VN Ren'Py Corporate Culture [v0.6] [sqwl]

[MagicShoppe]

Lucy was never going to be a path. The game would not be called Corporate Culture is she was truly a meaningful choice. If MC became serious about Lucy, the whole focus of the game would have to shift away from the corporate stuff.

Hooking up with Emma is a backward step in terms of climbing the corporate culture ladder. He's already outplayed her. (Emma is the former boss, right? If I messed that up, oops)

Elsa won't hook up with Edward. She has a goal and won't be sidetracked from it. And she currently sees him as a useful idiot. She is using him to accomplish something. And as I've said before, I assume what she wants to accomplish will be counter to what MC wants to accomplish at some point. And if he is still listening to her blindly when that happens, she will grind him to dust and not look back. She is not a LI.

Emma's secretary has some sidegirl potential and that kind of behavior fits the name of the game.

 

[Dessolos]

Lucy was never going to be a path. The game would not be called Corporate Culture is she was truly a meaningful choice. If MC became serious about Lucy, the whole focus of the game would have to shift away from the corporate stuff.

Hooking up with Emma is a backward step in terms of climbing the corporate culture ladder. He's already outplayed her. (Emma is the former boss, right? If I messed that up, oops)

Elsa won't hook up with Edward. She has a goal and won't be sidetracked from it. And she currently sees him as a useful idiot. She is using him to accomplish something. And as I've said before, I assume what she wants to accomplish will be counter to what MC wants to accomplish at some point. And if he is still listening to her blindly when that happens, she will grind him to dust and not look back. She is not a LI.

Emma's secretary has some sidegirl potential and that kind of behavior fits the name of the game.

I do disagree about Elsa still 100%, I think Elsa is gonna heavily depend on the taking the right choices and gonna be harder to romance but I just don't see why she would not be a LI at all unless the dev takes choices away from the player. She just seems like the obvious troupe you see in some TV shows where a MC is gunning for a certain girl but then realizes at some point of who has been infront of him the entire time. Then the MC stops going for said girls he's been after the entire show and starts to romance his friend. I can understand why she doesn't seem like she would be a LI from a story point of view but that could easily change in a blink of an eye. But like I said before who knows either one of us could be right or wrong nothing is set in stone yet and only the dev knows

 

[MagicShoppe]

But like I said before who knows either one of us could be right or wrong nothing is set in stone yet and only the dev knows

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I do disagree about Elsa still 100%, I think Elsa is gonna heavily depend on the taking the right choices and gonna be harder to romance but I just don't see why she would not be a LI at all unless the dev takes choices away from the player.

Because she is written as someone utterly uninterested in any romance. And the MC is no Don Juan, capable of changing Elsa's mind about why romance is the right option for her.

She just seems like the obvious troupe you see in some TV shows where a MC is gunning for a certain girl but then realizes at some point of who has been infront of him the entire time.

That trope doesn't usually start from a character who has interest in romance. That trope is usually the woman who actually cares for the MC and is waiting for his eyes to open. Elsa doesn't care about the MC long term. He is a means to an end.

Then the MC stops going for said girls he's been after the entire show and starts to romance his friend.

I don't believe Elsa is MC's friend. Elsa is too Machiavellian to have friends.

I can understand why she doesn't seem like she would be a LI from a story point of view but that could easily change in a blink of an eye.

This only makes sense if you accept that the story so far can just be invalidated. I feel Elsa being LI material requires Elsa to be hit in the head by a falling object and being in a coma for 8 months, returning to the story with a completely different personality.

In any case, I think my views of Elsa have probably been repeated too many times. Sorry if I've become boring.

 

[Sin_Mechero]

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Hello,

Target is OK.
Week. Focused solely on setting up scenes this week. I was lagging behind by week on renders and given how many months it has taken already, there's little space for missteps left.
Completed 1 scene that turned out to be 2 scenes, the one I talked about in previous report. They were taking place in a same closed space, without some extensive environment and I was able to complete them quite early in the week.
Then I switched to the last scene of Day 3. It's bigger one. It takes place in 3 different environments, and it's extra important to get it right. I think the scene will take around 100–150 shots to go through it.
I divided it into 7 segments to track the progress. 4 segments were completed this week, 3 to go.
That was it for the week. I wanted to reduce lag formed by previous week, in order to have chance reaching target for May. The scenes were easy to work with, it was a chance to significantly reduce delay. I postponed other things, stayed overtime and it worked. Even better that I thought, the production this week doubled comparing to plan and the usual numbers. I'm no longer behind the schedule, although the bed never looked so good.
Progress. One scene remains to be completed in Day 3. 4 out of 7 segments of that scene are done.
Day 3 progress: 8 out of 9 scenes completed.
No news on Day 4. I did some calculations that usually turn out to be way off. However, Day 3 is taking about 1.5 month to complete. Day 4 is approximately the same size. Even if I rush through it is still will be close to one month of work. That would be mid-June, when work on Day 4 may be completed the earliest.
I thought of maybe making Day 4 available later as an add-on, "complete edition" whatever it's called. Doesn't look great to me.
Rendering. Still works with a "hybrid" scene.

Thanks for being here today.
See you.