VN Ren'Py Astreon [Ch.2 v0.2] [NoGlory]

[TigerWolfe]

Same, I just don't know if the things I do are actually best practice, or if I'm just doing them because it's what I've always done at this point.

depends on whose best practice, my company doesn't want me to write thing "pythonically" because wanking about how few characters/lines I can write my code in, makes it hard as fuck for some other goob to look at it and figure out what I was trying/succeeding/failing to do. So I do employer's best practice and not python (the organizations) best practice.

 

[JasonAnt]

sorry to bother you but does the game has a problem with previous version saves that had mod on them? because i extract the new version but when i load my save it crashes. And if i start a new one,i can't skip the conversation so i can reach the new chapter. what am i doing wrong? and no on the new version i didn't put any modes.

 

[TigerWolfe]

sorry to bother you but does the game has a problem with previous version saves that had mod on them? because i extract the new version but when i load my save it crashes. And if i start a new one,i can't skip the conversation so i can reach the new chapter. what am i doing wrong? and no on the new version i didn't put any modes.

I'm unaware of any game in any medium, that allows a modded save to work in an unmodded game. Generally there are things in the save that are looking for the mods in the game, if it fails to find them it will error out. If you're moving from modded to vanilla you need to start over.

 

[SilentSevenStar]

Nice~

 

[duz1nn]

Hm , i had to start from the beginning since the load from last chapter loaded straight into a error and i couldnt progress , im guessing something changed . And no , i never use any mods , theres really no reason to use a mod in a game with "choices"...

Anyway , i honestly lost in the story , i dont know if is just me or others might as well , im not going to pretend im the smarted kid in the room.
So... the beginning they are on earth , and they suddenly went to a spaceship because of reasons could lead to Lora , later on they kinda explain why is impossible to reach earth and vice-versa ? But when they killed the mc son in front of him and he end up also getting shot and almost dying , arent they inside the spaceship in EARTH and THEN Mi and her crew crashed the "party" and saved they ass ? ALSO if they are looking for that spaceship a "artifact" , why would they leave there just to help 2 humans that they barely know ? For what it seems they really know how those artifacts are , yet you dont know that u are inside of one ? Yeah ... like i said , im a bit lost in this haha

Its said that for them on earth only 2 to 3 yeas has passed since Lora dissapeared , but apparentely for Lora has been 8 years already , thats nuts i thought that if thats the case she would really look different , but dam.. she does look completely different , i wouldnt recognize her at all

About the story i dont know , like i said im a bit lost and confused , but the game is very nice .
Specially the girls , i liked every single one of them , well except for Winter , no disrespect or anything , just not my type of girl

Anyway looking forward to see what is coming next , really excited to see they encounter
Good luck with your project , i wish you the best

 

[NoGloryx]

Hm , i had to start from the beginning since the load from last chapter loaded straight into a error and i couldnt progress , im guessing something changed . And no , i never use any mods , theres really no reason to use a mod in a game with "choices"...

Anyway , i honestly lost in the story , i dont know if is just me or others might as well , im not going to pretend im the smarted kid in the room.
So... the beginning they are on earth , and they suddenly went to a spaceship because of reasons could lead to Lora , later on they kinda explain why is impossible to reach earth and vice-versa ? But when they killed the mc son in front of him and he end up also getting shot and almost dying , arent they inside the spaceship in EARTH and THEN Mi and her crew crashed the "party" and saved they ass ? ALSO if they are looking for that spaceship a "artifact" , why would they leave there just to help 2 humans that they barely know ? For what it seems they really know how those artifacts are , yet you dont know that u are inside of one ? Yeah ... like i said , im a bit lost in this haha

Its said that for them on earth only 2 to 3 yeas has passed since Lora dissapeared , but apparentely for Lora has been 8 years already , thats nuts i thought that if thats the case she would really look different , but dam.. she does look completely different , i wouldnt recognize her at all

About the story i dont know , like i said im a bit lost and confused , but the game is very nice .
Specially the girls , i liked every single one of them , well except for Winter , no disrespect or anything , just not my type of girl

Anyway looking forward to see what is coming next , really excited to see they encounter
Good luck with your project , i wish you the best

THANK YOU, MY DARLING! Still, as people have mentioned here, I can see the plot in my head, and I didn't think these moments were weird at all. But yeah, now I'm starting to realise what's wrong with the plot in general. As always, I'll try to roll out another bug fix in the next couple of days, along with a scene rework.

And instead of explaining everything in the already current scenes, I'll just add other intermediate ones, and it should kinda improve the narrative. Also thanks to the feedback, I kinda realised what's missing from my game. Thanks for the feedback by the way, it really helped me a lot, as well as everyone else who gives their opinions here.

 

[NoGloryx]

NoGloryx : Just started playing the game and I'm enjoying it.

Quick bug report, mis-matched case in line 2186 of script.rpy:

                    C "But we’ve known each other for so many years..."
                    scene sp 26 with dissolve
                    CC "That’s beside the point, you fool."
# HERE >>           cc "I’m well aware that you’ve been in love with him for practically your entire life..."
                    scene sp 28 with dissolve
                    C "Just shut up…"

The os.getlogin() call is fun, but definitely jarring lol. While it's a nice use of python, you shouldn't import the entirety of the OS module just for a single call. Import the specific bit you use. Like instead of import os, try from os import getlogin ?


(I could be very very wrong though.)

Lovely, will fix that

 

[ivanov95]

Is this a harem one or no idea yet?

 

[5mithers]

After finishing the current content of the game I can say:

The game is relatively well polished. A few typos here and there, one mis-gender pronoun during a comment (He vs. She), etc.

Overall I can tell the tone is trying for a slick and fast-paced mystery. However, the characters often feel like they are talking at each other rather than to each other, or even worst, past each other. I can see the style of dialogue that is being aimed for, but it's not quite hitting. It's going style over actual story in a lot of cases.

For example, during several of the exposition sections of dialog, a lot is said, but it's never said to another person. It's just said out loud, and often the other characters will also say something that doesn't always feel coherent to the current discussion. You get the feeling that the dialog is meant to sound cool and have cool lines, rather than sound like people actually discussing a topic together. Each person is basically tweeting/shouting into the void rather than talking to the other characters.

*Edit: Hopefully this doesn't come off as overly harsh. It is not meant to be. I know that when you "know" the story in your head choices, lines spoken, etc. all seem obvious to you because you know the backstory and where you plan to take things.

 

[CeTanu_AUT]

Is it just me or is the timeline all a bit wonky and the age gap between Olivia and Anya doesn't really make sense?

In one of the the Flashbacks (the one in the car) it states that it happened 14 years ago which would put Olivia at age 18 and Anya at age 5 when you go off the ages present in the Character Profiles.

In another Flashback where Olivia talks to Miriel she starts the story/flashback with "It's not a simple story. It started long before we ever met". In the flashback we then see a Olivia that seems to be the same age or slightly younger as in the first Flashback (18) but a Anya that sure as hell is not 5 years old.

So either you have to make Anya a lot older in your Character Profiles or Olivia younger and change the thing with "14 years ago".