Ren'Py Club Detention [v0.088] [Yorma86]
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Just a couple days ago Yorma mentioned on discord he was hoping to have something out by christmas, but it wasn't for sure
This event (May the Best Girl Win I/II) seems inaccessible in 0.088 if both Anna and Jennifer have progress beyond Novice before you reach this event.
"Requirement: Anna/Jennifer Novice level 4" is red, but Anna is an entertainer and Jennifer is a maid. I only reached the event after they both progressed beyond Novice.
There's also some events--such as Natalie's Hotel events--that require a specific advanced class, which basically locks you out of that entire event chain if you pick the wrong class for the girl. At this stage of the game, before ALL the Hostess events are completed, it's a bit of a shit thing to realise. The player likely doesn't have any idea what's needed without a bunch of research and planning just to unlock the available events. The cheats menu doesn't help either, since there's not 'change class' option.
I'd wager a lot of players do what I do, and just put the girls in random slots, then let automatic shift rotation take over once it's unlocked. Locking events behind hostess classes makes me think you intend for us to be more involved in shift management and hostess specialisation.
Bug: It seems that you can start research even if you lack the funds to actually pay for that research. It queues up what you want and just takes your money to zero, meaning a $10,000 research item can basically cost you $100 if that's all you have. (I hate reporting this one because I used it a lot... but it's a bug and should probably be fixed).
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You can change the specialties without losing any progress. You can 'change career' any time and if you go back to that specialty the XP will be where you left it.
So for the novice lvl 4, change both both and just leave them at novice. And for Natalie reset her and choose maid, play the event, then go back to whatever class you were interested in.
Not super intuitive I know, since most game systems resetting a class/specialty is a true reset/start from scratch. 'change career' should probably be labelled differently.
Huh.. I did see the "Change Career" text, but it looked like it was just there to let me know I could change their class within that group. ie: change a 'performer' from stripper to entertainer. I never even though of clicking on the text. I was clicking up on "Performer" and "Maid" etc. Maybe make "Change Career" look like a more obvious clickable button? Or maybe I'm just dumb and most everyone else worked it out themself
.Good info to know though, as I was a bit annoyed when it looked like it potentially locked a bunch of content away. Thanks for the info.
At the "adult arcade" Emma and Olivia stuck at hj and bj scenes. Is there more or this is the max?
From Discord
I know I said I'd try to get the build out for Christmas, it's looking pretty bad on that front (considering today is Christmas)... And knowing the Christmas -> New years is pretty fucked up for a family guy, I'll aim for very early January instead! I'll post some teaser images at some point in the in-between-days so you guys won't be too parched. But yeah, sorry about the delayWifey (my boss) told me I need to attend the family gathering instead of working on my porn game, so I'm fucked.
I'm not at all surprised. With moving to a new house that needed renovation and Christmas and new year right after, the Christmas day deadline was doomed from the beginning.
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Hello all my lovely fellow detentioneers!
Since my Christmas and New years release predictions were wildly optimistic, I think I owe you guys at least a little sneak peek at what's being worked on, and maybe a quick explanation on why it's late. First off, what's new.
So, you might have noticed the Club menu having a mysterious button that might let you change the room's activity type. The new update will finally pave way to adding the locked options as unlockables. It won't yet add them in, but it creates the story justification for them (I use the term 'justification' very loosely here, heh).
Also, the generic events have been revamped. Instead of random generic events, they are now training events, which feels more thematic and now it makes sense why you'd have to "grind" them with each girl should you want them to learn something or to unlock some personal events.
But to unlock the new activity types will require the full support from the main staff, so you will see more of all of the teachers this time. That's Mina, Jacob, Serena, Nanako and Shirley. Admittedly, some get more screen time than the others and will require more work, but they'll all make an appearance.
Also, you'll be seeing some content for Lauren (if you turned on the trans girl option) and both deflowering scenes for Jennifer. So, the up close and personal and the voyeuristic version where a lucky customer gets to have fun. Though she can only be deflowered once, so pick your battles. Unless you cheat, but yeah.
So, what took me so long? It's a long story. First, we bought a house and while I thought I was prepared for it, the amount of hammering, drilling, renovating, disassembling and assembling was a lot. The worst part? We lived two months without a reliable internet connection. Oh, and Arc Raiders came out and my best friend "forced" me to play it with him. It was a good three weeks that we pretty much used all our free time on it.
Alongside all that, I've also been trying to come up with a new workflow that might make my renders better, or at least give me more control and finesse. I learned how to use Marvelous Designer to do some cloth simulation on all the clothes (and not just the ones that have physics support in DAZ), and it allows me to do some undressing scenes like the one below, that were previously impossible without a ton of tedium, if even then.
I'm also playing around with some Blender workflows since Blender is just far superior as a rendering tool compared to DAZ...but that's still a bit too much for me. I will keep playing around with it and Diffeomorphic seems like a promising addon.
And this might be the most controversial topic of them all: I've dabbled with AI. Not for image or text generation, but for making videos/animations. Since hand-making animations is super time consuming and rendering that many frames takes bloody forever, I thought this might be a solo developer-friendly approach to them. So, I will probably start releasing an optional AI slop DLC for Club Detention with each update that will contain animations for new scenes and some random animations for the older scenes. I know some people hate AI, so I won't bundle it with the main game, but the option to add them will be there for those who want it (though I dunno how to handle Android). Let me know what you think. Here are some samples I've been working on, so you can decide for yourselves (I won't embed them here since Patreon will probably just remove them):
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Anyhow, I won't use AI to generate the story or the images. Rest assured, Club Detention is still artisanal perversion.
So, I've got both good and bad reasons why I'm so late. Sorry anyways. I hope the amount of lewd content will make up for it.