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

[Pixillin']

I don't think I've seen that.

Britani’s photo shoot if you agree to delete some pictures

 

[Jarulf]

Britani’s photo shoot if you agree to delete some pictures

Ooh, right. Of course, remember now. I did delete them, being the gentleman that I am.
Picture was a bit small on my phone.

 

[soprano31]

I'm playing the game right now, and I really loved this scene

One of her better scenes,how endearing she can be..

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[The Anti]

Did you forget the weekly devlog thing or is it delayed because last weeks was on Wednesday? NeonGhosts

 

[Uriel ☁]

Did you forget the weekly devlog thing or is it delayed because last weeks was on Wednesday? NeonGhosts

 

[The Anti]

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Ah, Thank you, Not in his discord.
My apologies for the ping Neon, Feel better.

 

[Walnutt]

Haven't played in a year or so. Excited to get back in, see the girls again, and see what's new!

 

[_Berto_]

I quite enjoy the single render or short render montage filling in gaps, I hope if Neon wants to like, Skip through a weekend or something he just makes a few renders of possible things guy did that weekend “Ashe came over” single sex scene render
“Date night with Nicki” 1 render of dinner and 1 sex render
“Helped around the book store” gabby bj under the counter while talking to her dad render.

I just feel it adds a lot of extra without actually adding many more renders.

I feel the same way. I honestly like this for characters that have a more fleshed out story path. I see Nicki and Ashe having lots of content on all their paths, but would be a shame to fully exclude them from updates. Even a small 10-20 render segment is nice to have. Same goes for secondary characters like Jun, Dash, Wren, Alex etc. they can add content without taking center stage. My opinion is that, it is only concerning if the added content takes tons of development and writing time to implement. I'm going to trust Neon's development, and continue to patiently wait for the focused Brittani, Viola, Pepper and Gabby episodes.

 

[Lightaces]

Wait so no incest? So that means we can't romance Cassie?

NeonGhosts please tell me this isn't true

So far. Can't have tags for things which haven't happened yet.

But also, it's at least possible, from what Neon has said, that there will be no romance scenes with Cassie. Which is not the same as saying no lewd/sex scenes. They just won't be romantic. Possibly.

 

[MagicMan753]

But also, it's at least possible, from what Neon has said, that there will be no romance scenes with Cassie. Which is not the same as saying no lewd/sex scenes. They just won't be romantic.
Possibly.

And where did he say this, just would like official source, photo, something. Cause if so, biggest letdown of game.

 

[Lightaces]

Haven't played in a year or so. Excited to get back in, see the girls again, and see what's new!

Might want to wait a bit until the whole things is in one piece again. Neon redid Episode one, and added a bit to episode 2. The rework is finished, but not fully integrated with everything yet. He's trying to get the first part of the new episode (11) finished before he gets everything back together. Should be by the end of the month.

 

[Lightaces]

And where did he say this, just would like official source, photo, something. Cause if so, biggest letdown of game.

Discord conversation. He was struggling to come up with a version of a romantic incest relationship which was believable for a good Guy. At least some of us encouraged him to lean into it, and leave it just for the dark path.

 

[MagicMan753]

Discord conversation. He was struggling to come up with a version of a romantic incest relationship which was believable for a good Guy. At least some of us encouraged him to lean into it, and leave it just for the dark path.

Well that sucks, that killed her whole character. Honestly wished Cassie didn't come back, wish she wasn't in the game now, cause what is the point.

Cassie is just a waste of space now, there was no point in bringing her back, and kills a large part of this game for me, she was one of my hyped paths, honestly this is fucking stupid. Just an absolute disappointment.

 

[ffive]

Discord conversation. He was struggling to come up with a version of a romantic incest relationship which was believable for a good Guy.

NGL, that seems rather weird. It's not like there aren't consensual incestual relationships between siblings in RL that aren't all about rape and abuse, so not sure why having one would be supposedly so unbelievable for a good Guy. MC's personality is to extent what the player imagines them to be. If they want to believe that their Guy is the sort of person who'd have romantic feelings for his little sister, just let them.

 

[MiltonPowers]

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Hey, folks! Hope you're all doing well, today. Sorry for the late update, I ate something that didn't agree with me yesterday, and was having some nasty stomach cramps. As a result, I just didn't it in me to do a post. But now I'm feeling right as rain, so let's get tooooo it.

I've knocked out some more renders for the next chapter, finishing the little bit that sees our hero reuniting with the Barron family, to finally catch up. It's a cute little scene, and I'm pretty happy with it. Now I'm onto the next set of scenes, which have Guy wrapping up another very long day. I'm almost to the bit where we jump ahead in the story a bit, and Guy's black eye finally vanishes. Rejoice! I know people hated it, but I really loved having him walk around with a living reminder of the consequences of his actions. When I finally wrap the whole game up, I'd kind of love to go back and do a variant of all the chapters, where you're able to avoid Jamie's suckerpunch, and never get the black eye. It'd be a huge time investment for something relatively minor.. But I still can't help but think it'd be fun.

Speaking of wrapping the game up, I recently received a question as to how much longer exactly people can expect this story to continue. I've talked off and on about this, and allow me to opine for a bit. The plan is and has been to make this a two season story. So, we're basically at the halfway point now, and I'm working to wrap it up within 11-12 more chapters. Assuming I continue working at my current rate of speed, that means another 3-3.5 years of content. Some folks expressed dismay at that, which I totally get. It feels both very close and very far away, and people naturally want to spend more time with their favorites, and see all the various love interests get their time to shine.

Buuut.. I feel like, within this space, there aren't very many games that actually manage to arrive at a satisfactory ending. Or an ending of any kind, for that matter. And even when one does, nobody likes to invest a ton of time into a story and then see it reach a conclusion, and all their fictional friends ride off into the sunset. It's bittersweet, right? I mean, I still haven't finished the second season of Pushing Daisies, because part of my brain says, "If you never finish it, those characters are still out there, having adventures."

That said, I think part of what makes a story special is that it ends, and you get to have a sense of closure. And as much as endings can suck, I think being left wondering, "What would've happened?!" is so much worse. So, yeah. Trying to land this plane in the next few years. That won't mean trying to arbitrarily force the story to wrap up by an arbitrary deadline or anything, and if I need more time/chapters, I'll make use of them. But that's the plan for now.

That discussion, naturally, lead to people asking: what's next? What'll I do once Guy's adventures are over? And right now, I don't know! It's a ways off, and who knows what my life will even look like by then. I think I'll always want to keep making AVNs, and I have loose plans for a few. I think anything in the future would be designed as more of a limited/smaller scope project. I've also talked a lot about taking some time to do expansion/DLC content for secondary characters like Isabella, Jun, Wren, Dash, etc. which would turn them into full love interests. Or building out big date scenes for all the main love interests, which could easily slot into some of the little time skips I'm building into the story.

But I'd also like to get to other creative pursuits. I've mentioned I wrote a spicy fantasy novel last year (which I'm still in the process of editing) and that whole experience was really fun for me. Being able to just focus on following a single narrative thread, without the demands of doing thousands of images, was really, really nice. I'm also a traditional artist, who wants to do some graphic novels before I die. Not that I'm planning to kick the bucket anytime soon, but life is unpredictable, you know? I've got some stories I want to tell in that format, some spicy and some not.

More than anything else, I just look forward to slowing down a bit. I know, I know. People are probably thinking, "Slowing down?! You're already slow!" :'D But, I basically treat this like a job right now, with a minimum number of hours I force myself to "clock in" every week. It'd be nice to eventually relax a bit and go back to making stuff purely for fun and the joy of making it.

This all might sound a little dour, and I really don't mean it to! I love making this thing. I love entertaining you folks. And I think I have one of the coolest, healthiest communities in the AVN space, and I remain eternally grateful to have attracted such kind and overwhelming support. I basically failed my way through the indie comics scene, failed my way through creating an artistic presence, and failed my way through writing some novels that I aborted a couple chapters in.

This whole project has been, bar none, my most successful endeavor. Putting aside the financial end, which has been overwhelming from the start (What?! People actually want to PAY me for something I made?!) just having so many people enjoy this little world I've made, has been amazing. I love reading everyone's theories, speculation, ideas, etc. It's that interest and enthusiasm that's kept me going for so long. So, thank you! Thank you for being here week after week, and for playing in this little world with me. I look forward to entertaining you, for as long as you'll have me.

Oof. Really went off at the mouth there, didn't I? I'll spare you any more of my ramblings tonight. But as always, take care of yourselves -- and thank you for your support.

 

[Dessolos]

Well that sucks, that killed her whole character. Honestly wished Cassie didn't come back, wish she wasn't in the game now, cause what is the point.

Cassie is just a waste of space now, there was no point in bringing her back, and kills a large part of this game for me. Just an absolute disappointment.

eh I don't agree with the part where you said you wish she didn't come / was in the game cause there is no point. Because even if there is no romantic interest there , there is still some story there to be told cause after all Cassie's story isn't just about guy wanting to fuck his sister. It's also about wanting to get her away from their mother and being a good big brother that he always wanted to be to her but never was. So it's more about the growth of Guy's character than it is about Cassie , like giving things to Cassie that she never had growing up and maybe helping her by paying for her college.

I do agree that it is a bit of an disappointment that it will only be for the Dark Path cause I hate the Dark path and only play it to see Guy die or end up in jail. I think a corruption option could of worked while keeping her out of the Good Guy path.

 

[jadepaladin]

NGL, that seems rather weird. It's not like there aren't consensual incestual relationships between siblings in RL that aren't all about rape and abuse, so not sure why having one would be supposedly so unbelievable for a good Guy. MC's personality is to extent what the player imagines them to be. If they want to believe that their Guy is the sort of person who'd have romantic feelings for his little sister, just let them.

I'm pretty sure I could write up some kind of halfway believable plot for a romantic relationship with Guy and Cassie. I can't be on an island either, I'm sure others could conjure something even better. The problem is none of us are Neon. If Neon is the one having trouble with it, we either get nothing (which is probably for the best) or we get something half ass that he's not fully committed to because he's just trying to placate his audience. Given Neon's typical responses in here, I can't envision him doing anything just to placate someone else.

 

[The Anti]

I, for one, am excited to put a bun in Cassie’s oven on the dark path

Bonus points if I can make her les out with Ashe and Britt and Viola and all the other girls I knock up on the dark path.

Extra bonus points if I can have Cassie eat Ashe’s pussy while I fuck her.

 

[prpa]

Discord conversation. He was struggling to come up with a version of a romantic incest relationship which was believable for a good Guy. At least some of us encouraged him to lean into it, and leave it just for the dark path.

Where’s the proof? Last time you said the same thing, I checked Discord and couldn’t find Neon mentioning anything like that. So yeah, it seems like you’re either making things up or just trolling.

Inb4 "you didn’t check the hidden channel", I’m a supporter on SubStar, so I do have access to it.

 

[RC-1138 Boss]

That is Alex right? Is this some flashback or was her hair always this long?

Agree about being a healthy community, both here and on discord. We are quite fast in weed out the trolls, transphobes and other similar scumbags.