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Congrats RomanHume on making it to the banner! 
I like to choose an inspiration to guide the creative process. In her dad's case, it was the late great Harold Ramis.
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That was kind of the starting point and I evolved the design from there.
Thank you. It's an honor! Now I have bust my butt twice as hard and release a couple of updates while it's there and capitalize on the exposure. No pressure.Congrats RomanHume on making it to the banner!
Truly appreciate your input mate and I'm glad the wait was worth it. Now that all the gui enhancements and stuff are done and I'm focusing on content creation, these next few should, with all luck, come a lot quicker!Finally had the chance to play through this and I'm glad the old saves never worked because it was certainly worth playing all over again, think my favourite scenes are the Nanami scenes you can cut that tension with a knife but I really enjoy their sex scenes, would like to see more of the wife though haven't really had much with her except some bathtub fun
I'm putting together some news to drop on patreon that I'll share here regarding the next steps and what I'm developing next from here.
Cheers mate!
You ever wanna know frustration, spend three minutes trying to figure out why Photoshop's healing brush won't fix a spot on one of your characters only to finally realize that there's a fleck of shit on the monitor........
Love the game and the dedication that you put into this game to get as far as you did by yourself, I wish the best for you and hope you will a ton of success. To me the dad looks more like a Norman Bates than Harold Ramis, I hope that doesn't offend you.
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2019-10-24 News
And now, for a spot of news!
Bugs
As far as the exception causing bugs, I believe we've squashed most of them. There are a few places where Roger's name is still hard coded. As those are pointed out I'll be quick to fix them for the next update.
The animations will remain wonked for the time being. This isn't so much a bug as it was a result of me upping the resolution of the game. I'm not going to expend time at the moment re-rendering those animations because the old sex scenes will be upgraded with the new sex menu in due time.
Android Version
This continues to be a vexing issue. Try as I might, I cannot even get a successful build. And the only error message I have to go on is (no error message).
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app
ackageRelease'.> org.gradle.tooling.BuildException (no error message)
If anyone has any ideas, by all means, shoot them my way.
I'll continue to work on it, but for the moment I'm going to put it on the back burner and push forward with the next update.
Music
I know some people have been reporting static issues with the music. I've run some tests and the issues appears to be with the coded volumes I set to try and normalize the music. I can fix it by going through all music and dropping everything down in tandem a notch or two. I'll sprinkle this work throughout next week and get a music patch out when it's done.
Live Stream
Now that the update is out, I've got a little breathing room. I'd like to start doing the Daz live streams again. I'm thinking once a month we'll slate a Tuesday or Wednesday for this and have a little fun with our girls.
I believe next up is a wallpaper of Amanda dominating Nanami for the hell of it. =P
What's Next
Work has begun on the next update. Currently, I have Amanda, Cassie and Emily written and mostly coded. The render work is what needs to be hammered on and I've already begun with that.
To help spread the love and get content for all the girls out faster, I'm going to see about completing things in half chapters like we did with Nanami. With that thought in mind, I hope to see a 5 scene release of Amanda content, followed by 5 scenes of Cassie and 5 scenes of Emily. After which, we'll circle back around and finish up Amanda, Cassie and Emily in order. This is tentative and assuming I can find clean breaks between erotic scenes (My goal is to make sure each release has a healthy dose of erotic content).
That's about all I have for now. I have a few more things to disseminate but they deserve their own posts. So after I've finished thinking through the next couple of things, I'll drop that information as well.
For now, I'm on to render some Amanda!
Cheers Mates!
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Know that feeling all too well, been there, done that.You ever wanna know frustration, spend three minutes trying to figure out why Photoshop's healing brush won't fix a spot on one of your characters only to finally realize that there's a fleck of shit on the monitor........
RomanHume congrats on having your game voted on the featured games list on the F95zone main page. Hopefully more people see and enjoy your game and maybe support it if possible. I enjoyed your game and the many characters in Roger/MC's love life and sexcapades, like Nanami, Jane, Cassie ...something? (right?), and Lola. Curious to see how Roger/MC get himself out of his dilemma.
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It was very smartly suggested I
I appreciate the follow up, and as far as I can tell, it is correct. In a similar suggestion in a DM I was advised to raise it to org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx6g.
Which did solve the issue of compiling. My new problem is that it compiles and "seems" to install on my phone correctly. But when I run it, I get the renpy logo for a short while and then it just shuts down. So now I gotta work on debugging it on a device.
So the quest for Android goes on, but I've worked on it all I can for tonight. I'll come back to it this weekend and try again. Appreciate the help! Cheers mate!
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So if there is something strange in the neighborhood we should call Amanda's father?
Anyway bring on Amanda's scenes and Cassie, specially Cassie...
I want to say that I was a player long before I was a developer, so I completely empathize with the frustration that you're feeling. It's one of the unfortunate parts about being on this side of the process, weighing whether or not the long term benefits of a change outweigh the aggravation it may cause players during implementation. I used to weigh those decisions quite heavily but at the moment, I've decided the best thing I can do is go full force with the changes I want to make so that in the long term, there is little no additional game breaking inclusions I can make.
And if it makes you feel better, I am close to the point of accepting that the level of tech I'm adding is nearing it's apex. The only two things I really want to do, is restructure the character class to rely on inheritance so that side characters that don't require all the additional stats won't have them, as well as create a "character sheet" of sorts that when turned on allow players to manipulate all of a character's stats. A cheat mode sort of thing. My goal is to have those incorporate in the next couple of releases and then after that, I think I'm done in terms of enhancements.
So to your point, I'm hoping the end is near on that front. I'm glad that you enjoy the game and appreciate that you care about it enough to let me know what you think. And I have to believe that in 12 months time I will have streamlined everything I possibly can and will have nothing short of a very stable foundation going forward.
Again, I appreciate you sounding off your frustration and I hope that in the long run, this period of growing pains will fade into distant memory.
Side Bar:
And for anyone who cares to know or understand why all this change is happening. I come from a background in analytics and data science. I program extensively in R and in Python for that purpose. So while coding this game is definitely within my comfort zone, I find myself having to think about data structures in a whole new way that I'm only now getting a grip on.
Because I know what the long term prospects of my project are, I'm trying to lay a lot of groundwork now so that things will fall into place perfectly later. One such example is the customer character class I use in my game. I've always known that I wanted to make more than one game. And I've known that when the time comes to make another, I'll want to export your decisions and the attitudes of these characters as you left them so that they appear as side characters in another game in exactly the same way. The easiest way to handle that import/export of characters is through a self contained object that has the entire history of that character.
But the challenge of creating that character class is not completely knowing which stats I'll want to track and which character "types" require which stats. So it's a bit of an evolution to create this character class in a way that it captures everything I want, but is simple and efficient enough that I can slap it into the code without bugs or exceptions haunting the methods and attributes. For what it's worth, I feel like I'm almost there and have gone so far as to include a few generic lists in there just in cast I think of something else.
So for what it's worth, each time I change the code and destroy compatibility, it's with a long term vision in mind and the objective of never having to change/break it again. A ton of shit was added in this last update, mechanically speaking. I have more I want to add in the next, and maybe one or two in the update after that. Beyond that horizon, it should be right where I want/need it to be to move forward and just add chapters and scenes going forward.
This my friends is the goal! If people are willing to just hang in there with me a little more, I think the end result will look good from the front as well as the back.
Salute friends!
Oh, and to answer a question you posed...
I changed the label from Lust to Infatuation only because I thought it was a better descriptor. Knowing Cassie's motivations and the long term prospects for the story, I just thought infatuation was the more applicable term. But story wise nothing has changed as a result of this shift in labels.
And for what little it's worth, that type of thing isn't save breaking. The character object just stores an attribute called "red_value" and "blue_value". And then a separate values holds the label for those numbers. I just don't want anyone reading this to think that I broke saves over something trivial like that. The way the data is structured the game would just roll right along and adapt to that kind of adjustment.
I"m just scanning back over posts I may or may not have replied to. But for what it's worth, this bug was fixed in the patch. If it's still a problem for some reason, by all means let me know. Thanks mate!
That is a battle I'm continuing to wage. Finally got it to compile thanks to some help from folks here. Now I have to figure out why it crashes when installed on an Android device. I'll update as things get figured out. Cheers mate.
That was the end of the content. In the bug patched version you should get a notification you've reached the end now.
Tell me about it. The dev for this game is a real lazy fucker!
Far as I know this was fixed in the patch. So it should be all good. Thanks for the follow up and helping me track it down. Salute mate.
Just letting you know it's out in the event you might have missed it. Cheers.
My Achilles Heel. My brain moves faster than my fingers can keep up. And then I read a line two or three times to make sure it sounds right and by the third time I've stopped reading the actual words or paying attention to the spelling. It's a flaw I've learned to live with but will always apologize for.
I'm working on Amanda's update, and Cassie's close behind, and by the end of both you'll have the opportunity for some full blown, old timey, intercourse. Stay tuned. Sexiness to come!
Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and I hope that as I continue to write and develop the tale it continues to please and eroticize!
It's both fascinating and helpful to hear which parts of the story people enjoy the most. Like a compass that lets me know I'm heading in the right direction. Appreciate you playing and doubly appreciate you taking the time to let me know what you think. Salute mate!
That is fucking bizarre, but so you know, I did see your post before I released the bug patch and added a couple more stops on the sfx channels. Hopefully that should have fixed it. If you continue having the treadmill problem please let me know and I'll commit some more time to figuring it out.
For every misspelled word you find, there are probably four others you didn't.
I'm sloppy like that.
I always swore that if I wrote a best selling novel, I'd pay my editor hella good!
In the end it should all lead to more stable, cleaner code. That is the goal anyway. I put a lot of thought it these changes in the hopes that in another update or two all I'll have to add going forward is content, content, content. Fingers crossed.
There were a few places it was still hard coded. I got as many of them as I could in the patch, but if anyone finds others please let me know and I'll fix it.
I'm doing my best to alleviate that pain with the ability to skip chapters and eventually manually change the characters. It's the best I can offer until the dust settles and construction is complete.
I believe this was fixed in the patch. If for some reason it wasn't please let me know and I'll hop on it. Cheers.