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VN Unity Ashes of War [v1.23] [CTStudio]

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Amariithynar

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Though I completely understand where you're coming from, here's how I see it.
For now, I'm presenting this as a VN. Yes, down the line, I'd like to add features, but as a VN, it stands on its own. I have to iron out a couple of spelling mistakes, and maybe solve a bug or two, but nothing more.
Hence why I called it 1.0.

But once again, the gripes you have are fair.
Just for clarification: This is then an honest-to-goodness 1.0 release, not a 0.1 release? The VN that the game is now is feature and story complete, and you simply plan to add further to it with additional gamified content, rather than it just being a "chapter 1" (which is what your first patreon post seems to indicate, and one of the reasons why I'm confused)?

I ask to confirm clarification because we've had a number of new devs come along and post their work as a 1.0 when they conceptually meant it as a 0.1, usually just unaware of what is commonly understood proper versioning (major.minor.revision aka 1.0.0, 1.7.2, 1.9.3, etc. or major.minorrevision, aka 1.81, 1.82, 1.9, etc.) from what I've seen, which is why people are questioning it for something that went from "not on anyone's radar" to suddenly, "here's the full 1.0 release, guys".

Either way, it looks very good, and I'm looking forward to seeing more out of your studio, especially if you keep it up with the tanned tomboys and muscle girls, goddamn.
 
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Quintilus

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Problem in this scene, Rachael is supposed to be on screen but her sprite is jumps away behind the left edge of a screen.
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Melon

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I was faced with this bug when I told the game to destroy a game object that did not exist.

Sometimes, the "skip" is so fast that it does not load command from my scripts and thus the game is asked to remove an object that does not exist, leading to this error.
I'll probably try to reduce the skip speed to prevent such occurences.

Was this your case or is it something you were faced with early in the game?
It started happening about at the point of meeting Eva. I'm a tad bit slow with this type of games, because I like reading the dialogue, so I didn't really use the skip that much. But I DID reverse a few times(with the scroll wheel), so that might've been the cause. At first I thought it was an issue with my computer, because it kept freezing, until I noticed the game was still animating everything, like it was stuck in that "loop".
 

Weisskralle

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If this is in early development (you mention yourself that not even RPG elements are introduced yet), it really wouldn't be a v1.00.

Do you mean v0.1?

v1.0 is usually the first release version of a project, that is, after both an alpha and beta phase.

Sometimes I think devs choose to "lie" about their release version to make their project more interesting to people.
I think, if we go from game play time its is quiet long. So longer then some demos on here.
 

justahorse

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After the line "Helmsmann take us out of here." the game sits on a black screen playing music indefinitely.
 

CTStudio

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After the line "Helmsmann take us out of here." the game sits on a black screen playing music indefinitely.
This is a bug if you directly skip the animation that is supposed to play . (using esc)
If that's not the case, then it's a bug I've never encountered, and can't help you. If you try to lauch it again, skip to the animation, mind telling me if it's a bug that you can reproduce?

I'm sending out an ironed out version tomorow, and will try to answer the max amount of questions I had in this thread.
 

Sin'Gul Arity

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Good job dev (y) The art is gorgeous (y)

But the question is - if this is a mostly finished project regarding the plot, then we shouldn't expect dat much amount of new nsfw content? Yes, some game mechanics are planned, but let's be honest here - only ~10% (and I'm generous) of folks are playing this type of game to actually "play". IMHO if the main hook of the game is adult content - you need to provide a significant amount of it, and only afterward optionally add some whistles.

In any case - good luck!
 
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jak1165

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Some advice for the dev: This game reminds of Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius. This is a compliment. Surprisingly good grid based battle system that I enjoyed. But it turns out that the dev made the mistake of thinking it the cute girls werent the main attraction and the fanbase revolted when the plot forced you to "romance" the one character that vaguely reminded the MC of his sister and was
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that was a very obvious trap that you could see coming if you had played a game before

Which forced the dev to basically rewrite and rerelease the sequel into 2 separate parts
 

CTStudio

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So I released an adjusted version (1.01). Given there's no real replayability, it's more for new users, but at least it's there.
It includes a working gallery, autosaves, a name input for people that like to self insert and corrections for spelling mistakes as my baguette consuming brain still sees English as it's historical mortal ennemy.

I tried to fix the errors too and should have reduced the occurences of the "crash on save" and "blackscreen after the jump animation" bugs.
The "double song playing" one however is extremely elusive and I can't even reproduce it consistently, so I have no idea where it comes from. If any of you can reproduce it consistently, I'd be interested to get more info.



Now trying to explain the plan from here and what I want to do with the game.

As most of you have noted. This is indeed a "First Chapter", meaning that, the story is written so that stuff is supposed to happen even after the ending of the game you'll download on this page.
It is an episodic production, and though it will come in chapters on Steam (because it was supposed to be a Steam release at first), for F95 / Patreon, I'll try to update it as I create it.

Yes, the game was not designed with porn at its focus so it's obvious that a good chunk of F95 users will just skip it, but that's alright. I want to strike a balance between story, romance and H-content. I've planned more of the latter, but I wanted my characters to be a bit more fleshed out than what you'd usually find in a pure Nukige.
There is also the fact that I'm pretty new at writing H-scenes so I'm still finding my marks.

On the "Routes" topic, there will be down the line, but they will NOT influence the entire story. They'll be more be more like side quests focused on one of the girls.
Maybe you noticed that you can shut down all romantic interactions with the heroines. I plan to "lock" these interactions once you refuse enough times a girl (in case you don't like one of them), so that you can focus on the ones you enjoy.
As hinted by Camilla (the muscular scientist girl), Harem will be an option (so not mandatory).
IF the game does decently well, i'll also add heroines down the line, but it will depend on the time and money I can invest in the project.

Going forward, as I said before, it's gameplay implementation (it won't be as good as Sunrider, but I'll try my best).
Once that's done and I'm sure everything works, well I'll have all the necessary building blocks for me to work with and I SHOULD be able to advance decently quickly (depends if I have to find a job on the side or not, as I'm hoping for decent Steam sales).

Oh and no, there won't be any NTR, I'm sure of that. For the other fetishes, I've got no real plans as of now.

Hope this was clear enough even though it's a bit long.

And thank you all for the warm welcome too. I was a bit scared that my writing sucked...
 

grunt_pepper

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Yes, the game was not designed with porn at its focus so it's obvious that a good chunk of F95 users will just skip it, but that's alright. I want to strike a balance between story, romance and H-content. I've planned more of the latter, but I wanted my characters to be a bit more fleshed out than what you'd usually find in a pure Nukige.
There is also the fact that I'm pretty new at writing H-scenes so I'm still finding my marks.
I know that there's a crowd of people that get angry, even downright hostile, if a game doesn't feature whatever subjective quantity of coomer scenes they think it ought, and it always made me feel bad for authors that were forced to sabotage the pacing of the plot to accommodate this kind of attitude.

Personally, I prefer games that don't jump to the porn right away and give time for the player to get to know and care for the cast, but I can also understand authors that throw subtlety away in order to get people interested and keep them engaged.

I very much like what you've got going here and can't wait to see more content in the future.

As hinted by Camilla (the muscular scientist girl), Harem will be an option (so not mandatory).
Oh and no, there won't be any NTR, I'm sure of that. For the other fetishes, I've got no real plans as of now.
Praise be!
 

Amariithynar

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So I released an adjusted version (1.01). Given there's no real replayability, it's more for new users, but at least it's there.
It includes a working gallery, autosaves, a name input for people that like to self insert and corrections for spelling mistakes as my baguette consuming brain still sees English as it's historical mortal ennemy.

I tried to fix the errors too and should have reduced the occurences of the "crash on save" and "blackscreen after the jump animation" bugs.
The "double song playing" one however is extremely elusive and I can't even reproduce it consistently, so I have no idea where it comes from. If any of you can reproduce it consistently, I'd be interested to get more info.



Now trying to explain the plan from here and what I want to do with the game.

As most of you have noted. This is indeed a "First Chapter", meaning that, the story is written so that stuff is supposed to happen even after the ending of the game you'll download on this page.
It is an episodic production, and though it will come in chapters on Steam (because it was supposed to be a Steam release at first), for F95 / Patreon, I'll try to update it as I create it.

Yes, the game was not designed with porn at its focus so it's obvious that a good chunk of F95 users will just skip it, but that's alright. I want to strike a balance between story, romance and H-content. I've planned more of the latter, but I wanted my characters to be a bit more fleshed out than what you'd usually find in a pure Nukige.
There is also the fact that I'm pretty new at writing H-scenes so I'm still finding my marks.

On the "Routes" topic, there will be down the line, but they will NOT influence the entire story. They'll be more be more like side quests focused on one of the girls.
Maybe you noticed that you can shut down all romantic interactions with the heroines. I plan to "lock" these interactions once you refuse enough times a girl (in case you don't like one of them), so that you can focus on the ones you enjoy.
As hinted by Camilla (the muscular scientist girl), Harem will be an option (so not mandatory).
IF the game does decently well, i'll also add heroines down the line, but it will depend on the time and money I can invest in the project.

Going forward, as I said before, it's gameplay implementation (it won't be as good as Sunrider, but I'll try my best).
Once that's done and I'm sure everything works, well I'll have all the necessary building blocks for me to work with and I SHOULD be able to advance decently quickly (depends if I have to find a job on the side or not, as I'm hoping for decent Steam sales).

Oh and no, there won't be any NTR, I'm sure of that. For the other fetishes, I've got no real plans as of now.

Hope this was clear enough even though it's a bit long.

And thank you all for the warm welcome too. I was a bit scared that my writing sucked...
All this is great to hear! I actually am quite happy that you are not going to pure nukige route, as there's plenty of those with nonsensical plots for those who just want to get off to use, and not anywhere near enough that put effort into the storytelling and gameplay to make it a game that has H-content, rather than H-content that has gameplay elements. I hold Eushully's Kamidori Alchemy Meister as the pinnacle of that concept, because while there's plenty of sexiness and lewd events to titillate and tantalize, it's a very solid game first and foremost. Bunny Black is another series that does it very good, too, and while I've never actually gotten around to playing the Rance titles beyond the first two way back in the day, they have that aspect to them as well, from what I hear.

Also, don't worry. Your writing doesn't suck at all. :)
 
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