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Wish I knew before subscribing to Patreon one
Any way to get the patchable version now? I guess the money is not an issue as both places cost the same, just used Patreon because it was the one I already had an account.Edit: Fine, I've already discovered the Discord thing, solved!
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I definitely share some of your feelings, even despite the fact that on further playthroughs, I do genuinely enjoy seeing the differences even if I feel sort of like I'm wasting my time, or that I would've preferred seeing it in a singularly contained playthrough.
However, I think reconverging, given Neon's situation (i.e. having a day job and being a lone dev), is what makes this whole thing practical. Otherwise, he would just get an exponentially growing plate of work that would ultimately make his project utterly unfinishable (is that a word
).Now, instead, he can just add little (mostly-)self-contained decision 'hubs' (as opposed to whole branches that would affect everything after it), with their own unique effects; the 'point', of course, being to add little pops of variance to the players game as well as for himself as a creator.
And in future content, the only thing he probably really has to do is make sure that anything that will eventually reference these little 'hubs' gets accounted for in dialogue. I can't imagine he'll have to continually change and/or add entire scenes for each individual decision or anything like that moving forward, which makes this relatively efficient from his perspective (correct me if I'm wrong NeonGhosts ).
I bet the possibility of that is exciting for an author. It sucks that some players have hyper-FOMO (I do to some degree as well), but I can definitely enjoy it as long as it doesn't get out of hand
I really hope these events don't become so major as to add, change, or remove a LI's path (which I very much doubt they will), but I can live with a bonus scene here and/or a scene variance there.EDIT: nm, I guess it will potentially have major effects on LIs in certain paths? I guess if this is the beginning of certain players choosing preferred girls, then I'm fine with it. More playthroughs in the future
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I really try to split the difference as much as possible, between what will give impact to choices, and what won't drive me insane in trying to handle it solo. :'D But, I've really been doing this all along. As early as Chapter Two you can choose to take Ashe home or not, in three different ways. In Chapter Three the decisions you made with Gabby will impact whether or not you get to take her to the store to shop for swimsuits. Chapter Four has three different openings with Nicki, for love, friendship, or dark/corruption. It's always been a facet of the game.
The difference with this chapter, was just how in-the-weeds I got with it. Like, in Chapter Four, the three openings were 89 renders, total. In Chapter Eight, they're over 470. And that's not because I got super self-indulgent, it's just that each girl already demands multiple paths. So, by doing an opening for Ashe (160 renders), one for Risa/Carolina (90 renders), and one for Nicki (220 renders) I basically created exponential work for myself. If I do something like that in the future, I'll split it between two girls and save myself 100+ renders. Plus, as some of the paths wind down a bit, things get easier there, too.
All that said, I don't think I've gone longer than four months between updates yet, and all my updates have been in excess of 800 renders. So, I haven't slowed down yet, and I'm still putting out a pretty good amount of content on a consistent basis. You'll know I'm in too deep when I switch to a first-person game where you only ever see the girls from chest-up perspective, and they all have overly broad (and slightly crazed) expressions.
"I know we just met, but let's fuck behind that barrel! I love you and I'll never cheat on you. You're my favorite protagonist. Oh hi, doggy."
The difference with this chapter, was just how in-the-weeds I got with it. Like, in Chapter Four, the three openings were 89 renders, total. In Chapter Eight, they're over 470. And that's not because I got super self-indulgent, it's just that each girl already demands multiple paths. So, by doing an opening for Ashe (160 renders), one for Risa/Carolina (90 renders), and one for Nicki (220 renders) I basically created exponential work for myself. If I do something like that in the future, I'll split it between two girls and save myself 100+ renders. Plus, as some of the paths wind down a bit, things get easier there, too.
All that said, I don't think I've gone longer than four months between updates yet, and all my updates have been in excess of 800 renders. So, I haven't slowed down yet, and I'm still putting out a pretty good amount of content on a consistent basis. You'll know I'm in too deep when I switch to a first-person game where you only ever see the girls from chest-up perspective, and they all have overly broad (and slightly crazed) expressions.
"I know we just met, but let's fuck behind that barrel! I love you and I'll never cheat on you. You're my favorite protagonist. Oh hi, doggy."
I love the branching and the different ways to progress. I do think though, you have to fold some of those branches back into each other and I think based on what you've said in the past, you realize that. Of course another way to handle this is to vary the dialogue and tone of a shared scene between different paths. As long as the paths FEEL different, they don't have to vary so wildly that it takes a lot of renders just to have a short update on each path.
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The Anti was right everyone.
We need to inseminate Cassie.
God I would love to blow a big load in her fertile womb.
And I really want Ashe to be there cheering me on the entire time.
We need to inseminate Cassie.
God I would love to blow a big load in her fertile womb.
And I really want Ashe to be there cheering me on the entire time.
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I hope if you play the man whore path some of the LI catch you in the act or at the very least break things off with you. I dont see enough AVN's where the LI actually breaks up with the MC. I can only think of a small handful out of the ones ive played that have that in the game.
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I have to say guys.
If I had the money to support any dev on the highest tier it would be NeonGhosts
The dude is creating something special here
And I think you all know by now I'm obsessed with the game.
If I had the money to support any dev on the highest tier it would be NeonGhosts
The dude is creating something special here
And I think you all know by now I'm obsessed with the game.
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vanilla version!!!!
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Good luck downloading the game from any of the sites there without a premium account.
so since best girl discussion is confirmed off topic/arguing/derailing can we talk about best boi?
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Yeah not sure anything we discussed was off-topic to be honest...I think we all got nuked along with the argument earlier.
Oh no i got nuked because i kept pushing down on whatever that persons name was but there were multiple posts that had nothing to do with it not quoting or even responding that also got removed while some posts in the middle that now objectivity add nothing are left? Not even mentioning they make the poor cat look insane talking to nobody. No wonder they need more mods the ones they have now are being worked so hard they cant even follow their own logic
I really dont see what we are supposed to discuss? If you talk about a girl someone does not like as much as you then all you need to do is say "I dont like x character" and then report them and yourselves as an argument
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