VN Ren'Py Friends in Need [S1 v0.85c] [NeonGhosts]

[dodgingnoir]

Ack, thanks!



I have a supporter who makes those builds for me, so I'm just waiting for him to have the time to do so. To be honest, the only real difference between .72 and .73, is that you get to view eight extra Brittani photos, at the start of Chapter 7. It shouldn't have any real bearing on your save files.

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Awesome. Thank you for clarifying that Neon. I wasn't sure if there was any significant differences between 0.72 and 0.73 in terms of new content.

 

[Ragnar]

I like the small additions from Ch2 and Ch3, like Jun or the brazilian girl even if they're just secondary characters we may never see again. Just a small scene like those here and there gives the game more deep and makes FiN's world bigger

 

[abgazil]

Just to very quickly address accusations of milking, stalling, blah blah blah..

I've never begged for support, and I never will. I focus on updating my blogs with fun content, updating the game as frequently as possible, and making myself available. That's it. That's all I can control. I'm extremely appreciative of the level of support I do get, and it's a big part of why I bust my ass to get as much content out as I can.

Also: the idea that I'm just this greedy dev who's doing all he can to extract the maximum amount of money from my supporters? I post a free, weekly post for everyone. I have zero reason to do that, and could probably snag some more supporters by putting it behind a paywall. But I don't. I have my lowest tier set to $2, which I think I clear something like $1.60 from per supporter, which is really more like $1.10 after I pay taxes. I could probably bump that up to $3, and make an extra $189 a month just from my active $2 SubStar members. But, I don't.

When I started this, I had a moonshot $50 tier, which gave people access to text-only chapters, so they could read ahead of they were so inclined. I never really expected people to pledge at that level, but I had a few supporters stick to that level for months, even after I dropped that tier's rewards down to $15, and explained to them that they really didn't need to support me at that level.

When I went on vacation for a month, I didn't just pretend to work while tossing out a few renders each week. I paused my platforms, and reactivated them when I came back the next month. (And still I wound up doing work over my vacation, so fuck me I guess.) I put out free stuff for holidays, and I have my bonus renders and text stories priced at a modest (for this space) $2. When I've had supporters whose subscription lapsed a day or two before I put out an update, I didn't tell them, "lol, tough titties." I sent them the game file anyway, because it was the decent thing to do. When I've had people whose finances were in a rough spot, but I knew they'd appreciate seeing some renders or a text story or something, I sent it to them. I've got a fucking Boosty, which I can't even withdrawn money from (because *~*Russia*~*) but I still update just like every other platform, because I had fans who wanted to be able to access the blog content and demo releases, and couldn't sub through SubStar.

Shit, during this whole rework phase I haven't even gotten the usual bump of new and returning subscribers, the way I usually do when I put out an update. Instead, subs have mostly been pretty level, with a few small spikes.

If anyone thinks that the actions I take are in pursuit of maximizing my profits: lol

A big, big part of the reason I had to do this rework, was because the way I previously coded stuff was a fucking mess. Most of my "control" variables were not placed before the start label, which caused all kinds of Hell when I'd try to update something. And my variables were all labeled inconsistently and stupid, because I just didn't know any better. I mean, look at the before and after.

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This meant that every time I needed to find a variable for a character, I had to go dig through multiple places in the script files to find it, and then type out some long, unintuitive line of text. To say nothing of the fact that every character had stupid variables like nickidkpts and vi_lt and all kinds of other nonsense things. Now, everyone just has their basic character point value that scales from 0-20, working in conjunction with their relationship status and domination points. Then, various things are tagged/sorted by character and chapter, so I can find stuff easily when referring back to specific events. This makes working on future chapters so much easier, and less frustrating. And when things are less frustrating, and easier, it makes it much easier for me to sit my ass in a chair for a few hours and type, rather than go do any one of the other many, many fun things I could be doing with my life.

This'll be my last word on this, because honestly? This shit just bums me out. There's all kinds of neat little story-centric things to discuss in the new material, but it's drowned out by the chorus of people complaining that I'm apparently holding all my supporters' families hostage, and forcing them to support me month after month. It's tiresome.

This is minor but I just wanted to say that I really loved the Jun content you added. I hope we get to see more of her in the next chapters

 

[Fridolin0815]

After reading the last 5 Sides i wonder why people dont mind the , in my opinon terrible cut of choises you coud make in the original.
The most importend in my opinion is the about Nikki, in the "new" chapter she is not begging for money after the movie, or "whore" herself out to get it.
Exeryone how played the original sure knowns what i am talking about.
The Rage , the feeling of betray.... all gone. Only "Mr. Nice Guy ".
Sorry but for me the original ( session 1 ) was MUCH better because of this Feelings.
This things gives "games" a "heart" if you know what i mean.
But of course , just my 2 Cents.

 

[jadepaladin]

After reading the last 5 Sides i wonder why people dont mind the , in my opinon terrible cut of choises you coud make in the original.
The most importend in my opinion is the about Nikki, in the "new" chapter she is not begging for money after the movie, or "whore" herself out to get it.
Exeryone how played the original sure knowns what i am talking about.
The Rage , the feeling of betray.... all gone. Only "Mr. Nice Guy ".
Sorry but for me the original ( session 1 ) was MUCH better because of this Feelings.
This things gives "games" a "heart" if you know what i mean.
But of course , just my 2 Cents.

Original Nicki was a shell of a person. You barely got to know anything about her before the money issue happens and then she's gone. The dev even made that joke patch where you could remove her from the game completely over the fallout she got.

New Nicki actually feels like a best friend stuck in an impossible scenario and is much more likeable. She still betrays him by ghosting and in my opinion the shock is worse because you actually experience more with new Nicki.

 

[Dessolos]

Original Nicki was a shell of a person. You barely got to know anything about her before the money issue happens and then she's gone. The dev even made that joke patch where you could remove her from the game completely over the fallout she got.

New Nicki actually feels like a best friend stuck in an impossible scenario and is much more likeable. She still betrays him by ghosting and in my opinion the shock is worse because you actually experience more with new Nicki.

that reminds me I need to play the update to see Nicki when she returns in chapter 3. I was gonna wait to play this again as I kind of want to do 1 long as replay with all the new content + chapter 11 lol. So I might play up to that point and stop

 

[jadepaladin]

that reminds me I need to play the update to see Nicki when she returns in chapter 3. I was gonna wait to play this again as I kind of want to do 1 long as replay with all the new content + chapter 11 lol. So I might play up to that point and stop

That was my original plan but I got impatient. I actually like Nicki now when I couldn't stand her before.

 

[Kateterpeter]

All of them.

And once I’ve remade all of them? I’m going to remake them again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

Typical dev comment, clearly.

I just played the recent remake. It was good, can't wait to play the second remake!

 

[Dessolos]

That was my original plan but I got impatient. I actually like Nicki now when I couldn't stand her before.

haha I always liked Nicki even before the rework well other than Chapter 1 but her return changed my mind about her and found easy to forgive her after her explanation. But now in the rework she is much better.

 

[jadepaladin]

haha I always liked Nicki even before the rework well other than Chapter 1 but her return changed my mind about her and found easy to forgive her after her explanation. But now in the rework she is much better.

I really don't want to soapbox on Nicki so I'll refrain. My go to here is Ashe and Brittani anyway.

That said, Nicki's return story...I was blown away the first time. "This can't escalate any further," oh but it can and it will, numerous times.

 

[Dessolos]

I really don't want to soapbox on Nicki so I'll refrain. My go to here is Ashe and Brittani anyway.

That said, Nicki's return story...I was blown away the first time. "This can't escalate any further," oh but it can and it will, numerous times.

Well to be fair im an easy person to forgive with just a little communication why I was able to forgive her and like her after her explanation. So from there it was smooth sailing for me.

Nicki , Ashe and Risa always been my top 3 can't ever decide who is my favorite.

 

[Kateterpeter]

Personally I'm Team Brittani, Gabby and Risa. (And Cherry, give more Cherry!)


Poor gals, I haven't been particularly nice to them.

 

[RC-1138 Boss]

Sorry, I had my backbone surgically replaced with a soggy baguette. I have to wear a special brace now. The doctors said I'm a modern miracle, but if I remove it I'll die.

Is that what you want, Jstforme? My gluten-heavy blood on your hands????

I like this no fucks given Neon. He definitely should come out more when answering some of the more entitled armchair devs/pirates around here.

Ack, thanks!



I have a supporter who makes those builds for me, so I'm just waiting for him to have the time to do so. To be honest, the only real difference between .72 and .73, is that you get to view eight extra Brittani photos, at the start of Chapter 7. It shouldn't have any real bearing on your save files.

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Replaying the remake made me appreciatte Brittani more. Loved how she shows her talent as a actress by switching super fast between personas and how she doesn't beat around the bush when she wants something: case in point when she kisses Guy after that piece of shit Jamie sucker punched him.

I don't think it's only the dark path. Unfortunately this game just attracts bullies who try to shit on NG.

More like trolls. Considering the things some of those people wrote i very much doubt said people actually played the game. I will start blocking and reporting people who come here just to imply milking or any other shit because i am pretty sure that is against forum rules.

This is minor but I just wanted to say that I really loved the Jun content you added. I hope we get to see more of her in the next chapters

I would like too but i don't think she will return as a possible love interest.
With the way things ended i find hard for another flame of passion to start burning between Jun and Guy, specially with the already big number of possible love interests.
I think it is better for her and Guy to just stay as a old flame, the kind you would reminisce nicely in cold nights.

 

[Thasic]

So, just for my own edification, what, exactly, is the difference between the Subscribestar version and the Patreon version. I am a patron on Patreon and get the updates there but I was wondering if the Subscribestar version has the more "edgey" material or no?

 

[La Dani]

Just to very quickly address accusations of milking, stalling, blah blah blah..

I've never begged for support, and I never will. I focus on updating my blogs with fun content, updating the game as frequently as possible, and making myself available. That's it. That's all I can control. I'm extremely appreciative of the level of support I do get, and it's a big part of why I bust my ass to get as much content out as I can.

Also: the idea that I'm just this greedy dev who's doing all he can to extract the maximum amount of money from my supporters? I post a free, weekly post for everyone. I have zero reason to do that, and could probably snag some more supporters by putting it behind a paywall. But I don't. I have my lowest tier set to $2, which I think I clear something like $1.60 from per supporter, which is really more like $1.10 after I pay taxes. I could probably bump that up to $3, and make an extra $189 a month just from my active $2 SubStar members. But, I don't.

When I started this, I had a moonshot $50 tier, which gave people access to text-only chapters, so they could read ahead of they were so inclined. I never really expected people to pledge at that level, but I had a few supporters stick to that level for months, even after I dropped that tier's rewards down to $15, and explained to them that they really didn't need to support me at that level.

When I went on vacation for a month, I didn't just pretend to work while tossing out a few renders each week. I paused my platforms, and reactivated them when I came back the next month. (And still I wound up doing work over my vacation, so fuck me I guess.) I put out free stuff for holidays, and I have my bonus renders and text stories priced at a modest (for this space) $2. When I've had supporters whose subscription lapsed a day or two before I put out an update, I didn't tell them, "lol, tough titties." I sent them the game file anyway, because it was the decent thing to do. When I've had people whose finances were in a rough spot, but I knew they'd appreciate seeing some renders or a text story or something, I sent it to them. I've got a fucking Boosty, which I can't even withdrawn money from (because *~*Russia*~*) but I still update just like every other platform, because I had fans who wanted to be able to access the blog content and demo releases, and couldn't sub through SubStar.

Shit, during this whole rework phase I haven't even gotten the usual bump of new and returning subscribers, the way I usually do when I put out an update. Instead, subs have mostly been pretty level, with a few small spikes.

If anyone thinks that the actions I take are in pursuit of maximizing my profits: lol

A big, big part of the reason I had to do this rework, was because the way I previously coded stuff was a fucking mess. Most of my "control" variables were not placed before the start label, which caused all kinds of Hell when I'd try to update something. And my variables were all labeled inconsistently and stupid, because I just didn't know any better. I mean, look at the before and after.

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This meant that every time I needed to find a variable for a character, I had to go dig through multiple places in the script files to find it, and then type out some long, unintuitive line of text. To say nothing of the fact that every character had stupid variables like nickidkpts and vi_lt and all kinds of other nonsense things. Now, everyone just has their basic character point value that scales from 0-20, working in conjunction with their relationship status and domination points. Then, various things are tagged/sorted by character and chapter, so I can find stuff easily when referring back to specific events. This makes working on future chapters so much easier, and less frustrating. And when things are less frustrating, and easier, it makes it much easier for me to sit my ass in a chair for a few hours and type, rather than go do any one of the other many, many fun things I could be doing with my life.

This'll be my last word on this, because honestly? This shit just bums me out. There's all kinds of neat little story-centric things to discuss in the new material, but it's drowned out by the chorus of people complaining that I'm apparently holding all my supporters' families hostage, and forcing them to support me month after month. It's tiresome.

Buddie, dont mind the stupid critics.

 

[armond]

I really don't care what or how our friendly ghost makes his game, but I'm just waiting on the edge of my seat to see where it's going.

 

[JonJones5]

So, just for my own edification, what, exactly, is the difference between the Subscribestar version and the Patreon version. I am a patron on Patreon and get the updates there but I was wondering if the Subscribestar version has the more "edgey" material or no?

Subscribestar allows a patch to be installed to get the more "Edgey Material' not sure how much it allows without the patch but either way the patreon version doesn't work with the patch

 

[NothingUser]

Definitely need more of Jun, might be one of my favorite Love Interests.

 

[Lucifel]

it's completely wild to me that they're remaking the game and not adding a gallery.

 

[clitcommander]

If a game is developing too slow for your taste forget it exists for a few years.