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I love the style of this game. But the hero is a schoolboy, and to be honest, the female characters are quite similar to each other. But the style is pretty nice anyway.
 

HerbertIronsides

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Oct 2, 2017
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Hello everyone.

Let me start off by saying thanks for all your support and the feedback about the project.

I noticed that there’s some misinformation going on about “3 years of development”. I’d like to clarify some things.

3 years ago I started a thread in F95 general discussion about a V/N game idea with only 2 very early character designs at hand. At the time it was my own hobby and nothing more. There was nothing being developed relating to how the game and story was going to be, as I didn’t even have a team to work with. Until now I took my time modelling, texturing and rigging the majority of the content from zero to create a game with this specific artsyle I wanted to bring out.

More than a year later and after some long trial and error process with a few online freelancers, I ended up with Elvishious who became the main coder. He spent 2 years building a VN engine inside Unity from scratch as a way to improve his skills and create his ideal RPG V/N Game engine with features like dialogues, cutscenes, day/night system, content filter, inventory, and so on.

After another long trial and error process I picked Wanderan for the storywriter position. At the time we were still only bouncing off story ideas and thinking of ways to fit it with the developing game engine. It’s not more than a year ago we had our complete team we have right now with Scrib joining the writer team.

We didn’t need to rush anything since it was just a hobby for us and we all had our day jobs taking most of our time. So it’s funny when I see the “3 years of development” mentioned when there were times we couldn’t even attend to the game for months and when we did it was only for a couple of hours. In this time period we stayed off of every donation website like Patreon and SubscribeStar since it was purely for fan service and we did everything for free. I think what’s more accurate to say instead of “3 years of development for the game” would be “3 years to find the correct team for the game”.

But now that we’ve all cleared our schedule from corporate work to focus on this game, we can treat this as our job rather than our hobby. I definitely understand your concerns about the dozens of lewd games that pop up every day asking for money where the creators simply dissapear one month later. All I can say that this team has been around for years and did all of this without asking for any sort of income from the fans.


Previous discord members know that we are very integrated with the community and share lewds and memes about the game inside our discord. You can always find more information/ask questions about it.



So thank you for your support and interest in the game. This shall be a lewd and juicy ride for us all!
You spent two years making VN engine for Unity when you could have just used Renpy. There is a reason why people tell devs all the time to use it. Unity is a waste of time and resources.
 

bcool

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Sep 29, 2018
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Very promising game, but without a patch allowing to remove this "landlady" thing, the dialogs are
hard to follow.
Helping hand anyone ?
 

anschwww

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Very promising game, but without a patch allowing to remove this "landlady" thing, the dialogs are
hard to follow.
Helping hand anyone ?
Afterglow_Data\Localisation\characters.csv -> change Landlady to Mom
 
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GatsbyGrey

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Oct 7, 2017
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They should really consider idle animations or something while clicking through dialogue to help deviate from the large base of samey 3D porn games. They've done fluid short animations in the past. But perhaps that's better prioritized for actual scenes. If this ends up flipbook I'll be disappointed.
 
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sopa1745

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Jul 15, 2018
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also this might be an unpopular opinion but adding some music or sound effects on the gameplay would be nice idk. feels really quiet. this looks like one of the few games i would actually pay for!
 
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kevinwebben27

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May 12, 2017
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GaussianFracture

Since this is a shota game and in the early stages. Wouldn't it make more sense to make the main character look like a shota. The perfect example is when the mom is looking at the old picture from the dad's box and you see the son in the tennis photo. That size seems more accurate. Shota doesn't really make sense if the MC is as big as he is. (adult looking, small height)

Just a personal critique meant in a good way. I'd love to hear your teams thoughts?
 
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Really interesting art style. It almost looks like a 3d render that is instead being "flattened" in post processing into a pseudo manga style. I am very interested in seeing a more substantial release!
 
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FreshRevenge

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I thought the game had incest in it. I mean all the promotional images before release was a mother and son. I mean sure you can change the character name to mom but you still end up calling her Meg?
 

PePeTheCoCk

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I thought the game had incest in it. I mean all the promotional images before release was a mother and son. I mean sure you can change the character name to mom but you still end up calling her Meg?
Afterglow is on patreon if they want 2 stay on that site they have to follow the guidelines which are against incest & shota.
If they don't, patreon will remove AG from there plattform that in turn would mean that this masterpiece will be only on Subscribestar which is devastating cause GaussianFracture will earn almost nothing resulting in extremely rare & small updates...
Thats also why they changed the name from Mother Love to Afterglow cause even the title of the game can't have a incesteous name by patreon laws
 
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