditions for things to happen and so on. Maybe in a couple of days as I'm travelling (as per tradition with AWAM's releases )

 

[Boombaru23]

The progression is really really really slow,but she is so hot,I just can't think straight.

 

[ihl86]

You are just playing with words.

No matter what you call Playboy magazine, no one equates it with porn games or porn videos.
Also, just because there is no porn in a magazine doesn't mean that a porn game or a porn video doesn't have to be porn.

And I didn't know that there were people who thought 'gangbang' was high-level sex.

Most people put gangbangs, bukkake, and anal sex in the 'dirty sex' category.

I gave Playboy magazine as an example of porn to underline the difference between what one expects versus reality. If you play a porn game you expect sex. It makes sense, as it is the norm. But that doesn't mean that it has to have it.

And I don't think low-level/high-level quality is in the same category with dirty sex.
You can have a low level quality anal scene or a high level quality anal scene. The same with a gangbang scene.

 

[lfg_dev]

extremely slow burn at this point

 

[hu lover]

The progression is really really really slow,but she is so hot,I just can't think straight.

Some female characters are so orgasmically pretty, it sometimes makes a man have no reason to not touch down their pants.

 

[Alley_Cat]

Thanks, even though I just try to make sense of the collective efforts to put together the bits and pieces that we have for each update.
Usually I do an "unpack" post with all the things that happened, the conditions for things to happen and so on. Maybe in a couple of days as I'm travelling (as per tradition with AWAM's releases )

Interesting that one of my favourite events - Ellie's last shower - doesn't come up on the chart, since IIRC it's only 140 renders

 

[Ginji]

wow nine updates since oct 17 you 2000+patrons are getting youre moneys worth

 

[Claudi@]

I linked it in this post, you are welcome.

this is not on yt

 

[hu lover]

wow nine updates since oct 17 you 2000+patrons are getting youre moneys worth

I really feel that this recent update was kind of rushed, they could of put more effort into it, honestly.

 

[Andyboi]

Share please

 

[hu lover]

this is not on yt View attachment 2883961 View attachment 2883962 View attachment 2883963

Holy motherfucking casserole, where did you link these? They are marvelous, I am getting goosebumps just looking at them.

 

[Ginji]

I really feel that this recent update was kind of rushed, they could of put more effort into it, honestly.

this dev does not rush-why should they over 2000 people pay them every month even though half the time no update

 

[hu lover]

this dev does not rush-why should they over 2000 people pay them every month even though half the time no update

Fair point. This makes no sense.
Why would they disappoint their fans?

 

[tofhdns]

I gave Playboy magazine as an example of porn to underline the difference between what one expects versus reality. If you play a porn game you expect sex. It makes sense, as it is the norm. But that doesn't mean that it has to have it.

And I don't think low-level/high-level quality is in the same category with dirty sex.
You can have a low level quality anal scene or a high level quality anal scene. The same with a gangbang scene.

I haven't seen anything that depicts anal sex or gangbang sex on a higher level.
You play with words badly.

And this game hasn't had sex in six years.
Sex doesn't have to be there, but this game has to.

And will people really tolerate the lack of sex in 'porn games'?

Again, this developer couldn't be recruiting the Patrons it is today if it advertised that there was no sex in the game.

 

[Andyboi]

Android link?