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VN Ren'Py Abandoned Daddy Issues [v0.03] [Okalix]

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rfox317

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Thank you Eduded! The comment about Nate seems like a common one so far... Poor Nate! I will have a look at what I can do, I don't want to drastically overhaul him as that would mean re-doing chapter one and slow down progress... but there may be some subtle changes I can make before his next appearance.
STOP! Do not slow down progress by re-doing CH1!!! Just drive on and adapt if warranted I say. Um so it's possible maybe some improvements could be made to Nate, I mean, it's sooo hard to compete when Jake is in the room to be honest...so maybe it cannot be helped ;) I think I saw where you were going with Nate, and I thought it was a nice approach, maybe if he tried darkening his hair slightly as...a...narrative reason...that might change things. I don't know just keep swimming.
 
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Okalix

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STOP! Do not slow down progress by re-doing CH1!!! Just drive on and adapt if warranted I say. Um so it's possible maybe some improvements could be made to Nate, I mean, it's sooo hard to compete when Jake is in the room to be honest...so maybe it cannot be helped ;) I think I saw where you were going with Nate, and I thought it was a nice approach, maybe if he tried darkening his hair slightly as...a...narrative reason...that might change things. I don't know just keep swimming.
Thanks rfox317! Don't worry, I do not intend to re-do ANY chapters EVER! I've seen how much that pisses off the community... many times. Thanks for the suggestion too, I'll try it out for his next appearance.
 
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Thanks rfox317! Don't worry, I do not intend to re-do ANY chapters EVER! I've seen how much that pisses off the community... many times. Thanks for the suggestion too, I'll try it out for his next appearance.
Only if you feel it. Jake is freakin' sexy and Caleb is hot, so...really...I'm good either way ;)
 
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tavlober

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Is it just me or Jake looks like ~10 years older than Caleb? From his look I would say Caleb can equally be somewhere between 15 and 20 yo, so lets suppose it is 18yo in case sex is planned with him. While for Jake the same is 23-30 yo. Is it supposed? Because based on phrase "We used to play togehter as kids." I got the impression they should be of the same age.
And Nate looks more like granddaddy than daddy, maybe even 60+ yo. He definitely needs some youth injection :oops:

Some other notes:
1) I think it makes no sense to add selection menu with just single entry. It would be better to make play with it by plot or/and additional frame, instead of breaking the immersion. Even in "Quantic Dream" games similar things often looks poorly. For example, before shower scene, instead of "take this off" menus, one frame with halfway trough taking off jeans and one with the same for underwear
2) I know it's hard to find good liquid simulation module for Daz3d/Poser, and even harder to make it look naturally, but that wet skin in shower made me laughing loudly :ROFLMAO:
3) Empty dinner table. It's just hard to believe that such a hard introverted boy as Caleb would stay after the meal even if it was his dad's order

Anyway, I'm joining to above positive comments (y) and think it is going to be very good game :love:
 

Okalix

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Is it just me or Jake looks like ~10 years older than Caleb? From his look I would say Caleb can equally be somewhere between 15 and 20 yo, so lets suppose it is 18yo in case sex is planned with him. While for Jake the same is 23-30 yo. Is it supposed? Because based on phrase "We used to play togehter as kids." I got the impression they should be of the same age.
And Nate looks more like granddaddy than daddy, maybe even 60+ yo. He definitely needs some youth injection :oops:

Some other notes:
1) I think it makes no sense to add selection menu with just single entry. It would be better to make play with it by plot or/and additional frame, instead of breaking the immersion. Even in "Quantic Dream" games similar things often looks poorly. For example, before shower scene, instead of "take this off" menus, one frame with halfway trough taking off jeans and one with the same for underwear
2) I know it's hard to find good liquid simulation module for Daz3d/Poser, and even harder to make it look naturally, but that wet skin in shower made me laughing loudly :ROFLMAO:
3) Empty dinner table. It's just hard to believe that such a hard introverted boy as Caleb would stay after the meal even if it was his dad's order

Anyway, I'm joining to above positive comments (y) and think it is going to be very good game :love:
Thanks for the feedback tavlober. So, to help answer a few things...

- Caleb is intended to be 18 and Jake, 21.
- I will be doing some work on Dad's appearance to de-age him as this was a common request.
- I'll also be removing the single option buttons for the similar reason.
- Water (especially in motion) is notoriously difficult to simulate graphics-wise and unfortunately I am still only a beginner in many ways. Over time, my experience and tech knowledge should improve but for now, this is the best of my capability.
- Caleb isn't a bad guy, just easily triggered and pretty sensitive. At least that's how I imagined him. He's a bit more of a complicated character and I felt his actions were coming from a realistic place. Realism is something I want to get as close to as possible in many ways.

I hope that helps and also thank you for believing this will be a good VN in the long-run. That's what I'm aiming for! :)
 

Okalix

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Just a little update to say that images for Chapter Two are now all done. Just some more coding left before it's finished and ready to release to my Eagle patrons next Wednesday! All my other patrons will get access the Wednesday following and finally of course, the public release will be Wednesday following again.

23rd October - Release for Eagles

30th October - Release for Swallows, Owls and Falcons

6th November - Free Public Release

Happy Friday everyone!
 

Okalix

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OMG! Dude, you make my visual novel look like crap!

(y) :cry:
Well, firstly, I'm sorry for doing that to you dude! Secondly, thank you so much! I would love to take a look at yours if you have a link or anything?
 

Robitron

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By the way, when jake gets in the shower, you might want to hear the shower.

First declare the audio with define audio.shower = "shower-1.mp3"

When you want the shower sound use the command play sound shower

Attached is the sound file that just needs to be in the game directory.

;)
 
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Okalix

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By the way, when jake gets in the shower, you might want to hear the shower.

First declare the audio with define audio.shower = "shower-1.mp3"

When you want the shower sound use the command play sound shower

Attached is the sound file that just needs to be in the game directory.

;)
Thanks for this man, I appreciate it. I haven't quite decided yet on adding sounds, because there's a few other decisions that come along with that, and it's still relatively early stages. But this will definitely be useful when that decision time comes!
 

Robitron

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Well, firstly, I'm sorry for doing that to you dude! Secondly, thank you so much! I would love to take a look at yours if you have a link or anything?
I'm having issues with my splash screen as you'll see. I also want to redo the UI at some point as well. I'll compile what I have and send you a link.
 
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Okalix

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I'm having issues with my splash screen as you'll see. I also want to redo the UI at some point as well. I'll compile what I have and send you a link.
Sure man, I don't know if you can post it here in this thread without an official game page on the site, but you can always hit me up in my discord server... I'm mostly there if I'm anywhere anyways.

 

Kurobatique

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It's still in development and I'm using edited photos until I learn how to draw (that "until" has been 50+ years in the making).

:cry:
I've already played games that have retouched photos that are very good.
For me what makes a good game, and you're probably going to find it weird for a porn game, is the story, even if your goal is to go into all the sexy details, if the story doesn't make sense or makes no sense, I doubt there will be a lot of people playing it.
Personally I prefer that you take your time to create your game, rather than do it quickly to ask people for an opinion and then abandon it when it could be promising as I have seen with many here.

What kind of game will it be? Straight, Gay, etc?
 

Robitron

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I've already played games that have retouched photos that are very good.
For me what makes a good game, and you're probably going to find it weird for a porn game, is the story,...

What kind of game will it be? Straight, Gay, etc?
I liked the story very much, however I've decided this will be the only chapter of it I am going to do. It is a gay coming of age story about two teenagers entering high school. There is no sex in this chapter but there is a butt shot. ;)

I orginally got into this as I wanted to learn how to code and create useful applications and games. I started looking into Python, discovered Ren'Py and the lack of gay visual novels so I decided "What better way to learn coding"?


:unsure:
 

Robitron

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By the way, If anyone is interested all 13 (so far) chapters can be found by clicking The author has granted me permission to use his work. ;)
 

Robitron

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Sorry Okalix, I didn't mean to take over your post, I'll start a new topic somewhere if I can figure out how. Typical newbie stuff...
 
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