Ren'Py Family, Friends and Strangers [v2024.01] [JohnAndRich]

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tejas2

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Rich has been quite up-front with the fact that his supporters prefer "full chapter" (well, "full chapter in one of the halves") updates as opposed to "however far you've gotten by date X" updates. If he switched to monthly updates, then you'd probably be complaining that there wasn't enough new content in the update.

The fact that he's doing this on his own - solo - and managing to bang out a new release every 2+ months impresses the hell out of me.
yep but even full chapter update is very small in size like hardly 15 mins of gameplay after waiting for 2+ months. now i understand the reason for this is that he does everything alone and its reasonable on his side as lone developer. but i as fan dont feel satisfied at all with quantity as next update is straight 4 months later. its frustrating sometimes as excitement of story is high af
 

Maverick369

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At the end of the day people need to understand that these stories as well as games like GTA are escapism that is needed more that ever with the way the world is nowadays. Just because I enjoy these things does not mean Im going to go out and do them. The characters in these games are exactly characters and are not real meaning that the things being do to them or the things they are doing are not going to hurt anyone. If anything those of us who enjoy these things are not maybe as repressed as others making us less uptight and less judgemental as others. One of my favorite games right now has a character make a flamethrower from items built at a hardware store and proceed to flambe someone who beat him up. It was done in such an over the top manor that it was making me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants. There was no way anyone reasonable person would believe that it could really happen. Im not going to go out and do the same thing in the real world.
 

tejas2

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this game is like...either people will absolutely love it for the impact it does on mind and real it feels. whereas others will feel it inceredebily boring for technical reasons and game being not their taste...there is no in between
 
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Roniered

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Just finished playing until Chapter 12a. I must say this is decent enough. Though I feel like cliff hung. And I'm keen to find out how Becky's story progress on the next chapters.
 
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Roniered

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But still I feel bad for Becky. The MC just gave her to those cops because he taught he was cheated.
 

Vrijgeest

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Boring. Simple as that. Those cops would not exist in RL and I know it is a fantasy but it is inconceivable. The story is weak at best and not for me. Too many devs make American stories that they consider this as a normal life but in Europe we have other ideas. There should be a college tag.
 

lolo49520

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Correct. This was a "pure" kinetic novel up until Chapter 9. At that point, I was torn as to which of two different directions to take the plot, so I cheated and decided to do both. Hence the one and only one choice in Chapter 9. If you prefer, think of it as two kinetic novels shoved together. LOL
i'm start playing with my save at the end of version 0.11 and there is no more content in version 0.12 why ?
 

DIRTY FILTHY Animal

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So does the mom automatically go to the hotel with teacher mr miller, or is there something we can do to prevent it from happening?
 

L.Lumpy

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So does the mom automatically go to the hotel with teacher mr miller, or is there something we can do to prevent it from happening?
Kinetic... Novel... There is exactly one choice in the entire project - whether or not Parker cooperates with the cops. Other than that, no choices. That being said, we don't know if she's going to show up at the hotel in the other branch. Given her obvious relationship with him early in the story, however, I wouldn't bet against it.
 
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Maverick369

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I think her going to hotel for affair is the key event that makes Parker go dark and blackmail mom as well. Only question is what he would do to blackmail her. We know what he does in the short story but it does not mean that is what will happen. Last chapter showed a sadistic side developing in Parker and we already saw him masterbate to his mom from his memory.
 
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edcl58

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I think her going to hotel for affair is the key event that makes Parker go dark and blackmail mom as well. Only question is what he would do to blackmail her. We know what he does in the short story but it does not mean that is what will happen. Last chapter showed a sadistic side developing in Parker and we already saw him masterbate to his mom from his memory.
Like to see Parker taking liberties with his mother while his father is in the house
 
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