Ren'Py Big Brother: Another Story Rebuild [v0.06.01] [Aleksey90]
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- Jan 7, 2018
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Yes.
Of course I can't know for certain, but those who work with Aleksey, helping him with bug fixes and translations, said that the savegames won't be compatible.
- Jul 1, 2019
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Never really the price of progress, just a price of the development not bothering to implement proper saved data upgrade and instead happily breaking things.
- Jul 5, 2017
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I don't mind starting a new game, I feel it's substantially easier once you know what to do and the general sequence of things. I'm actually interested to see if there are any changes coming to the story or any new scenes.
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Oh hush, next you'll be telling us it's not a feature it's a bug and then nothing will ever get released
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The game is different from the start. First of all there are two paths left. First one - fake friendship for some time, second one - is war. There are no cheats in this game. It's hard to play this one, but it works. Less grind, more action, new characters, new ways of interacting in addition to the old ones. . So, ... you have to play from the scratch.
I haven't looked at his code, but being a modder myself and having worked on my own game, I suspect a lot of it has to do with how much thought he put into setting up his code to allow tweaks to game mechanics without having to go back and modify a ton of different events.
As an example, lets say your progression is based on relationshp and every event has some kind of relationship check in it to determine progression. 6 months later you decide you want to change things and add corruption as an additional determining factor. Now you have to go back and literally change every single event in the game. That would be a nightmare. If you had instead made some kind of generic function you could call for any girl that determines progression with her for a scene, then any time you wanted to tweak the mechanics for it you only have 1 function to update. Easy Peasy. Update that one function to add corruption and you're done.
A lot of devs don't think about things like that before it's too late though.
- Jul 5, 2017
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And then suddenly: saves break, or even projects get aborted because suddenly too much work to be done.
Honestly, broken saves has only ever bothered me if the game is a grindfest. If the game is actually enjoyable I would rather just start a new game with each new version anyway. Most of the time there's not really any reason that a new update would break saves anyway. I think the most common reason would be if you go back and change something from a previous version so that people's current saves have their character in a status that is now impossible in the new version.
For instance let's say the dev decided the previous version made it too easy to fuck your mom or your sister. The new version makes it harder by inserting additional requirements/events to get to that point. But now you have a save where you've already fucked them without having completed some of the requirements needed to do it in the new version. So certain checks in the game will either return errors or your status will just generally be messed up. Another common one would be something like adding an additional variable for something that gets tracked as the game progresses. Except now you have a game where you already progressed without tracking that. Depending on your code, that variable might not ever even get defined unless you start a new game.
I would rather have the dev decide ok this new version requires a new save because keeping saves compatible would require adding a bunch of complexity to the code that does absolutely nothing for someone starting a new game. You don't want to double the amount of code just to preserve save game compatibility.
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I'm confused, all the names are changed from the original BB?
No Lucy, no Jenn, and Lisa is now Alice and In game lisa is some other model lol, very confusing!
No Lucy, no Jenn, and Lisa is now Alice and In game lisa is some other model lol, very confusing!
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No, not at all!
Btw, who are Lucy and Jenn? No such names in original BigBrother.
I made the mistake of thinking BadBobby and BigBrother were the same thing. (Cause lets face it, half the models are the same, and the storyline is extremely similar)
Unrelated - is this games current version radically different from walkthrough? Nothing seems to matchup so far, like I'm in the week after having met eric, and there's no bank or research bank option on computer...