VN Ren'Py Cosy Cafe [v0.13.1 EA] [Cosy Creator]

[preglovr12]

Not the place to discuss moderator actions. But, posting from two different accounts and like farming is frowned upon.

 

[goontuber]

british "people"

 

[vsvsx92]

If the story is truly set in UK, then how come there were no angry football fans talking about how shit their team performed during the last matchday?

 

[HiHaHo]

If the story is truly set in UK, then how come there were no angry football fans talking about how shit their team performed during the last matchday?

lets not turn this thread into a discussion about the brits and take a Stab at their current dilemma's or stereotypes it has currently.

Let's instead talk about our beloved Airhead Annebelle and how & why she'll run away next time we see her.

 

[AcuteAppleAngle]

Most of the lack of 'Britishness' in this game comes from the HS models to my mind. Generally I find it does feel quite British: they talk money in Pound Sterling, they have a school uniform, and Alison is Headmistress and not 'Headteacher' (although that horrible Americanism is sadly taking root in this country).

Where that impression falters is in the things that don't look British. The hallway at school is long and too wide in the way I see in American movies but never experienced in my own childhood. The pancakes are made in the American style rather than the European one. The train looks weirdly wide, there seems to be six feet of seperation between the seats for some reason.

There is nothing that is explicitly not British as far as I can tell, just a few things that don't quite fit in. Other than weird green paper that is used as money, what is that about? It obviously can't be real money as it doesn't have the King on it, how strange.

 

[Rock Licker]

Maybe in the next update we'll see all the girls in Union Jacks and make them talk if they need a loicence to even carry a spoon.

 

[danb35]

Alison is Headmistress and not 'Headteacher' (although that horrible Americanism is sadly taking root in this country).

I've never heard "headteacher." The head of a school in America is normally the "principal." Or if it's a college (which it's said to be in CC, though it isn't like any college I've ever seen) or university, the "dean."

 

[GamerDaddy]

I've never heard "headteacher." The head of a school in America is normally the "principal." Or if it's a college (which it's said to be in CC, though it isn't like any college I've ever seen) or university, the "dean."

some private schools/uni use headmaster/headmistress

 

[danb35]

some private schools/uni use headmaster/headmistress

True, hence "normally" in my post--though I haven't seen that at a university. Alison as "headmistress" points away from a US setting, but not conclusively.

 

[swmeek]

Late to the party on this one, when reading Cosy cafe I read all the characters with my usual Canadian accent except Catherine, who in my head has a very stereotypical posh british accent. Sometimes the britishness seeps through (like when they call pants "trousers") which always makes me chuckle, but I think this game is very good at being ambiguous culturally

But every other sentence doesn't have eh in it ! ( like Bob and Doug McKenzie do )

 

[Nezron]

But every other sentence doesn't have eh in it ! ( like Bob and Doug McKenzie do )

Bob and Doug from Strange Brew are Canadian, not British. just FYI

 

[hameleona]

The game being explicitly set in Britain just makes me wonder about a few things:
1. Why are the Founding Families not explicit nobility?
2. Where is the regular rain? Seriously, I visited once in September and I think I saw the sun twice! Tho fog was as common as rain.
3. No mention of the Royal family at all, no crests, no "royal [insert anything here]"? Ok, crests are hard to pull off, when one is constrained to ready-made assets.

Now, granted, I visited for a short time and was mostly eyeball deep in administrative stuff about the project I was working on, but... it seemed to me that Britain (or at least England) had it's own weird term for everything. Weird as in not not-american, but "this is something we originally named in 1465 and it's the Royal So-and-so and yes, the name has little to do with it's actual function, but we refuse to use a name common across Europe"

I assumed it was just set in some made-up country as most similar games.

PS: And I now realize I really need a good game set in Wales and one in Ireland to make my signature here feel complete!

 

[gorgetoflinen]

Yeah, I definitely don't play up the Britishness, and it's not actually supposed to be set in the UK specifically. I usually say it's set in a UK-flavoured fictional world, since the whole Founding Family and harem things couldn't really exist as they're written in reality. That's probably why MalLiz has the impression he mentioned in the original post, I'd just never considered it going so far as the characters feeling unbritish.

The dev said it is NOT explicitly set in Britain. Its an alternate universe that is somewhat like the UK. That feels like explanation enough for missing any specific aspect of British culture or history that either muddies the story or is difficult with existing assets.

 

[LostKing]

Now, granted, I visited for a short time

From your stereotypes of my country, that is painfully clear XD

 

[netcov]

Yeah, I definitely don't play up the Britishness, and it's not actually supposed to be set in the UK specifically. I usually say it's set in a UK-flavoured fictional world, since the whole Founding Family and harem things couldn't really exist as they're written in reality. That's probably why MalLiz has the impression he mentioned in the original post, I'd just never considered it going so far as the characters feeling unbritish.

So there will be no random coppers appearing and asking about licenses?

 

[mordred93]

I've never heard "headteacher." The head of a school in America is normally the "principal." Or if it's a college (which it's said to be in CC, though it isn't like any college I've ever seen) or university, the "dean."

Minor correction. The head of a school in a college is the Dean. The head of a collection of schools at a college or university is a Chancellor or President. Typically, Universities are collections of colleges (College or Engineering, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, College of Business, etc.)

 

[AcuteAppleAngle]

I've never heard "headteacher." The head of a school in America is normally the "principal." Or if it's a college (which it's said to be in CC, though it isn't like any college I've ever seen) or university, the "dean."

I do apologise then, I just assumed it must be coming from across the pond. My bad on that.

 

[Elhemeer]

I do apologise then, I just assumed it must be coming from across the pond. My bad on that.

Someone who is the head of a department in a US school (math, English, science, etc.) might be called Head Teacher colloquially by the students of a particular school, but not officially (their title would just be the way-too-literal "Department Head").

 

[preglovr12]

Get back on topic please.

 

[MalLiz]

So how about them red black socks, eh? I mean the ones the girls use in the game, obviously! So much better than the tights, I say. Really, I am absolutely 100% aligned with the MC on that one. Thigh-high socks are simply much better than tights. Especially when combined with a skirt like how Lucy does it. I just hope Cosy adds some "absolute territory" at some point. That would be nothing short of glorious.

-Mal