Ghostface Reborn

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Folks, the latest "playtest" in this case was advertised by the Dev to help check the revamped coding and mechanics in the game. with part of a new chapter to help make the test meaningful.

Sharing it here was bound to occur (hey, we're pirates!) but this was not advertised as the next, full release per the Dev - it was for bug/flow verification by a subset of patrons while the Dev continued development for the full chapter release.

Whining about this release being partial, etc. is missing the point and just causing noise - please avoid adding noise to the discussion.
nah! nah, nah, nah, nah! i say bring da noise! on that that note:
 
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Ayhsel

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And for what it's worth, I'm excited about the red head too! I designed her some time ago because she actually appears in Emily's next chapter, even though her possible pursuit won't come for some time.



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*Seriously dude, why do you keep coming back here?

If you ever want to see how things are moving along, tune in to any of the live streams I've posted here...actually, on second thought. Please don't...



One play test gets leaked and they be coming out the wood work.

I seriously don't mind one star reviews if they provide constructive feedback. But when it's *I'm not getting my free shit fast enough* or *I had to read* then it just kind of pisses me off.

But hey, it comes with the territory.

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Yeah, given your description I am happy I totally qualify as a broken man!

And yeah, it may not be to everybody's taste, some people would rather have 50 characters and fuck them in the first 10 lines. I am not here simply for that. I like the story, the dialogues, the interactions and the drama that can bring. I think your current roster is fantastic. Except Monica, that one I could not care any less. All others are dayum!! Even the wife, which I tend to not pay attention to is great.
More than anything, the teen threesome and Nanami. PERFECT!!

And about the dildo: I saw the name and was sure I was going to facepalm before seeing the comment... that it becomed true is both fun and sad.
 

RomanHume

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Yeah, given your description I am happy I totally qualify as a broken man!

And yeah, it may not be to everybody's taste, some people would rather have 50 characters and fuck them in the first 10 lines. I am not here simply for that. I like the story, the dialogues, the interactions and the drama that can bring. I think your current roster is fantastic. Except Monica, that one I could not care any less. All others are dayum!! Even the wife, which I tend to not pay attention to is great.
More than anything, the teen threesome and Nanami. PERFECT!!

And about the dildo: I saw the name and was sure I was going to facepalm before seeing the comment... that it become true is both fun and sad.
For what it's worth I'm not happy with a lot of Monica's early renders. I was still very new to Daz when those were done.

If you've seen any of the live streams, my ability to manipulate the facial expressions has improved 10-fold since then and I'll be anxious to see if I can't improve her looks just by managing her expressions a lot better. I learned the hard way that dialed expressions are useless and art lies in subtlety.
 
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Ayhsel

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For what it's worth I'm not happy with a lot of Monica's early renders. I was still very new to Daz when those were done.

If you've seen any of the live streams, my ability to manipulate the facial expressions has improved 10-fold since then and I'll be anxious to see if I can't improve her looks just by managing her expressions a lot better. I learned the hard way that dialed expressions are useless and art lies in subtlety.
It is not jus aesthetics, which honestly I am not attracted to her. But her personality was not interesting either.

Nanami: fantastic woman I would definitely be super into in real life. A total challenge.
Cassie: sweet, caring and sexy, daug.. you know.
Amanda: little angel I want to protect!
Jane: beautiful and dangerous trouble definitely worth getting burned with
Lupita: she played her cards so well, knowing I was perving on her, tempting her boss.
Wife: really nice and caring woman.

Monica: emm bla... like was not interested in her life, her interactions or anything.
 
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SpaghettiFor2

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Little sad that it's just a playtest, but I guess that just means I'll have to patiently wait until the update is finished. No problem. If I can wait 43 more days for Cyberpunk, I guess I can wait for the next Dr. Amana update too. Keep up the good work, Dev.
 

Rayplon

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found a few spelling errors but blasted straight past them to see more lol sorry i'll go through it again tonight hehe. no code errors found

p.s ...you got yourself a new patreon .....i'll do that tonight too :)
 

Avaron1974

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One play test gets leaked and they be coming out the wood work.

I seriously don't mind one star reviews if they provide constructive feedback. But when it's *I'm not getting my free shit fast enough* or *I had to read* then it just kind of pisses me off.

But hey, it comes with the territory.

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I'm friends with a few devs and a couple of those mainly work on story based VN's that have more story than sex.

One of the complaints they get a lot is there is too much text. One of the devs even put a disclaimer at the start, it's quite amusing.

Always fun to read those complaints in the forums, story based games having story, whodathunkit.
 

locomotor79

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hmm this again whit reworked game for 3th time and again the sex whit jane and namami are gone
i like this game but honestly its still cockteasing comón Ianvs you can do better this has taken way to long i hope you now finnaly going finish this game
becausse i love the most chars in this game plus iff that redhead sarah is joining the fray wowzer
also you where alrdy reasonble further in story and yet now its like going veryfast backworths.
whit this
 

DA22

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hmm this again whit reworked game for 3th time and again the sex whit jane and namami are gone
i like this game but honestly its still cockteasing comón Ianvs you can do better this has taken way to long i hope you now finnaly going finish this game
becausse i love the most chars in this game plus iff that redhead sarah is joining the fray wowzer
also you where alrdy reasonble further in story and yet now its like going veryfast backworths.
whit this
Remember this is only the playtest of a part of the new content for 2-2. All content of last version and rest of new content of 2-2 should be in official update when it comes. Do I agree with you this game has restarted at least a bit more as is desirable overall, yes. So I agree with you that I hope that now finally it is time for the story to come and shine without restarting it or majorly changing it.
 

clelag

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Well dang, a whole lot complainers in this thread, and here i am thinking i'm happy to find an enjoyable new game in development that i get to play for free. Some people just want the cake and eat it too i guess. Aaanyways, i like the concept, the story is pretty good, the girls are gorgeous and damn sweet, so much so that only one of them ended up on the corruption path (ride that dragon). I like the slow burn towards the inevitable pickle game with the girls which makes the interactions with them the more enjoyable and brings more depth to the characters than just cocksleeves. Either way, all i want to say is that i'll pay attention for future updates now that i had taste of the story and found myself engrossed in it.
 

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That's totally inaccurate and badly generalized. I'm not saying there aren't any, but if there are, they are very few and you mention it as a large number. You can criticize, but not set up false facts.
In fact, as I've said elsewhere in this thread (no wait, that was probably in another thread, I've been involved in so many flame wars these last couple of days that I'm getting them mixed up), in my experience it's us patreons who are not that upset, if we have opinions we voice them on Patreon, or Discord, where they matter. It's the free-lunch people who are upset and very vocal about it. If I'm dissatisfied with devs' progress, I'll just pause my payments for a while, no reason get all excited over a small thing like that.
 

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I try to be as open and honest with ever stage of development as I can. And of course instead of bitching and whining, people can always address me directly through several different channels. I do my utmost best to reply to every communication that comes my way and give the most honest answers possible.

And I wouldn't say that I hated to code, it's just that by itself it was time consuming and required a tremendous amount of effort. Now I have script I can run that does it all for me. With just a few short notations, entire lines of code get properly written which speeds things up and greatly reduces the possibility for errors (cause if you played my game you'd know typos are my thing...even in my code.)



And I thank you greatly for that support!



Sorry for the misinformation. I didn't share it. Just keep that dick on life support and as soon as I finish the actual update we'll see if we can't revive it for you.



Plus I try to type as fast as I think that inevitably leads to many errors in my code that later have to be debugged out. So having the script write the code based off a short hand notation reduces those errors considerably. Plus it's a platform I can use for future games as well.

I think when one considers most of the summer was spent writing lines of script and dealing with all the fall out from pandemics, etc... I mean to be perfectly fair, we didn't really get to start digging into the Cassie chapter until the second week of September. That's when the first render came out for the chapter. So in about six weeks we created and rendered over 450 images to go along with 8,000 words or so of script.

For a part time project I'm not ashamed of those numbers at all.



I love that aboned is now a thing!



Hey, I was a pirate before I was developer and I don't forget where I come from. My philosophy is that one day pirates may be patrons, so treat everyone like a valued player. Besides, some of the best ideas for my game came from pirates on this thread. (y)

I appreciate the vote of confidence though. Hopefully the final numbers in this next release will speak for themselves.



Right....but my rebuilt code is done and there's nothing else I'm looking to add to it. It has all the features I want and need to tell my store. No more, no less.

And were these other developers Live Streaming Daz and Coding sessions for four and five hour stretches throughout the week?

Shit, I had more than a couple of streams these last few weeks that lasted over six hours. I guess when it comes to milking patrons I suck at it cause clearly I'm doing too much work.



I mean, I like the first part of what you said. And of course I won't deny the second either.



Firstly, thank you so much for your support! Every bit helps and thanks to you guys we've just about finished the build on the second computer which will help with the renders tremendously. Having two systems jamming out the art is going to be amazing!

The shower scenes in that play test took almost 2 hours a piece to render. Easily the longest in the series but there was a lot of water and reflective surfaces in the chrome that I blame for it.

And for what it's worth, my patrons are the best! Not because they are patrons, but because they are on F95 and know where to get the game for free but still choose to support the project and that means a lot to me!



And surprisingly I haven't had that many come in. So that bolsters my confidence further in the coding.



Uh, not quite. So in the "Contacts" tab, you can select a character and change what they call you. When you create the character and give him a name, this field is still defaulted to Roger. So in those instances where you'd get called by your nickname, it will still show "Roger" unless you manually changed it in the planner for each character.

I'm just working on a way to get those fields to update, but only if you haven't gone in and manually changed the nickname. It's a loophole I have to close up and I'm hoping I come up with a simple solution before the release.

Sure I could use a flag or something when the player changes the nickname in the planner. But I'm to avoid introducing a bunch of flags and variables to track stuff because the more there are, the greater the chance for a game break.



Yeah that was back when I had a couple other guys helping develop the game and everyone on the forum hated us. Ah...those were the days.



I mean, we got slammed pretty hard. But knowing the history of some other devs and being completely new to Daz, Patreon, Renpy...and, well everything. We made some dumb mistakes in the beginning. Some of those were written off as us being arrogant and greedy when in fact we had absolutely no way to know how to properly market the game.

But everything that was said was read and the valuable advice was taken and adhered to and the basic bitching was discarded. So ultimately all the negative feedback helped steer everything into a better direction.



I certainly hope so! None of them have complained to me any way. :)
No they did not stream.
The previously mentioned either go into radio silence mode, or they kept promising and telling progress stories but never delivered anything anymore, ever.

If you stream, then there's no denying that you're working. It's just, in this world I feel like people should be guilty until proven otherwise.
 
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