Ren'Py Cabin by the Lake [v0.53d] [Nunu]

[odinkun]

I love the loop, would hate to see it go away. Really enjoy being gated off on these runs based on what I've learned about each girl, and it makes the corruption mechanic make sense to me considering it effects events outside of the week spent in the game. It was one of the early selling points to me. Everyone's tolerance is going to be different but holding control to skip seen dialog really makes it a non-issue for me for quick runs to make a different choice.

As for the guide system, I just wanted to say, I really like it's current implementation. I'm the kind of person who will keep replaying a thing to see all possible content, so i played early builds with the flow charts, and would mark off the choices I had already seen / made to keep track of it all. So with it's current inplementation, it's basically just doing the work I would have done manually. Disappointed it's not fully implemented for every scene yet, but wanted to say the flow chart system in game really works for my ideal way of engaging with this game.

 

[the_fluff]

Content. How much we lookin at?

 

[Epsilon66]

The problem I had with it, is that nothing really changes for most of the loops. Everyone says the same thing over and over again, and hopefully you've stumbled upon the one small change for that loop that advances the story a bit. The problem of this game is literally the same problem the movie groundhog day was about. That much repetition is tedious, boring, and ultimately becomes a punishment. Early on, I was going through the loop hundreds of times to figure out what I wasn't doing right. Having just one extra scene for all that work is not worth it. It's a cool concept, sure, but it will not work as this game gets bigger

And that is why skip seen text function along with the new map function that tracks progress and per loop stats are well paired up. You don't want to read everything over again? you have the tools to blaze past it. Can't find what you're hoping for? narrow it down with the map by finding a branch you never took.

 

[Epsilon66]

My idea for that is to have the reunion start, and then the mc can focus on one girls story. The game keeps going until you reach her ending, and then you have the option to start the loop again to get a different girls ending. When that happens, the girls who you've already cleared can give perks like hints for how to advance the story, starting out slutty for the mc, or still have the effects of corruption from the previous playthrough. Three days just isn't long enough to make any significant changes to the characters.

That's changing the entire plot and draw of the game. This game isn't about "progressing" a girl's story. Its about your actions "rewriting" the story before it starts again which is a lot more interesting. That's why there's only 3 days.

 

[odinkun]

Including this traceback to report a bug when trying to get Jenny's flowchart to pop up. Worked fine for a while but then stopped and didn't fix itself in future loops.

That's fine though because I think I'm gonna skip playing anymore until the flowcharts are in for all the other scenes. Is the plan to get to a point where charts are up to date with the content in the build, or will they always lag behind?

 

[Nunu312]

Including this traceback to report a bug when trying to get Jenny's flowchart to pop up. Worked fine for a while but then stopped and didn't fix itself in future loops.

That's fine though because I think I'm gonna skip playing anymore until the flowcharts are in for all the other scenes. Is the plan to get to a point where charts are up to date with the content in the build, or will they always lag behind?

The plan is to get the guides up to date and keep them up to date.

In an ideal world some lag wouldn't matter and people could just explore the paths and find new content themselves organically. We dont live in an ideal world though, and I want to give people the best experience I can.

 

[cyborgturtle]

tbh i really like the core idea of the game and the gameplay, it's super interesting starting off with a relatively innocent/mundane world of visiting your mega busty 'friends', and as you proceed unlocking things each loop the world gradually gets more corrupt and sexual - i'd love to see more emphasis on this (like while i do enjoy things like how you might build up a girl one loop and get rejected for a grope, maybe next loop you corrupted her more and now she will say yes, but i'd love if the changes started getting more drastic and affecting the group as a whole or certain dynamics where the 'world'/cabin was getting aggressively sexualized without necessarily needing the player to instigate it after X loops - would also be interesting if the girls started to dress differently over time). also phenomenal focus on the breasts with how each girl will talk about them, or use them, or have them described - fantastic!

adore the giant breasts and how each girl is differently sized, too many games end up copy + pasting the same body or using a few specific, noticeable body types (e.g. a petite girl, a busty one, and an average build), makes me want to see more and more characters and see how big we can get, like the farm girl's mom i also adore BE, although i assume in this context it's all going to be part of a dream or fantasy and not permanent? which is understandable, but a bit disappointing, would love for a girl/girls to start growing throughout...i'd imagine it wouldn't be terribly hard to have body changes/outfits/whatever since each girl has a pretty small amount of portraits? although then there's the obvious problem of events/scenes... would also be fun if, eventually, you could corrupt something so the girls grew up differently and now the 'small' girl (sami? the one you bunk with) was bustier than everyone else and had an attitude to match

i don't want to be too harsh since it's a pretty unique premise and i like what there is so far, but i'd say a minor complaint is the red head talks about her big ass but never actually shows it! would love an ass-shot of her (and goes with what i said earlier, would love if they had different ass sizes, and maybe one girl had a super big one that blew everyone else away - love body outliers like that!) it also feels like once you get the hang of it/get the 'core' scenes or reactions unlocked, there isn't much you gain from repeating the loop, which is a bit of a shame, but i imagine that'd get fixed with time and i wouldn't actually complain about it in such an early build

all in all keep it up OP!

 

[majdaddin]

But where are the big tits?

 

[slyyfoxx99]

But where are the big tits?

Everywhere...?

 

[Ramenlord2001]

One I got to say love the mega tits there perfect and two is pregnancy and birth content in here yet? This game and like tread appeared in the my search for game with huge tits and pregnancy content birth a bonus if the game has that

 

[Nunu312]

One I got to say love the mega tits there perfect and two is pregnancy and birth content in here yet? This game and like tread appeared in the my search for game with huge tits and pregnancy content birth a bonus if the game has that

Thank you very much, although unfortunately the pregnancy content is still coming, outside of some side content there isn't meaningful pregnancy in the game yet.

As for actual birth content, I actually think thats an important question that I wanted to tackle at some stage. I'm actually quite fond of birth content but I'm a bit unsure of the desire for it (as well as the ability for me to actually produce the art). I've also noticed that it is so niche that there isn't even a tag for it in the tag guidelines here. My question is who wants to see it? Obviously it would be optional scenes so it isn't something to be actively repulsed by, but who wants to actively see it?

 

[Ramenlord2001]

Thank you very much, although unfortunately the pregnancy content is still coming, outside of some side content there isn't meaningful pregnancy in the game yet.

As for actual birth content, I actually think thats an important question that I wanted to tackle at some stage. I'm actually quite fond of birth content but I'm a bit unsure of the desire for it (as well as the ability for me to actually produce the art). I've also noticed that it is so niche that there isn't even a tag for it in the tag guidelines here. My question is who wants to see it? Obviously it would be optional scenes so it isn't something to be actively repulsed by, but who wants to actively see it?

you be surprized i seen so many threads asking for game recommendations that has pregnancy and birth what sad is the content is so little and all the super good ones are not complete at all unless there translations all in all theirs a demand for it

 

[Nunu312]

Although I've currently been caught up in writing guides and the tedium of underlying code, I look forward to the relatively near future where Alex turns up to the reunion with a little gift for you. If that happened about nine months ago then who knows what could happen?

 

[Kazutoyo]

Love huge pregnant bellies, and consider actual birth content to be far less important (but still nice).

 

[Nunu312]

Happy New year



Anyway now that there is a big distracting picture in the way there is a general large announcement about the conclusion of the previous build.

That is, while the results of the poll are fairly self evident with a roughly 3:1 lean towards the existing format there is still the comments are also very illuminating. Essentially that I am making something unique and to strip that out would not be a good thing. It makes me very sad that I can't give everyone what they way, I haven't been around long but some of you have been very active and I've grown quite fond of you. I am still going to do my best to make the existing format accessible, document new content and minimize grind, but the game will go on in it's existing format.

I want to thank everyone for their input into this, the affirmation that I have something special, even if it isn't everyone's perfect game makes me want to surge forth with this game even more that I did before.

For those of you who don't get patreon builds... you'll get a far less buggy version in a week or two, about the same time when I think there is enough new content in either guides or actual content for it to be worth your while.

 

[Pokemun]

Glad to hear you decided to keep the format!

As for birth content, it definitely is an extra niche fetish. I personally am really big on pregnancy content, and while it's not a instant turn off for me I don't actually go looking for games with birth scenes. Although if it's an interest of yours I'd say go for it, I feel like the advantage of developing a game is you can make stuff you like.

 

[MrHHH]

As for actual birth content, I actually think thats an important question that I wanted to tackle at some stage. I'm actually quite fond of birth content but I'm a bit unsure of the desire for it (as well as the ability for me to actually produce the art). I've also noticed that it is so niche that there isn't even a tag for it in the tag guidelines here. My question is who wants to see it? Obviously it would be optional scenes so it isn't something to be actively repulsed by, but who wants to actively see it?

Maybe with an option to turn off the birth content?

 

[Nunu312]

I do like that better than it just being optional.

For a game like this about exploring dialogue options, it would be bad if people were unsure if they may encounter an optional fetish they have a distaste for. They could be much more confident if they knew it was disabled from the start.

 

[GeneralDumpling]

It is me or the patch doesnt work?

 

[Nunu312]

The next public release is later today, as part of that it's going to have some expanded code to allow for better integration of other patches. This will probably completely break any existing patches, which isn't too different as I understand that someone else had to fix the existing one (it was a couple of pages back).

At the same time I imagine that whoever made the existing patch is watching and will update them almost instantly to the new standard.