VN Ren'Py Completed Dating Game: Sasha [v1.0] [Antipode Games]

[newse769]

Thanks for the share

what game is this dude???

 

[Academyboy]

I hope you do decide to continue. I loved games like this in the past and this game is very well written, with you using appropriate restraint in the writing (like resisting the urge to put in a potential threesome with the female bartender). You kept it simple, which is something most dev's don't do on their first release which tends to gets them into trouble. This is a good, simple base to build off of and I'm looking forward to seeing how your games evolve over time.

Can u suggest me some games like this

 

[Wicks99]

I've read your review, and I must say, aside that I don't deserve those five stars, that you've made me see a lot of things that could have been made much better. So let me thank you, that's the constructive feed I really wanted to read and note.

I'd like to do something more story driven in the future, but still keeping it short and easy, nothing to do with VNs forever in developement. I had an idea for a VN, but with chapters being short stories and independent from each other. Guess that's something I would not get bored of and...

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You're welcome, glad you have found it useful in some ways. And yes I do find the five stars well deserved, it's no legendary / benchmark status, but about as good as a short game can reasonably get barring some funky game mechanics.

Since you don't like long forever developing novels, your mentioned approach ought to work. However my suggestion is don't make them completely independent of each other, just enough for each story to run on its own, but still fall within the same universe with some casual links like shared minor characters, events or venues here and there.

Personally I've always found picking up all these casual links from nuggets found in related stories part of the fun when playing something like that. Tjord's "The Fall" trilogy and NiiChan's MBIML and Sicae does this well which adds to the fun.

Cheers!

 

[Steve Carter]

Can u suggest me some games like this

Most of the games I'd recommend are old ones. The first Date Arianne game was very good, and one of the original games if not the original game of this genre. The author, Arianne Barnes, has updated her game over time.

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The old vdategames were also like this. My personal favorites are the first (not the second) Anna game as well as Betsy.

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A newer game like this can be downloaded off of this site, which is much like this one, is Just Date Vegan. https://f95zone.to/threads/just-date-vegan-final-podderzhka.227817/

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[Steve Carter]

I played Date Arianne like... eons ago XD, I really don't remember it being that complex.
If I made a second game, it would probably be a bit more obvious to the player, like more branching/content, less "try to guess the right answer". I still have a lot to think about it, but this feed is giving me some ideas.

Date Ariene's complexity becomes more obvious in the newer versions when you look at the achievements that were added. There are achievements for "never funny" where you "win" without choosing any of the funny dialogue options, or the "never nice" achievement where you don't pick any nice dialogue options. In the original version, everything was under the hood so you never noticed it.

 

[rayminator]

thanks for sharing

 

[Cajun Fox]

what game is this dude???

Valkyrie Drive

 

[homejorz]

This looks very simaler to Petardos work wow. Same Dev different name?

 

[sandbag1535]

Just to let the Dev know, when I tried to d/l off of itch, I was greeted with:

 

[AntipodeGames]

This looks very simaler to Petardos work wow. Same Dev different name?

It's not a coincidence, he's been involved in this project. Some characters and visuals were made by him, it was intended to be a cooperative small project, but had to end it by myself.

 

[AntipodeGames]

Just to let the Dev know, when I tried to d/l off of itch, I was greeted with:

> Be me.
> Publish some horny ass mini game on Itch.io.
> Game's not indexed after 10 days of it being released.
> Mail Itch.io's support, politely asking what's going on, why my game is not indexed yet, and if there's any problem we can fix.
> Itch.io's response is flagging me as a potential scammer.
> ...
> Next time I'm publishing exclusively here in the zone. Fuck everything.

Anyone else has seen that advice on my Itch page?

 

[sandbag1535]

I had no idea they treated you so badly. Dude! No problems! Do what's best for you, man. Sorry you got railroaded.

 

[homejorz]

It's not a coincidence, he's been involved in this project. Some characters and visuals were made by him, it was intended to be a cooperative small project, but had to end it by myself.

Awesome, he has such a unique art style. I really love that stuff, i wish there were more games with this style. Is this honey select? because you can barely tell

 

[onknight]

What is your buddy going to do? Run in there and start dropping some people's elbows? Just either tell her you're zigging and she's zagging and it aint working, or run the date through and leave and then dont call her again. It's actually nice if a girl tells me mid date that our energies aren't connecting because I'm usually feel the same way, or vice versa. If you're on a date with someone so unstable that you think it could turn into a 911 situation, you need to do a much better job vettin your dates.

you don't get the system he calls I say look it's an emergency I need to leave.
Then I don't ever call her again less drama

 

[Paniwine]

Very nice game, congratulations!!
I hope more developers return to old good dating sim games...

 

[AntipodeGames]

Awesome, he has such a unique art style. I really love that stuff, i wish there were more games with this style. Is this honey select? because you can barely tell

This is basically 10% HS2, 90% mods. XD

 

[AntipodeGames]

Hope folks who liked this game will feel happy for this announcement, because I'm back here to say a follow up for Dating Game: Sasha is in actual developement.

Can't say much about it, since I'm like halfway with it, but you can expect the same vibes of the original, two romanceable girls, better renders (for my taste), and a true, longer story with branching and impactful choices that can lead you to glory or to failing miserably.

And sure! There's some previews I can show!






Guess Dating Game is becoming a series now...

 

[ra_th]

For anal, say you visited Greece when she asks about travel. For doggie, check out a waitress's ass or tits for a boobjob.

Such a weird "mechanic"... How is one supposed to know this? I'm not a fan.

 

[AntipodeGames]

Such a weird "mechanic"... How is one supposed to know this? I'm not a fan.

At first I thought it was a fine way to trigger extra actions, now I'm also not that sure...
Won't do it this way next time.

 

[Steve Carter]

At first I thought it was a fine way to trigger extra actions, now I'm also not that sure...
Won't do it this way next time.

I think that's an ok way to trigger interactions, but you may just want those actions to trigger dialogue options and then have those dialogue options unlock the sex actions. Like, check out a waitress's ass, have that trigger a red flag, then have the girl say something like "you like asses?" and have a dialogue option during that conversation that unlocks it.