VN Ren'Py Eternum [v0.9.2] [Caribdis]

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Another good update. The Calypso section was really interesting and seeing Lorelei makes me wish we had an entire game where she as a main love interest. When Calypso started talking about how much she loves the group and all the things they taught her I was a little disappointed that we hadn't really seen any of that. Maybe I'm forgetting some stuff, but I never really got the impression that Calypso and the girls had any interactions outside of the times she tagged along with the MC. We see a lot of brief scenes of the girls interacting with each other in class, at the mall, or just hanging out, so it would've been nice to see some of that with Calypso too (but again, maybe I'm forgetting something).

When do you guys think we'll get that Idriel sex scene (if ever)? I've been waiting since v0.1 so everytime she pops up I get a brief glimmer of hope, only for it to be dashed away as she gives us yet another cryptic speech about coins or something.

I saw that Caribdis already has plans for a new game after this one is finished in however many more updates, but I don't know how he'll be able to top this. The setting of Eternum allows for so much freedom in the things you can do and the storylines you can make. It's something that I think most devs would spend their entire careers adding to and never finishing just because it can go virtually anywhere. Do we know if he's going to stick with Honey Select 2 or move to something else so he can actually sell the game? Part of me wants him to move to an actual 3D modeling platform, but the other part of me loves how HS2 looks in Eternum.

hardton said:
The more I read this thread, the more I realize I've forgotten most of the plot, barring the last two updates. The game could do with a recap button.
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Annie does a whole recap in (I think) the last update. She shows a bunch of chibi drawings and goes over everything from the start. I agree though. I would love it if more games started putting in recaps when they update their game. Especially when it's a year or more between updates.

khumak said:
Kind of curious how common that view is. Personally, I found the very small amount of girl on girl we've gotten so far very hot and would love to see it go a LOT farther. I don't need it to but I would definitely prefer if it did. I have no issues with the idea of a toggle where you can disable that though. Or disable it by default and have a toggle to enable it. Doesn't matter to me.

For a threesome in particular I find that it makes the scene much more engaging if both girls are into both of the other people instead of only 1.
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I also would like to see it go further. I personally really like it when harem games have the girls grow closer in more ways than just becoming friends or sister wives.
 
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Two questions:

1- What is the maximum number of hearts you can have with Calypso at the end of 0.9? Does anyone know?
2- What was the official release date of the 0.8 update?
 
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khumak said:
Kind of curious how common that view is. Personally, I found the very small amount of girl on girl we've gotten so far very hot and would love to see it go a LOT farther. I don't need it to but I would definitely prefer if it did. I have no issues with the idea of a toggle where you can disable that though. Or disable it by default and have a toggle to enable it. Doesn't matter to me.

For a threesome in particular I find that it makes the scene much more engaging if both girls are into both of the other people instead of only 1.
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In general I have no preference, but I found the Dalia-Alex interaction during the threesome absolutely amazing. It helps that Dalia is my #1, and Alex is tied for second, so seeing the two of them kiss, seeing their titties mash together, pure cinema!
 
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Cutiepatootiepookiebear said:
How to use 0.8 saves for 0.9? I copy pasted the files from 0.8 saves folder to 0.9 but it didn't unlock my gallery
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Gallery is bound to the persistent file. Renpy is saving the games to two different places anyway, so if it is the same computer and the same Win Account you don't need to move files anyway (talking PC here).
 
Dorfnutter

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King Cule said:
Dose that means every update takes 1 year of development?
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If Cari keeps his promise from his last 0.9 progress report that next updates are gonna be shorter then maybe we're gonna see at least a year where we get 2 updates (assuming, say, next 3 updates go back to the 7-month dev time instead of a year and then he reserves the 1 year dev time for the final update).
 
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On the matter of recaps:
  • I really love the way BaDIK handles this. While that game gets a few things wrong in my opinion (to the point it's really overrated), the recaps are done just perfectly. A BaDIK recap feels exactly like a recap at the beginning of an episode of a TV series. It makes the entire game appear much more polished than it would otherwise. But I can see why that isn't becoming a standard. It must be a lot of effort.
  • At the other end of the effort scale, there is the way that one distinctly amateur and very eccentric game (which screams "made by an autist" to me) does it: Jeijei's Harem - Calm Before the Storm. Between two episodes (or in this case: days) it displays a simple page with non-clickable portraits of all love interests known at that point and a simple, text-only list of player decisions and love interest statistics. This is very low effort but almost more useful than what BaDIK does.
However, both methods make less sense if there are no recognizable, complete episodes of roughly equal length. It seems to me that Eternum isn't divided into episodes so much as in scenes (with several scenes per update). New players can't tell where an update ended and a new one started. Old players only know this because they remember it. You could probably divide Eternum into episodes with distinct adventures, but due to the cliffhangers, that structure would be different from the division into updates. Even so, I guess a recognizable episode structure with simple episode recaps (as basic as in Jeijei's Harem but with better visual design), perhaps plus update recaps in between, could probably be added by a mod.
 
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jarisi

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Dorfnutter said:
4 Hearts.


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Thank you very much. It seems that I haven't lost points with Calypso along the way.

So between 0.8 and 0.9 there was a year of development, during which Cari had trouble with the music and the payments, which made 0.9 take longer. Considering that Cari has said the next updates will be shorter, and assuming there won't be external problems, maybe we can see 0.10 at the end of September or in October, right?
 
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Radish Cruton said:
In general I have no preference, but I found the Dalia-Alex interaction during the threesome absolutely amazing. It helps that Dalia is my #1, and Alex is tied for second, so seeing the two of them kiss, seeing their titties mash together, pure cinema!
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For me the obvious comparison is the Alex/Dahlia scene versus the Nancy/Nova one. Nancy/Nova there really wasn't much chemistry between the two girls and it didn't really feel like a threesome to me. It was more of a tag team aside from a little sharing for the BJ. For the Alex/Dahlia scene it was much clearer that they both were getting off on watching the other one, especially for Alex. Alex couldn't wait to watch her best friend get fucked, and I got the feeling she'd be down for some muff diving as well. Not sure Dahlia would have gone for that but Alex seemed primed for it. Would have loved if the finale for that scene was Alex getting fucked by MC while she licked Dahlia's pussy.

I liked the chemistry in the Calypso scene as well but I'm not a fan of her summoned hand/dildo stuff. I would rather those scenes did not resort to summoned props. IMO, her first scene should have been a real HJ and she was coming from so far behind the other girls in the latest update that IMO her 2nd scene should have been a 69 after Lorelei. I still liked it as is though.
 
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