Ren'Py Early life crisis (a mid life crisis fan game) update#4 Oct 5/24

[Noegrets]

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Above is a transparent textbox PNG you might consider using instead of the slightly shaded version you have now. Good luck on the game!

Thanks for giving the option. Any chance you know how to to code the ui to let the player choose which?

 

[Noegrets]

I like (and often even outright prefer) the well done female protag games, and the one downside of Midlife Crisis was always the lack of proper Christine content in my book, soooo this is just right for me - thank you Noegrets!

The first review said they didn’t feel like it was female protagonist because of no first person pov and things happened without her. Do you think I have labeled the game correctly? The users on their site seem very pedantic about the labels and #1 feed back was they didn’t like female protag.

 

[Noegrets]

Thank you for your efforts you've done a great job maybe a little to early to ask but maybe a little morning sickness for someone else just asking
<3 ☕

Where we are in the story is a little early for that Unfortunately. But maybe i can make a scene about the girls fantasizing about being fucked while preggers?

 

[Noegrets]

General feedback request. My lazy Banner seems to have upset a lot of people. Made sense for use in the game. But I guess they were excited for a new midlife crisis release and didn’t read the name? Oops.

Any suggestions on themes for a new banner?

 

[Chevy2ss]

Where we are in the story is a little early for that Unfortunately. But maybe i can make a scene about the girls fantasizing about being fucked while preggers?

That would be better than my idea thank you for your reply

 

[Noegrets]

I’m planning on using the girls fantasying about things as a way to have more sex content while still having a build up to the big scenes.
next we have Sarah and Christine talking again then s eats out and fingers c. Then Sarah talks to mc and puts her chrisine flavored fingers in mcs mouth.
then Christine has a phone call with her cousin where she gushes about what’s happened and promises to help cousin fuck mc. But also teacher her ’things’ (girl on girl action).
then I have a blank. Not sure what happens here but something with mc and Christine. Maybe a spanking and some teasing? Then some sexy stuff with mc and Christine.

then I am at a blank. Maybe the preggers content goes here?

i made the scenes for c and mc’s big moment. And then c and mc and s. (1000 rendered)

but not sure how to get there. people like good writing and releasing the game didn’t get anyone to this thread who would help me write. :/ I just want to make the images.

There are some places for branches but I thought made most sense to make one full path first. Also I don’t know how to code. Many developers don’t seem to finish their games and I wanted there to be like at least one finished idea in mine. however many user posts were about extras being desired.

I am somewhere between 400 and 2000 hours into this already. It’s slow learning how when I just want to do You know? Love the ideas! I’m not showing this to anyone in my real life.

 

[Chevy2ss]

General feedback request. My lazy Banner seems to have upset a lot of people. Made sense for use in the game. But I guess they were excited for a new midlife crisis release and didn’t read the name? Oops.

Any suggestions on themes for a new banner?

Make it your own ,and don't forget to pay homage to the original story,

 

[eyethotknot]

Thanks for giving the option. Any chance you know how to to code the ui to let the player choose which?

Might be better in the long run to add code to make a transparency slider. This might get you started in the right direction.

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[Osider]

I may be jumping into the conversation late, but I'd like to offer my thoughts on how to improve this game. In particular, I think it would be beneficial to include more control over the interactions between characters to the player (aka Sarah and Christine as an example).

In the original game, players were free to explore relationships without any forced interaction. However, in this fan continuation, that's exactly what happens from the start - which may alienate some fans of the original series.

By giving players a choice in how they want to interact with characters, you could potentially retain those fans who might be put off by the new direction. This would not only make the game more engaging but also help to build a stronger connection between the player and the story.

 

[Noegrets]

I may be jumping into the conversation late, but I'd like to offer my thoughts on how to improve this game. In particular, I think it would be beneficial to include more control over the interactions between characters to the player (aka Sarah and Christine as an example).

In the original game, players were free to explore relationships without any forced interaction. However, in this fan continuation, that's exactly what happens from the start - which may alienate some fans of the original series.

By giving players a choice in how they want to interact with characters, you could potentially retain those fans who might be put off by the new direction. This would not only make the game more engaging but also help to build a stronger connection between the player and the story.

I think your not going to enjoy the game. I started it in 2019 when nef disappeared for 6 months the first time but and was about to post an early version just when he came back.

Since then I have been slowly rerendering the whole game. But I have several more chapters written and rendered. I released it a year after nef disappeared. I thought some people might enjoy seeing the same characters again.

this story isn’t a continuation. This is the same characters in alternate situations. Our MC Steve and Christine are going to bang all the girls. Christine sleeping withy the others girls is the build up to her sleeping with steve. It’s the whole game. I liked the girls. I liked them having sex. I don’t love ntr. But with out girl on Girl otherwise the game would just be one scene.

im not against more choices if an other developer joins to help with writing or programming. But those are very very slow jobs when I do them. Right now it’s a kinetic novel and the mod who edited the thread labeled it as a vn which seems triggering for some people.

it’s also weird that the only people who seem to want to rate the game are people who don’t like it’s kinks and want a different story.

Sorry for making you a free game you didn’t have to play with hundreds of hours of my time. Please don’t sub to the patreon I didn’t make to collect no money from you.

 

[Nizzquizz]

The first review said they didn’t feel like it was female protagonist because of no first person pov and things happened without her. Do you think I have labeled the game correctly? The users on their site seem very pedantic about the labels and #1 feed back was they didn’t like female protag.

1) Given that the only actual choice in the game has "cum in my mouth" vs "cum on my face", it's pretty clear that we're deciding on behalf of and in first person of Christine. Thus female protagonist tag would be correct either way. Whether we also follow Sarah or the Dad (thus getting male & multiple protagonist tag) is up for debate, seeing as for example the one "fill her up" option was inside Christine's daydream. Alas, the stigma of female protag is well earned at least.

2) Sadly true. Female protag games seem to be pretty disliked by a rather vocal crowd - which I can partly understand, tbf.
Seducing dudes is usually not the content straight men want to see, and FemProtag games are often just badly written and extreme. It's like sandbox or RPGM - there are great ones, but man, are the bad ones outnumbering them.

I know it's a weak consolation, but I think some of the less than kind replies are a result of people feeling frustrated and "let down", thinking Nef&Midlife was back. Don't take it to heart. One might say that using the same banner pic / thumbnail wasn't the smartest move, but on the plus side, it got attention and going forward those with interest in the project will know what name to look out for.

Reading your latest reply, you seem to to have a general plan (which I really like btw! Would have been my idea for where to take the game too, seeing as the best fem protag games are usually the ones focussing mainly on lesbian content and you can build upon a female cast that people already care about..) and the endurance to see it through, even if it might take years. Which, as things stand, would still see your game finish before Midlife Crisis does..

 

[WALTR]

since this got a fan make, it is my fervent wish that Bad Teacher also gets a fan make

a fan make, it is my fervent wish that