Ren'Py Change of Hearts [v0.4.5] [cheeky-owl]

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cheeky-owl

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"Hey, you there!"
"Yes, you!"
"Great news! Have you heard? What? You haven't? Well, now you do! Change of Hearts 0.4.5. is coming your way on March 1st! There are so many new events and crazy things! Including us! You want some new pretty girls, don't you? And you don't even have to look all over town to find us if you don't want to, we'll come straight to you! Crazy, right?"
"So you better play it when it comes out."
"Yeah, you should definitely play it! Or you will make us mad!"
"And you don't want us to get mad at you, buddy. So you know what to do."

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Snímek obrazovky 2025-03-01 212918.png Here it is, guys, the thing you've been waiting for. Change of Hearts 0.4.5. is out!

List of new content:

  • 12 new events
  • 1 new animated scene
  • 595 new renders
  • new secondary character - Caitlin
  • new tertiary character - Emily
  • new soundtrack
  • automatic event start cheat
  • bugs and fixes
  • grammar fixes
 
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Hello everyone. I am sorry for coming up with another announcement so soon after the release, but I feel like this is important.

I started developing this game in late 2023 with very limited experience in coding, and honestly, zero experience in CharaStudio. The learning curve was very, very steep for me. And I feel like that issue is very visible in the early content of the game. I feel like I gradually learned how to improve the quality of the graphics, but that left the early stages of the game severely sub-par, and you deserve only the best I can give you. Because this is one of the first things you see when you open the game, and a make or break for many of you, I have decided to rework the initial release content to bring it up to current quality.

In terms of content, we are talking about reworking the early stages of the game, probably up to the 0.2 release, which is about half of the content at this point. Since I will only be reworking the graphics and not the code, it shouldn't take too much time, but I still expect to spend about 14 days on it. After the rework is done, I will release a new update, which I will try to promote heavily to grow this community into something bigger than it is now. In terms of content, it won't be anything new apart from fixes if I run into any, but the early game will be heavily reworked.
 
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Change of Hearts [v0.4.5] [cheeky-owl] compressed

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Change of Hearts [v0.4.5] [cheeky-owl] compressed

PC: Mega / Pixeldrain / (494Mb)
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Rockero_69

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Well, in the end it's up to everyone's preferences. I know I can't make it perfect for everyone. But like I said, I am still keeping the exact long-term relationship development open at this point, and I am also taking your reviews into account when deciding on the next part of the character's arc, so everything could end up being completely different. But that is still a long way in the future because I am taking a slow arc development route for now as I don't want things to feel rushed and unnatural. But there will definitely be multiple romantic relationships between the MC and LIs in the future.

I hope you'll give the game a chance at some point, but even if you don't, thank you for your interest.
Hi DEV, important questions, will there be a harem ending, yes or no?
and is the content forced or can it be avoided? by this I mean some fetishes or tags that sometimes appear in the game that are not to everyone's liking, such as lesbians, ntr, femdom, etc.
 
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Hi DEV, important questions, will there be a harem ending, yes or no?
and is the content forced or can it be avoided? by this I mean some fetishes or tags that sometimes appear in the game that are not to everyone's liking, such as lesbians, ntr, femdom, etc.
Hi there. The harem ending is definitely an open option, but it's too early in the story to think about how I'm going to implement it. But yes, I am keeping that option open.

As far as content goes, a few weeks ago I ran a poll in my community and they decided that they wanted these events to be part of the main lore. As for lesbian relationships, there are some hints in the game, but no direct scenes yet. I plan to add those scenes eventually, but I'll give you the option to skip the direct content if it's not to your liking. However, since some of it is essential to the story that follows, it will be mentioned throughout the gameplay. As for the other tags you mentioned, there are no plans to include them at this time, but that may change in the future. However, the implementation will be the same, it will be possible to skip these scenes.
 
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Hi there. The harem ending is definitely an open option, but it's too early in the story to think about how I'm going to implement it. But yes, I am keeping that option open.

As far as content goes, a few weeks ago I ran a poll in my community and they decided that they wanted these events to be part of the main lore. As for lesbian relationships, there are some hints in the game, but no direct scenes yet. I plan to add those scenes eventually, but I'll give you the option to skip the direct content if it's not to your liking. However, since some of it is essential to the story that follows, it will be mentioned throughout the gameplay. As for the other tags you mentioned, there are no plans to include them at this time, but that may change in the future. However, the implementation will be the same, it will be possible to skip these scenes.
Great about the Harem ending, now as you say it will be named and can be omitted (lesbian), then it happens no matter what, it will be forced and like forced stuff isn't my thing so maybe, just maybe, I played it
 
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Great about the Harem ending, now as you say it will be named and can be omitted (lesbian), then it happens no matter what, it will be forced and like forced stuff isn't my thing so maybe, just maybe, I played it
Sadly, it's already a part of the narrative of some characters and tied to the events and development of the relationship with the MC, so I am afraid it cannot be 100 % avoided. I am glad you contacted me about this, though.
 
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What's the point of allowing the player to choose a name for the MC if the game doesn't even allow you to do that in the first place?
 

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What's the point of allowing the player to choose a name for the MC if the game doesn't even allow you to do that in the first place?
Hey Phoenix. I hope we sorted everything out on Discord. Thanks for notifying me about this.


For everyone else: Renaming the MC at the beginning of the game works. It's my fault for creating randomly changing main menu images for which I had to change the text color to be more visible on the background, during which I already accidentally changed the input color to be black on black. It will be fixed in the graphic update I'll release in a few weeks. If you find some other issues, contact me on any of my socials (here, Itch, Discord), I will look into it as soon as possible.
 

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Hi guys, I am back with another devlog.

As you know, I recently announced that I'm working on a major graphics rework of the early content. Though progress has been a little slower than I would have liked due to a lot of work outside of development and some technical and health issues that have hit me recently, I'm still making solid progress and we're just about a quarter of the way there. Apart from that, I have already written some events to be included in the 0.5.0 update, but before I start working on that, I plan to finish and release this rework. I would like to release it no later than the beginning of April, and I am well on my way to doing so at the current pace.

Most of the changes I make to these early renders are minor pose adjustments and camera angle and lighting changes, although in some cases I have decided to completely redo the render to better fit the scene and match the current quality of the content. In some cases, I have also made slight changes to the dialog, but these changes do not involve anything that would change the current lore of the game in any way, so if you don't want to, there is no need to replay the content (although you can still use the Event Replay if you want to see the new renders once the update is released). All in all, I think it will be a big improvement on the early content.

To reward you for your support, here are some of the reworked renders compared to the old ones. If you want to see more and follow the progress in the regularly updated post, please join my Discord to chat with me and my community.

BEFORE

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AFTER

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Hi guys, I am back with another devlog.

As you know, I recently announced that I'm working on a major graphics rework of the early content. Though progress has been a little slower than I would have liked due to a lot of work outside of development and some technical and health issues that have hit me recently, I'm still making solid progress and we're just about a quarter of the way there. Apart from that, I have already written some events to be included in the 0.5.0 update, but before I start working on that, I plan to finish and release this rework. I would like to release it no later than the beginning of April, and I am well on my way to doing so at the current pace.

Most of the changes I make to these early renders are minor pose adjustments and camera angle and lighting changes, although in some cases I have decided to completely redo the render to better fit the scene and match the current quality of the content. In some cases, I have also made slight changes to the dialog, but these changes do not involve anything that would change the current lore of the game in any way, so if you don't want to, there is no need to replay the content (although you can still use the Event Replay if you want to see the new renders once the update is released). All in all, I think it will be a big improvement on the early content.

To reward you for your support, here are some of the reworked renders compared to the old ones. If you want to see more and follow the progress in the regularly updated post, please join my Discord to chat with me and my community.

BEFORE

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AFTER

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...I don't see any difference.
 

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...I don't see any difference.
It's just one of many. Hop on the Discord if you want to see more of these reworks, I am posting them regularly.
The point is that compared to the early and the latest content, there is an obvious difference in the quality. Sure, it wouldn't be that visible on some renders but some of them really need a rework.
 
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