- Sep 7, 2018
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the best way to approach this is just pretend everything but the 3 characters with actual depth isn't there. there is a lot of stuff written it's just all crammed into basically 3 characters
HTML Devious World [v99a/v43a] [Devious Skooma]
......why are none of the paths actually finishable I've been following this game for years and theres still no progress on ending paths.... wtf. Like finish a path before working on something else please
- Nov 1, 2020
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So being Amanda in the bus scene (one of the first scenes), you can sacrifice yourself and have a game over, sacrifice YOUR BEST FRIEND and then find a furry, then you or "DEATH TO THE FURRY!" which leads to a game over or "She seems nice. Ask for help." and the next two choices just don't exist because in both it says "This passage does not exist".
Am I doing something wrong or is this game full of possibilities that lead to absolutely nowhere? The only choice I have made is whether I want a game over or a "This passage does not exist"
Am I doing something wrong or is this game full of possibilities that lead to absolutely nowhere? The only choice I have made is whether I want a game over or a "This passage does not exist"
First time playing, is it normal that ALOT of answers are in the red "this answer does not exist" problem or did i downloaded the wrong version somehow?
Sadly this game suffers from a developer who has added very little content to this game in the last year or so whilst constantly posting excuses on Patreon. In reality the game will never likely be finished even if you give it another 20 years. There are far to many paths and characters. This is too much for a whole massive team to handle let alone a small group especially as the developer has spread himself across the other side projects in the same vein.
Basically nearly every character and path will quickly lead to a dead end of and even those that dont quickly end have limited choices as many are blocked out.
It is a shame as the idea is great and the writing not bad.
Y'know. No one really mentioned that there's two other games in the download, and it looks like one of the updates was avoided.
As far as updates actually o and the quality, this isn't that bad, and it's a hell of a lot more in a year and per month than other projects.
As far as updates actually o and the quality, this isn't that bad, and it's a hell of a lot more in a year and per month than other projects.
That REALLY sucks, specially because of the setting itself one thing that could have EASYLY been done is to finish 1 "main storyline" then make like 3-5 branches to that storyline and finish them, then proceed to another "main storyline" and so on and so forth (basically every new update having 1 more story and it's variables.)
AKA: The game could have gone on an "New Update: New storyline!" infinite loop and I feel everybody would've been onboard with it.
Oh well, gonna pass on this, it was fun the first few minutes but once i realized no option really took me to an ending it quickly lost it's charm (such a shame tho, my favorite thus far was "King Jamie" storyline, really wanted to play that one through.)
That being said, I very much sympathize with people who are bothered by the constant stonewalling and how all the potential and qualities the game has will likely never be realized in even a semi-complete form. It hurts to see.
As someone's that's fiddling around with a similar set up(Just different) I... kinda get it?
I've been writing over on some CYOA sites and it's been more fun and free flowing than trying to write a full story start to finish, but this also means a lot of jumping back and forth between story lines and characters, as the whim strikes me rather than manning up and sitting down to actually try writing. The issue is that on some CYOA places, you have far more interaction with other writers where as Skooma seems to be doing it solo(I'm unsure how much interaction patrons have in what gets written and how).
The strength of this is very much creative freedom to do what he wants and how(most the paths tend to be hugely varying of their ideas, showing of his 'What IF' creativity) but the downfall is the whole what is being worked on or what is stalled out. I'd very much like to see the one Anthro Cat transformation path continued but..., I'll have to settle with being hyped for any Ranma based stuff.
It's a pretty interesting formula but for only short bits rather than a long length of time. But Skooma is still hacking away at it so credit to him on keeping it going.
I've been writing over on some CYOA sites and it's been more fun and free flowing than trying to write a full story start to finish, but this also means a lot of jumping back and forth between story lines and characters, as the whim strikes me rather than manning up and sitting down to actually try writing. The issue is that on some CYOA places, you have far more interaction with other writers where as Skooma seems to be doing it solo(I'm unsure how much interaction patrons have in what gets written and how).
The strength of this is very much creative freedom to do what he wants and how(most the paths tend to be hugely varying of their ideas, showing of his 'What IF' creativity) but the downfall is the whole what is being worked on or what is stalled out. I'd very much like to see the one Anthro Cat transformation path continued but..., I'll have to settle with being hyped for any Ranma based stuff.
It's a pretty interesting formula but for only short bits rather than a long length of time. But Skooma is still hacking away at it so credit to him on keeping it going.
- Jul 19, 2020
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- Feb 16, 2019
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you really need a wiki to list this stuff and / chop down the story and text a bit as the interactions are ok just wordy...
Skooma suffers from ADHD. It affects their writing.
Sometimes they get inspiration for twenty different things and writes a little bit of everything, sometimes they get utterly hooked on an idea and can't write anything else until they get it out of their head.
That's how they write.
Oh, the game will never be over.
Skooma has said in the Discord that they plan to keep writing for as long as they can.
Imagine yourself as someone who doesn't know about this game. You see it in the latest updates, read the tags (Wow Incest+Bestiality+Necrophilia, thats the exact combo i always wanted!) and download the game without reading the millions of comments like any sane person would (Because some of them, like Liliths throne, are a longer read than tolstoys war and peace).
You start a game and take a path at random. How likely is it you will get to a third or fourth page? And how likely is it that the same will happen with your second and third path? The reason for the frustration is obvious, just try it out with a random number generator. You may know where the content lies, not everyone does.
What would help massively would be an indicator of the maximal page depth on each choice, so new people can find the content.
- Jan 30, 2020
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So far I've seen the biggest complaint about this game being the Dev (Skooma) isn't focusing on one path towards completion. If this Dev was a writer, I'd say they were committing the greatest sin of storytelling by starting up a new story before finishing the current one. But this isn't a writer telling a story, it's a developer stringing an omnibus of various stories, with a multitude of themes and genres, together as one project.
As a writer, I know how long it can take to complete a single story. It can take a year for a novel, one of quality, to be completed. And that is because I'd like to forget what I wrote and review the work with a clear mind. This allows me to read over scenes without jumping to conclusions and, instead, I see whether or not I have made any mistakes that I would've overlooked as its creator. If Skooma doesn't have an editor or beta-readers, then this is all being done with time.
If Skooma reads this, I have something to say towards you: Ignore the anger of would-be kings and keep weaving the shroud, Penelope.
As a writer, I know how long it can take to complete a single story. It can take a year for a novel, one of quality, to be completed. And that is because I'd like to forget what I wrote and review the work with a clear mind. This allows me to read over scenes without jumping to conclusions and, instead, I see whether or not I have made any mistakes that I would've overlooked as its creator. If Skooma doesn't have an editor or beta-readers, then this is all being done with time.
If Skooma reads this, I have something to say towards you: Ignore the anger of would-be kings and keep weaving the shroud, Penelope.
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tldr Month long hiatus and patreon payment pause extended indefinitely as Skooma deals with writing burnout and mental health issues
- Mar 18, 2019
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Very minor thing that annoys me, I might be wrong but, the choice of "if they've hurt her, I'm going to kill them." in the Sam + Molly path seems like odd wording. You've already seen them beating her up on the TV. I guess since she's a super hero she's not very hurt, but still.
- Jan 30, 2020
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I think it meant that Molly had better be capable of bouncing back and those hits weren't hard enough to leave a reminder.