VN Ren'Py Casual Desires [v0.20] [ionDivvy]

[Turret]

It's been stated several times, including in this thread, that RD is the main priority due to it being on Steam.

Yes, but afterwards like the old carnival, when you had no other choice but tell something. We CD fans remember well your promises a la "no impact on the development of CD", which turned out to be all(!) broken. And several of them were lies from the start in hindsight.
By the way shamed be he who thinks evil of it that now it is suddenly 2026 you want to end CD or your line of CD is 70% finished, so not much is coming further more. 70% finished means nearly a third is still open!
Are you our economics minister in disguise? That guy is a zero in math too! But nice try glossing over!

Normally I am not harsh with developers, but I cannot stand proven serial liars and obfuscators! You will not get my trust again.

 

[ryanhahahahaha]

nice graphics

 

[Karolina_Polol]

wow looks great!

 

[ShanaIzumi]

I don't usually write in these places but I must say that I have tried some games and I have practically never reached the end. Almost none of them manage to get me hooked on the story and options. I don't mean to say they were bad, I guess they weren't what I was looking for. Until I found Casual Desires.

I loved the different routes, the personality of each character and the future you can go to for each. I had to play it several times to better understand the reason for some scenes, and I think it's well done considering the difficulty it has. I must add that I have thought about what the next chapters might be like and I'm terrified to think about the map of options that ionDivvy has to manage .

We definitely want more ! and seeing that there is a 2nd game I thought "wow, this one will evolve slower". But as a developer and sometimes a writer, I see the work behind it and I don't see the problem. When you finish a book, you know it will take a few years for the next part to appear (if it ever comes!), and you just accept it because 1 person has the time he has, and it's normal to want to try other stories in parallel.

So for my part I can only say: Thanks!, and be afraid of wanting to try the Rebel Duet .

 

[Rehwyn]

I don't usually write in these places but I must say that I have tried some games and I have practically never reached the end. Almost none of them manage to get me hooked on the story and options. I don't mean to say they were bad, I guess they weren't what I was looking for. Until I found Casual Desires.

I loved the different routes, the personality of each character and the future you can go to for each. I had to play it several times to better understand the reason for some scenes, and I think it's well done considering the difficulty it has. I must add that I have thought about what the next chapters might be like and I'm terrified to think about the map of options that ionDivvy has to manage .

We definitely want more ! and seeing that there is a 2nd game I thought "wow, this one will evolve slower". But as a developer and sometimes a writer, I see the work behind it and I don't see the problem. When you finish a book, you know it will take a few years for the next part to appear (if it ever comes!), and you just accept it because 1 person has the time he has, and it's normal to want to try other stories in parallel.

So for my part I can only say: Thanks!, and be afraid of wanting to try the Rebel Duet .

I've enjoyed both games, and you've found Casual Desires at a good time. IonDivvy finally managed to get Steam approval for it (Steam can be very uninformative about why a game is rejected, so can take a lot of trial and error to figure out what you need to remove/change), so sounds like they expect to finally get back to updates soon after a long delay.

 

[Narukami95]

14 months with zero updates is insane, but I find it more insane that people are coming out the woodworks to defend a developer who pops in every month or so to say "The next update is almost done and coming out soon!" only to turn around a few days later and say "Well actually..." before repeating the process every single time.

A good game being held back by its developer is nothing new, but that's not normal behavior. Stop teasing people about it being "nearlyyyyy" completed and just update us when the actual update is done. It's like a chef telling you the food will be ready in 5 minutes when they haven't even bought any pots and pans to cook with yet. People defending that type of behavior is even worse too, get some standards ffs.

 

[chiamera]

I'd say it's looking good

 

[MonkaMicro]

There's a progress update posted on Patreon, anyone have access to read it? Does it give a timeline or should I just check back in June?

 

[Anteron]

Be nice if there'd be something - it's a few months from where it would get marked abandoned. Wish there was more on this and less on another fantasy game. Hate fantasy in adult games.

 

[johnie82]

There's a progress update posted on Patreon, anyone have access to read it? Does it give a timeline or should I just check back in June?

Casual Desires
Full-time development has resumed now that v0.11 of RD has released. I've spent the past couple days getting back into the swing of things, and improving parts of the UI, such as the fonts which I felt were a bit too bland.

I'm considering moving a few of the expanded scenes to the next update (v0.21), since Chapter 20 has taken far too long already. My main priority is to just release it ASAP because the longer it takes, the harder it is for me to work on it.

So, you can expect to play the new chapter by mid-March. After this, CD will be returning to a regular release schedule until it concludes in Q3/Q4 2026.

Thats it regarding CD.

Lets see it if the timeline is real this time.....

 

[Anteron]

 

[w950822]

good！！！！！

 

[Talishan]

I am confused why so many people engage with the toxic folks. What is the point of engaging them? It isn't like they are going to realize how ridiculous they are.

 

[wenta]

thank you

 

[Turret]

Thats it regarding CD.

Lets see it if the timeline is real this time.....

Thanks for the post about the state of CD development. And Iondivvy was once again exposed to be a liar. " you can expect to play the new chapter by mid-March" is obviously not the fact. But then again Iondivvy is a serial liar, I am curious what the lame excuse will be this time.

 

[johnie82]

Thanks for the post about the state of CD development.

This was posted under the last RD patreon post from 4d ago.
But yeah, one again a "missed" release date.

 

[Turret]

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This was posted under the last RD patreon post from 4d ago.
But yeah, one again a "missed" release date.

Thanks again! How very surprising this new delay - NOT! By the hangman, even "the Typist", who is infamous for his blowing of release dates, is quicker in releasing new stuff! How about a bet that Iondivvy will also blow this new release date?

 

[KnuckleDragger79]

What I would like to see is these shitposters develop and make their own games and post them for free on here. Then they will see how it feels to have their hard work shit on by retards that expect everything in life to be to their exact specifications.

 

[NukaCola]

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This was posted under the last RD patreon post from 4d ago.
But yeah, one again a "missed" release date.

Its still in the first week of April. It will be released on time, right?

 

[Anteron]

What I would like to see is these shitposters develop and make their own games and post them for free on here. Then they will see how it feels to have their hard work shit on by retards that expect everything in life to be to their exact specifications.

I don't get this idiotic idea someone has to be able to make a game to criticize it. Like someone has to be a chef to say a food isn't good, a director say a movie isn't good, etc.
Besides, the problem here is that it's been set aside for a game that's in the "fantasy" genre, which there are already far too many.