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I knew I have seen that comment. I will do the right thing and delete my comment.
Done!! you deserve it my man!
Done!! you deserve it my man!
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OMG! You just prison fucked my brain again.
Man, you gotta quit posting shit like this. It hurts. It hurts really bad. I'm just a simple blue collar guy, and you have just scrambled up all that remains of my entire thought processes. I can no longer see, hear, or think straight. Next time can you post this stuff in Russian or Chinese just so that I can avoid the temptation of trying to decipher what it is that you are trying to convey? I mean... I can read history, philosophy, the journal of astrophysics/quantum physics etc... and actually come away feeling somewhat more educated. But not so in reading some of your posts. You actually manage to make me feel significantly dumber. So I yield to you Great Sir. You are much smarter than I.
In all seriousness though,
Wouldn't it be wiser to keep the details of this accomplishment on the down low, so as to package it up all nice and pretty, and sell it on the open market? I would think other developers would be chomping at the bit for something like this. IDK.
Anyway, It's fun seeing you all excited this Mr. Hume.
With the exception of a few smart ass posts that couldn't wait, I realize I've been remiss in responding to posts on the forum here. Figured this is a good opportunity to correct that. So here goes...
But saying that the situation is contextual is very fair. Thanks for sharing.
No, really, she does.
I do appreciate it though.
But I like the way you think.
I'll save this list, but the only typos I try to go out of my way to fix speedily are the ones in the game itself. Any time someone sends me a list of typos from the game, I add those to the bug fix list and make sure they get corrected before the next release.
Cheers mate and thanks again!.
With all this refactoring I'm doing, and the promise of going into full creative mode, there is the possibility of other characters being optionally upgraded to full lover status provided it flows well into the over all story.
No apologies needed. I'm finding it fascinating to discover where people land on some of these topics.
The shape of the void isn't really as important as the depth....and it's deeeeep!
But saying that the situation is contextual is very fair. Thanks for sharing.
I like the cut of your jib!
It's actually for a new character I'm working on that will tie in to both the Monica and Emily story lines. I know, things are getting twisted, but it's all in an effort to start bringing together the different story lines.
Glad you caught it before I did. =D
Just to be clear though, Cassie don't pay no rent.
Cassie's ex boyfriend is a fuck face dick bag kid who doesn't know how to find the little man in the boat. He's not allowed to be a character in my game. And Jane has a knife.
No, really, she does.
It's hard not to feel a growing connection to the people you live with. And Cassie has lived with you for a long, long time. Seems like her whole life sometimes.
I appreciate the diligence and the corrections and I'll definitely save them for a later date. But I only recently started updating the web page after like a year. One day I'll go through and make some improvements but for the moment it's waaaay down on my list. I'm scared to think of how old some of that information might be given that it was created when I had a full team.
I do appreciate it though.
Certainly fair enough.
I'm working on ways to introduce future characters in more than one chapter so that if close off one character you'll still have access to the new additions.
When it doubt, make the puppets dance. PULL THE STRINGS! PULL THE STRINGS!Keep fucking like rabbits behind his back and find a way to sabotage their relationship without her knowing. After all if the boyfriend is a asshole it shouldn't be hard to find evidence to open the girl's eyes.
But I like the way you think.
Fair enough. From a writing perspective it's fun and beneficial to hear so many different thoughts on the subject. In some cases it even opens up story possibilities that I hadn't previously considered.
When it doubt, tap that ass.Well, it greatly depends on the backstory, but in general I'd try to make her mine if she's worth it, or at least help her in some ways. Or I'd just keep fudging her...
Was there any game before that?
I'm curious how the plan changes if they're both black...
You're vicious!
To be clear, virgin shoes is not a typo.But I really like virgin shoes.
...and this was my first post >sigh<
Again, I appreciate the work, but I'll warn you now. Checking my work for typos is a full time job that doesn't pay worth a damn. My fingers try to type as fast as my brain is moving and it leads to a shit ton of errors.
I'll save this list, but the only typos I try to go out of my way to fix speedily are the ones in the game itself. Any time someone sends me a list of typos from the game, I add those to the bug fix list and make sure they get corrected before the next release.
Cheers mate and thanks again!.
Not yet. But as part of this recoding I'm working on fixing that. To work with my new code I"m having to reconfigure many of the menus and screens. In the process, I'm throwing in a switch so that if the game is running on mobile, it'll reconfigure the screens to display better on a smaller screen.Oooh.. no android port yet?
Having an android version is going to be critical to the success of the game I have no doubt. I'm only now in a position to make it happen.
The other issue I've been worried about is the size of the game. But now that I'm getting away from the coding and writing scripts to handle all my conversions, etc, I'm including some code that will downsize the images to make them smaller as well as making it easier to break the game up into multiple parts for mobile.
Know that Android is still very much in my mind and I'm working towards it. I just want to make sure that it gets the same attention as the desktop version and doesn't come off as a cheap port or knock off. I want the android version to feel just as well thought out and put together as the other versions.
Awesome. Just send it over when you're done and I'll make sure Nikki gets the time she deserves.
To be fair, I'm way behind on a new release. So it's not like we have much else to talk about at the moment.
While it's fun to think I could sell this code for others to use, there are a couple of reasons why it wouldn't be practical. The first is that they'd have to use the same notations and conventions I do when writing. The script specifically looks for a short hand that I developed for this purpose. And that short hand is based on how my story is structured and flows which deviates from the way most linear renpy games flow. I guess what I"m saying is that the code is highly specific to my situation.Sounds awesome. As someone who knows nothing about coding (to the point where most of this post reads fdgnb,kj ghuk hjkgkjg dfhdg dghhdth to me) I'm curious as to whether that 150 lines of code you wrote is something that could be turned into a tool for other devs to use. I appreciate that you may feel a sense of ownership of your work and don't wish to give it away; the flipside would be more games for you to play
The other caveats are that what I"m doing isn't anything spectacular. In about an hour of introductory python instruction you could learn everything you'd need to know to do what I"m doing and customize it for your particular use.
And the third, if I took the time develop it as a legit tool, people would just post it up here and I wouldn't make any money anyway. =D
But the real reasons are that it's not particularly complex and it's highly tailored to my needs.
I just feel dumb that it didn't cross my mind sooner.
I think you mean I wrote "Fucking Skynet". Cause really that's all it wants to do is make the fucking easier to get to.Aaaand you just fucking wrote Skynet.
Sssshhhh. It's funnier this way.
Who knew the guy was such a perv. Am I right?
Yeah but just because she's a virgin doesn't mean she's ever been fucked good.The only character that's blue for me is the MC's bitch wife, and that's only because it may be useful down the line (also so she doesn't cheat on me).
Aside from that, i'm teaching Cassie all about the birds and the bees, why outsource the dick when you can keep it in the family?
Edit: Forgot she wasn't a virgin, the point still stands
You must have missed that line in the game.
emily '"Roger honey, can I bring you a cold beer?"'
'There it was again, Emily riding my ass. Why was she always being such a cunt.'
emily '"Or if you want, I could pour you a scotch."'
roger '"Why are you always being such a fucking bitch!"'
You have to play on the orange path and make mostly orange choices to get it.
The dev is a fucking prick.
Making a renpy game isn't as hard as all that. It's actually a very simple interface to learn, but knowing some python will allow you to push and twist it in all kinds of ways. I just don't use it in the traditional way and I want it to do all kinds of fancy shit.
But if you ever want to learn to code, I recommend the following course:
You must be registered to see the links
I know it's a big course, but you don't have to take the whole thing to get started. In fact just watching the first 2 hours of the course will give you enough information to do most of what I"m doing as well as push renpy into doing all kinds of fancy shit.
But for anyone interested in this course, don't pay full price. Just keep an eye on it and pick it up for $15 when it goes on sale (which it does frequently). I bought a copy to keep as a reference every once in awhile when I forget how to do some esoteric something or another.
But the videos are short, sweet and to the point and they build on each other nicely. Anyway, that's way more information than you probably needed. I just want you to know that it's not that difficult, you just need the right info on hand.
Cheers mate.
Well damn, I should have read ahead before I made that joke in my last post. I'm only a week behind, that's all. =D
will be!
It will. I'm not a slow burn kind of guy and Cassie's next chapter will have full blown sexual content for both red and blue paths.
Aaaaaand the secret is out. So fucking much for that...
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For what it's worth, I'm looking forward to releasing it. I just gotta get there.
I don't give estimates because I consistently missed them. Best thing is to follow my Patreon posts or check the thread here. I always try to keep everyone up to date on where I am in development.
I think having done a few releases now and know what bugs frequently occur, combined with finally settling on how I want to structure my code has put me in a good place to do this automation.Nice implementations Roman. Seems like you are kicking ass on the coding part.
I am mesmerized by this image....I seriously can't stop staring at it. It's like looking into another dimension and seeing god.............
Essentially. And that's why I try to stress to people that I"m not really doing anything cutting edge. I'm just getting smart and using what I know to cut down my workload by 1/3. Fortunately my code has settled on a format and if I just keep a few simple rules in mind, there shouldn't be anything to break. *fingers crossed*
You're not entirely wrong, but fortunately reading the code and spotting errors takes a lot less time then typing out all the lines, and then debugging it. So the net time saved should still be positive.
I'd bet that if you spent about two hours learning python, you'd look at me different. You'd probably say, "Yeah you dumb fuck, you should have done that a year ago."
But because what I'm doing is highly tailored to my specific needs and the code is pretty simple, packing it up and selling it would be more work than reward. But I'd certainly be willing to help any other devs who are looking for a solution like it to set up their own and implement it.
But yeah, I am super excited about it because it cuts the work down by a 1/3. All that's left is the fun stuff, writing and rendering porn!
Don't how much you know about renpy scripts, so I apologize now if this is TMI. But in a renpy script, you have an dialogue and an image typically like so:
roger "This is some shit roger says."
scene amana talking
amana '"Now this is amanda talking."
So renpy looks for an image called "amana talking.whatever extension" and displays it by default. Alternatively, in a separate file I could designate what amana talking is supposed to be. In this case, renpy skips looking for it on it's own and instead uses the path I handed it in the second file.
The benefit is that I can add condition statements to change which image amana talking points to. So in my other file I put
layeredimage amana talking:
if some_condition:
"Path to an image"
else:
"Path to a different image"
In this way I can make the images reflect changes in the game based on things like your choices.
However, with this system I can only have one place holder called amana talking. And in the early days of the game, we kept having issues with these placeholders getting shadowed by other images with the same name, even though they were in different directory.
So to combat the shadowing problem, we devised our own naming convention for the placeholders:
[Variant][Scene][character][sequence][action]
So amana talking in the first chapter would look like:
la0101 amana 03 talking
This means the image appears in scene la0101, it's amana, and it's the third image in that scene of her talking.
Now, with the automation I'm working on, I can just type:
amana talking
The script will see that, add the scene name to the beginning, and tracking which number in the sequence it is.
So if it's the fourth time I've typed amana talking in the fourth scene, the code takes "amana talking" and turns it into:
la0104 amana 04 talking
I hope that makes sense.
In summary, I just type two words into my story and the program takes it and fills it out into the full image path and renames it according to my convention.
Then when it comes time to make the images, I have a list of image names and descriptions and know exactly what I need to make. I just make the image, name the file accordingly when I save it, and drop it in the directory.
Alright, reading over that I don't know if it makes any sense at all. Let me know if you need some screen shots to illustrate. =D
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Not adding code for future games, but writing the existing code so that when that time comes and I do want to add things, I can do it and it won't break what's already there. I'm future proofing it in a way by only having one object that requires updating to accommodate any new code, I can easily work on upgrading that object without ruining saves.
I'd say 95% of what I've got now will directly roll over into a new game. But with that I can still expand and add on new features with breaking the existing code.
Yes, absolutely. And once I get this coding project done and all my time is spent just producing content, there is a greater probability of her role expanding and maybe becoming more permanent.
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i'm glad. there's not many good looking trans girl models.
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I figured you had some processing logic which generated "unique" image names from a given place in the script and/or order of processing, but didn't know the details - interesting adaptation that you had to make for providing more flexibility and uniqueness in your naming to ensure that Ren'Py didn't reference something you did not intend.
Oh, and I didn't know anything about Ren'Py processing and logical conventions for image file references, so this was an educational read, thanks.
This was the core of my guess+question from what you previously wrote, so makes perfect sense!
Essentially, you go from
written script with keywords ->
-> processed Ren'Py script with unique image file names/paths ->
-> <crafted images for the given scene subject, using generated name/path> to fill in the blanks
That's a nice pipeline!
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Renpy is a funny thing. Built on Python, a lot of it's internal methods and calls are python-esque. And they've tried to make it so that you have access to a lot of standard python functions using the renpy interface. But renpy also allows you to still explicitly run raw python code. So sometimes there's this design struggle where it's like, "Do I use the function Renpy is giving me to do this?" or "Do I use the base python I know to achieve the same result."
The reason they do this I've discovered is that by doing it through the renpy design functions it works better with Renpy's rollback feature. Sometimes running the straight python code things won't get captured by rollback.
So there's a logic to it, but it's like sleeping with your girlfriend's twin sister. Things are pretty familiar, but the buttons might work a little different and the thing you're trying to achieve might or might not work the way you want it to.
....fuck, that's a good metaphor. I gotta write that one down. Renpy is like sleeping with Python's twin sister.
Right, sorry about that. Wasn't trying to deny you a simple yes or no. I just tend to get a little too excited about nerdy coding shit.
Indeed. My game currently uses webp except for some of the oldest scenes which might still be in jpg. And knowing about the 2gb limit is one reason I'm making sure I have a clean way to break the game up into parts so that when I hit that cap I can split the game in two parts for android players and let them roll their data into the second part. I'm doing my best to think long term and avoid further complications down the road.
Right now I'm looking at a few different modules for python for image editing. One of my goals is to write a script that will go through the game and find all the chapter images and scale them down for android. Every byte counts. Why give android players a large 1920 x 1080 file when a smaller image will look just as good on a small format screen.
I want the android build to look as good as the game does on other platforms, but also be efficient and size conscious for the platform. My hope is that the extra work done here will support multiple games going forward and I won't have to contemplate these issues for a long time.
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It doesn't. I've committed to the plan. Nothin' wrong with little brown babies.
(edit: Jane & Cassie still at the top of the list, though)
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I was thinking more along the lines of, "how do you sell the son of a bitch on the child being his when it comes out white?"
