VN Ren'Py Exploring the Big Apple [Ep. 4] [Dimajio333]

[billfk]

I was more talking about how the logic is inversed in Pineapple Express: Julia can only get pregnant if you are a cuck/sharing her with your best friend - and hide the condoms that one time. But, if Julia is cheating on you, she gets creampied several times on her own volition and... nothing happens. You would expect one of the endings to be that Julia leaves you for Cornell once she finds out she is pregnant with his kid.

One of the things I love about Dimajio's work is that it's very realistic. The chances of a woman getting pregnant from unprotected sex are actually lower than you think, which is why there are so many videos online of friends and family congratulating her on her pregnancy.

And in many of his works, the female protagonist has unprotected sex and the couple just ‘what possibly go wrong’ and move on. Even IRL and in general, unprotected sex is a boundary issue, not a pregnancy issue.

Given the number of times Julia has had sex, I think it's very unlikely that she could have had Cornell's child in any case.

There is one other instance in the game where Julia gets pregnant, and it's a no corruption vanilla pass, which means she's 100% pregnant with the MC's child.

IRL, whether MC hid the condom or not, it's most likely the MC's child in either case.

You can also choose to have the MC tell Julia that he can't stand her cheating, which would end the game. I think this is probably closer to the ending where Julia ends up with Cornell.

 

[justin.case]

I was more talking about how the logic is inversed in Pineapple Express: Julia can only get pregnant if you are a cuck/sharing her with your best friend - and hide the condoms that one time. But, if Julia is cheating on you, she gets creampied several times on her own volition and... nothing happens. You would expect one of the endings to be that Julia leaves you for Cornell once she finds out she is pregnant with his kid.

Pineapple Express endings were lacking on many front tbh, hope to see this one will be better. I trust the dev though, he always outdone his previous works.

 

[Ferald26]

Please, an ending where Julia moves in with Cornell and is pregnant with Peter's child. I would like to see your faces the day the baby comes.

 

[Filipis]

One of the things I love about Dimajio's work is that it's very realistic. The chances of a woman getting pregnant from unprotected sex are actually lower than you think, which is why there are so many videos online of friends and family congratulating her on her pregnancy.

And in many of his works, the female protagonist has unprotected sex and the couple just ‘what possibly go wrong’ and move on. Even IRL and in general, unprotected sex is a boundary issue, not a pregnancy issue.

Given the number of times Julia has had sex, I think it's very unlikely that she could have had Cornell's child in any case.

There is one other instance in the game where Julia gets pregnant, and it's a no corruption vanilla pass, which means she's 100% pregnant with the MC's child.

IRL, whether MC hid the condom or not, it's most likely the MC's child in either case.

You can also choose to have the MC tell Julia that he can't stand her cheating, which would end the game. I think this is probably closer to the ending where Julia ends up with Cornell.

That's all true... in the real world, but not absolute in a fantasy.
And Julia has sex many times, both with MC and Cornell in both paths, the baby could just as easily be Cornell's as it could MC's. The fact that there is a choice between hiding the condom or letting them use it means Dimajio made Julia's pregnancy on that path deliberately vague (not my favourite part, would've preferred to have resolution on that someday, maybe in the sequel?).

But the path where that pregnancy would've made the most sense - the cheating path, where Julia is creampied multiple times and has IIRC even less sex with MC than she does with Cornell - is just disappointing. So, yes, I truly hope that this game has at least one ending (the cheating path) where Martin knocks up Emma, and she leaves MC for him.

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

This thread is being overrun by PE influence... (still fans of dimagio but a decidedly different focus)

 

[Filipis]

This thread is being overrun by PE influence... (still fans of dimagio but a decidedly different focus)

I admit we got derailed a bit, but PE has close ties to EtBA due to their themes, it's natural to compare the two. I hope Dimajio is listening at this feedback, and delivers some fantastic endings for EtBA.

 

[atlas114]

i also hope it’s longer than what i heard it would be; there could be more story to tell once Emma starts school so i would like think that its not just Martin that’s corrupting her but others as well. I like that the number of characters is kept small for now and then there is potential to slowly add others to the mix.

 

[darmoe]

Is there any update from Dev regarding progress?

 

[atlas114]

posted previous page
for the lazy; script is almost done, working on coding and renders next

 

[billfk]

i also hope it’s longer than what i heard it would be; there could be more story to tell once Emma starts school so i would like think that its not just Martin that’s corrupting her but others as well.

I'm actually curious about Martin's brother and the girl he's trying to introduce him to, and I've briefly imagined that Martin's brother is actually an identical twin, so he looks exactly like Martin, and Emma gets gangbanged by Martins, and the MC watches and gets a blow job from the girl, so in a way she's the Jasmine of PE. This MC doesn't seem sexually incompetent, unlike the other MCs so far, so that could be a new event that we haven't seen before.

Oh, and the biggest difference from his previous games is that you can play from the female MC's perspective, which means Emma can also be a female cuckold, so you can expect to see Emma watching MC fuck other girls, or even a full swapping scenario.

 

[aordd69]

i waited to play this game and holy moly so good so far.

 

[drakov]

I admit we got derailed a bit, but PE has close ties to EtBA due to their themes, it's natural to compare the two. I hope Dimajio is listening at this feedback, and delivers some fantastic endings for EtBA.

There wil be no 5 updates like he say when he start the game !!! The dev think the game need about 6-7 updates , to properly finish the story !!!

 

[D2taA]

Hope we get to punch ole boy like we did Cornell

 

[Lordvuz]

I like swinging in the end of the game Pineapple Express so much. I hope Exploring the Big Apple will be like that too.

 

[hoctap91]

Nice work

 

[billfk]

I think Dimajio is a very good writer. First of all, the overall tone of his work is mature - it's not just pretty characters banging stories, but it deals with sexual fantasies that real ‘grown-ups’ think about. Of course, the story settings aren't 100% perfect - some of them are overly absurd - but the characters' behaviour and dialogue within those settings is very realistic, and that's the biggest thing that makes me like his work.

Another thing I admire about Dimajio is that he's always willing to try new things, and his work evolves as he goes along. His first work, Sharing My finance, had a humorous, light-hearted storyline and a cuckold for a character, but he didn't like the humorous approach, so his next work, Permission, switched to a more normal tone, experimenting with the use of camera and video to tell the story. Lost in Paradise is a proper sized game that utilises all the experience he's gained and experiments with the bully route. I don't think the bully route was something he really enjoyed working on, as far as I can tell. For his next work, Pineapple Express, he ditched the bully route and experimented with the cheat route. I've seen him mention that the cheat route was a mistake, and I assumed that like the bully route, the cheat route wasn't his favourite either, but I was wrong: his work has always been told from the male protagonist's point of view, and he felt that this didn't allow him to tell the cheat story he wanted to tell. In Exploring the Big Apple, for the first time, he's telling the story from the female protagonist's point of view.

So, as one of his readers, what should we expect from Exploring the Big Apple? I think it's an epic cheating story, and I can't wait to see how he's going to portray the internal conflict of desire in people who cheat.

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

So, as one of his readers, what should we expect from Exploring the Big Apple? I think it's an epic cheating story, and I can't wait to see how he's going to portray the internal conflict of desire in people who cheat.

Given as that path was the last to be implemented, I think it'll be given the least passion in development. Which I couldn't be happier about! I think it'll be similar to all his games in that it's an mc who gets excited hearing about his wife's adventures and they navigate the ups and downs throughout the story.

 

[Filipis]

Given as that path was the last to be implemented, I think it'll be given the least passion in development. Which I couldn't be happier about! I think it'll be similar to all his games in that it's an mc who gets excited hearing about his wife's adventures and they navigate the ups and downs throughout the story.

What do you mean by "last implemented"? AFAIK, all the routes only begin diverging as of this latest update, where the most important choice you can make is selecting which type of fetish video to send to Emma - which sets you on the desired path.

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

What do you mean by "last implemented"? AFAIK, all the routes only begin diverging as of this latest update, where the most important choice you can make is selecting which type of fetish video to send to Emma - which sets you on the desired path.

Just that. The very first choice in the game:

certainly wasn't giving cheating vibes. Indeed, it wasn't until the send-a-video-link segment that any kind of cheating path was realized; he said as much on his patreon.

 

[Filipis]

Just that. The very first choice in the game:
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certainly wasn't giving cheating vibes. Indeed, it wasn't until the send-a-video-link segment that any kind of cheating path was realized; he said as much on his patreon.

Well, it's kinda obvious why it doesn't make sense to include "cheating" options from the very start of the game. It doesn't mean that the path will get the least amount of attention, either.