dolfe67

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Is there no Torrent for this one?
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You're illegally sharing my leaked copyrighted material less than 24 hours after it is released on your own site for your own monetary gain and playing the victim, despite me warning you repeatedly not to do it.

You add absolutely no value to me at all, so why do you think you can host my game and then charge subs for it? Bizarre.

If I'm the only developer that does this, why don't you just take a hint and not do my game? You've got all the other games available and one guy is asking you not to, and then you repeatedly three times in a row immediately illegally share his content less than a day after release and end up at "Oh wow, he's angry with us???". Different planet.
 

gelu123

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Hello everybody!
Just an update on how the next update is coming along, and the last couple of weeks I've been focusing on adding in achievements to the game.
I've got all the technical parts of it working now, and I'm getting close to finishing off all the reward images and sending it out for testing.
With Defending Lydia Collier v.0.16.1 there will now be an achievements tab where you can view all the achievements, get a brief guide on how to unlock the ones that aren't secret, and as you complete them it will give you an unlockable gallery with each achievement granting you a new image. You can also press the portrait to turn it into a gallery of all the images.
You'll also get an in-game notification letting you know the achievement has been unlocked, and all of these achievements if you've got the game on Steam will mirror with Steam achievements.
As an example I've shown the easiest achievement, completing the first day, and the reward picture you get for it.
There will be 54 Achievements and reward images coming with v.0.16.1.
So far I have completed:
Made all coding for achievements, the gallery, the notifications etc and tested it myself, and made most of the images.
I've edited the early code when the paths branch, so you'll now get some dialogue and warning when an option will exit your current path. No more accidently abandoning Steph by taking Ellie on a date, you'll now be warned!
I've moved the early computer flags into persistent data for ease of replayability. For example, once you've found out where Eve is on one playthrough, you won't have to do it again on future playthroughs.
You no longer need to place a bet on Day 1, again making replayability smoother.
I've added in some options to work in the evenings if you're doing nothing else, making it possible to complete both the projects without cheating.
Small update with Vanessa and Tiffany moving them back to the UK. This features new adult scenes with Tiffany and Sophie. Vanessa and Tiffany will ALSO have content in v.0.17, this is just to re-unite all the branches together and this isn't their major Monday content.

I still need to complete:
19 remaining achievements and their images.
Tiffany's phone from the Wedding Night, as many people will be replaying for achievements I want to have this working in this update but its going to need have some coding work done and some more custom images and nudes for Tiffany on there.
Custom audio for Ellie's hotel night which is currently soundless.
Some different nude images for the most recent night with Helena, Emma and Ellie as the current ones move some of the girls to the wrong location.
Updating the walkthrough to v.0.16.

I should have all the achievements done hopefully by the weekend if not early next week, and then I'll send these out for testing to Alpha testers to make sure they're all working when v.0.16.1 comes around.
Thanks for all the new and continued support!
WP
 

Abhai

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one of the most stupid/pointless/unnecessary in game things in general are those "achievements":LUL:
it could be compare to 7-10yo kid-scouts getting badges for various achievements and being all proud and thrilled over those.
meme *change my mind*
:HideThePain:
 

Maviarab

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one of the most stupid/pointless/unnecessary in game things in general are those "achievements":LUL:
it could be compare to 7-10yo kid-scouts getting badges for various achievements and being all proud and thrilled over those.
meme *change my mind*
:HideThePain:
For once we are in agreement.

Pointless shit for kids with attention deficit issues. What an utter waste of time and resources in a VN that should be finished by now.
 

gregers

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I've moved the early computer flags into persistent data for ease of replayability. For example, once you've found out where Eve is on one playthrough, you won't have to do it again on future playthroughs.
(...)
I've added in some options to work in the evenings if you're doing nothing else, making it possible to complete both the projects without cheating.
Achievements, schmachievements, these are solid QoL improvements; nice!

(And yes, I know achievements are considered standard in games these days and don't begrudge the dev taking time to add them before the Steam launch; that's probably a sound business decision.)
 

dolfe67

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Yeah sadly lots of people ask for achievements, and not only kids (or kids in their head). They must be proud to show their porn game achievements to their online friends. I couldn't care less personally.
 

gelu123

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Yeah sadly lots of people ask for achievements, and not only kids (or kids in their head). They must be proud to show their porn game achievements to their online friends. I couldn't care less personally.
Yeah good point with the achievments lol. What baffles me is why is achievments a priority now when the game isnt finished? do it if you must after finishing the game...
 

diggergod

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Here for the 4th time, having played the game 2 times with two different endings, 3rd time using walkthrough. This game is by far my most favorite male protagonist game! I love the British vibe it gives off, the sounds while travelling the city, the overall atmosphere of bar, and basically protagonist's daily life!! I'll try to unlock every ending with every character now, cuz it is just perfect, everyone has their own unique feature which people can go for. I love it!
 

Andrea9999

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Here for the 4th time, having played the game 2 times with two different endings, 3rd time using walkthrough. This game is by far my most favorite male protagonist game! I love the British vibe it gives off, the sounds while travelling the city, the overall atmosphere of bar, and basically protagonist's daily life!! I'll try to unlock every ending with every character now, cuz it is just perfect, everyone has their own unique feature which people can go for. I love it!
What are your favorite games with female MC, please? (I prefer the female MC.) Thank you!
 

Maviarab

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Here for the 4th time, having played the game 2 times with two different endings, 3rd time using walkthrough. This game is by far my most favorite male protagonist game! I love the British vibe it gives off, the sounds while travelling the city, the overall atmosphere of bar, and basically protagonist's daily life!! I'll try to unlock every ending with every character now, cuz it is just perfect, everyone has their own unique feature which people can go for. I love it!
There's only one ending currently...so not sure what you think you unlocked lol.

What are your favorite games with female MC, please? (I prefer the female MC.) Thank you!
Ask in DM's Andrea, been around long enough to know forum rules regarding discussing other games.
 

d2dacameron

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I remember in previous updates you had to do something specific to get the game to run on Mac. Do we still have to jump through hoops or does it just work now?
 

diggergod

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What are your favorite games with female MC, please? (I prefer the female MC.) Thank you!
I also like female MC games a lot!!
The best one so far is Good Girl Gone Bad by Eva Kiss, also her new game Our Red String (not 100% female MC, we alternate between male and female both).
Then some short one's like Esra in Istanbul and Free Pass are good.
 
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diggergod

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There's only one ending currently...so not sure what you think you unlocked lol.
I meant to say that you can end up with different girls in ending. At first I spent most of my time with Stephanie, then Ellie in one play through and Venessa in another.

Also my bad for replying about other games in this thread, I saw your reply afterwards.
 
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Thermophob

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Defending Lydia Collier v.0.16.1 Release Date

Hello everybody!
I'm very happy to announce that Defending Lydia Collier v.0.16.1 will be released on Friday the 7th of June!
Defending Lydia Collier's v.0.16.1 update will feature:

The return of Vanessa, Tiffany and co to the UK, featuring a new scene with Tiffany, Vanessa and Sophie, rejoining all of the branches back together for the next major big day in the story.
Tiffany's phone being added, with a collection of photos of her and her friends for you to browse through and the start of a path to unlock some of Tiffany's most secret images that'll conclude later on Monday.
54 new achievements, each with 54 unlockable images as rewards for unlocking them, and a new gallery to keep them all.
New quality of life changes to the earlier days including;
In-game warnings when a choice will end a path.
An end to the mandatory computer scouring on repeat playthroughs, persistent flags will let you skip through without betting, finding Eve, or finding Yennifer if you've already done it before.
New opportunities to work on the Helton or Divine Health projects on some of the less interesting early evenings.
Couple of new side images to replace some of the worst old ones.
Audio to Ellie's night out in London that was missing.
Re-encoding some of the overly sized early videos to slightly reduce game size.

I released a small part of the update with all of the achievements to Alpha testers at the beginning of the weekend and am now just awaiting any feedback or problems from them, although I've played through several times myself and unlocked them all, and finishing off a few more renders for the Vanessa content, so it will be a smooth launch on the 7th.
With everything achievement wise being brand new code, you will need to replay the game to unlock them. If you're not fussed, this won't break saves and you don't need to do anything.
Thanks for all the new and continued support!
WP
 
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