Ren'Py Apartment #69 [v0.08] [Luxee]

[srfsmrf_]

Didn't know the patch was pre-installed it lol

It isn't?

 

[Nadira]

It isn't?

I think he is confusing the patch with the code. I find that rather funny...

 

[Darkyz]

I think he is confusing the patch with the code. I find that rather funny...

Nope , I said that because when I checked inside the game the (''game'') file already had the lewdpatch inside so I downloaded the patch in vain that is why it was amusing.

 

[CutieLvr]

Holy shit, for some reason I thought this game was completed or abandoned.

 

[colobancuz]

 

[GingerbreadMan]

I wasn't here at the start did the dev say early on how much more screen time Nea would get and that she'd be the primary LI? Because if not of course people will complain.

Devs should be open and upfront from the start. I just looked at his patreon and in the about section there was no mention of girls being forced or anything.

This is important info for a lot of people.

To my knowledge, no, she wasn't ever announced as being the main focus.
Luxee's previous game was very linear, and the main reason this game exists is because they wanted to try something different, hence the more open, sandboxey style.

That also means that they aren't forced into a linear timeline for development.
While we have no way to have a concrete answer here (bigoted shitheads on this site effectively caused Luxee to give up on this place entirely and stop interacting here), it's fairly safe to assume that they mostly work on content depending on inspiration, since the nature of A69 allows for it. This means that Nea has, so far, more content because Luxee had a lot of ideas and inspiration for her. It's pretty obvious that they like trans feminine characters, so it's unsurprising.
But given what the next update is shaping up to be, it's also fairly safe to consider that the others will have more content as well, as Luxee gets inspired.

While it can suck for people who have no interest (or the visceral hatred some of the more stupid here have shown...) for Nea, it also, in my opinion, seems to work out well for Luxee. Not all creative people work the same, and as someone who function the same way at it seems Luxee does, focusing on inspiration and ideas tend to lead people like that to a lot higher quality and a lot more motivation.
Now, if people would stop harassing and insulting Luxee, that motivation wouldn't get trashed all the time, but what do you know, a lot of the people who get smut games for free tend to be assholes, so...

I'm surprised Nea isn't on the banner image tbh, given her prominent place in the story.
It does make a change from the common habit of putting every npc on the banner, but I do think Nea should have been on it.

As far as I remember, there was talk about Luxee wanting to put more focus on a transgender character, and him sharing his progress in creating Nea long before A69 was officially born or worked on.

That was on his discord though.

It has to have gotten into the PL thread at some point, or later the game development thread of A69 before the release?, because I was never really active on his discord or read the discussions there and learned about it from F95 back then - after which I looked into it more on discord I think.

It is the same with the structure of this VN and his explanation that he felt held back by traditional story-telling, and wanted to focus on what he wanted without having to either adhere to the story progression or retcon previous releases.

So the information was around, just buried in other threads and discord, but never put forth for new players to easily access.

My personal guess is that he knew that transgender was really niche and controversial and therefore added other content around it, to add more tags and content that people are interested in on a broader level.
Thinking, that this would either take away negative focus from Nea while still enabling him to release Nea focussed content while maintaining a bigger supporter base or even maybe being able to persuade people to open up to trans content after getting to know Nea.

In the end he heavily misjudged how A69 would be received - also because of lacking communication between other mistakes.

There will have been people this worked on - I, for example, was on the fence from the beginning, because trans content is not my content, but I was willing to give A69 a try because I liked PL and there was hope communicated he would add a friendship path very much from the beginning.
When that was first confirmed and then removed an update later, I still continued, because I didn't want to loose Nea's story by then.

But if this is not your type of content, you didn't have any prior insights and thought you could just ignore that one optional LI - only to recognize you couldn't at first - I can understand people being upset about that - doesn't excuse the toxicity directed at Luxee though.